Festival To Celebrate Local Cambodian Artists, Culture

This Sunday, an arts and crafts festival will feature demonstrations of traditional Cambodian techniques,

This Sunday, the Cambodian population of Long Beach will be on full display as an arts and crafts festival will feature dancers, local artists, traditional cooking demonstrations and much more in a celebration of this ancient culture.

The event will run from 10:00am-2:00pm this Sunday in the parking lot of the Mark Twain Library on 1325 E. Anaheim Street.

Long Beach is home to the largest concentration of Cambodian people in the country – some estimates are that Cambodians make up between 8-9% of the city’s population – and the stretch of Anaheim Street from Atlantic Avenue to Junipero Avenue is famously known as Cambodia Town.

An organization that represents that community called Cambodia Town, Inc. will host the event along with the office of Councilmember Dee Andrews, whose 6th District encompasses Cambodia Town. Andrews has been active in the community and assisted two local entrepreneurs in opening a shopping center in Cambodia Town this past July.