2018-2019 DOCUMENTARY
TORI
& Saymoukda
TORI HONG
Tori Hong is a visual artist whose work investigates the threads between personal, intergenerational, and community healing. In order to create meaning out of the often ambiguous, disrupted, and generative spaces they occupy, Hong creates narrative-driven drawings, murals, and zines.
Some of the organizations Hong has worked with are: MPD150, Hope Community, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. In their free time, Hong likes to hike along the North Shore and cuddle their two cats.
SAYMOUKDA VONGSAY
Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao American writer. She was born in a refugee camp in Nongkhai, Thailand and immigrated to Minnesota in 1984. Because of her unique background, her work is focused on creating tools and spaces for the amplification of refugee voices through poetry, theater, and experimental cultural production.
Her plays have been presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Theater Mu, Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists, and Theater Unbound. She is a Playwrights Center Many Voices fellow in playwriting, a Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion fellow, a Theater Mu New Performance fellow, and an Aspen Ideas Bush Foundation scholar. She holds a Master in Liberal Studies degree.
