ToiZounZ' & RiddimZ' : A Performance Reading of "The Eight Promise"

The Eighth Promise Performance @ the SF Asian Art Museum.

Book by William Poy Lee

Filmed & Edited by Jeffrey Gee Chin
2nd Camera by Asian Art Museum

-Description Posted by the Asian Art Museum-

ToiZounZ' & RiddimZ': A Performance Reading of The Eighth Promise: An American Son Pays Tribute to his Toisanese Mother

Saturday, December 8, 2:00 pm, Samsung Hall

William Poy Lee presents a reading performance from his critically acclaimed book The Eighth Promise. Join us in a delightful afternoon featuring a trio voice chorale, includ-ing the author, William Poy Lee, author and poet Nellie Wong, and Carmen Lea Pearson, reading his mothers descriptions of her childhood in the 1000-year-old village of Suey Wan in the Pearl River Delta. This will be followed by Clan Sister songs that have all but disappeared. Percussionist Layton Doung of Yellow River Drummers performs the authors four-part Toisan word score, teasing out the musicality and rhythms of this still vital country variant of Cantonese using traditional Chinese skinhead drums, bamboo clackers, brass cymbals, and his own body. Lees book is available for sale in the museum store, and a book signing follows the program. The authors mother and co-narrator of the book, Mrs. Poy Jen Lee, will be pres-ent.

More info: http://www.rusoffagency.com/authors/lee_w/theeighth/theeighth_promise.htm

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Asian Art
• Toisan
• Chinese
• Dance
• San Francisco
• Culture
• William Poy Lee
• Poetry
• Museum
• Jeffrey
• Gee
• Chin