Jean-Baptsite Phou will be presenting both his film ‘My Mother’s Tongue’ and book ‘Coming Out of My Skin’ during a tour in the U.S: Sep 8 at 5pm, book event & film screening at Studious Coworking, Los Angeles CA Sep 12 at 6pm, book event at Bel Canto Retro Row, Long Beach CA Sep 15 […]
Presenting a special community screening and artist presentation at Studious LA of recent works by Jean-Baptiste Phou, a writer and multidisciplinary artist born in Paris to Chinese-Cambodian parents, moderated by Kimberly Do.
Bel Canto Books is delighted to host author Jean-Baptiste Phou, author of COMING OUT OF MY SKIN, in conversation with artist Sayon Syprasoeuth.
Presented at the Cambodian Town Film Festival, Short Documentary Corner 2 Cambodia Town Film Festival (CTFF) is a three-day film forum that will introduce new studio and independent features, documentaries, foreign features, short films, animated shorts, trailers, music videos and re-released classics. The programs will include a variety of special events and panel discussions featuring […]
Author, actor, and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Phou screens two works that explore protagonists’ yearning and attempts to connect with other people and places across seemingly insurmountable differences wrought by traumatic histories and forced displacement. First, Phou will screen an excerpt from his stage play, Cambodia, Here I Am. With a premiere in Paris in 2011, Cambodia, Here I […]
Author, actor, and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Phou presents two autobiographical works that address the presence and image of Cambodian/Asian men in the modern context, sexuality, and pressing questions of trauma, alienation, and survival. First, an excerpt from Phou’s stage adaptation of L’anarchiste, a novel by Cambodian author Soth Polin, will be screened. The screening will be followed […]
Join us for a special screening and book reading of recent works by Jean-Baptiste Phou, a writer and multidisciplinary artist born in Paris to Chinese-Cambodian parents: “My Mother’s Tongue”, is a short film that tells the story of a mother and son who don’t share a language, her being born in Cambodia and him in […]
Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Jean-Baptiste Phou, author of Coming Out of My Skin, with conversation partner Eric Nguyen. Wednesday October 2 @ 7:00pmLittle District Books737 8th St SEWashington, DC 20003
This is your chance to dive into the world of COMING OUT OF MY SKIN with author Jean-Baptiste Phou and Dr Rohit K Dasgupta. Join us at Housmans Bookshop for an engaging discussion about the book, its themes, and the creative process behind it. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with the […]
Une conférence (Mohamad Amer Meziane, le 2 octobre), une rencontre littéraire (Jean-Baptiste Phou, le 23 octobre) et une journée d’étude (le 13 novembre) sont organisées autour des « pensées anti-/post-/dé-coloniales ». Il s’agit de montrer comment des disciplines (littérature, anthropologie, science politique, etc.) dialoguent avec les théories postcoloniales, les subaltern studies, les gender studies, les gay and queer studies, les études […]
Les mots de Jean- Baptiste Phou sont autant d’histoires qui racontent le Cambodge et qui évoquent le lien particulier qu’il entretient avec le Cambodge, ses habitants et leur langue. La famille de Jean-Baptiste Phou est d’origine chinoise de l’ethnie Teochew, et a émigré au Cambodge. Il a choisi de s’installer au Cambodge et s’attache à approfondir ses […]
Mairie du 13e arrondissement de Paris, salle des fêtes Première partie : Manuel pour changer de corps Noah Truong fait partie de la nouvelle scène poétique féministe et queer en France. Manuel pour changer de corps est son premier recueil de poèmes. Il y est question de transition FtM (Female to Male), de souvenirs recomposés d’une enfance trans, de […]
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