Songs of the Diaspora

“Songs from the Diaspora” honors poet Genny Lim’s connection with her Chinese ancestry and her desire to create art that inspires the next generations. In her work, Genny has found parallels between the Chinese traditions around ancestral lineage with the songline tradition of Australian Aboriginal culture, which uses music as a way of mapping, sharing geographic knowledge intertwined with spirituality, symbolism and connection to cultural origins. Genny’s artistic voice finds ground in using her identity and past as a way of forging art, music, and poetry for future generations. With a backdrop of an immersive theatrical experience, created by Mark Hellar and Olivia Ting, the Del Sol Quartet will weave Genny’s new poems into an evening length performance of new works by composers Theresa Wong, Meilina Tsui, and Vivian Fung.

This project is made possible in part by a grant from The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.