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Protests, immigration considerations in L.A. foil Southeast Asian ‘Coachella’

Editorial Board Published July 11, 2025
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This weekend, 12-acre Gloria Molina Grand Park, “the park for everyone” within the coronary heart of downtown Los Angeles, was alleged to host the third set up of Sabaidee Fest.

The annual Southeast Asian cultural leisure pageant, the primary of its type within the U.S. and a draw for individuals from the Bay Space and past, options international and diasporic pop musicians, conventional performers, civil society organizations, thought leaders and entrepreneurs representing Lao, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Mien, Khmu, Thai Dam and different communities.

However amid intense, extended civil unrest protesting the Trump administration’s therapy of immigrants in L.A., the organizers indefinitely postponed the occasion.

“This decision was made out of deep care and responsibility for the safety of our artists, team and community—especially those who may be directly impacted or feel vulnerable in this environment,” organizers posted on Fb. “At the heart of our festival is a commitment to creating safe, inclusive and joyful spaces where everyone feels free to express themselves without fear.”

George Gonzalez, the venue’s director, stated the pageant backed out of its plans after the park known as off its personal Fourth of July celebration after session with public security officers as a result of the park’s proximity to authorities buildings made it a scorching spot for the protests in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that erupted in early June.

Crestfallen followers have begun demanding refunds for tons of of {dollars} in ticket purchases to defray irrecoverable journey and lodging prices.

Entrepreneur Salong Namsa, who got here to the U.S. as a Lao baby refugee by way of Thailand at age 5, first launched the inaugural occasion in March 2023 in Riverside County with Lao, Hmong and Thai artists. Final yr’s version, held in June in Chino, launched a Cambodian lineup powered by Baramey Manufacturing, an leisure firm whose artists, equivalent to rapper VannDa and singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vanthan, have wielded sufficient international reputation to draw a first-ever Cambodian partnership with Warner Music Group in 2021.

This yr’s lineup in L.A. was to spotlight the U.S. debuts of Vietnamese dancer-turned-rapper Low G (Nguyen Hoang Lengthy) and Hanoi-based hip-hop/R&B artist TLINH (Nguyen Thao Linh), who’ve collaborated earlier than.

The fest was particularly important this yr — the fiftieth anniversary of resettlement within the U.S. by refugees emanating from the Vietnam Warfare, the Secret Warfare in Laos and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia that tried to eradicate artists, intellectuals and cultural bearers from society.

Gloria Molina Grand Park has continued to host different deliberate occasions massive and small with out incident.

“We thought this would be a good opportunity to leverage our space for a festival of this size for a Southeast Asian community that is pretty large here in Los Angeles,” stated Gonzalez, expressing the park’s disappointment in how present affairs unraveled plans.

“The park is a gathering place for people to express their First Amendment rights and it’s been that way for years. Relative to what’s going on, it’s pretty safe. Things can also go in a different direction at any moment,” he stated.

Gonzalez is unaware of any plans Sabaidee Fest has to reschedule the occasion on the park however stated they’ve 18 months to take action.

A Hmong American lady attendee in her conventional pageant greatest on the Sabaidee Fest in Chino, Calif., at Prado Regional Park on June 15, 2024. (Jia H. Jung/ Bay Space Information Group) 

For now, the pageant is targeted on spinoff concert events in locations throughout the nation with notable Southeast Asian populations, offering uncommon alternatives for cultural change between outrageously common and globally recognized artists from Southeast Asia and rising diasporic artists from underrepresented communities within the U.S.

Heartbreaka (Lao American rapper Brandon Nambounmy) will seem in Visalia alongside the U.S. debut of Vietnam-based Hmong singer/songwriter NT One in Visalia, within the San Joaquin Valley, on Sunday, July 13, and in Sacramento on July 17. On July 19, Baramey Manufacturing will host an intimate, unplugged sold-out efficiency by its Cambodian artists on the Asian Artwork Museum in San Francisco.

L.A. ticket holders can apply their unfulfilled tickets charges to any of those occasions.

However maybe these left most within the lurch are conventional performers and nonprofit organizations that received’t be on these phases. Sinath Thi, on the steering committee of the Oakland Khmer Angkor Dance Troupe, stated, “We would be very sad, heartbroken, disappointed and drained to have practiced so much and not be able to perform and to showcase the dances.”

Members of the troupe had traveled to Oakland from so far as Bakersfield to rehearse for his or her premiere on the fest. These practices have halted till additional discover.

Dance teacher Sharlie Solar added, “For many of our youth, this was more than just a performance–it was finally an opportunity to be seen on a larger stage, in front of a wider audience, and across social media platforms that would amplify their voices and visibility.”

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