The Threaded Path


The Threaded Path is a podcast and video series of conversations with Cambodian artists and cultural practitioners around the world.[1] Its founder and host, the Cambodian American soprano Amara Goel, traces with each guest how their craft connects art, heritage, belonging and memory.[2][1][3]

Origins

Goel conceived the series during Acts of Memory in 2025, the global commemoration of fifty years since the fall of Phnom Penh, which Cambodian Living Arts organized with communities in Cambodia, Australia, France, the United States and Canada. She saw the need for a lasting conversation across generations, places and disciplines.[2][4]

The name recalls the Cambodian borderlands, where strangers tied strips of cloth to branches and posts to mark a safe path through the landmines to the refugee camps in Thailand.[2] The series carries the line "The paths we inherit. The stories we stitch."[1]

Season 1: Phnom Penh

The first season, Phnom Penh: City of Rooted & Returning Voices, is planned as ten episodes with artists, cultural practitioners and changemakers of Phnom Penh, in music, film, literature, design, interdisciplinary work and cultural leadership.[5] The trailer appeared on August 26, 2026.[3]

Episodes

  1. Episode 1Chef Nak: Food is Just a HookWith Chef Nak · September 12, 2026 · 54 minutesChef Nak on cooking from age four, learning Cambodia's regional food, and why food is only the hook for how the world sees Cambodia.
  2. Episode 2Fonki: The Ancestral Echoes of Painting on WallsWith Fonki · September 12, 2026 · 53 minutesFonki on growing up between France, Montreal and Cambodia, adapting graffiti to Khmer art, and painting a first mural with his daughter.


Short clips from the first conversation followed on September 18 and 24, 2026.[6][7]

Global launch

The series opened with a global online launch, The Conversation Continues: From Acts of Memory to The Threaded Path, held with Cambodian Living Arts and joined by participants from at least three continents. The program brought poetry, dance and community reflections, and a live panel on the question "What Happens When Memory Travels?" A recording was posted on September 16, 2026.[8]

Access

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Threaded Path, project website
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Threaded Path, About
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Threaded Path Podcast, trailer (YouTube)
  4. ↑ Cambodian Living Arts, Acts of Memory as a global tapestry of Cambodian resilience
  5. ↑ The Threaded Path, Trailer and Episodes
  6. ↑ The Threaded Path Podcast, Where is the best somlar koko in the world, according to Chef Nak? (YouTube clip)
  7. ↑ The Threaded Path Podcast, Stop Asking Why Nobody Knows Cambodia (YouTube clip)
  8. ↑ The Threaded Path Podcast, The Threaded Path Global Launch (YouTube)
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