Event Description
Ricky Orng
Ricky Orng is a Cambodian-American organizer, designer, and storyteller. He has worked extensively with youth organizations on contemporary arts and social justice projects using mediums such as photography, film, and poetry. He has coached the youth poetry slam team, FreeVerse!, to final stages at Louder Than the Bomb Massachusetts and showcased at Brave New Voices. Ricky recently competed at National Poetry Slam 2018 with the Mill City Slam Team. He currently organizes one of the cutest poetry venues in the Northeast, the bi-monthly Untitled Open Mic in Lowell, MA; and also was the organizer of one of the longest running Asian American Pacific Islander open mics in the country, East Meets Words. All of Ricky’s poetry is about love and relationships and his relationships with his loves. Ricky Orng is also touring and performing as part of a duo artist project, Adobo-Fish-Sauce, a multi-sensory cooking-poetry show.