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{SPEAKER name="Bess"}
Are there any other questions? Yes ma'am.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
(mutters) I hope not.

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I gotta go Bess. So long.

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{SPEAKER name="Bess"}
We gotta go too.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Okay thank you.

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{SPEAKER name="Bess"}
We'll just- We'll just find out how long to make a mask, and then we're gonna have to close out.


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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
[[Spanish]]
El toro se puede tomar por- por día, sí?
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Porque, hay que empezar como cinco caretas lavé
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Y entonces se pueden hacer en la semana, porque todo pieza por pieza.


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{SPEAKER name="translator}
In one week, he'll make five masks, including one of these.
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He makes parts.
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Horns, and the base of the face- for- separate.
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You see? Yes.
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Yes. And everyone is a single piece, you know?
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Every tooth, every horn, you know he attaches, yes.


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{SPEAKER name="Bess"}
I think you'll see the Puerto Rican mask tent down there about two -
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-about the next to the last one on the other side of this alley, going down here.
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And you can stop and see the whole process there, 'cause they're working on 'em steadily.
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So- I think at this point, we're gonna have to close down
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But any of us would be very happy to answer any questions,
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either about the endowment, about apprenticeships, or about the National Heritage Fellowships.
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Thank you very much for being here.
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[[clapping]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Three of my Khmu friends from California- they're originally from Laos.
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They are the native people of Laos
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and have been living in California for the last 7 or 8 years
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since they fled their country following the communist takeover in 1975.
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Today is our last day here, and tomorrow morning-
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very, very early we leave for California to return home.
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And I thought that in our time of discussion today,
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We would try to get- the impressions that these gentlemen have had
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And since I've been here, let them tell us what the experience has meant to them
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What lessons and what ideas it inspires in them
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and what their reactions have been.
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The three gentlemen that are on stage now will be joined by a fourth who's out looking around
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and making - getting his first chance to see some of the other exhibits in the festival.
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And, we're hoping he'll be able to join us shortly.
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The three who are here to my right is Talec ~cunsrivan~. Lec is originally from the Munsai region in the Central part of Northern Laos. And was a soldier in Laos, was a military leader, and then fled to Thailand, and then finally to the United States, he's lived in Stockton since 1978.
1980. And he lives now in Stockton, California. To his right is to lie, to ~civil-lie~ fro Nahm-ta region and Northwestern most part of Northern Laos. ~Taolai~ says that his home village is three-day's walk from China, three day's walk from Burma, and three days walk from Thailand,so if you know the geography of that area, the area that we call the golden triangle, you'll get an idea of-of where he's is from. What year did you come to the United States, ~Taolai~?
~*says something in Spanish*~









Transcription Notes:
any words I put in between two ~ means I couldn't understand or know what they were saying(didn't know how to spell it)