SParks through arts: igniting sparks from within

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Sophea Heang is a second-generation Cambodian-Canadian spoken word poet and writer who enjoys collaborating with

other artists such as musicians and visual artists. She’s also co-founder of Angkor Harvest, a Cambodian food purveyor serving the hallmarks of authentic Cambodian cuisine. 

She wrote a poem, titled, “Walking into Khao-I-Dang, for the Hearts of Freedom exhibit inauguration in Vancouver, in 2023. HOF is a Canadian Southeast Asian Historical Research Project (https://heartsoffreedom.org).  Sophea recently performed, " Walking into-Khao-I -Dang" again at Roots of Compassion, Cambodian Cultural Centre's inaugural event that commemorated the 50th year anniversary of the Cambodian genocide and celebrated Cambodian Memory, Resilience and Artistry.

Sophea is completing her first book, Remember me in Stillness, a prose and poetry memoir-a creative inquiry into the inter-generational genocide experience of Cambodian-Canadians who arrived in Canada in the 1980’s. The work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Her poem, Inside Heartwood, will be published in Canadian Literature in 2026, in the special issue 261, Swirling into a Field of Life: Works in Conversation with Y-Dang Troeung.  

Sophea will be a reader for Pandora Collective’s Free Verse program, at Word Vancouver on September 20th, 2025.  Free Verse seeks to bring the voices of incarcerated writers from Mission Medium (men) and Fraser Valley (women) institution to the Vancouver community to a public presentation of their writing to leverage the power of storytelling, build empathy and community.