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(Remember, if you need help finding any of the below mentioned Phnom Penh locations, most can be found on this map art_map_alt, kindly provided to the Kumnooh website by arts+society).

On Thursday 31 from 2 pm to 4 pm, Cambodian Living Arts (Sothearos Blvd, just south of St 294) are holding a celebration of their Arn Chorn-Pond Living Arts Scholarships. Scholarship students will share their experience from last year and do a small performance. Open to the public.
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On Friday 1 at 6 pm, at Meta House, a joint presentation by the Goethe-Institut and the Institut français du Cambodge: French and German singing cabaret and open stage to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Elysée Treaty. Participation welcomed.
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On Saturday 2 at 7 pm at Department of Performing Arts (behind Parkway Centre, with access through St 173), Amrita Performing Arts presents A Contemporary Arts Platform: An evening of Cambodian Contemporary Dance. Three works are to be presented: Bach Cello Suites, Dream and Ferocious Compassion. Tickets $2, available at Java Café and the Amrita offices at 128G9 Sothearos Blvd.
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Also on Saturday 2 at 7 pm Meta House hosts the return of the WASH collaboration for a launch of their first album, Triptych, a blending of poetry and music conceived, created and recorded in Phnom Penh. Selection from both Triptych and their subsequent composition The Next Horizon will be performed.
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ReCreation, a Cambodian based art agency, has launched a Search for Cambodia’s new emerging Cambodian artists, for 2014. Deadline is January 14, with announcement of winners on February 14. Check the website for more information, how to apply, and who to encourage to apply.
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Next weekend look out: it’s time for the 10^th International Music Festival Phnom Penh, a great programme spread out over five days at the InterContinental Phnom Penh and Meta House. Free entry to a world class festival, with notable Cambodian participation as well.
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Also next weekend Penhstock at Sharky Bar, three days of peace, love and music; jazz with the Martin Jacobsen Trio at Doors and later Sofitel, and the opening of a new exhibition by Lim Sokchanlina at SaSaBassac.

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Queen for a Night, works by Kampot-based artist Vincent Broustet opens Saturday night at 6 pm, McDermott Gallery Old Market in Siem Reap. The show runs until October 31.
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Snap Shots, a new Monkey Arts Cooperative/Daniel Rothenberg photo exhibit, at Chinese House (Sisowath Quay). Until November 3
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Sonleuk by young photographer Neak Sophal at Romeet Gallery (St 178 near St 19). Until November 10
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Elegy: Reflections on Angkor by John McDermott. The award-winning American photographer maintains his strong presence on the Siem Reap art scene with his mesmerizing monochromatic fine art images of Angkor taken between 1995-2009. Now exhibiting in three McDermott Galleries located in the Old Market Area, FCC Angkor Complex and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor.
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Plae Pakaa, a program of 3 rotating performances of Cambodian traditional arts at the National Museum of Phnom Penh. A Cambodian Living Arts production. Every Friday and Saturday, 7 pm (May to September); Monday to Saturday, 7 pm (October to April).
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Phare Ponleu Selpak, the famous Cambodian circus school offers nightly performances in both Siem Reap and Battambang, on a rolling cycle of different works.
In Siem Reap: at 7.30 pm under the big top in Siem Reap, behind the Angkor National Museum, in front of Angkor Century Hotel.
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In Battambang: visual arts exhibition from 6.15 pm then circus show at 7 pm.
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DanceWorldCambodia offers classes in lyrical contemporary, commercial jazz and pop, hip hop and breakdance. Hotel Cambodiana Studio (via Physique Gym club reception). For more details contact dance@danceworldcambodia.com
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Greetings:

(Remember, if you need help finding any of the below mentioned Phnom Penh locations, most can be found on this map art_map_alt, kindly provided to the Kumnooh website by arts+society).

First up in this busy, busy week is Java Café and Gallery’s (56 Sihanouk Blvd ) new exhibition, Distant Geography: words, collages and poetry by Chath pierSath, on Tuesday 22 from 6.30 pm. The exhibition will display a selection of collages, poems and writings, and a “reading room” for the trilogy: Book of Love, Book of Names and Book of Numbers (a work in progress) displaying both reproductions of the books and enlarged images. The public is invited to participate in a collaborative poem by adding words and phrases to a wall to create a temporary collage. The show runs until 24 November, and a reading and Q&A with the artist will be held next month, on Tuesday 12 November.
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My brother died, Chath pierSath

The Japanese Embassy and the Japan Foundation jointly present the Japan-ASEAN Drums and Voices Concert, to celebrate the Japan-Cambodia 60th Anniversary of Friendship and Japan-ASEAN 40th Anniversary of Friendship and Cooperation. Cambodian traditional drummers Ip Vutha and Buth Channa are performing as Cambodian representatives under the directorship of Michiru Oshima, a well known Japanese movie music composer. Performances will be held on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 at 6.30 pm at Chaktomuk Theatre. Free admission. For further details, please contact info.jpn@pp.mofa.go.jp

On Wednesday 23 Java Café and Gallery is hosting the second in a series of mid-monthly open stage poetry readings. This month there will be a special performance by the Phnom Penh poetry/musical collaboration WASH, in preparation for their album launch early next month, followed by an open poetry reading. Starts at 7.30 pm.
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Opening on Thursday 24 is Toile et Végétal, a retrospective exhibition of works by Cambodian textile artist Marine Ky, at the Exhibition hall of the Institut français du Cambodge. A bright and colourful show that commences at 7 pm.
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Meanwhile, in Battambang, Lotus Bar and Gallery (#52, St 2.5) is finally up and running, and will be holding their first event on Thursday 24 from 7.30 pm. Revolution, a night of experimental music, film and art, will features Pan Gu, a musical collaboration between Norwegian avant garde legend Lasse Marhug and Singaporean musician/ composer Leslie Low, and some Cambodian and international short films.

Pan Gu will also be performed at Meta House in Phnom Penh on Friday 25 from 9 pm.
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On Friday evening, Bophana Center and Cambodian Living Arts co-present a special event to celebrate UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. The activities, being held at Bophana Centre (St 200, between St 6 3 and Monivong) commence at 4 pm with a workshop, Cambodian Music, Now and Then, continuing at 5 pm with the Areak troupe from Kampong Speu, the launch of the Khmer Dance Project with Suppya Nut at 6 pm, and at 7 pm, cocktails and a concert by Khmer rock revival band The Underdogs. An exhibition of photographs documenting the recent music archiving project by Cambodian Living Arts will be on display.
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On Friday 25 and Saturday 26 at 7.30 pm, the Phnom Penh Players present their latest production, the theatrical farce More Diplomatic Affairs, at the Russian Cultural Centre (cnr Norodom and St 222). Tickets ($10) at Baitong Restaurant, St 360; Willow Boutique Hotel, St 21; Titanic Bopha Restaurant, Riverside; Cha Nails, Sothearos Blvd; Tips & Toes, St 278; the venue; or via the ticket hotline: 010990026 (Emma).

On the morning of Saturday 26, the Phnom Penh Community College is hosting a Craft Workshop using recycled materials at their regular venue (The Capacity Specialists Training Center, Top Floor, corner Sts 63 & 294, entrance on 294). Hosted by Zoe Boyd.
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On Sunday 27, Khmer Architecture Tours hosts a public architecture tour around 1960s houses and villas in Toul Kork, including Vann Molyvann’s 100 Houses Social Housing project, a doctor’s villa, and a double stair home. Tours are $14 per person, and reservations are required via email: contact@ka-tours.org. Meet at the Post Office, 8.30 am.
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Sunday afternoon is also time for the next Phnom Penh Drink and Draw at Baitong Restaurant on St 360 (between Norodom and 51). From 5 pm.
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Sunday 27 is also the date for the third annual Canon PhotoMarathon at Chaktomuk Theatre, from 7 am to 5 pm, which last year was attended by 600 people. This unusual photography competition has no restriction on age, experience or brand of camera; participants have two hours to take and present photographic work on themes that will be announced at specific points during the day. Registration for the competition closes on Saturday 26 at 3 pm, and can be completed at facebook.com/i-QlickCambodia or by calling 095 873 684 or 095 873 685.

Also in photography, to mark the European Development Day 26-27 November, the EU Delegation in collaboration with Institut Français of Cambodia (IFC) invite Cambodia students (between 12 and 20 years old) to take part in a photo contest: Mekong Stories. The deadline is 4 November at 5 pm.
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And for something different, should you wish to get dressed up to attend any of the many events this week or soon, the next History of Things to Come vintage clothing sale commences on Thursday 24 at a private residence next to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, #21 street 306. But only until Monday 28.
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If you are a venue or artist and would like to receive a weekly reminder to provide Kumnooh with an upcoming event or activity, please contact fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

Make yours a creative week, support an artist near you! Tell your friends about Kumnooh, like us on Facebook, send us things we don’t seem to know. And for rock and roll and clubs, make sure you follow LengPleng.com as well.

Fabian Hipp

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One day in Phnom Penh,a photographic exhibition by Tim Kelsall, at Baitong Gallery (#7, St 360, between Norodom and 51). Silent auction for Friends International. Until end October.
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Queen for a Night, works by Kampot-based artist Vincent Broustet opens Saturday night at 6 pm, McDermott Gallery Old Market in Siem Reap. The show runs until October 31.
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Snap Shots, a new Monkey Arts Cooperative/Daniel Rothenberg photo exhibit, at Chinese House (Sisowath Quay). Until November 3
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Sonleuk by young photographer Neak Sophal at Romeet Gallery (St 178 near St 19). Until November 10
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Elegy: Reflections on Angkor by John McDermott. The award-winning American photographer maintains his strong presence on the Siem Reap art scene with his mesmerizing monochromatic fine art images of Angkor taken between 1995-2009. Now exhibiting in three McDermott Galleries located in the Old Market Area, FCC Angkor Complex and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor.
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Plae Pakaa, a program of 3 rotating performances of Cambodian traditional arts at the National Museum of Phnom Penh. A Cambodian Living Arts production. Every Friday and Saturday, 7 pm (May to September); Monday to Saturday, 7 pm (October to April).
More info

Phare Ponleu Selpak, the famous Cambodian circus school offers nightly performances in both Siem Reap and Battambang, on a rolling cycle of different works.
In Siem Reap: at 7.30 pm under the big top in Siem Reap, behind the Angkor National Museum, in front of Angkor Century Hotel.
More info
In Battambang: visual arts exhibition from 6.15 pm then circus show at 7 pm.
More info

DanceWorldCambodia offers classes in lyrical contemporary, commercial jazz and pop, hip hop and breakdance. Hotel Cambodiana Studio (via Physique Gym club reception). For more details contact dance@danceworldcambodia.com
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On Thursday 17, Meta House hosts a exhibition opening, Angkor Rebuilt, by French artist Levy Truffert, which uses 3D imaging technology to reimagine the Angkor complex in its heyday. The fun starts at 6 pm, to be followed by a live concert featuring Khmer vocalist Ouch Savy and Norwegian composer/pianist Ingolv Haaland at 7 pm.
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Also on Thursday 17 at 6 pm, SaSa Bassac presents In Conversation with Than Sok + OM with John Smith at Sa Sa Bassac gallery (#18, 2nd floor, Sothearos Blvd).
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On Saturday 19 (5.30 pm for 6 pm) at Monument Books (Norodom Blvd, near St 240), Australian writer Laura Jean McKay hosts the Phnom Penh launch of her recently published book Holiday in Cambodia, a collection of many short pieces of fiction arising from her experiences in Cambodia over a period of several years. This is not a travel journal, but rather a series of extended vignettes maintaining western visitors and cultures as the other, the strange. And it’s true: Jello Biafra ordered a couple of copies.
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Laura Jean McKay contemplates Jello Biafra’s request

For a taste of the Germanic this weekend, the ARTtplus Foundation, in and with Meta House, is hosting a series of events celebrating the 200^th birthday of German composer Richard Wagner. Documentaries on Thursday and Friday night, a Saturday evening piano recital (also including works by Franz Liszt) by Giovanni De Cecco, of the Venice Conservatory of Music, and finally a screening of the opera Lohengrin on Sunday afternoon at 4 pm.
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This week Cambodian Living Arts commence a new season of their traditional arts performances, Plae Pakaa, at the National Museum (cnr St 178 and St 13). From now until March 2014, three shows will rotate six nights a week: Children of Bassac (a snapshot of Cambodian life through dance) on Mondays & Thursdays, Yike Opera: Make Therng (the quest for love and justice) on Tuesdays & Fridays, and Passage of Life (Living the Cambodian Life) on Wednesdays & Saturdays. There is a 10% discount for tickets purchased online and in advance at the National Museum. All weather venue!
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The Our City Festival 2014 is calling for creatives (designers, architects, performers, filmmakers and visual artists), curators, partners and youth ambassadors for the mid-January event in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Battambang. The emphasis is on using urban space, collaboration, and public participation. Deadline for submissions is October 28 so don’t wait for the next rainy day. Selected projects will be notified by November 4.
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Note that the opening of Toile et végétal, a retrospective of the work of Cambodian artist Marine Ky, at the Exhibition hall of the Institut français du Cambodge has been delayed until next Thursday 24.

If you are a venue or artist and would like to receive a weekly reminder to provide Kumnooh with an upcoming event or activity, please contact fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

Make yours a creative week, support an artist near you! Tell your friends about Kumnooh, like us on Facebook, send us things we don’t seem to know. And for rock and roll and clubs, make sure you follow LengPleng.com as well.

Fabian Hipp

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Finding the Lost Art Forms, at Cambodian Living Arts gallery, (128-G9 Sothearos Blvd), the result of a year-long search to archive vanishing folk arts. Until October 18.
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One day in Phnom Penh,a photographic exhibition by Tim Kelsall, at Baitong Gallery (#7, St 360, between Norodom and 51). Silent auction for Friends International. Until end October.
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Queen for a Night, works by Kampot-based artist Vincent Broustet opens Saturday night at 6 pm, McDermott Gallery Old Market in Siem Reap. The show runs until October 31.
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Snap Shots, a new Monkey Arts Cooperative/Daniel Rothenberg photo exhibit, at Chinese House (Sisowath Quay). Until November 3
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Sonleuk by young photographer Neak Sophal at Romeet Gallery (St 178 near St 19). Until November 10
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Elegy: Reflections on Angkor by John McDermott. The award-winning American photographer maintains his strong presence on the Siem Reap art scene with his mesmerizing monochromatic fine art images of Angkor taken between 1995-2009. Now exhibiting in three McDermott Galleries located in the Old Market Area, FCC Angkor Complex and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor.
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Plae Pakaa, a program of 3 rotating performances of Cambodian traditional arts at the National Museum of Phnom Penh. A Cambodian Living Arts production. Every Friday and Saturday, 7 pm (May to September); Monday to Saturday, 7 pm (October to April).
More info

Phare Ponleu Selpak, the famous Cambodian circus school offers nightly performances in both Siem Reap and Battambang, on a rolling cycle of different works.
In Siem Reap: at 7.30 pm under the big top in Siem Reap, behind the Angkor National Museum, in front of Angkor Century Hotel.
More info
In Battambang: visual arts exhibition from 6.15 pm then circus show at 7 pm.
More info

DanceWorldCambodia offers classes in lyrical contemporary, commercial jazz and pop, hip hop and breakdance. Hotel Cambodiana Studio (via Physique Gym club reception). For more details contact dance@danceworldcambodia.com
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Greetings:

After the slow and wet weekend of Pchum Ben, another active week as we head towards festival season in November/December/January….

From 6.30 pm on Thursday 10, Romeet Gallery is hosting an exhibition by young photographer Neak Sophal, entitled Sonleuk, work “somewhere between landscape and portraiture.” Sophal’s work has already been exhibited in China, Berlin and key events in and around Cambodia.
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Lotus, Neak Sophal

Cambodia’s participation in 24 Hour Drawing Day 2013 over the weekend 28/29 September at Java Café turned out to be the best yet, according to organisers Siew Phew Yeung/Our Books, with the participation of professional Cambodian comic artists to tourists and most categories in between. From Thursday 10^th, you can view examples of the comics produced at Rik Reay Gallery / Noodle Shop (St 178 near St 19), while the Strip All Night exhibition celebrating the last five years of drawing days continues downstairs at Java Café and Gallery.
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My Friend In Countryside, Soeung Makara

On Friday evening, The Plantation (St 184 btw St 19 and Norodom) hosts the launch of a new exhibition by British artist and photographer and Phnom Penh resident, David Holliday, The Montages, from 6.30 pm. This exhibit continues the artist’s work on mixed media montages, views of houses, coffee shops, street scenes, shanty towns, and beach shacks.
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This weekend’s workshops at Phnom Penh Community College are Still Life Acrylic Painting (morning) and Abstract Oil Painting (afternoon), both facilitated by Polish born Phnom Penh resident Adriana Snochowska. There is a discount for attending both, and also a discount for bringing a friend. Reserve your space at info@phnompenhcommunitycollege.com.
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Weekend screenings of Rithy Panh’s film The Missing Picture resume at Bophana Center (St 200 btw St 63 and Monivong): 6.30 pm on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13.
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For those who like to walk and click, another Phnom Penh Photo Walk will take place Sunday 13 in the vicinity of Olympic Stadium. Meet at City Mall at 4pm.
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Up in Siem Reap, the Phare Ponleu Selpak circus troupe is introducing two new shows in October, The Adventure and Chills.
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Also in Siem Reap, check out this self-taught artist making a quiet splash.

If you are a venue or artist and would like to receive a weekly reminder to provide Kumnooh with an upcoming event or activity, please contact fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

Make yours a creative week, support an artist near you! Tell your friends about Kumnooh, like us on Facebook, send us things we don’t seem to know. And for rock and roll and clubs, make sure you follow LengPleng.com as well.

Fabian Hipp

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Life and Nature, paintings by Chhim Sothy. The Insider Gallery, InterContinental Phnom Penh. Until October 12.
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Promotion, by Than Sok, a Phnom Penh based artist who works in installations, video and sculpture, Sa Sa Bassac gallery (#18, 2nd floor, Sothearos Blvd). Until 12 October.
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Chinese and Cambodia, photographic exhibition by Michael Lui at Bophana Center (Street 200, btw 63 & Monivong). Until October 12.
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The New Age: Until Now, featuring works by Chhim Sothy, Prum Vichet, Phe Sophon, Meas Sokhorn and Sou Sophy, curated by curator-in-residence Yean Reaksmey, Java Cafe and Gallery. Until October 13
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Finding the Lost Art Forms, at Cambodian Living Arts gallery, (128-G9 Sothearos Blvd), the result of a year-long search to archive vanishing folk arts. Until October 18.
More info

One day in Phnom Penh,a photographic exhibition by Tim Kelsall, at Baitong Gallery (#7, St 360, between Norodom and 51). Silent auction for Friends International.
More info

Queen for a Night, works by Kampot-based artist Vincent Broustet opens Saturday night at 6 pm, McDermott Gallery Old Market in Siem Reap. The show runs until October 31.
More info

Snap Shots, a new Monkey Arts Cooperative/Daniel Rothenberg photo exhibit, at Chinese House (Sisowath Quay). Until November 3
More info Even more info

Elegy: Reflections on Angkor by John McDermott. The award-winning American photographer maintains his strong presence on the Siem Reap art scene with his mesmerizing monochromatic fine art images of Angkor taken between 1995-2009. Now exhibiting in three McDermott Galleries located in the Old Market Area, FCC Angkor Complex and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor.
More Info

Plae Pakaa, a program of 3 rotating performances of Cambodian traditional arts at the National Museum of Phnom Penh. A Cambodian Living Arts production. Every Friday and Saturday, 7 pm (May to September); Monday to Saturday, 7 pm (October to April).
More info

Phare Ponleu Selpak, the famous Cambodian circus school offers nightly performances in both Siem Reap and Battambang, on a rolling cycle of different works.   Two new shows commence in October, The Adventure and Chills.
In Siem Reap: at 7.30 pm under the big top in Siem Reap, behind the Angkor National Museum, in front of Angkor Century Hotel.
More info
In Battambang: visual arts exhibition from 6.15 pm then circus show at 7 pm.
More info

DanceWorldCambodia offers classes in lyrical contemporary, commercial jazz and pop, hip hop and breakdance. Hotel Cambodiana Studio (via Physique Gym club reception). For more details contact dance@danceworldcambodia.com
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