Greetings,
Thursday 9, from 6 pm at Meta House, a memorial event for the iconic White Building that has now been demolished. Students from the Liger Leadership Academy document the aftermath of the demolition through a short video documentary, a podcast, poetry, songs, a short story and visual art.
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Later on Thursday 9 at Meta House, Shooting Script, a creative collaboration between UK performance poet John Gartland, international DJs and musicians – a live show followed by DJ sets. From 9 pm.
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Friday 10 marks the commencement of the International Phnom Penh Music Festival, Pianomania (The Piano: A European success story), a slightly different structure this year with performances over three weeks at the InterContinental Phnom Penh. A wide range of international performers and works, each introduced with a pre-concert talk. Tickets: $9 any time before the day of the concert, $12 on the concert day, $3 students and children.
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It’s a double workshop weekend at N o w h e r e Gallery – Self-Portrait Acrylic on Canvas on Saturday 11 at 1 pm and Rubber Stamp for Beginners on Sunday 12 at 1 pm. Bookings essential, spaces limited.
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Photo Phnom Penh festival, one of South East Asia’s major international photographic events, continues through the month to November 21. A packed calendar of exhibitions, workshops and more.
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coming soon:
- at Meta House, photo exhibition by Steve Porte, Salt 2017
- at Java Independence, Reverie, an exhibition by paper cut artist Lauren Iida, from 15 November – 4 January.
- at N o w h e r e Gallery, Tales of Borneo, woodcuts by Rico Leong
- Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, December 3 – 12
For a more rock’n’roll musical flavour of Phnom Penh, make sure you follow weekly gig guide LengPleng.com as well.
Fabian Hipp
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In brief: new and returning…
Thursday 9, 6 pm at Meta House, a memorial event for the iconic White Building that has now been demolished, featuring work from students from the Liger Leadership Academy.
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Thursday 9, 9 pm at Meta House, Shooting Script, a creative collaboration between UK performance poet John Gartland, DJs and musicians.
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Friday 10, 7 pm, opening of the International Phnom Penh Music Festival, Pianomania (The Piano: A European success story) at the InterContinental Phnom Penh. Pre-concert talk at 6 pm.
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Saturday 11, 1 pm at N o w h e r e Gallery, Self-Portrait Acrylic on Canvas workshop. Bookings essential, spaces limited.
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Saturday 11, 7 pm, day two of the International Phnom Penh Music Festival, Pianomania (The Piano: A European success story) at the InterContinental Phnom Penh. Pre-concert talk at 6 pm.
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Sunday 12, 1 pm at N o w h e r e Gallery, Rubber Stamp for Beginners workshop.
Bookings essential, spaces limited.
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Sunday 12, 7 pm, day three of the International Phnom Penh Music Festival, Pianomania (The Piano: A European success story) at the InterContinental Phnom Penh. Pre-concert talk at 6 pm.
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Photo Phnom Penh festival, one of South East Asia’s major international photographic events, continues through the month to November 21. A packed calendar of exhibitions, workshops and more.
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Ongoing….
At Neverland Artspace, an art exhibition showcasing the daily ink drawings completed during Inktober Cambodia 2017, a month of celebration of illustrative art.
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At Meta House, a photographic exhibition, Pailin 1974, from Colin Grafton’s travels in Cambodia in the early 1970s. “In 1974, when he was living in Phnom Penh, he made a brief helicopter trip to the little town of Pailin near the Thai border. ”
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At For Arts’ Sake in Siem Reap, Elders of Kulen, photographs by Tram Lyrattanak, an exhibition of portraits and stories of Cambodian elders. “Deep in the forest beyond the waterfall, villages have long existed on the sacred mountains of Kulen. Their elders are the keepers of cultural heritage, traditional medicinal knowledge, and survivors of a long and difficult history.”
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At Meta House, a photographic exhibition by Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon of the Phnom Penh Post, Smoke on the water, documenting the Prek Toal bird sanctuary that suffered severe burning in recent years due to a climate change driven El Nino effect.
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At Java Tuol Kork, the latest in the Creative Generation series The Blocks, an exhibition of paintings by recent Zaman University digital arts and design graduate Sun Lymei.
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SaSaBassac presents two solo exhibitions, Klah Klok by Than Sok and New Khmer Architecture, vessels by Albert Samreth. Runs until December 9.
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At Cloud, Phnom Penh 69, an exhibition of paintings by Bruno Levy, recalling the city in its heyday at the end of the sixties. Runs until November 3.
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At Tini Café, (St 450, Tuol Tom Pong), A Small Part, paintings by Battambang artist Nov Cheanick. Until November 3.
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Java Independence hosts Invisible Conversations, installation and images by Kong Vollak. “As an artist and a teacher, Vollak’s artistic impulse often coincides with an educational tendency. […] Through a collaborative project Jorng Jam (2014 – 2015) Vollak took the opportunity to interview his own family, collect their stories and to develop a deeper understanding of their experiences through his artistic work. This led to two ongoing bodies of work, one with salvaged photographs and another with clay figures, that explore memory, loss and resilience.”
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At Sa Sa Art Projects,When the River Reverses, a mixed media exhibition by Chu Hao Pei, Hsu Chia-Wei, Piyarat Piyapongwiwat and Than Sok, taking “environmental ecology as a means and metaphor to navigate and explore intersections of various forces” using the direction-changing Tonle Sap as an example.
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At Java Tuol Kork, Ancient Legacy and an Uncertain World, architectural drawings by Chhum Limhay, part of Java’s Creative Generation series continues. The exhibition “explores imaginary cities of the future, inspired by real cities around the world and their historical legacies while employing science-fiction aesthetics. The formation of cities and urban culture is rooted in its ancient heritage which, as a result, affects the design of buildings, infrastructure and how people live in them.”
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Every Saturday at 5 pm, Bophana Center presents Cine Saturday. Programme changes every week, across a wide range of cinema experiences.
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Every Saturday morning at 10 am Coin Café presents free apsara dance classes for children.
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Most Sundays (and occasionally Saturdays) Khmer Architecture Tours presents a range of the architectural wonders of Phnom Penh. 8.30 am start, reservations essential.
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The Phnom Penh Writers Workshop holds events every second Sunday afternoon for Phnom Penh writers who are interested in discussion and critique of their works in progress. If you would like to be involved, please contact Claire (clairemarchantcollier [ @ ] gmail.com or John john.christopher.brown [ @ ] gmail.com.
Performing arts courses at Brighton International School (#79 street 310) for ages 4 – 6 and 7 – 11 – singing, dancing, acting, every Saturday.
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New Leaf Book Cafe in Siem Reap, has a continuous exhibition for Small Art School, featuring the work of young aspiring Cambodian artists.
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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 1995-2014. Now exhibiting in two McDermott Galleries located at FCC Angkor and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor.
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The Traditional Dance Show, presented by Cambodian Living Arts, takes place at the National Museum stage. The hour-long performance showcases classical and folk dances from across Cambodia, including the famous Apsara. Every night Monday-Saturday (October-April) and every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday (May to September).
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