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Tonight, Tuesday 27 at Meta House, the opening of an exhibition by Steve Porte featuring a selection of portraits of Phnom Penh musicians. With live music performance. From 6 pm.
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On Wednesday 28, as part of artist Tith Kanitha’s exhibition Instinct there will be an In Conversation event with curator, Vera Mey. 6.30 pm, English language.
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On Thursday 29 from 6.30 pm at the French Institute, an exhibition of photographs by Lola Reboud & Le Studio Images: Between Documentary and Fiction. “The work of Lola Reboud oscillates between fiction and documentary, and shows both locations and characters in a mysterious and poetic universe.” Until April 21.
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The Phnom Penh Players’ next presentation is Missionaries, Mercenaries and Monsters, by Robert Appleby, which “follows the workings of a typical Phnom Penh expat bar as the clientele deal with loneliness, anger and disillusion.” Three performances, Thursday 29 – Saturday 31, 7 pm, at Factory Phnom Penh. Tickets $10 available from Lot 369 Cafe & Bar, Show Box & Kwest Restaurant.
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Friday 30 at Sa Sa Art Projects, a talk by Thai artist Sutthirat Supaparinya. “Her works encompass a wide variety of mediums such as installation, sculpture, still and moving images. Through her works she questions, interprets public information and reveals what’s structure effect her/us as a national/global citizen.” 6 pm, in English with Khmer translation.
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coming soon:
- From April 8, at Meta House, Identicity: a visual dialogue about life in the urban habitat. A multidisciplinary exhibition by Cambodian and international artists curated by Miguel Jerónimo reflecting on Phnom Penh and how the city shapes the existence of its inhabitants.
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In brief: new and returning…
Tuesday 27, 6 pm at Meta House, an exhibition by Steve Porte featuring a selection of portraits of Phnom Penh musicians.
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Wednesday 28, 6.30 pm as part of artist Tith Kanitha’s exhibition Instinct there will be an In Conversation event.
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Thursday 29, 6.30 pm at the French Institute, an exhibition of photographs by Lola Reboud & Le Studio Images: Between Documentary and Fiction.
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Thursday 29 – Saturday 31, 7 pm at Factory Phnom Penh, Missionaries, Mercenaries and Monsters, a play by Robert Appleby presented by the Phnom Penh Players. Tickets $10 available from Lot 369 Cafe & Bar, Show Box & Kwest Restaurant.
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Friday 30, 6 pm, at Sa Sa Art Projects, a talk by Thai artist Sutthirat Supaparinya. In English with Khmer translation.
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Ongoing….
At The Plantation, Feel Free by Alias 2.0. “Feel Free will explore the evolution of Cambodia and the artist through abstract graffiti and found material installations using metal and wood collected from the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Matter is never created nor destroyed, only transformed.”
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At ARTillery, These Walls by Jenna Hang, a look at the walls of Phnom Penh.
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At Chinese House RETRO-TROPICAL-CAMBO-KITSCH, a photo-exhibition on street meditation towards a Cambodian Pop-Art, by Miguel Jerónimo. “Photography doesn’t need to be a mere means to represent reality, it can be a way to deconstruct it in an abstract form. Using street photography as raw-material for artistic purposes instead of focusing only on its actual content.”
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At Java Independence Monument, a new exhibition of artworks by Romcheik 5 artists Nget Chanpenh and Mil Chankrim, About Destiny: Two Perspectives. “Chanpenh’s series of paintings titled Tattooed Children explores how individual fates are determined by social status or situation […] Chankrim’s series of watercolors titled Back to Images features wiry and strangely proportioned figures in varying hues.”
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At Cloud, the opening of a photographic exhibition by Chris Nedlitz, Angkor 2018: Backup Memories. “During my visit to the temples of Angkor, I looked at visitors who were equipped with digital boxes as I was. Capable of stopping time, we catch ‘our’ moments like soap bubbles.”
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At For Art’s Sake at Thaddeus Gallery, Siem Reap, Decomposition, an exhibition of work by Maline Yim: cardboard, with graphite, charcoal, ink and acrylic pencil.
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At Meta House Fernando Aceves‘ Travel Diary – 10 Years In South East Asia, the work of Mexican painter Fernando Aceves Humana, the co-founder of the Char (dry point) RUFA etching and lithography workshop.
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At The Kampot Art Gallery (located on the corner of the salt workers roundabout), a collection of works from the Battambang gallery Romcheik 5, notably Waiting for Ice – Melt by Nget Chanpenh.
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SaSaBassac presents a new solo exhibition by Tith Kanitha, Instinct. The exhibition “brings together sixteen steel wire sculptures of varying sizes and distinctive, biomorphic forms. The artist has playfully staged them as characters throughout the exhibition space in both conventional and surprising ways – they hang, drape and dangle at different levels from the ceiling and walls, and rest on or slightly off open-ended pedestals.”
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Sa Sa Art Projects presents Another sound, a collaborative exhibition by Chaing Mai installation artist Arnont Nongyao and Phnom Penh sound artist Khvay Leoung. “With the language barrier between the two artists, the presented work is not only a result of their collaboration but in fact also the method of their collaboration. They attempt to achieve a mutual understanding through a sonic experimentation or rather another sound language.” Show runs until 30 March.
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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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