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Event listings:
Tuesday 23 at Meta House sees the opening of Art Wonders, an exhibition of works Phnom Penh based art teacher Olga Shklyar and her students. From 6 pm; until May 19.
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Now opening Wednesday to Sunday, 11 am – 7 pm, is the new Chhan Dina Gallery, upstairs at Il Forno Italian restaurant on St 302.
Wednesday 24, Comedy in Cambodia presents Stand-Up Unscripted at Speak Easy Theater/The Box Office. From 7.30 pm.
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On Thursday 25 at Java Creative Cafe (Tuol Tom Pong), a screening of Further and Further Away, a film by Ly Polen, with an after-screening discussion with the director. 6.30 pm. Tickets $5, available at the café or by Telegram. Film in Khmer with English subtitles.
This week there’s an anarchist puppet show in town. Thursday 25, 7.30 pm at Speak Easy Theater/The Box Office, Creatures From The Hole presents naturluvr, a pink and green anarchist puppet show explaining the problems of Modernity and Death, partially scored by the Creatures From The Hole Poetry and Film Collective. On Saturday 28, 8 pm at Meta House, Eco-Pyscho by The Daughters of Shi, featuring fragments of the Morphology of XOS, @humanjuices and @enormousface. “This anti-narrative edge-destroying puppet show has been touring Asia for the past six months changing like a whale song. Gurgling and popping, alive with life, bizarre planetoids fly at each other from the weird reaches of the void.”
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Friday 26 from 6 pm, Sa Sa Art Projects are holding a closing event – after 14 years of operation the organisation is shutting down. “We will introduce our new publication, Sa Sa Art Projects at the White Building (2010-17), and our new website which archives all information about our 14 years’ activities to be accessible after Sa Sa’s closure.”
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Saturday 27 at Java Creative Cafe (Tuol Tom Pong), a Saturday seminar – Reel Histories: The Artistic Legacy of Cambodia’s Pre-War Film Directors, featuring esteemed Fulbright Scholar Dr. LinDa Saphan, author of Faded Reels: The Art of Four Cambodian Filmmakers 1960-1975 (2022). 10 am – noon. Entrance: $7 per person, $5 for students
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Also on Saturday 27 at Java Creative Cafe (Tuol Tom Pong), I, Neang Totim, an investigation into how one dancer’s accusation in 1898 pushed Cambodian and French officials into another dance, around the meaning of protection and freedom. Free entrance, limited space: please register at https://www.taratran.com/sala/register
Sunday 28, 6 pm at Noisy Chilli Taphouse, Comedy in Cambodia presents the Sunday Comedown open mic.
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Monday 29 at Meta House, an art workshop Reflection of Light. From 6 pm. More info
Coming soon Musica Felicachoir charity concert, 4.30 pm on 12 May at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra.
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Ongoing….
Exhibitions:
Bophana Center
Glimpses of the Khmer Republic: Photos from Bophana Center’s Archives. “French photographers Daniel Yvetot and Serge Guérin provide glimpses of the first days of the Republic. From Ros Reasey we have a record of the 1972 communist commando attack on Phnom Penh, and some epic aerial images of the movement of refugees from the countryside to Kompong Thom city in 1974. Samuel Jackson provides intimate images of the American evacuation on April 12th, 1975, while Japanese photojournalist Naoki Mabuchi bookends the period with striking photos taken in the days just before the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh. The selection is rounded off by images captured by Colin Grafton in the middle and later years of the Republic.” Until April 22.
The Gallerist
A continuously rolling collection of works by mostly Cambodian artists. More info
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Meta House
Art Wonders, an exhibition of works Phnom Penh based art teacher Olga Shklyar and her students. Until May 19.
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The Plantation
TIMELESS : Expressions Through Art – celebrating artworks by emerging creative voices and masters from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. “Featured works include paintings, drawings, and woodcut printing by students from year 4 […] alongside these emerging talents, throughout the Special Print Archives, you will be exploring established artists such as Pich Sopheap, Chan Vitharin, Kong Vollak and Nheak Sophal.” Until May 12.
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Romchiek 5 Art Space
Battambang contemporary art studio. Rolling exhibitions.
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik / YK Art House
Broken Lament, an exhibition of paintings by Meas Sokhon. Media: RFI Khmer
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl. Open daily.
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Sra’Art
An exhibition by Christine Arce, Imaginarium. “Each artwork is a gateway to childhood innocence and imagination.”
Villa Gallery (inside Maloop Garden in Boeng Tompun)
Legends, a debut solo exhibition by Sam Daro. “Discover the origin of Nakrak, set in an alternative fiction history of the Khmer empire.” Until 26 April.
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Regular events, classes, sessions:
Life Drawing Phnom Penh holds open atelier on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6.30 pm – 9 pm, at Factory.
Elevate TTP (formerly Play Café) present art workshops on Thursday evenings. Next session Thursday 25 – Angkor Wat from dawn to dusk. Places limited. 6.30 pm.
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Thursdays to Sundays at K’Atelier – art classes for all levels of experience. August programme available here.
N o w h e r e Art Studio
A range of arts and crafts workshops mostly on weekends. This month: 30 March – Blockprint on Fabric.
A weekly class in life drawing for kids with Anastasia at Pteah Chas Community.
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Khmer Architecture Tours conducts Sunday architecture tours in Phnom Penh to promote the understanding of modern architecture in Cambodia, focusing on buildings erected after independence in 1953, described as ‘New Khmer Architecture’, while setting these in the historical context of Phnom Penh. Here is the schedule for February – May.
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