The Cambodian Youth Arts Festival (CYAF) is a festival bringing together master artists, students, and visiting artists from allied arts organizations across Cambodia and around the world in order to generate arts renewal through the sharing and learning of a variety of traditional and contemporary art forms.
Even more, it is the keystone of a movement to revitalize Cambodia through the arts.
A rehearsing performance art held in National Museum in Phnom Penh in early April this year
The festival is also a way to encourage and honor Cambodian artists by recognizing their accomplishments and building hopes for the future.
CYAF increases awareness about arts revival in Cambodia among educators, students, artists and observers from around the world by providing opportunities for all participating groups to demonstrate the mastery of their art by leading workshops and demonstrations and participating in public performances.
Starting this year in 2010, Cambodian Living Arts is working with 20 other international and local organizations to mount the first festival in Cambodia’s capital.
Every year the scale of the CYAF has increased. In 2004, we started with 150 participants and by 2007 there were 350 participants. This year we plan to have 500 participants attending the CYAF from August 1 – 6, 2010 in Phnom Penh.
CYAF was initiated in 2004 by Cambodian Living Arts as the “Mohaosrop Silapak Khmer Amatak” in Khmer or the “Cambodian Living Arts Festival” in English. At the time, the participants were only the master artists, teachers and students of Cambodian Living Arts along with a troupe from the Department of Culture and Fine Arts of Siem Reap province. CYAF was celebrated two times in Siem Reap at the campus of Wat Rajabo, in 2004 and 2005. Later on in 2006 and 2007, it was held in Battambang at the campus of Phare Ponleu Selpaak where the festival included four other Cambodian organizations, Epic Arts, Phare Ponleu Selpak, Tiny Toones, and the Friends Economic Development Association (FEDA).
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