Java Café & Gallery’s 10th Anniversary

• Friday, December 10, 2010
• From 10am – 10pm: Ten promotions
• From 7pm until late: “On The Spot” open mic with Berkavitch and DJ Nam spinning live tunes. From 9pm onwards, DJ Radioactive Anne will bring on the night vibe.
• And all day and night: three exhibitions.

Celebrating 10 years of café, art and community.

Ever since opening in 2000, our goal at Java Café & Gallery has been to innovate, aiming to offer quality food and show contemporary art in a relaxed and friendly context. The biggest compliments you could pay us have always been that you had lingered over a good meal because you felt right at home or that you had found an artwork on display amazing or challenging.

For Java Café & Gallery, quality and comfort go hand in hand, which has meant providing customers with seating areas in which they would feel welcome to spend hours, and serving food and drinks made from scratch with the freshest ingredients.

With a program ranging from exhibitions and artist talks to fashion shows and live poetry, Java enjoys linking art and entertainment in provocative and exciting events that promote the arts and offer opportunities for expression.

Over the last 10 years, Java has held nearly 100 shows featuring both Cambodian and international artists, and has accumulated in the process a vast documentation that include artists’ biographies and photos of their artworks. Those archives will soon be donated to the Bophana Audivisual Resource Centre in Phnom Penh to give students and anyone interested in specific artists or the evolution of visual arts in the country access to this detailed record.

To celebrate those 10 years of creative efforts, we are offering ten special promotions, a night of live music and poetry and the chance to view three special exhibitions:
– From 10am to 10pm on December 10, 2010, we invite everyone to take advantage of our ten promotions.
– On the same evening starting at 7pm, we will have a special “On The Spot” open mic with Berkavitch featuring international and local acts and DJ Nam spinning live tunes.
– And from 9 pm onwards, DJ Radioactive Anne will bring on the night vibe.
–On display will be two photo exhibitions held as part of Photo Phnom Penh festival organized by the French Cultural Center, and artworks from Phare Ponleu Selpak’s students and artists featuring in an auction supported by JavaArts.

During those events, the café’s upstairs and downstairs areas as well as jGALLERY will be open, and anyone will be welcome to drop by, be it for a quick look or for the duration.

It has been an exciting 10 years: Come and celebrate with us!!!