What’s happening in October (see full details below)
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BODY: Poetry Series
Saturday, October 8 – 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Java Café & Gallery (downstairs)
Official opening of the Romeet Gallery
6:30pm Thursday, October 13
# 34, Street 178, Phnom Penh
Life Beyond
Paintings, prints and installation by Sasha Constable
Opening 6-9pm Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Java Café & Gallery (upstairs)
BODY: Poetry Series
Saturday, October 8 – 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Java Café & Gallery (downstairs)
56 Sihanouk Blvd
BODY: Phnom Penh’s Poetry Series and Open-Mic
BODY poetry series proudly presents two Phnom Penh-based performers,
American poet John C Brown and spoken word slam poet and tattoo artist
Kosal Khiev. Afterward, bring your choice of performance art for our
open-mic.
Happy hour until 9:30 pm: half price on cocktails and Angkor beer cans
for just $1.
For updates on events, join the BODY e-mail list, at
BODYphnompenh@gmail.com
or check us out on Facebook.
John Brown
John Brown is an American poet and short story writer based in Phnom
Penh. Though he favors a multiplicity of voices and poetic forms, his
love for rhythm and rhyme in poetry, and his preference for more
lyrical, narrative poetic forms is rooted from a childhood spent in
Mississippi.
John first came to Phnom Penh in 1992 while in graduate school. He has
since worked in community survey work in the area of humanitarian mine
action in Armenia, Eritrea, Somaliland, Iraq and Cambodia. Though much
of his poetry is disengaged from specific time and space, he will read
from work that focuses on Cambodia, Iraq and Mississippi.
John splits his time between Phnom Penh and Ratanakiri where he runs
an agricultural project protecting endangered tree farms on the Se San
River. The long-term goal for the project is to create a secure seed
source for Cambodia’s increasingly endangered luxury woods.
Some of his poetry and short stories can be found on his blog
“Fragments, Fabrications and Falsehoods.”
Kosal Khiev
Kosal Khiev is a spoken word artist who uses spoken word to define
moments in his life. Since his arrival to Cambodia in April 2011 he
has shared many of his works with the Cambodian community through his
work.
He was born on March 12 1980 in a refugee camp along the
Thai-Cambodian border. After several moves to find the right community
to raise a family, they finally resettled in California.
Growing up, Kosal Khiev faces many obstacles and questions of
belonging. At home, he would speak Khmer and follow the Cambodian
tradition but outside of his home was another world.
In the 1980’s, California, poverty affected his decisions and at the
age of 16 he was caught in a gang war and charged with attempted
murder. Charged as an adult, he was sentence to 16 years in California
Prison.
Within his time of incarceration he put himself through education by
getting involved with many various self-help programs. Upon his
release he was deported to Cambodia, another world in which he knew
nothing about. Now currently living in Phnom Penh he is trying to keep
his hopes and dreams alive despite his long journey.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR FRIENDS AT PHARE AND THE NEW ROMEET GALLERY:
Dear All,
Phare Ponleu Selpak is pleased to invite you to the official opening
of its gallery, Romeet and to the opening of Top Art Gallery.
It will take place on the 13th of October 2011, starting at 6.30pm.
We have planned a cocktail reception, visual art exhibitions, circus
performance and live painting!
Please join us on the 13th of October at these two places:
Romeet Gallery / # 34, Street 178 / Phnom Penh
Top Art Gallery / #155 E2, Sisowath Quay / Phnom Penh
We’re also launching drawing and painting classes for children from 8
to 12 years old. They will be given in Romeet Gallery on the Saturday
15th, 22nd, and 29th of October and on the Saturday 5th and 19th
November from 2pm to 5pm. The fee is 100$ for 15 hours of lessons.
To enroll or to get more information please contact us:
romeetgallery@phareps.com
Best,
Romeet team
Life Beyond
Paintings, prints and installation by Sasha Constable
Opening 6-9pm Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Java Café & Gallery (upstairs), 56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
‘Life Beyond’ presents a new series of works by British-born and
Siem Reap-based sculptor, print maker and painter, Sasha Constable.
Featuring linocuts, installation works, documentation and large scale
paintings for the first time, this exhibition signals an exciting
extension to her practice.
Investigating the possibility of communicating personal stories using
simple visual language, ‘Life Beyond’ equally underlines the complex
and residual experiences of those who have been affected by landmines.
In addressing what for many in rural areas is a fact of life, this
work honours the resilience of those who have survived and the efforts
of those who successfully work towards this end. (Excerpt from text by
Natalie Pace)
Showing October 19 – November 20, 2011
Gallery hours: Everyday 7am – 10pm
JavaArts is a non-for-profit gallery and platform for contemporary
visual arts in Cambodia. All profits go to support JavaArts
programming.
