Inspired by the world renowned Pecha Kucha presentation format, Nerd Night is an exhibition of local talent and ideas. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide. Topics are not themed. You might know some of the presenters, but chances are you have never seen this side of them before. Nerd Night is a chance for you to get a quick glimpse into the life, work and interests of the people in the Phnom Penh community. Rapid fire presentations, music, drinks, chats.

the Cambodian Youth, by Sen Tharo;
Participatory Architecture, with Inari Virkkala and Noora Aaltonen;
“2032: Earth’s Odyssey,” by Hein Oomen;
Blues dancing, by Wiley Jennings and co;
and architecture, by Giacomo Butte.

Nerd Night returns to Phnom Penh’s biggest screen this Monday!

Inspired by the world renowned Pecha Kucha presentation format, Nerd Night is an exhibition of local talent and ideas. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide. Topics are not themed. You might know some of the presenters, but chances are you have never seen this side of them before. Nerd Night is a chance for you to get a quick glimpse into the life, work and interests of the people in the Phnom Penh community. Rapid fire presentations, music, drinks, chats.

Where: Score Bar, Phnom Penh

Inspired by the world renowned Pecha Kucha presentation format, Nerd Night is an exhibition of local talent and ideas. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide. Topics are not themed.

You might know some of the presenters, but chances are you have never seen this side of them before.

Nerd Night is a chance for you to get a quick glimpse into the life, work and interests of the people in the Phnom Penh community. Rapid fire presentations, music, drinks, chats.

Where: Score Bar

About Sa Sa Art Projects

Sa Sa Art Projects is a non-profit artist-operated space founded in 2010 by the Cambodian artist collective Stiev Selapak. Located in the historic apartment bloc The White Building on Sothearos Boulevard, Sa Sa Art Projects aims to foster a community of knowledge sharing and to create opportunities for emerging Cambodian artists to realize new ideas. It does this by serving as a venue to accommodate experimental art practices, residencies, talks, classes, and community participation.

More info at http://www.sasaart.info/

Who:
Wil Waters, on crowdsourcing;
Emily Marques, on public speaking;
Cordell Jacks, on lucid dreaming;
Dan Korn, on disaster psychology;
and your favorite Nerd Night MC Yi Wei, on language.

Why:
Because Bertrand Russell says, “curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also makes pleasant things more pleasant” — such as drink specials, nerds and gardens.

When:
First speaker at 8, no later than 8:15
Drink and dinner specials from 7:30 to 9:30

Nerd night happy hour includes
$1 Anchor draft, $2 well drinks, $4 sandwich and fries

What!?!
Inspired by the world renowned Pecha Kucha presentation format, Nerd Night is an exhibition of local talent and ideas. Each presentation is short and sweet: 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide. Topics are not themed. You might know some of the presenters, but chances are you have never seen this side of them before. Nerd Night is a chance for you to get a quick glimpse into the life, work and interests of the people in the Phnom Penh community. Rapid fire presentations, music, drinks and chats make Nerd Night a must!

Tuesday 03/01/2012
What? Workspace open
Time? Whole day
Who? Everyone

Wednesday 04/01/2012
What? Workspace open
Time? Whole day
Who? Everyone

Thursday: 05/01/2012/
What? Engineers Corner
Time? Whole day
Who? Everyone

Friday 06/01/2012
Theme Meditation Corner
Topic Calm the mind, release tension and stress Facilitator Chhunny
Time 6:00 am – 7:30 am and 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Saturday 07/01/2012
Theme New Year Potluck
Topic
Facilitator Sakada Sam, Chhunny Hearn,Rithy Thul, Putheary Chhouen, Seng Ky, Hor Phanna
Time 8:30 am – 10:30 am

Sunday 08/01/2012
Theme Reading Corner
Host Chhouen Putheary
Time 9.00am-11.00am

It is free of charge, but if you can bring some snacks to share with friends, it would be a great community effort.

Come to learn and develop yourself, make new friends or learn to be a good friend with old friends. Learn more about Small World effort toward social, entrepreneurship, and social impact as well.

Where: House 17, Street 604 , Phnom Penh, Cambodia
See the map at www.procacmbodia.com/map

“The Illusion of Permanence,” sculptures by Sallyanne Morgan
(upstairs, Java Café & Gallery)

EXHIBITION OPENINGS: 6 – 9pm Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Showing January 11 – February 19, 2012

Java Café & Gallery

56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Viewing hours: every day 7am – 10pm

“My Selfish Family”

Paintings by Ben Thynal

In a coded manner, Thynal looks at the selfish nature of human
relationships from the familial to the religious. By referring to his
“family” Thynal immediately suggests something intimate and
personal, but alludes to society as a whole. Unapologetically, he
discards the “politically correct” view and looks critically at
how families often manipulate and exploit each other for personal
gain, the pretense of religious rituals and even the abuse of
corruption.

“When even one person acts selfishly, it hurts everyone,” Thynal
explains.

One painting, titled “Immoral,” depicts a mother with long
snake-like arms trying to catch children out of the air while a
“thought bubble” is filled with playing cards. The mother preys
upon her own children to make money that she only wastes by gambling.
Another shows a tightly wound group of people trapped in a circular
formation—their smiling faces purposely misleading when paired with
the title “Monster Family.” In “Balance” several intertwined
figures that represent a network of self-serving individuals fill an
egg-like shape that balances on another small egg and small red circle
resting precariously on a thin line.

In each of the paintings, the cartoon-like figures belie the menacing
subject and hint at the contradiction between one’s inner nature and
the external expression.

Thynal, part of the new generation of outspoken and critical artists,
has explored several themes that are socially-focused including
landmines, the environment and the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge. He
works as an art teacher at Mith Samlanh, one of the leading NGOs
working with vulnerable youth and their communities. He graduated from
Phare Ponleu Selpak (Battambang) in 2006 and his work has been
exhibited in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. This will be his second solo
show.

“The Illusion of Permanence”

Sculptures by Sallyanne Morgan

Reflecting on Cambodia as it emerges from years of broken
infrastructure and into a new economic and social future, Sallyanne
Morgan’s sculptures are an observation of current lives and past
traditions with an underlying uncertainty for what may yet come.
During times of change, we often turn to familiar customs and as an
artist Sallyanne looks at the different symbols and rituals that
define and guide the individual through this process. She examines
this very private process through quiet meditative sculptures of
life-size figures.

In the exhibition there are three different series, all of them with a
polished white surface. One features the life-like figures of a woman,
a child and a man, each with protective tattoos engraved on them,
offering a more literal and private narrative. The second series shows
abstracted female torsos with a moving sphere in the middle that
suggests a deeper more internal conversation. Finally, the third
series of small figures balancing in various positions around a
central rod, a metaphoric gesture about adaptation to change.

The figures are displaced by their position in an active café/gallery
space, one that it is in contrast to their stillness. At times they
allow for a pause in the daily routine and at other times they
disappear into the background, patiently waiting.

Sallyanne Morgan was born in Ireland and studied sculpture at Colaiste
Conghaile in Dublin in 1995. She exhibited in Dublin and Cork and
worked as a Community Artist around the country. On moving to Phnom
Penh in 2001 she taught clay sculpture to young adults. This is her
first exhibition in Cambodia.

JavaArts features a series of exhibitions launching two at a time,
every 6-7 weeks in addition to monthly performances, poetry nights and
artist projects.

JavaArts is a non-for-profit gallery and platform for contemporary
visual arts in Cambodia. All profits go to support programming and
artist initiatives.

JavaArts is the culmination of over eleven years working in
contemporary visual arts in Cambodia. It was founded with the
establishment of Java Café & Gallery which offers an exhibition space
in a popular café, presenting the artwork in an accessible format.
Since 2000, the gallery has hosted over 100 exhibitions and
performances, including international collaborations and forums.

www.javaarts.org

Office is located at 56 Sihanouk Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Office hours: Mon to Fri, 8:30am – 5:30pm

At 7 pm we are happy to present very special music performances. The night will be opened by Arne from the German Rock Band “DIVA INTERNATIONAL”. Following him, Conrad will perform with AMANDA BLOOM on the grand piano and Chris, a musician from Kampot, on the violin. It surely will be an exciting event.

Attached you can find our invitation with some pictures.

You can learn about Conrad Keely’s Band “Trail of Dead” on their official homepage www.trailofdead.org

Or see this interview on his most recent album-art that will also be featured at the exhibition.

Conrad has recently spent some time in Cambodia and Thailand and was featured in the Phnom Penh Post.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102152285/Lifestyle/keely-serves-kingdom-with-trail-of-dead.html

7:30pm Wednesday, Java Café & Gallery

Featuring rhymes by Kosal Khiev

http://www.javaarts.org

Open Cities is a live, site-specific performance based upon the live, real-time manipulation of sounds and images from the streets surrounding the performance venue. FIRST (AND MAYBE ONLY) PERFORMANCE IN PHNOM PENH.

Recent article by Blueprint:

http://www.theincidental.com/blog/blue-open-print/

For each concert, a microphone and video is placed directly outside of the venue, gathering ambient noise and passing visuals. The show is then created entirely from these live feeds without the use of prerecorded material, remixing and distorting them into experimental beats and rhythms that respond to specific sonic and visual qualities
of each site.

This process is made possible by software programs designed and built by David over the past year as part a research project supported by Sound&Music, one of the UK’s leading contemporary music institutions. Previous performances of Open Cities include appearances at Future Places (Porto), Novara Jazz Festival (Milan) and Corsica Studios
(London).

David Gunn is the founding Director of Incidental is a creative organisation specialising in cross-disciplinary creative work that explores notions of identity, sound and site. In the past 6 years, Incidental has completed a variety of projects in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US, with a diverse output including live performances,
largescale installations, software design and site-specific interventions commissioned by a variety of organisations including Opera North, Futuresonic Festival, Asian Development Bank, Arnolfini Gallery, Manchester International Festival, Arts Network Asia, Fundacao Serralves and The New York Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

Current projects include creation of multi-touch music software app (FEED) and collaborations with Cambodians artists / musicians to explore experimental approaches to Khmer culture (Krom Monster, TheSounding Room).

Find out more at http://www.theincidental.com

It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer, designer, marketer, blogger, social media-er or a website junkie. Come and meet others interested in the online world… and bask in the blissful irony of this in-person event.

WHEN:
From 6:30pm, Wednesday December 14, 2011.

WHERE:
Touk Bar… Sisowath Quay, Corner Street 178. It is opposite the FCC.