DENGUE FEVER to return to Southeast Asia, Cambodia
DENGUE FEVER is very excited to announce their return to Southeast Asia, with the help of an arts envoy grant from the U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. More information below. Please let me know if you’d like to set up an interview with one of the band members. DENGUE...
Khmer media students launch music mag: “Dontrey: The Music of Cambodia”
Students of the Department of Media and Communication (DMC) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) have created the magazine DONTREY: THE MUSIC OF CAMBODIA. It is a sweeping overview of the rich musical traditions of the country from ancient tribal music to the internationally renowned Khmer rock of the 1960s to the pop...
Poetry Night
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall we screen documentaries and feature films about the German division and reunification in our gallery. The rooftop is closed due to construction works until next week. * Wed, 05/10, 7PM COURAGE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD: DOCUMENTARY “THE MIRACLE OF LEIPZIG” * Thurs, 06/10,...
What are you doing tomorrow? Want to nerd out?
Who: All Nerds, and featuring: -Tim Brack, on social media; -Stefania Druga, on open education; -Roswell Thomas, on colors?; -Gregory Pellechi, on Turkmen textbooks; Where: Score, #5, St. 282, cross St. 51, near Wat Lanka When: 7:30: Schmoozing commences 8:00 pm Speakers go on; Nerd night happy hour includes $1 Angkor What!?: Inspired by the...
The “Berlin Wall” falls at Meta
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall the German Embassy in Phnom Penh and the German-Cambodian Cultural Center Meta House invite you to the opening of the exhibition THE WALL: A BORDER THROUGH GERMANY this Tuesday, 04/10, 6PM The “Berlin Wall”, which separated the German city in an eastern and...
Which night? Nerd Night
Yes, it’s about time for a Nerd Night, but this week we’re trying something different. As Alan Gelfant says in the 1998 film Next Stop Wonderland, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Please note that both hobgoblins and little minds are potentially good nerd night topics. After several months of Monday consistency,...
Upcoming: Dengue Fever Electric Mekong Tour
DENGUE FEVER Electric Mekong Tour in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam Nov 10-27. Exact show dates and ticket sales will be announced later. To get the latest news, follow the hash tag #ElectricMekongTour on Twitter. More updates soon…
Upcoming: Nerd Gala in early October
Yes, it’s about time for a Nerd Night, but this week we’re trying something different. As Alan Gelfant says in the 1998 film Next Stop Wonderland, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Please note that both hobgoblins and little minds are potentially good nerd night topics. After several months of Monday consistency,...
TEDx Talk with Theary Seng and Channe Suy
TEDx PHNOM PENH AT META: TALKING ABOUT CAMBODIA’S FUTURE TUESDAY, 20/09, 7PM TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, the annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers. In February 2011 the first “TEDxPhnomPenh” event was themed “Building the Future”....
World Wide Photowalk comes to Phnom Penh
It’s time once again for the annual World Wide Photowalk and its time to bring it here in Phnom Penh! This annual photowalk was organized by Scott Kelby back in 2008 and since it the it grew as a worldwide phenomena in the world of photography. Photographers of all kind from all genre, from film...
Nouveau Comedy Theatre
The “Nouveau Comedy Theatre” was established by “Cambodian expat” Im Kim Sour. After studying traditional dance and Bassac theatre at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh before the war, she escaped to France. After her marriage to a Japanese she lived in Tokyo, where she taught Cambodian performaning arts. She returned to...
