Dancing a Brighter Future
In less than one month the Children of Basaac will embark on their first tour to the United States. The Troupe is just $5,000 shy of its goal toward arriving on tour free of debt from the purchase of costumes and equipment. This is an opportunity to invest in these young people’s artistic growth &...
Ever wondered how you’ll get your news in the future?
Find out by watching the highly-praised documentary “For Neda” The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia presents: “For Neda”, a film by Antony Thomas On June 29, 2009, Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the protests that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Recorded on mobile phones, images of her...
Globe exhibition
Cambodia’s primary rainforest cover fell dramatically from over 70% in 1970 to just 3.1% in 2007. Renowned Vietnamese artist Tien Thua Le deals with social and environmental concerns, in an effort to change social consciousness. Born in 1964, he has exhibited in Vietnam, the United States, Thailand, Netherlands, France, Germany, Venezuela, Japan and Australia. Meta...
Let’s do it! Cambodia: City Cleaning up day
Clean City starts with us!! by registering to join the city cleaning up day on 23rd april, you can help our city and country by: -get yourself educated about the environment and sustainability through a 3 hours workshop at different universities (to be updated soon) -entering into the essay contest to have your voice heard...
Cambodian artists auction artworks to help Japan
40 Cambodian visual artists are offering 40 artworks for auction. When: Monday 4th April at 8:00 PM Where: FCC Phnom Penh 363 Sisowath Quay
Enemy of the People
WED, 30/03 “ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE”: KR BROTHER NR. 2 SPEAKS OUT 7PM: Winner of this year’s “Sundance Festival”, this remarkable documentary (2009, 93 mins) is a personal journey into the heart of darkness by Khmer journalist Thet Sambath, whose family was wiped out in the Killing Fields. From the foot soldiers who slit throats...
Breaking the Silence show
In coincide with the ECCC initial hearing, with the support of DC Cam, Amrita Performing Arts bring back the memorable theatre piece, BREAKING THE SILENCE back to the scene;)) DATE: Wednesday 30th March 2011 @ 7pm VENUE: Wat Tikha Pahhao, near the ECCC (Pls follow the map below) NOTE: No tickets need, you will enjoy...
Cambodia’s Manuscripts
Safeguarding and Showcasing a Written Heritage M. Leng Kok An Threatened with extinction in the early 1990s, the Cambodian corpus of manuscripts engraved on latania leaves has been the focus of a meticulous safeguarding and restoration operation directed by the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) for the past 20 years. Thousands of manuscripts have thus been...
DevCamp March 2011
DevCamp this month is going to take place this Saturday. This month, we are going to hear a topic on about a style of software architecture for building communication with client and server over the HTTP protocol. For this month event, we’ll meet our young Cambodian developer, yet has many years experience in developing enterprise...
SUPABAD James Brown Revue
March 25 and 26 are to be reserved by all Phnom Penhois to ‘git on up’ at the FCC. Following rave reviews of their Southeast Asia tour in late 2010, SUPABAD are BACK to the Penh with their authentic James Brown revue, scored from original recordings! The 10-piece band have built up a large following...
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Directed by Arn Chorn-Pond, 25min, 2010, English subtitle I regret that my relatives and other people were killed by the Khmer rouge and I was forced to be involved… Looking Back, Looking Ahead – 1 52min, 2007, Khmer version with English subtitleA documentary, made by students from the Department of Media and Communication (DMC) of...
Cambodian crowd crush
The Faster Times’s Faine Greenwood revisits Cambodia’s infamous ‘stampede bridge tragedy of no importance’. Worth reading: Cambodian Bridge Stampede: An Eyewitness Account of a Unresolved Tragedy As for this writer, I got to the Koh Pich bridge when the police had begun the grim work of detangling bodies from one another. This is what I...
