Warm regards,
Sina OUCH
Sovanna Phum Art Association
111 Street 360 (corner 105), Phnom Penh - Cambodia
Tel : 023 987 564 / 023 221 932 / 017 32 42 00
E-mail : sp.communication@online.com.kh
Website : www.shadow-puppets.org
posted by Jinja @ 9:53 AM
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#47, Street 178, P.O Box: 2438
Tel / Fax: 855 23 217 149
E-mail: reyum@camnet.com.kh
Date: Thu, February 26, 2009 10:56 am
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Reyum Institute
#47, Street 178, P.O Box: 2438
Phnom Penh - Cambodia
Tel / Fax: 855 23 217 149
E-mail: <mailto:reyum@camnet.com.kh> reyum@camnet.com.kh
posted by Jinja @ 11:42 AM
>
> The committee of /*Ray of Light: Hope for Cambodian Children */would
> like to tell you about an fun and important event taking place on
> International Women's Day, March 8 from 6-8 p.m. at Cafe Living Room.
>
> On Sunday March 8, Cafe Living Room will host a cocktail party and art
> auction. Local and International artists living in Cambodia have
> generously donated their creative talents and time and created for
> this event one-of-a-kind *lamps*, bearing their unique artistic
> trademark. Each lamp will be fully functional AND and piece of art in
> its own right. The lamps will be on display at the Living Room before
> the event and then for purchase on March 8 by live and silent auction.
>
> All the money we raise from this evening will be donated to LICADHO's
> Adopt-a-Prison program in support of an educational center to benefit
> young children who live in prison with their incarcerated mothers.
> Further details about the evening and tickets for this event will be
> available shortly. But in the meantime we ask that you please SAVE
> THE DATE, March 8, for what will be a fun and interesting evening in
> support of a very worthy cause.
>
> If you have any questions or would like more information about this
> project or the fundraiser, please do not hesitate to contact us.
> Also, if you know others that would like to have the opportunity to
> bid on some great art while supporting a great project please feel
> free to forward this on to them!
>
> Best regards,
>
> The */"Ray of Light" /*Committee
>
> Michelle Der Ohanesian mderohan@hotmail.com <mailto:mderohan@hotmail.com>
> Amy Antoniades antoniades2000@yahoo.com <mailto:antoniades2000@yahoo.com>
Deirdre Smith princesspp1@gmail.com <mailto:princesspp1@gmail.com>
posted by Jinja @ 9:32 PM
Warm regards,
Sina OUCH
Sovanna Phum Art Association
111 Street 360 (corner 105),
Tel : 023 987 564 / 023 221 932 / 017 32 42 00
E-mail : sp.communication@online.com.kh
posted by Jinja @ 9:31 PM
Dear Meta House_Friends!
We'd like to invite you for the following events this week - highlighted by
the Tim Page photo exhibition opening (tmr, Tuesday, 6PM) and the Cuban Film
Festival next weekend (Friday/Saturday).
Detailed infos below.
Kind regards, c u at Meta -
Lydia/Nico & Team
*
TUE, 24/02, VIETNAM AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
On the occasion of the opening of the new TIM PAGE exhibit (6PM) we are
screening the documentary VIETNAM AMERICAN HOLOCAUST (2008) - presented by
Ian Carter (7PM). This provocative, incendiary film was produced and
directed by Clay Claiborne and narrated by Martin Sheen, after years of
painstaking research using declassified, but until now undiscovered,
Whitehouse tapes and National Security documents. (87min)
WED, 25/02, 7 PM INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN CAMBODIA
"The Gendered Lense": Heinrich-Boell-Foundation presents 4 short doc films
(2006, 5-10min) by indigenous filmmakers. They describe indigenous women's
work and their struggle in the face of increasing loss of land. After the
screening: Panel discussion with Mane Yun (UNDP) & representatives from the
Cambodian Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA).
THUR, 26/02, 7PM KOYAANISQATSI
Life out of balance: Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio has created an apocalyptic
vision of the collision of two different worlds - urban life and technology
versus the environment. Feat. stunning cinematography and a hypnotic
soundtrack by Philip Glass. (1982, 82min)
*****************************************************
CUBA FILM FESTIVAL @ META HOUSE
Friday & Saturday - Feb 27th & 28th
Enjoy films, music and drinks from Cuba – presented by Meta House in
cooperation with the Cuban Embassy in Phnom Penh…
* FRIDAY, 27th
6:30 PM VIVA CUBA
Family feature film (2005, 80min) by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti and Iraida
Malberti Cabrera: The two children Malú and Jorgito have promised
themselves friendship for their lifetime, although their families hate each
other. When the grandmother of Malú dies and her mom decides to live outside
of Cuba, Malú and Jorgito want to escape...
8:30 PM EL BENNY
"Bio-Pic" by Jorge Luis Sánchez (Cuba, 2006, 132min) - dedicated to
Bartolomé (Benny) Moré, famous Cuban singer and composer, who has witnessed
the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and the first years of the Cuban
Revolution.
* SATURDAY, 28th
6.30 PM MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO (INCONSOLABLE MEMORIES)
Beautiful and poetic black and white film by Tomas G. Alea (1968, 85min):
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even
though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the
changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the
effect of living in an underdeveloped country.
8.30 PM SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE
Currently some 30,000 Cuban doctors are providing high-quality care in over
70, mainly poor, countries. Cuban medical teams were among the first to
respond to Pakistan's 2005 earthquake – and the few to stick around after
the snows came. Thoroughly researched and with heart-warming personal
accounts, Tom Fawthrop's Swimming Against the Tide (2007, 45min) is an
inspiration; a timely reminder of what public health is meant to be all
about. Essential viewing for healthcare professionals – and users – anywhere
in the world.
************************************
SUN, 01/03, 6.30 PM BUDDHA'S LOST CHILDREN
A Thai Buddhist monk – armed only with his faith and master boxing skills –
wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children, fight drug abuse
and preserve a vanishing way of life. Plus THE CROSS AND THE BODDHI TREE:
Spiritual journeys of a French Catholic priest in Cambodia and an English
Anglican nun in Oxford as they explore and encounter the practices of
Buddhism.
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posted by Jinja @ 7:34 PM
Parallel to the hearing of DUCH (the former chief of the Khmer Rouge
detention
center S-21) we are screening this week (until Saturday) the best
documentaries that
deal with the Khmer Rouge genocide and its legacy (such as TERROR'S
ADVOCATE, DEACON
OF DEATH, NEW YEAR'S BABY amm.)
Tonight we want to invite you for KAMPUCHEA - DEATH AND REBIRTH (7PM). The
first
film shot after Khmer Rouge (by GDR filmmakers Heynowski/Scheumann) is not
only a
very valuable documentation of the horrors and atrocities of the KR
period, but also
shows the first steps in rebuilding a devastated country.
Please come tonite or in the following days. Program details are listed
below.
Entrance is free. Food and drinks available. All the best from Meta House,
Lydia/Nico & the team
*
WED, 18/02, 7 PM DEACON OF DEATH
Emotional Khmer-Rouge-Doc by Jan van den Berg and Willem van den Put. Sok
Chea, a
victim of the Khmer Rouge regime, seeks the confrontation with the man
whom she
keeps responsible for the assassination of her family, twenty-five years
ago. The
film contributes to the discussion concerning the impact of the KR regime.
(NL,
2004, 65min)
THUR, 19/02, 7 PM TERROR'S ADVOCATE
Powerful documentary by Barbet Schroeder on the controversial lawyer
Jacques Vergès,
who has defended Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and super-terrorist Carlos
"The
Jackal". His latest case brings Vergès to Cambodia. (2007, 135min)
FRI, 20/02, 6PM KHMER IN THE DIASPORA
After 25 years of attempting to live a "normal American life," the parents
of female
filmmaker Socheata Poeuv revealed a shocking family secret that would draw
them all
back to Cambodia. Pouev's excellent doc NEW YEARS BABY (2006, 80min) is
screened at
6PM in Khmer, at 7PM in English – followed by SEASONS OF MIGRATION about
the work of
Cambodian choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (Khmer Arts Academy).
SAT, 21/02, 7 PM KING SIHANOUK's MOVIES
MH presents two feature films by former King Sihanouk: His most important
work
SHADOW OVER ANGKOR from 1968 (7PM) uncovers an international plot to
topple the
Cambodian government. Not long after the release of this film, which
pointed out the
failure of the U.S. sponsored plot, President Nixon ordered
round-the-clock bombing
of the country. ROSE OF BOKOR (1969) (8.30PM) deals with the Japanese
invasion in
World War 2.
SUN, 22/02, 7PM GERMAN AID FOR CAMBODIA
Cambodia is a partner country for the German development cooperation.
Priority areas
are rural development and support for the health system. Cross-cutting tasks
include: fostering democracy, civil society, public administration and good
governance. Filmmaker Nico Mesterharm and international colleagues
followed various
German aid projects (by GTZ PSP and others) in Cambodia.
posted by Jinja @ 12:01 PM
posted by Jinja @ 3:23 PM
our program this week starts with PHNOM PENH TANGO – this Tuesday, from 6PM.
Meta House Artist-In-Residence Robert Lawrence will be giving a free Tango
dance lesson, followed by a performance together with MH art manager Lydia
Parusol (within his international social sculpture project "Tango
Intervention"/ www.tangointervention.org).
From 7PM we will screen GOTAN PROJECT'S "LA REVANCHA DEL TANGO" (groovy
blend of tango and electronic beats within a stunning live performance from
2005) and THE MUSIC OF ASTOR PIAZOLLA (2005) – Argentine's tango composer
and bandoneon player revolutionized traditional tango into a new style
termed "tango nuevo".
Come and dance with us on the rooftop – or stop by later in the week for the
following screenings (highlighted by our "Eviction Double Feature" on
Thursday/Friday). Details below.
All the best from Meta House, Nico/Lydia
*
WED, 11/02, 7 PM WORKING MAN'S DEATH
Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where
can we still find it in the 21st century? The breathtaking documentary by
Michael Glawogger (who directed "Megacities") follows the trail of workers
around the world: in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sulfur workers in
Indonesia, workers in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers. (Austria,
2005, 122min).
THUR, 12/02, 7PM: EVICTION 1: DEY KROHOM
Australian filmmaker Erik Lofting captured the life's of people, who lived
in Phnom Penh's Red Earth Village (Dey Krohom), which was the last slum
communities in central Phnom Penh and evicted in January 2009 (2007, 32
min). Plus photo presentations/slide shows about ecvictions: NGO are invited
to participate. Kids from the building and the Aziza-school will join the
screening and speak about their feelings!
FRI, 13/02, 7PM: EVICTION 2: RITHY PANH & "THE BUILDING"
The Bassac apartment block (known as "The Building") is one of the last
remaining symbols of Cambodia's 1960s architectural boom. Rithy Panh's
artful documentary "PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS" from 2007 (7:30 PM) focuses
on prostitutes who live and work there. Bangladesdhi photographers Joybrata
Sarker and Oviek Sarwar present their "BUILDING" photo project prior to the
screening.
SAT, 14/02, 7PM BROADCAST FROM YANGON
Government censorship and a deficit of technical skills and technology make
much of Myanmar's home-grown cinematic output seem defective and
unsophisticated - even to local audiences. Anglo-Burmese filmmaker Lindsey
Merrison founded the Yangon Film School. Tonite we are showing eight
documentaries from 2007 and a photo slide show presentation by photographer
Virginie Noel about the young generation in Burma.
SUN, 15/02, 7PM AFRICAN FUTURES
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent –
ravaged by civil wars and HIV/AIDS. Two brilliant doc films tackle these
issues: WAR/DANCE (2007, 105min) is set in Northern Uganda, speaking of the
revival of arts and culture after years of turmoil; WITHOUT THE KING (2007,
83min) leads the audience to Swaziland - the last absolute monarchy in the
world.
posted by Jinja @ 9:20 PM
posted by Jinja @ 4:53 PM
Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite and Emmy Award winning UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS chronicles how The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, the international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls.
In 2002, over eight hundred cities around the world participated in V-Day. From locales as diverse as New York, the Philippines and Kenya, V-Day and director Abby Epstein's UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS features emotionally charged interviews and readings by everyday and celebrity women (including Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and LisaGay Hamilton), all of whom courageously reveal their intimate experiences and bond together to break the silence that surrounds abuse. More than just a group testimonial, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS is a moving celebration of community awareness that leaves us with the hope that change can happen.
This is a great introduction to the V-Day Movement, and will certainly get you excited about the upcoming production of The Vagina Monologues, to be performed in Phnom Penh on April 3rd, 4th and 5th!
Suggested donation: $1
Beneficiary: Women Peacemakers, a local organisation working to end violence against women and girls through awareness raising and educational activities
V-Love and solidarity,
Nora Lindström
Organiser/Co-Producer
V-Day Phnom Penh 2009
092 683 479
cambodianmonologues@gmail.com
posted by Jinja @ 9:34 PM
Please share this to as many people as possible…
SVAY KEN – A TRIBUTE …because we loved him
Opening 6 -9pm Friday, February 13, 2009
At Java Café & Gallery
56E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Curator: Bradford Edwards
CURATOR STATEMENT:
“ This exhibition had to happen. There was never a question in Dana's
mind about that, but rather when and where were the only salient
concerns. She came up with a simple, yet brilliant, idea of gathering
all the Svay Ken paintings available locally here in Phnom Penh and
sharing them with the community - Svay Ken's own community.
With that goal in mind, like the town squire she cried out and
beseeched the community to step forward with their precious paintings.
People heard the call and slowly emerged from their busy lives to
donate what they had for the exhibition. It is a community-based
project that is absolutely commercial free. In fact, it is impossible
to buy a painting during this exhibition. Not one painting is for sale
and how refreshing and wonderful is that? In today's version of the
art market and the world in general, this idea is almost anarchic,
revolutionary, and unheard of.
This exhibition is a direct reflection of the community's intimate
involvement in the life of Svay Ken. Most all these people offering
their painting to be shared visited the artist's studio personally and
sat and talked with this great man. I know this because I took many of
them there myself. I probably took well over 300 different individuals
to that studio since 1996 and some bought paintings and some did not.
Most left with a little piece of the artist, a bit of oil paint,
usually made in China and then upgraded to English oils, lovingly
applied to canvas wrapped around wooden stretcher bars. Fortunately,
some of these people whom I introduced to Svay Ken are still here in
Phnom Penh and willingly want to share their treasure with the rest of
us.
We are so lucky, we who can see this show of community and
camaraderie. This show is all about the brilliance and vision of Svay
Ken, but it is also about his surrounding community. This exhibition
is about people coming together to celebrate one man's life and work,
an exceptional man, an extraordinary painter who documented what he
saw around him. Svay Ken might have stopped breathing, but his artwork
and his effect on people around him will fill all of us with love and
hope and warmth...forever.”
Bradford Edwards
posted by Jinja @ 7:01 PM
Margherita del Balzo
Dessins inédits
" l e l é z a r d b l e u "
Opening Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
***
These small drawings by Margherita del Balzo are presented to the public for the first time, at "le lézard bleu". They are sketches she drew while meditating between two large scale works. It sometimes happens that the paper suggests unexpected shapes that entertain the pen, diverting it from the artist's first intention.
Light-hearted distractions and secret strokes, these drawings nevertheless constitute a consistent collection. Pierre and Chen Roll framed these pieces elegantly, thus giving them their lettres de noblesse .
***
Ces petits formats exposés à "le lézard bleu" sont des dessins inédits de Margherita del Balzo. Il s'agit d'esquisses que l'artiste conçoit pour reprendre le souffle entre deux œuvres élaborées. Il arrive aussi qu'un papier propose des trames inattendues qui la dissipent, la détournant ainsi de son intention première.
Divertissements, gribouillis secrets, ces dessins forment néanmoins un tout. Pierre et Chen Rol les accueillent chez eux, à "le lézard bleu" et leur donnent, avec l'élégance de leurs encadrements, des lettres de noblesse.
***
" l e l é z a r d b l eu "
61, rue 240 Phnom Penh
tel: 023 986 978
mail: le.lezard.bleu@online.com.kh
Margherita del Balzo
tel: 012 801 760
mail: margheritadelbalzo@gmail.com
posted by Jinja @ 5:51 PM
We like to ivite you for the opening of our new exhibition
tomorrow - TUE, 03/02, 6PM
PORTRAITS BY MARC POLLACK
The work of American artist Marc Pollack (who lives in Phnom Penh) is not
about what you see but what you think. And he thinks flat images are the
result of the evolution of the brain to read lines and to reduce symbolic
thought to two dimensions. Unfortunately, he also thinks we are the victims
of superstition and anomaly. "Portraits" is about people he has met,
talisman that protect them and portable art objects.
*******
This is our film program - we hope u like it...
Cu u @ Meta, Nico & Lydia
WED, 04/01, 7PM ZEIT GEIST – THE MOVIE
"Winner of the Activist Film Festival 2007": Highly critical documentary
focusing on suppressed historical & modern information about currently
dominant social institutions, while also exploring what could be in store
for humanity if the power structures at large continue their patterns of
self-interest, corruption, and consolidation. (2008, 120min)
THUR, 05/02, 7PM META GOT THE BLUES
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion
for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical footage,
interviews and performances by such living legends as Pinetop Perkins, Dave
Brubeck and Marcia Ball. (USA, 2003, 89min,) Also screening: Blues doc
GODFATHERS AND SONS by M. Levin (USA, 2003, 96min)
FRI, 06/02, 7PM VDAY 2009 - UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS (LOGO V-DAY)
This powerful doc film circles around activist Eve Ensler - and how her play
"The Vagina Monologues" grew into an international grassroots movement
called V-Day to stop violence against women and girls. Each year, several
thousand cities around the world participate in V-Day events; this April the
play will be performed in Phnom Penh. (2003, 72min)
SAT, 07/02, 7PM CAMBODIA DREAMS
New Zealander Stanley Harper (who will be present at the screening)
chronicles parallel lives of a Cambodian family – half of whom went to one
of the refugee camps in Thailand, while the other half stayed in
their
village in Cambodia. This seemingly simple story is enriched by grandmother
Yan Chheing who has an extraordinary grasp of the complex issues involved.
(2007, 85min)
SUN, 08/02, 7PM ASIAN WATERWAYS
Not only people but also fish and plants, use the Mekong for survival. Two
impressive documentaries MEKONG - THE MOTHER and WHEN THE FLOODS RECEDE by
German anthropologist Peter Degen focus on Cambodian waterways. (2000/2001,
97min). A slideshow/presentation on Bangladesh waterways by photographer
Joybrata Sarkar opens our event.
posted by Jinja @ 9:42 PM
Hello, let me wish you a wonderfull year, full of good feelings and surprises....
I`m not sure if you received the Bhor newsletter, but things move a lot around here. Bhor has now delocalised and is about to become part of a youth creative arts center Directed by NGO Mlop Tapang, this was in fact a very logical move due to the fact that in 3 years of Activities (of which there have been a lot) the Bhor all in Art Center found with Mlop Tapang, a close affinity in their "goals and targets"; namely to encourage children and teenagers to be smarter and stay safe, especially those who have never had access to education.
Naturally, through this school, we try to accomplish our goal of further educating children and young people, both in the classroom, but also through all kinds of arts and sport disciplines, that link fun and concentration, with perseverance and imagination. All of this is done with a spirit of never wasting a thing, a philosophy that Bhor always includes in any project.
This could only be accomplished by a cooperation between these two dynamic organisations.
The new Mlop-Bhor center is soon going to be fully complete and ready to operate, now with a large space, big covered stage, music school, circus teacher, dance teacher, graffic and deco school, Vanry Meth (a wonderfull actor-director) as art team leader, a video production unit (and already 2 episodes of the hilarious Mlop kids TV....) all this in the same place, self confident teens who are avidly keen to learn more, whilst in close collaboration with other Mlop Tapang training schools or vocational centers…it is going to be Great…
Our first major event for this new Bhor is going to be the 5th edition of Khmarnaval on the 5, 6, 7 March 2009. Three days of parades with live shows on stage, for a big AIDS Awareness Campaign.
You may be interested to participate, you might have a show that could fit into the program on stage, or, if you wish to grasp the opportunity of this event to communicate with our huge audience. Of course, we can send you more information about the organisation and the outcome of previous KHMARNAVALs.
Please contact us with this email address or telephone us ;
Vanry Meth 016367196 (Khmer speaking)
Bob Passion 0121724500 (French and English speaking)
posted by Jinja @ 2:34 PM
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