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posted by Jinja @ 8:52 PM

Buildings - Exhibition of Kong Vollak, the 5th of may, 7pm

Exhibition
Buildings
by Kong Vollak
Kong Vollack is 25. He was born and lives in Phnum Penh,
where he studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts in
Phnom Penh. Over the last years, he took part in several
workshops with foreign artists and started to exhibit his
work since 2005. He also studies photography at "Le Popil
Gallery" and dreams of becoming an art teacher to help for
the development of the contemporary Cambodian art
scene.
With Buildings, Kong Vollack proposes an artistic reflection
on the past and current urban architecture of Phnum
Penh. His drawings and sculptures offer a contemporary
vision of the capital of Cambodia. A capital, which does
not stop developing and proposing modern architectures,
but which at the same time, according to the artist, has to
protect the ancient constructions.
Kong Vollack describes us his Phnum Penh, the one of his
dreams, a subtle mix of ancient, modern, contemporary architecture,
with a touch of Vann Molivann. He also asks us
questions about the incessant revival of the constructions:
what impact will have these numerous new buildings on the
atmosphere and the environment of Phnum Penh?
In the Gallery of the CCF
Opening: Wednesday 6th of May at 7pm
The exhibition will be on until the 6th of June.
www.ccf-cambodge.org
218 street 184

Magali Poivert

Animatrice Culturelle          

Centre Culturel Français du Cambodge

218 rue Kéo Chéa, Phnom Penh, Cambodge

Tél bureau/Office : 855 23 213 124 / 125

Fax bureau/Office : 855 23 721 382

Mobile : 855 12 905 128   

www.ccf-cambodge.org

posted by Jinja @ 12:40 PM

Phnom Penh Hip Hop (avec breakfast)

Magali Poivert
Animatrice Culturelle          

Centre Culturel Français du Cambodge
218 rue Kéo Chéa, Phnom Penh, Cambodge
Tél bureau/Office : 855 23 213 124 / 125
Fax bureau/Office : 855 23 721 382

Mobile : 855 12 905 128   
www.ccf-cambodge.org

posted by Jinja @ 10:24 PM

Cambodge Contemporain

posted by Jinja @ 10:24 PM

May Artistic Performance Program_Sovanna Phum

posted by Jinja @ 8:58 AM

The Flooded Forests of Northern Cambodia

Friends,

Please bring one (or two) and your loved ones on Monday night (27th April)
to the opening of my show of panoramic prints.

'Ramsar Site 999 - The Flooded Forests of Northern Cambodia'

6pm for sunset at The FCC, Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh.

Please forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues and hope you
can all make it on the night.

Paul


RSVP not essential but appreciated if you can let me know.

posted by Jinja @ 10:15 AM

Religious History of Cambodia - Reyum

posted by Jinja @ 2:53 PM

One Wild Life

posted by Jinja @ 2:44 PM

Cambodian New Year in Long Beach

posted by Jinja @ 2:43 PM

Dansez Roam

posted by Jinja @ 9:57 AM

RED SENSE (tonite) and INTERCITY (tmr) @ [Meta]

This weekend we'd like to invite you personally for two exciting events @ Meta House

1.) The first Phnom Penh screening of Khmer thriller "THE RED SENSE", tonite, Friday, 24/04, 7 PM - poster attached.

Khmer–Australian film maker Tim Pek presents his supernatural thriller (Australia, 2006, 80 min.) about revenge and the Khmer Rouge legacy. A father was killed and his daughter has found herself a happy and comforting life. One day her loved one's spirit calls for the truth to an unjustified cause. Her life will never be the same when she uncovers the identity of the ruthless killer behind her fathers gruesome murder.

Main actor Rithy Duong will be present at the screening. If you like to reserve seats pls. email or call 012-607 465 (English)/012-529 552 (Khmer).

2.) Tomorrow, Saturday, 25th, we are opening our new exhibition PHNOM PENH INTERCITY, from 6PM.

Chhea Bunna, Yen Entareak, Ou Vanndy, Kim Samdy, Ouk Chimvichet, Khem Sambo and Choup Sopheak and Sokuntevy Ouer are representing a new generation of Cambodian artists living and working in the capital. Their work is a melding of traditional influences and modern day city life. The show (on display until 9th of May) is curated by Sascha Constable (Peace Art Project). On the rooftop we screen SE Asian and international video art from our Intercity project.

See you at Meta,
best regards,
NICO MESTERHARM

META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 – 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com,
email: mesterharm@gmx.net

posted by Jinja @ 11:24 PM

Back to META: Our program this week

Dear Friends of Meta House!

Welcome back after the Khmer New Holidays with our program this week:

TUES, 7 PM: EVICTION NIGHT - "LAND IS LIFE"
WED, 7 PM: FIRST DOC AFTER KR - "KAMPUCHEA: DEATH AND REBIRTH"
THUR, 7 PM: FILMMAKER'S NITE - NU CAMBO-SHORTS!
FRI, 7 PM: KHMER THRILLER - "THE RED SENSE" (CAMBOFEST WINNER!)
SAT, 6PM: NEW EXHIBITION OPENING "INTERCITY"
SUN, 7PM: POWERFUL ENVIRONMENTAL DOCS - FOREST NIGHT (PT.2)

More infos below.
Hope to c u @ Meta,
best - Nico Mesterharm

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TUES, 21/04, 7 PM EVICTION NIGHT - LAND IS LIFE
Ian White/Nico Mesterharm present their documentary LAND IS LIFE about Social Land Concessions (for GTZ/LASED) in Kratie Province - followed by Eric Lofting's film RED EARTH VILLAGE. The Australian filmmaker captured the lifes of people, who lived in Phnom Penh's Red Earth Village (DEY KRAHOM), which was the last slum communities in central Phnom Penh and evicted in January 2009 (2007, 32 min). Activist and affected community members are present at the screening for Q&A.

WED, 22/04, 7 PM KAMPUCHEA: DEATH AND REBIRTH
Only seeing is believing. Meta House presents the first documentary after Khmer Rouge, shot by famous GDR filmmakers Heynowski/Scheumann. The scenes filmed during spring 1979 in Cambodia are part of history: a metropolis left to rampant nature, skull heaps, destroyed faces and cultural landscapes. (1979, 90min).

THUR, 23/04, 7 PM CAMBO-SHORTS
Expat filmmakers @ Meta House: "SANTA IS HERE" is a 3 minute narrative piece by Christina Oer about a different kind of Christmas in Cambodia. Filmmaker will be present at the screening and talk about her newest indie film project in Cambodia. Also screening: "THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN" - an independent film project conducted by Joanne Lam from the "Center for Children's Happiness", an NGO committed to the welfare of kids from the Steung Meanchey Municipal Landfill. (30 min.)

FRI, 24/04, 7 PM THE RED SENSE
Khmer–Australian film maker Tim Pek presents his supernatural thriller (Australia, 2006, 80 min.) about revenge and the Khmer Rouge legacy. A father was killed and his daughter has found herself a happy and comforting life. One day her loved one's spirit calls for the truth to an unjustified cause. Her life will never be the same when she uncovers the identity of the ruthless killer behind her fathers gruesome murder. Plus Q&A with filmmakers.

SAT, 25/04, OPENING: INTERCITY PHNOM PENH / LIJIANG
Exhibition artists Ou Vanndy, Chhea Bunna, Ouk Chim Vichet are all graduates from Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. They are part of a new generation of artists living and working in the capital. Their work is a melding of traditional influences and modern day city life. Curator Sascha Constable is an artist and teacher who has been involved in the Khmer Contemporary art scene since 2001. Sokuntevy Ouer shows works that have been created in Lijiang/China, including her first video diary. Opening on Saturday, April 25 (until May 09 2009)

SUN, 26/04, 7PM 7 PM FOREST NIGHT (Part 2)
Watch two environmental documentaries from Malaysia and India – within the 2009 Festival on Forests, People & Non-Timber-Forest-Products (NTFP): "WHAT IS RAINFOREST?" tells the rare story of how one man defends his native land against the advancing oil palm plantations in Sarawak. "VOICES FROM THE FOREST INDIA" shows how indigenous people and forest-dwelling communities profit from NTFPs. Screenings are followed by Q&A with Jenne de Beer of NTFP exchange program for South/South East Asia.

posted by Jinja @ 8:46 AM

Smot in Long Beach

KHMER ARTS SALON SERIES EVENTS – Prumsodun Ok

April 18: Khmer Mourning Music -- Smot: Songs of Healing  

All show times: 7 p.m.

Where: Khmer Arts Academy 1364 Obispo Ave., Long Beach

Admission: Free

posted by Jinja @ 11:36 PM

FOREVER UNTIL NOW

posted by Jinja @ 5:24 PM

The Vagina Monologues In Cambodia

posted by Jinja @ 11:02 AM

ICT World Expo in Naga World Hotel

posted by Jinja @ 8:13 AM

Transformation II - 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space

Transformation II

April 10 – May 3, 2009

Artists Reception: Saturday April 11, 6-9 pm

2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue  Long Beach, CA 90802


Second City Council Art Gallery & Performance Space is please to host Transformations II, an exhibition featuring Cambodian and US-based artists.

 A "Transformations I" exhibition was originally presented at the Meta House Gallery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during July-August, 2008. The exhibition was a collaboration of five Los Angeles-based artists and five Cambodian artists, most of whom had never been to each other's country. The opening of the "Transformations I" exhibition stirred a good deal of interest and brought many previously unknown and very fine Cambodian artists to the attention of the show's curators.

 The revised "Transformations II" exhibition to be presented at the Second City Council Art Gallery will include many of the Cambodian artists who were not known at the time when the "Transformations I" exhibition was in development, and well as the Los Angeles-based artists who were a part of the previous exhibition.

 "Transformations II" will have particular relevance and importance being exhibited in Long Beach, wherein exists the largest Cambodian population outside of Cambodia. It will help bring an awareness to the Cambodian community (and all others) of the great wealth of artistic talent that exists in their native land, and will provide a forum for cross-cultural exchange between the artists of the two nations. There will also be screenings of documentaries of public art projects in Cambodia, a writers' forum, and book signing events concurrent with the exhibition. What better time to do this than at the joyful celebration of the Khmer New Year?

 The artists featured in the show have studied at California State University Long Beach, the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, the Chicago Art Institute, the Art Center of Design, Claremont Graduate University, and Brown University, among others.

For further information please contact Denise A. Scott (562) 439-1784 or Sayon Syprasoeuth (949) 735-2926

------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd City Council Art Gallery & Performance Space 435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802  USA. (562) 901-0997 www.2ndcitycouncil.org  We are having two receptions:   One for visual arts and the other for film/documentary and book signing.  2nd City Art Gallery+Performance 435 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802  Exhibition: April 10-May3, 2009  Opening Reception: Saturday April 11th 6-9pm 2nd Reception: Friday April 24th 6-9pm   

posted by Jinja @ 6:06 PM