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Cultural Season Tour 2020 “Cambodian Identity/Pure Culture”
Read moreWhat is the theme for the 2020 Cultural Season? The world is changing and so is Cambodia. With these changes and development (globalization, immigration…etc.), some view this as a threat to “Cambodian Identity/Pure Culture”. With this current context, what do we mean by “Cambodian Identity, i.e. to remain the same or to extend the definition […]
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Angkuoch Research
Read moreIn Cambodia, angkuoch are found in several provinces both among the majority Khmer people and some ethnic minorities. Before the Khmer Rouge era (1975-1979), playing and enjoying angkuoch was a popular local pastime in village communities. However, angkuochis now highly endangered both as an instrument and as a performance practice. Traditional social functions for playing […]
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Creative Expression and Contemporary Arts Making Among Young Cambodians
Read moreFrom April 2020 – March 2021, Dr. Amanda ROGERS and YEAN Reaksmey conducted a research project into contemporary arts making and creative expression among young Cambodians. The project used Cambodian Living Arts’ 2020 ‘Cultural Season Expressing Identities: Them and/or Us?’ as a case study and asked: At the end of this project, the research team […]
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Living Arts in Post-Conflict Contexts
Read moreIn January 2016, we hosted the first Forum on Living Arts in Post-Conflict Countries. 50 people working in the fields of cultural renewal and development, youth resilience, and social innovation discussed the role of the arts as a unifying and peacebuilding factor. We produced a report of the session, in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. […]
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Season of Cambodia
Read moreTHE STORY In May 2018, Cambodge, d’hier à aujourd’hui invited audiences to discover Cambodia through its contemporary artistic creations and culture. The festival included shows, screenings, exhibitions, ceremonies, talks, open air festivities, literature and music nights, in 15 different sites throughout Paris and its suburbs, thanks to the exceptional collaboration between 34 partners based in Cambodia, […]
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Cultural Season 2020 ““Cambodian Identity/Pure Culture”
Read moreThe world is changing and so is Cambodia. With these changes and development (globalization, immigration…etc.), some view this as a threat to “Cambodian Identity/Pure Culture”. With this current context, what do we mean by “Cambodian Identity, i.e. to remain the same or to extend the definition to respond to changes with time and space and […]
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Arts4Peace Festival
Read moreThe Arts4peace Festival is a celebration of Cambodia’s arts and culture, the value this brings to the country, and above all the people behind the last four decades of artistic and cultural regeneration. Join us in Phnom Penh for the Arts4peace Festival from 14-24 November 2019. The festival celebrates Cambodia’s arts; past, present, and future. […]
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PERFORMING ARTS EMPLOYMENT SURVEY
Read moreBetween September 2013 and May 2014, Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) conducted and analyzed a survey on training and employment needs on the Cambodian performing arts sector, responding to a lack of benchmark to guide us to implement our own activities. And in August 2014 CLA released a report in both English and Khmer with findings from the survey. […]
