Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia is an extraordinary new composition fusing music, voice, movement, and film. It is the first major symphonic work to address the traumas of the late 1970s in Cambodia, blending elements of Cambodian traditional music with the Western requiem and bangsokol, a ceremony accompanying Buddhist funeral rites. It tells a universal and urgent story; the story of a society confronting moral devastation and reclaiming its humanity through reconciliation and healing.

This year, we are organizing some special tours to Cambodia: A Complete Cambodia tour, a Mekong Arts tour that takes in some cultural highlights of Laos, and a short tour to Phnom Penh to experience the upcoming Arts4peace Festival. Make 2019 the year you visit us!

REPfest is a festival of new traditional music from around Asia and the Mekong region. The first edition was in September 2017, and the second edition of REPfest will take place in Siem Reap, 2-8 September 2019. We will bring artists from around the Mekong region, as well as Japan and Taiwan, to our Heritage Hub in Siem Reap, for a week of exchange, sharing, and public performances.

The Arn Chorn-Pond Living Arts Scholarship helps talented people to pursue careers in the arts. It’s open to students, artists, arts teachers, and others working in arts and culture, and includes a bursary to support studies, participation in a personal and professional development program, and networking opportunities. Applications for the 2020 scholarship are open until 31 May!

The Assistant for Culture and Arts Center is expected to ensure the Culture & Arts Center is safe, clean and well taken care of. The Assistant’s duties will include making sure everything is set up for the weekend arts clubs, and helping to receive and greet guests (including students, artists and teachers) who are coming to the culture and arts center, for classes, talks, information or other events.

The Extra Curricular Program Coordinator will take the lead on coordinating activities within the Culture & Arts Center at Sisowath High School. This involves working with artists, students, families and school administrators to ensure there is a creative and engaging program, which fits into the other activities going on around the  campus. The Coordinator has an important role to make students feel welcome at the center and excited to join activities.