Art Festival To Showcase Renewed Classics
Cambodian Living Arts established a teaching program in 1999, encouraging surviving master musicians and performance artists to resume work with young apprentices.
The festival will allow some of these apprentices to showcase work they have practiced for years.
Kong Boran, a student of “chapei dang weng,” a musical oral tradition, said he learned from his father, Kong [...]
Yeak Loam musicians perform in Phnom Penh
Source : Photo from Kimyi website.
Yeak Loam Lake in Rattanakiri province is a place of eerie beauty: Nestled in the circular crater of an extinct volcano, the water is crystal-clear and surrounded by lush, semi-deciduous forestland.
Around the lake are five villages – Lapoe, Lon, Sil, Chree and Phnom – that are home to the Tampuen, [...]
Bassac Children aim to preserve traditional arts
Photo by: Uy Nousereimony
The Children of Bassac perform at the National Museum in Phnom Penh on March 25.
AT the beginning of March the Children of Bassac traditional Khmer dance troupe closed out the two-week National Drama and Arts Festival with an invitation-only performance at the National Museum in Phnom Penh.
The troupe is now performing for [...]
Forgotten form of theatre comes out of the shadows
Photo by: Pha Lina
Actors rehearse a sbek por performace of the traditional Cambodian tale Preah Tinavong and Neang Pov.
KHAM Sokneang grasps two wooden sticks attached to a cow hide that has been cut into the shape of a young man and painted in bright colours. He holds the hide against a black screen and shakes [...]
Organic meat lovers set to go hungry in Reap
This could be your grill: Just follow the instructions below.
Bad news for carnivorous expatriates living in Siem Reap who like their food natural and unprocessed: First Modern Butcher Shop, the only retail outlet in town supplying organic meat to consumers, has shut down due to lack of patronage.
“There were actually a lot of Koreans coming, [...]
Villagers find a hole new way to catch fish
Photo by: ROTH MEAS
Meas Seiha crouches down next to a hole that attracts Snakeheads seeking warmth.
The sun hasn’t risen yet, but several teenagers have got up and left their beds, bound for nearby rice fields. It takes at about 15 minutes for them to walk the one kilometre down a narrow path to some holes [...]
Local photographer seeing the Kingdom in a new light
Photo by: MEOUN NHEAN
Cambodian photographer Meoun Nhean modified his digital camera to capture the ethereal mood of Angkor Wat using infrared light.
Angkor Wat has been photographed from every conceivable angle and light from sunup to sundown. It hosts millions of tourists a year, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a visitor who isn’t trying to [...]
A cleaner, sparser festival
Photo by: Heng Chivoan
Racers compete in the dragon boat races at the Water Festival on Tuesday morning in Phnom Penh.
LONG before the first vendor from the provinces unrolled her woven mat and set down her bundle of wares, the organisers of this year’s Water Festival in Phnom Penh anticipated low attendance. Typhoon Ketsana left tens [...]
New paint and old prayers in preparation for big race
Photo by: Roth Meas
Uch Bonly repaints the championship boat at Prek Takong with colourful motifs.
Like a thoroughbred horse, a winning Water Festival boat is a prized possession.
Mangkal Sanchey Serey Mean Rith, the boat that will represent Russey Keo’s Prek Takong commune in the Water Festival, has a shiny new paint job for the races this [...]
Temple bike ride just the ticket for a fun day out
Phnom Penh Post on Friday, 30 October 2009
By POST STAFF
Riders at last year’s Angkor Wat Bike Race on the temple course.
Participants in this year’s fourth annual Angkor Wat Bike Race and Fun Ride on Saturday December 5 will have a choice of completing one or three laps of a course which winds around temples including [...]
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