Art Festival To Showcase Renewed Classics

By Sohay | May 4, 2010

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 [...]

New film delves into history and practice of bokator

By Sohay | May 3, 2010

A still image from Daniel Perrier’s film Une Breve Histoire du Boxkator shows students in training at the Bokator Academy of Phnom Penh.
A DOCUMENTARY film on the ancient Khmer martial art bokator, formally known as labokator, will be screened tonight at the French Cultural Centre (CCF) in Phnom Penh.
The 50-minute film, titled Une Breve Histoire [...]

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