Increasing connections and networks with Asia.Īrn Chorn-Pond, founder of Cambodian Living Arts, said:.More festivals and performances in Phnom Penh, including a multidisciplinary festival around women and the arts, planned for November this year.More scholarships, trainings and grants for artists, researchers and other practitioners in the arts.The launch of a five-year pilot program seeking to integrate culture and arts education into Cambodia’s public schools.Highlights from the strategic plan include: I’m very happy to see how much Cambodian Living Arts is investing in them by creating such access to culture and the arts though these new strategic goals” “I truly believe in the strength of the young generation, and the potential they have to become leaders – the future of Cambodia is in their hands. VENG Sereyvuth, Chair of the Board at Pannasastra University and Cambodian Living Arts Board Member, said: to make sure that artists’ voices are always at the heart of all our programs, Cambodian Living Arts has created a new committee of four Associate Artists to oversee implementation of the strategy. Or in other words, working to create the conditions in which artists and cultural leaders are more able to create work that expresses something of themselves and their society, and contribute to sustainable development through the arts. Looking forward, as the arts sector becomes more established, Cambodian Living Arts’s role has changed again becoming more of a catalyst for the sector. As the Cambodian arts scene developed, Cambodian Living Arts began to focus on the needs of an emerging generation of artists, offering scholarships, fellowships, and training creating performance and other employment opportunities and helping to develop national and regional networks for the sector. This is the third stage of the organisation’s evolution founded in 1998 by musician and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chord-Pond, it was originally a grassroots NGO working to preserve traditional performing arts in danger of disappearing. Cambodian Living Arts is happy to announce the launch of a new five-year strategy that will create new opportunities in the arts and culture scene in Cambodia.
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