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Séra Workshop

Mar 28th, 2007 by Jinja

Séra Workshop

Khmer-French comic artist Phouséra (‘Séra’) Ing will be teaching a Workshop on Comics, aimed at young professionals.

Phnom Penh Dates are April 9 to April 12 – and after a short break, continuing/concluding April 18 – April 20th.

Séra is currently conducting a workshop at Phare Art School in Battambang.

Workshop Application – Khmer[PDF]
Workshop Application – French[PDF]

For the Phnom Penh Workshop, contact:

Muriel PIFFETEAU

Responsable de la médiathèque du CCFdu Cambodge

214 rue Keo Chea (184)

Phnom Penh

(855) 012 802 702

muriel [dot] piffeteau [at] ccf-cambodge [dot] org

A Khmer Version of his graphic novel ‘Water and Earth’ will be available in Khmer shortly.
If you want to bump up the print run, pre-orders are encouraged

Contact:
Emmanuelle Billier-Gauthier
Responsable du Développement/Development Manager
Centre de Ressources et de Documentation Cambodge Soir
Phnom Penh, Cambodge
ebgauthier [via] gmail [dot] com
00 855 (0)92 91 63 71
www.cambodgesoir.info

Séra Exhibition begins April 4th at Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh.

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…and blogging freshens your breath too.

Mar 27th, 2007 by Jinja

…and blogging freshens your breath too.

A host of posts in reaction to bloggers in the Cambodia Daily and Cambodia Weekly; they are ‘beautiful’ and ‘more attractive’. Let’s not get carried away here, OK?

http://detailsaresketchy.wordpress.com/
2007/03/27/beautiful-bloggers

http://www.vuthasurf.com/
2007/03/27/cambodian-bloggers-more-attractive

http://www.phnomenon.com/
index.php/cambodian-food/meta/bring-the-noise

http://deedeedoll.blogspot.com/
2007/03/cloggers-cambodian-bloggers-on.html

I will say the ‘personal information technology’ workshop participants deserve some real props for volunteering their time over and over again to get college and high school students online.

Some of the folks mentioned recently are:

(Maybe the Cambodia Weekly can hire one of the above to fix their website?)

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Couches and Controversy – Cambodia

Mar 26th, 2007 by Jinja

Couches and Controversy – Cambodia

Freshome‘s feature on Peace of Art‘s products has inspired numerous positive and negative reactions, from “a peaceful end” to “ugly and useless“.

Anything related to guns seems to make Stateside readers go ballistic.

http://freshome.com/2007/03/21/
furniture-from-weapons-a-peaceful-use-of-weapons/
also: ‘Make’ picks up on the meme. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/
2007/03/gun_sculpture_photos_from.html

The ‘Peace of Art’ Project seems have wound to a finish. You can find a few items for sale still at the ArtHouse in Siem Reap. www.thearthousesiemreap.com