Thank You for Making the First-Ever Sangker River Run a Smashing Success!

by CHAN Rattanakoudom | Jan 24, 2024

Wow! What a strong finish to the first-ever Sangker River Run, and thank you to everyone who made it such an incredible success! On Saturday 20 January 2024, Phare Ponleu Selpak hosted the inaugural Sangker River Run, welcoming 140 runners and cyclists from (at least)...

Meet the Volunteers of Phare Ponleu Selpak: Eva Xiste, Teacher Assistant & Graphic Designer

by Olivia AUDO | Dec 21, 2023

The campus of Phare Ponleu Selpak is home to volunteers from Cambodia and all around the world. This week, we’re proud to interview Eva Xiste who is from France but doing her university studies in London.   During her time at Phare, Eva helped change lives through the...

How Phare Kindergarten Celebrated Pchum Ben Festival in Battambang

by CHAN Rattanakoudom | Oct 26, 2023

Pchum Ben Festival is a fifteen-day Khmer festival that honors the memory and legacy of the seven generations of ancestors for many people in Cambodia.  About 60 members of the Phare Ponleu Selpak community, mostly including Phare Kindergarten, practiced and...

Views of Preah Vihear: A Student Art Exhibition from Phare Visual & Applied Arts School

by Olivia AUDO | Sep 27, 2023

Khmer culture is an essential source of inspiration for art students at Phare Ponleu Selpak. The architecture inherited from their ancestors is present throughout Cambodia, and is often found in temples and places of religious worship.    A Special School Trip to...

How the Mobile Library Brings Books, Arts, and Joy to Battambang Communities

by CHIERN Piseth Samphallyka | Aug 30, 2023

Earlier this year, Phare Ponleu Selpak re-launched a mobile library program for the children in the surrounding community.  The mobile library goes out into the surrounding community every Thursday and Friday to give everyone, but especially youngsters, a chance to...

How Does My Circus Show Ticket Support Phare Ponleu Selpak?

by Bryce MERKL SASAKI | Jul 20, 2023

When you purchase a ticket to the Phare Battambang Circus, did you know you’re supporting an entire community? It’s true. The funds from your ticket impact a wide variety of people and programs throughout Battambang Cambodia. But First… Before we dive into specifics,...

A Glimpse into the Life Skills Workshops at Phare Ponleu Selpak

by Bryce MERKL SASAKI | Jul 13, 2023

You might know about Phare Ponleu Selpak for our circus shows in Battambang or for the arts education we offer to children, youth, and young adults in the community, but did you know we also offer our students a wide range of social support programs? One of those...

Meet Karona, the First Recipient of the Srey Bandaul Art Development Fund

by CHIERN Piseth Samphallyka | Aug 29, 2022

Karona is a 19 year old young man from the Siem Reap countryside. He is a student at the Phare Visual and Applied Arts School and the first recipient of a visual arts scholarship from the Srey Bandaul Art Development Fund. “The things I enjoy the most about Phare...

Check out our visual artists works created during the pandemic

by ppsa | Oct 25, 2021

It’s been more than a year our visual arts students have been on and off school following the government’s protocol as the pandemic spread over Cambodia. We had shown you back then how the first home confinement had provided Phare Ponleu Selpak students...

Phare Creative Studio’s movie to protect the elderly against COVID-19 reached 1.2 million views!

by ppsa | Jul 2, 2020

Phare Ponleu Selpak is well known for its circus and arts schools, but did you know it is hosting a professional graphic design and animation studio under the very same roof, whose latest COVID-19 animation movie amassed more than a million views? Phare Creative...

“Wash Ya Handz!!!” to fight COVID-19 with our performing students!

by ppsa | May 4, 2020

Like many content creators around the world, who are responding to the COVID-19 crisis online with engaging public health videos, Minor Act has teamed up with us to create a very unique Cambodian creative response: “Wash Ya Handz!!!”. The music video, bursting with...

Meet Koemyean, a Phare Visual Art Teacher and Fashion Designer

by ppsa | Dec 18, 2019

Koemyean comes from Kor Koh village in Battambang Province. He is 27, he’s a fashion designer, and he teaches graphic design in our Visual and Applied Arts School (VAAS).  Not so long ago, he was a student in that very same school: « I enrolled in VAAS in 2013....

Meet Monisovanya Ry, Artist and Strategic Product Designer

by ppsa | Oct 10, 2019

Monisovanya Ry studied as an artist in our Visual and Applied Arts School, where she attended the graphic design vocational training. With no previous arts literacy, her first motives to integrate into our program were very pragmatic: it was free and close from home....