Smashing Success: The S’Art Festival Brought Urban Arts to Life in Battambang in 2023

by Bryce MERKL SASAKI | Jul 5, 2023

That’s a wrap! The 2023 edition of the S’Art Urban Arts Festival was a remarkable success.   From 12 to 17 June, the biennial S’Art Festival drew in over 7700 attendees across a wide range of activities and who hailed from around Cambodia and across Asia.  After the...

How Phare Ponleu Selpak Won the Guinness World Record for Longest Circus Performance

by ppsa | Nov 22, 2022

Cambodian non-profit Phare Ponleu Selpak completed an incredible journey that started on 7 March 2021, when it performed a 24-hour circus in a last-ditch effort to raise funds to survive the pandemic and set a Guinness World Record. Phare was finally able to announce...

Phare Ponleu Selpak grabs 4 gold trophies at the Stevie International Business Awards

by ppsa | Aug 17, 2021

After the most difficult year in our history, including the closure of our circuses with disastrous impact on funding, we have triumphed against the odds to win four gold awards at the Stevie International Business Awards (IBAs)! Phare Ponleu Selpak has just been...

Guinness World Record: Phare artists performed 24h

by ppsa | Mar 18, 2021

History was made at 08.10 am on Monday 8 March in Battambang, Cambodia when no less than 90 circus performers from Phare Ponleu Selpak took a final bow after a continuous circus performance that lasted 24h, 10min, and 30sec in a stunningly ambitious Guinness World...

Catch up on Everything You Missed From the S’Art Urban Art Festival 2019!

by ppsa | Oct 10, 2019

The quiet streets of Battambang came to life with concerts, workshops, exhibitions, mural paintings and the Giant Puppet Parade between May 28 and June 1 for the first edition of the S’Art Urban Art Festival. The S’Art Urban Art Festival was a big step towards...