30 Years of Phare Ponleu Selpak: How We’re Celebrating 30 Years of the Brightness of the Arts All Year Long

by Osman KHAWAJA | Feb 22, 2024

Grab a slice of birthday cake and prepare the fireworks, because it’s time to celebrate. This year, 2024, is the 30th anniversary of Phare Ponleu Selpak!  The idea for Phare began in 1986 when French humanitarian Véronique Decrop worked as a drawing teacher in the...

Another Year of Shining Bright: Highlights from 2023 at Phare Ponleu Selpak

by CHIERN Piseth Samphallyka | Jan 18, 2024

With another year gone by, it’s time to reflect on everything that’s happened at Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2023. This past year, Cambodia has still been recovering from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while international tourism numbers have been...

Don’t Miss the Battambang imaginée Art Festival This Month

by Bryce MERKL SASAKI | Oct 9, 2023

It’s time to celebrate art, culture, and development in Battambang!  Phare Ponleu Selpak and AFD – Agence Française de Développement – have joined forces to bring a new art festival to Battambang Province, Cambodia entitled:   បាត់ដំបងក្នុងក្តីស្រមៃ / Battambang...

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...

Arts Integration in Phare Kindergarten & Child Development Center

by ppsa | Apr 5, 2022

How we are incorporating the arts into everything we do. And why it matters! Here at Phare Ponleu Selpak, we believe strongly in the power of the arts to change lives. And science is on our side! Many studies in Asia and around the world show that the arts have...

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 Ponleu Selpak enhances the quality of education of the children

by ppsa | Mar 26, 2021

This pandemic has brought the inequality and inequity in education to the forefront. The students we serve suffered greatly with the school closures as most of them cannot afford computers and access to internet at home to continue with online classes like their...

Keeping our visual art students’ vocations alive thanks to FinDac & Tribe Gallery  

by ppsa | Dec 28, 2020

Those who have visited our campus after fall 2019 must remember the iconic « Anapyabal » mural on our circus building, painted by the world-famous Irish urban artist FinDac. After his visit to Battambang and Phare Ponleu Selpak, he made limited edition prints of...