By: Arthur Nguyen dao He is one of the first students of Phare and ended up being one of the the awareness theatre teachers. Meet Chhit Chanphireak, aka Hou. Hou first came to Phare at the age of 12 in 1994. At the time, there were only three buildings including the...
By: Arthur Nguyen dao Some Phare graduates cumulate the artistic education with another one and embrace different careers. Meet Pring Sopheara, Performing Arts School administrator. Sopheara started to learn in Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2003 at the age of 15. Before he...
By: Arthur Nguyen dao The new generation of circus artists in Battambang? It is him. Meet Aork Siew Long, 21 and eager to express himself both with arts and words. Siew Long started late for a circus artist. He has been learning for only five years now and he can...
By: Arthur Nguyen dao It all started with 9 kids coming back to Cambodia after a childhood in a refugee camp. Meet Tor Vutha, one of the founders of Phare Ponleu Selpak. “Site 2 camp [largest refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border] closed in 1993 and everyone had...
By: Arthur Nguyen dao Phare is running a fundraising campaign to get the means to buy a land in Siem Reap for the artists to call it home. The idea is to create a sustainable employment platform for the graduates and the students from Phare Ponleu Selpak in...
Home for Phare Please help Phare secure a permanent home for our artists to earn a living and support themselves and their families. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drJkdbAsh-k] Since February 2013, Phare artists have come to Siem Reap and astonished...
