Season of Cambodia was a special initiative of Cambodian Living Arts in partnership with Cambodia’s leading arts organizations and New York’s most vibrant cultural and academic institutions. The festival features more than 125 Cambodian performing and visual artists at New York City’s stages, screens, galleries and public spaces, creating a broad and dynamic platform for Cambodia’s cultural treasures to be shared with an international audience. The festival celebrates Cambodia’s artistic revival just one generation removed from the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), a dark period in Cambodia’s history during which nearly 90% of the artists and intellectuals were tragically eliminated in an effort to devastate a flourishing artistic community. Season of Cambodia, then, will serve as an international platform that not only highlights the extraordinary resilience of the Cambodian nation and its artists, and also sets the stage for other post-conflict nations seeking renewal through artistic expression. Cambodian Living Arts, a non-profit organization based in Phnom Penh and the U.S. founded in 1998 by artist and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond, played a role in preserving the traditional Cambodian art forms through its masters-students programs. Today, CLA fosters collaborations with Cambodian artists and organizations, serving as a catalyst for the development and resiliency of Cambodian arts and culture. Ministry of Culture, Royal Government of Cambodia Ministry of Tourism, Royal Government of Cambodia Amrita Performing Arts Bophana Centre Cambodian Living Arts Khmer Arts Ensemble National Museum of Cambodia Royal Ballet of Cambodia Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo, Siem Reap

1. New York City
APRIL & MAY 2013

2. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
The Legend of Apsara Mera
BAM, May 2-4
Photo: Anders Jiras

3. RITUAL & THEATRE
VISUAL ART
HUMANITIES
MUSIC
DANCE
FILM

4. THE INITIATIVE
Season of Cambodia was a special initiative of Cambodian Living Arts in partnership with Cambodia’s
leading arts organizations and New York’s most vibrant cultural and academic institutions. The festival
features more than 125 Cambodian performing and visual artists at New York City’s stages, screens,
galleries and public spaces, creating a broad and dynamic platform for Cambodia’s cultural treasures to
be shared with an international audience.
The festival celebrates Cambodia’s artistic revival just one generation removed from the Khmer Rouge
regime (1975-1979), a dark period in Cambodia’s history during which nearly 90% of the artists and
intellectuals were tragically eliminated in an effort to devastate a flourishing artistic community. Season
of Cambodia, then, will serve as an international platform that not only highlights the extraordinary
resilience of the Cambodian nation and its artists, and also sets the stage for other post-conflict nations
seeking renewal through artistic expression.
Cambodian Living Arts, a non-profit organization based in Phnom Penh and the U.S. founded in 1998 by
artist and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond, played a role in preserving the traditional Cambodian
art forms through its masters-students programs. Today, CLA fosters collaborations with Cambodian
artists and organizations, serving as a catalyst for the development and resiliency of Cambodian arts and
culture.

5. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto
Arn Chorn Pond Founder Cambodian Living Arts
Executive Director Phloeun Prim

6. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
The Legend of Apsara Mera
BAM, May 2-4
Photo: Pete Pin
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
The Legend of Apsara Mera
BAM, May 2-4
Photo: Pete Pin

7. THE ROYAL BALLET
HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi
Her Royal Highness Princess Norodom Buppha Devi was born on January 8, 1943 as daughter to His Royal
Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, and her mother Néak Phat Kanhol.
HRH Princess Buppha Devi began her studies at the age of six at the Sothearos Primary School and at the same
time, began her classical dance training at the school of dance of the Royal Palace. The Princess gave her first
professional performance at the age of eight in honor of the King of Laos. She immediately became recognized
as a distinguished artist and performed until 1970 at which point she accompanied her father the King to
China. As a dancer, the Princess performed for distinguished dignitaries from France, China, the United States,
Indonesia, Korea, Burma, the Soviet Union and many others.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Princess trained young dancers on the Cambodian / Thai border.
Following the Paris Conference of 1991, she returned to Cambodia with her father King Sihanouk. Immediately
upon her return, the Princess continued to work in the cultural domain.
Following the elections of 1993, the King and the Royal Government of Cambodia bestowed on the Princess the
role of Advisor in charge of the fine arts, in particular classical court dance. From 1999-2004, HRH Princess
Bopha Devi served as Cambodia’s Minister of Culture and Fine Arts. HRH Norodom Buppha Devi continues to
choreograph, adding works to the classical repertory of the Royal Ballet. She has been instrumental in
nurturing a new generation of gifted artists in close collaboration with her colleagues who survived the
tumultuous period of the Khmer Rouge. The Royal Ballet that tours internationally today does so under her
vigilant leadership and guidance.

8. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
Visit to Marseille, France with King Sisowath in 1906
Courtesy of HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi

9. http://www.wisdomportal.com/Rodin-1906Dancers.html
April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi
performing for Pidato Sukarno, 1962
Courtesy of HRH Princess Norodom Buppha Devi

10. http://www.wisdomportal.com/Rodin-1906Dancers.html
April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of ArtAuguste Rodin sketching a dancer
from the Royal Ballet in a Marseille Garden, 1906

11. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role),
Box 017; Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927
Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

12. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Royal Ballet of Cambodia in Times Square
New York City 1971

13. Royal Ballet of Cambodia in Times Square
New York City 2013
Photo: Pete Pin

14. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
OPENING CEREMONY

15. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Mayor Bloomberg Proclaims “Season of Cambodia Day”
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Executive Director Phloeun Prim
Photo: Michael Seto

16. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto

17. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto

18. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto

19. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Living Arts City
Colloquium Kick-off

20. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Living Arts City Colloquium Kick-off
Parsons The New School for Design, April 6
Photo: Pete Pin

21. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Living Arts City Colloquium Kick-off
Parsons The New School for Design, April 6
Executive Director Phloeun Prim
Photo: Pete Pin

22. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art DANCE

23. Excerpts from “Dancing in Cambodia" — Amitav Ghosh
On May 10 1906, at two in the afternoon, a French liner called the Amiral-Kersaint set sail from Saigon carrying
a troupe of nearly a hundred classical dancers and musicians from the royal palace at Phnom Penh. The ship
was bound for Marseille, where the dancers were to perform at a great colonial exhibition. It would be the first
time Cambodian classical dance was performed in Europe.
The dancers were on the ship's first class deck; they seemed to be everywhere, running about, hopping,
skipping, playing excitedly, feet skimming across the polished wood. The whole deck was a blur of legs, girls'
legs, women's legs, `fine, elegant legs', for all the dancers were dressed in colourful sampots which ended
shortly below the knee.
The onlookers were taken by surprise. They had expected perhaps a troop of heavily-veiled, voluptuous
Salomés; they were not quite prepared for the lithe, athletic women they encountered on the Amiral-Kersaint:
nor indeed, was the rest of Europe. An observer wrote later: "...with their hard and close-cropped hair, their
figures like those of striplings, their thin, muscular legs like those of young boys, their arms and hands like
those of little girls, they seem to belong to no definite sex. They have something of the child about them,
something of the young warrior of antiquity and something of the woman." …
Those who were there then say there was a moment of epiphany in Phnom Penh in 1981. It occurred at a
quiet, relatively obscure event: a festival at which classical Cambodian music and dance were performed for
the first time since the Revolution…. "We thought everything was lost, that we would never hear our music
again, never see our dance." They could not stop crying; people wept through the entire performance.
It was a kind of rebirth: a moment when the grief of survival became indistinguishable from the
joy of living.

24. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Khmer Arts Ensemble
A Bend in the River
The Joyce Theater, April 9-14
Photo: Khvay Samnang

25. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Hannah Stevens, Fred Frumberg,
Lim Chanboramy and
Amrita Performing Arts
Abrons Arts Center, April 18
Photo: Pete Pin

26. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and Khmer Arts
Ensemble
The Joyce Theater
Photo: Khvay Samnang

27. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Amrita Performing Arts
Olden New Golden Blue
Abrons Arts Center, April 18-19
Photo: Pete Pin

28. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Amrita Performing Arts
Olden New Golden Blue
Abrons Arts Center, April 18-19
Photo: Pete Pin

29. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Amrita Performing Arts in rehearsal for
Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate
Baryshnikov Arts Center, April 26
Photo: Pete Pin

30. Amrita Performing Arts in rehearsal for
Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate
Baryshnikov Arts Center, April 26
Photo: Pete Pin

31. Amrita Performing Arts in rehearsal for
Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate
Baryshnakov Arts Center, April 26
Photo: Pete Pin
Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate
Works & Process at the Guggenheim, April 28-30
Photo: Pete Pin

32. Pre-show discussion with Eric Sargis,
Emmanuele Phuon and Stanford Makishi
Khmeropedies III: Source/Primate
Works & Process at the Guggenheim, April 28-30
Photo: Pete Pin

33. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Cambodian Classical Dance Master Class with
Chey Chankethya
Simple Studio, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun

34. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Cambodian Classical Dance Master Class with
Chey Chankethya
Simple Studio, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun
Cambodian Classical Dance Master Class
With Chey Chankethya
Simple Studio, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun

35. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art RITUAL & THEATRE

36. Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok

37. Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok

38. Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok

39. Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok
Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok

40. Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo
Sor Neakabas (Magical Arrow Naga)
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, April 25-28
Photo: Ilya Savenok

41. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
MUSIC

42. Master Kong Nay with Special Guests Ben
Allison, Marc Ribot, and Rudy Royston
Asia Society, April 20
Photo: Pete Pin

43. Master Kong Nay with Special Guests Ben
Allison, Marc Ribot, and Rudy Royston
Asia Society, April 20
Photo: Pete Pin

44. Master Kong Nay
with Special Guests Ben Allison, Marc Ribot, and Rudy Royston
Asia Society, April 20
Photo: Pete Pin

45. Master Kong Nay with Special Guests Ben
Allison, Marc Ribot, and Rudy Royston
Asia Society, April 20
Photo: Pete Pin

46. Master Kong Nay
Cambodian New Year, Family Day
Asia Society, April 21
Photo: Ada Khun

47. Cambodian New Year, Family Day
Asia Society, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun

48. Dengue Fever in Concert with Bochan
Le Poisson Rouge, April 13
Photo: Pete Pin

49. Nimol Chhom of Dengue Fever and Bochan Huy
Le Poisson Rouge, April 13
Photo: Pete Pin

50. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon
Photo: Judy Dennis
Dengue Fever in Concert with Bochan
Le Poisson Rouge, April 13

51. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
FILM

52. FILM
Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, who was scheduled to arrive today to participate in
events surrounding the film series at Film Society of Lincoln Center this weekend, has been
ordered by doctors to remain at his home in Paris to recover from a recent illness.
Mr. Panh sends his deepest regrets and will prepare remarks to be read on his behalf at this
Friday's opening of the film series, marked by a screening of Kalyanee Mam's Sundance-honored
"A River Changes Course," which Mr. Panh was set to introduce.
We here at Season of Cambodia wish Rithy a speedy recovery and look forward to viewing his films
and those he curated with Robert Koehler of the Film Society of Lincoln Center for Old Ghosts, New
Dreams: The Emerging Cambodian Cinema.

53. GOLDEN SLUMBERS (Le Sommeil d’Or) (2011) 96min
Director: Davy Chou
Countries: France/Cambodia
April 25, 7:30pm-9:06pm
INTRO Q&A w/sound engineer Maya Jade

54. DUCH, MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL (2012) 110min
Director: Rithy Panh
Countries: France/Cambodia
April 24, 8:45pm

55. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE DEATH MACHINE (2002) 101min
Director: Rithy Panh
Countries: France/Cambodia
April 24, 7:30pm

56. A RIVER CHANGES COURSE (2012) 83min
Director: Kalyanee Mam
Country: Cambodia
April 19, 7:15pm
INTRO Q&A with director Kalyanee Mam and interpreter.
THE LAND OF THE WANDERING SOULS (La terre des ames errantes)
(1999) 143min
Director: Rithy Panh
Countries: France/Cambodia
April 20, 7:00pm-8:42pm
THE LAST REFUGE (2013) 55min
Directors: Anne-Laure Porée and Guillaume Soun
Country: Cambodia
April 23, 9:30pm
FIVE LIVES (2010) 93min
Directors: Various
Country: Cambodia
April 23, 7:30pm
WHERE I GO (2012) 55min
Director: Neang Kavich
Country: Cambodia
April 22, 9:00pm-9:55pm
INTRO Q&A with director Neang Kavich
DANCING ACROSS BORDERS (2011) 88min
Director: Anne Bass
Country: USA
April 20, 9:30pm
INTRO Q&A with director Anne Bass
SHORTS PROGRAM (82min)
April 21, 4:00pm – 5:22pm
INTRO Q&A –with directors Yann Cantais (granddaughters of the
water) and Caylee So (Paulina)

57. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
VISUAL ART

58. Dr. Sam-Ang
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 14
Photo: Judy Dennis

59. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Buddha 2, 2009, by Sopheap Pich, Rattan, wire, dye, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2012 © Sopheap Pich
Cambodian Rattan: The Sculpture of Sopheap Pich
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb 23 – July 7

60. Dr. Sam-Ang Sam introduces musical program
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 14
Photo: Judy Dennis

61. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
IN RESIDENCE

62. In Residence A citywide visual arts program centered on two-month residencies in conjunction with
exhibitions, installations, screenings, open studios, and conversations at major New York City
institutions; including an unprecedented academic symposium about contemporary art practice and
history in Cambodia.
In Residence invited New York City audiences to engage with new perspectives on Cambodia’s history
and contemporaneity through a citywide visual arts program centred on two-month residencies,
complimented by a dynamic map of public programs including solo exhibitions, screenings,
symposiums, open studios, and conversations with artists and curators critically involved in shaping
Cambodia’s unique contemporary art scene.
For decades, Cambodia has been subject to international field research – a practice that has largely
shaped distanced, third person perspectives around the nation’s occupied and traumatic histories. In
the last decade, it is largely Cambodia’s local and diaspora visual artists who, by giving form to their
experiences, are responsible for anchoring critical first-person perspectives.
To extend these unique views, In Residence engaged 1 curator and 10 visual artists in 2-month
residencies. The selected artists work across a range of practices including drawing, sculpture,
installation, photography, video, and performance. Born between 1970 and 1987 – either during the
U.S. military bombing campaign, the Khmer Rouge era, or Vietnamese occupation – the artists interpret
their histories from different angles while many also respond to current urban and cultural change.
While the residencies serve as a base from which artists extend their research and practices in NYC, the
public programs give an interactive scope to the program. We partner with leading institutions to create
diverse platforms that contextualize Cambodia’s artistic production both on its own terms and as a part
of a wider global dialogue.
Co-Curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson

63. Bomb Ponds: Vandy Rattana
Asia Society Museum, April 1-June 2
IN RESIDENCE
,Takeo,2009,DigitalC-Print,90x105cm,Courtesytheartist

64. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin

65. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Transparent Studio: Tith Kanitha and Yim Maline
Courtesy of Bose Pacia
IN RESIDENCE

66. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Vuth Lyno and Lim Sokchanlina
Living Arts City Colloquium
Parsons The New School for Design, April 7
Photo: Martin Seck
IN RESIDENCE

67. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Svay Sareth and Amy Lee Sanford
Living Arts City Colloquium
Parsons The New School for Design, April 7
Photo: Martin Seck
IN RESIDENCE

68. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Vandy Rattana
Living Arts City Colloquium
Parsons The New School for Design, April 7
Credit: Martin Seck
IN RESIDENCE

69. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon
Photo: Judy Dennis
Parachute Skirt Sewing Circle
Leang Seckon
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

70. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon
Photo: Judy Dennis
IN RESIDENCE

71. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon
at Columbia University
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

72. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Cambodian Classical Dance Master Class with
Chey Chankethya
Simple Studio, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun

73. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
APRIL 6
PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
COLLOQUIUM: LIVING ARTS CITY
Cambodian Classical Dance Master Class with
Chey Chankethya
Simple Studio, April 20
Photo: Ada Khun

74. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon at Columbia University
Photo: Pete Pin
Transparent Studio: Yim Maline
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE
Transparent Studio:
Tith Kanitha
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

75. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon at Columbia University
Photo: Pete Pin
Transparent Studio
Yim Maline
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

76. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon at Columbia University
Photo: Pete Pin
Transparent Studio: Yim Maline
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Vandy Rattana
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

77. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Artist Sera in performance painting
Maison Francaise, Columbia University, April 10
Photo: Pete Pin
Parachute Skirt by Leang Seckon at Columbia University
Photo: Pete Pin
Transparent Studio: Yim Maline
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Vandy Rattana
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Amy
Sanford
Photo: Pete Pin
IN RESIDENCE

78. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
COMMUNITY

79. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto
Opening Ceremonies / Cambodian New Year
Rubin Museum of Art, April 13
Photo: Michael Seto

80. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role), Box 017;
Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927 - Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

81. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role), Box 017;
Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927 - Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

82. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role), Box 017;
Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927 - Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

83. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role), Box 017;
Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927 - Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

84. Cambodian Royal Dancers Nou Nâm (L, male role) and Ith (R, male role), Box 017;
Photo 12, George Groslier, April 1927 - Courtesy of the National Museum of Cambodia
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, April 1-May 31

85. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
New York City
APRIL & MAY 2013

86. Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) is the lead partner and sponsor of Season of Cambodia.
The mission of Cambodian Living Arts is to facilitate the transformation of Cambodia
through the arts.
Cambodian Living Arts is creating an environment where Cambodian arts empower
and transform individuals and communities.
Cambodian Living Arts activities focus on building the capacity of artists and the arts
community, arts education, promoting awareness of the arts, and advocating for the
arts with cultural policymakers and major institutions.
Cambodian Living Arts philosophy of art and art making is to understand what it
means to be Cambodian and to create a sense of unity and shared culture in a post
war nation.
Cambodian Living Arts vision is to make the arts the national and international
signature of Cambodia, becoming a catalyst for a vibrant and dynamic cultural sector
throughout Cambodia.
Cambodian Living Arts - a program of The Marion Institute is a 501(c)3 organization

87. Cambodian Living Arts Board
Season of Cambodia is incorporated as an LLC, chaired by John Burt, Co-founder of Cambodian Living Arts and is
overseen by a Board of Advisors, made up of the members of the Cambodian Living Arts Board.
Dickon Verey, President Financial advisor, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
R. Kelley Bonn, Retired bank executive, Hartford, CT, USA
John Burt, Founding Board Chair Emeritus, independent producer, New York, NY, USA
Richard Chappell, Sound engineer, Peter Gabriel Real World Studios, Wiltshire, UK
Mike Dean, Retired Physician, New York, NY, USA
Arn Chorn-Pond, Founder, musician and producer, Waterek Productions, CAMBODIA
Steven B. Miller, International executive and lawyer, New York, NY, USA
Maria F. Sabau, Cultural Consultant, UNESCO, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Phyllis Shikora, Attorney, Hartford, CT, USA
Him Sophy, Composer, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Hannah Stevens, Associate Director, Amrita Performing Arts, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Somongkol Teng, Fulbright Scholar, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota, USA
Dana B. White, Former investment banker, high-tech marketer,non-profit executive, Dover, MA, USA
Susan Winthrop, Community volunteer, Ipswich, MA, USA

88. CHAIRS
Anne H. Bass
John Burt
Darren Walker
FOUNDING FUNDERS
Anne H. Bass
Bloomberg Philanthropies
John Burt
Ford Foundation
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
FOUNDING BENEFACTORS
Asian Cultural Council
Michael Dean and Maykin Ho
EVA Airways
Fresh Sound Foundation
The Kaplen Foundation
Openbox Inc.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Dinah Rogerson and Dickon Verey
Louisa Sarofim
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
Charley Todd
U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh
Dana White
Sandy and Lily Johnson White
Hope and Grant Winthrop

89. FOUNDING PATRONS
Anonymous (1)
Amanresorts’ Amansara in Siem Reap
Art Asia Pacific
Gillian Attfield
Hyatt Bass
Brook W. Berlind
Olivia Bernard
Alice and William Burnham
Cindy and Jon Calder
Kamala Cesar
Henry and Kathleen Chalfant
Wendy vanden Heuvel and Brad Coley
Mary Cronson
DeMan Denise
Martin Dunn and Rachel Fine
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz
Evelyn Sharp Foundation
Cheryl Henson and Edwin Finn
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
Charlotte Moss and Barry Friedberg
Friends of Khmer Culture
Toby and Lowell Harwood Family Foundation
Craig Harwood and Tim Saternow
Remote Lands
Henry Luce Foundation
Nancy Norman Lassalle
The Ronald & Jo Carole Lauder Foundation
Bokara Legendre
Adlyn and Ted Loewenthal
Patty McCormick and Paul Critchlow
Steve and Michele Pesner
Judie Robbins
Susan Stein Shiva Foundation
Sofitel New York
Delia Swigart
Alec and Anne White
Susan and Fred Winthrop
Laura and William Lie Zeckendorf

90. AT A GLANCE
155 Participants: 140 Cambodians; 125 Cambodian Artists
55 Days (April 3 - May 27) plus two exhibition starting end of February
through July
64 Events
35 NYC Partners & Institutions
25 NYC Venues across 4 Boroughs, including Governor’s Island
20,000+ audiences at performances and events
200,000+ audiences at exhibitions and public programs
200,000+ people reached on social media
120+ news articles

91. PARTNERS IN CAMBODIA
Ministry of Culture, Royal Government of Cambodia
Ministry of Tourism, Royal Government of Cambodia
Amrita Performing Arts
Bophana Centre
Cambodian Living Arts
Khmer Arts Ensemble
National Museum of Cambodia
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
Shadow Puppet Troupe of Wat Bo, Siem Reap

92. April 13 – Opening Ceremonies
Rubin Museum of Art
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