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Southeast Asia Regional Office
2007
Art Thesis Exhibition 2007 by the Graduating Class of the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, March 3 - 16, 2008.
Art Thesis Exhibition 2007 will be organized by the Graduating Class of Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University on March 3 -16 2008. The exhibition will be held at Art Center, Silpakorn University, PSG Art Gallery, Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, The Gallery of Art and Design, and Pha Phrombhichitr Architecture and Gallery. For further information, please contact 662.221.0820, 6689.6544.7503 or email chaiwat_012@hotmail.com
The Australian Embassy is proud to present The World in Painting, an exhibition of contemporary Australian art. From domestic interiors to dream-like landscapes, eight of Australia’s most distinguished artists present visions of their worlds on canvas that are at the same time highly unique and universally accessible. The exhibition will be on show at the Chiang Mai University Art Museum from 5 to 30 October and at Chulalongkorn University’s Art Centre from 30 November to 25 December.
For more information, please visit its website.
Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) organizes a three-week intensive training course using theater and performing arts for advocacy on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS designed for the performing artists in the Greater mekong Sub-region. For more information on this exhibition, please email peta_mekong@yahoo.com
The Mekong Institute is organizing a three-day follow up regional policy on "Transborder Migration Policy Implementation and Monitoring: Its Effectiveness and Current Policy Gaps in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)”. The dialogue aims to provide updated status of policy implementation and monitoring mechanisms of the outcome of the first policy formulation meeting on “Transborder Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion” in February 2006 at Khon Kaen, Thailand.
The overall objective of this workshop is to promote a better understanding among policy makers of the migration management within the GMS countries and examine gaps for subregional and bilateral policies to address the overall welfare of migrants in the GMS.
For more information, please visit its website.
International Performance Art Festival started in 1998 with an aim to promote performance art practice in Thailand and Southeast Asia.This year, the festival will be held at Chiang Mai University Art Museum and in front of 3 Kings Monument, Thailand on November 9th-11th, 2007.
For more information, please visit its website.
For more information, please contact IAS Chula
This conference will be held by Chiang Mai University, The Upland Program, and Southeast Asian network for Agroforestry Education Network (SEANAFE). Its objective is to examine how landscapes in Southeast Asia's uplands are changing and how higher education institutions are responding to that change.
For more conference details, please visit its webste or email fformtj@ku.ac.th.
The Women's Media Centre of Cambodia will launch the six-part documentaries series on Cambodia's Ethnic Minorities: Voices of Women. The series is an in-depth and intimate exploration of the unique experiences and challenges faced by women in contemporary Cambodia ethnic communities. The event will take place on September 27, 2007 at Cambodiana Hotel and will start from 08.00 am to 10.00 pm. Please click here for more information.
The Faculty of Political Science and Chulalongkorn University will host an International Development Studies Conference entitled "Mainstreming Human Security: The Asian Contribution" held on October 4-5, 2007.The conference will frame a regional approach to human security, both in terms of problems, policies and research networks. That one of the primary goals of the conference is to assess the current state of research and practice in the field of human security by actively involving more academic and research institutes in Asia. For more information, please contact maid@chula.ac.th or visit its website.
Reyum Institute will organize a lecture /discussion in Khmer - Libraries in Cambodia on Thrusday, August 23, 2007. The event will start from 5:30 to 6:30 pm followed by Question and Answer. For More information, please email reyum@camnet.com.kh or visit its website.
The Mekong Institute will organize the Stakeholders Consultative Meeting to report to the Institute's stakeholders on the progress of MI activites toward its strategic plan and seek inputs and recommendations on its 2007 -2010 Business Plan. The meeting will be held on July 18, 2007 at Mekong Institute, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Reyum Institute organizes a lecture /discussion in Khmer - Archaeological sites Inventory in Cambodia on Thrusday, June 28, 2007 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. More information, please email reyum@camnet.com.kh or visit its website.
Institute of Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand is organizing an International Conference titled “Understanding Health and Population Over Time: Strenghtening Capacity in Longitudinal Data Collection and Analysis in Asia and the Pacific Region” that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from May 24 - 25, 2007. In addition, the institute is calling for papers in the various sub-themes of understanding population and health changes. Please see the enclosed document for more information (Acrobat file, 204 KB)
Reyum, Institue of Arts and Culture, will present a book launch exhibition - "Wat Painting in Cambodia" with the support of The Toyota Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation. The opening reception will be held on May 18, 2007 from 17.00 pm to 18.00 pm. For more information on this exhibition, please see the enclosed document, contact REYUM: reyum@camnet.com.kh or visit its website.
The Mekong Art and Culture Project is a two-year collaboration of leading art institutes across Southeast Asia including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. The aim is to expand and encourage the contemporary art and culture movement as well as develop valuable learning community based experiences within the region. The project has been supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, Southeast Asia Regional Office since August 2006.
Art on the Beach is one of the Mekong Art and Culture Projects undertaken by the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University with partners in Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao DPR. This art camp aims to strengthen relationships among partner institutes in the Mekong Sub-region, and to enhance art students’ creativity from learning outside their institute. The activity took place on April 19 – 26, 2007 at Mo Koh Surin, Pang-Nga Province, Thailand.
For more information, please contact info@mekongart.org
Reyum, Institue of Arts and Culture, will open a new exhibition on "Creative Cambodia: Recycling everyday materials"on January 19, 2007. The exhibition will be held from January - March with the support of the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund.
Through photographs, video footage and the display of objects, this exhibition shows examples of how people in Cambodia make new use of everyday materials. By transforming available resources such as empty plastic and metal containers, second hand fabric, engines, and rubber tires, new tools and objects are crafted for use in daily life. The purpose of the exhibition is to describe and understand the process of generating the ideas more then to make a fetish of the objects themselves, thus emphasizing the ingenuity and resourcefulness within a living culture. For more information on this exhibition, please contact REYUM: reyum@camnet.com.kh or visit its website.
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand is organizing an International Conference titled “Critical Transitions in the Mekong Region” to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from January 29-31, 2007.The international conference is based on critically exploring the Mekong Region from a social science perspective and is aimed to strengthen and encourage greater understanding of the region using social science approaches, theories and techniques. The conference aims to enhance understanding of the rapid changes in the Mekong Region in the context of development and poverty and to examine the interconnectivity of people, markets, poverty, and government policy, as well as social and economic transition. Also, the conference is designed to promote and foster dialogue among actors and stakeholders in the Mekong Region, in particular international donor agencies, academics, NGOs, business sector representatives and local peoples. The conference will provide a foundation for interaction, discussion and debate on issues affecting livelihoods of local people, along with the potential for further analysis linking micro and macro dimensions of development and poverty in the Mekong Region. Please see the enclosed programme. (Acrobat file, 48 KB)
The Centre for Khmer Studies Initiating Urban Studies in Cambodia and Capacity Building in Higher Education Conference will be held in Phnom Penh between 10-11 January 2007. The conference is sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute for Cultural Enterprise, New School University. Please see the enclosed programme (Acrobat file, 22 KB) and abstracts. (Acrobat file, 70 KB)2006
The workshop includes presentation of case studies by research institutes from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Yunnan Province of China. Experts from the five countries, who have undertaken these studies during the past year, will present findings from their respective projects and case studies with funding from The Rockefeller Foundation. The workshops will take place on 18-19 December 2006 at CDRI and the Phnom Penh Hotel, Phnom Penh. Please see the enclosed, programme. (Adobe Acrobat file, 16 KB)
The Untold Story is a mobile advocacy performance piece on gender and sexuality to raise impacts and develop awareness to the public. The performance will be performed in Phnom Pehn on July 27 and in Battambang on July 31 in Cambodia. It is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation through the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) - Mekong Partnership Project's Creative Communities: Arts for Adovacacy Fellowship 2006. For more information please click here or contact the organizer directly."Mong (Look)", a contemporary multi-media production decipting the world of cyber sex and information technology, is about a man who posts his sexy photos online for a woman he meets on the net to see --- finding himself a victim of a scam when these photos end up in sex websites. It is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation under the Philippine Educational Theater Association's (PETA) - Mekong Partnership Project's Creative Communities: Arts for Adovacacy Fellowship 2006. For more information please click here or contact the organizer directly.The workshop is held in order to respond to the food shortage by strengthening capacity and collaboration in studying between the Institute of Anthropology (Vietnam) and the Institute for Culture Research (Lao D.P.R.) For more information, please click here.The workshop is organized by the Regional Center for Social and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University. For more information, please click here.
The Closing Workshop is a four-day session wherein fellows present their reports on transboundary issues. The themes of the stories and documentaries this year are on culture (Akha, Thai and Jing ethnic groups, World Heritage sites), social issues (Cambodian beggars in Vietnam, effect of the tsunami on Burmese migrants), the environment (fishing villages along the Mekong), religion (role of monastaries), migration, etc. For more information, please click here or you can contact the organizer directly.This workshop brought together a spectrum of voices from Southeast Asia and Europe to discuss changes in the study of Muslims and Islam and how it is impacting upon Muslims and the understanding of Islam across geographical frontiers, spanning varied local contexts from Southeast Asia to Europe. For more information, please click here or you can contact the organizer directly.
2005
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- Inter Press Service International Association, Rome, Italy and Probe Media Foundation, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines: Mekong Night; February 26, 2004. For more information, please click here to contact the organizers directly.
- Inter Press Services, Bangkok, Thailand: Exhibition of Mekong Fellows' Photographs; June 1-30, 2004. For more information, please click here to contact the organizers directly.
The press conference was held on October 18, 2005 and during October 28-30, 2005, 19 short films by amateur, youth and adult filmakers will be shown. Along with the film show, there will be a seminar, games and exhibitions. This project is a collaboration with AIDS Access Foundation with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. For more information, please click here or directly contact the organizers.
2004
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