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Southeast Asia Regional Program/Creativity and Culture
Amrita Performing Arts, USA: $250,000 in continued support of activities to increase opportunities for performing artists and arts groups in Cambodia and to stabilize the orgazation.
Mirror Foundation, Chiangrai, Thailand: $200,000 in support of its project, the Virtual Hilltribe Museum, and of related research and documentary and media activities to improve public understanding of ethnic minority groups in the uplands of northern Thailand.
Reyum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $250,000 in final support of public education activities including publishing, exhibitions and seminars to encourage understanding of Cambodian cultural forms.
Asian Cultural Council, Inc.: $400,000 toward the costs of the Mekong Region Arts and Culture Initiative, a fellowship Program for artists, scholars and arts organization in mainland Southeast Asia, for the final phase of the program and to transition it to Arts Network Asia, a peer-administered arts network in the region.
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Thailand: $241,140 toward the costs of its continued collaboration with local and U.S. organizations to develop local capacity in researching and presenting the intangible cultural heritage of dicerse ethnic communities in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, in preparation for the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife, entitled "The Mekong River: Connecting Cultures".
Silapakorn University, Thailand: $300,000 in final support of activities being undertaken by its Faculty of Painting, Sculture and Graphic Arts to collaborate with partner institutions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam to build the capacity of arts education institutions in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Silkwork Books, Thailand: $405,425 in final support of a non-profit publishing mechanism, Mekong Press, to promote the production and dissemination of writing and scholarship on the Mekong sub-region by writers from the region.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $20,000 toward the costs of a series of consultations and publications to promote cooperation and understanding between the United States and Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam, as well as within the Indochina sub-region.
Mirror Art Foundation, Chiangrai, Thailand: $200,000 in support of its project, the Virtual Hilltribe Museum, and of related research and documentary and media activities to encourage better public understanding of ethnic minority groups in the uplands of northern Thailand and the challenges these groups face.
Northern Illinois University, USA: $50,000 for use by its Center for Southeast Asian Studies toward the costs of the participation of scholars from Thailand and other Mekong countries in a series of panels on cross-border and cross-cultural issues at the Ninth International Conference on Thai Studies, to be held at the University, April 2005.
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center, Bangkok, Thailand: $210,630 toward the costs of a collaborative effort to develop local capacity in researching and presenting the intangible cultural heritage of diverse ethnic communities in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Vietnamese Academy for Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam: $96,500 for use by its Institute for Southeast Asian Studies to examine social, cultural and economic change among ethnic Vietnamese migrant communities (Viet Kieu) in Lao PDR, in collaboration with the Lao Institute of Cultural Research.
Women's Media Centre of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $200,600 toward the costs of the development, production and dissemination of a series of documentary films on the lives of women in ethnic minority communities in Cambodia.
