An open stage for all music lovers. Bring your music and take part in the show. A song catalog will be available. A fine and friendly evening, rich in discoveries!

Information / Registration: cabaretfrancophone@email.com 023 213 124 / 125

After the recent success of wine-a-long with Sideways, we are pleased to announce the next in the wine-a-long film series. The format will be the same - when they drink in the film we will drink in the cinema. We will try at least 5 different wines, including some top American and Burgundian Chardonnays and some Bordeaux Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon blends. The speaker will briefly introduce each wine and explain its story and context in the film.

The film is based on the brilliant true story of the "Judgment of Paris", a blind tasting competition between Californian and French wine in 1976. It's a comedy drama which gives a fascinating insight into the early days of the Californian wine industry and makes fun of all the brilliant wine stereotypes of the British, French and Americans.

Tickets are $15 per person. Please email pelicanwine@yahoo.com or text 012 930 864 to reserve tickets as places are limited. Go to www.pelicanwine.com for more info.

Eric Bricker’s documentary VISUAL ACOUSTICS (2008, 83min, English) celebrates the life and career of the late Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer. Shulman captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry.

This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUQErQtVI04

9PM: After the screening join us for hot beats and cool drinks in the Art Café, where DJs/musicians Professor Kinski and Nick Klapperton take you on a musical journey through “Electroland”

The highly experienced Kate Liana will be your core strengthening training (pilates) teacher for one hour, every Tuesday and Thursday 12.30am.

Classes take place in the air conditioned room of The Flicks Community Movie House on Street 95 (between Str 310 and 360) and costs only $5 per hour.

Please sign up for your desired class(es) through the website at www.theflicks-cambodia.com/classes.php as we can only have a maximum of 10 participants per class.

Sign up at and leave from the Velkommen backpackers at 4.30pm. Fare is only $6.00 (includes return tuk tuk ride to port, 1 free beer on board boat and 1 free beer back at Velkommen backpackers).

GTS Jazz stands for original band members Gabriele (piano), Toma’ (drums) Sebastien (Double bass) – now including Kae (vocals) and Stephan (sax).

Playing a selection of standard and originals tunes, GTS recreate a typical Jazz club feel with silky vocals, cool rhythms and crafty solos.

Learn how to lindy hop with PPPswings! Classes are every Thursday at ISPP secondary school, 146 Norodom Blvd. Register for class at pppswingers@gmail.com. Bring any photo ID to get inside secured school area. 6:30 Intermediate, 7:30 Beginners. $5 expats, $2.50 local Cambodians. First lesson is FREE! See www.pppswings.com for details.

Cambodian Living Arts brings the weekly The Children of Bassac performance at the National Museum, every Thursday.

Led by Master Ieng Sithul, one of Cambodia’s most well-known traditional singers and performers, The Children of Bassac are a dynamic group of young dancers who come from Phnom Penh’s Bassac slum area.

Ticket price: $18/person, $15/person for 10 or more, $10/person for children under 12

All of the proceeds go to these young artists and the master artists who teach the group.

Phnom Penh's first ever "Not So Average Quiz, Not For The Faint Hearted" and "brought as a show, not just some random questions readout" according to the media. Five rounds with 10 general knowledge questions and 2 fascinating music rounds.

Participate for $2 a person, max 4 pers per competing team. 50% of the pot goes to the winning team, 2nd place gets tickets for The Flicks, 3rd place gets a voucher for 25% of anything you drink on one day at The Local 2 and the losing team... well they get to eat a plate of onion rings only.

If you don't know a right answer and your wrong answer is funny enough (judge decision), the entire team wins a round of shooters.

But remember, the quiz master is always right.

Ladies Night, Ladies Glam it Up! Top-40, Diva’s, Cheesy Pop Tunes, Song Playlist Requests taken for Ladies all night… with DJ Cool Sam. Oh, baby!

Every Thursday, swingers get together for a night of social dancing at our beloved venue, Equinox Bar. Every other week, Marco graciously serves up the best treat in town...the amazing gypsy swing duo, Syce' Swing! Seb and Sylvie will knock your socks off! Where else on EARTH can you find a swing scene with a LIVE swing band every other Thursday? Nowhere.

We invite you to come practice your moves or just grab an Anchor and a crepe and watch! Chances are, you'll get hooked (if you're not already).

All Welcome: Are you a salsa dancer? Ballroom dancer? Or do you just like to dance? Try something new this week...swing dancing! Just ask one of the friendly swing dancers to show you what to do. You never know--you might just get hooked!

More info on http://www.pppswings.com

Oh yes it's Ladies Night !! DANCE/ HIP HOP / RNB Every Thursday 10pm till very late our residents Khmer DJ's will make your night memorable!! Free entrance. Free frozen cocktail for Ladies.

Shameless! at Pontoon with the Digital Punks and The Phnom Penh Pussycat Dolls. An exuberant wild night of entertainment, sexual freedom, creative expression and partying Hard! Join the beautiful people. Thursday is the New Saturday with Shameless!

Attitude Free and LGBT friendly.

On the occasion of the official opening of The Insider Gallery at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, we are proud to present in cooperation with Sa Sa Bassac Gallery a thought-provoking art exhibition entitled FutureBuild by Khmer artist Kong Vollak.

This exhibition will run from February 2 to the 26th on our Mezzanine, on the 2nd floor.

Come and discover a collection of drawings showing us not only fictional and fanciful cityscapes, but also illusory shapes and elemental constructions. Using charcoal and ink, Kong's vibrant and ominous drawings intend to create a feeling of uncertainty, wonder, pleasure in the viewer.

Ensuring you get an "In the Know" experience.

The Halo of the Omnipresent Eye by Than Sok is a solo exhibition presenting interactive sculptures and installations through which the artist seeks to provoke questions around the practice of monetary alms-giving in Cambodia while playfully drawing connections between the roles of monastics and artists.

Although some monks commit to permanent vows, monkhood in Cambodia is traditionally considered a right of passage in which young males are expected to serve temporary terms intended as merit-building activities for parents. Due in part to a shift in almsgiving practices in which laity replace food with cash offerings - a practice antagonistic to precepts meant to prevent monks from indulgences including the handling of money - many young men can now consider monkhood as an opportunity to escape poverty, relocate to urban centers, participate in secular education, and are seen as participating in laic life before disrobing. Still, alms remain a central practice and symbol of the sangha, or Buddhist community, and provide the opportunity for givers to earn merit for a better rebirth.

The Halo of the Omnipresent Eye stages the artist’s own alms scenarios in the gallery. To Give Is To Receive I and II (2012) reconfigure materials and forms used in exchanges between monks and laity. The pair of alms stations are presided over by representational halos associated with divine knowing – a reminder that intention, the source of good or bad action, which is invisible, is “visible” via its karmic effect.

Than Sok (born 1984, Takeo) investigates religious and spiritual beliefs, materials, and rituals through sculpture, installation, video and performance. Than graduated from Reyum Art School (2005), Reyum Workshop (2007) and is currently studying architecture.

Opening Hours: Thurs/Fri 2-6pm, Sat/Sun 10am-6pm Location: SA SA BASSAC #18 2nd Floor, Sothearos Boulevard Web: www.sasabassac.com

During Cambodia’s most desperate hours, Elizabeth Becker, along with a few other journalists, were given a tour of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978. For the first time ever in Cambodia, Elizabeth Becker presents her multi-media exhibit from that trip. The exhibit includes a variety of photos of the country and recordings of interviews with Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith. It also includes her recorded narration of the 1978 trip, which ended with an attack on her group and the murder of a British professor.

Elizabeth Becker, former New York Times correspondent and author of When the War was Over, the classic history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, is one of only two Western reporters to visit Cambodia when it was Democratic Kamphuchea.

Bophana Center is open from Monday to Friday from 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm, and on Saturday from 2pm to 6pm. www.bophana.org

This exhibition presents the watercolors of two major projects by the graphic design & illustration studio, Sonleuk Thmey and the Visual Art School of Phare Ponleu Selpak.

The exhibition began its life as a workshop by teacher Srey Bandaul with his students in 2009. What emerged was an epic story traversing land and sea, written by Bandaul and illustrated in fine detail by his then students.

In this story Bohak, a young Khmer boy, journeys to an unfamiliar and other worldly land populated by puppets. Through his travels Bohak learns to respect this new and foreign culture. Written to welcome a new student of Phare Ponleu Selpak named Bohak, it can all so be seen as a parable of first encounter, poignant to Cambodia.

Available at the exhibition will be a special edition book featuring the entire collection of watercolours alongside the written story.

Consistent with Chath pierSath’s work as an artist and writer, Khmer Lessons is an investigation into the past and his memories. It is equally an exploration of language, which for Chath is directly linked to his personal narrative. It is in search of this story that he perpetually re-constructs found images and text from the mass media. He tears and cuts these images and text into smaller pieces reducing them to disconnected parts of a whole. These parts are then transformed into the building blocks of his visual vocabulary that he reconfigures to tell his own story. This process of deconstruction and reconstruction is the foundation of his work, an experiment to find connections to his own experiences.

Khmer Lessons specifically looks at the dual and parallel narratives of the artist’s life—one that originates in Cambodia, his birth country and the other that started in the US when he arrived there as a refugee at the age of 11. Through language and the rediscovery of his mother-tongue, Chath considers how to connect to the past, and how these dual narratives can co-exist.

Chath’s work has been shown in the US, Singapore and Cambodia and is in several private collections. Currently his work is on display at Alijira: A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ (USA) and later this year will be part of an exhibition at The East Gallery in Toronto (CANADA) in response to the Royal Ontario Museum show on the Toul Sleng photos.