Apr 13, 2019 | IAC, Inclusive Education | 1 Comment
We can’t believe it’s been a year and a half since a bunch of new faces stepped in to the Epic Arts Centre in Kampot and joined the Inclusive Arts Course. The 2017 – 2019 course has come to a close and the students are back from their national tour of leading...
Sep 2, 2018 | Community, IAC, Inclusive Education | 0 Comments
The last few weeks have been pretty exciting for the 13 students on our Inclusive Arts Course (IAC). The students embarked on a local tour of Kampot province, performing dance, music and drama outside of the walls Epic Arts for the first time. Over four days the IAC...
Jul 13, 2018 | IAC, Inclusive Education | 0 Comments
Before Phoun started at Epic Arts, he says he wasn’t much of an artist. Even though his dad was a tattoo artist, his connections to the arts were limited to some simple drawings on the street. More impressive is his path to becoming the artist he is today. But...
Aug 7, 2017 | Admin, IAC, Inclusive Education | 2 Comments
“Oh poor you..” “What a burden for your family.” “What bad luck to have her as a daughter.” I grew up hearing people say that to me and about me. The things I heard made me ashamed of who I was and how I looked. When I was a child I was never a priority in my...
Aug 4, 2017 | Arts Team, Community, Epic Encounters, Epic Encounters Theatre, IAC, Inclusive Education | 0 Comments
“I always loved performing & making silly faces” I started acting at school when I was 15. I loved acting, but it was something I did for fun. My wildest dream was to become a performer. My time at school was coming to an end. One day I was reading the...
Jul 17, 2017 | Admin | 2 Comments
2016 was a year to remember We told the haters to ‘shake it off’. We enrolled 131 children with disabilities at school for the first time. We watched every one of our Inclusive Education students grow in confidence and ability and the Epic Arts Cafe saw a whopping...
Jun 29, 2017 | Epic Encounters, Epic Encounters Dance | 0 Comments
A few months ago Epic Encounters Dance were excited to receive and be invited to perform at ‘Samarth’ festival in Bhopal, India. The festival brought together a selection of the best international & national inclusive artists from performance to sculpture. Created...
May 23, 2017 | Arts Team, Community, Epic Encounters, Epic Encounters Theatre | 0 Comments
It’s the start of a new school year here in Cambodia. We’re still on our mission to bring art to children in local schools and to change children’s perceptions about people with disabilities as part of our ‘Arts in Schools’ Project We have two...
Apr 26, 2017 | Arts Team, Epic Encounters, Epic Encounters Dance, Epic Encounters Theatre | 1 Comment
We’re back from Khmer New year, our Inclusive Arts Course has finished for the year and we’ve had a shake up of our teams. For the past two years we’ve had a professional team (Epic Encounters) and a community team (Arts Team). There are some new...
Mar 20, 2017 | Partner, WaterAid | 0 Comments
Big news! We’re releasing our next music video very soon and this year we’ve gone one step further! Rather than remaking a western pop video again like, Happy, Uptown Funk & Shake It Off. we’ve written and produced our own pop song! The idea for a pop song came...
Jan 30, 2017 | IAC, Inclusive Education | 2 Comments
Our Inclusive Arts Course began in April 2015 thanks to generous donations at the start of the course and continued donations from our Global Giving page. We welcomed 12 students on to the course this included Chea, who tells his story I want to tell you my...
Nov 2, 2016 | Inclusive Education, SEP | 0 Comments
Every child deserves an education and today hundreds of children with disabilities in Cambodia are missing out on their right to an education. Meet Channy* a student at one of the Integrated classes we run at local government schools in Kampot. Channy turned 16 this...
Oct 24, 2016 | Arts Team, WaterAid | 0 Comments
Last week hilarity ensued when Epic Arts staff began filming around Kampot for our latest WaterAid Cambodia project. Crowds of children gathered and giggled. Loud conversations about who could make the best fake poo or whether the fake wee actually needed to be...
Sep 21, 2016 | Epic Encounters Dance, Partner | 0 Comments
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Sep 16, 2016 | Admin | 0 Comments
Want to help us continue our work in Cambodia? Donate on Wednesday 21st September at 11am or 17pm (BST) and 30% will be added to your donation for free. How Does it work? GlobalGiving, our new online fundraising platform is providing $60,000 in...
Aug 19, 2016 | Arts Team, Community | 0 Comments
For two hours a week, these students in Kampot, Cambodia get to express themselves through the arts. I went along recently to the project and saw how much fun students were having with paint, glue and a lot of empty water bottles. “I feel very happy to join the...
Jul 29, 2016 | Epic Encounters | 0 Comments
“I learned in the workshop that it doesn’t matter who you are, because everyone understands dancing and the body language another shows” Workshop Participant, Be More, June 2016 “I learned how I’m not gracious at all, but that’s ok because I own...
Jul 26, 2016 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Written by Sakun, Epic Encounters Dancer & Workshop Coordrinator Edited for clarity by Hayley, Communications Officer Savy and I were invited to represent Cambodia at the 20th “Art for All” Conference hosted by United Nations ESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand. We were...