Fish Island Community Arts Centre
Fish Island Community Arts Centre is a social enterprise to employ, teach, train and empower women from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Now serving coffee, teas and juices, with more to come.
The Fish Island Community Arts Centre is an exciting social enterprise created by Kek Soon and the team at KAMA, Cambodia. Fish Island Arts Centre brings real grassroots community development through great cuisine, arts, & culture.
We've also got residencies in bamboo bungalows for volunteers and visitors and lots more coming up in 2020
Call 096 255 4393
m.me/633877516816332
kampotarts@gmail.com
Principal Objectives:
The Fish Island was established by KAMA (Kampot Arts & Music Association) to create a viable working environment in music, dance, theatre and visual arts to work within the rural farmlands of Cambodian to create viable, meaningful community arts with the view to create hope, sustainability, employment and enrichment in a poor fishing and farming community in Kampot, Cambodia. Our focus is on four kinds of contemporary arts:
1. Working space and equipment for ceramists, sculptors and mixed media artists.
2. Arts management, research and implementation expertise for locally developed arts projects with national and international show outcomes.
3. Production of site-specific a performing arts including music, dance and theatre.
4. Creative arts space for experimentation and development of multi-media art
Environment and Space
The Fish Island Bamboo Theatre is situated in the middle of a rice fields in the centre of Koh Trey (Fish Island) and faces back across the fields of this large island towards the mainland and the spectacular views of Bokor Mountain. It is 10-minutes by car or moto to the center of Kampot town.
The FIBT is situated in the middle of rice fields on a 17x56metre parcel of land. The reclaimed rice paddy allows for theatre space, five artists-in-residency bungalows a recording studio, a small ceramics & sculpture studio; a library, an outdoor stage, kitchen and eating space and lush tropical gardens.
Located right in the middle of Fish Island, across the river from Downtown Kampot.