Description:
The Jephcott Charitable Trust donated $8,000 to Epic Arts in April 2009 to fund the estimated cost of the installation of electrical and water supplies to their Arts Centre in Kampot. The Centre is designed to be a multi-functional Arts Centre for children and adults with all abilities and disabilities where regular art workshops, courses and performances could be held.
A report from Epic Arts has detailed the work that has been completed:
‘On Monday April 20th 2009 the Epic Arts Centre was officially opened with the British Ambassador Andrew Mace and Deputy Provincial Governor, Tourn Bunthorn overseeing the proceedings . Each morning 12 deaf and disabled Vocational Training Programme students arrive on bicycles and in wheelchairs to learn circus, theatre, dance and visual arts. We have also developed a new Special Educational Needs programme, “The Peace Class” which works with 15 young people with intellectual disabilities from the local area, twice a week in the new art room.
Epic Arts’ Vocational Training Program was envisioned to provide talented young Cambodians with disabilities with the opportunity to harness their creative potential and develop their skills as professional performers and advocates for integration. The first group of students, all deaf or physically disabled, commenced full time training in March 2009 in time for the move into The Arts Centre the following month. The VTP students have been using the art centre full time since we moved in to the building’.
The photographs opposite taken by Vinh Dao, show the opening ceremony with students using the hall.
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