Epic Arts
Photo credit - Kevin Norris
Official Website - Epic Arts
(Click above to go directly to that site)
Epic Arts is an international, inclusive arts organisation based in Cambodia and registered as a charity in the UK. They use the arts as a form of expression and empowerment to bring people with and without disabilities together. Epic Arts aim to promote the message that every person counts through their programs.
(Click above to go directly to that site)
Epic Arts is an international, inclusive arts organisation based in Cambodia and registered as a charity in the UK. They use the arts as a form of expression and empowerment to bring people with and without disabilities together. Epic Arts aim to promote the message that every person counts through their programs.
Some great YouTube Clips including Epics Arts original song and parody - Wash It. This is teaching personal hygiene and how important it is to make sure you wash your hands.
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Fundraising Project for Epic Arts Boarding House, Kampot
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Photo Credits that are used in video were produced by Kevin Norris
Original song and music - Leang Sam Ath (Wash It) Full MV By WaterAid Cambodia and Epic Art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc75WyaqZs
Original song and music - Leang Sam Ath (Wash It) Full MV By WaterAid Cambodia and Epic Art - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc75WyaqZs
TOTAL funds that were required - $2820 USD or $3525 AUD
TOTAL funds raised - $2855 USD or $3600 AUD.
$3350 AUD sent through to Epic Arts - $250 AUD to be given in July 2018
TOTAL funds raised - $2855 USD or $3600 AUD.
$3350 AUD sent through to Epic Arts - $250 AUD to be given in July 2018
Crowdfunding funds to pay for concreting and fixing of amenities for students that board at the Epic Arts Boarding House in Kampot Cambodia as part of the Inclusion Program.
Funds raised went towards:
1 Building one more bedroom - bricks, cement, sand, bed, door and window, paint - $590 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this item on 20 October 2017 and in November 2017 the room was completed
Email snippet received from Buntheng - Project Manager 27th November 2017 -"Yes the students are happy with living in the house. The new room is massively helpful as they don't live a small room with 3 or 4 people.. We have a new mother for the house and the students. She is nice and friendly so it makes the students for comfortable and safe"
1 Building one more bedroom - bricks, cement, sand, bed, door and window, paint - $590 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this item on 20 October 2017 and in November 2017 the room was completed
Email snippet received from Buntheng - Project Manager 27th November 2017 -"Yes the students are happy with living in the house. The new room is massively helpful as they don't live a small room with 3 or 4 people.. We have a new mother for the house and the students. She is nice and friendly so it makes the students for comfortable and safe"
2 Concrete and drainage (from kitchen and toilet to front of the house) - stones, cement and sand, water pipe - $370 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this Item on 20 October 2017 to get the concrete and drainage completed.
UPDATE money sent through for this Item on 20 October 2017 to get the concrete and drainage completed.
Email snippet received from Buntheng - Project Manager 8th December 2017 - "I'd just love to send you a few photos of the team working on drainage system from the house of students.. I'll send more later! Thanks!"
3 Extend the roof in front and outside the house (bicycle and wheelchair park) - wood, zinc roof, nails -
$680 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this Item in March 2018 and @ July 2018 when our house building team visited Cambodia again this project had been completed.
$680 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this Item in March 2018 and @ July 2018 when our house building team visited Cambodia again this project had been completed.
Email snippet received from Buntheng - Project Manager 14th March 2018 - "We're expanding the roof of the house to protect from rain getting into the house"
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4 Reading hut - wood, pamb tree roof, stone, cement, sand, table and benches - $630 USD
UPDATE money sent through for this Item in March 2018 and this will be the last thing done for this project. Below is the first picture of where the reading hut will be. More pictures to come.
UPDATE money sent through for this Item in March 2018 and this will be the last thing done for this project. Below is the first picture of where the reading hut will be. More pictures to come.
5 Concreting the driveway (from the front gate to the house) - cement, sand, stone, hiring two people to do the work - $550 USD
Email snippet received from Buntheng - Project Manager 14th March 2018 - "Next week, I'll get people to build the concrete road again from the entrance. It would help students who use wheelchair and tuktuk to go out and in especially in rainy season."
Some Photos taken by Kevin Norris. Improvements taken by team members and Epic Arts
$750 AUD ($600USD) raised by Jim and Elaine Pollock when they hosted a curry night. in November 2017 This amount was taken over directly by them both during their recent stay end of December./early January 2018
So far raised:
$1300 AUD sent over in October 2017 to start the project
$ 750.AUD from Jim and Elaine given in early January 2018
$1550 AUD further funds raised during January 2018 @ 23 January 2018 to complete the project
TOTAL $3600AUD which converts to $2855 USD (target $2820USD).
So far raised:
$1300 AUD sent over in October 2017 to start the project
$ 750.AUD from Jim and Elaine given in early January 2018
$1550 AUD further funds raised during January 2018 @ 23 January 2018 to complete the project
TOTAL $3600AUD which converts to $2855 USD (target $2820USD).
Ongoing:
July 2018 - The house building team decided that funds left over from their kitty ($150 USD) was to be given to Buntheng/Epic Arts to organise the clearing of junk outside the back of the house. This area could then become another retreat area for the students or whatever they need or want to get done.
The next project will be mapped out, but the first item that we want to get is a new TukTuk for the students.
From Buntheng (project manager) - "Four of them (students) have difficulty in walking and riding bikes on their own to go to centre and back home. Currently their Tuktuk is old and often broken. So if we could buy a new one for them that would be great!"
In addition another problem is back at the Epic Arts building. Heavy rains make the driveway unaccessible with flooding also in the main car park area. This will be costed so work can start on this hopefully by early January 2019.. Below is a video of how hard it becomes to access Epic Arts during the wet season.
From Buntheng (project manager) - "Four of them (students) have difficulty in walking and riding bikes on their own to go to centre and back home. Currently their Tuktuk is old and often broken. So if we could buy a new one for them that would be great!"
In addition another problem is back at the Epic Arts building. Heavy rains make the driveway unaccessible with flooding also in the main car park area. This will be costed so work can start on this hopefully by early January 2019.. Below is a video of how hard it becomes to access Epic Arts during the wet season.
Elaine and Jim visited EPICARTS in early January and saw the results of the fundraising done recently. They handed over US$600 for further work to modernise the house for non-Kampot students.
The dancers (early January, 2018)
The team of dancers (below - with some tiny koalas from Australia) are currently performing each Saturday in the old (pre Khmer Rouge) Kampot cinema.
Their dances tell the story of Cambodia in the free wheeling 1960's, then the Khmer Rouge times, then the resurrection of hope and life following the defeat of Pol Pot. We were also treated to a preview of a new dance from the same team.
Their dances tell the story of Cambodia in the free wheeling 1960's, then the Khmer Rouge times, then the resurrection of hope and life following the defeat of Pol Pot. We were also treated to a preview of a new dance from the same team.
The dancers (July 2018)
These two photos above taken by Kevin Norris - Photographer
FYI: Epic Arts runs a weekly contemporary dance show in Kampot town every Saturday at 7pm from November 2017 till March 2018. More info: http://epicarts.org.uk/programme/show-come-back-brighter/