Phnom Penh circus

Tonight we went to see a circus show, presented by Phare Ponleu Selpak, which means "the brightness of art," a cultural organisation in Battambang, Cambodia, that offers young people a way out of
poverty by training them to become professional artists and performers. Set up in 1994 by young returnee Cambodians from the refugee camps who learned about using art as a means of coping with trauma, PPS has played an influential role in promoting and developing Khmer culture over the years after the Khmer Rouge genocide.

'Sokha' is a war child who is haunted by visions of the atrocities carried out during Cambodian Civil War and the destruction after the Khmer Rouge regime. This is the story of Sokha's journey where memories and the surreal intertwine with myths and facts.

It was wonderful.