Java Café & Gallery’s 10th Anniversary

• Friday, December 10, 2010

• From 10am – 10pm: Ten promotions

• From 7pm until late: “On The Spot” open mic with Berkavitch
and DJ Nam spinning live tunes. From 9pm onwards, DJ Radioactive Anne
will bring on the night vibe.

• And all day and night: three exhibitions.

Celebrating 10 years of café, art and community. Java, your café.

Ever since opening in 2000, our goal at Java Café& Gallery has been
to innovate, aiming to offer quality food and show contemporary art in
a relaxed and friendly context. The biggest compliments you could pay
us have always been that you had lingered over a good meal because you
felt right at home or that you had found an artwork on display amazing
or challenging.

For Java Café& Gallery, quality and comfort go hand in hand, which
has meant providing customers with seating areas in which they would
feel welcome to spend hours, and serving food and drinks made from
scratch with the freshest ingredients.

With a program ranging from exhibitions and artist talks to fashion
shows and live poetry, Java enjoys linking art and entertainment in
provocative and exciting events that promote the arts and offer
opportunities for expression.

Over the last 10 years, Java has held nearly 100 shows featuring both
Cambodian and international artists, and has accumulated in the
process a vast documentation that include artists’ biographies and
photos of their artworks. Those archives will soon be donated to the
Bophana Audivisual Resource Centre in Phnom Penh to give students and
anyone interested in specific artists or the evolution of visual arts
in the country access to this detailed record.

To celebrate those 10 years of creative efforts, we are offering ten
special promotions, a night of live music and poetry and the chance to
view three special exhibitions:

Dear Friends of Meta House!

This Tuesday (7th) and Wednesday (8th) you can enjoy double bills at Meta
House: Great films plus special presentations with a special focus on
Cambodia.

We welcome Phnom Penh’s KHMER ARTS ENSEMBLE – presenting the dance
documentary THE TENTH DANCER on Tuesday, 8PM – as well as the architecture
working group KOMITU from Helsinki (Wednesday, 6PM), which is building a
Phnom Penh youth center.

More infos below:

* TUE, 07/12
HERBERT VON KARAJAN, SCHUMANN AND “THE TENTH DANCER”
6.30PM: Austrian Herbert von Karajan (1908 –1989) was described as “the
world’s best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in
classical music”. In the mid-1960′s Karajan collaborated with French film
director, Henri-Georges Clouzot. The documentary ART OF CONDUCTING (1965,
90min) follows the rehearsal and the performance of Robert Schumann’s
“Symphony No.4”.

8PM: Khmer Arts Ensemble presents the film “The 10th Dancer” with an
introduction by Toni Phim-Shapiro. The riveting documentary is an intimate
portrait of the relationship between a teacher and her pupil set against the
backdrop of war torn Cambodia. The film weaves between the past and the
present, memory and dream, to reveal a story of human dignity and survival.

* WED, 08/12
DEATH AND REBIRTH: CAMBODIA’S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
6PM: “Komitu” is an architectural workgroup from Helsinki, Finland. Its
members are currently designing a youth center in Phnom Penh in
collaboration with a local NGO, Cambodian Volunteers for Society
(CVS). They will hold a presentation for local students and architects, as
well as the expat community.

7PM: The first documentary film (1979, 90min) after the Khmer Rouge was shot
by famous GDR filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. The scenes
filmed during spring 1979 are part of history: Phnom Penh left to rampant
nature, heaps of skulls and destroyed faces. The reports from the survivors
are moving and harrowing.

Pls visit our center,
best – your Meta House team

Meta House Phnom Penh
#37, Sothearos Blvd.
Tel. 010 – 312 333

Dear Friends of Meta House!

This weekend we invite you to

* WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC BY MOZART – LIVE CONCERT (Saturday, 7PM)
* “WHEN YOU ARE STRANGE” – “THE DOORS” ON FILM (Saturday, 8PM)
* GLOBAL ART CHILDREN EXHIBITION (Sunday, 5PM)
* “HAENSEL & GRETEL” – X-MAS OPERA FOR KIDS & GROWN-UP (Sunday, 7PM)

More details below,
all the best, your Meta House Team

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* THIS SATURDAY
Tonight, 7PM, we invite you to a live concert of western classical music.
In the gallery Uy Thach, El Leang and Anton Isselhardt perform the “Vienna
Serenade” by legendary Geman composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791).
His music is considered as the archetype of Western Classical Music. The
admission fee of 5USD includes a drink.

At 8PM we are hosting a free screening of the riveting documentary WHEN YOU
ARE STRANGE by award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo. Narrated by Johnny
Depp, the film uncovers historic, previously unseen footage of cult rock
band “The Doors”. It focuses on lead singer Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from
the formation of the band in 1965 to Morrison’s death, after years of
alcohol and drug use.

* THIS SUNDAY
GLOBAL ART CHILDREN EXHIBITION & GERMAN X-MAS OPERA 4 KIDS

5PM: To celebrate its 1st anniversary, Phnom Penh school GLOBAL ART is
holding an exhibition of its students art work focusing on their
understanding of our world problem – endangered species. Cambodian & foreign
children learn about global warming, deforestation, illegal trade during the
process and with their innocence and imagination, they create a colorful and
honest interpretation of this serious problem. You are invited to the
opening night at ART CAFÉ and are welcome to participate in selecting the
“People’s Choice” award for best art work.

7PM: Screening of “HAENSEL AND GRETEL”: A “Fairy Tale Opera” for children by
Engelbert Humperdinck (English subtitles).

Meta House Phnom Penh
#37, Sothearos Blvd.
Tel. 010 – 312 333