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Tales from the river
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/03/2024
» In 1986, veteran artist Vorasan Supap was a freshman at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University. He and his classmates lived together in their rented house next to Klong Bangkok Noi.
A celebration of female art
Life, Published on 20/11/2023
» During the 1990s, female artists had limited opportunities and space to showcase their work. But in 1995, a group of such women, including Jittima Pholsawek, Mink Nopparat and Phaptawan Suwannakudt, organised an exhibition titled "Tradisexion" at Concrete House.
Preserving heritage
Life, John Clewley, Published on 22/11/2022
» Field recordings of ancient, traditional music in the Southeast Asia feature in this column. Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand – Kantrum Dongman (Animist Records, 2022) covers the traditional music of "Northern Khmer" people in provinces like Surin, Buri Ram and Si Sa Ket that straddle the Thai-Cambodian border in Thailand's lower Northeast, while Exploring Gong Culture Of Southeast Asia: Massif And Archipelago (Sub Rosa, 2022) covers traditional gong music from 50 different ethnic groups in the Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi, Vietnam's highlands and northeast Cambodia.
Marauding teens, dangly-bits thief, cheeky druggie
News, Mae Moo, Published on 30/10/2022
» Parents are appealing to police to crack down on a marauding teenage gang in Rat Burana after they fired a shotgun into their shop.
Movie poster earns complaints
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/07/2022
» A poster for the movie sequel to the TV series Buppaesannivas (Love Destiny) is upsetting some Cambodian netizens for using the country's national lamduan flower.
A shining star in the North
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 24/01/2020
» After the hugely successful releases of the first three films, Thi-Baan The Series, one of a new breed of upcountry films, has just released the first spin-off movie of its franchise Thi-Baan The Series x BNK48, featuring teen pop idol group BNK48.
Labour of love
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 07/08/2019
» Today there are more than 70 million refugees and displaced people. What's more worrying than that figure is that this is the highest level of displacement in almost 70 years.
A wind from the Northeast
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/03/2017
» Last month the cinemas saw a sleeper hit -- and don't be surprised if your cultural radar didn't beep. The homemade Isan film Thi Baan The Series attracted huge crowds not to Bangkok cineplexes, or not at first, but to theatres in Si Sa Ket, Khon Kaen, Maha Sarakham and elsewhere across the Northeast. Scoring big with regional tastes, the small, Isan-speaking film, made by a group of friends for 3 million baht, has now made over 20 million in box office -- 70% of it on its home turf, the rest in the capital.
Isan asserts its presence
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/06/2014
» The cinemas in the Northeast didn’t expect a phenomenon last weekend, but they certainly got one. The sensation came not from the behemoth King Naresuan 5, nor the Tom Cruise-starring alien romp Edge Of Tomorrow, but from the low-budget, unmarketed, Northeast-set and northeastern-speaking movie Poo Bao Tai Ban: E-San Indy.
Canvassing innocence
Life, Published on 22/04/2013
» Si Sa Ket-born artist Sakaranon Supap, known for his examination of culture in Thailand's Northeast, has attempted to capture children's naivety in his latest exhibition, "The Innocence".