Circus festival to go ahead

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New dates have been announced for a shortened season of the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, which will now run only in Battambang for six days from May 29 to June 3. The festival, which was cancelled in 2018 because of lack of sponsorship, and cancelled again in 2020 because of Covid, was almost called off again this year.

 

The recent lifting of travel restrictions has given the festival a  last minute reprieve but, due to short notice, there will be no performances in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap, the home of festival co-organiser, Phare  The Circus. “We could only confirm the festival once the country travel restrictions were fully lifted, which left little time to plan for a festival in three cities,” says Osman Khawaja, director of the festival’s co-organising body, Phare Ponleu Selpak.

 

“Also, a countrywide festival requires huge sponsorship support, which again with the little time was hard to get. Even for the current festival we have no big sponsorship. The foreign artistes are able to join because of support from the cultural ministries of their own countries.

 

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