Beauty and elegance in the courtyard of Theam’s Gallery with Miss Universe Cambodia 2019, Ms. Alyna SAMNANG. The model is wearing in a traditional Khmer wedding dress.

In the traditional Khmer wedding, the couple is attired in matching a brightly-colored silk costumes. The bride wears a traditional “sampot” (“sarong”) dress in silk and numerous jewellery. The groom wears a jacket and trousers. The couple change the clothes several times for each ceremony as each ceremony has its own color scheme. A traditional Cambodian wedding has seven parts (so you can guess how many times the couple has to change if they want to respect tradition). It is believed that these parts have their origin in an ancient legend about the wedding of prince Preah Thong and princess and princess Neang Neak.

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The guests coming with Taste Siem Reap are enjoying their visit at our gallery. Taste Siem Reap takes visitors on a journey to some of the best galleries, restaurants and bars in town.  With most tourists coming to Siem Reap for only 3 nights and so many amazing places to try, it’s often hard to pack it all in. With Taste Siem Reap, you will visit 3 to 4 of Siem Reap’s most interesting art, dining and drinking establishments in one evening. Theam’s House is featured as the first stop on the Taste Art & Cocktails tour and guests can enjoy a private tour of our galleries, accompanied by a G&T or juice.

https://www.tastesiemreap.com/artandcocktails

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All of these ancient musical instruments are exhibited in the Ancient pavilion of Theam’s Gallery.

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3 Days in Siem Reap gives LUXUO an experience of Southeast Asia’s Rich Diversity and Artistry

A huge thank to Jonathan Ho for this great article about angkorian temples in Siem Reap and Theam’s Gallery featuring in luxuo.com

MRS BERNADETTE GLISSE, A WONDERFUL AND GORGEOUS WOMAN WHO DESERVES TO BE RECOGNISED:

In 1979 Bernadette Glisse was the lead nurse-midwife of the obstetrics unit at the University Hospital St Stevens Woluwe in Brussels, when she decided to leave her post for the Thai-Cambodian border. She joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to assist Cambodian refugees who had fled the Khmer Rouge and persistent war in their country.

Bernadette Glisse stepped into this chaos, disregarding borders and political alliances. She saw human needs and set about righting them. She set up Mother and Child Health Programmes, delivering thousands of babies in a camp where about 200,000 refugees lived who were totally dependent on international aid while waiting for repatriation to Cambodia.

In early 1988, three years before the planned repatriation of the camp people, Bernadette decided to go into Cambodia itself, despite the oppressive communist regime, to help the local government to provide basic health services to the people who had remained, and to get ready for the repatriation of the refugees. Together with a few organizations, Bernadette Glisse worked closely with the government to re-start basic health programmes, tackling severe malnutrition and high maternal and child mortality rates.

When the repatriation was complete, Bernadette joined Médecins sans Frontières Holland-Belgium and worked in the re-launching of a referral hospital in Svay Rieng, a very remote province of South Cambodia. Mothers finally received quality health services and maternal and child mortality rates declined drastically. Encouraged by her results, Bernadette Glisse and MSF proposed to the Ministry of Health a new Mother and Child Health system for the entire country. One by one, every province received better health care and the general health and survival rates of the population increased.

In 2005, while working in the Community Health and HIV/AIDS program of Siem Reap Province, Bernadette Glisse, then working with Caritas Cambodia (the social arm of the Catholic Church in Cambodia), received a request from the Siem Reap Prison Director to assist him with the health and psychosocial needs of the nearly 2000 prisoners in his care. Bernadette Glisse responded to this urgent need and involved Caritas Cambodia in this project, which soon extended to eight other Cambodian Provincial Prisons, setting up a programme of health posts in each prison.

She trained prison health staff so that they could manage and treat common diseases and also introduced the management and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in the prisons. Once the health component was well established, she developed a system of complete care for prisoners, all based on rights: the right to education, to movement, to information, etc. She trained all prisoners to know their rights, such as the rights to have a lawyer, to receive visits, to communicate with families, and the right to learn. Using the right to learn, Bernadette developed vocational trainings at all nine prisons to restore the inmates’ self-esteem and dignity through learning, and to facilitate their re-integration into society after release.