Onn Sokny

Sokny’s career in the arts began the moment she participated in a community arts workshop in her hometown and was immediately inspired by the transformative power of art to build confidence, expression and social cohesion. After the workshop, Sokny joined the organization that had run that workshop, beginning as an administrator and rapidly progressing to programming, then a production role, touring work nationally and internationally. Today, Sokny is the Senior Manager of that organization, Epic Arts. Sokny has a strong vision for the future of Cambodian arts, and sees culture as an essential tool for the development of the country. She is interested in the systems and structures that support the development of the arts sector, particularly in the respective roles of government and civil society in that process.

In 2016, Bamboo Curtain Studio and Cambodian Living Arts co-host “Cultural Leaderships program” between Taiwan and Cambodia exchange. BCS has invited four senior art managers from Cambodia: HUOT Dara, ONN Sokny, SO Phina, and SONG Seng to Taiwan for two weeks residency. Frances Rudgard as a team coordinator facilitates each detail with BCS. This is the extension program of LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP which encourage artists, administrators, and technical specialists’ professional growth. 

In these two weeks, they have shared deep discussion with quite a few culture and art organizations in Taiwan. Also, they have more idea about culture policy in Taiwan, business model of each organizations, vision and mission of each teams and so on. It is a great opportunity to build up the relationship between Taiwan and Cambodia in the art and culture filed.

This project is Sponsored by a grants “The Emerald Initiative “program offered by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China. Except an intense visiting schedule, we have arranged Cambodia Night on June 3rd and Workshop on June 4th.