Guinness World Records has recognised the more than 24-hour online circus by Phare Ponleu Selpak’s performers on March 7, 2021 as “Longest Circus Show”. The online circus was organised as a last ditch effort to raise enough funds to survive the down turn in tourism caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Phare’s Sopha Nem has performed across the world and was the star of the award-winning documentary Cirque du Cambodge. Scott Sharick
Phare wins three international awards for their record-setting marathon circus performance
Sun, 9 May 2021
Phare Ponleu Selpak, the famed Battambang circus with its attached circus arts and art school and community programmes, has just won three international awards – two Stevie Awards and one from the Hermes Creative Awards.
Phare has also been nominated for the Stevie International Business Awards, thanks to its success in winning Stevie Awards for the Asia-Pacific region.
The Stevie Awards – which bills itself as the “World’s Premier Business Awards”, with judges that include “many of the world s most respected executives, entrepreneurs, innovators and business educators” – has eight different awards programmes, one of them being the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards.