ACSian Theatre OCIP Cambodia

ACSian Theatre’s OCIP 2025 @ Phnom Penh, Cambodia

From the 2nd to the 7th of June 2025, ACSian Theatre had the wonderful opportunity to travel to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, as part of the ACJC Humanities, Language and Performing Arts Cultural Exchange Programme!

The members of ACSian Theatre were beyond thrilled to have this opportunity to perform for various organisations helping to provide holistic and vocational education to children and teenagers. We are grateful to have a warm welcome from the Isaiah Organization, the Methodist School of Cambodia, and Don Bosco School.

Everyone in ACSian Theatre worked tirelessly to learn dances, ranging from nostalgic pieces like “Mamma Mia” to songs from world-renowned K-pop group BTS. We also performed and inclusive and interactive play titled “The Day I Met The Prince”, inspired by the beloved and inspiring story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Apart from performing to audiences, our CCA members also had the delightful chance to interact with children ranging across different ages. Through workshops hosted by our CCA leaders, we were able to share the joy of performance and learning together with our Cambodian friends. We are immensely grateful for the host organisations’ consistent kindness, participation and warm welcome!

Additionally, we thoroughly enjoyed immersing ourselves in Cambodian culture at the Champey Academy of Arts. We were thrilled to watch traditional dance styles and musical instruments performed by the students there, and even got to learn basic steps of various cultural dances ourselves.

Finally, we had the rare opportunity to travel to the Singapore Embassy of Cambodia, where we were able to discover the vast history of the partnership between Singapore and Cambodia. By participating in insightful conversations with the representatives at the Embassy, we further understood the importance of having international ties in Singapore. The visit also taught as how we can work towards further deepening and improving our relationship with other countries in the ASEAN region and the world at large.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the various communities that made this OCIP and experiential trip possible. We would like to firstly thank the students and teachers of Isaiah Organization, the Methodist School of Cambodia, and Don Bosco school. Thank you for the active participation, indescribable amounts of energy and your immense hospitality, love and care for all of us.

We would also like to thank our accompanying teachers for this trip: Mrs. Geetha Creffield, Ms. Michelle Wong, Ms. Teo Shu May, Ms. Justine Light, Mr. George Fu, Mr. Tobias Teo, Mr. Noah Lee and Mr. Dexx Han Yi Xian. Thank you for the guidance and unwavering support throughout the journey, and for giving us this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be blessed and bless those we met in Cambodia.

Our heartfelt thanks also goes out to our dance instructor and choreographer, Mr Gerard S Raj. Thank you for the never-ending patience and support, as well as your diligence to painstakingly choreograph and teach us the various dances.

All in all, the OCIP trip was both a fulfilling and a meaningful experience that is etched in all of our hearts. It was a true honour to be able to perform, learn and experience the culture in Cambodia.

To God be the Glory, The Best is Yet to Be!

Written by:

Micaiah Ong Kai En (1MD2)

President of ACSian Theatre

Istat Yuldosheva (1MD2)

Vice-President (Artistic) of ACSian Theatre