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September is Bringing Big Things

Things are never dull here at Tiny Toones, but September promises to be one of the biggest months we have had all year!

The focus of the month is the Dance School Challenge, our annual fundraising drive in which we encourage people to donate or raise money by hosting an event or completing a challenge. We have our own party planned at Showbox on September 21st so come on down and party in style while making a difference!

September is also bringing Tiny Toones international recognition through the Cambodia Town Film Festival. The Cambodia Town Film Festival is the first annual Khmer film event held in Cambodia Town in Long Beach, California. It was created to showcase Khmer talent and culture and the Tiny Toones music video for Anakut (found here) has been officially selected to be screened during the 3 day festival!

The Beyond Sport awards are an annual celebration of organizations who use sport to create positive social change, and another great opportunity for Tiny Toones. We are one of only 3 organizations in the world shortlisted for the UNICEF Sport for Education award, which is an enormous honour. Dance teacher Fresh will be flying to Philadelphia to attend the ceremony and hopefully bringing home the gold! (Check out Fresh’s story here).

On top of all of this, September will mark the beginning of Tiny Toones offering private breakdancing lessons! Held at Krama Yoga studio (#52 St. 302), the lessons will run from 1 – 2pm every Saturday through September at a cost of $6 per person (no more than 10 people to a class). The age limit is 15+, the lessons are aimed at people with little or no breakdance experience and they promise to be awesome fun so get there early to make sure you don’t miss out!

Tiny Toones Leading the Field in Sport and Education

For the second year running, Tiny Toones is one of only three projects from across the globe to be shortlisted for the UNICEF Sport for Education Award at the Beyond Sport Awards. BeyondSport is a global organisation that promotes, develops and supports the use of sport to create positive social change across the world.

Almost 400 projects applied to the Beyond Sport Awards and we are honoured to have been selected as one of the strongest projects once more. Last year’s summit in London drew the likes of Muhammed Ali, David Beckham and Tony Blair (as well as our own KK). The award ceremony this year will take place in Philadelphia in September – keep your fingers crossed for us.

DJ Koflow (Singapore)

In early 2013, Tiny Toones was fortunate enough to be visited by the internationally acclaimed DJ Koflow. Hailing from Singapore, Koflow’s won a number of awards including first runner up at the Singapore DMC Champion 2003, Juice Magazine Best New DJ 2003, Best Musician at the Nike StreetStyle Awards in 2004, Honorable Mention for Juice Magazine Best Independent DJ 2004 and first place at the Heineken Thirst Singapore 2005.

He put on a sensational performace in the courtyard of the Tiny Toones centre. Afterwards, he pulled aside some of the music teachers to show them some tricks of the trade and inspire them with his talent.

Christian Science Monitor

Recently, some of the Tiny Toones staff were interviewed and featured in a news article published by the Christian Science Monitor. Founder KK and General Manager Shhort spoke to the CSM reporter about the Tiny Toones program, the challenges, the successes and about making a difference in the lives of children and young people in Cambodia.

Tiny Toones Album Review – The Advisor, April/May 2013

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In March 2013 Tiny Toones released the new album ‘Anakut.’

Phnom Penh’s arts and entertainment weekly paper, ‘the Advisor,’ came to visit the Tiny Toones center to interview the twelve children (aged 12 to 19) involved in the album’s creation. They also spoke to DJ Voch – music teacher and resident DJ who created the backing tracks for the album – and General Manager Shhort for their article.

‘Anakut’ translates to ‘the future’ in English, and this sets the mood of the record with the children writing lyrics about their hopes and dreams for their futures and the future of Cambodia.

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