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Battambang Arts Festival in Battambang
Battambang's S'Art Urban Art Festival is an annual, roughly week-long event organized by Phare Ponleu Selpak that fills the town's shophouse walls and alleys with large-scale murals painted by dozens of Cambodian and international artists. Paired with music, dance, and craft markets, it has grown into a major driver of Battambang's reputation as Cambodia's leading provincial arts hub, distinct from the same organization's separate, circus-focused Tini Tinou festival.
Murals bloom across Battambang's shophouse walls and market alleys each year during the S'Art Urban Art Festival, an annual event organized by Phare Ponleu Selpak that turns the riverside town into an open-air gallery for roughly a week.