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Borderline Café, Shop & Gallery Borderline is a Café, Shop & Gallery based in Mae Sot, Thailand. Borderline began with three women's organisations seeking to establish a shared marketing space for women from Burma (living along the Thai-Burma border) to sell their hand made items. The women's groups also hoped that by having a collectively managed market they would build their capacity for running income generation projects with the communities with which they work. In May 2004, the Borderline Women's Collective opened. (Read more) Borderline Gallery Artwork

SPRING RENEWAL

On Thursday 5th August, Borderline gallery will open a solo exhibition of Burmese artist Kyaw Kyaw Hein entitled SPRING RENEWAL. This unique exhibition showcases his diverse portfolio of work, that explores about the nature and the tradition of Burmese people expressed by the watercolour. He will let you see the beauty and the nature of Burmese people with his lovely simple style. He also expressed that he is an artist who love colours and shown with his colourful pictures. We as the viewer are invited to follow him through his personal artistic journey.
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Please join us to enjoy the show and meet the artist at the opening reception taking place at our Gallery from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 5th August. The exhibition will be on until 19 August 2009.

Complimentary Burmese refreshments will be provided by Borderline Tea Shop.

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6th Anniversary of BORDERLINE SHOP

untitled-1-final.jpgOn 15th July 2010, Borderline shop will hold it’s 6th Anniversary birthday party. The event is wounded by the art exhibition and the special performance of the Babymime artists.

Many of Borderline’s mamber artists pertispate to show atheir different artworks which is made with different mediums for their Borderline Shop’s birthday party.
For this special exhibition their artworks are showing their different styles and influences . The artists used their medium to produce a different striking portfolio of images that reveal their unique sense of the world around them.

Babymime’s story
In 1999 4 young men, Nging Ta Glur and Jo, from different educational background, meet by destiny. They took a basic pantomime course, lectured by “Kon na khao” (The White face theatre group) Paitoon Laisakul, together. After Studying for awhile, They decided to create their own new style pantomime and called themselves “Babymime”. Nowadays Babymime has 3 main artists, which are Nging Ta and Glur. They creates and develops their comedic styled pantomime and performs their piece in many stages and festivals.
In 2003 Babymime became well-known in an international production by joining with overseas pantomime artists in “Pantomime in Bangkok” (6th), which appeared to be very successful among fans audiences and press as well. For street show, they invited to join in “International Street show in Bangkok 2008” For their performed at Pridi Banomyong Institute, Thong-Lor, such as “Babymime Show Vol.1(2008) and Vol.2(2009), both of which attracted more than 1,500 audiences. Last are performed, they invited from “Flipside Festival” at Singapore and more audiences in every show of them.
Please join us to enjoy the show and meet the artist at the opening reception taking place at our Gallery from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 15th July. The exhibition will be on until 30th July 2010.
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Complimentary Burmese refreshments will be provided by Borderline Tea Shop.

Genesis of expression

untitled-1.jpgOn Thursday 3rd June, Borderline gallery will open a solo exhibition of Burmese artist A Hein kyaw entitled Genesis of expression. This unique exhibition showcases his diverse portfolio of work, that explores both traditional and modern images through of water color mediums and styles. We as the viewer are invited to follow him through his personal artistic journey.

Please join us to enjoy the show and meet the artist at the opening reception taking place at our Gallery from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 3rd June. The exhibition will be on until 17th June 2010.

Complimentary Burmese refreshments will be provided by Borderline Tea Shop.

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Two Become One

two-become-one-invitation-f.jpgOn Thursday 6th May, Borderline Gallery will be opening a very special exhibition entitled Two Become One.

Two Borderline member artists; Win Htet and Min Thiha Mon live with their young familes across the river in Myawaddy and Moulmein (the capital city of Mon State) for their first exhibition which is show together has produced a vibrant portfolio of Oil,Watercolour and Charcoal paintings.

The artist’s distinctive style invites us to step beyond the border and take a gentle journey through their homeland. Each painting provides the viewer with a vivid glimpse of Burma; that leave an enduring sense of her unique landscape.

Please join us to enjoy the show at the opening Reception: 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Thursday 6th May. The exhibition will continue until 19th May 2010.

Complimentary Burmese refreshments will be provided by Borderline Tea Shop.

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MY STORY photo project 5

invite2010.jpgMY STORY photo project: 5 years and counting…
150 participants, 16 exhibitions, thousands of images. The MY STORY photo project is proud to present its fifth annual exhibition at Borderline Gallery, Mae Sot, from April 8 through May 1.

Participants are given digital cameras, training in basic photo techniques, and photo assignments. Then they take pictures; lots and lots of pictures. At each training session, the photos are downloaded and critiqued by the group. They have edited their work so that each student is represented by two images in the exhibition. .

In 2010, workshops were held at Ban Huai Hin Fon elementary school, just outside Mae Sot, with 5th and 6th graders, mostly ethnic Karen. In Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Division, our students ranged in age from 62 to 19 from a wide variety of backgrounds. In April, 2009, four of the project’s former students ran a photo workshop at Min Mah Haw Education Foundation. This served as their practice teaching and some of the images from that workshop are included.

Income from print sales is split 50/50 between the photographer and MSppa. The funds are used to purchase cameras for next year’s project.

Please join us at Borderline Gallery for the opening reception on Thursday, April 8, 6 - 9 pm. The gallery is located at 674/14 Intharakeree Road , Mae Sot.

As usual complimentary Burmese refreshments will be provided by the BorderlineTea Shop.

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