About Us

Nanglerng Community or Baan Nanglerng is an art community in slum area, situated in the old town of Bangkok in Thailand. This artist based community have been using art to strengthen community ties, and to serve as a platform for their negotiations with the Crown Property Bureau (CPB), the government organisation that owns the land they are living on. The E-Lerng artist collective in Nang Lerng has been exploring new ways of highlighting the value of this community and the benefit of them staying on the lands they have occupied for generations. E-Lerng has also organised a series of events to draw attention to some of the underlying issues they are facing: from the proliferation of lice amongst children due to cramped living conditions, to the failure of traditional negotiations.