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Art
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Disney show
makes historic debut in HCMC
As a sign that
Master Magician
Mickey Mouse and his ever-present sidekick Minnie Mouse join forces with
professional illusionist Michael Barron for a magical production on
stage. Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show featuring grand illusions
and favorite Disney characters, including Donald Duck and Goofy; Cinderella
and her Fairy Godmother;
“It took over one
year to secure the contract,” said Tanya Trang Johnston, co-founder of
District Music 360, the event’s local promoter.
From the
breathtaking levitation of Minnie and Jasmine to the transformation of
Cinderella’s rags into riches in a split second, Disney Live! presents
Mickey’s Magic Show gives families a whole new way to experience Disney
magic.
“This one-of-a-kind
show gives parents and children the power to see magic everywhere,” Kenneth
Feld, producer of the Disney Live! Shows, said in a release.
Disney Live!
presents Mickey’s Magic Show visits HCMC from Sept. 24-28 for 12 performances
at Hoa Binh Theatre. Tickets for Disney Live! presents Mickey’s Magic Show,
produced by Feld
Entertainment, are
available at www.mox.vn/disneylive . To learn more about Disney Live!, go to
www.disneylive.com.vn or visit Facebook and YouTube.
Artists
unveil latest works at Galerie Quynh
Roi (falling), a
painting exhibition hosted by HCMC-based Galerie Quynh, will feature latest
creations by Tiffany Chung, Ha Manh Thang, Sandrine Llouquet, Nguyen Manh
Hung, Tran Van Thao, Truc-Anh and Lien Truong from now until October 18.
The event
introduces some new works by artists who come from different galleries. Tran
Van Thao unveils a series of abstracts featuring happiness while Truc-Anh’s
paper and metal made creations will make people think a lot.
Nguyen Manh Hung
tells a funny fable by strokes and colors and Ha Manh Thang describes
landscapes in a majestic and suspicious way. Tiffany Chung and Lien Truong
tell chronicles in unique styles and
Sandrine Llouquet
features her myth-like works with signature medical smell of methylen color.
The exhibition
takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Tuesday and Saturday at
HCMC
The
The government of
HCMC changed the name of the
The original museum
was built by the French in 1929 with over 5,000 artifacts. After four phases
of rehabilitation, the current museum has 17 rooms featuring prehistory, the
Nguyen Dynasty, Oc Eo and Champa cultures and ancient pottery items, and
Buddha statues of some Asian countries.
The museum has
37,000 artifacts and numerous precious collections, especially those by late
scholar/collector Vuong Hong Sen and two popular collectors of
The museum attracts
around 400,000 guests, 60,000 of them foreigners.
The museum is
organizing a
Variety
show honours
A special programme
honouring the
Jointly organised
by the Viet Nam Stage Artists Association and Ha Noi Martial Arts
Association, the programme, entitled Nation's Soul – East Sea Waves, will
gather well-known singers such as Thanh Hoa and Viet Hoan to perform songs
praising the beauty of the nation's seas and islands.
For their part,
artists of the Viet Nam Circus Federation will stage special circus acts. Thu
Huong and Thanh Tuan, gold medallists of the International Festival Golden
Circus Rome 2013, will also perform their prize-winning Quan Ho Swing act.
Troupes from the
Viet Nam National Puppetry will perform a number of dances that include Swan
Dance and Peacock Dance.
The programme
begins at 8pm at the Viet Nam Central Circus,
Music video
on patriotism released
Young artists and
students dressed in national colours have taken part in a music video titled
To Quoc Goi Ten Minh (The Fatherland Calls My Name) to express their
patriotism and remind young people of their responsibility to the country.
The music video
features 132 students from Ha Noi's universities along with celebrities, Miss
Viet Nam 2010 Dang Ngoc Han, violinist Khanh Linh, and singers Duy Khoa and
Trong Tan.
It was released on
Sunday and will be broadcast on television.
The video was shot at
beautiful sites across the capital including
VNOB dance
performance to highlight martyrs story
A dance entitled
Khoanh Khac Bat Tu (Immortality Moment), based on the young martyr Vo Thi
Sau's life, will be performed for the first time tonight at Ha Noi Opera
House.
Choreographed in a
modern style by Pham Anh Phuong and to be performed by 100 dancers of the
Viet Nam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB), the dance is based on the true
story of the national hero Sau (1933-1952) who began her revolutionary career
at the age of 14. She was arrested and imprisoned in early 1950 and was
sentenced to death in Chi Hoa Prison in the former Sai Gon.
Feared for her
strong and courageous revolutionary will, the French colonialists shipped her
to the Con Dao archipelago in the southeastern
The script of the
performance has been selected from 18 stories shortlisted in a contest that
was organised by the Viet Nam Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's
Department of Performing Arts.
The VNOB dancers
will be accompanied by an orchestra tonight and tomorrow.
Ballet
masterpiece staged in City
Norwegian Johanna
Jakhelln Constant will choreograph one of the greatest comic ballets of the
19th century, Coppelia, for two nights of performances by the HCM City Ballet
Symphony Orchestra and Opera at the Opera House this week.
Coppelia was
originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon to the music of Leo Delibes and
with libretto by Charles Nuitter. Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scene was
based upon two stories by ETA Hoffmann: Der Sandmann (The Sandman), and Die
Puppe (The Doll).
The ballet presents
a budding romance between two villagers, Frantz and Swanilda, alongside the
curious workings of their eccentric neighbor Dr Coppelius, a mad inventor who
has taken to creating life-like automatons.
The music of
Coppelia links two great historical periods of ballet – the French Romantic
style and the Russian Classical style.
Constant, who
choreographed HBSO's hugely successful productions of The Nutcracker and
Cinderella, has won three choreography awards for her original works
Chairished and Flickering Blue. The shows are on September 28 and 29.
Quang
The central
province will funnel VND3.7 trillion (US$176 million) into restoring a
historic national relic, the Ky Anh tunnel, 7kmnortheast of the province's
capital Tam Ky city, in addition to a complex of commune houses, a tourism
centre and infrastructure.
The three-stage
project, scheduled for the 2014-25 period, will prioritise 14 items spanning
an area of 51.18ha.
The 32km tunnel
built in 1967 served as a home for local militia and guerilla forces during
the fiercest period of the American War between 1964-75.
The province aims
to establish the tunnel as a historical destination for local and foreign
tourists in the coming years.
The restoration
project also includes the preservation of the reed ecological conservation of
the
Quang
General
Giap photos exhibited in capital
A photography
exhibition commemorating the birthday of late legendary General Vo Nguyen
Giap (1911-2013) opened in Ha Noi on Sunday.
Entitled Vo Nguyen
Giap, the People's General, the exhibition features 102 photos taken by
photographer and retired Lt Colonel Nguyen Trong Nghi from 1990 to 2005.
The exhibition
covers two main themes: "General Vo Nguyen Giap with Vietnamese war
veterans" and "From 30 Hoang Dieu to Vung Chua, Quang Binh".
In the first section, viewers can see photos of General Giap meeting with war
veterans from across the country.
"Those photos
portray a unique side to the most prominent military commander. His warmth
and affection for the people were why he was referred to as the Eldest
Brother of the Viet Nam People's Army," Nghi said.
The second section
includes a series of photos taken at the General's funeral in October 2013.
Vietnamese came
from all over the country to Ha Noi to show their respects and gave a final
salute to General Giap. The series captures some of the memorable moments
from the occasion, such as the line of people waiting outside his residence
to say goodbye, the funeral car passing the Ha Noi Opera House and a
Vietnamese soldier guarding the General's final resting place in his mother's
hometown Quang Binh.
Co-organised by the
Ha Noi War Veterans newspaper and Ha Noi Association of Photographic Artists,
the exhibition will be open at 93 Dinh Tien Hoang until Thursday.
Art
performances to increase environmental protection
Art performances
will be held in several craft villages in the Nhue-Day river basin, a
seriously contaminated river ecosystem.
The series of
events is part of a project launched in
Opera singers will
take to the stage in Cu Khe commune, Thanh Oai district on August 30 and 31,
with performances highlighting the problem of water pollution in the river.
Earlier this month,
on August 11, a painting exhibition entitled “Green Dreams” was held at the
Cu Khe primary school, which saw the participation of close to 180 children
between the ages of 8-10. The students shared their solutions to reduce water
pollution.
The Nhue-Day river
basin covers 7,665sq.km and flows through the
According to the Environmental
Protection Committee for the Nhue-Day river basin, levels of water pollution
in the river has been increasing steadily, with many stretches of the river
now considered heavily polluted, especially during the dry season.
In 2008, Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved the project Environmental Protection in the
Nhue-Day River by 2020, consisting of 12 smaller projects with a contribution
of 3.34 trillion VND (163 million USD) from the State budget.-
Vietnamese
singers ignorant of music theory
Experts have
estimated that up to 70% of professional Vietnamese singers lack knowledge of
music theory and the trend is growing.
Musician Hoang Huy
Long estimated that only 30% of Vietnamese people have music classical music
training.
Another musician,
Quoc An, said that only the most well-trained singers are able to sight-read
music. He added that this has attributed to the current state of music in
However, according
to some, such as the musician Nhat Trung, musical training is not essential
to becoming a good singer. Trung points out that many well-regarded
performers have not had classical musical training, and this is true not only
in
Musician
ends cooperation with copyright agency
Musician Phu Quang
announced that he will stop cooperating with the Vietnam Centre for
Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC).
The musician
intends to stop giving the centre authority to collect copyright fees for his
material. At present, most local musicians authorise their copyright payments
through the centre.
“I intend to
officially end my agreement with the VCPMC September 1. I’ll take on the
responsibility for the collection of copyright fees for all of my works and
performances,” said Phu Quang.
Even though did he
not give specific reasons for this decision, many say that it is a result of
the lack of transparency in music copyright fee collection by the centre.
“The centre
survives based on music copyright fees. The problem is the rate they pay
composers,” Phu Quang said.
He stated that the
centre wanted to collect VND80 million for the performance use of five songs
by other musicians; Doan Chuan, Pham Duy and Doan Chuan. Meanwhile, the fees
it required from musician Van Cao was only VND1 million each.
“The centre used to
collect only VND1 million per song at most. On average, the fees ranged from
VND200,000 to VND300,000 per song,” Phu Quang said.
Controversy
over regional accents of newscasters
The central
regional accents of a newscasters on Vietnam Television (VTV) on August 6
have raised controversy about the standards for anchors.
To date, the
national news channel has been dominated by newscasters with northern
accents. However, a few years ago, VTV welcomed a new anchor named Hoai Anh,
who has a light southern accent. Since her hiring, there have been numerous
complaints because of the deviation from standard northern Vietnamese,
however light. Still, many viewers like her, saying she delivers news clearly
and steadily. But, debates over the issue persist.
Some time ago, VTV1
took on a newscaster named Anh Phuong, who attracted attention with her central
accent, which many believed to be from
Another user said
that national television should include more regional accents. "This is
Vietnam Television, not Hanoi Television." He went on to say that this
change may help people get used to hearing and understanding accents from
other regions.
Still, there are
others who would hold tightly to the northern accent standard, especially for
news broadcasters. These people believe that Hanoians speak the clearest and
that viewers might not be able to fully understand the information if it were
not spoken in a standard northern accent.
A reader of
Vietnamnet Newspaper commented, "I don't care which region the
newscaster is from, but they have to speak right. A newscaster can't get the
sound "ăn" mixed up with "ăng" like that newscaster from
Kim Tien, a
well-known veteran newscaster from VTV, is also against the changes.
"VTV should not 'localise' the news, because each province and city
still has their own channels. What if the ethnic minority groups also wanted
their accents represented on the national news?" she said.
First
national singing contest for the disabled launched
The 2014 national
singing contest for the disabled was launched for the first time on August
25, aiming to offer a playground for people with disabilities across the
nation to affirm their intelligence and talents.
The contest aims to
encourage people with disabilities to integrate into the community.
With the theme of
‘The desired hearts’, the contest is organised by the Vietnam Association in
Support of Disabled People and Orphans in co-ordination with the Ministry of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and other related agencies and social
organisations.
To be held in
response to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3)
and in celebration of 2014 Asia Pacific Disability Forum General Assembly and
Conference hosted by Vietnam this November, the contest is also a significant
event expressing the concern of the whole society to its less fortunate
members and encouraging them in contributing to the country and integrating
deeply into social activities.
The contest is held
on a national scale until November, and will be divided into three regions:
the northern contest held in Vinh Phuc province, the southern competition in
To date, more than
7 million contestants from 40 localities have registered to showcase their
talents at the contest.
About 110 excellent
performers are expected to be present in the finals.
The stone carving
work that has made
Famous throughout
In April, the
People's Committee of Danang City set up a council to create a dossier for
The village was
founded in the late 17th century, and has survived the changes of time while
preserving its reputation. Currently, there are about 500 manufacturing
facilities, with nearly 4,000 workers, mostly located in the
70% of the products
are sold right at the manufacturing sites, while the rest are domestic and
overseas orders. In 2013, the income of
Photo
festival highlights beauty of northern mountainous region
An artistic photo
festival that spotlights today’s land and people in the northern mountainous
region opened in Lang Son province on August 25.
The Northern
Mountainous Region Artistic Photography Festival, the fourteenth of its kind,
held under the theme of 'Northern Mountainous Region - Homeland and People',
attracted the participation of over 280 photographers from 15 cities and
provinces in the region.
After the
qualifying rounds, 20 pictures were selected for awards, including two gold,
four silver, and six bronze medals, as well as eight consolation prizes. In
addition, 200 photos were also chosen for the exhibition.
The photos
highlight the beauty of nature, land and people in the northern mountainous
region, as well as focusing on the region’s socio-economic, security-defence
and scientific-technological achievements during the country’s
industrialisation and modernisation.
The photos also
reflect the cultural and spiritual lives of regional people, especially
ethnic groups in mountainous areas.
The festival,
co-organised by the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists and the Lang
Son provincial Literary and Art Association, marks the 69th anniversary of
the August Revolution and National Day.
The next festival
will take place in Cao Bang province in 2015.
Exhibition
recounts King Bao Dai’s abdication
The Thua Thien –
Photos, paintings
and statues on display show the King handing over the gold seal and sword
symbolising royal power to Tran Huy Lieu, a representative of the provisional
Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at Ngo Mon (Noon Gate),
The exhibition also
showcased a collection of weapons used by Thua Thien –
* A photo
exhibition under the theme ‘Vo Nguyen Giap – People’s General’ opened on
August 24 in
Works on display
are 104 photos, representing the104th anniversary of the General’s birthday
(1911 -2014) taken by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trong Nghi.
The pictures
featured the daily life of the General, as well as love and respect all war
veterans and Vietnamese people felt for him.
The exhibition will
run through August 28 at
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Thứ Ba, 26 tháng 8, 2014
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