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Art
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First
Monsoon Music Festival attracts foreign artists
Large numbers of
talented artists and musicians from around the world will gather at
Famous artists of
The event, the
first of its kind to take place in the capital city, is one of major cultural
activities to celebrate
At a press
conference in
The VTV channel
will broadcast the opening ceremony live on October 2.
Many sidelines
activities will be held including a street festival together with volunteers
to convey a message on environmental protection, scheduled to take place at
Dong Xuan night market, Hang Bac, Ta Hien and Hang Buom streets and in front
of Thong Nhat (Reunification) Park.
Theatre
group seeks volunteers
To prepare for its
mega winter show, the Hanoi International Theatre Society (HITS) is
recruiting volunteers for its production team.
Besides sponsors,
HITS is looking for artists, technical directors, designers, musicians, props
and costume designers and lighting technicians who have spare time and want
to get involved with the behind-the-scenes work of a theatre production.
The volunteers are
not expected to have experience but have commitment and a passion for the
arts. An open invitation has been extended to members of the public, who meet
the above criteria, to attend the HITS production meeting at at 8pm tonight
(September 4) at Chez Xuan, No 41, Alley 76, An Duong Street, Tay Ho
District.
BikeNBrunch
offers relaxing morning
BikeNBrunch is
organising a relaxing bike ride that will begin at 9am on Saturday at Daluva
Restaurant & Bar, 33, To Ngoc Van Street.
The group will
cross the
After enjoying the
beautiful surroundings, the bikers will go through a green banana farm and
return to the starting point where they will enjoy culinary delights for
brunch.
Members of the
public have been invited to register for the ride, priced at VND185,000 for
adults and VND140,000 for children, by sending messages with their names and
numbers before 5pm tomorrow.
They can send their
queries to joy@exoticvoyages.com or call 01692940141.
Berlin DJ
debuts in HCM City
The Observatory
will present a debut performance of Berlin-based music producer and DJ Oskar
Offermann, owner of White Record label &
The artist focuses
on deep house and disco. In 2010, his music helped him to be in the deep
house charts of many stores. And then, his reputation began to grow all over
His performance
will be supported by local DJ Hibiya Line.
The show will begin
at 10pm at the corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung streets in District 1.
Entrance fee is VND100,000.
FVH guides
visitors to temple, village
The Friends of
Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will host a walk on Saturday (September 6) to discover
the
During the walk
from 9am to 12noon, the participants will visit the Quan Thanh Temple, a
Taoist temple which has a four-tonne 350-year-old bronze statue of Tran Vu,
Ha Noi's guardian of the North, visit pagodas around the Truc Bach Lake and a
community house before reaching the Ngu Xa village and seeing some
bronze-casting workshops.
Members of the
public have been invited to contact Jura at jura.cullen@cantab.net with
contact numbers to register for the walk which costs VND70,000 per person.
Seminar
with German filmmakers held
The Goethe
Institute in
Two filmmakers, who
write screenplays for various successful German TV series and have shot a
number of feature films and documentaries together, will talk about the
production process of their short film Die Besuche (The Visitors).
They will discuss
cinematic design of selected scenes from the film and share their personal
experiences.
The event is part
of the German Film Festival featuring 10 films by well-known directors which
will be held from September 5-9.
The seminar will
take place from 9am to 12pm at
VN break dancers head overseas
S.I.N.E. (Saying Is
Not Enough), a Vietnamese dance group, will head to
S.I.N.E. won the
coveted finale spot last week after beating out a stiff crowd of opponents in
the regional round. Dance groups from
Disabled to
compete in dance and music contest
The Viet Nam
Orphans and Disabled People Sponsors' Association and other concerned
agencies are organising the first-ever dance and music contest for the
disabled in the country.
The contest, to be
held from September to November, will carry the theme "Sympathy
Hearts".
National-level
qualifying rounds will take place this month in the northern
The final round
will be held at the
All disabled people
throughout the country who are selected from local talent contests are
eligible to compete. Each individual participant can give a maximum of two
performances while each group participant can give a maximum of five
performances, consisting of either singing, dancing or playing musical
instruments
Various prizes will
be given for the individual and group category, with the highest prize of
VND30 million (US$1,400) going to the winning group.
University
to hold conference on contemporary Asian cinema
The
The conference will
showcase general views on film production and distribution throughout
The university is
calling on experts and cinema workers to register. Deadline for submission of
speeches is on November 30.
Sunshine on Leith,
a musical film, will open UK Film Week 2014 in
The event aims to
celebrate
Other feature films
to be shown include Shell, Ae Fond Kiss, For Those in Peril, Not Another
Happy Ending and Shell, representing a mixture of genres to highlight the
richness of Scottish culture.
These films will premier
at CGV cinemas in
On this occasion,
the British Council will cooperate with YxineFF - a local non-profit project
supporting young filmmakers - to introduce seven short films by young
Vietnamese filmmakers.
Stage director Paul
Welsh, founder of Digicult, an independent film company specialising in
developing emerging film talent, will also fly to
Cao Yet
ceremony opens 2014 Con Son-Kiep Bac Autumn Festival
The northern
Traditionally, on
August 10 of the lunar calendar each year, residents in the villages of Van
Son and Duoc Son organise the Cao Yet ceremony asking for permission to open
the temple and kick start the festival.
The annual festival
is held in commemoration of the death anniversary of national hero General
Tran Hung Dao, who led Vietnamese people to defeat three invasion wars by the
Mongols in the 13th century. He passed away on August 20 (lunar calendar) in
1300.
A range of
traditional rituals and ceremonies will take place following the Cao Yet
ceremony under the framework of the festival, including Khai An (seal
opening) ceremony at Kiep Bac temple, incense offering ceremony in
commemoration of the death anniversary of Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan
(General Tran Hung Dao), a peace praying ceremony and lantern festival.
On the occasion,
Hai Duong province also organised its 5th water puppet festival and a
traditional boat racing game. Folk games such as wrestling, catching ducks
and rice cooking contests are expected to draw attention from visitors to the
festival.
The locality offers
a tourism promotion programme during the festival in which local authorities
will offer 10% of the price of tickets to the relics and offer free guidance
to visiting delegations. Costs for accommodation will be reduced between five
and 30%.
Con Son-Kiep Bac
relic site in Chi Linh town, Hai Duong province is entwined with the lives
and careers of General Tran Hung Dao and Nguyen Trai, who was awarded the
title ‘Great Man of Culture of the World’ by UNESCO in 1980. The site is also
an important place in Truc Lam Zen Buddhism where Huyen Quang, one of the
three founders of the Buddhism branch, chose to practice religion.
Every year in the
Con Son-Kiep Bac site there are two festivals held in spring and autumn
attracting thousands of pilgrims and Buddhist followers from all over the
country.
Full Moon
Festival to be celebrated in Hanoi
The annual
Mid-Autumn Festival will be held at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture
and Arts from September 5 – 8, featuring a fun and exciting programme of
events for children.
This year’s
festivities include a range of activities, such as an exhibition, a fun fair
and art performances.
The highlight of
the festival will no doubt be the lantern parade, drawing 400 performers,
including circus troupes, dragon dance groups, martial arts clubs and
musicians, which will take place on September 7.
The street show
aims to pay tribute to
Furthermore, many
young famous artists will perform in a charity concert to raise funds for
disadvantaged children.
Art
performance accompanies unfortunate children
The annual
charitable “Fairy Moon” art performance, the seventh of its kind, aims to
raise around one billion VND (47,000 USD) to support children from
disadvantaged background in the lead up to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The money will be
used to pay for surgery for ten children born with heart disease and grant 50
scholarship and thousands of gifts to poor children, Agent Orange/ Dioxin
victims and child patients to cheer them up on the occasion of the festival,
which is a major event for Vietnamese children.
The programme this
year will be held at the Hanoi Opera on September 6 (the 13th of September on
the lunar calendar), and will be broadcast live on VTV2.
Besides special art
performances by popular artists and children art clubs in
Over the past seven
years, more than 20 billion VND (940,000 USD) has been raised through the
programme to help ill-fated children across the country. The proceeds have
helped over 100 poor children undergo heart surgery, built houses for
orphans, and presented gifts and scholarships for thousands of poor children.
The “Fairy Moon”
performance is organised by the Family and Children Magazine, Vietnam
Television, the Journalists and Public Opinion newspaper, the Red Cross
Society of Hanoi, and the Thu Do and Thien Son Media Joint Stock Companies.-
The Epitome
of Wedding Elegance at JW Marriott
The JW Marriott
Hanoi will host a special wedding fair at the hotel’s open door and Grand
ballroom from 10am till 9pm on September 14, 2014.
During this event,
the hotel offers various attractive promptions for couples. Accordingly, any
couples will receive 10 per cent discount if their weddings are booked
between now and the end of December 2014.
The hotel also runs
an exciting “Love Story” competition for the brides to share their stories in
photos and win wonderful prizes from JW Marriott Hanoi and well-known brands
such as a 2-night getaway at JW Marriott Hanoi, a dinner for 02 persons at
the hotel’s French Grill Restaurant, a dinner for two persons at the hotel’s
Crystal Jade Chinese restaurant and various wedding photo shooting packages
worth around $300 to $1,000 at Nupakachi Studio or from 361 STUDIOS or Tiara
Wedding Studio.
Furthermore the
hotel offers special Early Bird promotion for any couples booking their
weddings from September 1 to December 31, 2014 with a discount of 20 per cent
on their wedding packages. A meaningful party with warm atmosphere and
exquisite decorations and the dedicated support of our professional banquet
team is a great gift for your partner and your family in this special day.
Farmers stage play about environmental conservation
Farmers of Khuc
Thuy and Khe Tan villages in
The play tells a
story about people whose lives are attached strongly to their homeland river.
After years of leaving his hometown, the main character Thach returns home
and realizes that the river in his homeland has changed and the scenic river
in his childhood now is just a memory of the past. His biggest wish and also
biggest challenge are to persuade his wife and people in his village to
restore the river and protect the environment.
As an interactive
musical, the show is aimed to awaken people’s love and protection for their
river and urge them to find solutions to ensure a healthy living environment
for the residents of Khuc Thuy and
The residents have
done almost everything by themselves to create the play, with the support and
costumes provided by the “Di va Mo” project.
“Di va Mo” is a
voluntary project run by students in
World
Heritage Site to woo Mid-Autumn Festival goers
A multitude of
diverse cultural, art and sports activities marking the upcoming Mid-Autumn
Festival are set to take place from September 6-8 at the historic relics and
pagodas in Hoi An ancient town.
The highlight of
this year’s festival will be a revival of the night of Hoi An ancient town in
the early 20th century, a lantern parade and a dragon dance through the
streets.
Truong Van Bay,
vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, said Hoi An, a
UNESCO-recognised World Heritage site, has always offered a variety of
entertainment and cultural activities aimed at improving the spiritual life
of local residents and attracting more local and foreign tourists alike.
Earlier on the
occasion of National Day (September 2), a contest on Bai Choi singing was
held in the city. Bai Choi is a popular folk game in the south central
coastal area.
Art
performance accompanies unfortunate children
The annual
charitable “Fairy Moon” art performance, the seventh of its kind, aims to
raise around VND1 billion (US$47,000) to support children from disadvantaged
background in the lead up to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The money will be
used to pay for surgery for ten children born with heart disease and grant 50
scholarship and thousands of gifts to poor children, Agent Orange/ Dioxin
victims and child patients to cheer them up on the occasion of the festival,
which is a major event for Vietnamese children.
The programme this
year will be held at the Hanoi Opera on September 6 (the 13th of September on
the lunar calendar), and will be broadcast live on VTV2.
Besides special art
performances by popular artists and children art clubs in
Over the past seven
years, more than VND20 billion (US$940,000) has been raised through the
programme to help ill-fated children across the country. The proceeds have
helped over 100 poor children undergo heart surgery, built houses for
orphans, and presented gifts and scholarships for thousands of poor children.
The “Fairy Moon”
performance is organised by the Family and Children Magazine, Vietnam
Television, the Journalists and Public Opinion newspaper, the Red Cross
Society of Hanoi, and the Thu Do and Thien Son Media Joint Stock Companies.
Phu Tho
acts to save cultural treasures
The northeastern
According to
historians, no country in the world has rituals quite like
In the near future,
the province will gather information and feedback on all its cultural heritages,
and come up with a preservation plan of action for each one.
The status of xoan
singing, a traditional art form also included in UNESCO’s list of intangible
cultural heritage in need of urgent protection, has prompted various
authorities to take action to ensure its continued existence.
This year, master
xoan singers will pass their skills on to young learners, especially school
teachers, so they can in turn introduce it in local schools, Deputy Director
of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Pham Ba Khiem
said.
Between 2015 and
2020, the department will survey and analyse the state of xoan singing in the
locality, and, based on this, will take all necessary actions.
As one of the
oldest forms of Vietnamese performing arts, xoan singing is believed to have
been developed during the reign of the Hung Kings (2890 BC to 250 BC).
Traditionally, singers from xoan guilds performed songs in sacred spaces,
such as temples, shrines and communal houses during spring festivals.
There are three kinds
of xoan singing, including songs of worship for Hung Kings and village
guardian spirits; ritual songs for abundant crops, health and good luck; and
festival songs, with villagers alternating male and female verses in a form
of courtship. The singing is accompanied by dance and musical instruments,
such as clappers and drums.
Phu Tho is home to
over 1,370 relic sites and 260 festivals, many of which have become unique
spiritual symbols, such as the festival of Hung Kings and Dao Xa elephant
festival. Numerous intangible heritages, such as Moi and Chuong dance,
originate here.
An Giang
hosts ceramics exhibition
Over 600 ceramic
antiques are on display at a two-month exhibition which opened at the
beginning of September in the southern
The exhibits are of
a wide range of objects from Buddha statues, censers to pots, cups, and
bowls, reflecting the traditional culture of the southern region.
Four major ceramic
styles are featured at the exhibition, which are the Cay Mai (apricot tree),
Old Sai Gon, Lai Thieu and Bien Hoa. Among them, Cay Mai ceramics are mostly
for religious purpose, while Old Sai Gon and Lai Thieu items are mainly for
daily life use. Bien Hoa ceramics were intended for decorating, many of which
have won prizes at international fairs held in
The exhibition is
one of activities to mark the 69th National Day (September 2) and the
upcoming announcement of the special national historical relic status of the
Oc Eo archaeological site in An Giang, where the first artifacts of an
ancient material culture was found.
Vietnamese
woman founds online library with nearly 1,000 books
A local book
enthusiast has created an online library with a wide range of books,
particularly those in foreign languages, to share her passion with
like-minded peers and provide them with a handy, affordable book service.
Earlier this year,
Le Luu Anh Thu, 30, founded iBookStop.vn, an online library which now boasts
almost 1,000 books on management-economics, design and fine arts, and
literature.
A number of the
titles are written in foreign languages, mostly English, and many are quite
hard to come by on the local market.
An avid reader
since childhood, Thu spent her free time visiting book stores and libraries
across the country and abroad, searching for an appropriate book-sharing
model for
Once, she visited
the
The young woman was
amazed to see Thai families voraciously reading books, despite all the noise
and bustling activity around them.
She then came up
with the idea to build a similar library in
Thu then began
planning, researching and experimenting, before launching the website earlier
this year.
To the surprise of
many, she quit her job as a personnel manager, and has freelanced ever since
so she can devote more time to her website.
She spent her
savings on the website and showcased her treasured book collection to start
with.
“Since I was a
little girl, I’ve always been intrigued by the piles of dusty books at old
book stores. However, as members of today’s tech-savvy world, my peers and I can’t
afford the time to peruse the books at book stores. So I launched this
‘online book stop,’” Thu explained.
To borrow a book
from ibookstop.vn, users only need to enter the website and choose a service
package.
For example, for a
monthly fee of VND29,000 (US$1.40) and a down payment of VND1.5 million ($71)
for one year, users can borrow books with a total (cover) price equal to the
down payment.
Users will benefit
from the online book ordering and home book delivery services, as well as
constant assistance and advice in book selection from Thu and her two
partners.
Mai Thanh Van, a
university graduate in Library and Information Sciences, quit her job to work
with Thu.
Van said that she,
Thu and another female partner do everything, including searching for,
buying, arranging, and delivering books to clients’ homes.
The trio finds
searching for books the most challenging task, as a number of clients want
books which are no longer published.
To satisfy this
demand, Thu and her partners keep in regular contact with old book stores
across the country and abroad and make use of online services that supply
rare books.
The group is also
planning to launch a mini-library, where book lovers can go on the weekend to
indulge in rare books, including those ordered from abroad.
“It’s much more
convenient and economical to borrow books, compared to buying them. I often
feel cheated buying books with nice covers and brilliant prefaces but
horrific content,” shared Thanh Vy, a regular client of iBookStop.
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Huyen,
an office worker who invariably has her hands full with her workload and
young children, also finds the book lending service at iBookStop ideal for
finding foreign books on raising kids and household arts.
According to Quang
Anh, a local graphic designer, it costs him at least VND500,000 ($24) to buy
a foreign-printed book, but only a fifth of this amount to borrow such books.
Apart from running
her online library, Thu also holds on a monthly basis offline book exchanges
and free screenings of films adapted from books to encourage young people to
read.
A new
anthology of Vietnamese New Formalism Poetry
Vietnamese New
Formalism- Absorb and Create (Tan hinh thuc Viet- Tiep nhan va sang tao) is
the name of a newly-published anthology of Vietnamese New Formalism poetry by
Tan Thuan Hoa Publishing Group and Song Huong Magazine. The
Vietnamese-English bilingual book is a precious source of material on
Vietnamese New Formalism.
New Formalism was
introduced in the 1970s in
New Formalism has
been known for 15 years so far with thousands of poems of this style and
related articles have been published. However, there are mixed opinions
towards New Formalism with some embracing it while the others not. This
anthology with hundreds of international and
Source: VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/ND
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