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Art
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Artist
sheds light on urban development
An iron sculpture
depicting urban development received first prize at the National Young Fine
Arts Festival, painter and head of the jury board Le Van Suu announced
yesterday at the closing ceremony.
The idea for Du An
Moi (New Project) occurred to artist Tran Van An when he rode his motorbike
through the capital city and saw many newly inaugurated constructions as well
as unfinished projects.
"These
constructions promise to bring people a modern and comfortable life but at
the same time, they show the consequences of urbanisation:
pollution, green
spaces replaced by concrete buildings and traffic jams caused by half-done
construction," the artist from the northern
Held at the Vet Nam
University of Fine Arts, the festival featured 112 artworks created by 100
young artists from 19 provinces and cities.
Launched for the
first time in 2007, the triennial festival aims to find young artists and
develop the country's fine arts scene, helping artists integrate with the
global contemporary art world.
"It's a big
event for young artists," said Suu. "It's a chance for them to
express their talent as well as concerns about life."
This year, the
organising board received 762 entries from artists aged 18-35. Many of them
revealed concerns about society, depicting lifestyle changes caused by modernisation
and industrial development.
The painter also
pointed to the young artists' efforts to discover new subjects and materials.
Although paintings
still dominated the exhibition space, this year's festival saw the
introduction of video art and multimedia installations.
HCMC to
open “Our Common Home” festival
Seventeen countries
have registered to attend the second “
The festival will
include an exhibition on external activities of
Additionally, art
performances and a food stall are planned to introduce the culture of
Deputy Director of
HCMC’s Department of External Affairs Le Quang Long said this year, foreign
consulate generals will take part in many events of the festival such as art
performances and folk games.
Ok-Om-Bok
festival named national intangible heritage
The Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced the recognition of the Ok-Om-Bok
festival as the 4th national intangible cultural heritage of southern Tra
Vinh province.
Ok-Om-Bok, a moon
worshipping ritual performed by the Khmer ethnic group, is one of the three
main festivals they celebrate every year. The Khmer believe the moon is a God
who controls the weather and crops throughout the year.
The festival takes
place at full moon in the 10 th lunar month. On this occasion, the local
residents provide offerings to show their gratitude for the God for giving
them good weather conditions and fruitful harvests.
Each village
organises their own festival in the courtyards of their local pagodas, while
the large provincial festival is held at Ba Om pond cultural relic site. The
festival features a number of entertainment opportunities, including art
performances, traditional sports challenges and folk games.
Tra Vinh is
currently home to 320,000 ethnic Khmer, accounting for 32% of the province’s
total population. During the moon worshipping festival, Ba Om pond cultural
relic site attracts thousands of local inhabitants and tourists.
Canon
PhotoMarathon to launch in Vietnam
Thousands of
photographers in
The event is set to
take place in
On the day of the
contest, each participant will be given three separate themes at different
times to base their photographs on. They are then to have three hours to
complete each thematic work and must return to the contest location with
their pictures, and upload them onto the server before getting their next
assignment.
More than
US$150,000 worth of Canon products is to be awarded the winners.The grand
prize includes a Photo Clinic trip to Japan with other winners from
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Cambodia and Thailand, a camera Canon
EOS 6D body and a photo printer Pixma MG7170.
Photographers in
Canadian
painter’s heart for Vietnam
Ambassador Dung
expressed his appreciation and utmost respect for the artwork signifying the
artist's love for Uncle Ho as well as for Vietnamese land and people, saying
that the precious gift is of great significance for
For his part,
Jean-Mauriece Gelinas said during his one-month trip to
Upon learning of
the friendship between Uncle Ho and renowned cubism painter Pablo Picasso,
Gelinas was very excited and decided to draw a portrait of Uncle Ho based on
the "the Joy of Life" (Joie de Vivre) made by this Spanish artist.
The portrait expresses his appreciation for President Ho Chi Minh and his joy
and sentiment towards the Vietnamese land and people.
Artists Gelinas
said President HCM is a world cultural celebrity, a great leader for
Vietnamese people and that is what he wanted to show in the portrait.
Gelinas who lives
in the city of
Decorative
arts seminar opens in France
A seminar exploring
the history of Vietnamese decorative arts opened at the Guimet Museum of
Asian Art in
Among the topics
under discussion at the three-day seminar are the question of authenticity,
the invisibility of the curator, and the notion of a period of style
with a concentration on the visual arts of painting, sculpture,
lacquer, ceramics, fashion design and archaeology.
At the opening
ceremony, Ambassador to France Duong Chi Dung expressed his pride in knowing
Vietnamese arts are being introduced and showcased at such prominent cultural
places as the French National Institute of Art History (INHA),
Dung made special
mention that this is the first time Vietnamese arts have been discussed
comprehensively at a sophisticated seminar. It provided an opportune occasion
for researchers to talk about the unique aspects of Vietnamese art, its
connection to the social history of its people and measures to preserve and
promote its value.
French Institute
President Xavier Darcos, who is in charge of cultural exchange between
Moon worship
festival gets national cultural heritage tag
The Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism has added the Ok Om Bok (moon worship to wish for
a prosperous harvest) festival to the national intangible cultural heritage
list.
The annual
traditional festival, celebrated by the Khmer group in the southern
The local people
hope that the balloons would fly high and reach the moon to tell the moon god
to help them realise their dreams.
Prior to this, a
boat-racing event is often organised in the local river, where the people
compete in teams to show their solidarity.
The province's My
Long sea worship festival, the local art of don ca tai tu (southern folk
music) and Cham Rieng-Cha Pay (the art of singing and playing Cha Pay, a
two-stringed instrument) of the Khmer group are already on the national cultural
heritage list.
Contest
challenges students to make films about their dreams
A short film-making
contest for Vietnamese children organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism and the Japanese Embassy will kick off this Saturday at the National
Cinema Centre,
Under the theme My
Dreams, junior and high school students will make three-minute films
conveying their thoughts and aspirations in life.
Each group will be
made up of three students, and the top three groups will be invited to the
Asian International Children's Film Festival to be held in
Southern
museum displays old ceramic objects
Over 600 ceramic
objects made in the old southern style dating back to the end of 19th century
are on display at the provincial museum in the southern
The objects include
various ceramic genres such as Cay Mai, Old Sai Gon, Lai Thieu and Bien Hoa.
Cay Mai ceramics
are dedicated to Buddhism, while Sai Gon and Lai Thieu cover daily utensils
glazed in blue and decorated with vivid decorative patterns of trees, flowers
and animals.
Bien Hoa ceramics
have a more colourful glaze. Products of this genre were awarded gold medals
at international fairs in
The exhibition will
run until October 29.
Mid-Autumn
Festival highlights coastal cultures
Children will be
able to explore the cultures of
Visitors will have
the chance to talk to fishermen from Ly Son island district in the central
province Quang Ngai to learn more about their daily lives and traditional
festivals, such as the annual “Le khao le the linh Hoang Sa” (Feast and
Commemoration Festival for Hoang Sa Soldiers). The ritual pays tribute to the
men enlisted in the fleet patrolling the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa
(Spratly) archipelagos to extract natural resources and defend the
sovereignty of
Artists from the northern
port city of
In addition, a
range of activities and folk games will be on offer, particularly for young
visitors, such as treasure hunts, “o an quan” (Mandarin Square Capturing) and
the opportunity to savour Quang Ngai’s cuisine.
Other popular
activities will include making “com” (young glutinous rice) and “banh deo”
(sticky rice cake), a cake typical for the Full Moon festival, and crafting
“to he” (toy figurines).
The activities aim
to increase the young generation’s awareness of the importance of preserving
and promoting the value of culture and traditional crafts.
Established in
1997, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has served as a research centre and
public museum with the mission to collect, document, preserve and exhibit the
cultural heritages of
The museum
preserves over 29,000 exhibits, including approximately 25,000 objects on
The HCMC Women’s Cultural
House will hand over 300 lanterns to children at
The event will
include a series of exciting activities, such as folk and sports games, circus,
a buffet of cakes, music performance and more.
The
Middle-Autumn
festival 2014 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City Children’s House with feisty
and colorful events on September 6-7.
Numerous activities
that will bring many happinesses as spiritual values to poor children in Can
Gio District will be organized on September 8.
Idecaf Theater's
renowned children's play series Ngay Xu Ngay Xua (Once Upon a Time) will
showcase its piece, titled “
The Ho Chi Minh
City Stage Association held a celebration to mark its traditional day (the
11th day of the eighth lunar month) at the traditional theater house at
The annual
celebration aims to meet artists in the city for paying tribute to the
theatre’s ancestors who laid the foundation for the national art forms and
contributed to their development through the years.
A series of
cultural activities celebrating the event was organized in the HCM City
Youth’s Cultural House, such as cai luong performance, Vietnamese tea and calligraphy
exhibitions, kylin and dragon dance and others.
Special
performances to commemorate anniversary of the ancestor of cai luong and
stage was held at the Hung Dao Theater and in Nhac Xanh music club on the
same day.
State-owned and
private theaters throughout the city are planning to celebrate the
traditional day on September 5.
Programme
creates venue to entertain children on Mid-autumn Festival
A programme kicked
off on September 5 at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts
(VECCA),
Speaking at the
launch, Deputy Director of the Centre, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai said that the
four-day event created a venue to meet the demand of entertainment for
children on the Mid-autumn festival.
Through displays
and folk games organised during the event, children can learn more about the
longstanding national cultural tradition that has been passed down through
generations, she said.
The opening saw
songs, dances and plays performed by artists and comedians from the Youth
Theatre. The artists also interacted with children through short and easy
questions on the Mid-autumn Festival.
An exhibition
highlighting the study tradition of Vietnamese people also opened on the
occasion. Using traditional materials of papers, bamboo and glazed paper, the
exhibition displays installation of the character ‘ong nghe’ (doctor), which
was the highest academic title in
The display conveys
a message on the importance of study to children in the context where they
have just entered a new school year.
A mini water
puppetry stage was also set up at the centre to delight young audiences with
performances on a traffic safety topic.
Children are also
free to develop their creativity and imagination through drawings and playing
folk games during the afternoon of September 6. In addition, they can take
part in folk games such as tug of war and jumping, and bit mat dap nieu, in
which participants are blindfolded and have to try to smash a clay pot.
A colourful lantern
procession scheduled at 7:30 pm the day after is expected to attract 400
participants, who will start at the centre and go along Hoa Lu, Le Dai Hanh,
Ba Trieu, Dai Co Viet and Hoa Lu streets. The procession will be accompanied
with lion dances and martial arts performances.
Artists from the
Youth Theatre will bring lots of laughter and fun for young audiences at an
arts programme held at 7:30 pm on the full-moon day, which falls on September
8.
Local businesses
also offered visitors with many products such as books, cloths, moon cakes,
and toys at good prices.
Phuong Nam
theater presents the Full-Moon Festival
On the occasion of
Tet Trung Thu, or Full-Moon Festival, Phuong Nam Theater will organize a new
show called Le Hoi Trang Ram (The Full-Moon Festival). The program will be
held at the
The program
includes selections of circus such as animal circus and illusion magic
performances that are compiled based on the usual theme of “Uncle Cuoi –
Sister Hang Nga” (The two fairy-tale characters who live on the Moon),
bringing a jubilant festivity atmosphere. During the program, children will
have a chance to attend a meet and greet with the happy Cuoi, the beautiful
Hang Nga, their herd of cute Tho Ngoc rabbit, and funny clowns. More special,
a new performance called Ngoc Ky Lan ac chien Xa Tinh (Unicorn fighting Snake
monster) will be performed by Thanh Nghia Duong dragon dance group.
A Bazaar in
3A Station Bazaar
is a new concept for Weekend Market, which will be held this weekend on
September 6-7, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The bazaar will be showcasing locally
sourced & hand-made products with an emphasis on quality and value for
money.
The first 3A
Station Bazaar was run in August, featuring more than 40 booths with a wide
variety of products. Following this success, it is now back for September,
promising more interesting goods.
3A Station Bazaar
is also operated to support local charity activities. Saigon Children’s
charity, which was founded in 1992 to help disadvantaged Vietnamese Children,
will be participating with a booth in the event.
Their vision is to
provide the local and expat communities with a unique shopping experience.
Hence, the event is fun for both individuals, and family as there will be
food on offer, together with entertainment and street performances. Moreover,
3A Station Bazaar will offer two 30-minute Happy Time Sales, one in the
morning and one in the afternoon where all products will be discounted 10%.
3A Station Bazaar
is located at 3A
The Prince
Cinema viewers are
about to see the star of Die Hard, Bruce Willis again, together with Jason
Patric (acted in My Sister’s Keeper) and Korean star Bi Rain in the newest
action movie called “The Prince”.
The movie tells a
story of Paul Brennan (starring Patric), who was once a dangerous criminal in
Besides Patric and
Willis, the movie also grabs people’s attention as the casts include Jessica
Lowndes (90210), Rain (Ninja Assassin), Johnathon Schaech (The Legend of
Hercules), John Cusack (2012), Gia Mantegna (The Frozen Ground) and Curtis
“50 Cent” Jackson (Escape Plan).
The Prince is now
on show in
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Thứ Bảy, 6 tháng 9, 2014
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