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Dragon
dance festival to celebrate Ha Noi's liberation
Ha Noi will hold
the fourth dragon dance festival this Saturday, as part of a series of
cultural activities to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the city's
liberation on October 10.
The Ha Noi Dragon
Dance Festival 2014 will take place from 1.30pm to 18.30pm at the King Ly
Thai To Park, opposite the Hoan Kiem (Sword)
According to the
organising board, the festival features pairs of dragon dancers from all
districts in the city, promising a large-scale event with motley-embroidered
dragons.
After the dragon
dance and an award ceremony, the pairs of dragon dancers will parade around
the
German
director to screen film in Viet Nam
Director Pepe
Danquart will come to
The Academy Award
winning director, whose work focuses on German society, sports and politics,
comes at the Viet Nam Cinematography Association's invite.
Run Boy, Run, an
adaptation of Uri Orlev's novel, tells the true story of an eight year old
refugee who escapes from a
The film will air
at 7pm in German with Vietnamese and English subtitles. After the screenings,
there will be question-and-answer sessions with the director.
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An art project
entitled “Street Art Gallery Hanoi” is underway in
Paintings showed on
walls around the German Embassy campus in
Additionally, an
online gallery with works involving in the project as well as
painters’portraits will be posted on the website: www.streetartgallery-hanoi.com.
The exhibition runs
until late 2014.
Veteran
author writes cultural commentary
Noted culture
researcher and author Huu Ngoc has just published a new book containing his
commentaries on Vietnamese culture as well as famous Vietnamese and foreign
contemporaries.
Titled Huu Ngoc –
Dong Hanh Cung The Ki Van Hoa Viet
In his latest work,
published by the Information and Communications Publishing House, the
96-year-old culturist writes about the development of Vietnamese culture
including the impacts of exchange with foreign cultures.
His commentaries on
Vietnamese and foreign acquaintances that he has directly met or been
influenced by also paint a vivid picture of Vietnamese culture.
Among the people he
discusses are Huynh Thuc Khang, Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ho Chi Minh, Phan Khoi, Tan
Da and Vu Trong Phung.
"In Vietnamese
culture, we should understand the very important notion of change," Ngoc
said at the book's launching ceremony held last Saturday as part of the Ha
Noi Book Fair.
"So where or
what is the Vietnamese cultural identity?
"The roots of
over 3,000 years ago are still living. For example, here and there, there are
still images of ploughs and buffaloes; old folk verses and songs still live
in the souls of Vietnamese people, consciously and subconsciously."
Poet Tran Dang Khoa
said Huu Ngoc's latest work was "a special book, a dense and diverse
cultural forest with many colours, simple, strange and alluring.
"Huu Ngoc does
not seem to age. He's like a fossil skeleton. Time seems unable to "strike"
him. He's like a river flowing very rapidly…"
Born in 1918 in Ha
Noi, Huu Ngoc is fluent in four foreign languages – French, English, German
and Chinese. He has authored numerous articles, including commentaries on
foreign cultures and long-running columns in Le Courier du Vietnam and Viet
Nam News.
His writing is
light, but carries many interesting and little-known facets of a culture,
using historical sources, myths, legends, festivals, cuisine and politics. He
also delves into spiritual aspects of other cultures.
A collection of his
essays titled A Sketch of Vietnamese Culture in French and English is
considered a literary landmark that was presented by the Vietnamese
Government to visiting Heads of State at the 7th Francophone Meeting in Ha
Noi in 1997.
He has continued to
work on the book after 1997, developing it into a larger tome of 1,200 pages
under a new title, Wandering through Vietnamese Culture that included
selections from the weekly edition of Viet Nam News.
Khanh Hoa
develops new tourism products
The central coastal
Among those are dolphin
performances at
In addition, the
local tourism sector has looked into eco-tourism along the
The province is
undertaking maximum efforts to prepare for the Sea Festival 2015 and the 6 th
Asian Beach Games in 2016, with a focus on infrastructure and tourism
services.
This will be the
third time an Asian sports competition is held in
During the first
nine months of this year, Khanh Hoa welcomed more than 2.7 million tourists,
up 21 percent compared to the year before. They included more than 608,000
foreign tourists, an increase of 26 percent.
The province earned
more than 4.5 billion VND (214 million USD) from tourism activities.
Ancient
literature temples honor Vietnamese literature
Five
Van Mieu Quoc Tu
Giam- the
The remaining
records are
Pop singer
My Tam to bring free concert for youth
Music lovers will
have a chance to enjoy her popular and latest songs in various musical
genres, such as pop ballad, electronic dance Rock, Latin house and more.
Musicians Le Quang
and Tam Vinh, choreographer John Huy Tran, dancers Lam Vinh Hai and Anh Khoa,
and artists of the MTE dancing troupe will join the performance.
The organizer
expects the concert will attract from 20,000-30,000 audiences.
The singer will
also bring the music show to
Artists
join street project to mark
Artworks by 21
Vietnamese and foreign artists are being hung on walls surrounding the German
Embassy in
The project was
launched as an event to mark
Participating
artists were encouraged to present their ideas of how to overcome barriers
between people.
Works will be on
display until the end of 2014. An online gallery of the exhibits and artists’
profiles can be seen at www.streetartgallery-hanoi.com.
Also at the press
conference, Ambassador Jutta Gisela Frasch revealed the inauguration of a
“German House” in
These streets will
include Hang Buom, Hang Giay, Luong Ngoc Quyen, Ma May, Dao Duy Tu and Ta
Hien.
The move is aimed
at creating more open space for tourists and help the cultural environment of
the old quarter, particularly in terms of food.
According to the
Hanoi People’s Committee, business activities on the sidewalks will be banned
to make walking easier for tourists.
The committee also
licensed several parking lots covering a total area of 648 square metres to
facilitate the increased parking demand.
In April this year,
Dong Xuan Joint Stock Company piloted the project to make these six streets
pedestrian only. They found that the project would be feasible and had strong
public support.
The Department of
Transport has been asked to improve the road surface of these streets.
Around 30
Vietnamese artists will be in
They include
singers Thu Minh, Hoang Hai, Truc Nhan, Trang Phap, cai luong (a kind of
Vietnamese traditional music) artist Que Tran, and the artist delegation from
the
The program,
running from October 1 to 4, aims at establishing an aid society to support
Kwon Ji Yeon, the five-year-old passenger rescued from the Sewol ferry that
sank off South Korean coast on April 16.
Kwon was born to a
Vietnamese mother and a South Korean father who died in the accident with her
older brother. The Sewol ferry disaster killed more than 290 people.
The program is one
of the major activities of a series to celebrate the 22nd year anniversary of
the
The main show of
the program, slated to take place on September 3 at
The show director
Oh Hyung Jick has expressed his appreciation of Vietnamese artists since they
do not receive any payment for their performance.
This is the second
time the show is hosted in
Both shows are
intended to help Vietnamese people living in
There are around
230,000 Vietnamese people living in
The performances
also hope to help children who were born to Vietnamese – Korean parents
understand more about Vietnamese culture.
Japanese
antiques on show in city
The exhibition
‘Japanese Antiques’ has just opened at the HCMC Museum of History, displaying
about 240 antiques dating back to the Nguyen Dynasty from the 16th century to
give Vietnamese visitors a glimpse of Japanese history and culture.
On display,
antiques are arranged into different themes from household ceramic utensils
and bronze worshipping objects like Buddhist statues and altar cupboards to
metal coins and many fine arts works.
Vietnamese people
can have a chance to admire Katana sword, a wooden or metal weapon of the
Japanese people in the 17th century, as well as traditional altar cupboards
and incense burners for use in rituals of Japanese, and Netsuke masks made of
wood.
The show aims at
highlighting the trade exchange between
The exhibition runs
until February 29 next year at the museum,
Source: VNS/SGGP/VOV/Dantri
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Thứ Tư, 1 tháng 10, 2014
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