Art & Entertainment News 1/10 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. “ 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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