ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 16/1
Published: 15/01/2011 05:00
HCMC to host book road fest during Tet
Ho Chi Minh City will organize the first-ever Book Road Festival to celebrate the New Year of the Cat from January 31 to February 3, according to the city’s Department of Information and Communications.
Visitors could view a wide range of books on display along the Mac Thi Buoi Street, near the Nguyen Hue city flower road in district 1.
Exhibitions featuring new and bestselling books, calligraphy demonstration, and Q&A session with the authors will be organized.
The organizers including local publishing houses, book distribution companies and private bookstores will also showcase a special display area dedicated to children books.
Festival-goers will have a chance to witness antique, valuable and rare books like “Technique du peuple Annamite, “Hoang Trieu Ngoc Diep”, “Hoang Tu Pho”, “Hoang nu pho”, “Hoang Trieu Ton Pho tien bien”, and “Gia Dinh bao”.
The fest is expected to encourage a reading culture and promote the city’s tourism to local and international visitors.
Ha Long Bay needs more votes to secure World Wonder title
Ha Long Tourism Week 2011 is designed to lure more people to vote for Ha Long Bay, as 2011 is the deadline for voting the New Seven Wonders of the World.
The event is scheduled to take place on April 29-May 2 in Bai Chay, Tuan Chau resorts and the center of Ha Long city under the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Ha Long Bay was recognized by UNESCO as the world natural heritage in 1994 and 2000.
Currently, the New Open World Foundation has nominated the Bay as one of the world’s new seven natural wonders, bringing about a unique chance for Vietnam to gain the title and advertise the country’s tourism potentials.
Besides, a series of cultural, sports and tourism activities will be organized in the local key tourist destinations like Mong Cai, Uong Bi, Äong Trieu, and Van Äon during the Tourism Week.
Exhibition of Vietnam’s artistic works held in France
An exhibition of Vietnamese paintings and literature works is taking place in the French southwestern city of Chaniers from January 10-26.
Initiated by Béatrice Vedrenne, the city’s librarian, the event is held with the support of the Association of Open Hands (Mains ouvertes).
All proceeds from the event will be donated to a kindergarten for orphan children in Vietnam.
Under the framework of the event, an information and library centre in Charente Maritime province also displayed some works of Vietnamese literature that had been translated into the French language.
Guidebook captures Can Tho spirit
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Can Tho has become the first locality in the country to be featured in a colorfully illustrated tourist guide book that its promoters call MComic.
The Mekong Advertising and Supplying Travel Information Co., Ltd (Metinfo) officially released on January 12 the “Tham Quan Can Tho Qua Tranh Ve” (Sightseeing Can Tho through drawings) guidebook.
The book employs a comic-graphic medium in which images convey a sequential narrative that helps tourists learn about the city on the banks of the Mekong with its beautifully portrayed natural landscapes and easy-to-remember historical and cultural stories.
“I hope that tourists can in a few minutes get a complete overview of Can Tho, the delta’s biggest city,” said Tran Kim Dinh, Metinfo director and chief editor of the book.
Established in 2005, Metinfo is the first travel advertising company in Vietnam. Its experience over five years has helped it compile the book with succinct and accurate information.
The simple but detailed drawings capture the spirit and soul of rural Vietnam in the southern region, a Metinfo representative said.
“We expect the Mcomic to be a valued souvenir for visitors to Can Tho,” he added.
The illustrated guidebook, published by the Youth Publishing House, contains ninety-two 18cm by 28cm pages using the Couche-Matt paper, and will sell at VND45,000.
The Can Tho City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has bought 2,000 copies of the book to offer as gifts and to document the city’s tourism promotion activities.
From Poland with nostalgia
The memories of his homeland and his love for it suffuse the works of Vietnamese-Polish artist Hoang Ngoc Huu whose works are on display at an exhibition in HCM City.
“I am happy to have my first ever solo exhibition in my home country,” Huu says.
Hoi Tuong (Reminiscence), organised by the Lotus Gallery and HCM City Exhibition Centre, features 66 oil paintings he created back in Poland.
“Painting is both my soul and expression of love to the motherland and my family there,” the 70-year-old artist said.
Many of the works are simply named – Vietnam, Thieu Nu Hue (Hue Woman) and Le Hoi Hai Ba Trung (Festival Memorising Trung Sisters).
He also pays tribute to his new life in Poland through paintings like Thieu Nu Ba Lan (Polish Woman).
Huu, who was born in Hue, moved to Poland in 1969 to continue his studies in shipbuilding and went on to marry a local woman.
In 1983, instead of writing a diary, he began to draw to register his nostalgia for his homeland. His works have been displayed at several solo and group exhibitions in Poland, Germany, Russia, Japan, and China.
The exhibition, at the HCM City Exhibition Centre, 92 Le Thanh Ton street, runs until January 20.
Get festive for Tet at Cham cultural center
The Cham Cultural Exhibition Center in Binh Thuan Province will host a week of cultural events for Tet (Lunar New Year) from January 30 to February 8.
The highlight of the program is the exhibition of royal costumes of the Cham imperial family. See what the Cham kings, queen, princes and princess were wearing – including crowns, seals and swords and betel nut making sets. Also see costumes, musical instruments, objects and products that Cham people used in festivals.
Apart from exhibits of traditional craft villages like brocade weaving and ceramics, the center will also display farming tools such as buffalo carts, fish traps and stone jewelries plus a collection of stone statues of Aspara dancers, Genesa, Avalo Kitecvara Gods, a lion, Linga-Yoni and many documents written in Cham language.
Brocade weavers and pottery makers will demonstrate for visitors, so guests can join contests. Learn how to cook at Cham cake making displays or just enjoy a free cake.
Rija Nugar ( New Year Festival) and folk artistic performances will be on every night during the festival week.
The Cham artist troupe from Bac Binh District will perform Saranai pan-pipe, Yin-Yang couple dance, Po Jija dance, Vai Chai singing and many kinds of ethnic Cham dance and singing.
The center is in Phan Hiep Commune, Bac Binh District, Phan Thiet City.
Circus comes to Hanoi
The Vietnam Circus Federation will host gala circus shows at the Central Circus in Hanoi on January 14-16. The galas to mark the 55th birthday of the federation will feature the very best of Vietnam circus talent.
Artists such as Tam Chinh, Thai Manh Hien, Luu Phuc, Ngoc Truc and Manh Cuong from around the country will travel to the capital to perform. The galas promise fun and amazing feats, like the Superman Swing which won a gold medal at the third international circus festival in Spain, Tung mu nghe thuat (hat-juggling) which won gold at the national circus festival, Nhao lon tren khong (aerial acrobatics) that won the bronze medal at the second international circus festival, De tru – chong nguoi tren khong (trapeze) and Uon luon tren vong (acrobatic hoola hoops).
The highlight will be the Lang toi (My village) circus which has been staged in France, Spain, Germany and Australia. Performers and acrobats during Lang toi perform a village-inspired show through the clever use of bamboo.
Tickets are on sale at the circus center, 67-69 Tran Nhan Tong Street, Hanoi for VND100,000, VND120,000 and VND150,000. For more information, call 043 941 2064.
DJ group Tha Trickaz back to Vietnam
After the success of their last concert last June about street culture “On Slam”, the DJ Group Tha Trickaz will come back to Vietnam by invitation of the Cultural and Cooperation Department of the French Consulate in HCMC to give a performance at the Idecaf, at 8 p.m. on January 17.
The group that has been going for 10 years, the so-called Tha Vietnam, includes two Vietnamese-French DJs Pho and iRaize. Tha Trickaz represents the combination between hip hop and electro music such as dub step or drum & bass. Their performances best illustrate the magic of combined imagination: rare and traditional vinyl cut up with sampling, scratching, analog instruments, live musicians & the MPC real time drumming.
Discovered from the contest “Printemps de bourges 2009”, winners of “SFR Young Music Talents 2010”, the originality of their music allows them to collaborate with respected artists such as Kid Koala, Dj Kentaro, Wax Tailor, Shabbaz The Disciple, Ali (45 Scientific).
CDs include Iclonoclast Sound Adventure – LP (2005) ; The Cloud EP (2009) ; Gypsy Robot et Megaphone (2010).
Tickets are available at the Idecaf at the prices of VND100,000 and VND50, 000 for students.
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