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Ten paintings displayed at this exhibition, the first ever held in the UK, feature the Vietnamese country and people.
The most prominent pictures are the “Young Girl with Lotus” by Nguyen Thanh Binh, the “Hue Style” by Do Duy Tuan, the “Old Quarters in the Rain”, and the “Spring Coming” by Pham Hong Son.
The exhibition marks the growing cooperation between the Vietnamese embassy and the Oc-Eo Art Gallery.
Tristano’s free Hanoi show to mark Luxembourg’s National Day
Composer/pianist Francesco Tristano will perform a free concert at the Hanoi Opera House on Thursday to mark the National Day of Luxembourg, reports the Vietnam News Agency.
The program is co-organized by the Vietnam Performing Arts Center and the Embassy of Luxembourg in Hanoi.
The Luxembourg pianist will showcase his talents in some works of J.S.Bach (1685-1750) and many self-composed works.
Tristano is one of the last students at New York’s Juilliard School to complete Bach legend Rosalyn Tureck’s master class. He also studied at the music academies in Brussels, Riga, Paris and Luxembourg as well as the ESMUC in Barcelona. In 2004, he won the first prize at the International piano competition for contemporary music in Orleans, France.
Tristano has released twelve albums which have gained much appreciation from the public and critics.
Paper-mache chicken exhibition in Hanoi
An installation exhibition called ‘Chicken: chip, chic, chicky’ by artist Dinh Cong Dat will be hosted at the Hanoi Goethe Institute from June 25-28.
The show features 150 chickens made of simple materials such as old newspapers or magazines glued
together with steel and bamboo strings. Materials are cheap and emphasize what is of the utmost importance to Dat: simplicity.
Through the interaction of the chickens, the accompanying music of composer Nguyen Xuan Son (SonX) and special lighting, this exhibition promises to be an unusual experience.
Dat was born in Hanoi and graduated in sculpture studies at the University of Fine Arts in the capital. He has exhibited in Dubai, London, New York, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Liverpool and Texas.
Dat will attend the exhibition at 54-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street to answer questions and to demonstrate on request his paper-mache techniques.
National Youth TV Festival opens in Nha Trang
The 1st National Youth Television Festival 2011 is currently on at the coastal city of Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province to mark Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21).
The “Youth TV” program produced by the Youth Television Center is aired weekly on VTV channel.
Another new show titled “Youth-Health-Inspiration-Success” will be aired on VTV6 channel soon. The program aims to guide and provide young people with awareness on social issues, ideals, thinking and life style.
The festival is being co-organized by the Central Committee of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Youth Television Center and Vietnam Television.
The event will run from June 20 - June 21.
In related news, a photo exhibition is being held to celebrate Journalism Day in Hanoi. The display presents 60 colored pictures of Vietnam and its people, photographed by Hoang Minh Quoc.
Phu Nhuan Guitar Club presents special concert
The Phu Nhuan Classical Guitar Club will organize a special guitar concert titled “Guitar Ensemble” at the Phu Nhuan District Culture Center, 70-72 Nguyen Van Troi Street in Ho Chi Minh City at 8 pm on June 21.
The concert will present to music lovers masterpieces by F.Sor, E.Granados, E.Nazareth, J.Bandolim, R.Gnattali and G.Bizet/W.Kanengiser - Carmen Suite.
Guitarists Tran Hoai Phuong, Nguyen Tri Doan, Nguyen Thanh Huy, Pham Thanh Loc and Tran Phuong Quang will take part in the concert.
Tickets priced at VND100, 000 are available at Phu Nhuan Culture Center.
Central Highland inaugurates biggest communal house
An inaugural ceremony of the Kon Klor Nha Rong (communal house built on stilts) was held in Kon Tum Province on June 19.
The inaugural ceremony of the Kon Klor communal house in Kon Tum Province.
The Kon Klor is regarded as the most beautiful and biggest communal house in the Central Highland.
The communal house was rebuilt on the same foundation of an old communal house which was burned down last May.
The house has been built with wood and bamboo at a total cost of around VND1.8 billion (US$85,000). It is 17m long, 6m wide and 22m high with 14 pillars.
It was reconstructed by artisans and the Ba Na ethnic group and took one year to complete.
Ho Chi Minh Museum named ‘City relic’
The Ho Chi Minh Museum, built in 1863 in western architectural style, was conferred the title of ‘City Relic’ in a ceremony in District 4 in Ho Chi Minh City Friday.
The building was one of the first constructions built by the French colonial rulers after their invasion of Saigon or present day this city.
The City People’s Committee converted the building into a museum to commemorate late President Ho Chi Minh in 1995.
In related news, the District 5 People’s Committee in the metropolis recognized Thien Ton Pagoda in Ward 6 as a city relic. The pagoda is closely linked with events of the fight against US and French invaders.
Hue festival features southern cuisine
A weeklong festival featuring foods unique to the southern region opens in Hue today.
“Southern Vietnamese Cuisine Week” will showcase dishes like vit nuong lu(barbecued duck), che thung (thung sweet soup), che ba ba (ba ba sweet soup), goi rong bien (seaweed salad) cooked by chefs from the organizers, Saigon Morin Hue hotel and Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Quoi tourist village.
Dishes will cost VND10,000-60,000.
The festival will be held on Nguyen Dinh Chieu pedestrians-only street along the Huong River.
Exhibition honors works from Hanoi photo contest
The 126 best photos entered in the first Hanoi Artistic Photo Festival earlier this month are now on show at an exhibition in Hanoi.
The festival, launched in March by the Hanoi Art Photo Association and the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists, attracted 746 entries from 138 photographers on the theme “Hanoi – Renovation, Development and Integration.”
The organizers gave away gave three silver and three bronze medals and five consolation prizes.
The silvers were awarded to “Hanoi Feeling” by Nguyen Xuan Chinh, “Singing about 1000-year-old Thang Long” by Pham Huy Khang, and “Grandfather and Grandchild” by Hoang Ngoc Thach.
The bronze medals went to “Ceramic Road” by Nguyen Duc Can, “Spring Sunlight” by Nguyen Quang Tuan, and “Calligrapher’s street” by Nguyen Xuan Chinh.
The exhibition, on at the Trang Tien Exhibition House, 45 Trang Tien Street, will run until June 23.
House on stilts revives in central highlands
More than 1,000 local people and tourists gathered in the central highlands city of Kon Tum last Sunday to celebrate the new biggest Rong house (house on stilts) in Kon Klor village.
At the event, people sang and danced, drank can wine and participated in buffalo stabbing fest.
Kon Klor, name of the village as well as the Rong House, means a village of cotton trees as there were many of this kind previously alongside the Dak Bla River.
The house is 17.2 meters in length, 6.4 meters in width and 22 meters in height. Twelve pillars were made of expensive woods that could stand rainy and sunny season in the highlands.
Built in 2000 with the help of the People’s Committee, the Rong house had been a communal place for cultural and relational activities of the locals.
Until May last year, the house was burned down by a drunk junior-high school student in response to his friend’s challenge.
Later people in Kon Klor village contributed 3,500 working days to rebuild the VND1.8 billion (US$86,400) Rong house again.
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