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Thousands of Austrians and Slovaks were deeply impressed by the unique water puppet shows presented by 16 artists from the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre, during their recent tour of the two countries.
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Notably, the theater staged a special show for the diplomatic corps in Vienna, with the participation of more than 90 ambassadors and diplomatic officials. The lively and colourful performance received thunderous applause from the audience.
All the shows were broadcast on Slovak Television (STV), Vienna Television, and Vietnam Television Channel 4.
On the occasion, the Vietnamese artists also met with fellow puppeteers from the two European countries and exchanged performing experiences.
The tour was one of the activities to mark 40 years of Vietnam-Austria diplomatic ties and promote Vietnamese culture to international friends.
Traditional art development under spotlight
An open-air site for sculptures, more focus on the Fine Arts Institute and the construction of material workshops were among projects recommended at a fine arts conference in HCM City on Friday, June 22.
Experts also discussed the preservation and development of traditional fine arts which painter and researcher Nguyen Quan said were widely dispersed.
Quan said they needed to be gathered together and preserved in order to prevent them from being destroyed or taken out of the country.
He added the nation should bring in laws relating to the restoration of fine arts works in order to prevent bad restorations.
HCM City's University of Fine Arts professor Nguyen Xuan Tien said there were 3,000 artists working in the fine arts industry, 500 of them sculptors.
"However, the sculptors have not been able to create beautiful works despite their big efforts and important costs they spent on," Tien said.
The country should build a big, open-air site far from the city where sculptors could display their works.
Some experts said more focus should be put on the Institute for Fine Arts Research which had modern infrastructure and qualified experts.
They also said thought should be given to construction of three fine arts materials workshop in Ha Noi, Da Nang and HCM City.
Vi Tien Thanh, head of the Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition Department, said the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism had asked the department to plan development of the fine arts sector until 2020 and to submit it to the Prime Minister.
The meeting was organised by the Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition Department of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-operation with the Viet Nam Fine Arts Association.
Festival to promote Vietnamese family tradition
The 2012 Vietnamese Family Festival will be held from June 26-28 at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (VECCA) at No.2 Hoa Lu street in Hanoi to mark the National Family Day (June 28).
The event, held jointly by the VECCA, the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MoCST), will honour and promote the culture and traditions of Vietnamese families to build a modern and civilised society and realise the Prime Minister-approved Strategy for Vietnam Family Development (SVFD) until 2020 with a vision to 2030.
The festival will feature an exhibition of documents, photos, hoardings and posters introducing the Party and State’s care for the family, major contents of the SVFD, and calling people to build cultural lifestyles and fight against domestic violence in their families.
The exhibition conveys the message that families are places of the traditional cultural values of the country, in which the harmonic and close-knit relations among members is the kernel of the family’s sustainable development in modern life.
There will also be a number of seminars and exchanges focusing on upholding family culture, creating a healthy atmosphere for the family’s development to prevent the negative impacts of market mechanism on family backgrounds.
On the occasion, the Hanoi city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-ordination with the Women’s Union and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union will host a seminar entitled ‘Youth’s role in the family during national industrialisation and modernisation’, a gathering to honour families with exemplary cultural lifestyles, and a contest promoting women’s role in creating prosperous and progressive families.
Other activities which will held are dedicated to the elderly, including a programme to encourage them to live in a happy, healthy and useful manner, a longevity celebration for war veterans who once fought on the Quang Tri battlefield and a lullaby-singing contest featuring elderly clubs from Hanoi, Hung Yen, Bac Ninh, Nam Dinh and Hai Duong Province.
Children will also have the chance to join sporting events and folk games such as fishing, To He (toy figurine) making, skipping rope and tug-of-war.
The festival will be well-organised with full of activities for all family’s members to encourage them to make their houses a home, contributing to building a developed and happy community.
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