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Both veteran and younger actors performed at the Artists’ Pagoda, also known as the Nhat Quang Tu (Sunlight Pagoda), to celebrate the birthday of People’s Artist Phung Ha and wish her a long life. The pagoda, located in the city’s Go Vap District and now owned by Ha, was the setting for cai luong (reformed [...]
The central province of Thanh Hoa on May 22 will cast a bronze drum and a sword under traditional rites to present to top-ranking General Vo Nguyen Giap on the 60th anniversary of his brevet and 97th birthday. Chairman of Thanh Hoa province’s Vietnam Cultural Heritage Branch, Ho Quang Son, said the casting ceremony is [...]
Vietnam has especially published an English language version of the best selling book “Buddhist Temples” to welcome the UN Day of Vesak, which is slated to begin in Ha Noi on May 14. The book features 52 popular pagodas from around the nation, in words and pictures, conveying a Vietnamese Party and Government message of [...]
In love with Vietnamese traditional culture? Excited by Vietnamese folk games? Do not walk away. You’re invited to join a festival in a sacred place in Chau Doc, An Giang Province. The fourth “Dragon Boat Races” will begin on May 25 near the Chau Doc Sports Center and Victoria Hotels and Resorts to promote Chau [...]
The Central Vietnam Puppetry Theatre will take 16 traditional water puppetry items to Finland for the first time this autumn. At the same time, 11 Vietnamese puppeteers will be trained in modern puppetry at Finland’s Hevosenkeke Theatre. Kirsi Aropaltio, Art Director of Hevosenkeke Theatre, talks about the event. How did you feel when you watched [...]
The ancient pottery village of Phuoc Tich in Phong Hoa commune, Thua Thien-Hue Province will be renovated for Hue Festival 2008, which will take place from June 3 to June 11. More than VND300 million (US$19,000) was spent on the construction of a kiln, a workshop and a shop where pottery can be display and [...]
If there’s one place in Ha Noi guaranteed not to be crowded in the middle of university term time, it’s the library. This reflects a general trend in Viet Nam: young people are only choosing to read when and what they have to, so classical literature is being left on the shelf. Most of the [...]
More than 50 musicians and dancers from Central Highlands Dak Lak province performed with Cambodian artists at a concert in Phnom Penh on May 20. Part of a cultural exchange program between Dak Lak and bordering northeastern provinces from Cambodia , the concert featured folk songs and dances and the use of traditional musical instruments [...]
The Vietnam-Japan Friendship Golf Tournament 2008 will tee off at the Song Be course in Binh Duong province on May 27. The event offers diplomats, government officials, and entrepreneurs a chance to meet one another, Le Hung Quoc, chairman of the HCM City Union of Friendship Organisations, told a press briefing on May 21. It [...]
Water puppet shows remain popular for children and tourists but the art form is in dire need of a new generation of puppeteers, directors and playwrights After a quick breakfast, Ly Hoang Anh drives off to the Central Puppetry Theatre in Hanoi where preparations are underway for a new water puppet show. “We have been [...]