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Lễ hội hoa anh đào năm nay sẽ được tổ chức trong Cung thể thao Quần Ngựa, vẫn vào cửa miễn phí như năm ngoái, kéo dài trong ba ngày, từ 10 đến 12-4. Ban tổ chức cho biết, năm nay sẽ có nhiều loại hoa anh đào được trưng bày hơn, …
Bao Vinh could have been another Hoi An but sadly this forgotten town, long left by the wayside, has slowly fallen asunder through years of neglect While the Old Town of Hoi An in Quang Nam is well-preserved and renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Bao Vinh in Thua Thien-Hue province, despite its similarities, has [...]
The Champa Sculpture Museum in Da Nang City has been welcoming visitors for nearly a century. Built in 1915 with sponsorship from the Ecole frangaise d’Extrreme-Orient (French Institute of the Far East), the museum is on the corner of Trung Nu Vuong Street and Bach Dang Street. The building, designed by French architects Delaval and [...]
Competent bodies and cultural experts have been discussing measures to the Hanoi Old Quarter for over ten years, but most of the measures are still only on paper. The wish to preserve the 100ha of Hanoi’s Old Quarter, which was established in the 15th century, is still a wish since preservation measures have been implemented [...]
Lack of audience is the biggest problem for most traditional arts like Cheo, Tuong, Cai Luong, but not for puppetry, which in confronted by a lack of manpower. Compared to other traditional arts, puppetry, especially water puppetry, is attractive to audiences. But this art is only attractive to foreigners and child audiences, not Vietnamese adults. [...]
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 [...]