Viet Nam News
HCM CITY — The Festival Viet – Phap (Viet Nam- France Festival) will be held at IDECAF in HCM City tomorrow as part of the city’s cultural activities to celebrate 45 years of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and France.
The event, with the theme “Sharing a Sky”, will include cultural exchange activities, and theatre and music programmes staged by professional and young artists.
Film screenings and forums with veteran filmmakers, including Vietnamese-French film directors Viet Linh and Tran Anh Hung, will also be included.
Music performances by saxophonist Xuan Hieu and pianist Tuan Manh will be the featured shows.
Young singers Vo Le Vy, Julie Thanh Nguyen and Kim Khanh will also perform.
Participants will have a chance to take photos with mini sculptures and maquettes about Sai Gon by artist Le Xuan Giang.
A photo exhibition by Thai Phien, a member of the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), will open tonight.
Dozens of black-and-white and colour photos of female nudes will be displayed.
The works are from the artist’s collections of nudes that he has shot for more than ten years.
Phien’s photos of nudes were first shown in Viet Nam in 2007. The images were from his Springtime by Thai Phien, the country’s first photo book of nudes.
The book won a prize from the Viet Nam Association of Photographic Artists. It was also recognised as one of HCM City’s top 10 cultural events of 2008 by Voice of Ho Chi Minh City.
Phien has published three photo books of nudes.
The festival’s organisers are the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France and An Yen Media Education and Entertainment Company.
It will close on December 10 at 31 Thai Van Lung Street in District 1. — VNS