An installation sculpture of paper, wood, glass, steel and waste
material is on display in the Rendezvous Space, or Cotic, at 60 Nguyen
Thai Hoc Street in Hoi An.
The ancient city will host the annual Hoi An-Japan
Cultural Festival with a series of activities from August 28 to 30, Hoi
An''s culture centre said yesterday.
"Feeling Japan" is the theme of a festival that
opened in HCM City yesterday, giving thousands of visitors, mostly young
folks, a taste of Japanese culture.
An exhibition of paper horses that convey the relationship between the
French and the Vietnamese people, and the bilateral cultural exchange
will open tomorrow in Ha Noi.
The Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province Tourism Information
and Promotion Centre is surveying the province''s several tourist
destinations such as craft villages, historical sites, temples and
pagodas from May 15-23.
Various contemporary art forms inspired by the Vietnamese do (poonah)
paper will be showcased at Hanoi Rock City this Sunday to celebration of
the traditional material.
Than Van Huy has trained 30 young girls in his village to make paper
lotus flowers in an attempt to revive the traditional craft in Hue''s
Thanh Tien Village.
Pioneering painter Phan Hai Bang has literally given
the art world some stick with his latest showcase, which features
pictures made on truc chi (bamboo paper).
A dozen pretty dolls stand around Nguyen Thuy Duong as her fingers
deftly work on another creation, carefully dressing a doll in a stunning
red paper dress.
The local short film Lan, Dung Khoc (Lan, Don&rsquot Cry), made by a group of
high school students from Da Nang, was among five award winning
contestants at the Asian Student Film Festival in Japan.
