The moc ban (wood blocks) and chau ban (official administrative papers)
Kings of the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) used to record history are on
display for the first time at an exhibition opened yesterday in Ha Noi.
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 HCM City Department of Tourism and the Handicrafts and Wood
Industry Association of HCM City have instituted a handicrafts and gifts
design contest in which the theme is the city''s distinctive features.
Prominent literary translator Trinh Lu, whose translations include Life of Pi, Norwegian Wood, The Centaur in the Garden, has revealed a new talent, painting, at an ongoing exhibit in Ha Noi.
The UK''s James Cousins dance company will perform Without Stars and There We Have Been, two productions inspired by Haruki Murakami''s novel Norwegian Wood, in Viet Nam on October 22, 25, and 26.
With a vast variety of illegally imported toys
available at reasonable prices, Vietnamese-made toys are falling out of
favour with children in HCM City.
Room to Read (RtR), an organisation that promotes literacy and gender
equality in education across Asia and Africa, is displaying books
collected from across Asia in a "Sharing is Caring Corner" in the lobby
of the Hotel Equatorial in HCM City.
Nhi Khe Village in Thuong Tin District''s Nhi Khe
Commune in Ha Noi, famous for its wood lathing craft for hundreds of
years, will organise the annual Nhi Khe Village Festival on November 27.
A collection of works done with his hands and fingers by stalwart Bui
Quang Anh is on show at a painting exhibition he has organised along
with another veteran, Trinh Thanh Tung, at the HCM City-based Tu Do
Gallery.
Wood, wax and yarn are the mediums of choice for German artist Dorothee
Berkenheger in her new collection at the New Space Arts Foundation in
Hue that is running from April 13 to May 1.
An exhibition at Ha Noi''s Goethe Institute by German
artist Christiane Baumgartner combines the old craft of wood-block
prints with the modern technology of video.
