After nearly a decade of being quiet, musician Giang Son has launched her second album
Bong Toi Jazz (The Shadow of Jazz). The album was orchestrated by
artists Thanh Tam in Viet Nam and Vu Quang Trung in the US. With the
collaboration...
Belgian dancer and choreographer Karine Ponties
has returned to Ha Noi for the fifth contemporary dance festival "Europe
Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance". She continued to collaborate with
the Viet Nam National Opera and Ballet (VNBO) and d a duo dance
piece entitled At...
Researchers are compiling a dossier on ‘then''
singing of the Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic groups to seek UNESCO''s
recognition of the folk art as an intangible cultural heritage of
humanity.
A 23-minute documentary Danh Tang Ong Dieu
(Dedicated to Grandpa Dieu) by Nguyen Hien Anh, a third-year student
from Ha Noi University of Law, has just won two awards at the recent Bup
Sen Vang (Golden Lotus) Short Film Festival. It won...
HCM City-based translator Nguyen Le Chi, who
owns Chibooks company, recently joined an international workshop on TV
and movie script translating and voice dubbing as part of the Shanghai
International Film Festival held between June 13 and 21.
Christian Bourgoignie, head of the
Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation, was presented the medal "For the Cause of
Culture, Sports and Tourism" last Thursday for his important
contributions towards strengthening cultural co-operation between Viet
Nam and Belgium''s French speaking community.
Reporter Tran Viet Van of the Ha Noi-based Lao Dong
(Labour) newspaper has just won the Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3)
photo contest for the seventh consecutive year (2008-15).
Emerging singer Nguyen Tran Trung Quan, winner of
the New Artist and Album of the Year at the 2014 Cong Hien (Devotion)
Music Awards, spoke to Culture Vulture about a recent music trip to Japan.
Opera Co Sao (Miss Sao) by director Huyen Nga won a
special award at the National Song and Dance Competition held in the
northern province of Thai Nguyen last month. The opera also won two gold
and two silver prizes for four actors.
Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud''s debut novel Meursault, Contre-Enquete (The
Meursault Investigation) won the Goncourt Prize (the most prestigious
French literary award) for a first novel in May, and several other
important awards.
A ceremony to close the 10 Months 10 Docs project
was held last week in Ha Noi. The project was organised by the Centre
for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD), and sponsored by
the US Embassy in Viet Nam.
The "Let''s Go to the Cinema" award ceremony was held
as part of the Francophone Film Festival last week in Ha Noi. The event
also marks the end of a four-year cultural mission led by Anissa
Barrak, the Asia-Pacific regional director of the...
Vietnamese-French researcher, lecturer and
translator Doan Cam Thi recently spoke on Vietnamese literature in the
context of the globalisation. Currently an associate professor at the
National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in
Paris, Thi, has actively promoted contemporary Vietnamese works to
France and...
