A special performance has opened Culture Tourism Week to commemorate
Vietnamese celebrated poet Nguyen Du (1766-1820) in his homeland in the
central province of Ha Tinh''s Nghi Xuan District.
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...
Nearly 100 businesses, travel agencies and hotels
joined a promotional programme in the central city from this month
through next March, offering a 10-60 per cent discount for their
service.
Comparatively new festivals involving animal
slaughter, mostly aimed at making profits for local organisers, will not
be permitted from next year, Culture Minister Hoang Tuan Anh has said.
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.
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.
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...
The Culture Ministry is inviting submissions from
Vietnamese living all over the world for two major art events amidst
concerns the capital city has no adequate venue to host one of them.
Nguyen Van Phuoc, who lives in Da Lat in the Central
Highlands province of Lam Dong, has been a nature photographer for 30
years. He uses the acronym MPK, which stands for Michael Phuoc Khung.
A ceremony was held recently to honour vi giam, a type of folk singing in
the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh. The traditional art has
received a slot on UNESCO''s world intangible heritage list.
French concert pianist Celimene Daudet is a
French concert pianist who has performed on prestigious European stages
in France, Germany, Russia and England. She is well-known for her
projects that combine piano with other performance arts, especially
dancing. Her repertoire covers the history of...
The Ha Noi Open Exhibition, which Work Room Four
Studio organised, has proven to be one of the main attractions in the
capital city''s art life this month.
