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News Headlines 27/6
Vocal music
is flavour of the month
The free monthly
show by the HCM Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera to educate the younger
generations about music and dance, Giai Dieu Tre (Young Melodies), will this
month feature the art of vocal music.
The show, at the
city Opera House at 8pm tomorrow, will feature excerpts from Verdi's La
Traviata, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Rossini's The Barber of Seville,
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.
They will be sung
by leading city chamber music stars like soprano Cho Hae Ryong, Ngoc Tuyen,
Hong Vy, Thanh Huyen, Nhu Ngoc, Khanh Ngoc, Thanh Nga, tenor Tran Duy Linh,
Pham Trang, and baritone Thanh Minh.
Tran Nhat Minh,
assistant manager and chorusmaster of the HBSO Opera, will be the conductor
and also introduce the programme.
Minh won the second
prize at the 2003 International Competition for Young Conductors in
Invitations are
available at the venue at
Family Day
focuses on togetherness
It's 7.30pm on
Saturday. Like any other Saturday, all family members of retiree Le Thi Duc
gather around a large table in the living room in downtown Ha Noi. They have
come to enjoy dinner together, a weekly ritual the entire family attends.
"Saturday
dinner is our only meeting gathering all the family," says Duc.
"Even though
we live in the same house, we rarely eat together because during the week, my
son and his wife are busy at work till late. Their children are absent from
dinner several nights for their extra classes."
The Saturday meal
often consists of the family's favourite foods. The two children provide
entertainment, telling stories about their teachers and friends or funny
situations at the office where Duc's son and daughter-in-law work.
Occasionally, Duc
and her husband laugh at the funny anecdotes, while they serve more food to
the children and their parents.
Successful business
man Nguyen Duc Kien has a different approach to bringing his family together
on the weekend. Each Sunday, his family tries a different restaurant
downtown.
"We have been
busy throughout the week," he said. "My two sons often eat
fast-food.
"I take all my
family to a restaurant to enjoy good food while my wife is also free from
cooking."
Kien's novel
approach is part of a growing trend in big cities around the country. With
the pace of city life and work commitments dragging down the number of family
meals taking place at home, more families are opting to meet at restaurants.
A survey by the Ha
Noi-based Institute for Gender and Development conducted in Ha Noi,
Out of the 1,500
participants sampled across a wide range of ages and backgrounds, 21.3 per
cent said they only had meals with their families on the weekend or on
national holidays. Around 9.8 per cent said they regularly had meals together
while 13.5 per cent said they never had dinners with the entire family
present.
Researcher Le Thi
Quy, director of the institute, told Viet Nam News that family meals were
important to family life and allowed family members to discuss their
feelings, keep their families informed and seek advice.
"The trend
that people in urban area eat less and less with their family members due to
different work schedules is inevitable in this period of development,"
she said.
"Each family
should find out the best way to stay in touch, express their love and
care."
The Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism has chosen "A Warm Love Family Meal" as
the theme for this year's Family Day, to be celebrated this Saturday (June
28). As part of the theme, all 30 million households throughout the country
are being encouraged to host a family dinner on the day.
"We hope to
set up a movement of family members having meal together more often so that
all family members share their feelings and care for one another," said
Tran Tuyet Anh, head of the ministry's Family Department that has organised a
range of activities for the day.
"Family meals
are an important time to nurture and educate children, take care of elders
and strengthen bonds."
Club
donates books to island kids
The Hoi An Book
Club has donated 500 books to children living on Cu Lao Cham Island, 18km off
the coast of the ancient city.
These books, which
were collected from families in Ha Noi,
The Hoi An-based
club holds free reading groups for around 100 children on Sundays.
Photo,
writing contest fetes April 30
All Vietnamese
people and foreigners of all ages and occupations are invited to participate
in a photo and writing contest about their feelings for
The contest has been
jointly organised by Tuoi Tre (Youth) daily newspaper and Saigontourist, one
of the country's largest tourism agencies, to celebrate the 40th anniversary
of the Sai Gon liberation which took place on April 30, 1975.
Entitled Tan Huong
Ban Sac Viet (Enjoy the Vietnamese Identity), the contest's themes are about
beautiful moments which depict the beauty of nature, daily life and
traditional customs, festivals, local gastronomy and the hospitality of the
Vietnamese people across the country.
In the writing
category, the contest welcomes new ideas as well as descriptions of personal
experiences of experts and tourists about tourism products, local culture and
cuisine.
All written entries
should be submitted by October 31, 2014, while the photo entries should be
sent by February 28, 2015, to http://bansacviet.tuoitre.vn or to the Tuoi Tre
newspaper, 60A
The contest's jury
comprises well-known photographers, writers and journalists from
Documentary
film about Yersin screened in Khanh Hoa
The Swiss Embassy
in
This is only the
third screening worldwide of the 90-minute documentary film by filmmaker
Stephane Kleeb on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Yersin’s discovery
of the deadly Bacillus virus responsible for the bubonic plague. He was
credited with making up a vaccine that saved the world from the biggest-ever
scourge then.
The film reminds us
of the great scientist’s hard work, perseverance and a lifetime of devotion
to science and humanity, Swiss Ambassador Andrej Motyl said at the opening of
the show, which attracted more than 500 scientists and students from local
research institutes and universities.
Born in 1863 in
Ultimately, he
chose the coastal city of
As founder of Nha
Trang Pasteur Institute, co-founder and the first principal of the
In 1990, a relic
complex dedicated to him in Khanh Hoa was recognised as a national cultural
relic site. Later in 2013, he was awarded the posthumous title of “Honorary
Citizen of Vietnam”, in coincidence with his 150 th birthday and 70 th death
anniversaries.
He was buried in
Nha Trang, with the epitaph, “Benefactor and humanist, venerated by the
Vietnamese people” etched on his gravestone.
Earlier, the
documentary on Yersin was screened at the
First
Television Team Game Show for villages
Lasta Multi-Media
Joint-Stock Company has just announced to organize and operate a Team
Game-show for the villagers under the name “The Bridge in Dream” to raise
funds to build bridges.
At the moment in
many rural areas, especially the Mekong Delta, with the complex network of
rivers and canals, local people find it hard to travel due to the lack of
bridges, or they have to build their own temporary and dangerous bridges.
Through the form of a television game show, “The Bridge in Dream” is where
businesses, organizations, and individuals can contribute both physically and
financially to build bridges for the villagers.
The game show will
consist of two teams, selected from two enrolled villages, who will compete
against each other to win the prize of VND500 million to build a bridge for
their village. The prize is sponsored by Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Joint
Stock Corporation. The other team will receive supports to build a social
service facility such as a well or a water filter system.
In the first
season, each of the enrolled villages will vote for a representative to
participate in challenging games, which will require a strong sense of
solidarity and both intellectual and physical power. The winner team will
receive a cable-stayed bridge worth VND500 million. The game show is expected
to contribute to turn villagers’ dream of durable bridges into reality to
serve the need of traveling, communicating and studying. The game show will
be aired by Let’s Viet Channel, from 7:30p.m to 8:30p.m on the last Sunday of
every month, and will commence in July 2014 at destitute villages, especially
remote areas in the Mekong Delta. It will be aired every month and consist of
12 episodes in the first year.
Heat, light
and transformation in ‘Summer Galleria’
A group exhibition
named ‘Summer Galleria’ by eight artists is opening at San Art in HCMC’s Binh
Thanh District, featuring paintings and installations made in diverse
materials and styles which can transfer many metaphors of destinies,
nostalgias, delusions and desires of humans to visitors. This galleria
showcase focuses on the key ideas of heat, light and transformation.
The impression
comes first with the ‘Lotusland’ of San Art co-founder, Dinh Q Le, with his
tiny fi gurine devoted to the victims of Agent Orange.
Then, the symbolic
presence of the lotus as a sign of re-birth is echoed in the work of Ngoc
Nau, whose ‘Blinded Girl in the Word of Light’ walks a landscape blooming
into photographic existence with its speckled growth of light.
Nguyen Huu Tram Kha
and Truong Cong Tung, meanwhile, comment on the internal and external worlds
of birth and enlightenment in the metaphorical picturing of energy as human
reproduction and transformation, respectively working in soft sculpture and
hand-drawn illustrations.
Photographer Phan
Quang looks to the mythologies of birth in
Le Hoang Bich
Phuong adapts the traditional folk stories of the past in producing her own
transformations of animal and human, her careful silk-ink paintings being the
delicate reminder of the fragility in the human desire for change. Meanwhile
Sandrine Llouquet pushes transformation one step further by thinking of how
technology is another form of light and knowledge, taking viewers on a
futuristic journey with her installation of tiny red ladies in a possible
ritual of respect.
Finally come the
weavings by Tran Xuan Anh with her interwoven layers of white dried paint.
Her painting is a careful textured surface or perhaps a blast of white light,
a blank space, a new beginning.
The exhibition will
run until July 31 at San Art, 3 Me Linh Street in HCMC’s District 1.
After being crowned
at the Vietnam Idol 2013 contest nearly two months ago, Tran Nhat Thuy, a
23-year-old singer from the northern province of Nam Dinh, will release her
first music video “Khoanh khac tuyet voi” (a wonderful moment) on July 5.
The song is
composed by HCMC-based young musician Pham Toan Thang, who has had some hits
like Co be mua dong, Dau mua, Chay mua, and Tim among local youth. He also
challenges himself in the X-Factor reality show on VTV3 for the fi rst season
this year.
Defeating over
25,000 contestants nationwide to achieve the highest position, Nhat Thuy has
been an inspiration for other young people to pursue their singing career.
“’Khoanh khac tuyet voi’ is a good memory of me about Vietnam Idol contest. I
also mark my first step on the way to the singing career,” Thuy said in a
statement.
The video will be a
collage of memories during her time at the contest. Previously, Thuy
performed the song on stage of Vietnam Idol’s final round night in May. Tran
Nhat Thuy is a student of the Military College of Culture and Arts in
Mélissa
Laveaux performs at Idecaf
The Cultural and
Cooperation Antenna in HCMC and Idecaf will host a performance by Canadian
musician Mélissa Laveaux at 8 p.m. on June 28 at Idecaf in HCMC’s District 1.
Born in Montréal,
Mélissa Laveaux is an
Laveaux follows
genres of pop and jazz. She has heaped praise from her peers in the magazine
Colorlines and is a recipient of the Songs from the Heart from the 2006
Ontario Council of Folk Festivals’ conference in the World Music category for
penning “Koud’lo.” Apart from concerts in
Tickets to her show
are available for purchase at Idecaf,
The U.S. Consulate
General in HCMC has announced to support US$10,000 for the international
online film festival YxineFF 2014.
The grant is under
the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month,” organized by
the
President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in June 2014. The US$10,000 grant
will go to YxineFF for the category ‘LGBT Focus’ of YxineFF 2014. On Tuesday,
at the Cargo Bar in HCMC, the U.S. Consulate General and YxineFF organized
Rainbow Cinema Night, screening three short films, including Talking to My
Best Friend directed by Nguyen Le, Even Just for One Day directed by Nguyen
Trong Khoi and Spring Memory directed by Trang Zen.
Previously, on June
17, 19 and 20, there were screenings at The American Center showing films
nominated for YxineFF’s Rainbow Heart Award through four years of the
festival. At the screenings, film crew members joined Q&A sessions to
share their experience in making their films.
“LGBT Pride Month”
includes other events such as lectures, photo exhibitions and discussions
throughout June to enhance the society’s understanding of the LGBT community.
Commenced in May
2010, YxineFF - an annual online international short film festival at
www.yxineff .com - is a voluntary, non-profit and independent project
receiving support from many organizations, companies and individuals,
including the Danish Cultural Development & Exchange Fund, Goethe Institute
Vietnam, British Council Vietnam and the U.S. Consulate General in HCMC.
With the slogan
“Sharing. Love. Cinema”, YxineFF’s target audience is young independent
filmmakers and cinema lovers. The YxineFF 2014 is themed ‘The Dreamers’,
following ‘Choice’ (2013), ‘Individual’ (2012), ‘Belief’ (2011) and ‘Love’
(2010). YxineFF 2014 screens 76 films in four categories: International
Competition, Local Competition, Panorama and In Focus.
Source: VNS/VNA/VOV/SGT/VNN
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Thứ Sáu, 27 tháng 6, 2014
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