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Art & Entertainment News 25/2
Vietnamese cuisine book journeys out of 5-star resort's
kitchen
The five-star Furama Resort has released a 120-page cookbook
titled A Journey Through Viet Nam's Cuisine, featuring recipes from the
resort's culinary library.
The book, published in Vietnamese and English, tells the story
of the central region's cuisine in five parts: the story of food, the recipes
of specialties, the garden of herbs, the selection of teas and the venue of
cuisines.
It shows readers how to cook and enjoy the food at its best,
while introducing Vietnamese cuisine to the world.
The book is available at the resort in
More than 82, 000 books sold at book street festival
After seven- days opening in
According to the latest updates of the organizational board,
82, 434 books were sold with total revenue of VND 4, 505 billion, an increase
of 32, 5 percent in comparison with last year.
At the book festival, the best selling books are book series
of
The highlight of the
This year’s book street festival under theme 'Vietnamese
Spirit and Identity' was appreciated about content as well as decoration.
Belarusian & Russian circus artists perform in city
Belarusian and Russian circus artists will perform at
Six foreign circus performers will be on stage together with
the Hong Loc circus troupe and artists of
The artists will present audiences their performances that won
local and international prizes.
The performance will take place from February 19-March 1.
Vietnamese photographer listed in famous photo book
Nick Ut, whose “Napalm girl” picture shocked the whole world,
has been listed in a photo book “Behind Photographs” of Tim Mantoani.
American photographer Tim Mantoani tracked down the talent
behind some of the world's most iconic photographs and got them to sit for
portraits.
According to a famous website International Business Times, he
used a soon-to-be-extinct photographic medium – the 20×24 Polaroid.
Over a five-year period, he took large format Polaroids of
more than 150 photographers.
Nick Ut’s photo has received a number of prestigious awards
such as the Pulitzer and World Press Photo and is one of the 100 influential
photos in the 20th century.
Longest-ever Tet cake made
The Yakasa-Saigon-Nha Trang Hotel in Nha Trang city, the
central coastal
This is the 12th consecutive year the hotel has made the
record-size cake on the occasion of Tet holiday, said Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc,
Vice General Director of the hotel.
In 2004, the hotel introduced its first 29m-long Tet cake.
This year, tens of chefs made the 875-kg cake, filling it with
various ingredients including green and black beans, pork, bananas and
peanuts as typical flavour of localities nationwide.
Later the day, the cake was cut and sold to local residents and
tourists. Money from selling cake will go to charity.
Banh Tet (round glutinous rice cake) is a traditional cake
enjoyed by southern Vietnamese people on the occasion of the lunar New Year.
It is considered a variant of Banh Chung (square glutinous rice cake), which
is more popular in the northern region.
Tet cake is served with pickled scallions, vegetable pickles
and fish sauce. After cooking, the banana leaves are removed and the cake is
sliced into wheel-shaped servings. The cake may also be sliced and fried to a
delicious chewy crispness.
To prevent the banana leaf from coming apart during cooking,
Tet cake is usually wrapped again several times with a length of plastic
ribbon before steaming.
Presently, Tet cakes have become popular with people in other
regions as they are sold on the market shelves in many localities across the
country.
Photo exhibition on ethnic groups invites entries
Photographers are invited to send photos featuring
The exhibition will be held in the
Each competitor can send up to four 50 cm x 75cm photos of
various genres, including black and white and colour photos.
Soft copies should be sent to the organisers by February 28,
while 50 finalists will be selected by March 15.
According to Dinh Thi Van Chi, an organising member, the
exhibition aims to attract more than 1,300 representatives from 160 countries
who will take part in the 132th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union.
After being displayed at the village in Dong Mo District, 40km
west of Ha Noi's city centre, the collection will be exhibited at the
Cultural activities of northern ethnic minority groups were
demonstrated at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in
Ethnic minority members from the northern mountainous
Members of the Tho, Si La, San Chay, Dao, and H’Mong groups
brought their folk games to the museum and invited visitors to join them.
Additionally, visitors has the opportunity to learn more about
Lunar New Year festivities in the Red River Delta through demonstrations of
“phao dat” (earthen firecrackers) by natives from Hai Duong province,
puppetry from Hai Phong city, and Dong Ho folk painting from Bac Ninh
province.
Established in 1997, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has
served as a research centre and public museum with a mission to collect, document,
preserve and exhibit the cultural heritages of
It houses over 29,000 exhibits, including approximately 25,000
objects related to
Binh Dinh province celebrates Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory
The 226th anniversary of the Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory over
In the early spring of 1789, Nguyen Hue, who was later
proclaimed Emperor Quang Trung, led his troops from the Hue imperial palace
to Thang Long (now Hanoi), which was occupied by the Chinese Qing army.
He launched a surprise attack and defeated about 29,000 Qing
soldiers during a battle on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Addressing thousands of participants, Chairman of the Binh
Dinh People’s Committee Ho Quoc Dung said in recent years, local authorities
have upgraded the
The upgrade was designed to enable the facilities to serve as
cultural and tourist sites and help educate the young generation about
patriotism, he added.
At the ceremony, the provincial committee also received a
certificate recognising the
Sa Huynh holds ‘Fish Catching’ ceremony
Fishermen in the central coastal
During the event, many cultural activities and traditional
games of the coastal region were organized. Joining the event, local people
performed traditional songs and lion dances and prayed for a year overflowing
with good catches, abundant crops, and happiness.
This was an excellent opportunity for local people to preserve
and uphold traditional values and cultural heritages said 63-year old
fisherman Nguyen Thuan, who has attended the fish praising festival for the
past40 years.
Millions in
Television screens across
On the first day of the day of the new year,
On another feature, the Chair for the
Though My Lan and Ly Anh were born in
They said that the spring festival is an occasion for family
gatherings and fun adding that they love Vietnamese food and enjoy cozy
atmosphere during Tet. They shared their deep feelings about Tet, saying that
Banh Chung (square cake made of sticky rice, green bean and fat pork) are an
indispensible part of the year's biggest festival.
Other shows introduced Hungarian audiences to specialties and
a number of traditional Tet customs such as lucky money, calligraphy and
parallels.
Cua Dai beach makes TripAdvisors best list
Travel website Trip Advisor has named Cua Dai beach in the
central province of Quang
The winners were determined based on the quantity and quality
of traveller reviews and ratings on Trip Advisor over a one-year period. The
company announced the best beaches winners last week.
The beach with its miles of unbroken sand and wild and natural
beauty is located five kilometres from Hoi An Ancient Town.
A full list of
Brocade making – a Mong cultural identity
The Tet holiday is an occasion for young Mong ethnic women to
sew themselves colourful costumes and display their national identities.
The northern mountainous
Mong people live in upland villages with costumes weaved by
the clever hands of Mong women. They all feature Mong characteristics, from
design to decoration.
Giang Thi Cong from Sa Long commune, Muong Cha district, said
she makes these dresses every Tet. It takes two months to finish just one
dress.
“This year, I made two,” she said.
With just four colours: green, red, white and yellow, these
women make the colourful dresses, a fine tradition passed down over
generations. Each detail of the clothing is dyed with love for the
motherland.
“We weave during our free time when we don’t have to go to the
rice-fields. It takes a lot of time to make this dress. I can make only three
of them each year,” said Hu Thi Ly in Sa Long commune, Muong Cha district.
For upland ethnic groups, brocade making is essential to their
spiritual life and is a traditional component of Mong culture.
Spring festivals draw visitors to Bac Ninh
Thousands of visitors flocked to the Phat Tich pagoda in the
The Phat Tich pagoda, a special national relic site located
just 25 kilometres northeast of Hanoi, was built in 1057 on a mountain called
Lan Kha during the reign of King Ly Thanh Tong (1054-72). It was reduced to
ashes by French colonialists in 1948 and restored in 1987.
During the excavation of the pagoda from 1949-51,
archaeologists found numerous old stone sculptures carved with flowers and
dragons, bird goddess statues from the 17th century, and a piece engraved
with the head of a fairy, all of which are now on display at the National
History Museum.
A giant Buddha Amitabha statue, 27 metres tall and weighing
3,000 tonnes, was installed outside on the
The Phat Tich Pagoda is associated with Tu Thuc’s meeting with
a fairy. As the legend goes, there were endless peonies on
Every year, people visit the pagoda to take part in the peony
festival, where they enjoy looking at the flowers, listening to quan ho (love
duets) and poem recitations, and playing traditional games. The festival
usually lasts three days.
The same day, thousands of international and domestic tourists
gathered for the Dong Ky Firecrackers Festival in Tu Son town to enjoy the
two giant symbolic firecrackers and the annual procession.
They also joined in traditional games and enjoyed art
performances during the event.
Although the Government banned firecrackers in 1995, the
locality has preserved and upheld the tradition symbolically to ensure its
continuity.
Modern ceramics express ideas
An exhibition at
"The exhibition doesn't present all contemporary ceramic
artists but we expect that through the magnificent artworks of these notable
artists, visitors can imagine various genres of Vietnamese contemporary
ceramics," said Heritage Space Director Nguyen Giang Van.
"They reveal a new, unique expression of artistry and
aesthetics, creating a vastly diversified face for Vietnamese contemporary
ceramics. We wish to establish an active and diverse playground for the
community of ceramic artists in
Lan Huong may be the most unique artist of the exhibition, as
she doesn't create ceramic products but rather paints them. For many years,
Huong has been designing ceramic tiles at Huong Canh in the
Having been engaged with the material for such a long time,
she decided to experiment with it in a series of paintings.
The series debuted at an exhibition in 2007 to wide acclaim
from the public, and the paintings she displayed there sold out almost
immediately.
Vuong Quan, originally an engineer, encountered ceramics when
he was commissioned to work for a number of gas kilns in
Tran Quang Hai's turn to the ceramic arts was even more sudden
and surprising. Formerly a construction contractor, Hai abandoned his job to
follow his artistic calling. After traveling from Huong Canh to Bat Trang to
learn various methods of producing ceramics, he settled down on a small
family farm in Soc Son District to concentrate on expressing his own views
through pottery and ceramics.
"His work, modern and refined in form, ripe and mellowed
in ideas, is a spark of the exhibition," said Van.
The exhibition also displays functional ceramics, a variety of
handmade products from Mai's Ceramics, Dong Gia Ceramics and Chi's Ceramics.
The works use nature-friendly materials, advocating an ecological approach to
making art.
Through the exhibition, the artists also express their desire
to preserve and develop traditional ceramics.
"I want to separate art-oriented ceramic works from the
marketisation trend that prevails in
The exhibition will run until the end of this month at
Heritage Space (
200 artists featured on DVD for Lunar New Year
More than 200 singers, dancers, musicians, and theatre
performers in
The work, Xuan Dat Viet-Tet Que Huong (Vietnamese Spring-
Welcome Lunar New Year in Homeland), features song, and theatre and fashion
performances.
Around 20 cai luong (reformed theatre) artists, from the HCM
City Theatre Association and Tran Huu Trang Theatre, including stars Phuong
Hong Thuy, Phuong Loan and Phi Phung, staged popular extracts from historical
plays like Thai Hau Duong Van Nga (Queen Duong Van Nga).
Pop stars Ho Ngoc Ha and Dam Vinh Hung, and dozens of young
singers such as Dong Nhi, Giang Hong Ngoc and Minh Hang performed songs in
praise of the country, soldiers, love and Spring.
Highlighted performances include a special fashion show
attracting top models wearing the traditional dress of ao dai by talented
designers.-
Ninh Thuan develops craft villages
Bau Truc and My Nghiep villages, two famous Cham craft
villages in the central
Bau Truc pottery village in Ninh Phuoc district, recognised as
a national intangible heritage, is one of oldest ceramic villages in
Every stage of the process of making pottery, from mixing clay
to shaping the products, is done by hand. Upon entering the village gate,
visitors can see pottery products lined along streets, in front of houses and
elsewhere.
My Nghiep village in the same district is famous nationally
for its traditional craft of weaving brocade. Visitors can see locals weaving
brocade and making various products from brocade such as handbags, wallets
and backpacks. Around 80 percent of the village's 700 households are involved
in the craft.
In recent years the province has invested in gates, roads and
showrooms in the two villages to promote tourism. This year the province will
continue to invest in them and solicit investment in tourism services.
The villages attract large numbers of local and foreign
tourists.
Int’l poets to join
The Vietnam Writers’ Association has announced that 550 local
and 200 foreign poets from 40 countries around the globe have registered to
participate in the Asia Pacific Poetry Festival set for March 2-6 in
They will also attend Vietnamese Poetry Day, organised
annually on the fifth day of the first lunar month, which will fall on March
5 this year, a spokesperson for the association said.
In addition,
On the occasion, the foreign poets will visit the
New Year boat racing kicks off on Ly Son island
A boat racing festival was launched on Ly Son island in the
central
Before the kick-off ceremony , religious rituals were held in
commemoration of ancestors and combatants who laid down their lives to defend
national sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly)
archipelagoes.
The five-day festival is one of the biggest events on Ly Son
island, which features cultural identities and prays for
safety and prosperity of local fishermen. It is also a good chance for boat
racers to show their skills and talent.
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Thứ Tư, 25 tháng 2, 2015
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