Sep
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Ho Chi Minh city is lighted up by Lanterns
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A Lantern City will be created in the sky as the Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated on the Saigon Sky Deck at the 49th floor of Bitexco Financial Tower in HCM City.
Customers are invited to bring with them imaginative homemade lanterns of various shapes, sizes and colours, to create a special seasonal atmosphere. All lantern makers will be granted free access to Saigon Skydeck and their works will be displayed till Sunday. Prizes will be awarded for the best lanterns.
The lanterns will be collected until Saturday or when the first 200 have been received.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival (Sunday), 500 gifts from D'art Chocolate, an event sponsor, will be given to all children who attend the Lantern Festival at Saigon Skydeck.
For further information about the programme, contact (08) 3915 6156 or visit: www.saigonskydeck.com.
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Sep
29
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Hanoiant welcomes Bamboo festival
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The Goethe Institute Vietnam will host a percussion music festival Cracking Bamboo at the Youth Theater, 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street, Hanoi on October 7 and the Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du Street in District 1, HCMC on October 10.
Cracking Bamboo combines Asian and Western music to bring to audiences an exceptional and unique sound. Moreover, music troupes joining the festival will make an appearance on the courtyard of the Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi on October 6.
This year, participants from Germany, Norway, France, England, Mongolia, Canada, Belgium, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, will also come together for innovative workshops related to music and performing arts in Bangkok. Three percussionists from the HCMC Conservatory of Music and three musicians from Hanoi will play Vietnamese string instrument dan bau and traditional bamboo xylophone dan T’rung at the event.
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Sep
29
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Making traditional toys mid-autumn at Ethnology museum is attracted by children
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Traditional folk culture from Hoi An City in the central province of Quang Nam will spice up the annual Mid-Autumn festival held at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology this weekend.
The festival has a different theme each year. This year, children will be introduced to Hoi An and Quang Nam's cultural identities through folk games, folk songs and traditional cuisine.
As usual, children and parents can learn to make toys. Artisans invited by the Hoi An Culture and Sports Centre will show how they make toys and traditional dishes.
As many as 25 folk games collected from different regions will be introduced and displayed throughout the event.
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Hoi An, an old town and cooking region
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29/09/2012 09:03:27
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The stage of artists
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29/09/2012 08:59:44
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A traditional making toys in Nam Dinh province
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29/09/2012 08:58:19
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Looking at the prepairation for Ha Long week 2012 in November
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29/09/2012 08:53:33
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Vietnam market with eyes of Kazakhstan airline
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29/09/2012 08:51:09
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Welcome Bamboo 2012 festival
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29/09/2012 08:34:46
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Bru – Van Kieu ethnic minority group with its teaching traditional music
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29/09/2012 08:27:57
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Looking forward to Hanoi international film festival
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29/09/2012 08:23:29
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The Gongs show of XE Dang ethnic minorty
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29/09/2012 08:20:32
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