Sep
20
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Festival honours northeastern ethnic groups
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The 8th Northeastern Region Ethnic Minority Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival will be held in Tuyen Quang province on September 27-30.
The event aims to introduce domestic and foreign visitors to the distinctive cultures of the northeastern region which are being preserved during the process of integration and development.
It will be participated by art troupes from nine provinces, namely Phu Tho, Ha Giang, Thai Nguyen, Bac Kan, Quang Ninh, Lang Son, Vinh Phuc, Bac Giang, and the host Tuyen Quang, said Vu Thi Bich Viet, Vice Chairwoman of the Tuyen Quang provincial People’s Committee.
A photography exhibition on ethnic minorities will take place during the festival, as well as a trade and tourism fair, arts performances, a beauty contest and various sports games.
The organizing board of the Tuyen Quang beauty contest has received more than 150 entries from hopeful local residents and shortlisted 22 for the final round of the competition.
The winner of the contest will receive VND30 million, while the second and third runners up will win VND20 million and VND15 million, respectively.
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Sep
20
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Art exhibition highlights Vietnam-Rok relations
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Nearly 200 photographs and calligraphy works featuring Vietnam and the Public of Korea (RoK) are being showcased in an exhibition that opened in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on September 18.
It is one of the events during the Vietnam-RoK Culture Week to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and the RoK.
The exhibition highlights the traditional culture as well as modern life in the two countries while introducing their long-standing relationship to young generations through pictures illustrating renovation and social-economic development.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Vice Chairman of the Ba Ria –Vung Tau People’s Committee Le Thanh Dung emphasized the significance of this exhibition as part of the Vietnam-RoK Friendship Year 2012.
The exhibition will last until September 23.
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Sep
20
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French flautist, pianist to play
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A flute and piano concert will be staged by French musicians-Clement Dufour and Tristan Pfaff at HCM City Academy of Music on September 20.
The concert is being organized by the French Institute in Vietnam and the Institute for Cultural Exchanges with France (IDECAF)
Dufour, 25, studied the flute at the Regional Music Academy of Rueil-Malmaison and the National Music and Dance Academy of Lyon. He has won numerous competitions and played in many countries. He was nominated “Revelation Classique” by Adami in 2006 and was 2007’s Declic Program laureate of Culture France.
Pfaff, 27, began his studies at the Conservatoire National de Region de Nantes before joining the class of Denis Pascal at the Conservatoire at Rayonnement Regional de Rueil-Malmaison. In 2000 he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, where he won the 2003 prize in piano with honors and the Diploma of Higher Education in piano and chamber music with distinction. Pfaff has won numerous international competitions. His first recording (“live” in Auversur-Oise) was released in 2010 in DiscAuvers.
The concert, which begins at 8pm, will include Debussy’s Syrinx (solo flute) and pieces for Afternoon of a Faun and Bizet’s Carmen.
Ticket costing VND200,000, VND150,000 and VND100,000, (50 percent discount for students) can be bought at 112 Nguyen Du, District 1, HCM City.
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