Sep
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Ancient traditional arts not attracting young artists
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VietNamNet Bridge – The ‘Hat Boi Art Theater’, or Vietnamese Classical Opera, and the Puppetry Art Troupe in Ho Chi Minh City have opened short training courses with participation of veteran artists to train young artists in the skills of Hat Boi and Water Puppetry, with an aim to keep the ancient traditional art alive for future generations.
A performance by the HCMC Hat Boi Art Theater.
Veteran artists from Hanoi traveled to HCMC to train young talents the 17 essential ancient performing skills of Water Puppetry. These training courses have rarely been organized in the North or the South, said Meritorious Artist Do Thi Mui.
She also highly appreciated the efforts of young artists in practicing and trying to acquire the skills, as traditional art attracts fewer people these days because of low income.
While other traditional arts such as ‘Cai Luong’ (traditional form of opera of South Vietnam) have seen yearly enrollment in art colleges and universities, Hat Boi and Water Puppetry are taught from one generation to another through folk experience which is not learnt through books.
In this way, the HCMC Hat Boi Art Theater has currently a staff of promising young artists. However insiders worry that this form of training technique will dilute the quintessential characteristics of the ancient art form and the mastery of veterans will either be lost or misinterpreted.
They hope that local authorities launch preferential treatment policies to preserve and develop ancient traditional arts in their true form.
The People’s Committee of HCMC and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism have funded short training courses for young artists to learn the traditional ‘Hat Boi’ and Water Puppetry
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Sep
10
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Museums excavate Danang’s Cam Mit relic
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VietNamNet Bridge – The authorities of Danang City on Wednesday approved the Vietnam National Museum of History and Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture to excavate a relic of Cham people at the Cam Mit area in Danang City.
The Vietnam National Museum of History will cover the expense of this excavation, while Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture will organize a seminar in the locality to report on the excavation’s result and pay expenses for local staff involved in the project. The two museums will share artifacts found at the site, at Cam Toai Dong Hamlet, Hoa Phong Commune, Hoa Vang District, based on the regulations of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Cam Mit is a Cham relic which has been highly evaluated by archaeologists. Experts from Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture found out two embossments of Garuda holy bird and Naga snake and stone door-posts at the site in 2008.
Last week, Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture cooperated with archaeologists from Hanoi’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities to announce the first two excavations’ results of a Cham relic in Phong Le Village in Hoa Tho Dong Ward, Cam Le District, Danang City.
They identified the date of a huge Cham tower from the late 10th century or early 11th century. This was the first time there has been a large-scale excavation on the ancient Cham tower which dates back at least 1,000 years.
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Sep
10
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Keep it local
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VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's television stations are being asked to broadcast more domestically made films and television series to cope with the increasing influence of foreign products.
A scene from the 30-episode series Mua Dau Mua.
The Ministry of Information and Communications is urging the stations to reduce the number of foreign series and to schedule domestically made shows and films at more favourable hours.
Despite the law stipulating that half of all television series be locally made, many TV stations have been airing large numbers of foreign films, mainly from China and South Korea.
The low prices of Chinese and South Korean series and the content are the chief reasons that TV stations have purchased films from these countries.
"Only established stations like VTV, HTV and Binh Duong Province's TV can afford production of up to 3,000 episodes a year to have enough films for screening," said an official from a TV station in a Mekong Delta province.
"Most TV stations don't have film studios and they must buy foreign series for broadcasting programmes," he said.
Nguyen The Dung, director of Bac Giang Province's Radio and Television, said most foreign TV series aired by the station were from the Chinese mainland, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong.
"We don't buy the series. We exchange them with commercial spots aired during the programmes," Dung said.
Phan Huu Minh, director of Thai Nguyen Province's Radio and Television, said: "We don't have a film studio to produce series. We buy many Chinese and South Korean series because the prices of the series are affordable."
"It's not easy to buy feature films produced by the US, Germany or France. They are very expensive. We have to select films that are both cheap and suitable for our viewers," Minh said.
Vu Thi Bich Lien, director of Song Vang Film Studio, said: "Home entertainment in Viet Nam now consists mainly of South Korean soap operas and historical Chinese dramas."
"I think TV stations should think of improving film-screening programmes," said third-year student Nguyen Thi Ngoc in HCM City. "The popularity of Chinese and South Korean series is falling."
"Young people like me feel bored seeing a great number of South Korean soaps which follow a standard sentimental format, usually focusing on the love wranglings of wealthy youngsters," she said.
VTV 1's foreign film programmes now consist of several Chinese series.
VTV3 is screening three South Korean series every day during foreign film programmes. VTV9 screens foreign series nine hours a day; all the series come from the Chinese mainland, South Korea and Taiwan.
Nguyen Ha Nam, VTV spokesman, said VTV aired both foreign and domestic series.
"Between 45 and 47 per cent of TV series broadcast over VTV during prime time in the last two years were locally made," said Nam, quoting a recent survey by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Work is underway by VTV to increase broadcasting hours of locally made series, according to Nam.
"Foreign film broadcasting hours on VTV1 will be reduced and every Sunday afternoon new Vietnamese films will be screened on VTV1 starting in October," Nam said. "We'll show more Vietnamese-made on VTV3 next year."
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HCM City's Monkey Island offers kids a real experience
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10/09/2012 08:57:43
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Number of Chinese tourists in Jan-Aug period down
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10/09/2012 08:55:41
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Travel firms say “no” to “live by makeshift” tourist site
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10/09/2012 08:54:26
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Ho Chi Minh City to host large int’l tourism exhibition
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10/09/2012 08:53:10
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Province to boost tourism industry
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10/09/2012 08:24:09
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European culinary festival held in HCM City
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10/09/2012 08:22:08
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Vietnamese ethnic designs on show in France
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10/09/2012 08:20:34
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“Hanoi - Journeys of Love” exhibition opens
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10/09/2012 08:18:49
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ASEAN needs to double efforts to realize a community
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08/09/2012 11:26:30
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