The Bamboo School and Viet Nam for Nepal, a fund for earthquake victims,
have collaborated to organise a night market and fair in the beautiful
outdoor space at Eden Hanoi tomorrow.
On a small stage decorated minimally with a bamboo bed and a house made
out of a carton with a thatched roof, a group of students from To Hoang
primary school performed the play Su Tich Cay Vu Sua (The Legend of...
Viet Nam News reporter Phuoc Buu captures scenes of the Tet pole-raising
ceremony being re-enacted in the former Royal Palace in Hue today
(February 11).
A one-hour experimental music concert on Saturday will feature dan tranh (16-chord zither),
dan bau (monochord) and bamboo flute played by German composer and
percussionist Burkhard Beins and Vietnamese traditional musicians.
Huu Chap Village in Bac Ninh Province has played the traditional game bamboo
keo co (tug of war) for hundreds of years, but now it is being lost amid
rapid socio-economic development, said an elderly resident, Nguyen Van
Hai.
Artist Phan Hai Bang, who d a very special type of paper called truc chi, is now working with his team to bring back what he calls "old values" in a really big way.
A bamboo house designed by Viet Nam''s H&P Architects was awarded a
Highly Commended status in the House of the Year category at the World
Architecture News (WAN) Awards 2014.
A bamboo complex in the northern Vinh Phuc Province has won "The
Building of the Year" award at the ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council
Asia) Awards for Architecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bamboo roots used to be burned as firewood in rural areas of Viet Nam,
since farmers only used trunks of bamboo trees for handcrafts or the
building of houses.
The biennial Viet Nam press-caricature painting contest, the Rong Tre
(Bamboo Dragon) Cup, kicked off yesterday welcoming entries from amateur
and professional caricaturists living in Viet Nam.
Two traditional Vietnamese musicians will join the Drums and Voices
musical performance by artists from ASEAN countries and Japan held in
the capital this month.
The tradespeople behind many of the traditional goods sold in the Old
Quarter will give demonstrations of their handicrafts from tomorrow to
the end of August.
