Nguyen Mai, a former SaigonHCMC music professor, has helped preserve and popularise Vietnamese culture in the US, with her 36 brass string-zither. Before 1975, Nguyen Mai taught traditional music and how to play traditional musical instruments, including the 36 brass string-zither in Ho Chi Chi City (previously known as Saigon). After 1975, she re-settled in the US where she no longer gave music classes. However, after moving to Orange County in California, US where thousands of Vietnamese lived, she was invited to teach the traditional music of Vietnam for the Vietnamese community there. One of Mai’s friends brought her a brass string zither from Vietnam, and she started teaching Vietnamese traditional music right in her own garage. Mai and Nguyen Chau, another musical professor, founded the Lac Hong music group in 1989, with the goal of offering more lectures on the different traditional instruments of Vietnam. With only 10 students at first, Lac Hong now has more than … [Read more...] about Vietnamese culture preserved in the US
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Vietnamese cultural features in Hungary’s tourism
Phan Bich Thien, a Vietnamese national in Hungary, is known for her success in tourism and wine in the country. She now owns Fried Castle Hotel and Fried Wine that previously won second place at a Hungarian wine contestant. Phan Bich Thien is an economist. She did her doctoral degree in economics in Russia, and during her studies there, she first met and fell in love with a Hungarian classmate and then they got married. After that, they moved to live in Hungary. Besides economics as her specialty, she often writes poems. Turning an old castle into a hotel for tourists Fried, one of many existing old castles in Hungary, is located in Simontornya City. It belongs to Thien and her husband. With her business knowledge and abilities, Thien and her husband decided to turn it into a hotel and the project has now reaped some success. Some time ago, it was rated as one of the 20 leading hotels in Hungary. Last year, Thien drew up a project to upgrade Fried as a hotel and sent it to a … [Read more...] about Vietnamese cultural features in Hungary’s tourism
Solve Vietnamese culture crossword to win prizes
RULES AND ELIGIBILITY CULTURAL MOSAIC CROSSWORD ( Vietnamese version) >> Get the Picture quiz >> Tet Tet Tet quiz >> Who's Who writing contest Eligibility: The crossword is open to all Tuoi Tre Newspaper's readers, excluding the staff, employees and reporters of Tuoi Tre, and those of the sponsor. Duration: Entry is open from now to 11:59pm, February 16, 2012. How to enter Contest entrants visit the website http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/game/ , select the Cultural Mosaic crossword, and click Sign up to create an account (free of charge) with correct information as requested in the registration form. Each ID number, passport, and email is eligible for only ONE account. For any further information, please send your question to [email protected] with the subject title "Queries on Cultural Mosaic Crossword 2012." How the game is played This is an English crossword about Vietnamese culture, with 10 clues to help the … [Read more...] about Solve Vietnamese culture crossword to win prizes
Music event to promote Vietnamese culture to foreigners
An event aimed to introduce Vietnamese traditional music to foreign students who are in Vietnam for charity and humanitarian work recently took place at the Faifoo Boutique Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. Titled “Musica,” the event gathered around 50 Vietnamese, Australian and American students who came together to seek better understanding of Vietnamese culture through Vietnamese folk songs. The evening began with the performances of many well-known Vietnamese folk songs like “Ly Cay Da”, “Ru Con” and “Qua Cau Gio Bay” by traditional music artists, including Frank Gerke, a German living in Vietnam and famous for singing Trinh Cong Son’s music in Vietnamese and German. The foreign students, who had expressed their wish to learn more about Vietnamese culture, especially music before heading back home, also sang their traditional folk songs in English and mingled with the Vietnamese students afterwards to learn more about Vietnamese … [Read more...] about Music event to promote Vietnamese culture to foreigners
Vietnamese culture in Belgian eyes
A documentary film named, “A different Vietnam” by Belgian film-maker Marcel Wynands was screened at the Lakilon Cultural Centre in Liege city, Belgium on June 1, opening Vietnamese Culture Week in the city. The film features Vietnam’s diversified culture through a vision of the daily life of ethnic minority people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, from paddy fields to market days and local people’s traditional clothes. Marcel Wynands said he and his film-making delegation spent eight days completing the documentary in the northernmost province. Prior to the screening, an exhibition displaying 30 paintings by Overseas Vietnamese artists was staged. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese culture in Belgian eyes