ASEAN Golden Voice Festival opens

The ASEAN Golden Voice Festival 2011 opened last night at the HCMC Television Theater, with 17 singers from ASEAN nations.

The singers used the opportunity to meet other singers from the region and introduce their country’s music to Vietnamese audiences, reports VietnamPlus.

Last night at the theater at 14 Dinh Tien Hoang Street in HCMC’s District 1 singers performed folk and traditional genres in their native language. They will perform pop songs in English on Friday night. The awards gala party on Saturday night will be broadcast live on HTV9.

Singers Thu Minh, Kasim Hoang Vu, Do Tung Lam and H’Zina Bya will represent Vietnam. The other 13 contestants are Plengpraphun Kingthong and Wongloung Sirilux from Thailand, Khim Su Su Naing and Mr.Kyaw Zin Min from Myanmar, Netta Kusumah Dewi and Hershon from Indonesia, Uela Basco from the Philippines, Samsann Annda and Vannika  from Cambodia, Iqwal Hafiz and Katherine Chan from Malaysia and FIQ and Moon from Brunei.

Two singers from Japan, Annabel Yu and Okuma Ryo, will attend the event as guest singers.

The judge panel will include song-writer Tran Long An, Nguyen Ngoc Thien, Duong Thu of the host country, Indira Sotyawati from Indonesia and Toshiba Emi from Japan.

The organizers will award four gold medals, four silver and four bronze medals and an audience choice prize.

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Vietnam folk songs on modern instruments

A performance program of contemporary music with Vietnamese cultural influences will take place at HCMC Conservatory of Music on January 7.

The program includes a recital of new Australian and American compositions written for guitar and percussion, inspired by Vietnamese music culture. 

Traditional folk songs, melodic and rhythmic idioms from various regions of Vietnam, especially the Highlands, are brought to life in harmony with music of the twenty-first century. Each composition displays the explorations of musical and technical possibilities for the guitar.

The program supported by the Australian National University and the HCMC Conservatory of Music is an Australian-American collaboration between Le-Tuyen Nguyen, a Vietnamese  Australian  guitarist, and Salil Sachdev, who chairs the music department at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts.

Le-Tuyen is also a music specialist of the Creative Arts Council of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, Australia. He is the inventor of the staccato-harmonic duotone, a new guitar technique which involves the simultaneous sounding of two tones on one guitar string.

Meanwhile, Salil Sachdev has composed music for a variety of media including the orchestra, percussion, piano, theater, voice, and electronic music.

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Windsurfing race in Mui Ne on Friday

A windsurfer comes into the beach where the Surf4you Open Cup will be held on Friday - Photo: Michael Smith

A Russian windsurfing school in Mui Ne will hold a downwind slalom racing competition this Friday Dec. 7 with 30 international competitors.

Races for the second annual Surf4you Open Cup at Surf4you International Windsurfing School will start at 12 midday with registrations opening at 9 am. If the conditions aren’t suitable for racing the event may be changed to the day after.

“I want to invite spectators and competitors. Everyone is welcome to register no matter what the level,” the race organizer and kitesurfing school owner, Andrey Zabolotnyy, said.

Competitors will each race seven downwind slalom events over a four kilometer course.

The first prize is a Neil Pryde sail.

Zabolotnyy, 24, who first started windsurfing in Vladivostok when he was nine, said the event would test competitors’ fitness.

“Many people from Vladivostok are already training for the event and they will stay in Mui Ne until the Vietnam PWA Grand Slam that starts February 25,” said the Russian, who has been coaching windsurfing in the resort town for five years.

Dozens of competitors were making use of strong wind conditions on Sunday to train for the race. Many of the windsurfers from Vladivostok in Mui Ne windsurf all year round by coming to Vietnam during their hometown’s offseason.

The windy season in Mui Ne is a few months late this year.

A local freestyle windsurfer who will be racing, Chiga Somogyvari, from Hungary said he likes to race in downwind slalom events the best because they are so fast.

Surf4you is at 90 Huynh Thuc Khang St. in Mui Ne, tel:  1233397716, Website: www.surf4you.ru.

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Windsurfing race in Mui Ne on Friday

A windsurfer comes into the beach where the Surf4you Open Cup will be held on Friday - Photo: Michael Smith

A Russian windsurfing school in Mui Ne will hold a downwind slalom racing competition this Friday Dec. 7 with 30 international competitors.

Races for the second annual Surf4you Open Cup at Surf4you International Windsurfing School will start at 12 midday with registrations opening at 9 am. If the conditions aren’t suitable for racing the event may be changed to the day after.

“I want to invite spectators and competitors. Everyone is welcome to register no matter what the level,” the race organizer and kitesurfing school owner, Andrey Zabolotnyy, said.

Competitors will each race seven downwind slalom events over a four kilometer course.

The first prize is a Neil Pryde sail.

Zabolotnyy, 24, who first started windsurfing in Vladivostok when he was nine, said the event would test competitors’ fitness.

“Many people from Vladivostok are already training for the event and they will stay in Mui Ne until the Vietnam PWA Grand Slam that starts February 25,” said the Russian, who has been coaching windsurfing in the resort town for five years.

Dozens of competitors were making use of strong wind conditions on Sunday to train for the race. Many of the windsurfers from Vladivostok in Mui Ne windsurf all year round by coming to Vietnam during their hometown’s offseason.

The windy season in Mui Ne is a few months late this year.

A local freestyle windsurfer who will be racing, Chiga Somogyvari, from Hungary said he likes to race in downwind slalom events the best because they are so fast.

Surf4you is at 90 Huynh Thuc Khang St. in Mui Ne, tel:  1233397716, Website: www.surf4you.ru.

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Windsurfing race in Mui Ne on Friday

A windsurfer comes into the beach where the Surf4you Open Cup will be held on Friday - Photo: Michael Smith

A Russian windsurfing school in Mui Ne will hold a downwind slalom racing competition this Friday Dec. 7 with 30 international competitors.

Races for the second annual Surf4you Open Cup at Surf4you International Windsurfing School will start at 12 midday with registrations opening at 9 am. If the conditions aren’t suitable for racing the event may be changed to the day after.

“I want to invite spectators and competitors. Everyone is welcome to register no matter what the level,” the race organizer and kitesurfing school owner, Andrey Zabolotnyy, said.

Competitors will each race seven downwind slalom events over a four kilometer course.

The first prize is a Neil Pryde sail.

Zabolotnyy, 24, who first started windsurfing in Vladivostok when he was nine, said the event would test competitors’ fitness.

“Many people from Vladivostok are already training for the event and they will stay in Mui Ne until the Vietnam PWA Grand Slam that starts February 25,” said the Russian, who has been coaching windsurfing in the resort town for five years.

Dozens of competitors were making use of strong wind conditions on Sunday to train for the race. Many of the windsurfers from Vladivostok in Mui Ne windsurf all year round by coming to Vietnam during their hometown’s offseason.

The windy season in Mui Ne is a few months late this year.

A local freestyle windsurfer who will be racing, Chiga Somogyvari, from Hungary said he likes to race in downwind slalom events the best because they are so fast.

Surf4you is at 90 Huynh Thuc Khang St. in Mui Ne, tel:  1233397716, Website: www.surf4you.ru.

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Green film makers get 48 hours in contest

International eco film competition, 48 Go Green, is calling for registration in Vietnam. The competition is an avant-garde festival that gives film-makers the opportunity to express themselves and speak up against the ecological destruction taking place on the planet.

The competition will kick off online at 7 pm local time, February 18.  Entrants will then have 48 hours to make a narrative short film, including writing, shooting, and editing, to submit before 7.30 pm local time, February 20.

At the start each team will be assigned a random theme about the environment, potable water, forests, wildlife, the earth, the next generation, energy, the sea or the planet. The organizer will nominate a character, prop and a line which must appear in the film.

The winner will go to Cannes International Film Festival, accompanied by a US$5,000 cash prize. The 16 top films of 48 Go Green could be selected to screen at the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 9-14, 2011.

48 Hour Film Project launched its first competition in Vietnam last October and November.

For more information, visit www.48gogreen.com.

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Green film makers get 48 hours in contest

International eco film competition, 48 Go Green, is calling for registration in Vietnam. The competition is an avant-garde festival that gives film-makers the opportunity to express themselves and speak up against the ecological destruction taking place on the planet.

The competition will kick off online at 7 pm local time, February 18.  Entrants will then have 48 hours to make a narrative short film, including writing, shooting, and editing, to submit before 7.30 pm local time, February 20.

At the start each team will be assigned a random theme about the environment, potable water, forests, wildlife, the earth, the next generation, energy, the sea or the planet. The organizer will nominate a character, prop and a line which must appear in the film.

The winner will go to Cannes International Film Festival, accompanied by a US$5,000 cash prize. The 16 top films of 48 Go Green could be selected to screen at the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 9-14, 2011.

48 Hour Film Project launched its first competition in Vietnam last October and November.

For more information, visit www.48gogreen.com.

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