Football on Phu Quoc for expats

Mango Bay Phu Quoc Resort invites registrations for its fourth football tournament for expats in May - Photo: Courtesy of Mango Bay Phu Quoc Resort

Mango Bay Phu Quoc, an eco-luxe resort will hold its fourth football tournament for the expat community in Vietnam, on Saturday May 7.

The Mango Bay Vietnam’s ‘Champions League’ is an annual tournament taking place at Cua Can Stadium on beautiful Phu Quoc Island. This year, eight expat teams will compete for the title on a brand new pitch for a bigger cup.

The registration fee is US$150 per team of 10, including a goal keeper, six starting players and three substitutes. Complimentary water will be provided, and each player can enjoy a reduced rate of US$12 per person for a special BBQ night. The cost is US$15 for nonplayers.

“We expect this year’s football tournament to attract ‘the usual suspects’ from previous years and some newcomers from the expat community in Vietnam. It’s one of the best ways to socialize and get to know each other better,” said Ronan Le Bihan, Mango Bay’s general manager, in a statement,

The tournament runs all day, with group matches in the morning and finals in the afternoon.

Mango Bay has special promotion during the event of three nights for the price of two, with rooms and bungalows starting from US$40 to US$75.

For information, email Ronan at gm@mangobayphuquoc.com. Player names must be sent by April 20.

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Job fair for students on Saturday

Vietnam Centre Point Education & Media Group in conjunction with the HCMC University of Social
Sciences and Humanities will hold a job fair for students at the university on Saturday.

All students, who are looking for a part-time job to gain experience, are invited to the event to meet with enterprises that are seeking employees.  A free course on communication skills will also be offered.

Students could win the lucky draw with a special prize of English learning scholarship.

Huynh Trong Hieu, director of Viet Huy Ltd, Co.; Le Xuan Khue, executive director of Hang Viet Company; Tran Huu Phuc Tien, director of Vietnam Centre Point Education & Media Group and Huynh Thi Kim Hoan, lecturer of the Business Edge teaching program will be giving talks.

The job fair will be at Hall C at the university at 10-12 Dinh Tien Hoang Street in HCMC’s District 1 at 8 a.m..

For further information, contact the Vietnam Centre Point at 8E Luong Huu Khanh Street, District 1, HCMC or tel: 3925 3183 or 0919 751 275, email: dtsv@vietnamhopdiem.edu.vn, website: http://www.vietnamcentrepoint.edu.vn.

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Bob Dylan plays in HCMC

Bob Dylan will play songs by the famous Vietnamese songwriter, Trinh Cong Son, at his HCMC concert - Photo: Official website of Bob Dylan

The legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will perform in Vietnam for one night only on his 2011 tour at the HCMC-based Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 702 Nguyen Van Linh Parkway, District 7, on April 10. 

He will sing at Loretta Grounds of the university in front of around 10,000 fans in a live show called “Bob Dylan commemorates Trinh Cong Son”. Trinh Cong Son, who wrote over 500 songs during his lifetime for Vietnam’s music, died in 2001. He was considered the Bob Dylan of Vietnam for his moving antiwar songs in the 1960s and 70s.

Bob Dylan has been a major figure in music for five decades with his songs such as Blowin’ in the Wind and The Times They Are A Changin’ which became the anthems for the US civil rights and antiwar movements. The 70-year-old artist Bob Dylan has won many Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and many others throughout his career.

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Vietnamese comic books translated into Japanese

Shin’E Toshihiko (L), director of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office, talks with artists from the Danh Tac Viet Nam comic series - Photo: Tuong Vi

Phan Thi Media Education and Entertainment JSC has agreed for Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office to translate the company’s comic series Danh Tac Viet Nam (Vietnamese Famous Works) into Japanese.

Phan Thi adapted the country’s great literary works into comic books last year. Danh Tac Viet Nam has three famous titles Chi Pheo by Nam Cao, Tat Den (Turn off the light) by Ngo Tat To and Giong To (Thunderstorm) by Vu Trong Phung.

“It’s a great opportunity for Vietnamese comic books to be promoted in Japan, which is home to a great number of comics,” Shin’E Toshihiko, director of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi-Kyoto University Collaboration Office, told the Daily.

The titles will be translated into Japanese together with another comic book published by Phan Thi named Orange about basket ball at Vietnamese schools. The translations will be done by Japanese lecturers who are teaching the language in Vietnam.

In August the Japanese version will be entered into Comiket, the Japanese Comic Market, which is the world’s largest self-published comic book fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, in August and December. It attracts over a half million people to join and many amateur comic artists attend.

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Local filmmakers compete in int’l short film contest

A scene captured from the Fast Food Film’s “A superhero’s choice”

Photo: Tuoi Tre

Fast Food Film, Pepe, Blue, Left at the Cow, Young Media, and The K6 Gang competed in the 48-hour film festival that ran from Friday to Sunday.

The local filmmakers competed with hundreds of filmmakers from more than 20 countries to win cash and a chance to be featured in the prestigious Short Film Corner at Cannes as well as the Las Vegas NAB show from April 9th – 14th this year.

At this year’s competition, held by 48-hour Film Project, the public will vote for their favorite films.

Of the Vietnamese films, Fast Food Film’s “A superhero’s choice” about a superhero trying to save the planet to win a girl’s heart with its straightforward story-telling was the most popular.

Others are more experimental. DOOO from Left at the Cow, for instance, features one character who sits and talks in front of the camera throughout the film. Young Media’s “That’s the way it is” about the dire consequences of environment and forest destruction and The 6 Gang’s “Looking for water” are two other interesting takes on environment protection.

Further information is available at http://www.48gogreen.com/

Fast Food filmakers
 

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Cesar winner to perform in Hanoi

Dominique Blanc adds a unique resonance to the "La Douleur"

Photo: Tuoi Tre

French Actress Dominique Blanc, who has won four Cesar awards, will perform the La Douleur play (The War: A Memoir) at the Hanoi Opera House at 8:00 pm February 24.

The drama, directed by Patrice Chereau and Thierry Thieu Niang, won Dominique the best theatrical actress the second time in her artistic career at the Moliere Awards last year after she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 65th Venice Film Festival in 2008.

“The War: A Memoir” is based on the diary Marguerite Duras kept during the war while she was waiting for her husband Robert to return from a concentration camp at Dachau.

She wrote the diary as a testimony of her own suffering during the war, which reflects a punishing absence, despair, the shame of being alive while waiting for a loved one to survive unspeakable horrors.

Dominique Blanc adds a unique resonance to the drama when her performance style is thought to be simple, yet intense.

Born 1956 in Lyon, Dominique Blanc trained at the French Drama School in Cours Florent. Dominique, who is one of the most critically acclaimed French actresses, has won four César Awards including one for Best actress in 2000 for “Stand-by” and three for Best actress in a supporting role, in 1990 for “Milou en mai”, in 1992 for “Indochine” and in 1998 for “Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train.” Marguerite Duras - who was born in 1914 in Gia Dinh, near Sai Gon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam - is the author of many novels, plays, films, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L'Amant (The Lover) in 1984, about a fifteen-year-old girl’s relationship with an older Chinese businessman. The late writer also wrote the script for the film “Hiroshima mon amour” and directed her own films, including “India Song”. She died of throat cancer in Paris at the age of 81.

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Artist portrays childhood dream

Beautiful dreamer: Artist Ton That Bang. – VNA/VNS Photo Sunny Rose.

HCM CITY — A solo exhibition titled Ky uc, La va Hoa (Memories, Leaves and Flowers) displaying 30 oil on canvas paintings by Viet-namese artist Ton That Bang has opened in HCM City.

Bang's world of art is highly symbolic in its suggestions about the mysteries of the universe. His paintings are usually dominated by child-like figures, each wearing a pair of dice at the neck like a seal or mark.

A good example of this is the work Yellow Autumn in which the dice not only dangle from the main character's neck but also swing in the air.

This suggests that destiny is tantamount to a game in which each person is moved each time the dice are cast.

The female figure in the painting lacks a neck or arms, indicating imperfection in man's comprehension of the world.

The presence of the yellow leaf, a motif seen in most of his works, reminds us of the passage of time and the ephemerality of life.

"Childhood is made of the initial years of our lives," Bang says.

"In fact, it is everlasting in memory, sub-conscious and dreams.

"The early years are a long dream and drawing the childhood is to tell a dream in a dream. It has a large range of artwork related with the childhood."

But there are almost no more reflections of society. The early days are focused on wooden horses and little girls in various postures whose dresses are sewn of leaves and skirts woven of reeds.

Bang, 48, was born in Quang Tri Province, and studied Music and Arts at the Hue College of Arts in 1986-89.

He is not a prolific painter but has held several solo and group exhibitions in Viet Nam as well as places like Hong Kong, Singapore and the US.

According to friend Dang Tien, Bang learnt drawing by himself and so does not follow any rules or style.

His paintings too do not follow common rules and are, instead, like folk paintings though with original colours and compositions, flexible and modern, with personal traits and rich decorations.

The exhibition at Phuong Mai Gallery, 129B Le Thanh Ton Street, will run until February 28.

The exhibits can also be seen online at www.vietnam-art.com.vn. — VNS

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