A project to enhance young actors’ performing skills was launched in Hanoi on November 2 under the auspices of the American embassy.

A Japanese film festival themed “Love” will be held in Phu Yen and Ho Chi Minh City in November.

The Northeast German Philharmonic Orchestra will perform with artists from around the world in HCM City on November 3.

Singing Sli is to preserve and disseminate traditional songs of the Nung ethnic minority group in Lang Son, says a Sli artist, Ha Mai Ven.

The Austrian and Hungarian embassies will co-organise a piano concert and an exhibition on the life, cause and masterpieces of Austrian composer Franz Ferenc Liszt in Hanoi on November 4 to mark his 125th death anniversary.

Hollywood lecturer Pilar Alessandra will run a three-day course for Vietnamese people interested in writing film scripts in late November.

Seven artists from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Theatre (VNOB) and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) are performing in the US at the invitation of the School of Music under the Brigham Young University.

Seven artists from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Theatre (VNOB) and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) are performing in the US at the invitation of the School of Music under the Brigham Young University.

Vietnam has a total of 15 stalls at Charleroi Expo 2011 which opened at the international exhibition centre in Charleroi city, Belgium on October 31.

Artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep from Ho Chi Minh circus troupe were awarded silver lion prize at the 13th China Wuqiao International Circus Festival in Shijiazhuang, capital of China’s northern province of Hebei on October 30.

Vietnam is to feature in a popular English-language travel programme on Bulgarian national television called No Luggage.

Visitors to the northern provinces of Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang will enjoy the colourful costumes of women from the Pa Then ethnic minoirity.

No-where or Now-here, the first collaborative effort by three artists from Vietnam and Japan, will be on display in Hanoi until November 20.

The Vietnam-Japan Rock Festival 2011 themed “Go! Go! Japan!” will be held in Hanoi on December 3.

Jarek Smietana quartet will perform in Hanoi for two nights to celebrate Poland’s Independence Day (November 11).

Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, general director of Asia Book of Records, presented the first Asian record certificate to Vietnam for its dragon statue at a meeting of Vietnamese record makers in HCM City on October 30.

Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee has approved a project to restore the Hue royal citadel in the 2011-2015 period with total investment capital of approximately VND1.3 trillion.

An exhibition featuring 100 photos taken by Wilfred Burchett, one of the most outstanding journalists in the 20th century and a great Australian friend of Vietnam, opened in HCM City on October 28. 

A photo exhibition featuring the friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and Algeria opened in Hanoi on October 28. 

The three-minute film Thuoc La va Nguoi Lon (Tobacco and Adults), made by ninth graders from the Le Quy Don Secondary School in HCM City, has won first prize at the fifth filmmaking contest for Vietnamese students. 

Composer Nguyen Thien Dao has returned to Vietnam from France to arrange an opera ballet based on the famous Tales of Kieu, written by poet Nguyen Du (1766-1820). 

Vietnamese movie “Bi, don’t be afraid” by director Phan Dang Di has made its debut at the Asian Film Festival which opened at the House of World Cultures in Berlin on October 26.

US army photographer Ronald Haeberle who took photos of the My Lai massacre in 1968 returned to the site in Son My, Tinh Khe commune, Son Tuong district in central Quang Ngai province on October 24.

Vietnamese piano prodigy, Trang Trinh, will give a solo concert at the French Cultural Centre, L’espace, in 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi on November 3.

The 2012 World Congress of Esperanto will be held in Vietnam, said the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations and the Vietnam Esperanto Society, at a press briefing in Hanoi on October 26.

15 countries and territories including Vietnam have joined the Asia Stage Alliance, established during the 12th Asia Arts Festival held in Chongqing, China.  

A stage production of Shakespeare's Macbeth by artists from the TNT Theatre will be performed in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang from October 26-November 4.

Twelve singers from China and Vietnam will take part in the 2nd Vietnam-China singing competition, in the northern border province of Quang Ninh from November 12-13.  

The Russia-Vietnam Friendship Association held a ceremony at the Moscow Institute of Economics, Management, and Law on October 24 to vote for Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world.

The northern province of Thanh Hoa plans to invest around VND22 billion in upgrading tourism infrastructure from now till June 2012 to promote the cultural and unique values of the Ho Dynasty Citadel.