"For a Green Planet”
Tuesday, June 08, 2010 (GMT+7)
A program entitled, "For a Green Planet" at the 2010 Hue Festival, will be held on the occasion of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi.
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The Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, the Hue Festival Center, the Culture, Sport and Tourism Managers Training School and the Tali's Media Company together organized the program.
For a Green Planet is to promote the role of the community in propagandizing environment protection at the Hue Festival and make culture and arts a means to propagandize environment protection. The program includes an arrangement exhibition of 11 works by 14 artists nationwide to be held from June 5-13, and an ao dai (traditional long dress) festival to be held on June 8 showing dresses made by 16 leading designers, from environmentally friendly fabric.
Particularly, most works of arrangement art to be displayed along Nguyen Dinh Chieu road in Hue during that time were made from rubbish or recycled materials.
The work entitled "Empty Tree" by Le Viet Trung was made from used plastic cans, which were connected by screws. Paper cranes by Himiko Nguyen and Tran Thu Ha were made from cigarette boxes collected on streets. There will also be works made from rubbish by Tran Huu Nhat and Nguyen Duy Hien, beer/beverage cans by Tran Tuan and Vu Hong Ninh, waste aluminum shavings by Tran Hau Yen The and Le Dinh Nguyen, and Lavie plastic bottles by Phan Le Chung. The arrangement works follow the theme about rubbish and environment pollution looked from different angles. The 11 works are 11 stories about climate change, environment pollution, toxic products, rubbish and the struggle to protect the environment, which has been polluted partly due to the aftermath of war.
The Ao Dai Festival has been held annually during the Hue Festival since 2002 and has caught great interest and support from the public. Under the theme, Lotus & Environment, dresses to be shown at the festival were made from environmentally friendly fabric like chiffon silk and satin by Van Anh Silk and Vikotex using biological dyes made from leaves, flowers and roots.
Designer Minh Hanh is the art director of the Ao Dai Festival, which will be broadcast live on VTV1 at 8pm, June 8./.
Source: VEN.VN