10 - 16 August
6th Da Nang Cong An (Police) Newspaper Football Tournament
Organised by the Da Nang Cong An Newspaper, this year's event marks the 70th anniversary of the Viet Nam People's Public Security (August 19).
Eight teams are participating, divided into 2 groups:
Group A: the Da Nang and Quang Nam Police departments, the DHC Company, and the Da Nang Transportation and Bus Station Management Company.
Group B: the city’s branches of the Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank and the Viet Nam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, the Phu Hoang Transportation and Service Joint Stock Company, and the Da Nang Fire Prevention and Fighting Police Department.
Under the competition’s rules, the teams will compete in a round-robin format in the qualifying stages.
Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 August
Tuyen Son Sports Village, Hoa Cuong Bac Ward, Hai Chau District
Free admission
Tuong street performance
The Tuong street performances during 2015 will take place every Sunday from mid-July until late September. Apart from enjoying impressive Tuong performances at the event, visitors will be introduced to Tuong mask drawing art and dress codes. In addition, they will have the opportunity to take photos in Tuong costumes which will be available for hire at the event.
At 6.30pm each Sunday
Eastern end of the Han River Bridge
Free admission
Musical performance
A nightly musical performance featuring famous local, national and overseas Vietnamese singers.
Every evening from 8.30pm
Memory Lounge, 7 Bach Dang Street
Tickets can be booked on 0511 3575898 or 0905 881360
Traditional musical performances for domestic and foreign visitors
During the hour-long shows, domestic and foreign visitors will be treated to live Vietnamese traditional music, solo performances on traditional musical instruments, colourful-costumed dancers, humorous short sketches, and delightful folk songs.
Wednesday 12 and Saturday 15 August 7.30pm
Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theatre, 155 Phan Chau Trinh Street
50,000 VND per person
Groups of visitors and students will respectively receive 30% and 50% discount.
Dragon's head breathes fire and squirts water
The eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August 9:00pm
Movies:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the movie centres on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organisation, which is bent on destabilising the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organisation, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
From Friday 14 August
CGV Vinh Trung Plaza at 255 - 257 Hung Vuong street
CGV Vincom Mall at 910A Ngo Quyen street
90,000 VND per ticket
Self/Less
In this provocative psychological science-fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Academy Award® Winner Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organisation that will kill to protect its cause.
From Friday 14 August
CGV Vinh Trung Plaza at 255 - 257 Hung Vuong street
CGV Vincom Mall at 910A Ngo Quyen street
90,000 VND per ticket
Pixels
As kids in the 1980s, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie 'The Fire Blaster' Plant saved the world thousands of times - at 25 cents a game in the video arcades. Now, they're going to have to do it for real. In the movie, when intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and misinterpret them as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth using the video games as the models for their assaults. Now-US President Cooper must call on his old-school arcade friends to save the world from being destroyed by PAC-MAN, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Centipede, and Space Invaders. Joining them is Lt Col Violet Van Patten, a specialist supplying the arcaders with unique weapons to fight the aliens.
From Friday 14 August
CGV Vinh Trung Plaza at 255 - 257 Hung Vuong street
CGV Vincom Mall at 910A Ngo Quyen street
90,000 VND per ticket