Quan The Am (Avalokitesvara) Festival

This 3-day event will feature a number of solemn Buddhist traditional rituals, including the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Statue procession and a ceremony to pray for peace and safety throughout the year.  Official participation will include enlightened monks from such countries as Myanmar, Thailand, and Japan.

In addition, there will be various exciting cultural and sporting activities including a poetry and music exchange, the floating of flower garlands and coloured lanterns on the river, a photo exhibition about the Marble Mountains, ‘bai choi’ (singing while acting as playing cards), a calligraphy performance and Zen tea, a village festival of flags, and a running race.  There will also be a traditional boat race on the Co Co River.

Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 March (the 17^th and 19^th days of the 2^nd lunar month)

Ngu Hanh Son/Marble Mountains area

Free admission

Details:

Time	Activity	Venue
14 March
8.00am	Buddhist flag raising ceremony	Quan The Am (Avalokitecvara) Pagoda
9.00am	Buddhist Cultural Museum opens	Buddhist Cultural Museum
9.00am - 1.00pm	- Photo exhibition about the Marble Mountains - ‘bai choi’ (singing while acting as playing cards) performance	Su Van Hanh Street
2.00pm	Traditional martial arts	Su Van Hanh Street
4.00pm	- A calligraphy performance - Debut of a special issue of the magazine entitled ‘Dieu Am Le Hoi Quan The Am’	Da (Stone) Pagoda in Su Van Hanh Street, near the Quan The Am Pagoda
5.00pm	A ceremony to pray for peace and safety throughout the year	Main stage of the Quan The Am Pagoda
7.00pm - 10.00pm	- Opening ceremony of the Quan The Am Festival - Musical performance	Main stage of the Quan The Am Pagoda
15 March
6.30am	A run for peace	Su Van Hanh Street
8.00am	Solemn Buddhist traditional rituals	Da (Stone) Pagoda
8.30am	A village festival of flags	Su Van Hanh Street
3.00pm - 7.00pm	Solemn Buddhist traditional rituals	Da (Stone) Pagoda
8.00pm - 10.00pm	A candle-lit flower floating	Quan The Am Pagoda
16 March
7.00am	Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Statue procession	Quan The Am Pagoda
8.00am - 9.00am	A village festival of flags	Su Van Hanh Street
	A traditional boat race	Co Co River
2.00pm - 6.30pm	Solemn Buddhist traditional rituals	Su Van Hanh Street
7.00pm	Closing ceremony of the Quan The Am Festival	Main stage of the Quan The Am Pagoda

Street arts programme

Local residents and visitors can enjoy various exciting street arts performances such as beatbox, yoyo and magic.

Saturday 18 March  7.30pm to 9.00pm

The western end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge, near the Cham Museum

Free to watch

Football

After their 3-3 home draw on Saturday with Ho Chi Minh City, SHB Da Nang will next play at bottom of the league Long An on Sunday.

Sunday 19 March  5.30pm

Long An Stadium

Cruise ships in port

Tuesday 14 March

7.00am - 6.00pm  Dream Cruises’ Genting Dream (3,500 passengers from Asian and European countries)

8.00am - 6.00pm Seabourn Cruise Line’s Seabourn Sojourn (400 Asian passengers)

Tuesday 14 to Wednesday 15 March

7.00am Tuesday to 5.00pm Wednesday - Star Cruises' SuperStar Virgo (2,500 Chinese passengers)

Saturday 18 to Sunday 19 March

2.00pm Saturday to 5.00pm Sunday MS Chinese Taishan (around 900 Chinese passengers)

‘Charming Da Nang’ musical programme

This 60-minute programme opens with a stage presentation highlighting the city’s most impressive sites such as the Da Nang International Airport, the Han River and the tall buildings.  It is followed by delightful performances of singing, dancing and traditional Vietnamese musical instruments, each of them showcasing the culture and beauty of Da Nang, and Viet Nam as a whole.  Interestingly, there is a song named ‘Charming Da Nang’ which was written specifically for this programme.

Open daily at 8.00pm

The Labour Culture House, 2 Cach Mang Thang Tam

Tickets, priced at 800,000 VND, can be bought at the Culture House.

Musical performance

A nightly musical performance featuring famous local, national, and overseas Vietnamese singers.

Every evening from 8.30pm

Memory Lounge, 7 Bach Dang

Tickets can be booked on 0511 3575898 or 0905881360

Dragon's head breathes fire and squirts water

Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 March 9.00pm daily

The eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge

Free to watch

Han River Bridge swings open

Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 March 11.00pm

The Han River Bridge

Free to watch

Movies:

Beauty and the Beast (P)

This is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience.  It is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman, who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle.  Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realise the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.

From Friday 17 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

100,000 VND per ticket

The Last Vampire Princess (No age restriction)

Pasha is a delivery boy for an express delivery service in Moscow.  One evening he is delivering a parcel to a hotel when he witnesses an attack on a mysterious hotel guest called Dana.  Pasha steps in and saves the girl from her attackers, who possess amazing, supernatural powers.  Representatives of the secret intelligence agencies arrive on the scene and proceed to offering Pasha a job in the top secret Department ‘D’.  It deals with evil spirits, performing the daily accounting and control of all the non-human creatures that live in the city, such as poltergeists, goblins and mermaids.

From Friday 17 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

100,000 VND per ticket