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18 - 24 March

By DA NANG Today / DA NANG Today
March 18, 2019, 10:15 [GMT+7]

Exhibition of contemporary art entitled ‘Bridge’

The event will feature a total of 35 multimedia art works created by American multimedia artist Mark Cooper along with overseas Vietnamese painter Vu Trong Thuan.

Wednesday 20 March to Wednesday 3 April

Da Nang Fine Arts Museum

Free admission

Fascinating 'Cau Ngu' Festival 

This traditional annual event shows the fishermen’s strong desire for peaceful offshore fishing trips, with bumper catches.  Apart from solemn rituals, the festival also features numerous exciting cultural and sporting activities.

Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 March 

An Hai Bac Ward, Son Tra District

Free admission

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.

Friday 22 to Sunday 24 March (the 17th and 19th days of the 2nd lunar month)

Ngu Hanh Son/Marble Mountains area

Free admission

Wind instrument performance

Sunday 24 March  7.30pm

At the western end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge, opposite the Museum of Cham Sculpture

Free to watch

Tulip Festival

The flower festival will have ‘Land of Colourful Flowers’ as its theme. It will turn the Sun World Ba Na Hills Resort into a little ‘Netherlands’, along with outstanding artistic performances.

More than one million colourful tulips will light up the Chua Mountain at the Sun World Ba Na Hills Resort, providing an unforgettable experience for visitors.

More than 15 famous varieties of tulips will be on display, such as Flash Point, Green Dance, Indiana, Purple Valley and Negrita. The flowers have been imported from the Netherlands and grown in Da Lat City, which has ideal weather conditions for tulips to grow.

Open until 31 March

Sun World Ba Na Hills

Admission fee is 700,000 VND per person which includes a 2-way cable car ticket and entertainment activity fee.

‘A Story of Ao Dai’ show

‘Ao Dai’ is the embodiment of the Vietnamese female beauty and charming, and it is national apparel symbol of the Vietnamese people.

With the purpose to bring a symbol of Vietnamese culture to visitors arriving in Da Nang, the Risemount Premier Resort Danang is proud to be the first place in the city to organise ‘A story of Ao Dai’ which is the show on tradditional Vietnamese long dresses and art performances of three regions in Viet Nam.

The show will be an art performance to introduce Vietnamese culture to international friends.

Open daily from 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Risemount Convention Centre at the Risemount Premier Resort Danang, 120 Nguyen Van Thoai, My An Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District.

Tickets, priced at 500,000 VND per person, can be bought via +84 (0) 236 3 899 999.

For more information about the show, please contact the resort via +84 (0) 236 3 899 999 or visit at https://risemountresort.com.

‘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 high-rises. It is followed by delightful performances of singing, dancing, and playing traditional Vietnamese musical instruments.

Each of them showcases 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 4.30pm and 5.40pm

The Labour Culture House, 2 Cach Mang Thang Tam

Tickets, priced at 400,000 VND for per foreigner and at 200,000 VND for per Vietnamese visitor, can be bought at the Culture House.

‘Bai choi’ (singing while acting as playing cards) performance

Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March  7.00pm - 9.30pm

On the pavement of Tran Hung Dao at the eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge in Son Tra District.

Participation fee is 20,000 VND per person

Dragon’s head breathes fire and squirts water

Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March  9.00pm

The eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge

Free to watch

Han River Bridge swings open

Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March  11.00pm

The Han River Bridge

Free to watch

Movies:

US

Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway.

From Friday 22 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong  

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

Metiz Cinema, on the first floor of the Helio Centre, 2 September Street

100,000 VND per ticket

All The Devil's Men

A battle-scarred War on Terror bounty hunter is forced to go to London on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him into a deadly running battle with a former military comrade and his private army.

From Friday 22 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong  

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

Metiz Cinema, on the first floor of the Helio Centre, 2 September Street

100,000 VND per ticket

Hotel Mumbai

A gripping true story of humanity and heroism, HOTEL MUMBAI vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Academy Award-Nominee Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name and Nazanin Boniadi, "Homeland") is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.

From Friday 22 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong  

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

Metiz Cinema, on the first floor of the Helio Centre, 2 September Street

100,000 VND per ticket

The Cyclist King

A true story about Uhm Bok Dong, a Korean hero and winner from the time when Japan held a bicycle race in order to take over Korea during the Japanese Invasion.

From Friday 22 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong  

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

Metiz Cinema, on the first floor of the Helio Centre, 2 September Street

100,000 VND per ticket

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Goku and Vegeta encounter Broly, a Saiyan warrior unlike any fighter they've faced before.

From Friday 22 March

CGV Vinh Trung Plaza, 255 - 257 Hung Vuong  

CGV Vincom Mall, 910A Ngo Quyen

Metiz Cinema, on the first floor of the Helio Centre, 2 September Street

100,000 VND per ticket

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