Continuing a creative journey

The work "Golden season on Ngoc Linh peak". Photo: LE TRONG KHANG

Creative interaction

The Quang Nam Literature and Arts Creation Camp 2025 is called a special creation campaign because this is the first time the camp is opened in a semi-centralized form, with the simultaneous participation of more than 50 members from many different majors.

The camp only has one “topic” common to all majors: reflecting the development in all aspects of Quang Nam homeland after 50 years of peace . Furthermore, the camp organizes concentrated field trips for only 3 days, but the duration of the camp lasts nearly 3 months to have the best works.

According to poet Nguyen Tan Ai, the Quang Nam Literature and Arts Creation Camp 2025 is a multidisciplinary camp; there he gets to see the practical approach and perspective of artists from other fields. “Each field has a different practical approach. Although different, for me it is very useful, because I see new things there that I can refer to and learn from...” - poet Nguyen Tan Ai said.

Meanwhile, folklore researcher Tran Van An said that what he learned and the movement during the creative camp helped him visualize and have a broader view of the geographical-cultural connection, of the cultural sediments and folk arts on the land of Quang Nam.

Not only did they get to experience and exchange, many artists said that the Quang Nam 2025 Literature and Arts Creation Camp also motivated them and gave them more creative energy. Therefore, by the end of the camp, almost everyone had a work to present; in particular, some campers had up to 10 - 20 new works.

Thanks to sticking to the “topic” and knowing how to look at real life, most of the works from this creative camp are full of the breath of life. The beauty of the homeland’s landscape and the expectations for development are vividly conveyed in the frames: “Golden season on Ngoc Linh peak” by Le Trong Khang; “Reflection on the hometown river” by Nguyen Dien Ngoc; “Sunset on Phu Ninh lake” by Nguyen Huu Tuan; “City in the clouds”, “Memories of the night” by Huynh Ha; “Gift from the sea”, “Eco- tourism ” by Tran Cong...

Those pure feelings and fresh shades are also the main colors of many works of art. They are peaceful, close, and familiar images in "By Mother's Side", "The Flute Calls the Flock" (oil on canvas) by Ha Chau; in "Morning Sun" (oil on canvas) by Vo Van Tuan; gratitude and pride for the resilient homeland are clearly depicted in "From the Root of Heritage to the Aspiration to Breakthrough" (composite relief) by Tran Duc...

Paint the colors of the homeland

With poetry and music, the main images and emotions are also sparkling, warm and peaceful colors: " I take you up and down the village road/ looking at the fields in the green sunny harvest season/ listening to the children laughing at the gongs and festival sounds/ the village is red with April cotton flowers flying... " (Colors of mountains and rivers - poem by Mai Thanh Vinh); " Who has returned to my hometown Quang Nam. Immense rice fields, green mulberry fields. Thu Bon alluvium on one side deposits and on the other erodes, fragrant golden rice grains with deep meaning and affection " (Bearing the soul of the countryside - poem by Van Loc, music by Nguyen Huy Hung).

Artwork "Fish harvest in Tam Hai sea" Photo: TRAN CONG THIEM

In particular, the transformation of the homeland after 50 years of the end of the war is a topic that many people have exploited. “ Walking on my mother’s road/ The fields have been fighting for a thousand years/ The winter-spring rice has just reached maturity ” (On the old places - poem by Ho Xoa).

“In the desolation after the storm is the song of building a new life, millions of hands have been cultivating for many years, bringing back the beauty of the thousand-flower Fatherland” (For the desire to reach far - music by Ho Xuan Huong).

Somewhere, there is also a very real and very Quang Nam pride: " The country will change/ The landscape will change/ The heroic souls will be immortal/ Immortal like the blood of the martyrs/ Like Ngoc Linh/ Like Thu Bon/ Like the land that opened up in the year one thousand four hundred and seventy-one/ Sacred Quang Nam/ Majestic Quang Nam/ Forever Quang Nam!... " (One more time, Quang Nam - poem by Nguyen Tan Ai).

The story of a “New Quang Nam” - as the theme of the writing camp, is also extended by a series of memoirs, notes, short stories, Bai Choi performances, research, collections and even critical theories.

Each genre has its own way of expression, but they all share a cultural consciousness, pride in the traditions of the land and people of Quang, joy at the changes in their homeland, and confidence and hope in the future...

Because of that, the creative camp ended but continued to open a new creative path, accompanying the rising aspirations of the land "that has not yet rained but has soaked in": " Oh Quang Nam, where love shines, together with the motherland, building dreams. Firmly step forward with the times, entering the glorious era of Quang Nam " (Bright Quang Nam - music by Phan Van Hung).

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/tiep-noi-mot-chang-duong-sang-tao-3155449.html