The International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” II – 2005 will be held in Chau Doc township, An Giang province by An Giang Provincial People’s Committee.
This is among a series of activities of 2005 happening in Chau Doc township, aiming at creating diverse sculptural works and providing the landscape with valuable artworks so that Chau Doc township can build a Sculpture Garden Park in the Sam Mountain tourist site.

The Sculpture Garden Park will be a valuable art place of Chau Doc township, a destination for tourists to An Giang province, which is a border province with a lot of historical and cultural vestiges and has tourism potentialities.
In 2005, An Giang province will host the International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” II with a desire to expand cultural exchange activities and have the opportunities to invite sculptors from many different contries to Vietnam. This is also the chance for An Giang to make every effort to integrate and exchange cultural aspects into the global culture.

An Giang province covers an area of 3,424 km2 with a population of 2,083,571 people.
An Giang is situated in the southwestern Vietnam, bordering Cambodia, upstream of the Mekong Delta river with fertile rice paddies in the Tu Giac Long Xuyen region. It has several ethnic groups with different religions. It also occupies a That Son Range with green forests, beautiful waterfalls and cool lakes, etc. The province has a great deal of mausoleums, pagodas, temples bearing the hallmark of pioneers of the south Vienam such as Nguyen Huu Canh temple, Tay An pagoda, Thoai Ngoc Hau mausoleum, Cave Pagoda, Lady Xu Temple (Sam Mountain), and so on in Chau Doc township, which are unique nationally-recognized cultural vestiges.
The closeness of ethnic groups’ (Chineese, Cham and Khmer) and Kinh people’s cultural aspects which are characterised by the river life, creates unique cultural diversity. Many folk festivals are preserved as a precious property of the people of An Giang province, of which Lady Xu’s Birthday Festival – Sam Mountain is held in Chau Doc township with over 2 million visitors every year. With the cultural aspects in daily life of the people of Chau Doc township, there are floating fish cage villages, a floating market and a famous tourist attraction. An Giang tourism has a lot of opportunities for development thanks to many natural, cultural and human potentialities.

The International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” I - 2003 held in Chau Doc township left 36 sculptural works of 34 sculptors from 14 countries throughout the world. The cultural event created an important hallmark of the sculptors’ good hearts for Chau Doc township, An Giang province. The works are a priceless possession of Chau Doc people, which beautifies the natural landscape of Sam Mountain tourist site.
Chau Doc township hopes to have a Sculpture Garden Park of 100 sculptural works to create a cutural product site for tourists from home and abroad.

The International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” II - 2005 will be held at Sam Mountain, a well-known tourist site of An Giang province. The site is a beautiful and open landscape with rice paddies surrounding Sam Mountain. Keeping a lot of nationally-recognized cultural and historical vestiges, Sam Mountain area is an ideal place for sculptors. It is also the location for the International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” I – 2003 to take place successfully.

The International Sculpture Symposium “An Giang Hallmark” II - 2005 will last from 31 October, 2005 to 10 December, 2005.

All the 62 participants (31 International and 31 Vietnamese) are listed in alphabatical order. Just click their names for more information.

Emil Adamec (Chech Republic), Masami Aihara (Japan), Ken Barnes (USA), Bui Hai Son (Viet Nam), Kees Bunken (Netherlands), Morton Burke (Canada), Ca Le Thang (Viet Nam), Brad Callihoo (Canada),Yeon-Tak Chang (Canada), Fahcheong Chong (Singapore), Delayne Corbett (Canada), Dao Minh Tri (Viet Nam), Dinh Cong Dat (Viet Nam), Duong Dinh Chien (Viet Nam), Choe so Dong (Korea), Valentina Dusavitskaya (Russia), Christina Eriksson Fredriksson (Sweden), Alen Gallet (Ireland), Pat Galbraith (Canada), Geraldine Greedon (Ireland), Paul Patrick Haggins (Ireland), Hoa Bich Dao (Viet Nam), Jock Hildebrand (Canada), Hua Van Chien (Viet Nam), Marion Lea Jameson (Canada), Peerapong Doung Kaew (Thailand), Dang Thi Khue (Viet Nam), F. Kurz (France), Valery Kuznetsov (Russia), Alois Lang (Austria), Le Lang Bien (Viet Nam), Le Thi Hien (Viet Nam), Won Lee (Korea), Luong Van Thanh (Viet Nam), Ngo Liem (Viet Nam), Nguyen Hoang Anh (Viet Nam), Nguyen Hong Duong (Viet Nam), Nguyen Quan (Viet Nam), Nguyen Quoc Thang (Viet Nam), Nguyen Tan Cuong (Viet Nam), Nguyen Than (Viet Nam), Nguyen Thanh Thi (Viet Nam), Oanh Nguyen (Viet Nam), Chris Peterson (Netherlands), Pham Minh Chien (Viet Nam), Pham Muoi (Viet Nam), Pham Quang Ngoc (Viet Nam), Pham Van Hang (Viet Nam), Phan Thi Gia Huong (Viet Nam), Marianne Reim (Canada), Bertha Shortiss (Switzerland), Saturo Takada (Japan), Yury Tkachenko (Russia), Tran van Tram (Viet Nam), Tran Thanh Tung (Viet Nam), Tran Tanh Phonh (Viet Nam), Tran Thanh Nam (Viet Nam), Truong Dinh Que (Viet Nam), Carole Turner (USA), Stephen Turner (Canada), Vinh Do (Viet Nam), Deborah Wilson (Canada), John Weidman (USA) & Hori Yasushi (Japan).

Note: the Vietnamese surnames are, in contrary to western names, mentioned first and afterwards their given names are stated. For example: Bui Hai Son (Viet Nam), Bui is his surname and Son Hai are his given names.