The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the southern province of Binh Duong has decided to earmark more than 9.7 billion VND (426,800 USD) to protect the “don ca tai tu” art form (southern amateur singing) from 2018-2020, heard a local conference on March 21.
Some 50 sakura trees of different species, above 2.5m high each, and 10,000 branches of sakura blossoms will be displayed during the 2018 Vietnam-Japan Cultural Exchange Festival in downtown Hanoi, starting this weekend.
The Ban Flower Festival 2018 kicked off in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on March 17, attracting thousands of people in the province and surrounding localities.
The gong, a musical instrument native to the Central Highlands, is popular in the five provinces of Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Đắk Lắk, Đắk Nông, and Lâm Đồng.
As a traditional folk painter with pencil and colors for using a graphic technique, painter Nguyen Xuan Lam has cooperated with the TiredCity Company Limited to print folk paintings on T-shirts, post cards, hand bags and other products, helping popularize the Vietnamese folk arts to young customers.
The primary objective of Hue Festival is to create a favorable condition for the culture of Hue to integrate, making it possible to become an attraction to tourists. The 10th Hue Festival will be celebrated in this regard.
Despite ups and downs throughout history, many artisans in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang’s Thoại Sơn District have spared no effort in promoting the arts of stone carving, which has been handed down over many generations.
The charm of Vietnamese traditional Ao Dai (long dress) was the main theme of a talk in HCM City on March 8 as part of the fifth Ao Dai festival in the city.
A stone stele created during the reign of King Lê Thái Tổ (1428-33) in the northwest mountainous border province of Lai Châu has been recognised as a national treasure and the memorial site for the king has been listed as a national historical site.
The Muong Culture Space Museum is located in a small limestone valley in Hoa Binh city, about 70km from Hanoi.