An art exchange programme staged by artists from the Vietnam Contemporary Art Theatre was held in Sydney on December 20
Water resource worship is a unique ritual of the Ede in the Central Highlands. It’s held annually to pay tribute to the water genie, who has brought them happiness in the old year, and pray for good fortune in the new year.
Noted water puppeteer Phan Thanh Liêm has just opened his second miniature theatre for water puppetry at his private home in Hà Nội’s Long Biên District.
The gala was organized in Hoi An city (Quang Nam province) on December 8 by Hoi An city’s Center for Culture and Sports to congratulate the art of Bai Choi in Central Vietnam on being recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity by UNESCO.
People have gathered in the central province of Bac Lieu to attend the 9th Southern Folk Music and Songs Festival of the Provinces of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Ca Mau.
Joyous celebrations for New Year 2018 are being held this December at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town, Hanoi.
Xoan singing, a folk music genre in Vietnam’s northern midland province of Phu Tho, has been removed from UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Việt Nam’s bài chòi (folk singing) has been officially honoured as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
Xoan singing and Bai choi singing, two forms of Vietnamese folk music, are among 35 cultural heritages applying to be added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.