Dak Lak museum attracts 300,000 visitors a year, all coming to see the historical and cultural exhibits of Dak Lak province and the Central Highlands as a whole. There, artisans are also demonstrating their traditional handicraft and introducing their products as a way to promote the province’s ethnic cultures.
Locally-made lanterns of different colours and designs decorated the northern mountainous city of Tuyen Quang on September 30 night when the Tuyen Quang City Festival kicked off.
The 10th version of the Hue Festival in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue will highlight the five local UNESCO-recognised World Heritage items, according to the festival’s organising board.
Nghinh Ong Festival, an event for fishermen to show their respect for the whale and gratitude for a bumper catch, will return to Can Gio district of Ho Chi Minh City in October with a bigger scale.
Artisans from the Phú Bình Lantern Village in HCM City’s District 11 are busy with orders this week, making traditional cellophane lanterns to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. The 50 year-old village is a traditional craft village located in the district’s Lạc Long Quân Street.
The seventh Khmer Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival will be held in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu from November 11-19, according to the organising board.
This year’s middle autumn festival at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology will focus on the cultural identity of people in the southern province of Đồng Tháp in the Mekong Delta.Titled “Colours of Đồng Tháp Culture,” the festival will take place on September 30 and October 1 at the museum.
Ho Chi Minh City began the ASEAN village event, the first of its kind, in the evening of September 21 to mark the bloc’s 50 years of operation (1967-2017) and Vietnam’s 22 years of membership (1995-2017).
Hoàng Văn Kỳ remembers the đình (communal house) mostly as a place of festivities, full of laughter and gaiety. The 65-year-old native of Thụy Phiêu Village in Ba Vì district on the outskirts of the capital city has particularly fond memories of the laughter of children as they wait to see the “living deity” of the Full Moon Festival appear in the sky, and the sounds of joyful music rehearsals held by the village’s women.
A 123-year-old house in Phan Chu Trinh Street in the southern province of Tây Ninh was recognised Tuesday as a provincial relic of arts and architecture by the local People’s Committee.