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| A stall at the festival. (Photo: VNA) |
This is the third year the festival has been organised, offering visitors opportunities to taste popular Vietnamese dishes and fruits. This year, visitors can also enjoy contemporary music, with the excitement of electronic music, pop and rap, performed by French-Vietnamese DJ-beatmakers.
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| Visitors to the festival join a Vietnamese folk game. (Photo: VNA) |
They can also find books, meet with writers, and play Vietnamese folk games. On this occasion, Vinfast, a subsidiary carmaker of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, displayed its latest electric vehicles.
According to Jérôme Tham Vo My, a member of the festival’s organising committee, in 2022, the one-day festival attracted nearly 10,000 visitors.
He hopes that with the participation of about 30 businesses, this year's event would attract more visitors than last year.
Ngo Minh Duong, owner of Thanh Binh Jeunes supermarket chain, said that the products he brought here were all from Vietnam, such as sugarcane juice, coconut water, lychee, mango, coffee, and tea.
The company also cooperates with the Graine de riz - Grain de vie Association to raise funds for disadvantaged children and families in Vietnam and Laos.
Ici Vietnam Festival is the idea of a group of young Vietnamese-French people who wish to organise festivals in various fields of film, art, painting and cuisine to promote Vietnamese culture.
Film series on Vietnamese fairy tales released on YouTube
A TV series about Vietnamese fairy tales produced by Xuan Phuoc Studio, a private film company from HCM City, has attracted millions of viewers on YouTube, reported Vietnam News Agency.
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| HAPPILY EVER AFTER: A TV series about Vietnamese fairy tales called Co Tich Nuoc Nam has attracted several millions of viewers on YouTube. (Photo courtesy of the producer) |
The work, Co Tich Nuoc Nam (Vietnamese Tales), features Vietnamese history, culture and lifestyle.
It includes beautiful scenes captured in the Mekong Delta River and southern provinces, interspersed with the folk songs and traditional customs of the southern people.
The themes of bravery, honesty and patriotism are also highlighted.
The series Co Tich Nuoc Nam is part of a long-term film project produced by Xuan Phuoc Studio in cooperation with Vinh Long Radio & Television in 2021.
The project offers web dramas and TV shows on Vietnamese fairy tales which are based on Kho Tang Truyen Co Tich Vietnam (The Treasure of Vietnamese Fairy Tales), a collection of Vietnamese fairy tales rewritten by late professor Nguyen Dong Chi.
The collection includes five books and lively pictures released by the HCM City-based Tre (Youth) Publishing House in 2016.
It features 150 stories about Vietnamese people and ethnic minority groups. More than 105,000 copies of each book have been printed.
In 2022, Xuan Phuoc Studio released 40 shows on YouTube, earning around 20 million views.
The latest 25-minute show, called Vo Nhap Trang (Ghost Wife), released on June 1, has attracted nearly 450,000 views on YouTube.
It tells the story of a poor farmer who uses his intelligence to protect his wife from evil.
"We decided to invest in shows based on Vietnamese fairy tales and release them on YouTube to attract children and teenagers,” said film director Xuan Phuoc, owner of Xuan Phuoc Studio. “We have worked to make quality productions and bring a new taste of Vietnamese culture and lifestyle to young viewers”.
Japan donates musical equipment to Can Tho city
The Can Tho City Union of Friendship Organizations and the Can Tho College of Culture and Arts co-hosted a ceremony on June 16 to receive musical equipment sponsored by the Japanese Government, reported the Voice of Vietnam.
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| At the handover ceremony |
The event is part of the Japanese Government's non-refundable aid programme for culture at local level in order to meet the diverse needs of developing countries, with a particular focus on such fields as health, culture, education, and bridge construction and environmental protection.
The total funding of US$88,274, aims to help Can Tho College of Culture and Arts purchase 137 new musical instruments such as acoustic piano, electric piano, organ, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and flutes. The equipment will be used to teach students at high schools and junior high schools.
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| Japan donates musical equipment to Can Tho city (Source: VOV) |
In particular, these musical equipment will be used in the Vietnam - Japan Cultural Exchange Program in Can Tho to mark the 50th anniversary of both nations' diplomatic ties.
With the funding, Can Tho College of Culture and Arts purchases 137 new musical instruments
Addressing the event, Nguyen Doi Hien, Vice Chairman of the Can Tho city People's Committee expressed his hope that the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City will connect diverse programs as a contribution to ensuring social security and improving the quality of life of people in Can Tho as well as consolidating the friendship between the two nations.
For his part, Shiraishi Hideyuki, Head of Culture and Education Department of Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City said the Can Tho College of Culture and Arts will utilize the musical instruments to better serve teaching activities, thereby contributing to cultural and people-to-people exchanges between Vietnam and Japan./.