Diverse cultural activities to celebrate International Women’s Day in HCM City

Sunday, 28/02/2021 09:31
The French Institute in Ho Chi Minh City will host a series of activities to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on March 8.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

The celebration will open with a photo exhibition featuring portraits of Vietnamese women taken by 15 young artists who participated in a photography workshop hosted by the French Institute in Hue and Da Nang in January. The photos can be seen until April 9, reported VNA.

A talk show about gender equality will be organised featuring speakers of Julia Levivier, head of the French NGO organisation Planète Enfants & Développement (PE&D) in Vietnam, psychologist Ly Thi Mai, and Le Thi Hong Anh, head of Human Resources of Sanofi Vietnam.

The show will be hosted by Tran Anh Dao, economist, lecturer and researcher at the University of Rouen in France, and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia. It will be presented in both Vietnamese and French.

The event will end with a screening of French documentary Des Femmes Et Des Hommes (Women And Men) by female director Frédérique Bedos with Vietnamese subtitles.

The celebration will begin at 5:45pm at 31 Thai Van Lung street in District 1./.

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