Two Loving Stars, a musical that combines K-Pop and Opera, will be staged for the first time in the central city on June 22-24.

 Painter Pham Binh Chuong is among few contemporary artists painting the streets of Hà Nội in a realist style. His work evokes memories of the city as it was years ago. Le Huong finds out what inspires him.

 State-owned and private art troupes in HCM City are asking the city government to invest in construction and renovation of theatres to meet market demand. 

 Food lovers are offered an opportunity to taste different dishes from Vietnam and dozens of other countries at a cuisine festival which opened at the Octagon House near Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake on June 16.

 More than 300,000 copies of books and 3,000 student and office accessories are on display at Summer Book Festival 2017, which opened on Friday (June 16) at the HCM City Exhibition House in District 1.

In the past tens of years, Colonel Dang Minh Tam has collected artifacts related to traditions, rituals and lifestyles of ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands. 

If you are bored of old styles of weekend celebrations like sipping coffee in specially-styled cafés, enjoying fabulous buffet programs at luxury restaurants, listening to music at night clubs...

 A total of 36 precious artifacts, from the Nguyen dynasty period (1802-1945), are on display at an exhibition that opened recently at Lam Dong museum in Da Lat city.

 The Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi will exhibit its collection of around 100 red lacquer trimmed with gold wooden artefacts from the 15th century, starting June 20.

Korean pop star Jessica Jung, ex SNSD (Girls’ Generation) member will headline the card at a concert this coming June 24 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Thirty contestants from Southeast Asian countries have gathered in Tuy Hoa city of the south central province of Phu Yen to join the finale of the Miss Friendship of ASEAN 2017 that takes place from June 15 to July 2.

For generations, the Mong ethnic minority group in the Dong Van Karst Plateau, northern Ha Giang province, has woven threads made of flax plant into colourful fabrics.

Vincom Center for Contemporary Art’s  inaugural event is the contemporary art exhibition “Tỏa / The Foliage” taking place from June 6 to August 6, at Level B1 – R3 Royal City, 72 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi. 

“Then I can turn the world upside down”, an exhibition of works on paper by five Vietnam-based contemporary artists will open for two months (June 15-August 15) at Salon Saigon, 6D Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Ward 7, District 3, HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Italian Republic, the Embassy of Italy and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnography will jointly hold – for the first time ever in Asia – the exhibition “Raffaello: Opera Omnia”.

Having run for three months, a project titled “Vietnamese Fine Arts and Cultural Diplomacy” has successfully called on Vietnamese artists to donate their pictures for the country’s representative offices abroad. 

 Vietnam’s first art painting live show is expected to take place in Ho Chi Minh Television’s theatre on July 29 and the Pham Hong Minh, 1991, born in Binh Dinh will be the first artist to make it.

 The Dam Sen Water Park in HCM City has just been fined VND45 millions for organising a show featuring female dancers in bikinis which has caused public outcry.

Japanese actress and MC Rika Takeuchi has been crowned Miss Vietnam Festival in Japan.

Two lacquer paintings by artists Nguyen Gia Tri and Phi Phi Oanh are being exhibited at gallery 1 of the National Gallery of Singapore.