CEG Music Festival 2017 (CMF 2017) will take place from July 29 to August 6, promising to offer a professional art playground with a series of art activities.

 Grammy-winning soul singer Joss Stone tops a long list of artists from 10 different countries performing at the second Monsoon Music Festival (MMF) in Hanoi in October.

Well-known designer Minh Hanh said she wanted to make daily clothes from silk as many local designers were ignoring the material. 

 The first HCM City Piano Competition kicked off on June 13 with the participation of about 200 contestants. 

 Music lovers will all be headed to the Melia Hanoi for a Studio 54 Disco Party this coming Friday night June 16 as Hanoi’s popular music venue plays host to the legendary American DJ/Producer Bert Bevans.

 A Viet Nam Exhibition pavillion combining tradition and modernity has received hundreds of visitors in recent days at Expo 2017 Astana in the capital of Kazakhstan.

 Vietnamese singer Noo Phuoc Thinh has officially been appointed as Japan’s Tourism Ambassador by the Japan Tourism Organisation in Viet Nam (JNTO).

 Painter Nguyen Thu Thuy, Director of the New Hanoi Art Company, received a bronze medal at the 10th International Design Award (IDA) ceremony held on June 10 in Los Angeles, the US.

 The central province of Quang Nam’s Dinh Tran Thanh Chiem, an important political, military, economic and cultural centre established in 1602 in the Nguyen Dynasty was recognised as a national relic site on June 12.

 The 2017 Vietnam-Asia Silk and Brocade Culture Festival opens in Hoi An silk village in the central province of Quang Nam on June 12.

 Rural Vietnamese landscapes are portrayed in original lacquered paintings at an exhibition which is taking place in Hanoi.

 A contemporary art centre was inaugurated in Hanoi on June 6, becoming the city’s the largest-scale and most unique art centre.

 The Dam Sen Water Park in HCM City has just sent apologies to their customers after their recent show featuring female dancers in bikinis caused public outcry.

Generations of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands have used gongs to convey their innermost sentiments and communicate with their deities.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has bagged the Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2017 of the Architects Regional Council Asia.

VietNamNet Bridge – A dance show by talented choreographers Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung will be organized at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square on June 17.

VietNamNet Bridge - A music concert by Swedish jazz professor, pianist Håkan Rydin and fellow jazz musicians from the Vietnam National Academy of Music, will take place on June 16-17.

VietNamNet Bridge - Three movies from America, Europe and Iran will be screened in Hanoi this week.

 The Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Sea Festival 2017 opened in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa on June 10, featuring a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

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