Cultures from cities and provinces nationwide will be brought together in Hanoi to perform on the walking street around Hoan Kiem Lake.

 Swaggers, an all-female French dance group, will stage two contemporary and hip hop dance shows in Ho Chi Minh City on June 10 and Hanoi on June 11.

 The feisty fox, Minh Tu, has proven a force to be reckoned with at Asia’s Next Top Model 2017. Through nine episodes she now stands in the lead with 31 points.

 The central town of Hoi An is preparing for the 2017 International Silk - Brocade Festival at Silk Village from June 11 to 13 to honour artisans, traditional craft villages and famous silk and brocade making sites at home and abroad.

 More than 15,000 Japanese books were on display during the second Japanese Book Week ​at the Japanese book section at Fahasa (HCM City Books Distribution JSC) Bookshop on Nguyen Hue Street in Ho Chi Minh City which opened on June 1.

 As many as 35 digitised reproductions of Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, will be displayed in Hanoi, beginning on June 2, to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day.

 The 8th Euro – Vietnam Film Festival gathers 31 documentary films, including 10 films from European countries, namely France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Denmark, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and 21 films of Vietnam.

 Vietnam Fitness Model Contest 2017, co-organized by Blue Sky Travel Co. and Rising Star Media Joint Stock Company, on Monday kicked off its second season in HCMC. 

 Around 33 countries and territories will participate in the 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival that is scheduled to take place on June 7-14.

 Some 300 paintings created by children from different regions of Vietnam this year are on display at the Vietnam Cultural Arts Exhibition Centre in Hanoi.

 The non-governmental organisation Poussieres de Vie will host a live charity concert with French singer and songwriter Joyce Jonathan at Ben Thanh Theatre on June 6.

 A free classical music concert featuring prize-winning Vietnamese musicians will be held at the Cultural Salon – Saturday Coffee on June 19.

 Japan’s Miura Fumiaki, one of the most talented violinists of his generation, will perform at the Hanoi Opera House with renowned pianist Akira Eguchi on June 4.

 Japanese artist Daimo Eriko will perform in a concert that will be held at Hanoi Opera House on June 3.

Forty-eight stone tools and thousands of ceramic pieces dating back to the pre-Sa Huynh Culture (3,000-3,500 years-old) were found during a third excavation in the garden of the Khue Bac Communal House in Da Nang City.

Since 2007, meritorious Artisan Pham Van Vang has nurtured the idea of restoring the ancient local Bo Bat pottery craft, an art which had been lost for around ten centuries. 

 French breakdance artist Valentine Nagata-Ramos will perform in the Japanese tragedy Sadako at the HCM City Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on June 9 as part of her Asian tour.

 The executive board has announced the start of the search for Vietnam Fitness Model 2017, reports the HanoiMoi Online Newspaper.

 This tiny room is where painter Do Lenh Tuan creates hundreds of postage stamp paintings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace – will screen the French film “La belle et la bête” (Beauty and the Beast) on June 4 at 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi.