The 9th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival will be held in Hanoi and HCMC from June 8-17, providing a platform for documentary lovers to meet and discuss filmmaking skills while enjoying a variety of films from different cultures.

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events that will take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from June 4 to 10.

 The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in the Dong Mo tourism area of Son Tay town in Hanoi, is hosting a programme celebrating the cultural diversity and customs of the Central Highlands region this June.

An artisan in Hanoi has a collection of hundreds of bronze statues along with many other antiques. 

 A bamboo work by Vietnam representative, architect Vo Trong Nghia, has been sent to compete in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy.

 Around 200 kinds of southern fruits will be displayed at the Southern Fruit Festival 2018 at Suoi Tien Theme Park in HCM City from June 1 to August 30.

 A talk on a new collection of poetry by writer Mai Văn Phấn will be organised in downtown Hanoi tomorrow.

 A Vietnamese representative at the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and Pacific (MOWCAP), has been re-elected as Vice Chairperson of the committee.

 Pianist Anna Grot and violinist Polina Borisova from Russia will present a classical music performance as part of the framework of the annual programme Arts Ambassador in big cities on June 6-8.

 Former Associated Press war photographer Nick Ut (real name Huynh Cong Ut) handed over his two cameras and 52 photos to the Vietnam Press Museum at a ceremony on June 1.

 Two daredevil brothers from Vietnam, known as the Giang brothers, shone in this year’s Britain’s Got Talent finals.

 The Vietnam-France Fine Arts Association “La Seine et Le Mekong” opened the second international fine arts exchange exhibition at the Ho Chi Minh City’s Museum of Fine Arts on June 3.

Artists and art lovers are thought hardly to meet up but a village, only 8km away from the city centre, is making itself a rendezvous for them.

 The Association of Vietnamese Photography Artists (AVPA) in collaboration with the Photographic Society of America (PSA) opened the PSA international photo exhibition in Hanoi on June 2.

 The Giang brothers are through to the final of the popular UK television show, Britain’s Got Talent.

 More than 30 pagodas across the nation are featured in a photo book “Vietnam Pagodas” by French photographer and reporter Nicolas Cornet, which was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on June 1.

 A symphony of the diversified culture of various ethnic groups will be performed on Saturday in the walking street by Hoan Kiem Lake.

 The Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation on May 31 presented the annual Balaban Award to Bui Xuan Duc, director of HCM City’s General Science Library.

 The maps and itinerary of an envoy’s journey to China dating from the 18th century have been officially announced as a heritage Memory of the World at the 2018 General Meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.

 Theatres and entertainment centres in HCM City will offer new shows this weekend on the occasion of International Children’s Day for Children (June 1).