Interesting events wait for you this weekend in Hanoi and here are our recommendations.

A magnificent wedding party by an Indian billionaire couple, which lasts for seven days, is being held at the 5-star resort JW Marriott in An Thoi town, Phu Quoc Island district, Kien Giang province.

French singer, songwriter and music producer Chaton will perform in a concert in HCM City on March 16 as part of his tour in Southeast Asia. 

 The Vincom Center for Contemporary Arts in Hanoi will hold an exhibition titled “Reflective Impressions: van Gogh & his works” from March 8 to April 9.

 Artists from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will join a dance show named “Colour of Dances” at the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City on March 13. 

 The launching event of “Cities for People,” a book written by Professor Jan Gehl, will take place at AGOhub in Hanoi on March 20 and at Thu Bay Café in HCMC on March 22.

 The Ede ethnic group in the Central Highlands consider the Che, a big jar, a symbol of family wealth and prosperity. A Che full of alcohol is an indispensable item at all worship ceremonies.

 The 2019 cherry blossom – Yen Tu yellow ochna flower festival will open at the Yen Tu Truc Lam culture centre in Quang Ninh Province’s Uong Bí City on Saturday.

 Female artist Xuan Ha of Da Nang will introduce her site-specific installation in HCM City on Sunday night.  

 The film Ngoi Nha Buom Buom (Butterfly House), a production about a gay couple by director Huynh Tuan Anh, will be release next month by Lotte Entertainment Vietnam.

 Two famous bands Boney M and Joy arrived at Noi Bai International Airport on March 7 for a concert the next day in Hanoi.

With passionate enthusiasm and tremendous efforts, locals in Dong Ngu water puppetry village have sought a way to revive its glory days of the past, reaffirming the vitality of their ancestors’ age-old practice.

 In the past the Cao Lan people in Khe Nghe hamlet, Bac Giang province, had a self-sufficient lifestyle. They practiced many crafts, including making poonah paper. Older villagers say making poonah paper was a popular craft.

Pho Trach Village in Thua Thien-Hue Province has been a renowned location for rush mat weaving for hundreds of years.

 Van-Anh Nguyen and others to play at exclusive culinary and musical event on March 22 and 24.

 A photo exhibition on Bru-Van Kieu ethnic minority people in Vietnam kicked off in Huong Hoa district of the central province of Quang Tri on March 7.

 French gastronomy will come into the spotlight with the screenings of documentary and feature films by young French directors during a film month scheduled for March 12-27 in Hanoi.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in Bangladesh on March 6 introduced the Bengali language version of the book “Ho Chi Minh’s Biography”, published by The Gioi Publishers.

 Thousands of locals and tourists joined the first ever Pác Bó Returning to Roots Festival held at the Pác Bó revolutionary base in Ha Quang District, the northern province of Cao Bang on Wednesday.

 An exhibition of photographs shot by female members of the HCM City Photographers’ Association is open to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8.