Winners of the 12th “Bui Xuan Phai: For Love of Hanoi” Awards were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on August 27.

Conductor Le Phi Phi is Vietnam’s own classical music artist whose name has become popular throughout Europe.

A play has just been staged with the unique combination of four traditional vocal arts, including cải lương (renovated opera), chèo (traditional opera), xẩm (singing by blind busker) and Hue’s hát văn (folk ceremonial singing of Hue).

Calligrapher Ngau Thu will display his works featuring poems by Heinrich Heine at an exhibition at the Ha Noi Goethe Institute.

Overseas Vietnamese singer Tuan Ngoc and young Vietnamese pop singer Duc Tuan will perform a live show at the central city’s Phoenix Wedding Centre on September 5.

The first ever bilingual photo book featuring President Ho Chi Minh’s Testament has been published by the Vietnam News Agency Publishing House in conjunction with the Ho Chi Minh National Politics Institute and the Ho Chi Minh Museum.

The Muong Lo Culture and Tourism Festival and The Discovery Mu Cang Chai Terraced Fields will take place from September 20 to 25 in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.

Young Ta oi ethnic men and women are free to choose their partners in a unique group date called ‘sim’.

The Vietnamese Embassy to Argentina and Paraguay has hosted Vietnam Days in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, to mark the 25th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties (May 30, 1995 – 2020).

The ancient city of Hoi An kicked off the second Hoi An lantern festival at Marktplatz Square in Wernigerode, its German twin town, on August 24 to mark the 5th anniversary of cooperation between the two cities.

Le Tran Dac Ngoc is to become the first Vietnamese designer to take part in the Bangkok Kids International Fashion Week 2019 which will start on September 1.

Visitors to a collection of kerosene lamps owned by Tran Thanh Tung in Hanoi’s Hao Nam street are amazed by the oil lamps of many types and sizes on display in his living room.

Many foreigners profiled in this column consider Vietnam their second home because they have fallen for the landscape or the locals’ hospitality, but Kawarai Yushi, a Japanese expat based in Thua Thien – Hue, has fallen for Vietnamese literature.

Kim Barbier, a French pianist of Vietnamese origin, will perform at the French Cultural Center L’Espace in Hanoi on September 14.

Ong Hao village in the northern province of Hung Yen is busy preparing for the coming Mid-Autumn Festival which is in the middle of next month.

A special music and song programme to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam Music Day with the theme "Remember Uncle Ho in the Autumn" will take place at the Hanoi Opera House on September 3.

World-renowned bubble maestro Fan Yang has opened a $3 million entertainment center for children in Hanoi, named "Bubble World".

This year the annual symphony concert "Dieu Con Mai" (Things Everlasting) hosted by VietNamNet Newspaper will be held for the 10th straight year on September 2 at the Hanoi Opera House as usual.

The Tay Dang communal house was recognized as a special national relic site in late 2013. The structure, with its exceptional architecture, is a museum of 16th century Vietnamese folk arts.

Thirty teams from many countries in the region will compete at the International Lion, Dragon and Unicorn Dance Competition in Da Nang City from August 30 to September 2.