Events in Hanoi & HCMC on April 9-15

 Spring is the season of festivals across Vietnam. For ethnic groups in mountain regions, spring festivals are opportunities to relax and pray for a good new year.

 Events in Hanoi & HCMC on April 2-8 

The Indian band Pranavanaadham band will perform a concert combining classic instruments with modern equipment at Da Nang’s Nguyen Hien Dinh Theatre on April 4 as a part of cultural exchanges between Vietnam and India. 

 An exhibition of paintings by 70 women artists, highlighting women and love, opened in HCM City on Thursday.      

 The 16th Vietnam Poetry Day officially opened at Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi on March 2.

 Vietnamese typical dishes during Tet

A space for exhibitions and activities for Tet will be open from February 2 to 8 at the Vietnam Exhibition Center of Culture and Arts, 2 Hoa Lu, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi.

 Hundreds of television employees will attend the 37th National Television Festival being held from December 13 to 16 in the central province of Thanh Hoa. 

 Manzi Art Space, in collaboration with Art Vietnam Gallery will present No & Meaning, a solo exhibition by visual artist Nguyen Minh Thanh, one of the most important artists of contemporary art in Viet Nam today.

 Music lovers will soon be enchanted by a line-up of spellbinding concerts at the European Music Festival 2017.

The solo exhibition “Du Ca” (Sing and Dance) by artist Doan Xuan Tang will be organized at Dong Phong Art Gallery, No 3 Ly Dao Thanh Street, Hanoi from 1st November to 30th November.

 Hanoi-based artist Nguyen Duc Phuong (aka Phuong Gio) will unveil his art at an exhibition at Manzi Art Space on Friday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This October the Program of Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will organize many activities and events for expats and tourists to help them discover Hanoi:

 The Hanoi Association of Photographic Artists opened an exhibition showcasing 150 photos featuring streets of Hanoi and locals’ lifestyle from many different angles at Trang Tien street on October 6.

A food festival titled ‘Five Continents Food Festival World Food 2017” featuring Vietnamese and international dishes will be held at Hoa Lu stadium in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 on October 5-8.

 Many theatres in HCM City have been turned into hotels and restaurants due to losses.

A special exhibition of works by four young graphic designers, newly graduates of the London College for Design and Fashion (LCDF), opens in Hanoi today.

 The Kpan is a long wooden bench of the Ede people on which gong and drum performers sit. The Ede consider the Kpan a symbol of rich and powerful families.

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