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.

 Located 10 km from downtown Hanoi, by the Red River’s banks, Dong Ngac Village, formerly known as Ke Ve, is worth a visit to explore well-preserved traces of its past.

 Phuc Giang School woodblocks, a UNESCO Documentary Heritage by Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, are on show at an exhibition in Hanoi that opened on May 23.

A reading and life-long learning following President Ho Chi Minh’s example will be held at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on the occasion of 127th birthday of the late leader on May 19. 

 More than 300 artists from across Ho Chi Minh City are taking part in a “Don ca tai tu” festival which opened on May 16.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The European Film Festival 2017 (EFF2017), to be held in Hanoi, Hue and HCM City, will screen 15 contemporary films from 15 European countries.

 Vietnamese renowned architect Vo Trong Nghia has won five Green Good Design Awards for his works.

An exhibition-discussion with French author and illustrator Jean-Charles Sarrazin will take place at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi from May 6 to 16. This is a chance to take a look at his three books recently published in Vietnam. 

 The organising committee of the 2017 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival has reserved a cuisine space on an area of 4,000sqm as a rendezvous point for gastronomer and tourists visiting the city.

“Tuong” (classical drama) is considered a “specialty” of Tho Ha village, Van Ha commune, Viet Yen district, northern Bac Giang province.

VietNamNet Bridge – Four types of classical Indian dance, Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi and Odissi, and traditional dance makeup techniques will be introduced by aprestigious Indian dance delegation. 

 The Ho Chi Minh City Music Street, all set to open across the Alexandre De Rhodes Street in district 1 at the end of April, is likely to to provide a new cultural space for local residents and visitors to the city.

Vietnamese young actress Tam Trieu Dang stood out in Dao ethnic minority costumes and her unique style captured the due attention from press photographers at the freshly-ended Seoul Fashion Week.

 The fourth HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition for Young Artists will be held at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum next month.

 Luu Hong Quang, together with his mentor, People’s Artist Dang Thai Son, is the pride of Vietnam’s classical music sector, as he has earned a lot of the world’s musical prizes.

 Dozens of South Korean singers including boy and girl bands will perform at the My Dinh National Stadium this weekend as part of festivities marking the 25th anniversary of bilateral ties between Viet Nam and South Korea.

Coco Rocha was certainly dressed to impress on March 21, when she arrived in Ho Chi Minh City headed for some local shows in a sleeveless high fashion baby blue dress.

 Myriads of activities featuring the unique culture of ethnic minority groups will be included in the Khau Vai love market festival, which is scheduled in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, Ha Giang from March 25-27.

 An innovative rendition of the romantic classic Swan Lake by Russian choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov and set to Tchaikovsky’s hauntingly beautiful score is set to stage in Hanoi.

 Models in áo dài (Vietnamese traditional dress) performed in a fashion show to open the annual Áo Dài Festival 2017 on HCM City’s Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street in District 1 late on Friday.