Master of Italian body language Luca Vullo and his mother, Angela Gabriele, will for the first time showcase the extraordinary skill of Italian people to communicate without words but using only the body language on October 23.

Well-known zither artist Nguyen Thanh Thuy, who made a name for herself with both traditional and experimental pieces, will present a concert at Manzi Art Space on October 23.

A Danish film festival will be held in HCM City and Hanoi from October 26 to 31 to introduce an extraordinary selection of Danish movies, the Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam has announced.

An art programme featuring songs honouring motherhood and Vietnamese women will take place at Au Co Art Centre on October 18.

The Boiler Room, a London-based online music broadcasting platform commissioning and streaming live music sessions around the world, will host two shows in HCM City on October 19 and 21.

Renowned Korean boyband Seventeen are due to land in Vietnam to participate in the Asia Artist Awards 2019, also known as the AAA 2019, which is scheduled to be held in Hanoi for the first time.

A film screening of the ballet La Dame Aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), staged by the Moscow-based Bolshoi Theatre in 2015, will be held at TOONG Coworking Space in District 3 on October 17 and 18.

Japanese guest chef Hironori Wakashima who has more 20 year of culinary experience will be cooking in Hanoi to seduce local connoisseurs with his home-country’s specialties.

A photo contest has kicked off to start the #VietnamNOW campaign as part of the country’s inbound marketing strategy.

The Institute of Vietnamese Costumes has officially launched with a mission to honour and preserve the beauty of Vietnamese clothing.

Long popular with tourists, the Kong film site in Trang An in the northern province of Ninh Binh was packed up and closed to the public last month.

An exhibition entitled A Girl Named K… displaying works by German artist Franca Bartholomai is running at the Goethe Institute until October 27.

A ceremony was held in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on October 12 to receive a certificate recognising the art of Red Dao ethnic people’s traditional costume decoration as a national intangible cultural heritage.

French musician Jean-Yves Thibaudet – one of today’s finest pianists – will fly to Vietnam to perform at the season-opening gala of the Sun Symphony Orcheastra (SSO) on October 23.

The Star Awards 2019 ceremony honouring the best in the Vietnamese entertainment scene will be held in HCM City on October 18.

The classical ballet Giselle, which is considered one of the great Romantic ballets, will return to the HCM City Opera House on October 19 and 20.

A stone wall dating back to the fourth century in the central province of Ha Tinh is set to be restored thanks to a VND2 billion (US$86,100) project.

Vietnamese coming-of-age drama Ròm, a recent winner at the Busan International Film Festival, has been fined VND40 million (US$1,700) for participating in the festival without an official licence from the authority.

With the desire to preserve and promote the unique water puppet art of the nation, Hoang Huong Giang has implemented a bold project: building a miniature water puppet stage right in the heart of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.

More than 20 murals have been painted in a village in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District, featuring local cultural and historical identities.