According to Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Dang Gia Duan, the performance is organised to give domestic and foreign visitors a deeper insight into gong culture in the Central Highlands, which has been listed among the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Local artisans with their gongs.

Also, it honours the traditional gong casting of artisans in the 400 year-old Phuoc Kieu village in Quang Nam province. The village has provided more than 4,000 sets of gongs for ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands, including E De, Ba Na, Jrai, Xe Dang, M’nong and Chu Ru, to preserve and promote the cultural space of the gongs in the region, he said.

Besides gong casting, the event also features an array of art performances that draw the interest of both local people and visitors.

The seventh annual Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival is held on March 9 - 16, 2019, aiming to promote Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand, develop Vietnam specialty coffee and gradually turn Buon Ma Thuot city into a destination for coffee aficionados worldwide, contributing to affirm Vietnamese coffee’s position on the global market.

Vietnam has potential to produce speciality coffee

Coffee production areas across many Vietnamese provinces, including Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Son La and Lam Dong, are endowed with crop varieties, weather conditions and soils that are suitable to develop speciality coffee, according to experts.

 

Quan ho folk songs introduced at Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival

(BGO) - On the occasion of Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival from 8 to 16 March in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, the provincial Museums of Bac Giang, Dak Lak and Ca Mau jointly held the exhibition themed “Convergence of three heritage regions”.

 

First coffee book street in Central Highlands opened

The first coffee book street was opened in Buon Ma Thuot city of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 9.

 

Exhibition tells history of world’s coffee industry

An exhibition on the history of the world’s coffee industry opened on March 9 at the Coffee World Museum in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

 

Vietnamese – style coffee space to open in Italy

A Vietnamese-style coffee shop will be opened soon in Turin, the capital city of Italy’s northern region of Piemonte, the Honorary Consular of Vietnam in Turin Sandra Scagliotti said at a recent gathering on the occasion of the Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet).

 

Source: VNA