Addressing the opening ceremony on November 17, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said he hopes via the festival, Ninh Binh will further prioritise the building of culture and the promotion and conservation of cultural value of the province and the nation.

A performance at the festival.

He suggested the locality focus on measures to mobilise efforts from people and businesses to the cultural preservation work and to develop tourism into a spearheaded sector.

The Deputy PM expected the festival will become a heritage brand of Ninh Binh.

At the ceremony, a grand art programme took place, gathering hundreds of artists, actors, and folk artisans in Vietnam and from abroad.

Lasting until November 19, the festival is also set to treat visitors to an exhibition on cultural heritage, traditions, and history, a street festival, a concert highlighting cultural heritage and contemporary sound, and a closing ceremony.

Ninh Binh, home to the Trang An Landscape Complex – a mixed cultural and natural heritage site of the world that earned the recognition in 2014, is eyeing to make the festival a biennial event at the national level, and later international one.

Green Heritage week to be held in Hanoi on Nov 21-25

The Green Heritage Cultural and Tourism Week will take place at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts in Hanoi from November 21-25 as one of the activities celebrating Vietnam’s Culture Heritage Day, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Rice cooking contest in Hanoi’s village recognised as national intangible cultural heritage

With unique values, the rice cooking contest in Thi Cam village, Xuan Phuong ward, in Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Art of crafting and dancing to flutes recognised as National Intangible Cultural Heritage

"The art of making and dancing to the flute of the H'mong people in Dien Bien province" has been recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage.

Two more national parks nominated ASEAN heritage ones

Bach Ma and Con Dao National Parks have been nominated to become the 54th and 55th ASEAN Heritage Parks at the 33rd ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting on the Environment, held in Cambodia from October 3-7.

Eight cultural and natural world heritage sites in Vietnam

Vietnam ratified the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on October 19, 1987. Ever since, eight sites in Vietnam have been recognised as cultural and natural world heritage.

Source: VNA