This event brings together 70 domestic unicorn dance teams and international teams from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Hue Unicorn Dance Festival 2019 is organised as an opportunity for teams to compete and showcase their unicorn dance skills, bringing beautiful performances and bustling atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This event brings together 70 domestic unicorn dance teams and international teams from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

This is also an opportunity for local people as well as visitors to have the opportunity to exchange and learn about this unique art, contributing to the preservation and promotion of traditional cultural values. The festival will, thereby, diversify local tourism products, retain visitors, and promote the image of Hue ancient capital, the unique Festival City of Vietnam.

The Mai Hoa Thung dance competition will take place on September 7 and the Lan Dia Buu round will take place on September 8.

In order to ensure fairness, the organizers have invited a panel of both domestic and international judges. The judges will score according to international rules, based on the difficulty of the dance, drum beats and the content and ideas in each performance.

In addition, in the framework of the festival, there will be other interesting activities such as art performances by artists in the region, collective unicorn, lion and dragon dances.

Thai ethnic cultural festival to take place in Dien Bien

The second Thai ethnic cultural festival will be held in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on October 18-20 with the aim of preserving and promoting cultural identities of Thai ethnic group in the process of national integration and development.

Northern village making masks and drums for Mid Autumn Festival

Ong Hao Village is awash with colors and the smells of paint and paper mâché as villagers make masks and drums for children.

Festival introduces northwestern region’s ethnic culture

Traditional cultural values of ethnic communities in the northwestern region are being introduced at a festival which opened in Son La city of Son La province on August 18.

Hoi An ancient city hosts second latern night festival in Germany

The ancient city of Hoi An kicked off the second Hoi An lantern festival at Marktplatz Square in Wernigerode, its German twin town, on August 24 to mark the 5th anniversary of cooperation between the two cities.

Quang Binh’s festivals granted national heritage titles

The Ma Coong ethnic minority group’s drum beating festival and traditional boat racing on Kien Giang River in the central province of Quang Binh have been officially recognised as national intangible cultural heritages by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Source: NDO