(Cinet) – Bac Lieu provincial People’s Committee organized a press seminar of the first national “Don ca tai tu” Festival in Bac Lieu on January 07. Southern folk music, Don Ca Tai Tu, to be celebrated at the first National Don Ca Tai Tu Festival, themed ‘Don Ca Tai Tu – Love of Southern People and Land’, scheduled to take place from April 20-25, 2014 in the southern province of Bac Lieu. The event will draw the participation of artists, artisans and researchers from 21 provinces and cities in the east and the southwest and from the northern province of Ninh Binh. The event aims to honour and promote Vietnam’s Don Ca Tai Tu, recently recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humankind by UNESCO. Organizers of the event also hope that the festival will help raise public awareness of the need to preserve yet develop traditional art forms, contributing to the conservation of the traditional cultural values of the country. Seminars … [Read more...] about The first “Don ca tai tu” Festival 2014 in Bac Lieu opens
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Bac Lieu hosts southern opera festival
VietNamNet Bridge – The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu will host a national festival featuring the UNESCO-recognized performing art of Don ca tai tu from April 20 to 25. There will be 21 art troupes from 21 southern provinces taking part in the event. Don ca tai tu has just been recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO, taking to eight the total number of Vietnam’s intangible cultural heritages. Following this recognition, the southern provinces have rolled up their sleeves in a joint bid to fulfill their commitment to UNESCO in safeguarding and promoting unique values of Don ca tai tu. Bac Lieu and other southern provinces will also take this great opportunity to introduce their charming images characterized by rivers and canals, and decent and generous traits of southerners. A number of tourist attractions in Bac Lieu are getting ready to welcome domestic and foreign visitors. Also, a lot of families there who have Don ca tai tu performing … [Read more...] about Bac Lieu hosts southern opera festival
National professional “Cai Luong” festival in Bac Lieu
(Cinet)- The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has been organized the national professional Cai Luong (national reformed opera) festival in Bac Lieu province on November 6th-23rd. The event is scheduled to attract about 25 theatres troupes, including seven private troupes, mostly from Binh Dinh and Long An provinces, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, and Can Tho cities. The festival is held twice every five years, thus creating a chance for artists nationwide to exchange their experience and discover talented youth to preserve and contribute to the arts of national reformed opera. The festival comprises forums and seminars on the art in which traditional art and music researchers and critics takes part. Organized every five years by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the National Professional Cai Luong Festival has this time attracted 30 theatres and troupes, including seven private troupes, mostly from Binh Dinh and Long An provinces and HCM City, Da Nang, and Can Tho. Cai Luong … [Read more...] about National professional “Cai Luong” festival in Bac Lieu
Uncle Ho temple opens in southern province of Bac Lieu
A temple to worship Uncle Ho in Chau Thoi commune, Vinh Loi district, the southern province of Bac Lieu has been opened to mark the centennial anniversary of the late President Ho Chi Minh leaving Vietnam to seek ways to save the country. At the opening ceremony, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politburo member, Minister-Chairman of the Office of the Government, appreciated the revolutionary struggle and cultural traditions as well as sentiments of people in Bac Lieu for Uncle Ho. He hoped that people would preserve and promote the national revolutionary tradition at this historical relic, promoting the values of tradition to young people. In 1969, when Uncle passed away, the Party committee and people in Chau Thoi commune, Vinh Loi district built a temple to worship Uncle to show their respect to him. In 1998, the temple was recognized as a national historical relic. A 54 billion VND project to restore the temple was approved and an upgrade was started at the beginning of 2010. Covering an area … [Read more...] about Uncle Ho temple opens in southern province of Bac Lieu
Bac Lieu: Southern Khmer people celebrate festival of culture, sports, tourism Most Recent News
NDO – The seventh Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival of the Khmer ethnic people in southern Vietnam opened in Bac Lieu province on November 17, in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh. Addressing the opening ceremony, Deputy PM Binh stressed that the festival is a practical activity to realise the Party and State’s guidelines and demonstrate their commitment to preserving and promoting traditional cultural identities and caring for the spiritual life of the Southern Khmer ethnic people. He reiterated that the Party and State always consider ethnic affairs as a strategic issue, and the safeguarding and promotion of the culture of ethnic groups are regarded as significant to the development of Vietnamese culture in general. He asked the local authorities to pay greater attention to realising the Party and State’s policies on ethnic affairs, to mobilise all available resources to reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of the Southern Khmer people, … [Read more...] about Bac Lieu: Southern Khmer people celebrate festival of culture, sports, tourism Most Recent News