Pottery, lacquer artworks spotlighted at Hue Festival "VietNam Travel"
The Hue Festival 2009 will be held from June 12-14 to celebrate its tradition of producing pottery, lacquer artworks and cloisonné.
With
the theme “Hue’s Traditional Handicrafts – Their Identity and
Development”, the festival will take place on the 110th anniversary of
the opening of Truong Tien Bridge and Dong Ba Market and the start of a
handicraft villages trade fair and will feature a contest to promote
Vietnamese handicraft products, said Nguyen Dang Thanh, vice chairman
of Hue ’s People’s Committee.
High on the agenda at the event
will be a display honouring artisans and handicraft villages and an
exhibition of 30 collections from Hanoi, Hue, Ho Chi Minh City, Nam
Dinh and Phu Yen.
A talk on the potential and development of
traditional handicraft villages, a concert and other art and cultural
programmes will also be held during the event.
The Hue traditional handicrafts festival is held every two years, in between Hue’s regular festivals.
Just
want to let you know that we had a marvellous trip to Vietnam ,Laos and all the
guides and sites were very well planned and organised so a big thank
you. Next trip will be Cambodia and possibly Vietnam and 6 days on a
beach location. We’ll contact you soon for our trip.
