Pottery, lacquer artworks spotlighted at Hue Festival
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.
(Source: VNA)
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