Fifty-five artisans have been conferred with titles
of "meritorious artisans" in Ha Noi and HCM City in recognition of their
contribution to preserving and upholding intangible culture values.
As many as 20,000 titles will be available at the Ha
Noi Book Fair 2015 to be held at Thang Long-Ha Noi Heritage
Conservation Centre in downtown Ha Noi.
A night of Vietnamese folk music featuring ca tru (ceremonial singing), cheo (popular theatre), chau van (spiritual singing) and xam (blind buskers'' singing) will take place in Ha Noi on January 6.
A four-day carnival of cultural activities will dot
the streets of Ha Noi''s Old Quarter to celebrate Viet Nam''s Heritage
Day, officially on November 23.
Viet Nam will ask the UNESCO to take the ancient north Vietnamese ca tru form of traditional singing off the list of endangered world cultural heritage.
Twenty six ca tru (ceremonial singing) troupes from
across the nation will gather at a festival hosted by the Viet Nam
Institute of Musicology from August 26-29 in Ha Noi.
Ha Noi''s Ca Tru Club, the Old Quarter and Vietnamese
Women''s Museum were among 95 attractions that tourists choose when
visiting the capital, according to the internationally popular travel
website, www.tripadvisor.com, based in the US.
Every lover of Vietnamese music knows Bac Ninh as the home of quan ho (love duets) and ca tru (ceremonial singing), both listed by UNESCO as intangible heritages of mankind.
The Ministry of Information and Communications has released a set of stamps featuring traditional ca tru singing recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding by UNESCO in 2009.
A project to preserve and develop quan ho (love duet singing) and ca tru
(ceremonial singing) has been approved by authorities in Bac Ninh
province in the North.
Ha Noi should set up a specific theatre for the
country''s cultural heritage where artists could perform traditional
music including ca tru (ceremonial singing), in order to help preserve
and promote the value of ca tru, said experts at a seminar held
yesterday in...
Five clubs from Ha Noi will perform ca tru, an
ancient genre of Vietnamese chamber music, at a festival that will take
place at the Temple of Literature today and tomorrow.
A performance highlighting some of the best
Vietnamese traditional arts will be performed every Monday morning and
Saturday evening at the Viet Nam Women''s Museum.
