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Mid-autumn festival with ASEAN community opens in Hanoi
A special programme to celebrate 2016 mid-autumn festival in ASEAN countries was kicked off at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (VECCA) in Hanoi on September 13.
The festival aims to enhance the mutual understanding among the ASEAN member countries.
The festival that runs from September 13-15 at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (VECCA) in Hanoi, feature a range of activities for children.
The festival is hosted by the VECCA, the Vietnam Women’s Museum and the ASEAN Women’s Circle in Hanoi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The event makes an opportunity to introduce traditional mid-autumn celebrations in different countries among the bloc to Vietnamese people through costumes, toys, masks and decorative objects.
The festival will organise an exhibition displaying the typical practices, costumes and handicraft products used by Vietnamese people for mid-autumn festival.
Particularly, art researcher and lecturer Trang Thanh Hien from the Vietnam Fine Arts University will stage a talk show on the history of masks in the country and throughout the world, the connection between masks and people’s cultural life, as well as the significance of masks in Vietnam’s mid-autumn lantern parade.
In addition, participants at the event can enjoy arts performances and lion dances, enter quizzes, and join in folk games such as tug-of-war and blindfolded pot smashing.
Children can also try their hand at arranging mam ngu qua (five-fruit tray) and make traditional masks, moon cakes, mid-autumn festival lanterns, and to he (toy figurines).
Besides, an exhibition displaying outstanding entries from a children’s painting contest on traffic safety will be also organised during the festival.
The highlight of the programme is an outdoor space of installation art with the theme "Way to the Moon".
Artists used traditional children’s toys and agricultural equipment to create an artwork explaining the origin of the mid-autumn festival. A sound and light system will create visual effects for visitors as well.
Art and musical performances will be held in the evenings.
The mid-autumn fest 2016 opens to the public from 8.30am until 10 pm at 2 Hoa Lu Street, Hanoi, with entrance free.
The festival that runs from September 13-15 at the Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (VECCA) in Hanoi, feature a range of activities for children.
The festival is hosted by the VECCA, the Vietnam Women’s Museum and the ASEAN Women’s Circle in Hanoi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The event makes an opportunity to introduce traditional mid-autumn celebrations in different countries among the bloc to Vietnamese people through costumes, toys, masks and decorative objects.
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Particularly, art researcher and lecturer Trang Thanh Hien from the Vietnam Fine Arts University will stage a talk show on the history of masks in the country and throughout the world, the connection between masks and people’s cultural life, as well as the significance of masks in Vietnam’s mid-autumn lantern parade.
In addition, participants at the event can enjoy arts performances and lion dances, enter quizzes, and join in folk games such as tug-of-war and blindfolded pot smashing.
Children can also try their hand at arranging mam ngu qua (five-fruit tray) and make traditional masks, moon cakes, mid-autumn festival lanterns, and to he (toy figurines).
Besides, an exhibition displaying outstanding entries from a children’s painting contest on traffic safety will be also organised during the festival.
The highlight of the programme is an outdoor space of installation art with the theme "Way to the Moon".
Artists used traditional children’s toys and agricultural equipment to create an artwork explaining the origin of the mid-autumn festival. A sound and light system will create visual effects for visitors as well.
Art and musical performances will be held in the evenings.
The mid-autumn fest 2016 opens to the public from 8.30am until 10 pm at 2 Hoa Lu Street, Hanoi, with entrance free.
