A ceremony was held in the southern province of Tay Ninh on August 14 to announce the recognition of Linh Son Thanh Mau (Mother Goddess of the Mountain) festival as a national intangible cultural heritage.
The British Council has announced three recipients who will enjoy financial support from the Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth project. The two-year pilot initiative in Colombia, Kenya and Vietnam aims to explore the use of cultural heritage for growth to benefit all levels of society.
‘Bai choi’ singing - a popular folklore style of singing in the central and south central regions of Vietnam was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2017. The acknowledgement motivated localities in the regions and Da Nang city in particular to make plans and programmes to safeguard and pervade the folk art form’s unique value in the community.
(BGO) - Do Thi Khoa (born
in 1942) in Hoang Mai 2 village, Hoang Ninh commune (Viet Yen district, Bac
Giang province) has been passionate about singing cheo (Vietnamese traditional
opera) from the age of 10. Desiring to preserve the ancient treasure of the
village, now at the age of nearly 80, she still sings and teaches the cheo art
to the next generations.
Folk music researchers support the creation of a digital archive of ca tru (ceremonial singing) owned by a State-run agency to preserve the traditional art form and gather scattered materials owned by individual artists and researchers.
Experts from India and Russia have visited My Son sanctuary in the central province of Quang Nam from late June to early July 2019 to help with the restoration of the world cultural heritage site, director of the sanctuary’s management board Phan Ho said on July 3.
Summer holiday offers a great opportunity for museums to host a hive of heritage education activities, which are designed to nurture the love for heritage among people, particularly schoolchildren.
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