Art troupes in HCM City have launched various activities to celebrate Việt Nam Stage Day, which falls on the 12th day of the eighth lunar month, or September 22.
Hòa Bình Commune also plans to encourage traders to use digital platforms to promote and sell products, while paying greater attention to product traceability, food safety and environmental hygiene, with the aim of building “Green, Digital and Civilised Markets.”
HCM City is seeking to turn its rich heritage and cultural resources into cinematic stories, using its new status as a UNESCO Creative City of Film to strengthen links between heritage preservation, filmmaking, tourism and the wider creative economy.
Alongside content innovation, digital transformation, and copyright protection, models that bring books closer to the community are fostering a robust reading culture, while also requiring innovation in Ho Chi Minh City’s publishing and distribution market to gradually transform publishing into a modern cultural industry.
Young artists are giving Hanoi’s musical heritage a contemporary voice through the “Connecting Heritage – Creating the Future” programme, which traces the capital’s musical journey and explores new ways to reinterpret traditional values.