Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The Hue Festival 2020 will open on August28 this year instead of early April as previously planned due to the coronavirusdisease (COVID-19), the festival organising board said on February 20.
The biennial festival was initially slated for April 1-6.
Phan Ngoc Tho, Chairman of the Thua Thien-Hue provincial People’s Committee andhead of the organising board, said that the festival will take place on sixdays to September 3.
The organising board continues to complete the festival’s programmes to servetourists to the cultural event of the central province.
The Hue Festival 2018 was held with the theme: ‘Cultural Heritage withIntegration and Development: Hue - One Destination, Five World Heritages’.
It attracted the participation of nearly 1,400 artists and professional actorsincluding 388 from 24 international art troupes and nearly 1,000 fromacross the country.
Thousands of amateur artists also took part in the event, which welcomedmore than 1.2 million visitors./.