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Project promotes young artists and cultural centres

A series of art and cultural events will take place in big cities from March 5 to 21.
Project promotes young artists and cultural centres ảnh 1Mat Tran Ensemble will perform a multisensory puppet show in the northern province of Ninh Bìih (Photo: mattranensemble.com)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - A series of art and cultural events will take placein big cities from March 5 to 21.

Under a project funded by the EU and the British Council, people in sevencities and provinces such as the northern Ninh Binh, Hai Phong, Da Nang willhave the chance to see and join in performances and activities by young artistsand emerging cultural and creative hubs.

The performances are part of a three-year project to enhance capacity, build anetwork and provide legal and policy assistance for cultural and creative hubsacross Vietnam. It also hopes to contribute to the sustainable development of anetwork of cultural and creative hubs.

This includes continuing support for independent artists and creativepractitioners, nurturing artistic expression and creativity and offering adiverse cultural life for Vietnamese people.

The British Council has worked closely with the Vietnam National Institute forCulture and Arts Studies and six creative hubs to plan for a series of onlineor face-to-face art and cultural events.

Through these six key cultural and creative hubs, it is envisaged that theproject impact will be transmitted to the entire network of cultural andcreative hubs in Vietnam.

These events will offer an opportunity for cultural and creative hubs fromdifferent parts of the country to connect with each other and to work withartists and creative practitioners in designing and organising art and culturalevents.

It will foster network building and capacity improvement for hubs across Vietnam,particularly for new and emerging hubs and those not in large cities.

Twelve event proposals that were selected to form In Progress – a series of artand cultural events which will be made by artists and art troupes such as Van Do,Ha Ninh, Dinh Thi Nhung, Pham Thi

Hoai Anh, Cheo 48h, Bluebird's Net in Hanoi; Mat Tran Ensemble and Old Soul. Theartists will provide a visual or multi-media art exhibition, performing art,film screenings, workshops, street art, book launches, research presentations,interactive performance and more./.
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