HCM CITY (VNS)  — The annual HCM City Visual and Performing Arts Festival "Vox Populi" will take place at McSorley's Ale House bar from June 12-16.

The festival, organised by Saigon Players, a non-profit group of foreigners who enjoy theatre, will include art exhibitions, plays, poetry readings, film screenings, and music and dance shows.

It will highlight Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People, adapted from an English translation by American writer Arthur Miller. It will be presented by Saigon Players at 7pm every day.

The film screenings will feature Silkwood directed by Mike Nichols, Philadelphia directed by Jonathan Demme, Inside Job from director Charles Ferguson and To Kill a Mockingbird directed by Robert Mulligan.

The event will start at 7pm at 4 Thao Dien Street in District 2. — VNS