A traditional Vietnamese tug-of-war folk game was added to UNESCO''s list
of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity icons yesterday, along with
three other Asian countries with a similar tradition.
Participants from Southeast Asian member countries
and relevant bodies discussed and shared experiences in protecting
intangible cultural heritage at a regional meeting in Ha Noi.
The culture ministry has approved a plan to seek UNESCO''s recognition of
an oral folk art form of three ethnic groups from northern Viet Nam as
intangible cultural heritage.
The People''s Committee of the southern An Giang Province celebrated the
recognition accorded to the Ba Chua Xu (regional goddess) Festival as
national intangible cultural heritage on June 8.
Research on southern folk music (don ca tai tu) by a
teacher from Long An Province, Vo Truong Ky, won the Viet Nam Folk Arts
and Letters Association''s highest award this year.
A night of Vietnamese folk music featuring ca tru (ceremonial singing), cheo (popular theatre), chau van (spiritual singing) and xam (blind buskers'' singing) will take place in Ha Noi on January 6.
Vietnamese work songs are in the running to become
UNESCO symbols of intangible world heritage, along with 45 other
cultural practices across the globe.
The Ministry of Information and Communications has released a set of stamps featuring traditional ca tru singing recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding by UNESCO in 2009.
Viet Nam Book of Records has recognised a giant artificial musical
instrument and a cultural theatre in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta
province of Bac Lieu as the country''s latest records.
A website featuring the first National Don Ca Tai Tu (Southern Folk
Music) Festival 2014 was launched on Tuesday, according to the Bac Lieu
Department of Information and Communications.
The annual festival dedicated to Tran kings in Hung Ha District in the
northern province of Thai Binh has just been accorded recognition as
national intangible cultural heritage.
Prof. Tran Van Khe, the greatest master of traditional Vietnamese music,
to talk to Culture Vulture about the future of Don ca tai tu, which was
listed early this month as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
by UNESCO. Khe said the UN...
A dossier on folk singing in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha
Tinh has been prepared as part of a nomination for UNESCO Intangible
Cultural Heritage in 2014.
