Start of night cultural activities at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street

On the evening of November 21, the first pilot program of the Night Book and Culture Festival at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street kicked off. The program lasted for three days, from November 21 to 23.

Audiences enjoy cai luong performances at Book Street on the evening of November 21, performed by artists from Tran Huu Trang Theater - Photo: LINH DOAN

As usual, after 6pm the atmosphere at Book Street has calmed down, but on the evening of November 21, many people felt excited when this place started to get bustling.

First experience at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street

Mr. Le Hoang, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Book Street, shared that this is a new cultural activity model, first tested at the Book Street called Night Book and Culture Festival .

Mr. Hoang emphasized that the model of Book Festival and Night Culture is organized in the spirit of taking reading cultural activities as the core.

At the same time, focus on exploiting activities with cultural, educational , artistic aspects and types of community activities and entertainment suitable to the community's need to enjoy positive spiritual culture.

"This is a concrete step contributing to the implementation of the policy of building Ho Chi Minh City into a creative, dynamic and unique urban area, while affirming that Book Street is not only a "knowledge destination", but can also become a "vibrant cultural space at night" - Mr. Hoang said.

Foreign tourists try the feeling of walking on the monkey bridge at Book Street - Photo: LINH DOAN

Children enjoy playing with clay - Photo: LINH DOAN

Eat traditional cakes, join Book Street

There is a traditional cake stall located at the entrance to the Book Street. Many foreign and Vietnamese visitors are interested in learning more and each person holds a small plate of cake, walking along the Book Street to see, experience and participate in the activities here when night falls.

Traditional cakes served to tourists - Photo: LINH DOAN

This area is a reading and book discussion area for book lovers. That area is a portrait sketching area, and diagonally across the drawing area is a place for children to explore and try making clay animals.

Curious foreign tourists experience the feeling of crossing monkey bridges or dancing bamboo poles guided by girls wearing ethnic costumes from the northern mountainous region.

Western tourists are instructed to play bamboo dance - Photo: LINH DOAN

Young people gathered in large numbers at the folk games area, among which the game of hopscotch seemed to be very popular. Many people were interested in the place where they could learn how to make funny animals from coconut leaves.

After eating traditional cakes, learning, reading books, and playing traditional games, people gathered to listen to reformed opera and amateur music at the stage near the exit to Hai Ba Trung street.

Artisan guides tourists to make flowers and animals from coconut leaves - Photo: LINH DOAN

Many young people love the game of Chinese checkers - Photo: LINH DOAN

The evening of November 21 is a program performed by artists of Tran Huu Trang Theater, called Promoting traditional art combined with folk music .

The MC briefly introduced to the audience about traditional musical instruments, vọng cổ songs, and mới cổ giao duyên songs, an outstanding creation of composer Viễn Châu.

During the 30-minute program, viewers will enjoy the neo-traditional song Banh Bong Lan (composer: Loan Thao). Next is the scene song Dau chan nguoi moi co (composer: Pham Van Dang, director: Minh Truong - Quynh Khoi).

On the main stage there was also a debate on Applying Vietnamese Quality in Cinema .

Mr. Le Hoang informed: "Based on the experimental activities of this 3-night weekend, we will learn from experience, find ways to call for and widely connect social resources to jointly develop a truly high-quality Book Festival and Night Culture model.

Initially it was the last 3 days of each month to progress to the last 3 days of each week, and it happened regularly with good success in the future."

LINH DOAN

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/bat-dau-nhung-hoat-dong-van-hoa-dem-tai-duong-sach-tp-hcm-20251121234338767.htm