Closing Ceremony of Cultural Festival of Ethnic Groups with a Population of Less Than 10,000 People

After 3 days of organization with many attractive and rich activities, on the afternoon of November 5, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with the People's Committee of Lai Chau province to summarize the closing ceremony of the first Cultural Festival of ethnic groups with a population of less than 10,000 people and Lai Chau Tourism-Culture Week 2023.

Representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lai Chau province presented the flag to host the 2nd Cultural Festival of Ethnic Groups with a population of less than 10,000 people in 2028 to representatives of the Department of Culture and Sports of Lao Cai province.

With the theme “Preserving, promoting and disseminating the traditional cultural identity of ethnic groups with very small populations”, the Festival has contributed to concretizing the goals, tasks, solutions and strategic breakthroughs in implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party, contributing to “Building and developing Vietnamese culture and people to meet the requirements of sustainable national development”. At the same time, it contributes to strengthening the great national unity bloc; honoring and promoting the fine traditional cultural identity values of ethnic groups with a population of less than 10,000 people nationwide in particular and the traditional cultural identity of 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups in general.

During the 3 days of the Festival, many activities had political and cultural significance and left a good impression on viewers; spreading the traditional and unique cultural values of ethnic groups with a population of less than 10,000 people.

The Exhibition Space introduces typical cultural products of ethnic groups, demonstrating the unique features of each locality through the display and introduction of community cultural characteristics through artifacts: paintings, photos, books, brochures; models of artifacts, musical instruments, traditional costumes of ethnic groups, handicrafts, brocades, and local products.

The exhibition space introduces the cultural characteristics of the community through artifacts: paintings, photos, books, brochures; models of Cao Bang province.

The mass art festival with the participation of 9 groups with nearly 400 artisans and actors, has 45 different cultural and artistic performances; the performances of the groups are mostly performed by artisans and mass actors, with elaborate investment, rich content, imbued with the cultural identity of very few people in the provinces, closely following the theme of the Festival.

Performing and introducing excerpts of festivals and traditional cultural rituals of ethnic groups with a population of less than 10,000 people, 8 provinces have carefully selected and staged, through which the delegations have shown that localities attach great importance to preserving the unique traditional cultural identity of ethnic groups.

The Traditional Craft Show has left a deep impression on visitors from all over the world through the performances of artisans in the process of creating products of traditional brocade weaving and weaving...

Handicraft demonstration of Pa Then ethnic people.

Through the content of this Festival, the organizing committee awarded 31 A prizes, 36 B prizes and 12 C prizes to the performances of the delegations participating in the Festival.

Regarding sports activities, there were 8 provinces, nearly 200 coaches and athletes participating. After 3 days of exciting and attractive sports competitions, the organizing committee awarded 31 sets of medals in 3 competitions, including: Stick pushing, crossbow shooting, and tug of war.

At the closing ceremony, representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lai Chau province presented the flag to host the 2nd Cultural Festival of Ethnic Groups with a population of less than 10,000 people in 2028 to representatives of the Department of Culture and Sports of Lao Cai province.

Award Certificates of Merit to groups and individuals with outstanding achievements in consulting and organizing the Festival.

On this occasion, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded Certificates of Merit to 18 groups and 5 individuals; the Chairman of Lai Chau Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 29 groups and 48 individuals with outstanding achievements in advising and organizing the Lai Chau Festival and Tourism-Culture Week in 2023.

According to TRAN TUAN/Nhandan.vn

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