The Book and Culture Night Festival is expected to become a distinctive cultural feature of Ho Chi Minh City, adding more public cultural spaces for the public to enjoy entertainment and recreation at night - Photo: LINH DOAN
The Book Street Festival is designed as a summer cultural street with many diverse experiential corners.
Diverse nighttime activities at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street.
Besides sightseeing, reading, and buying books, visitors can watch traditional Vietnamese opera performances by artists from the Ho Chi Minh City Traditional Opera Theatre. The program "Silk Threads of the Ancestors - Heritage and Continuation" is a form of community cultural storytelling, revolving around the ancestors of Southern Vietnamese traditional music, and the journey of preserving and continuing the values of Southern Vietnamese folk music.
The "Paper Flower Making Workshop" allows the public to experience the traditional art of making paper flowers, serving as a way to introduce traditional crafts to urban dwellers.
Besides the themed programs, there are also "street corners" that promise to delight visitors, such as Sweet Street - where you can find traditional dishes like Vinh Long pomelo sweet soup, shaped mung bean cakes, etc.
The craft street features workshops that guide visitors in learning about and creating traditional crafts themselves.
Then there's the Summer Creative Market , the Creative Chess Experience Space, the Creative Reading Space with books in an open library model, creative storytelling, and bilingual storytelling for children.
Many nighttime activities at Ho Chi Minh City's Book Street delight tourists - Photo: LINH DOAN
The folk games area, featuring activities such as bamboo pole jumping, O An Quan (a traditional board game), monkey bridge walking, sack racing, blindfolded pot smashing, etc., creates a fun and friendly atmosphere for children, families, and international tourists.
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