The 2025 International Craft Village Conservation and Development Festival will officially take place from November 14 to 18 at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Center - Hanoi .
The event was organized by the Hanoi People's Committee in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to preserve and promote the identity and traditional cultural values of the nation; honor artisans, skilled workers, and workers in craft villages, arouse pride in craft villages, artisans, and craftsmen, thereby creating awareness of preserving, conserving, and developing craft villages. At the same time, promote and introduce craft village products of Hanoi to the international community.
The Festival brings together representatives from more than 30 countries and territories, along with thousands of artisans, experts, and creators from home and abroad.
Festival 2025 has the mission of "Conservation - Development - International Integration", aiming at the vision of sustainable development and green economy , with strategic orientations: "Green craft villages - environmentally friendly, applying clean energy", "Eco-craft villages - harmony between heritage and nature, "Digital transformation craft villages - connecting technology, creativity, and global trade", "Towards Net-Zero - reducing emissions, ecological balance, for a sustainable human future."
The Festival also creates a space for exchange and learning between domestic and international artisans and skilled workers to build long-term cooperative relationships in the field of handicrafts; expand markets, enhance commercial value and competitiveness of products.
With more than 1,350 craft villages and villages with crafts, Hanoi is proud to be the "capital of the quintessence of traditional Vietnamese crafts" - a place where cultural, artistic and industrial values of thousands of years of civilization converge and spread.
Hanoi's craft villages are not only heritage treasures but also important socio-economic pillars, with a total production value estimated at more than 20,000 billion VND per year, contributing to creating livelihoods, increasing income, building new rural areas - civilized urban areas, and promoting the capital's creative cultural industry.
The Festival is organized on a scale of more than 4,000m², including many functional spaces: Honoring space (introducing international and regional standard craft villages), Heritage and conservation space (displaying unique craft villages, such as: Yen Thai Do paper, La Khe weaving, Kim Hoang paintings, Dinh Cong silver beans, Ba Duong Noi kites, and typical craft villages across Vietnam), Thematic exhibition space (Craft village tourism, green economy, Net-Zero and digital transformation), International artisan-artist exchange space, where folk art blends with music, performances, and unique OCOP culinary experiences of the regions.
During the 5 days, the Festival space will become an international cultural forum - a place to meet, connect, inspire and create without borders, bringing together artisans, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers in the fields of conservation, development and craft village economy.
The Festival is not only a cultural event, but also an opportunity to promote trade and large-scale international cooperation, to promote typical Vietnamese craft village products to the global market. The event also creates an effective connection environment between artisans-businesses-investors-design experts-international customers, contributing to the formation of a comprehensive craft village creative ecosystem.
Within the framework of the program, the World Craft Council (WCC) will conduct appraisal and recognition of two typical craft villages of Hanoi, including Son Dong (fine art lacquer sculpture) and Chuyen My (lacquer mother-of-pearl inlay), to become official members of the WCC, inheriting the achievements of Bat Trang ceramic and Van Phuc silk villages, these two craft villages have been listed in the World Network of Creative Craft Cities.
This is a step forward to affirm Hanoi's position as a leading center of handicraft creation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Within the framework of the Festival, there will also be a series of academic and investment promotion activities taking place throughout, including an international conference with the theme "Preservation and Development of Craft Villages in the Green and Digital Age", a conference on trade and investment promotion in craft villages, a contest of Vietnamese handicraft products, and a fair of craft villages and safe agricultural and food products in Hanoi./.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/festival-quoc-te-2025-ket-noi-tinh-hoa-lang-nghe-huong-toi-phat-trien-ben-vung-post1075038.vnp
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