Hai Phong is brilliant with traditional colors of the 2025 Expanded Puppetry Festival

On the evening of May 4, the 3rd Hai Phong Puppetry Festival 2025 with the theme "Hai Phong - 70 years of brilliant flower season" opened at Hai Phong Opera House, attracting a large number of tourists and city residents.

The 2025 Hai Phong Puppetry Festival is a special art event, part of a series of activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Hai Phong Liberation Day (May 13, 1955 - May 13, 2025), and is also an opportunity to honor, preserve and promote the values ​​of traditional national art.

Special opening puppet show.

Taking place from May 3-9, this year's expanded Hai Phong Puppetry Festival brings together the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre, Thang Long Puppetry Theatre ( Hanoi ), Hai Phong Traditional Stage Theatre and 5 traditional puppetry troupes from localities across the country, along with thousands of artists, actors, artisans, audiences who love traditional art and people of the Port City.

Activities are held at two main locations: the City Theater Square and the Song Cam Theater (274 Le Loi), with many rich and attractive programs.

The water puppet and stage puppet shows are elaborately staged, combining lighting effects, traditional music and witty, expressive dialogue, giving the audience unique artistic experiences that are both strange and familiar.

The organizers presented flowers to the puppetry troupes.

In addition, performances of ancient cheo excerpts, amateur music and the launch of the special art program "Hai Phong invites friends from all over the world" also created a colorful picture of traditional Vietnamese theater.

Not only stopping at restoring ancient plays, the expanded Hai Phong Puppetry Festival also boldly introduces adapted puppet shows, combining modern elements to approach the tastes of young audiences more closely, creating a bridge between the past and the present.

The Ao Dai and Vietnamese Traditional Costume Heritage Block participated in the parade.

The highlight of the festival is the colorful street parade, with the participation of more than 3,000 artists and actors in traditional costumes, along with funny and lively puppets. Especially, there is the participation of international groups including students, experts living and working in Hai Phong; the heritage group of Vietnamese ao dai and traditional costumes with the participation of women from Kim Thanh district (Hai Duong)... with Vietnamese ao dai and traditional costumes.

Create unique puppets.

The 3rd Hai Phong Puppetry Festival is not only a playground for art troupes but also an opportunity for tourists and city residents to immerse themselves in, experience and enjoy traditional art in the heart of a modern city.

Exchange activities, puppetry experiences, getting to know the artisans, and learning how to control puppets attract a large number of young people to participate, igniting pride in folk cultural heritage.

Ms. Tran Thi Hoang Mai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city spoke at the program.

Ms. Tran Thi Hoang Mai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong City emphasized: The organization of the large-scale Puppetry Festival affirms the efforts of Hai Phong City in bringing traditional art not only existing in the space of water pavilions, theaters or small stages, but boldly stepping out into the streets, closer to the public.

That is also Hai Phong's commitment in the journey to preserve and breathe new life into puppetry - a unique folk art form rich in national identity.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/hai-phong-ruc-ro-sac-mau-truyen-thong-lien-hoan-mua-roi-mo-rong-2025-post877185.html