A festival, entitled “Hello! Vietnam†will take place at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo on September 18 and 19.
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, will be on show at the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Culture House on September 12-13 and at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi September 16-19.
Numerous art and cultural activities have been held in Hanoi to celebrate the capital city’s millennium birthday on October 10. On August 25, the Thang Long Art Ornamental Plant Association opened two exhibitions of ornamental trees and stones at Ly Thai To and Indira Gandhi parks in Hanoi.
Binh Duong province will host the first national ceramic festival from September 1 to September 9. Nineteen pottery villages and 50 ceramic companies including 19 from the Binh Duong Province’s Ceramics Association will take part in the festival in Thu Dau Mot Town.
A ceremony was held in the southern province of Binh Thuan on August 25 to announce the 2010 international yacht festival Mui Ne-Binh Thuan scheduled for December 8-12.
The Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced that a food and drink festival will take place in the West Lake Park from October 6-11 to mark the capital city's 1000th anniversary and the National Tourism Year 2010.
Twelve international art troupes and five Vietnamese puppetry troupes will attend the Second International Puppetry festival in Hanoi from September 4-9.
The Thang Long-Hanoi International Tourism Festival will take place at Bao Son Paradise Theme Park in Hanoi from October 2-5 to mark the 1000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Hanoi will organise firework displays in four locations on September 2 to celebrate the 65 th anniversary of National Day.
The fourth Hong Kong-Nha Trang International Yacht Race is scheduled to take place from October 20-27, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The northern port city of Hai Phong will organise the first Culture, Sports and Tourism Week from Sept. 28 to October 2 in response to the grand ceremony of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
Phan Thiet City will hold the traditional Nghinh Ong Quan Thanh Festival on August 30 - September 1 (from the 21st day to the 23rd day of the 7th lunar month) with some important rituals at Ong Pagoda including a Buddhist prayer ceremony, whale worshipping and a ceremony where people release lanterns on the river to pray for a good life.