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Ha Noi – UNESCO’s Creative City In Design Category
UNESCO has designated 66 cities around the world in its Creative Cities Network. There are 140 creative spaces in Viet Nam, 60 of them in Ha Noi, which offer diversified art genres: fine arts, fashion, architecture, cinematography, and street festivals.
The Network covers seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature, and Music. Ha Noi got the UNESCO honour in the ‘Design’ category, an opportunity for Ha Noi to create its trademark and promote its cultural creativity to the world.
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable development in economics, society, culture, and environment. The newest additions bring the network to a total of 246 Creative Cities.
There are 140 creative spaces in Viet Nam, 60 of them in Ha Noi, which offer diversified art genres: fine arts, fashion, architecture, cinematography, and street festivals.
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable development in economics, society, culture, and environment. The newest additions bring the network to a total of 246 Creative Cities.
There are 140 creative spaces in Viet Nam, 60 of them in Ha Noi, which offer diversified art genres: fine arts, fashion, architecture, cinematography, and street festivals.
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“Moscow Days in Ha Noi” Event Promises Various Activities
Ha Noi and Moscow have joined hands to organise “Moscow Days in Ha Noi”, scheduled to take place from November 28 to December.
It will include a cultural festival at the pedestrian zone around Hoan Kiem Lake, a ballet show at the Ha Noi Opera House, exhibitions on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and Moscow’s landscapes, along with a friendly football match.
Within the framework of the event, there will be a signing ceremony for a cooperation agreement between the two capital cities in the 2020-2023 period, along with seminars sharing the cities’ experience in labour, employment and social welfare, health care, urban environment, trade promotion and tourism.
The “Moscow Days in Ha Noi” event aims to strengthen solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding between people of Vietnam and Russia and the two capital cities in particular, thereby boosting cooperation and experience exchange in multiple fields.
It forms part of activities marking the 70th founding anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties, along with the Vietnam Year in Russia and the Russia Year in Viet Nam.
Within the framework of the event, there will be a signing ceremony for a cooperation agreement between the two capital cities in the 2020-2023 period, along with seminars sharing the cities’ experience in labour, employment and social welfare, health care, urban environment, trade promotion and tourism.
The “Moscow Days in Ha Noi” event aims to strengthen solidarity, friendship and mutual understanding between people of Vietnam and Russia and the two capital cities in particular, thereby boosting cooperation and experience exchange in multiple fields.
It forms part of activities marking the 70th founding anniversary of the bilateral diplomatic ties, along with the Vietnam Year in Russia and the Russia Year in Viet Nam.
Nguyen Hue Flower Street To Open To Public From Jan. 22
Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Hue flower street is set to open up to both local residents and tourists between January 22 and January 28, 2020, according to the occasion’s organisers.
For the upcoming event, Nguyen Hue flower road will be split into three main sections that stretch approximately 700 metres along Nguyen Hue Street.
In order to prepare the area for this transformation, construction of the flower road is scheduled to take place from January 8 to January 22, 2020.
With the occasion taking place just ahead of the Lunar New Year, roughly 130 New Year mascots will line up along Nguyen Hue Street.
The flower road is designed to convey a message urging environmental protection to build a modern and prosperous Ho Chi Minh City.
In order to prepare the area for this transformation, construction of the flower road is scheduled to take place from January 8 to January 22, 2020.
With the occasion taking place just ahead of the Lunar New Year, roughly 130 New Year mascots will line up along Nguyen Hue Street.
The flower road is designed to convey a message urging environmental protection to build a modern and prosperous Ho Chi Minh City.
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