2018 Gong Cultural Festival of Central Highlands to open in November
PSNews - The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced that the 2018 Gong Cultural Festival of the Central Highlands will take place by November in Gia Lai with a serie of interesting activities.
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The Gong Cultural Festival is an annual event with the aim of honoring and promoting the value of the Gong cutural space in the Central Highlands, under the action plan announced by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2006.
The festival is scheduled to take place in this year’s mid-November, with the unity of local ethnic communities as its main theme. The Gia Lai People’s Committee has been tasked to efficiently utilise social sources along with part of the province’s coffer to organise the festival.
Numerous activities will be jointly held by five Central Highlands provinces (Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong) namely a street festival featuring gong performances, re-enactment of some traditional rituals and festivals of 11 ethnic groups of the region.
The art of wood sculpture and brocade weaving will also be introduced during the festival, along with seminars on the conservation of gong cultural values and exhibitions on ethnic costumes.
On November 25th of 2005, the UNESCO decided to recognize “The cultural space of gong in the Central Highlands” of Vietnam as “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
