The British Council will coordinate
with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam to organise
a training course on festival management in Hanoi from Mar. 17-20.
Twenty-five arts organisers and managers from a number of cities and
provinces will attend the course, the first of a three-year
capacity-building programme on festival management with the aim of
strengthening arts management skills for arts promoters and festival
organisers in Vietnam as well as creating links between festivals in
the UK and Vietnam.
The programme, which is part of the British Council’s Global project
entitled New Work New Audience, includes a series of training workshops
on arts festival organisation led by UK festival directors and a series
of wrap-around events to showcase UK and Vietnamese arts to audiences
of the two countries.
Simon Beardow, Deputy Director of British Council Vietnam expressed his
hope that through the project, Vietnamese influential in the arts and
festival organisers will better be able to contribute to the
development of cultural infrastructure as well as the art in Vietnam./.