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./.