Numerous poets and performers from Dak Lak province will perform aselection of famous sagas from the Central Highlands in Hanoi, aspart of the second season of Central Highland Cultural Days in thecapital, from August 28 to September 2.
A liveperformance will also be made during the events opening ceremony onAugust 28 and broadcast live on Vietnam Television (VTV).
The epic poems are amongst 100 being performed at the event, fromvarious ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands, including theBa Na, E De, Mo Nong and Xe Dang minority peoples.
Nguyen Thi Hoa, head of the organising committee, said that the endresult is due to the relentless and dedicated work that staff at theInstitution of Cultural Studies at Vietnam’s Institute for SocialSciences have put in.
The Institute researched,gathered and translated the sagas from 2001 to 2011 and to date, 91books and 107 stories have been published.
Additionally, over 150 artifacts supplied by UNESCO Centre, will be ondisplay at the event and several supplementary exhibitions of art andphotographs will also take place.
The sagas arechronicles describing the socio-economic process that formed anddeveloped the community of ethnic groups inhabiting the Truong SonMountains. They are stories about heroes and the bravery of publicfigures in communities that are long gone.
TheCentral Highlands epics will also be submitted to UNESCO for recognitionas a world intangible and oral cultural heritage of mankind.-VNA
A liveperformance will also be made during the events opening ceremony onAugust 28 and broadcast live on Vietnam Television (VTV).
The epic poems are amongst 100 being performed at the event, fromvarious ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands, including theBa Na, E De, Mo Nong and Xe Dang minority peoples.
Nguyen Thi Hoa, head of the organising committee, said that the endresult is due to the relentless and dedicated work that staff at theInstitution of Cultural Studies at Vietnam’s Institute for SocialSciences have put in.
The Institute researched,gathered and translated the sagas from 2001 to 2011 and to date, 91books and 107 stories have been published.
Additionally, over 150 artifacts supplied by UNESCO Centre, will be ondisplay at the event and several supplementary exhibitions of art andphotographs will also take place.
The sagas arechronicles describing the socio-economic process that formed anddeveloped the community of ethnic groups inhabiting the Truong SonMountains. They are stories about heroes and the bravery of publicfigures in communities that are long gone.
TheCentral Highlands epics will also be submitted to UNESCO for recognitionas a world intangible and oral cultural heritage of mankind.-VNA
