Music show to mark 80th anniversary of Party's first platform on culture

A special music show marking the 80th anniversary of the “Outline of Vietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam, is scheduled to be held at Hanoi Opera House on February 28 evening.
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Hanoi (VNA) – A special music show marking the 80th anniversary of the “Outline of Vietnamese Culture”, the first platform on culture launched by the Communist Party of Vietnam, is scheduled to be held atHanoi Opera House on February 28 evening.

Themed “Outline ofVietnamese Culture – Historical imprints”, the 70-minute event will be directedby Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ta Quang Dong and conductedby the Department of Performing Arts.

Itwill see performances by artists of the Vietnam Contemporary Art Theater incollaboration with the Central Science and Documentary Film Studio, the VietnamNational Academy of Music, the Vietnam Dance Academy, the Ministry of PublicSecurity’s drum troupe, the Ministry of National Defence’s ritual art troupe, the Hanoi University of Culture and the National University of ArtsEducation.

Ministerof Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said it will be not only an artshow but also a political and cultural event.

In 1943, by applying Marxism and the guidelines of the Party and leader Nguyen Ai Quoc, Party General SecretaryTruong Chinh wrote the Outline on Vietnamese Culture (also known as the 1943 Outline on Culture), stressing that the content, nature, organization and development orientation of a cultural revolution can only be associated with the national liberation revolution and a cultural revolution can be realized when the political revolution has succeeded. 

The document defined that Vietnamese culture, consisting of ideology, learning, and arts, “will be liberated by the democratic revolution and freed from shackles and could catch up with the world's neo-democratic culture”./.

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