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A web drama series on cai luong (reformed opera), the south’s most popular theatre form, has started to be released on YouTube this week.

A new exhibit hall featuring information and images about cai luong (reformed opera) will be opened in September by the HCM City-based Tran Huu Trang Cai luong Theatre, one of the region’s leading traditional art troupes.

Monsoon From Home (MFH) on May 27 night will feature quan ho (love duets) and folk music with the participation of music producer Quoc Trung, musician Ho Hoai Anh and People’s Artist Thuy Huong.

Patriotism and youth are the themes of a songwriting contest organised by the HCM City Youth Union in cooperation with its partners in the city to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Vietnam Youth Volunteer Force, which falls on July 15.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and UNICEF Vietnam launched a media campaign entitled “Kindness is Contagious” on May 6, to build solidarity and spread kindness among young Vietnamese during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Xam Ha Thanh (Hanoi buskers’ singing group) has recently published various videos of traditional xam singing.

Young singers Hoang Thuy Linh and Son Tung M-TP are leading figures with the most nominations for the 15th Devotion Music Awards.

Five emerging artists or groups will have the chance to engage with traditional disciplines of Vietnamese performing arts and music via a residency programme which will start on March 1.

Traditional art theatres in Ho Chi Minh City are facing a shortage of artists and musicians, which has made it tough for the members of each theatre to keep up with their performance schedules.

World-renowned concert pianist Dang Thai Son has been invited to be a judge at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2020 in Poland.

As many as 100 young artists will help ring in the New Year with the musical extravaganza ‘Countdown 2020’ at Hoan Kiem Lake on December 31 night.

Veteran musician and literary and arts legend Nguyen Van Ty, a member of Vietnam Musicians’ Association, passed away on December 27 afternoon in HCM City after a long illness at the age of 94.

Artists from across the country aged 7-70 will perform at the ”xam” (blind wanderers’ music) festival from December 3-5 in the northern province of Ninh Binh.

Surpassing other nine finalists, "Bi, Khong So Nua" (Bi, No More Fear), a film by Ho Chi Minh City-based video production FGS, won the highest prize in 48 Hour Film Project Vietnam.

Only 20km away from Hanoi capital city, there is a village the walls of which are blanked with vivid mural paintings. The art works are part of a project to beautify agricultural production area.

Vietnamese people and foreigners living in Vietnam can enter the K-Pop Contest 2019 launched by Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV) on October 1 in Hanoi.

Vietnam has five features, two short films and three projects entered the 24th Busan International Festival (BIFF) of the Republic of Korea, which will be held in October.

Hong Kong’s 13-year-old pianist Peter Leung returns to Vietnam to perform at the Peter Leung – A Piano Prodigy concert on August 17 at the Soul Live Project Complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

An exhibition of 109 paintings and sculptures by veteran and young artists of the south has opened at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum to celebrate the 74th anniversary of National Day (September 2).

New art showcasing the lives and worlds of children with autism are unveiled at an exhibition entitled Khong Thoi Gian (No Time) that is being held at the Exhibition House at 29 Hang Bai street in Hanoi.