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Hue Festival is a tourism cultural festival, a typical forum of cultural and art activities full of impression and attracting hundreds of special cultural and tourism activities to honor the unique cultural values of Vietnam and Hue Ancient capital. As one of the big festivals,Hue Festival with many community festival programs which are remade with a big space inside and outside the city, contributing to renewing cultural values of Hue. Hue Festival is the harmonious combination between types of community cultures with tourism; traditional modern culture and art of Hue in particular and Vietnam in general with art delegations regionally and globally. That is the display of the charming beauty about a diversified, and plentiful culture space which have been accumulated through many generations and ups and downs of the history of the nation… that is Hue Culture – the origin of all Hue festivals.
Rising from the initial success of Vietnam-France Gathering in 1992 between Hue City and Vietnam-France Codev Association, the idea of organizing a larger-scale, higher-quality festival in Thua Thien Hue province has gradually come into shape.
By the end of 1998 and the early 1999, thanks to the co-operation and support extended by the French Government via the French Embassy to Vietnam, and direct assistance from the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture and Information, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other Ministries; the People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province officially requested the approval of the Government to allow Thua Thien Hue Province collaborating with the French Embassy to organize the Hue Festival 2000 – an international festival of culture, arts, and tourism of the country ever held in Vietnam. Building on the success of Hue Festival 2000, Hue Festival 2002 was continued to be held with the co-operation between Thua Thien Hue Province and the Embassy of France in Vietnam, the participation of various ASEAN countries and other partners, such as China, Japan, and Korea. It brought about high appreciation not only nationwide but also throughout the world. Based on these achievements, the Government allowed Hue City to be developed as a city of festival of Vietnam and continued the organization of international festivals which assume to be held periodically every two years.
Hue Festival 2000 took place within 12 days and nights with the participation of more than 30 Vietnamese and French art groups, over 1,000 artists and professional and amateur actors and actresses. It gathered approximately 410,000 people, including 41,000 tourists and 6,000 foreign visitors. The Hue Festival 2000 was, in deed, the national festival of international scale on culture, arts, tourism, and a forum to promote economic and cultural exchanges, which in its turn, would contribute to restore the economy of Thua Thien Hue Province after the historic flood in 1999. It was expected to highlight comparative advantages of Thua Thien Hue Province in culture and tourism. Hue Festival 2002 continued developing the theme “Discovering the lifestyle of Hue people” with linkages to the expansion of international exchanges. It took place in 12 days and nights. One month before the Opening Ceremony, the Festival was warmed up by the International Sculpture Symposium “Impression of Hue – Vietnam”. Thirty three typical art troupes from France, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia and also domestic art troupes with 1,554 artists, actors and actresses, technical staff participated in this festival.
It welcomed over 1 million audience and 75,000 tourists, including 18,000 foreign visitors (increasing threefold in comparison with Hue Festival 2000). Hue Festival 2002, an international festival of national scale, was evidently creating a spreading resonance worldwide. It has been the pre-requisite to make Hue the city of festival of Vietnam. Hue Festival 2004 entitled “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” took place within 9 days and nights. Pre-event activities were launched one month in advance, such as the International Sculpture Symposium “Impression of Hue – Vietnam”, Folk Sculpture Symposium, Hue Poetry Festival and various festivities. There were 15 foreign art troupes from France, China, Argentina, Australia, India, Germany, and America; 25 domestic art troupes with 1,300 professional actors and actresses, nearly 2,000 amateur actors and actresses, and technical staff. This Festival attracted 1.2 million audiences, 101,950 tourists, among which there were 11,950 foreign tourists. As a cultural and tourist festival of national and international scale, Hue Festival 2004 introduced specific artistic values of Vietnam, Hue, and other countries throughout the world. It was also an opportunity to praise Hue Court Music, a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity, which was recognized by UNESCO and continuously created motivation to boost the development of economy, tourism, and culture, affirming advantages of a city of festival in Vietnam. Hue Festival 2006 with the theme “700 years of the land of Thuan Hoa – Phu Xuan – Thua Thien Hue, Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” gathered 1,440 artists, actors and actresses of 22 domestic art troupes (1,171 actors and actresses) and 22 foreign art troupes (269 actors and actresses) from France, China, Russia, Korea, Japan, Thailand, UK, Argentina, Indonesia, and Australia. Building up the achievements and experience from previous festivals, Hue Festival 2006 successfully obtained its objectives and attracted as many as 1.5 million audiences. Together with warm-up activities taking place one month before the event, Hue Festival 2006, lasted from June 3 to 11, showcased 138 performances, over 40 cultural festivities and community events. It was said as a fascinating and impressive festival featured with perfect blending of traditional and contempoary arts, deserving a professional and international festival of Vietnam. Again, it contributed to reviving cultural values of Vietnam and Hue, and rendering the image of Hue Ancient Capital to the world community – a City of Festivals in Vietnam. In 2008, the participation of over 1,500 artists from 37 Vietnamese art groups and 457 artists from 31 foreign groups presented 133 performances to the festival’s audience, and 90 community activities and festivities. The event attracted 180,000 tourists, in which 30,000 were foreign visitors.
With the theme “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development” and in celebrating the Millennium Anniversary of Thang Long - Dong Do - Hanoi, Hue Festival 2010 is going to be a grand, impressive and spectacular event with hundreds of exceptional cultural and tourism programs to enhance the unique cultural values of Vietnam and Hue ancient capital. The Festival will promisingly be a rendezvous for ancient cities and world - cultural - heritage cities, a prominent arts and cultural forum of Vietnam and the region, in association with the expansion of international exchanges, socio-economic development and the promotion of Vietnamese tourism development. Hue Festival 2010 opening ceremony will be on June 5, 2010 at the Ngo Mon Square and the closing ceremony on June 13, 2010 on the Huong River with innovative and impressive performances. The charming and alluring space of Hue Citadel by night will continue to serve as the centre of Hue Festival. Here, visitors will be able to admire diverse arts performances, the royal palace by night, attend banquets, watch exciting and smart royal games. In addition to the Citadel, the countryside and many other places within Hue City, including An Dinh Palace, Nguyen Van Troi Park, Thuong Bac Park, 3-2 Park, Nguyen Dinh Chieu Pedestrian path, Thuan An Resort, Lang Co Beach, Thanh Toan Tile Roofed Bridge, Phuoc Tich Pottery Village in Phong Dien District, Nam Dong Town, A Luoi District, the Memorial Park of the nation’s hero Quang Trung - Nguyen Hue, the Huyen Tran Princess sacred precinct, and other locations will also serve as festival venues with splendid, magnificent and lively arts performances, traditional playgrounds, gastronomy areas from early morning until late at night.
Hue Festival 2010 will be a show place for the most exceptional art performances in Vietnam, especially Hue royal arts and other exotic performances from different Vietnamese sub-cultures; arts performances with cultural nuances of the five continents represented by many countries and territories from around the world (including France (main partner), Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Cambodia, Central Africa, China, Denmark, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Russia, Senegal, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States of America, etc). Hue Festival 2010 will continue the tradition of re-enacting unique royal festivities of Hue Ancient Capital with large scale, well-staged and interesting performances. The Festival will include the participation of a great number of artists, actors and the public in the Nam Giao Offering Ritual, Royal Palace by Night, and Legend of Huong River. On the occasion of the Millennium Anniversary of Thang Long and the historical event where Nguyen Phuc Lan Lord selected Kim Long to be the capital city of the Southern Kingdom, Hue Festival 2010 will include a performance of the ‘Itinerary to reclaim the country’s land to the South’ on stage, and re-enact the ‘Navy manoeuvre under Nguyen Lords’, and others. The Ao Dai Fashion Show will be a special program within a glamorous and great setting, showing colorful designs against the charming and elegant features of Hue ancient city. ‘The Oriental Night’ will display the splendid beauty and the uniqueness of Asian ethnic costumes. ‘Hue traditional wedding’ will be a connection to the gastronomy festival serving ‘Hue vegetarian dishes’, and much more, with an aim to entice tourists to try Hue cuisine.
From the mysterious Citadel to local neighborhoods, from temples, palaces, tombs to ancient towns and trade villages of Hue, a large number of tourist, cultural and diverse festival activities will take place. Tourists will have a chance to discover diversified living arts of the Hue people, enjoy fantastic tours to communities and lagoons such as ‘One day, one night, one adventure’, ‘Tam Giang, Sun and Wind’, ‘Discovering Green Nam Dong’, and others. They can make pilgrimages to Hue’s famous pagodas, wallow in traditional and folk festivals, visit the mysterious tombs of Kings, poetic landscapes of the ancient capital, and enjoy Hue’s delicious food and beautiful music on the romantic Huong river. Hue Festival 2010 promises to be a season of festivities with new, special and impressive activities for tourists from far and near. Cinet |
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