Hanoi prepares for Vietnam Cultural Heritage Week
Update: Oct 25, 2013
Hanoi's Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups is scheduled to host the "National Great Solidarity: Vietnam Cultural Heritage" Week from November 18 to 24.
The celebration is part of activities marking the 83rd anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the annual Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day, and the inauguration of a new Khmer temple complex.

Nearly 400 village chiefs, intellectuals, and artisans-representing 17 Vietnam's ethnic minority groups-are expected to attend the event.

The week includes a Highland Folk wood sculpture camp, cultural exchanges, traditional crafts village introductions and history lectures, Bay Nui cow racing, and art performances.

"Vietnam Cultural Heritage" Week honours the solidarity uniting Vietnam's 54 different ethnic groups.
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