The second puppetry festival will take place on Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street on December 28 and 29, with the aim of creating a cultural exchange site for local residents on the occasion of the New Year and honouring traditional Vietnamese puppetry art.
Puppeteers in traditional ao daiꦚ in a performance (Illustrative image. Source: VGP)
HCM City (VNA) - The second puppetry festival will take place on Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street on December 28 and 29, with the aim of creating a culturalexchange site for local residents on the occasion of the New Year and honouringtraditional Vietnamese puppetry art.
The festival, organised following the success of the first festival last year,is expected to attract tens of thousands of people living in HCM City andneighbouring provinces.
Themed "Green Dream", it will gather artists from puppetry theatres from all overthe country who will perform shows on two nights.
A variety of activities are expected to bring the art of puppetry closer to thegeneral public and foreign tourists, contributing to preserving and promotingthe cultural value of the unique traditional art form.
The spotlight of the event will be a march at nights. Joining the march will bepuppeteers from puppetry theatres who will walk along the Pedestrian Streetwith colourful traditional puppetry customes.
Other activities include an exhibition displaying giant puppetry characters.Puppetry characters from every region in the country, including Roi Lun (ShortPuppetry), Roi Que (Stick Puppetry) and Roi Day (String Puppetry), will also bedisplayed.
Puppetry artworks as well as instruments used during performances will beexhibited. Visitors will be able to learn about Vietnamese puppetry and have achance to talk to artists as well as perform or make puppets.
During the two main days of the event, many performances will be organised onthe main stage and other additional stages set up along Nguyen Huệ PedestrianStreet.
The event is organised by the Sirenis Viet Company under the supervision andguidance of the HCM City Department of Culture and Sports, with theparticipation of many theatres in the country.
The Vietnam Puppetry Festival aims to offer a combination of different types ofpuppetry and other art forms to the public and tourists./.
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Puppeteers in traditional ao daiꦚ in a performance (Illustrative image. Source: VGP) 
