Inspecting the preparation of facilities, service conditions, locations for organizing events and activities at Quoc Hoc beer stage, Nguyen Dinh Chieu walking street, Tu Tuong park and Thuong Bac park (Hue city), Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh highly appreciated the positivity and proactiveness of Hue city and units in coordinating and implementing work to serve the Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023.
Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh requested that units focus on comprehensive review, close coordination, and urgently implement the remaining stages well. Thereby, it is necessary to arrange the exhibition spaces in a synchronous manner, creating interaction, harmony, and a new mark. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure safety, thoughtfulness, operation, and system connection in the organizational stages, to create a unique, impressive, and attractive space in the Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023.
Traditional craft villages in Hue
Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh noted that agencies and units need to proactively develop plans to ensure food hygiene and safety, environmental landscape, and traffic diversion, ensure security, social order and safety, and prevent fires and explosions in the areas where activities take place during the festival, ensuring safety for visitors and people participating in the activities.
Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh requested the Hue City People's Committee to direct construction units to speed up the progress but pay attention to ensuring technical safety and safety for workers during the construction process. Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh also requested the Hue City People's Committee to regularly inspect and urge units during the construction of the main stage on the opening night and the locations of spaces to display traditional craft products of localities, in which the grandstand must ensure progress, technical safety, and pay attention to the audience's vision to fully watch the program. Ensure the best conditions for the festival to take place safely and healthily, promote Hue's cultural identity and leave an impressive and good image in the hearts of people and tourists.
The 9th Hue Traditional Craft Festival - 2023 with the theme "Quintessence of Vietnamese Crafts" takes place from April 28 to May 5, 2023. Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023 is a national festival with international elements to affirm and enhance the position of Hue: "Green ancient capital - world heritage - Safe and friendly city", honor and spread the value of national cultural heritage; further improve production and business efficiency, innovate and create traditional craft products based on Hue culture and national culture. At the same time, this is an opportunity to strengthen joint ventures, partnerships, and investment cooperation in all fields, especially promoting socio-economic growth, bringing traditional craft products closer to tourism and domestic and international consumption markets.
Hue NTT Festival 2023 includes 21 craft groups, including weaving; fine art carpentry, sculpture, inlay, lacquer, gold-plated lacquer; jewelry; rattan and bamboo weaving, fine art bamboo; conical hats; incense; banh tet and banh chung; sesame candy... with the participation of 69 craft villages, craft establishments and over 350 artisans, golden hands from famous craft villages across the country: Hoa Binh, Hanoi, Thai Binh, Ninh Thuan, Quang Nam, Nghe An...
Along with a series of cultural and artistic activities, folk festivals, royal festivals and response activities, community activities within the framework of Hue Festival 2023, Hue Traditional Craft Festival will gather traditional programs and activities such as: Space for displaying, demonstrating and introducing traditional craft products and craft villages of Hue from some typical localities in the country and international cities; Ceremony to worship the founders of hundreds of crafts and Procession to honor crafts - rituals to show gratitude and honor the values of traditional Vietnamese crafts, honor and remember the merits of ancestors, honor craft villages, generations of artisans and some other attractive programs, contributing to creating a new and unique Festival.
