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Central Highlands Gong Cultural Festival 2018 to be held in Gia Lai
VGP – The PM has assigned Gia Lai Province’s People’s Committee to host and coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and other relevant agencies to organize the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Festival 2018.
The event will be held in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai in November 2018 with the spirit of enhancing connections between the ethnic communities.
A number of activities such as a street festival, performances of some rituals, traditional festivals of 11 ethnic minorities, a performance of gong tuning art; traditional folk sculpture, a workshop on conservation of cultural values of gongs and exhibitions and performances of ethnic costumes will be organized.
The Central Highland Gong Culture Festival is organized to honor and spread the value of Gong Culture following the UNESCO recognition of Gong space as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity and also calls upon the whole community to preserve and expand these cultural values of the highlanders.
By Thuy Dung