Đà Nẵng hosts festival “Vietnamese Craft Village 2009”

VGP – Organized every two years, the festival “Vietnamese Craft Village 2009”, scheduled on March 24-29 in the central city of Đà Nẵng, will be a gathering of 60 typical craft villages throughout Việt Nam.

March 25, 2009 9:12 AM GMT+7

Sixty typical craft villages will join the festival “Vietnamese Craft Village 2009” - Illustration photo

At the festival, there will be two main display areas for craft and gastronomy respectively.

Visitors will get acquainted with many well-known traditional handicrafts of Đà Nẵng in particular and other localities in Việt Nam, such as stone-made fine-art items, sedge mats, pottery, bronze goods; lacquer products, furniture or wood products, silk, and so on.

They will also have chances to taste gastronomic specialties, including rice liquor, sesame candy, coconut pancakes, fried shrimp-chips, fish sauce, noodles, fried fish pie, and beef vermicelli.

Artisans from some craft villages will offer live performances to make their handicrafts on the spot.

A seminar entitled “Each village a craft” is chaired by the Việt Nam Craft Village Association during the event. Participants will discuss on possibilities and conditions to develop craft villages and handicrafts in the era of industrialization and modernization.

By Hương Giang