Hue Festival - An impressive meeting place of festivals
The 2010 Festival, taking place from June 5-13, is an impressive meeting place for 31 countries from five continents; including many cities that are ancient capitals or have world heritages such as France, Russia, Denmark, China, Korea, Japan, India, Thailand, Laos, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Australia...
Hue Festival 2010 has art troupes from 27 countries participating, including many countries participating for the first time such as Cuba, Haiti, Senegal, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Mexico, Mongolia. France remains the main partner, with eight art troupes participating in the festival.
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Hue Festival 2008. Photo: Quoc Viet/Vietnam |
In addition to more than 550 foreign artists, Hue Festival also has more than 2,300 domestic artists (800 professional artists and 1,500 amateur artists) from more than 30 troupes, theaters, and art units nationwide.
Thua Thien-Hue Province has completed the construction of 12 grandstands at six main locations at Ngo Mon Gate, An Dinh Palace and the Imperial City, with a capacity of over 25,000 seats. The grandstands of the Hue Festival 2010 are currently assembled using Korean technology and are also being used for the first time in Vietnam.
The opening stage will consist of three floors that are both fixed and can rotate, slide and rotate (made by Green Connection - Hung Thanh) using the most advanced technology today... This is also where art troupes perform every night.
The program's general director, director Le Quy Duong, said that there will be typical festivals that will be elaborately staged to be performed at Hue Festival 2010 such as "Royal Night" taking place on the evenings of June 5, 8 and 11 at the Imperial Citadel, Hue; "Legend of the Perfume River" taking place on the evenings of June 6 and 12 on the Perfume River; "Eucharistic Sacrifice" taking place on the evening of June 9 at the Nam Giao Altar and the "Journey to Open the Land" festival - the key program of Hue Festival 2010 will take place on the evening of June 10 at the Hue Flag Tower, towards the Grand Celebration of the 1,000th Anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.
The art space for the "Journey to Open the Land" is very large, in front of the Flag Tower and around the Citadel moat. Therefore, here, the row of ancient trees had to be "moved" to make room for the stage and will be "returned" after the festival.
The Hue Festival 2010 space was expanded to neighboring areas, towns, townships, and new urban areas. Many locations were put into operation for the first time to serve the Hue Festival with new programs to serve tourists such as Eastern Night, Vietnamese Beauty II - Breath of Water, Naval Exercise of the Nguyen Dynasty...
At this Festival, Hue will perfect and elevate the art of some royal festivals and traditional festivals that have become the trademark of Hue Festival such as the Giao Sacrifice Ceremony, Royal Night, and the Legend of the Perfume River...
The Hue Festival space is expanded with most of the stages held outdoors. The Hue Imperial City at night is extremely charming, with many diverse art stages, royal nights, banquets and attractive, luxurious and interesting royal games.
In addition to the Imperial City, An Dinh Palace, Nguyen Van Troi Park, Thuong Bac Park, 3-2 Park, Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, Thuan An Tourist Area, Lang Co, Thanh Toan Tile Bridge, Phuoc Tich Phong Dien, Nam Dong Town, A Luoi, National Hero Nguyen Hue Quang Trung Memorial Area, Huyen Tran Cultural Area... will be organized into festival centers, with grand, vibrant art performances all day and night and many folk playgrounds and culinary streets.
On this occasion, Thua Thien Hue province also combines the festival program with exciting community tourism and lagoon tourism routes to meet all the needs of tourists such as "One day, one night, one adventure," "Tam Giang, sun and wind," pilgrimage to famous Hue pagodas or enjoying Hue songs on the Perfume River.
The Hue Festival Organizing Committee said that for the first time at the Hue Festival 2010, all tickets to art performances will be priced at a common price (in Vietnamese Dong) for both domestic and international visitors.
Some programs such as the Opening Ceremony (June 5 evening) at Ngo Mon Square; the Closing Ceremony (June 13 evening) at Gia Hoi Bridge alluvial area and the Ao Dai festival (June 8 evening) at Thuong Tu gate have ticket prices of 100,000 VND/person; the art program at the Imperial Citadel (with banquet) is 500,000 VND/person and those who do not attend the banquet are 50,000 VND/person.
Other programs have an average ticket price of 50,000 VND/person or less... At the opening and closing ceremonies, low-altitude fireworks are set off for 15 minutes/session to serve the people and tourists.
Mr. Ngo Hoa, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Thua Thien-Hue Province, Head of the Organizing Committee of Hue Festival 2010 said that up to this point, all preparations for the festival have been basically completed.
According to VNA/Vietnam+
