Book Festival "Cupid Festival 2013" for poor children
By participating in this meaningful book festival, young people can experience a unique autumn book festival filled with color and sound.
On September 15, at Zone Nine Art Cooperative (38 Nguyen Huy Tu, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi), a festival of books, handmade products and street music called "Cupid Festival 2013" took place.
With the desire to create a unique experience filled with the vibrant colors and sounds of the autumn festival, Nha Nam Books, Phuong Dong Books, Mintown Craft Community have collaborated with ENCI English Center to co-organize the "Cupid Festival 2013".
The land named “Zone Nine Art Cooperative” today becomes colorful with hundreds of lovely handmade lanterns.
Hundreds of young people showed up early in the morning to join the festival. The three major activities throughout this year’s Cupid Festival are: the “Gift of Love” book fair with 10,000 books; a handmade fair in a space filled with lanterns and street music.
The highlight of the “Cupid Festival 2013” is the book fair with more than 10,000 books that are most loved by children and young people today. Not only coming to visit and buy their favorite books at preferential prices, hundreds of young people also brought their old books to donate to the “Enci Library”.
Book fair with more than 10,000 books most loved by children and young people today
Many young people come to visit, buy books and donate old books to support poor children.
According to the Organizing Committee, the books will be received and classified, then children's books will be given directly to the sick children's beds the next day, while books for older children will be sold and all proceeds will be used to help the families of sick children in difficult circumstances.
The festival also features booths selling unique handicrafts such as leather notebooks; notebooks, blankets, pillows, fabric bags; wire-bending jewelry... Not only buying and selling, at the booths, there are guides to guide visitors to make lovely handicrafts from A to Z.
Creative drawing class booth (collage, card drawing, clay modeling, circle drawing...) with guidance from young artists attracts children to participate.
Participating in the meaningful book festival, Huong Quynh (student of Banking Academy, Hanoi) shared: "Although the space of the book festival is small, it is decorated very beautifully and cozy. Coming here, I have chosen to buy many satisfactory books at half price and admire the elaborate handmade products. I also brought some of my old books to support the children. That makes me very happy".
Next to the book and craft selling area, a small outdoor stage was set up, with buskers and musicians performing for visitors.
Street music group sings to raise money for poor sick children
The special meaning of this festival is that a portion of the profits from book sales at the fair and donations from the street music program will be used to support the charity fund for poor children at the National Children's Hospital./.
According to vov.vn - M.Đ
