A meeting point of cultures
The second World Cultural Festival in Hanoi will take place at Thang Long Imperial Citadel from October 1-4, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Vietnam's membership in UNESCO. The festival will bring together participants from 50 countries, international organizations, and businesses, further affirming the scale and growing reach of this international cultural and diplomatic event.
The second World Culture Festival in Hanoi took place at Thang Long Imperial Citadel.
This is an opportunity for cultures to meet, interact, and share unique values, while promoting the image of Vietnam, Hanoi, and the country's cultural values and heritage to international friends. At the same time, this year's festival continues to foster the spirit of exchange, connection, and collaborative creativity through culture, expanding in scale, diversifying content, and enriching the forms of experience. The activities are designed to create a vibrant cultural space where countries showcase their identities, heritage, and distinctive cultural values, while also opening up new opportunities for cooperation in the fields of culture, arts, tourism , and creative industries.
With a larger scale and more diverse content compared to the first festival, the second World Culture Festival in Hanoi features 45 cultural spaces, 35 food stalls, a film screening program with participation from 18 countries, a fashion space with traditional costumes submitted by 19 countries, and the participation of 20 international art troupes, promising to create spaces for multicultural musical exchange.
These figures demonstrate the growing appeal of the Festival, while also creating a comprehensive and diverse program encompassing exhibitions, performances, cuisine, film, fashion , music, and cultural experiences.
Discover heritage through modern interactive formats.
Within the framework of this year's festival, the "Spreading Creativity from Heritage - International Festival Games" area offers a new experiential space, connecting historical and cultural values with technology and creative industries.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in coordination with Vietnamese businesses, will introduce, release, and operate video games inspired by Vietnamese history and culture, creating opportunities for the public to directly experience and explore heritage through modern interactive forms, cosplay performances, dance routines from the Audition game, and LED screen effects, opening up a youthful, vibrant, and attractive experience space at the festival.
Through a blend of heritage and innovation, tradition and contemporaneity, Vietnam and the world, the second World Culture Festival in Hanoi aims to create an open cultural space where cultures not only meet and share but also forge profound connections. From values passed down through generations to contemporary creative forms, the Festival paints a colorful picture of culture, while affirming Hanoi as an international cultural destination, a place where the heritage, art, and creativity of Vietnam and the international community converge and spread.
Speaking at the meeting to inform the diplomatic corps about the second World Cultural Festival in Hanoi, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ta Quang Dong affirmed: The greatest value of an international cultural event lies not only in the programs organized, but also in the encounters, new understandings, and relationships formed from them. Each culture present in Hanoi will add a color to the overall picture. It is this diversity that creates the vitality of the second World Cultural Festival in Hanoi.
The second World Cultural Festival in Hanoi is expected to contribute to making Hanoi – a UNESCO Creative City – a meeting point of diverse global cultures, where traditional values are celebrated, new innovations are disseminated, and the bridge of friendship between Vietnam and international friends is strengthened. At the same time, it aims to build a foundation for official international cultural exchange hosted by Vietnam, creating conditions for Vietnam to demonstrate its proactive role in international cultural cooperation and showcasing its capacity to create a cultural platform on an international scale.
