With the theme "Convergence of Heritage - Shaping the Future," this year's festival brings together participants from 50 countries, international organizations, and businesses. This further affirms the scale and ever-expanding reach of an international cultural and diplomatic event.
This is an opportunity for cultures to meet, interact, and share unique values, while also promoting the image of Vietnam, the capital city of Hanoi , and the country's cultural values and heritage to international friends.
This year's festival continues to promote the spirit of exchange, connection, and collaborative creativity through culture, while expanding in scale, diversifying content, and enriching the forms of experience.
The activities are designed to create a vibrant cultural space where countries can showcase their unique identities, heritages, and cultural values.
At the same time, it also opens 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 18 participating countries, a fashion space with traditional costumes submitted by 19 countries, and the participation of 20 international art troupes.
The festival promises to create spaces for multicultural musical exchange throughout the period from October 1st to 4th.
In particular, 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.
With the theme "Convergence of Heritage - Shaping the Future," this year's festival brings together participants from 50 countries, international organizations, and businesses. Photo: Provided by the Organizing Committee.
At the festival, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in collaboration with Vietnamese businesses, introduced, released, and operated video games inspired by Vietnamese history and culture.
This creates opportunities for the public to directly experience and explore the heritage through modern interactive forms, cosplay performances, dance routines from the Audition game combined with LED screen effects, opening up a youthful, vibrant, and attractive experiential 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 cultural picture, affirming Hanoi as an international cultural destination, a place where the heritage, art, and creativity of Vietnam and the international community converge and spread.
The second World Culture Festival in Hanoi is expected to create a prominent cultural highlight in 2026, attracting the attention of the public and media both domestically and internationally.
The festival contributes to making Hanoi – a UNESCO Creative City – a meeting point of diverse global cultures, where traditional values are celebrated, new innovations are disseminated, and bridges of friendship between Vietnam and international friends are strengthened.
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