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The 3rd Vietnam Connection Music Festival (VNCMF) 2017, Vietnam’s largest classical music event, will be held from August 12-26 in Hanoi, Hue, Ho Chi Minh City, with the participation of many international talents.

A series of plays by artists from five leading troupes in the capital city will be performed at the Hanoi Opera House in August.

An exhibition, featuring artistic photos by French photographer Réhahn Croquevielle, officially opened at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi, on August 1.

A music camp will be held by the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music at its headquarter from August 1-8.

To Van Dong, director of Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports has demanded performers must report to the authorities if they want to perform in Hoan Kiem District’s pedestrianised areas.

A new venture promoted by a Harvard-educated business graduate providing a low-cost cinema experience is making many customers happy.

The Goethe Institute in HCMC said the Notos Quartet, the award winning piano quartet from Germany will perform a special concert in Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music (112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1), on August 5.

Twelve artworks by eight renowned Vietnamese painters will be put up for auction on July 30 at the Chon Auction House.

An ongoing exhibtion at Việt Nam Fine Arts Museum take visitors back to the glorious years of national resistance through 50 artworks by different generations of Vietnamese artists.

American pop star Ariana Grande will perform for one night in HCM City on August 23 at the Quan Khu 7 Stadium.

A photo exhibition entitled “Buddhist Ruins and Heritage” is being held in Hanoi from July 17 to 28 by the Indian Cultural Center at the Embassy of India in Vietnam.

A new classical music programme will be staged twice a month in HCM City with the aim of attracting young people to the genre.

There are a few museums in HCM City that attract many tourists on a daily basis, including War Remnants Museum, Hồ Chí Minh Museum and the Fine Arts Museum, among others.

14 artists from Hai Phong City have opened a nude painting and sculpture exhibition entitled Phuong at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi.

More than 60 kite artists will take part in the Đà Nẵng kite festival on Mỹ Khê Beach in Sơn Trà district on July 15-16, according to the city’s Festival and Event Organising centre.

Vietnamese antiquities and art treasures with great historical and cultural value will be auctioned on August 19 in Hanoi, marking the first time a professional auction company authorised by the Hanoi People’s Committee to sell the country’s antiquities.