Dang Quang Tu, Chairman of the Da Lat City People’s Committee, pledged to host a series of international music events over the next three years. This commitment was made at the 2024 Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, held in Braga, Portugal, from July 1 to 3.
According to Tu, the city, in collaboration with Ernesto Ottone R., UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture, has outlined a number of international initiatives centered around music. These include a Southeast Asia gong festival, aimed at preserving and celebrating the gong culture, as well as showcasing the cultural heritage of Vietnam’s Central Highlands region.
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| Dang Quang Tu, (in white shirt), Chairman of the Da Lat City People’s Committee, addresses the audience at the 2024 Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in Braga, Portugal, July 1-3, 2024. Photo: Vu Loan |
The gong festival will be an annual event, featuring gong artists from various cities across Southeast Asia. In addition, the city plans to introduce the Lang Biang International Music Fest, which will become one of the flagship cultural events in Da Lat, alongside the already renowned flower festival.
Held biennially, the Lang Biang music festival will be the largest of its kind in the city, attracting local and international entertainment and art service providers. Furthermore, the ‘Sound of Forests’ program will be an annual fixture, using music to promote sustainability and awareness.
This event will bring together singers and artists from the Asia-Pacific and African regions, fostering a diverse and cultural exchange.
Legendary Lang Biang
In June 2015, at the 27th Session of the International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Program (ICC-MAB) held in Paris, the Lang Biang Natural Reserve in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Lam Dong Province has been recognised as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Lang Biang Reserve has retained its values of bio-diversity on a global scale, with the natural scenery mixed in harmony with local cultural features. It has contributed to forming and developing Da Lat to become a city of tourism and an international research centre on tropical forest.
Da Lat flower festival promises attractive activities
NDO/VNA – The eighth Da Lat Flower Festival, themed “Da Lat and Flowers”, will take place in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong from December 20-24.
Da Lat Flower Festival kicks off with colourful parade
NDO – Da Lat Flower Festival, a biennial event in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, kicked off on December 23 with a colourful floral parade.
Street festival add more colour and brightness to Da Lat
NDO – More than 3,000 local students and young people gathered at a street festival which opened on December 23 at Lam Vien Square in Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province, as part of the ongoing Da Lat Flower Festival 2019.
Unique Clay Architecture and Sculpture in Da Lat
For years, Da Lat has been known as a charming city with vast flowers gardens, winding mountain passes, green pine forests and amiable people. This fairy city is now famous for another appealing attraction; a unique clay tunnel, which is called by different names, such as sculptured tunnel, basalt tunnel or clay village.
