Cultural industries are often mentioned alongside grand concepts: heritage, museums, festivals, or cinema. However, in Hanoi, another flow is quietly forming from very small things: a bar of soap, a candle, a piece of paper, a scrap of leather. When these are narrated, designed into experiences, and connected into a community, these “minor things” gradually…
On the morning of 5 October, the Hanoi People’s Committee and Sun Group officially broke ground on the Hanoi Opera House and a themed Cultural and Arts Park in the Dam Tri Lake area, Quang An Peninsula, Tay Ho Ward. The project has a total investment of VND 12,756 billion, built on an area of…
On 1 October 2025, the People’s Committee of Hà Nội issued Plan No. 270/KH-UBND to implement Resolution No. 24/2025/NQ-HĐND on the organisation and operation of Cultural Industry Centers across the city. The move is seen as a significant step in translating the goal of positioning cultural industries as a key economic sector and affirming Hanoi’s…
At the roundtable discussion “Cultural Industries – The Path to Unlocking Vietnam’s Endless Creative Treasure”, held on 1 October 2025 in Hà Nội, experts, artists and businesses reached a shared conclusion: Vietnam possesses an immense cultural treasure, yet it has not been sufficiently harnessed to generate economic value and national soft power. The roundtable was…
UNESCO has released a new set of practical guidelines to support the integration of culture and the arts into formal, non-formal and informal education across the entire learning life cycle. Photo: Momo Scacchi What is the Implementation Guide for the UNESCO Framework on Culture and Arts Education? UNESCO has issued a new Implementation Guide that…
The city of Trujillo (Honduras) recently hosted a workshop on “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urban Contexts”, accompanied by a four-day training programme that brought together a wide range of stakeholders. Participants included representatives from the Secretariat of Culture, Arts and Heritage of the Peoples of Honduras (SECAPPH), municipal authorities, community leaders, cultural managers, tourism and…
