The French Institute in HCM City will host a series of activities to celebrate International Women’s Day held at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on 8 March.

The French Institute in HCM City will host a series of activities to celebrate International Women’s Day, held at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) on 8 March. Photo from the organiser’s Facebook event page

The celebration will open with a photo exhibition featuring portraits of Vietnamese women taken by 15 young artists who participated in a photography workshop hosted by the French Institute in Hue and Da Nang in January. The photos can be seen until 9 April.

A talk show about gender equality will be organised featuring speakers of Julia Levivier, head of the French NGO organisation Planète Enfants & Développement (PE&D) in Viet Nam, psychologist Ly Thi Mai, and Le Thị Hong Anh, head of Human Resources of Sanofi Vietnam.

The show will be hosted by Tran Anh Dao, economist, lecturer and researcher at the University of Rouen in France, and the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia. It will be presented in both Vietnamese and French.

The event will end with a screening of French documentary Des Femmes Et Des Hommes (Women And Men) by female director Frédérique Bedos with Vietnamese subtitles.

The celebration will begin at  5:45pm at 31 Thai Van Lung Street in District 1.

Source: VNS