More than 20 cultural and artistic activities welcoming New Year and Lunar New Year (Tet Festival) 2024 will take place across Da Nang. This year's activities will be organised widely on a diverse and large scale, promising unforgettable experience for both local residents and tourists.

Activities to welcome the New Year and Lunar New Year 2024 will be organised in a variety of forms and scales to meet the needs of people. Photo: X.D

With the desire to bring joy to everyone during the New Year 2024, the municipal Department of Culture and Sports has directed and guided units to build quality and attractive cultural and art programmes to serve locals and visitors.

According to the plan, the city will host more than 20 activities to welcome the New Year and Lunar New Year 2024 from mid-December 2023 to late February 2024.

Specifically, the city will welcome the New Year with a packed countdown music party on the evening of December 31, 2023 along Tran Hung Dao Street. The show will include top singers and bands from the Vietnamese music scene, and feature modern sound and lighting systems, a huge LED screen, and a majestic stage, all promising to bring the audience an impressive and colorful music night.

Also, the city-based Trung Vuong Theatre will host an art programme near the eastern end of the Han River Bridge to celebrate the New Year on the evening of January 1, 2024.

This year, the Tet Festival and the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam are close to each other, so the city's cultural and artistic activities at this time will be organised continuously to spread a joyful atmosphere to everyone.

In particular, a Tet market with a series of fun activities and booths to discover traditional Tet Festival will be held at the Museum of Da Nang on January 27 and 28, 2024.

Notably, the Viet Nam Communist Review will organise the 18^th large-scale arts programme entitled "Forever Faith in the Party" 2024 on January 28, 2024, at the Trung Vuong Theater. It will be broadcast live on VTV channels and attended by many Party and State leaders.

There will be variety of attractive activities such as bonsai and ornamental plant exhibitions; and cultural programmes to welcome Spring and celebrate the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.

A highly anticipated activity during every Lunar New Year is the New Year's Eve fireworks displays.

Accordingly, the 15-minute pyrotechnic shows will take place at midnight on Lunar New Year’s Eve, which will fall on February 10, 2024, at the Bach Dang Square (T-junction of Binh Minh 6 and Bach Dang streets), a vacant land lot under the Kim Long project (opposite to the east of Lien Chieu District Administrative Centre), and a vacant land area in front of the Hoa Vang District Administrative Centre.

Currently, the Department of Culture and Sports has proactively coordinated with the city’s Military Command to draft an implementation plan and collect opinions from relevant units.

Another interesting activity will be the 2024 Spring Newspaper Festival which is slated to be held at the General Science Library from February 1 - 18, 2024.

After the Lunar New Year, the city's Culture and Cinema Centre will host a poetry and music programme themed "Spring of Love". It is expected to be a highly anticipated activity for people in general, and writers and poets in the city in particular.

Aside from municipal-level activities, some districts plan to organize large-scale activities to serve people and tourists during the Lunar New Year.

For instance, Thanh Khe District plans to organise the 2024 Spring Flower Festival for 10 days from February 8 - 18, 2024 at the March 29 Park with 20 continuous performing arts programmes, dance competitions, drawing contests, and folk games.

In Hoa Vang District, the Vietnamese Tet Festival is expected to be held from the district’s Administrative Centre to the Tuy Loan Night Street between January 26 and 29, 2024.

According to Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Hoa Vang District Do Thanh Tan, the district plans to set up a Vietnamese Tet space and an old Tet market space, including a space for artistic calligraphy and check-in points, to increase experience for festival-goers.

Besides, in an effort to make the festival truly attractive, the district will deploy many interactive activities such as a ‘banh chung’ and ‘banh tet’ cooking contest; a parade of floral-decorated bicycles; and folk sports and folk games.

According to Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Culture and Sports Nguyen Thi Hoi An, cultural and performing arts units have been making efforts to practice, produce, and launch new works, performances, and programmes to serve people.

Along with that, the Department also is involved in consulting and supporting private units on venue space and art programme content to bring a cheerful atmosphere to audience.

Reporting by KHOI NGUYEN - Translating by M.DUNG