The ribbon cutting ceremony opened Ky Hoi Spring Book Street Festival 2019.
” Ky Hoi Spring Book Street Festival 2019″ is chaired by Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee, in coordination with the Department of Information and Communication. This is the starting event of the reading culture development activities of Hanoi city in 2019 (according to the Plan No. 31 / KH-UBND dated January 25, 2019 of the People’s Committee of Hanoi City, contributing to bringing the Book Street to become a cultural destination increasingly close to the people of the Capital, contributing to building Hanoi people elegant, civilized and promoting the development of the Publishing industry to integrate with the general trend of the era.
Ky Hoi Spring Book Street Festival 2019 was held from February 7, 2019 to February 14, 2019 (which means from the 3rd to 10th of the Lunar New Year) with many special activities, bearing the national traditional Tet atmosphere. Along with the display, introduction of books, organization of exchanges, talks about books and reading culture are performances and talk about calligraphy, introduction of space for Tet, art programs Traditional folk, folk games … Along with fixed booths in Hanoi’s Book Street, there are also the participation of a number of publishing units operating in the city, which diversify the Book space with many rich titles for readers.
Right on the opening day, Spring Book Street attracted a large number of book readers to visit and buy books.
Right on the opening day (the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year), readers can participate in the exchange program with Dr. Nguyen Manh Hung with the theme “New Year Book – Honor the Book”; attended the signing ceremony of the book “The Year of the Pig, meet the author of Quy Hoi age” with author Nguyen Thanh Tung, author of the book “Giai Ha Noi lan loi London” (Nha Nam Culture and Media JSC) .
On the 4th day of the Lunar New Year, there will be a contest of “folk games on Tet holiday”, “banh chung package”, “package of rice across the bridge”. On the 6th day of the Lunar New Year, readers to Book Street will participate in the exchange program with young artist Dang Van Hau to learn about “Art of making folk toys “.
During the time of Spring Book Street, artists of Hanoi Popular Opera Theater and Hanoi Drama Theater will introduce the work: “Learn about the history of Thang Long – Dong Do – Hanoi 1,000 years of culture” through the excerpts based on topics such as: The legend of Sword lake, the famous legend of the era, the Vietnamese god of the land, the cultural celebrity …
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ky – Director of Hanoi Department of Information and Communications speaks at the Opening Ceremony of Hoi An Spring Booklet 2019.
At bookstores, there will be many exchange programs with readers, book introduction, sweepstakes, express New Year’s day wishes for readers in early spring. Kim Dong Publishing House continues to implement the program “Express New Year’s day wishes by books”, whereby all Publishers’ books are offered to readers at 15%, 30% and 50%. In the early days of the new year, Kim Dong Publishing also launched two publications to welcome the Lunar New Year 2019: “The old New Year”, and “Remember me is Tet”.
Besides book activities, Ky Hoi Spring Book Street 2019 also brings to the people of the Capital many cultural and art performances, such as learning about different types of traditional folk music (song writing). , singing Vietnamese popular opera, singing songs of a strolling blind musician, tally card songs…), music dance show “Singing Thang Long – Hanoi 1,000 years of culture”, “Celebrating Party – Celebrating Spring”. At Spring Book Street, there will also be many contests such as: “Letter of the Spring Day”, “The First Chess of Thang Long”, “Painting Vietnamese sand art”.
Many children were immersed in the pages of the book at the Spring Street space.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Ky – Director of Hanoi Department of Information and Communication affirmed that the Spring Book Street was opened in the morning of the 3rd day of the Lunar year, which has become a cultural beauty in the early days of the year in order to affirm the Ha Noi’s fondness for learning and reading.
Organizing Committee said, Ky Hoi Spring Book Street 2019 will create a special knowledge space, a special gift of the new year for the people of the Capital, contributing to making Spring Book Street become a destination for culture and The indispensable love of Hanoi people every time Tet comes, Spring returns.
Vy An