Ho Chi Minh City Launches a Campaign for Literary and Artistic Creation

On July 13, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee launched a campaign to compose, stage and promote literary and artistic works towards the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025) with the theme "Ho Chi Minh City - 50 years of proud heroic epic".

Mr. Phan Van Mai, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, said that the Campaign will contribute to enriching and diversifying the source of literary and artistic works; creating conditions for spreading good values widely and strongly, contributing to encouraging and promoting the patriotic emulation movement, towards the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification.

According to Mr. Tran The Thuan, Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City, the Campaign aims to bring the value of art through works into social life in a profound way, contributing significantly to improving the cultural life of the people; at the same time, strengthening propaganda and promoting the image of Ho Chi Minh City to tourists and international friends. High-value literary and artistic works will continue the mission of beautifying Ho Chi Minh City, worthy of the name of the City named after Uncle Ho after 50 years of liberation, innovation and development.

Works participating in the Campaign include the following fields: Music (songs, symphonies, musicals); Cinema (documentaries, feature films, film scripts); Architecture (works with architectural space under ^2,000m2 , works with architectural space from ^2,000m2 or more); Dance (dance episodes, dance poems, dance suites, dance plays); Fine arts (paintings, statues, painting clusters, installation clusters; monuments, monument clusters, monumental paintings); Photography (single photos, photo series, photo books); Theater (scripts or complete plays with a staging time of 90 minutes or more, including the forms of hát bội, cải lương, and drama) and Literature (memoirs, short stories, poetry collections, novels).

Ho Chi Minh City Launches a Campaign for Literary and Artistic Creation — The genres participating in the Campaign are in many fields of literature and art.

Participants are individuals, groups, authors, groups of authors, owners of works who are Vietnamese citizens, foreigners living, studying, working in Vietnam... Each author can participate in many different genres and fields. The scripts and literary and artistic works participating in the campaign are scripts and works published from January 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024; these works have not won any awards in any competitions or campaigns.

The Organizing Committee will accept entries from the date of announcement until April 30, 2024. The evaluation and awarding period is expected to be in the second quarter of 2024.

The Campaign's prize structure includes: First Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize and Encouragement Prize for each category and field. The announcement and award ceremony is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2024.

(According to baotintuc.vn)

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