Twenty-five arts organisers and managers from a number of cities and provinces will attend the course, the first of a three-year capacity-building programme on festival management. The programme aims to strengthen arts management skills for arts promoters and festival organisers in Vietnam, as well as creating links between festivals in the UK and Vietnam.

The programme, which is part of the British Council’s Global project entitled New Work New Audience, includes a series of training workshops on arts festival organisation led by UK festival directors and a series of wrap-around events to showcase UK and Vietnamese arts to audiences of the two countries.