String quartet Diotima, featuring musical talents from France, will hit the capital's stage on September 22.

The world-renowned English National Ballet gave the sole performance at Hanoi Opera House on September 14.

A special photo exhibition featuring Wilfred Burchett, one of the outstanding journalists of the 20th century and a great Australian friend of Vietnam opened in Hanoi on September 14. 

The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs held a seminar on preserving Vietnamese language and culture in Hanoi on September 14-15.

The 10 best Vietnamese films from the first online short films festival will be screened on September 17 at the Meta House cultural centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Vietnamese citizens aged 18-28 from one of the country's 54 ethnic groups have been invited to compete in the second edition of the Miss Ethnic Vietnam pageant 2011.

Vietnam Fashion Fair 2011 will be held at the Giang Vo Exhibition Centre in Hanoi from December 19-25.

Hoang Pham Tra Mi, 13, of the Vietnam National Conservatoire, won the first prize in the under 15-year-old group at the Nuits Pianistiques Piano Contest which took place in France on August 27.

A Vietnamese Culture Week has been held in Venezuela.

Vietnam and India are preparing to establish a Vietnamese cultural centre in India to promote cultural exchanges and advertise the country’s image.

German jazz quartet Max.Bab will perform in Vietnam this month as part of their Southeast Asian tour to eight major cities in the region.

A programme to introduce the Japanese culture was held in Rach Gia city in the southern province of Kien Giang on September 10.

A Vietnamese contemporary fine arts exhibition opened on September 9 in Washington D.C.

The Vietnam-Japan grand music festival will take place at the Opera House in Hanoi on October 9.

As many as 112 writers attended the 8th national conference for young writers, being held by the Vietnamese Writers Association and the Tuyen Quang Provincial People’s Committee on September 9-10.  

The 19th art photography festival of the south-eastern region was held in the southern province of Binh Duong on September 9.

The Lam Dong provincial People’s Committee held a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on September 9 to introduce the 4th Da Lat Flower Festival to be held in Da Lat from December 5-30.

A famous UK ballet troupe will pay their first visit to Vietnam to perform and give guidance to Vietnamese dancers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

A meeting to record ‘ca tru’ (ceremonial singing) culture over the past three and the 2011 national festival for this kind of art will take place in Hanoi from October 13-16, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

A photo exhibition entitled “Ho Chi Minh with French” opened in the southern city of Marseille on September 6 to mark 100 years of the day President Ho Chi Minh arrived in the European country. 

Vietnam showcases more than 100 books, including encyclopedia on Vietnam’s land and people, at the 24th annual book fair and exhibition on September 7.

A photo exhibition on Vietnam has opened in Caracas capital, Venezuela to celebrate 66 years of the August Revolution and National Day.

An exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh and France opened in Marseille city, France on September 6 on the occasion of commemorating the 100th year of Ho Chi Minh’s birthday.

Several music and dance performances will be held in HCM City on September 9 to celebrate the National Theatre Day.The main event will open at 7:30pm with hundreds of actors from various forms of theatre performing together at the Military Theatre in Tan Binh district.

VOV reporters are showcasing their works on the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago at a photographic exhibition, which opened at the National Radio House No.58 Quan Su Street in Hanoi on September 6.

More than 30,000 spectators cheered the contestants in the final round of the 2011 Do Son Buffalo Fight in the Do Son district of Haiphong on September 6.

A Vietnamese delegation will attend the 36th UNESCO General Assembly in France from October 25 to November 10.

Radio The Voice of Vietnam (VOV)'s staff took part in an amateur art festival in Hanoi on September 5.

The 17th Vietnam Film Festival will take place in Tuy Hoa city, Phu Yen province from December 15-18 with the theme of "For a Vietnam's cinematography with renewal and integration".

The Vietnamese embassy in Japan held an exchange on September 5 to promote Vietnam’s cultural traditions to Japanese friends.