Competition features Central Highlands wooden folk sculptures
A wooden folk statue carving competition kicked off on March 10 at KoTam EcoTourism Destination in Ko Tam Village, Ea Tu Commune, Buon Ma Thuot City, the central highlands province of Dak Lak.
Dak Lak (VNA) – A wooden folk statue carving competitionkicked off on March 10 at KoTam EcoTourism Destination in Ko Tam Village, Ea TuCommune, Buon Ma Thuot City, the central highlands province of Dak Lak.
As part of the sixth Buon Ma Thuot CoffeeFestival and Central Highlands Gong Festival 2017, the competition gathered 70artisans from five provinces in the Central Highlands and the central provincesof Quang Nam and Khanh Hoa.
Contestants will show their talents throughwooden statues which feature nature, local lifestyles, and people of ethnicgroups in the Central Highlands.
The wooden folk sculpture embodies not onlybelief of animism but also a unique and long-standing handicraft of ethnicgroups in the Central Highlands, said Vo Van Canh, Vice Chairman of thePeople’s Committee of Dak Lak at the opening ceremony.
The contest, which runs through March 13,provides a venue for artisans to exchange experience on folk wooden sculpturewhile contributing to preserving traditional cultures, he added.
The same day, a street festival also took placein Buon Ma Thuot City with gongs performances and elephant parades by thousandsof artists from five Central Highlands provinces and the central provinces ofQuang Nam, Quang Ngai and Phu Yen. The event also witnessed the participationof four folk art delegations from Romania, the Republic of Korea, Laos andCambodia.-VNA
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The sixth Buon Me Thuot coffee festival and the Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival 2017 will take place in Dak Lak province from March 8 – 13 next year.
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At the competition (Photo: VNA) 
