Việt Nam Cultural Profile aims to promote cultural exchange

IFACCA/Artshub,
10 March 2005, Viet Nam

The Ministry of Culture and Information of Viet Nam and Visiting Arts have launched a new online cultural guide to the arts, media and heritage of Viet Nam. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and developed in association with the British Council Việt Nam, the new website represents the first completed component of the three-country Greater Mekong Sub Region Cultural Profiles Project, which by mid-2005 will also include similar online cultural profiles of Laos and Cambodia. Highlights of the new site include: - a significantly expanded version of the Việt Nam Arts Directory; - a sector-by-sector guide to the Arts; - a detailed directory of key contact organisations within each sector. As an English-language resource, the Việt Nam Cultural Profile is aimed primarily at those in the international cultural community who wish to learn about the arts, media and heritage of Việt Nam and then make direct contact with their counterparts there with a view to facilitating reciprocal cultural exchange activity. Visiting Arts Project Editor, Tim Doling, said: “The exchange of information is an essential prerequisite for international creative collaboration of any kind. All too often valuable opportunities for international cultural exchange are lost because of a simple failure to identify the right organisation or find the right contact person within an organisation. We hope that this online profile goes some way to meeting this need and makes a positive contribution to cultural relations between our countries.” To view the portal, CLICK HERE or HERE