Bai choi singing. Photo: VNA

(VOVworld) - An international workshop featuring Vietnam’s Bai choi singing and similar foreign arts will be held in Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh province next week. Reports on folk singing and similar arts will be presented by cultural researchers from France, Germany, Sweden, the Republic of Korea, Laos and Vietnam.

Participants will focus on the history and culture of Vietnam’s central coast, its performance art and music, and measures to preserve and promote Bai Choi singing with a view to completing a dossier to seek recognition of the folk singing as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2016. Unique to Vietnam’s central coastal region, Bai choi is often seen at local spring festivals and resembles a game, using playing cards and village huts.