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Việt Nam Cultural Cities Profile
A cafe’ in Da Lat © Diem Nhi Nguyen on Unsplash
Cultural funding Cultural funding in Dalat follows the financial mechanism of the central government in which, most of the public run cultural and arts activities, programmes of the city will be funded by the provincial and city annual budget and central government’s budget (for large-scale programmes). This includes 137,550 million VND for 19 development projects for the local cultural industries – according to Report no. 147/ BC-SVHTTDL on Results on the implementation of Decision no. 1755/ QĐ-TTg and Decision no. 88/QĐ-TTg; Resolution no. 150/NQ-HĐND. In some cases, public-private partnership or private funding are also available, especially with tourism-related programmes such as Festival of Flowers which benefits from private funding via Minh Hanh and the Vietnam Silk Limited Company, public investment from the Tourism Authority of Thai Lan, and external Korean investment. Independent and community funding for culture and arts is more emergent, but is evident in contemporary arts events and projects such as No C ai Bum Contemporary Arts Week 2021 (artist and crowned funding), and Cau Dat Farm Art Installation Project 2021
“As a developing tourist city, if the arts are also strongly developed in parallel with tourism in Dalat, it will upgrade local culture because arts are the very platform to share cultural values, life and many human stories of local people through art forms” –Hoang Anh, founder of MOIland(14)
(artists’ fund with venue support from Tra Co Factory-Cau Dat Farm).
Performance of Mây Lang Thang live music stage in 2021 http://baolamdong.vn/bao-xuan-2020/202001/chang-hoa-sy-tre-va-cau-chuyen-ket-noi-2983730/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR18vxhW9rZNZQ_37wvwQLv3-0CRo2FJFIoVecsKdSI_ GYyWGxOaKa0x_c0#.XyV4nXx-Rl4.facebook (14)
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