Carry forward the traditional culture and boost economic development in
The National Arts Festival is the most solemn of traditional tile arts and cultural events, organized by the Vanuatu Cultural Center, the former two, respectively in 1979 and 1991 in the capital Port Vila and Luganville Santo Island, held in the city. Festival of "cultural diversity for sustainable economy" as its theme, and music festival organized in parallel, particularly grand, extremely busy.
Six provinces and the country from tile French New Caledonia over 700 artists gathered in Port Vila, have his best at the art show to the audience: traditional music and dance performances, sand painting, straw painting performances, mats, straw basket weaving performance, portrait wood drum performances, storytelling and so on, brilliant. Arts Festival is also organized by the rowing events, contemporary visual art exhibitions and cultural expert seminars.
Festival of the choreography on the absence of professional lighting, sound equipment is also a very amateur wow sounds squeak from time to time, but this did not affect the actors performances and the audience selfless heartfelt joy. As the "Book of Songs Preface," said, "Yong-song inadequate, not knowing their hands and feet of the tread of dancing also", the "world's happiest country," people, along with cheerful tones, strong beat, can not help but lightly dancing, intoxicated them.
Arts Festival is also the craftsmen and small traders a good opportunity to make money. Organizing Committee has established a special booth for them. Weaving mats, grass baskets while the women performed while patiently explained to tourists, business is quite prosperous. Traditional food stalls is dazzling, and quite similar to the domestic temple is quite a bit.
At present, the tourism industry has become an important pillar of the national economy, tile, GDP contribution rate of up to 40%. The colorful traditional culture is the most prominent feature of Vanuatu tourism industry and the potential advantages, and has broad market prospects. Guns owned 82 islands, 113 languages, and attached to the Melanesian culture, different cultures under the categories of up to 200 kinds. Vanuatu Cultural Center, as the protection of traditional culture of life, in the issue of traditional practices has always been more conservative, research and promotion of cultural attitude of holding closed. However, this festival, "for the sustainable economic and cultural diversity" as the theme that tile has been made aware that "culture is also productive forces", and gradually to a more open mind towards their own traditional culture, in the past emphasis on the protection of light propaganda policy is quietly changing. The Greek Cultural Center, this festival as an opportunity to be the festival every four years, Ban Cheng term cyclical cultural celebration, the Fourth National Art Festival will host in 2013. National Arts Festival with the increasing mechanism, the festival will become another characteristic tile business cards, tile well-known for improving and promoting the development of the tourism industry will play an important role.
Arts Festival, there are no star, because each person is the protagonist of bright, smiling faces filled with hope of tomorrow. Art Festival held in the next time, tile traditional culture will be given a very good tradition, better economic development.
