«Thang Long — Hanoi Festival», second edition

   Ten days of programming spread across five of the capital's heritage spaces, under the theme «Heritage Flow». The organising idea is that heritage is not stored behind glass but runs through the working life of the city.

   The venues were picked to represent different sediment layers of Hanoi:

   Thang Long Imperial Citadel — the royal capital layer
Temple of Literature — the scholarly layer
Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square — the street layer
Hanoi Museum — the collecting layer
Bat Trang pottery village — the craft layer

   This is the second edition, run by the Hanoi People's Committee through the Department of Culture and Sports, with domestic and international partners taking part.

   For residents it is a chance to enter familiar places on different terms; for visitors, those five sites strung together amount to a readable route through the city's history rather than a checklist of sights.

   Day-by-day programme as published by the organising committee: 11 September, 20:00 — opening ceremony at the Imperial Citadel; 12 September, 18:00 — the exhibition «Hướng về thành phố xa xưa» opens at the Hanoi Museum, 19:00 — «Thăng Long — Nhịp cầu di sản» at the Citadel, 19:30 — «Khai Văn» at the Temple of Literature; 16 September, 19:30 — the mapping show «Trường học đầu tiên» projected onto the Temple of Literature; 19 September, 16:30 — the «Sắc màu Hà Nội» fashion show at the garden by Bà Kiệu Temple and 19:30 — «Thanh âm Gốm» in Bát Tràng pottery village; 20 September, 17:30 — «Mạch nguồn di sản» at the Hanoi Museum and 19:00 — the closing ceremony on Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục Square. At the Temple of Literature the exhibitions, craft workshops and performances run across all ten days. The organisers have not announced any admission fee.