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The Kim Bồng Traditional Craft Village Festival 2025 was held successfully from February 8 to 9, 2025 at the Kim Bồng Craft Village Center in Cẩm Kim commune. The event contributed to honoring Kim Bồng village's indigenous cultural values and crafts, attracting a large number of artisans, locals and tourists.
Phạm Thị Công, a young craftsman, created gorgeous mats with decorative letters on stage and creative lanterns out of them.
The festival's activities focus on preserving and developing local crafts and products. The opening program's decoration is distinguished by traditional mat products combined with creativity and modern tastes. The performers' lanterns are similarly made of mats, giving the lanterns a rustic and unique beauty. Ms. Phạm Thị Công (Đông Hà hamlet, Cẩm Kim commune) created these products through diligent investigation and strong aesthetic thought.
Traditional rituals are vividly recreated.
Traditional crafts in Kim Bồng and Hội An have evolved due to the creativity of young people. In the face of competition from industrially produced products, crafts retain their individuality and beauty and attract customers.
Kim Bồng talented young generation
At the opening ceremony of the Kim Bồng Festival 2025, the leader of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Quảng Nam province recognized Cẩm Kim commune with a certificate for Traditional Mat Weaving Craft. This has inspired residents to retain and stick with traditional crafts, resulting in opportunities for development while also preserving crafts and ensuring income for locals.
The leader of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Quảng Nam province awarded the certificate of Traditional Mat Weaving Craft to Cẩm Kim commune.
This year's Kim Bồng Traditional Craft Village Festival featured a folk song performance “Celebrating our village festival” by children from Lý Thường Kiệt Primary-Junior High School on the Craft Village Center stage (afternoon of February 8, 2025), which impressed the audience. They have previously participated in the gifted class organized by the Center for Culture, Sports, Radio and Television. Thus, it can be seen that Hội An city focuses on investing in and developing the next generation in folk arts.
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Children from the folk singing class trained by Hội An city
Huỳnh Tấn Quốc (born 2004), son of artisan Huỳnh Sướng in Kim Bồng village, shared, “I am currently studying graphic design at Văn Lang University, Hồ Chí Minh city. After graduation, I plan to return to work in my hometown, carrying on my family's long-standing traditional carpentry profession. Based on what I've learned and the historical understanding of carpentry that I've had since I was a child, I intend to create more products with sophisticated designs in the future to satisfy the needs of the modern market and expand product scale.”
Huỳnh Tấn Quốc, son of artisan Huỳnh Sướng, demonstrates his wood carving skills.
Mat weaving
Lantern making
A process in traditional carpentry
Over the years, the young generations in Cẩm Kim and Hội An have demonstrated their creativity in both vocational training and folk arts. The flame of preservation, continuation and development has never stopped. With many new projects and directions, along with the assistance of the government and locals, it is believed that the young generation of Hội An Creative City will remain steady in the future.
Hội An Center for Culture, Sports, Radio and Television
