The Propaganda Festival in Mai Chau District in 2018

8/1/2018 - 10:30:20 AM

(HBO) – Mai Chau district has just organized successfully the Propaganda Festival in 2018.

Photo: An excellent performance at the festival of 2018

This year Mai Chau district's propaganda festival has attracted 15 units with more than 250 propagandists from communes and towns in the area. The delegates brought to the festival nearly 50 performances in two categories: cultural art propaganda and skit propaganda. Teams participating in the festival have selected many practical and interesting topics such as studying and doing following the ideals, ethics and style of Ho Chi Minh; New Rural Area development; prevention and control of in-house violence; traffic safety; preserving the cultural identity of the nation and developing tourism, etc. With the careful preparation from selecting topics, building scripts, forms of presentation, costumes, tools, etc., the teams participating successfully transferred the meaningful messages to the local people in a real, close and understandable way.

At the end of the Festival, the organizers awarded 39 A, B and C prizes and consolidation prizes in each category. In particular, in the content of cultural art propaganda, the A prize belonged to two teams of Mai Chau town and Ban Khan commune; In the skit propaganda content, A prize were awarded to two teams of Na Mèo commune and Chieng Chau commune. Mai Chau Town delegate won the A prize of group. In addition, the organizers also gave two additional prizes including the best visual equipment for Mai Chau Town and the best play writer prize for Chieng Chau Commune.

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