This is among the activities held in response to Cultural Heritage Week and the 2025 Gong Culture and Traditional Musical Instruments Festival of ethnic groups, under the theme “The Echoes of Gongs – Community Bonding”.
This year’s festival has drawn the participation of more than 800 artisans and folk performers from 26 delegations representing communes and wards across the province.
In his opening remarks, Nguyen Le Vu, Deputy Director of the Dak Lak Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, stressed that Dak Lak lies at the heart of the South Central Coastand Central Highlands regions, where many ethnic groups live and interact, including the E De, M’nong, Gia Rai, Ba Na and Xe Dang, alongside communities from across the country. Over generations, the ethnic groups here have created, preserved, and passed down a rich and distinctive cultural heritage.
Among these, the Central Highlands gong cultural space holds a particularly sacred place, serving as a spiritual voice and a bridge connecting people with deities, with the community, and with nature. UNESCO’s inscription of the Central Highlands gong cultural space on the Representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity has affirmed the exceptional value and international standing of this heritage.
Therefore, the 2025 Dak Lak Province Gong Culture and Traditional Musical Instruments Festival is an occasion for artisans, gong ensembles, and cultural bearers to gather, exchange, perform, and pass on the precious values left by their forebears. It is also an environment in which younger generations can engage with, learn from, and nurture national pride, thereby awakening a sense of respect for, inheritance of and commitment to promoting their homeland’s cultural heritage.
The 2025 Dak Lak Province Gong Culture and Traditional Musical Instruments Festival runs from December 19 to 21.
