Canadian festival highlights Vietnamese culture

      Many Canadian and foreign students visited the Vietnamese stand at an international cultural festival held by Algonquin College based in Ottawa, Canada, on April 7.
The stand had many cultural items on display such as kettledrums, gongs, handicrafts, ceramics and porcelains, and conic hats made from leaves. There were also various publications on Vietnam and its people.
The festival, the twelfth of its kind, drew the participation of embassy staff from 20 countries, including Vietnam.
The embassies also put on performances of traditional arts at the event, which drew enthusiastic response from the audience.
Established in 1967, Algonquin College currently has some 16,000 students, including many Vietnamese.