Halloween in Hanoi will be a screamer this year when 6000 Vietnamese students and international friends make themselves into monsters for a party at West Lake Park in Hanoi from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on October 31.
Scary costumes, ghost houses, magic performances, hip hop dancing, sideshows and folk and rockshows will make it a fun fright-night.
There will be a pumpkin lantern making contest and a Halloween house design and decorating competition between about 20 university teams. The program will also include lucky draws and comedy shows by artist Xuan Bac, Tu Long and Ngu Cung band.
Halloween, October 31, is an annual holiday in the US. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints’ Day, but is on Wednesday largely as a secular celebration. It has become popular in Vietnam in recent years.
Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o’-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.
For tickets, go to HeartLink Company, 9 Giap Nhat Street, Hanoi, tel: 3858 9385, website: www.heartlink.vn.
