Images from Mid-Autumn Festival Painting Contest
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Every year for 7 years now, the Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) has been holding a Mid-Autumn Festival Painting Contest for kids.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, probably originally a harvest festival, has evolved in tradition to become the Vietnamese day for kids.
Since 2003, VAALA (web site here) has been holding the annual painting competition for kids. As a measure of how strong the tradition has been going: Some kids who participated in the first competition are now in college; and some babies born in the year of the first competition are now participating in it.
This year’s competition took place on Saturday October 3, with the award ceremony the day after.
Enjoy the photos of people enjoying themselves.
Photos from the day of the contest are by Nguoi Viet reporter Ngoc Lan, used with permission.
The floor is as good a space as any to create art.
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