Taking place from June 2 to June 7, the "Folk Dream" project brings an experience space combining projection art and interactive elements, helping viewers access folk stories in a different way from traditional storytelling or reading books.
Right from the entrance area, visitors can admire 87 paintings made by children in the accompanying activities of the program. The brightly colored paintings recreate familiar characters and details in the treasure of Vietnamese fairy tales.
The highlight of the event lies in the screening area, where four folk tales are recreated through Motion LED Mapping technology. Images, lights and sounds are combined to create multi-dimensional space effects, helping viewers feel like they are entering the context of the story itself.
Mr. Tam (48 years old), a Vietnamese-American, expressed excitement about the experience here. He said he felt like he was directly involved in each story instead of just observing from the outside.
I feel like I am directly involved in each story. Learning about history through visual images is very effective and attractive to children, rather than just hearing stories told with words," he said.
According to Mr. Tam, helping children born and raised abroad understand Vietnamese culture and history is always not easy. Therefore, such visual experiences can create more opportunities for children to access traditional values.
I hope that the fairy tales in this trip will be an opportunity for children to always remember and be proud of their roots," he shared.
Not only Vietnamese tourists, but also many international tourists expressed their excitement when experiencing the projection space.
Michael and Kim, a tourist couple from South Africa, said they were surprised by the way Vietnamese legends are expressed with modern technology.
The way technology takes me'into' the story is completely different from just watching a traditional cartoon. You will definitely feel like you are a part of the story and keep your attention from beginning to end," Michael shared.
After watching the presentation of the legend of Con Rong chau Tien, this tourist was particularly curious about the detail of 50 children following their father to the mountain and 50 children following their mother to the sea.
I was quite impressed with a detail in the story'The Dragon and the Fairy' - 50 children followed their father to the mountain and 50 children followed their mother to the sea. But I didn't hear about what happened to the woman and their other 50 children. We really wanted to know that," Michael said.
However, some tourists also suggest that the program may add subtitles or bilingual English-Vietnamese explanations to help international visitors easily follow the content.
According to Mr. Nguyen Manh Linh, co-founder of X Space Immersive - the unit coordinating the projection space, technology does not replace the value of folk tales but plays the role of a tool to help those values reach the public in a way that is more suitable for current reception habits.
Viewers are no longer passive audiences but can immerse themselves in the space of the story. When experiencing with many senses, they often remember the content longer and have clearer emotions about what is happening," Mr. Linh said.
From the feedback of domestic and foreign tourists, it can be seen that folk tales still retain their certain appeal if told in forms suitable for the new context.
Technology application experiences are opening up another approach so that heritage is not only preserved in books, but also present in contemporary life through the interaction and discovery of the public.
