Artists use Kitchen Gods fest to promote environmental protection
(VOV) -A number of artists will gather on February 3 at Hanoi’s Thien Quang Lake for the traditional release of fresh carp—the Kitchen Gods’ chariots to Heaven on the day they make their household reports before the Jade Emperor.
The artists, however, will be using plastic basins or glass bowls to transport their fish, renouncing the usual plastic bags.
They are trying to communicate the importance of environmental consciousness and encourage others to abandon using harmful plastic bags.
The street band Sign In plans to accompany the artists as they perform and collect any discarded bags polluting the lake.
Singer Ngoc Khue lamented Vietnamese rivers and lakes are often covered with waste in the wake of the Kitchen Gods Festival.
Khue hopes the artists’ activity will raise the public’s environmental awareness during the traditional occasion.
To support the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) continuing 2012 Earth Hour international campaign, BOOVironment and Action4Future has developed an exclusive Vietnamese version entitled “I will if you will”.
The campaign—restarted last November—attracted the participation of many artists, including singers Ngoc Khue, Dinh Manh Ninh, Ta Quang Thang, and Duong Tran Nghia, as well as painter and illustrator Thanh Phong.