POC 8 - Sari (India) vs. Ao dai (Vietnam)

The strong sun of summer could not stop the hottest event of Hanoikids on July - POC. If you were there to watch POC 8, your feeling must have been very complicated and interesting.

The program gave knowledge on traditional costumes of two countries: Viet Nam – India. You MUST know about our Ao dai, right? And you MUST have heard about India’s Saree. Yes, POC 8 was where you can find everything you want to know about these amazing costume: their beauty, their fame, similarities and differences. MrThank to our dedicated guests, Ms. Nguyen Hong Thuy and Mr. Kaustubh Trivedi, the audience got to know more about history and development of these beautiful dresses. Everyone was impressed right at the very first minutes of the show, when seeing our two guests in traditional costumes of the OTHER nation: Mr. Kaustubh in Ao dai (for male) and Ms. Thuy in a blue saree (which we had to ask Mr. Kaustubh’s wife to dress for her in a very Indian way!). However, the most interesting part of the talk show is that Mr.Kaustubh shared a lot of his own experience with Saree. There is no better way of learning a culture than by asking a native resident, right? A great bunch of thanks to POC teams for organizing this amazing cultural event and to all the audience, thank you very much for having come and joined with us in this opening show PIECES OF CULTURE 8.

Additionally, one special thing about POC No.08 was the funny dancing contest that included performances of couples chosen from our terrific audiences. Some movement and motion in a talk show made audiences closer and received lots of laughter and cheers from people.

OK, now let’s come to the most exciting part: Experience. Through 7 earlier episodes of POC, we realized that our audience were always interested so much in this part. This time, they were divided into small group with a task of wearing a saree. Wait! Just wear a saree? That sounds too easy? No, if you were there and saw the intructing clip: everyone had to struggle to follow. However, that made the atmosphere more fun and exciting. After wearing the saree prepared for on member of the team, they started to decorate their works. Oh, their imagination! We did not expect so amazing designs!