The Tales in the City: Community Voices exhibit will showcase photographs, objects and numbers depicting a new urban sensation in Hip hop – my life corner, a dead-end city job drawing poor women from rural areas in Scrap Dealers- Villagers in the City, and poor students who earn their living by tutoring in The Silent Teachers.

Three short documentaries, each lasting 15 – 20 minutes on the subjects will also be screened and accompany traditional museum displays.

Sponsored by the Ford Foundation under its “Community-based communication in Vietnam: Stories with a subjective voice” program, the exhibition and video-making apply a bottom-up and community based technique to approach a selected group in the society.

Wendy Erd, Ford Foundation’s specialist said the technique helped to shift the story-telling focus from producers to the community.

“Those media products are more attractive with a new kind of language and can create a deeper humane connection,” she shared.

Tales in the City: Community Voices will last until September 9 at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen, Cau Giay, Hanoi.

Tickets cost VND 25,000 each for adults, VND 3,000 for children and VND 5,000 for students.