Cinderella – a play by ACA space – THEATRE FEST #1


 

11, 17 & 18 Feb 2023, 08 pm – 10 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ích , Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Manzi Exhibition Space
02 ngõ Hàng Bún, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

A new series of events in all of THREE spaces of manzi throughout this February to kick off the new year

The first chapter of this series – Manzi would like to invite you to ‘Lọ Lem / Cinderella’ – a play by ACA SPACE, staged for two venues of manzi (the art space at 14 Phan Huy Ích & the exhibition room at no. 2 ngõ Hàng Bún)

CINDERELLA
Script by: Joël Pommerat
Directed by: Quentin Delorme
Actors: ACA Performance Team
Ticket: 250,000 VNĐ/person
Language: Vietnamese only (however, the hand- out with details & explanations will be provided to our foreigner friends)

“As long as you always think about me and do not ever forget me for more than five minutes, I will never really die or disappear completely”

It was her mother’s last words that a young girl did not really understand. Bearing such misunderstandings and obsessions about the sayings of her late mom, Cinderella of this modern era, lost in grief and disconnected with the world around, can finally find out herself in this frivolous society?

Adopting the storyline of a familiar fairy tale, Joël Pommerat presents a new Cinderella where the characters are inspired by stereotypes in current Vietnamese society. This play is an allegory of our times – a ruptured era torn between materialism, consumerism, and the decay of basic human values.

With the stage moving from one space to another, this version of ‘Cinderella’ at the manzi is also an experimentation in constructing and adapting a script with elements of site-specific installations and spontaneity. Influenced by street art performance, the play will be audience-centered, the viewers are invited to join in as participants of the story. By that way, the design of ‘Cinderella” questions the concept of scenic space.

Concert marking 150th birthday of Rachmaninov


Feb 17,

Hanoi Opera House


Performance by artists of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji.

Featuring famous musical pieces at the concert include the violin concerto in D minor, Op.47 of Jean Sibelius, originally composed in 1904 and revised in 1905 and Symphony No.2 in E minor Op.27 of Sergei Rachmaninov.

Rachmaninov was born on April 1, 1873 in Novgorod, Russia, into a musical family. He took up the piano at the age of 4. He studied with Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory and graduated in 1892.

Exhibition “Draw the Cats”


 

Opening: Tues 17 Jan 2023, 01:30 pm
Exhibition: 17 – 29 Jan 2023
The Special National Landmark Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam
58 Quoc Tu Giam Street, Dong Da, Ha Noi
Exhibition: 31 Jan – 28 Feb 2023
VICAS Art Studio
32 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da, Ha Noi

A special event to celebrate the Year of the Cat 2023 is right around the corner. Immerse in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year with the upcoming “Draw the Cats” Exhibition, which is organized by the Center for Scientific and Cultural Activites Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam, Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS) and TiredCity.

With a hope to evoke a picture brimmed with creativity, uniqueness and positivity, “Draw the Cats” Exhibition will introduce interesting artworks of cats to all viewers. Through the lens of young artists, the “main character” of the year will be depicted in diverse shapes and forms

Follow updates on event’s page.

Exhibition “All Aboard”

 


Opening: Feb 15, 06 pm – 08 pm
Exhibition: Tues – Sat, and by appointment, 16 Feb – 01 Apr 2023, 10 am – 07 pm
Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyễn Văn Thủ, Đa Kao ward, District 1, HCMC

An adherent of Buddhist philosophy, Nguyen Manh Hung proposes that death is a journey and karma is its luggage filled with good and bad deeds as one goes about one’s daily life. Some prepare for their post-life with sophisticated funeral rituals; others fill their luggage with only good karma hoping to arrive at a place that may not exist.

In his characteristically playful adaptation of everyday scenarios, Nguyen Manh Hung’s latest series of work in the exhibition ‘All Aboard’ conjures up a highly contrasting and absurd pairing: a frenzied crowd hurriedly and narrowly holding onto a sacred gate, which leads to the unknown.

While poking fun at the living’s obsession with heaven — a realm that exceeds the comprehension of earthly beings, this series reminds us that death is highly personal and unique: how we live reflects our preparation for this journey. Like a command, ‘All Aboard’ urges us to contemplate the meaning of human existence as characterised by our own subjective understanding of what lies on the other side of the gate.

Exhibition honouring General Vo Nguyen Giap

Until Feb 20,
Quang Binh Museum and the Vietnam Women's Museum, Quang Binh Province

A poetry and photographic exhibition on late General Vo Nguyen Giap.

The exhibition entitled "Theo Dau chan Dai tuong Vo Nguyen Giap" (In the Footsteps of General Vo Nguyen Giap) features 110 poems by teacher-poetess- journalist Nguyen Thi My Dung. She had the unique opportunity to meet and write many poems about the talented general over a span of more than 20 years.

The poems introduce to the public stories and images on the historic victory of Dien Bien Phu and the life and career of the general.

Exhibition ‘No more, not yet’

Opening: Feb 3, 06:30 pm
EMASI Nam Long, 147 Street No.8, Nam Long Residential area, D7,
Display: Feb – June, Wed & Fri, 10 am – 04 pm
EMASI Nam Long (D.7)
Tues & Thurs, 10 am – 04 pm
EMASI Vạn Phúc (D.Thủ Đức)
*and every last Saturday of the month

From the organizer:

Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF) proudly invites you to the opening of ‘No more, not yet’, an exhibition that looks back on Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai’s shapeshifting artistic practice in all its multiplicity.
Winner of the Artist Excellence Award (inaugural edition, initiated by The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and managed by in-tangible institute), her work is presented here alongside nearly 20 artists whom she calls her colleagues and friends.
The exhibition will be on display from February to June 2023 across the campuses of EMASI Nam Long and EMASI Van Phuc.

Exhibition “This is not A Dream”

Exhibition: Until Mar 12, 10 am – 09 pm
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), B1 – R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, 72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi

Featuring nearly 100 classic works in digital versions of two great Surrealists Rene Magritte and Frida Kahlo.

Rene Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967) and Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954) can be seen as the two extremes of Surrealism and the negative. If Frida – who always paints his own reality, Rene paints everyone’s reality – with a twist somewhere.
Magritte’s works, from murals, magazine covers, to classics, are all aimed at an audience. To interact with the audience, Magritte is interested in creating puzzles, unknowns, and visual tricks.
He wanted to paint the impossible as a form of realistic expression, thus free from coincidences and coincidences, which was the opposite of contemporary Surrealist painters.

Exhibition “Tết Art 2023″


10:00 – 18:30, 03 Jan – 31 March 2023
Hanoi Studio Gallery, No. 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

Tết Art – an annual event that we, along with painters and sculptors, always want to bring to the public every Spring.

The nostalgic north wind, the crowded street, and the year-end hustle. The season of busyness, the “walking”, the “watching”, the “sightseeing”, and moments of family reunion.

Exhibition: “Living”


Until Feb 21
Dong’s Art Space, 27/20, 27 Street, Hiep Binh Chanh ward, Thu Duc City, HCMC

Lockdown covid 19 is a very special period when people have to struggle every day between life,death and existence… Someone once said you have to turn the non-conforming condition into a match. Optimal lives are designed, not discovered.
Artist transforms the sorrows and hardships of that situation into architectural works, sculptures and digital prints. Source inspiration: Potential interaction between man and machine; Breaking the line between the visible and the imaginary; Emphasizing the Human-Nature-Technology. These new works are presented at Phan Phuong Dong’s art space.

Exhibition “Story of Vu”


Until Feb 25, 2023

Ánh Dương Art Space, Long Bien Golf Club Building, 918 Regiment, Phuc Dong, Long Bien District, Hanoi

Hanoi Studio Gallery, 23-25 Mac Dinh Chi Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

A short and simple name to be an open introduction to the Vietnamese art lovers in this solo exhibition of artist Tran Trong Vu.

Within the series “Road to Sunshine”- a project towards “Sunshine Art Museum”, we are delighted to present the exhibition “Story of Vu” – An artistic portrait of Tran Trong Vu.