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“Chez Xuân”, 41, alley 76, An Duonng, Dist Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Come to a live performance of Lymbyc Systym (New York, USA) supported by Commens & CAMA Sound System. Organic, authentic, and anything but predictable, Lymbyc Systym will be joining forces with electronic crowd-pleasers Commens and the CAMA Sound System, delivering the perfect sonic tonic to those summer city blues.
Indie electro? Laptop post-rock? Folktronica? Whatever you call it, Lymbyc Systym have built a name for themselves by introducing fresh concepts that expand far beyond the constraints of standard genres or comparisons to similar acts.
Balancing live drumming, electronic and acoustic instruments and programming, sibling duo Jared and Michael Bell have been making waves around the US and the world over the past 10 years, winning fans with their five albums and EPs and a string of dynamic live shows alongside the likes of Crystal Castles, Broken Social Scene and The Books.
Hanoi’s newest electronic rock act consists of California transplants Ryan Chittick, Lilly Nguyen and Taylor Cavale. Commens draws upon electronic music, krautrock, post rock, minimalism and maximalism, blending sequenced electronics, synthesizers, and live drumming.
Chittick and Nguyen have musical roots in the San Francisco music scene playing shows in clubs, warehouses and basements and touring the US and Europe with bands such as Warbler, Experimental Dental School and Kid 606. Three people; a whole lot of sound.
Ticket price: from 150.000 VND (at the door)
“Offending the Audience” Show
Fri 29 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Cooking Centre, 44 Chau Long Str, Hanoi
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club, 6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Sun 31 Jul 2011, 5 pm
Puku, 16 Tong Duy Tan Str, Hanoi
Don’t forget to come to enjoy “Offending the Audience”, a(n anti-)play by Austrian dramatist Peter Handke in 3 days this week. Beware of strangeness. This play is set to be a little different from what you may be used to. Challenging the idea of the world of the theater and theatergoers, this piece will probably encourage you to go to the theater more often with a new consciousness, and surely reveal to you new found charms of the hosting venues.
Ticket price: 100 000 VND
Tickets are available at Hanoi Cooking Centre and Bookworm, Hanoi Social Club, and Puku.
Exhibition “Feelings towards Life”
23 Jul – 01 Aug 2011, 8 am – 5 pm
Nam Dinh Provincial Museum – Cot Co Road, Nam Dinh City
On the occasion of 64th anniversary of Veterans’ Day (27/7/1947 – 27/7/2011), artist Bui Dang Thanh (from Nam Dinh) will open his 2nd solo exhibition in Nam Dinh city with the theme: Feelings towards life. The exhibition has 64 photographs, revealing feeling about life of all areas that veteran Bui Dang Thang has visited during the past 10 years. This exhibition with the theme on daily life, Bui Dang Thanh hopes to breathe new life to his pictures through his believe in the love for life and his optimism to overcome difficulties… For him, this is also a tribute to those who he had worked with during the war.
Photographer Bui Dang Thanh is a veteran from American War in Vietnam. Despite the fact that he lost his right hand, with burning passion for photography, he has practiced and stuck with photography in the last 40 years. After 30 years working in artistic field, Bui Dang Thanh won many awards that many people envy. He has won 33 international and national prizes for 20 of his art works and exhibition of thousands of works in international and national galleries. He was named EVAPA, AFIAP. Exactly 4 years ago, on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Veterans’ Day, Bui Dang Thanh also organized the first solo exhibition containing 60 art works on the theme: “Our people – Labour and Life” which was highly appreciated.
Screening of “Roman de Gare” at IDECAF
Sat 23 Jul 2011, 3 pm
IDECAF, 28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC
You are invited to the film screening of “The Fiction at the Train Station” of director Claude Lelouch. The film is about the meeting of two completely different person in a coincident event.
Synopsis: Judith Ralitzer is a very attractive woman and a successful author. She is looking for a new character for her upcoming book: a murderer who has just escaped from prison! Huguette is a hair-dresser in a big hair salon in Paris. It’s she who changes the life of those two person…
Language: Vietnamese subtitle.
Ticket price: 15 000 VND, free for members of IDECAF.
Tickets are available at IDECAF.
Exhibition of Chase Hanoi
Exhibition: 26 – 28 Jul 2011
Viet Art Centre, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi
The 2011 Chase Hanoi is our special Art Exhibition featuring the Vision of 24 aspiring young students. A common message we would like to convey to viewers is what depicted within these photos/drawings are far ‘Beyond the eyes’ could see. We hope viewers would appreciate/enjoy not only the piece of art itself but also share with us the same reflection on life values, perspectives and the appreciation of beauty that were long forgotten
Chase Hanoi group believe that,” Art is not what you see, but what you make others see” (Edgar Degas). We exhibit a variety of artworks of distinctive visions. Each corner of Chase Hanoi gallery presents different images of the streets, student life, Vietnamese culture as well as international culture, or just as simple as every day thing we appreciate. Viewers may not only get some insight into Vietnamese students’ life abroad, but they may discover the bond with their own home country.
Time of exhibition: Morning: 9 am – 12 pm, Afternoon: 2 – 5 pm.
Exhibition “Waiting”
Exhibition: 18 – 28 Jul 2011
Maison des Arts, 31A Van Mieu, Hanoi
You are invited to an exhibition lab of artist Nguyen Trac Cuong: 1 event, 10 days, 4 major areas: paintings, photos, installations, time for (re)creation: fadish flowers. The artist invites visitor to get into the intimacy of his own world, giving him a chance to be both viewer and / or artist. He offers us to live the experience of a summer walk, all senses awaken by hundreds of lotus flowers that will unexpectedly invade the scene of the Maison des Arts exhibition center, for 10 outstanding days.
About exhibition
Our intention is to wonder about the role of Vietnamese artist today and to offer an open discussion between art lovers, painters or critics around the following topics for thought :
- Being a painter : an occupation or a vocation ?
- Living upon one’s own painting : is it an end in itself ?
- The creative process : “feeling one’s own way and inventing” or “finding and reproducing ?”
Exhibition includes 4 major areas:
- Paintings: A retrospective around 3 majors stages of NGUYEN TRAC CUONG’S artwork.
- Photos: Pictures to keep records of his immediate past : destruction by bulldozers of the painter’s studio. A place soon to be replaced by a road. A situation mirroring the growth of the country as a whole.
- Installation: An opened sculpture : cobblestones have a soul. Nguyen Trac Cuong breathes new life into the rocks that tell a story about old roads and remind us the customs clattered of meanings and symbolic content. When they were to leave their village to get married, young women had to give a donation : 5 rocks that would be hewed as cobblestone to contribute to the construction of the road in the village. Stones that are today left neglected and that Nguyen Trac Cuong uses to tell us a new story
- Time for (re)creation: flowers: Just imagine !
Imagine a small boat a bit off the side.
Imagine hundreds of lotus that surround you and delight your senses with subtle smells.
Imagine what it is waiting like….
Waiting for the time to pass, waiting for something to happen, or just being, here and now.
A pretext to recreate the world of Nguyen Trac Cuong and to invite you to dive into it, be it as a viewer, as a seeker or as an artist.
About artist Nguyen Trac Cuong
1968 : Born in Vietnam – 1994 : Graduated from Vietnam Fine Arts Institute – 1996 : Member of Hai Duong Literature and Arts association. Participated in several exhibitions such as National Fine Arts exhibition in Hanoi city and other areas. Having paintings in National and international private collections in France and USA.
Photo Show of Geological Heritage
Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
21 – 23 Jul 2011
Pham Ngu Lao Guest House – 33 Pham Ngu Lao, Hanoi
Exhibition of the best entries of photo contest ‘Dialogue with geological heritage’ is taking place at Hanoi Opera House until today and then exhibition will be displayed at Pham Ngu Lao Guest House till 23 Jul. The exhibition showcase 77 photos selected from 2,219 works by 179 authors in the national photo contest, sponsored by the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists, which ran from May 1 to June 10.
The first prize will be awarded to the work ‘Vietnamese Stones – Seas’ by Hoang Trung Thuy, second prizes will be given to ‘Lithophone’ by Vo Ngoc Lan and ‘Ly Son fairy island’ by Nguyen Xuan Vinh. Third prizes will go to ‘Son Tra cave’ by Truong Minh Dien, ‘A new day on top of Fansipan’ by Bui Quoc Ky and ‘Dragon down’ by Do Khanh Giang. Consolation prizes will also be awarded to 10 other works.
Ngũ Cung, Final Stage and Nu Voltage Live
Sun 24 Jul 2011, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
This steaming hot night for rock music sees three homegrown bands battle it out to win over the hearts of fervent fans: Ngũ Cung, Final Stage and Nu Voltage Live. This event is part of “Keep Your Passion” series.
NU VOLTAGE – one of the pioneering alternative bands in Vietnam to experiment with post rock, this five-piece have been grabbing the attention of the ever-expanding rock community in the capital 2011.
FINAL STAGE meanwhile are no strangers to popularity. A lengthy break away from the live arena left their fans wondering if this really was the “sân khấu cuối cùng” but now the boys are back, refreshed, and ready to impress generation 9x.
Headlining are progressive rock band NGŨ CUNG. Having shared a stage with the likes of My Chemical Romance and Dengue Fever, Ngũ Cung are one of the most famous bands to emerge in Vietnam over the last decade, having played over 35 stadium rock shows. Now for the first time ever, Ngũ Cung will bring their unique sound to Hanoi Rock City for a night to remember.
Ticket price: 60 000 VND (at door)
Hue – Film Screening in Jul and Aug
Film Screening in Jul and Aug
French Cultural Center in Hue
1 Le Hong Phong, Hue
Free entrance.
“Offending the Audience” Show
Fri 29 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Cooking Centre, 44 Chau Long Str, Hanoi
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club, 6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Sun 31 Jul 2011, 5 pm
Puku, 16 Tong Duy Tan Str, Hanoi
The theater yarn ball rolls on, this time out of the theater and weaving three local cafes and restaurants together in a weekend of theatrical spectacular. Or non-theatrical – we’re not quite sure.
On the last three days of July, Hanoi International Theatre Society presents “Offending the Audience,” a(n anti-)play by Austrian dramatist Peter Handke.
Beware of strangeness. This play is set to be a little different from what you may be used to. Challenging the idea of the world of the theater and theatergoers, this piece will probably encourage you to go to the theater more often with a new consciousness, and surely reveal to you new found charms of the hosting venues.
At 8 PM on Friday, July 29, the beloved courtyard of Hanoi Cooking Centre/Bookworm (44 Chau Long) will get even more intimate. Come early for dinner and a glass of wine to gradually ease yourself into the happening. The night after, at 8 PM on Saturday, July 30, Offending the Audience will be the inaugural theater performance at the latest venue in town – The Hanoi Social Club (6 Hoi Vu). Already famous with their delicious and healthy food and drink options,The Hanoi Social Club will serve dinner before and after the show. Lastly, to sum things up, the cast will offend the customers in Puku (16 Tong Duy Tan) at 5 PM on Sunday, July 31. You’ll be part of time in a theater space while watching sundown and darkness slowly draping itself onto the city.
You can choose to be part of only one or all three very different nights. Whatever the case, you will be offended thoroughly, you chuckleheads.
Ticket price: 100 000 VND
Tickets are available at Hanoi Cooking Centre and Bookworm, Hanoi Social Club, and Puku.
All profit will be used to set up a fund to support local community theater productions and local scriptwriters.
Screening of “Comme les autres” at IDECAF
Sat 30 Jul 2011, 3 pm
IDECAF, 28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC
You are invited to the film screening of a comedy film “Comme les autres” (“Like Any Others) of director Vincent Garenq. The film is about the stories of a gay couple and their desperation for a child. What do they do to get what they want like any other normal couple?
Synopsis: The film is about a gay couple who are not eligible for any adoption. In the end, they come to a resolution that one of them has to get married to a Colombian woman who is now trying her best to get a legitimate permanent residence permit in France. The fake marriage give what the woman wants but in exchange for a marriage of convenience, she will become the surrogate mother and give the fake husband the child he craves.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Ticket price: 15 000 VND, free for members of IDECAF.
Tickets are available at IDECAF.
Exhibition ”Shaping a Line”
Opening: Thu 28 Jul, 6 pm
Exhibition: 28 Jul – 08 Sept 2011
Sàn Art, 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Dist., HCM City
”Shaping a line” is a group exhibition that seeks to elevate the skills of the draughtsman to a local audience that far too often relegates this skill as something for understudy, sketch or note-book taking only, casting these efforts aside as objects for preparation, as opposed to works of art in their own right. The artists in this show take reference from nature, fashion, architecture, opera, urban life and the graphic novel as conduits for their creations which grasp their chosen surface through pencil, ink, printmaking, silk painting, digital affect and much more.
Participating artists:
Vu Dan Tan
Nguyen Bao Ngoc
Sita Raiter
Le Thanh Tung
Phan Ngoc Lan Chi
Sandrine Llouquet
Le Hoang Bich Phuong
Nguyen Duc Hong Quang
Pieces of Culture No.8
Sun 24 Jul 2011, 2.30 pm
2nd floor – Canteen, Foreign Trade University
91 Chua Lang Str, Hanoi
Hanoikids club is holding a free-for-public Pieces of culture No.8 (POC). POC project promises to make your summer vibrant and meaningful than ever by officially launching 8th POC with full profile about Vietnamese AODAI and Indian SAREE. Not only can you deeply explore these irreplaceable elements of the two age-old cultures but you can also have chances to receive amazing gifts from our show by getting involved in many exciting activities and games! One further reason for not disappearing in this POC show is the current aodai photography contest where you can showcase your photography talent and get awesome prizes! Sounds fabulous?
Whether you are a Vietnamese citizen, an expatriate in Vietnam or you just stop over our majestic country in an indirect flight, hardly can you miss the image of Vietnamese women in their splendid aodai.
Aodai is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women which is well-known all over the world for its flexibly beautiful style, suiting any ladies in virtually any occasions. Aodai is so favored and is regarded as the national costume of Vietnamese women, while in India-the exotic and distinct country in Southern Asia, another unique costume predominates.
Saree is the colorful piece worn by women in India. These colorful silk scarves are draped over the body in a variety of ways, and can be worn as a traditional outfit. Both aodai and saree are so impressive and graceful that you may marvel about their origins as well as if there are any samenesses or dissimilarities between these two beautiful traditional dresses.
Guest speakers:
- Ms. Nguyễn Hồng Thùy, Master of Science, major International Business and Corporate financial management
- Mr. Kaustubh Trivedi, manager of Khazaana Indian Restaurant
Idol Music Event 2011 in Vietnam
In HCMC: Fri 22 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Military Zone 7 Stadium – 202 Hoang Van Thu, HCMC
In Hanoi: Sun 24 Jul 2011, 8 pm
Giang Vo Exhibition Center – 148 Giang Vo, Hanoi
Idol Music Event 2011, brings about the chance to listen to the performances of American Idol winner David Archuleta and well known Vietnamese singers such as Ho Ngoc Ha, Tuan Hung, Uyen Linh, Van Mai Huong… This promises to be an eventful night.
David Archuleta won American Idol (round 7) at a young age. To date, this 21-year-old singer is one of the most famous singers with worldwide fanclub throughout the world. David Archuleta’s talent has been showed through a lot of talent contests when he was 11 in his hometown in Utah. David will perform some of his most famous songs especially those from the newly released album entitled “The Other Side Of Down”. The Album is ranked 13th in the best-selling 200 album chart.
In HCMC, David Archuleta will perform with Vietnamese guest singers such as Ho Ngoc Ha, Tuan Hung, Ngo Thanh Van, Bao Thy, Noo Phuoc Thinh, Dong Nhi and Vietnam Idol 2010 winner: Uyen Linh – Van Mai Huong.
In Hanoi, Uyen Linh – winner of Vietnam Idol 2010 and second runner up winner Van Mai Huong together with Dam Vinh Hung and Tuan Hung will also perform.
Ticket price: 200.000, 500.000, 700.000, 1.000.000VND.
To purchase tickets, call: 04 22 120 455 – 0916 571 125 – 0914 897 757 – 091 493 7757 – 091 494 7757
Ticket booking via: Dongdo-show.com
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