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Green Drinks 2011
Tue 24 May 2011, 6.30 – 8 pm
Joma Bakery Cafe, 22 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi
You are invited to the Green Drinks event. The theme of the Drinks is ECOTOURISM, more specifically on the project in Pu Luong Nature Reserve, close to the famous Mai Chau.
The event will have speakers from Fauna & Flora International, one of the renowned organizations working on conservation and biodiversity, with over more than 100 projects in 40 countries.
This is a great opportunity to ask all your questions on this particular topic, but also to meet like-minded people and expand your Green network.
Concert with World-Famous Conductor Lior Shambadal
Tue 24 May 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the concert performed by violin soloist Bui Cong Duy and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert is conducted by world famous conductor Lior Shambadal.
Program
B. Smetana “Moldau” Ma Vlast
F. Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E – minor
Interval
J. Brahms Symphony No 4 in E – minor
Ticket price: 500 000, 1 000 000, 1 200 000 VND
All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House, or with the free delivery service below:
www.ticketvn.com
ticketvn@fpt.vn
0913489858 (Mr. Do Phuong)
0983067996
Chamber Music Concert
Sat 21 May 2011, 8 pm
HCM City Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du, District 1, HCMC
You are invited to the Chamber music concert playing works of Brahms, Schumann and Piazzolla.
For more information about tickets, contact Mr Son at 090 323 0685 or Ms Hoa at 01656182699
Videologue – A Brief Report on Japanese Video Art
"Living in box" by Kentaro Taki & Naoya Ooe
15 – 31 May 2011
Zerostation, 91A Dinh Tien Hoang, Binh Thanh District, HCMC
Collaborating with Independent art space Ruangrupa (www.ruangrupa.org), Jakarta, Indonesia, we would love to introduce a researching display of 7 video art piece by Japanese video artists from Tokyo Video Art Center.
Without profit, this display (accompanied with a catalogue) aims to create a platform for audience, journalists and young artists to approach to good video art works from one of important video art centre of the world. Supporting for this project is Japan Foundation Culture Exchanging Center in Vietnam.
Artworks introduction
1-Life (2006) 13 minutes
Artist : Kazumi KANEMAKI
The juxtaposition of the images between a Western movie by Hollywood and the artist’s routine life in the split screen, makes us compare the drama and the daily life. This also shows her daily life where surrounding images internalizes her. This work involves gender issues, since there is an attitude that as a woman it’s hard to accept herself as the “Loser” in the Western movie.
2-Living in Box (2007) 7 minutes
Artists: Kentaro Taki & Naoya Ooe
Body parts are displayed in the white box as specimen. Each part tries to seek something and these behaviors seem to remind ourselves of today’s blockaded situation. This is the collaboration work with Naoya Ooe(operation) + Maiko Date(dancer) directed by Kentaro Taki. This is the short version of the original work
3-Shot (2007) 11 minutes
Artist: Nishiyama Shuhei
Each “moment” of destructive force of the reality has been shot, recorded, and visualized. Set the boundary of before and after deconstruction at the “moment” when image and sound of collision match together, and the artist visualizes idea of “non-revertible.” This work deconstructs the image of deconstruction by differentiation, repetition, expansion and addition of image/sound of different moments
4- Pathologic Video Practices (2006) 2 minutes
Artist: Naoya Ooe
The simulation of how audiences reacted to films in early times, evokes the sense of falsehood but new perspectives. The extendation relates to the reference to media that to release from captivity of information system.
5- The lost in the Backyard of Surface (2006) 7 minutes
Artist: Naoya Ooe
This video is also the one in which artist tries to show the ways we react to images. All images, even though being captured from reality, once become imaged, becoming fiction as well in terms of stirring the fictional behavior of audience who is watching it. In this work, artist used his own video shooting himself when he was a child in order to structure interpretations, fictions, and a highly poetic and sad tales of himself.
6-”Abrare Koinobori” GOLDENSHIT (2005) 15 minutes
Artists: Katsuyuki HATTORI & Yusuke SHINMURA
This video consists of 6 acts of rhythmical and optical composition of a live quartet. The spectator encounters the boundary between the light and the image. A documentation of the premiere performance at Art Space Kimura, Tokyo in 2005.
7-Bild:Muell: Video installation (2006) 5 minutes
Artist: Kentaro Taki
A documentation of a video installation exhibited in Yokohama Portside Gallery in 2006. “Bild:Muell” means “Image: Junk” in German. The video collage projected on various shaped cubes simulates the cityscape overflowed with images/information.
Photo Contest “What America Means to You”
Photo Contest “What America Means to You”: is calling for application.
Deadline: 09 June 2011, 11.59 PM
In celebration of the upcoming American Independence Day holiday, the U.S. Embassy Hanoi invites you to take part in an American Center Photo Contest “What America Means to You.”
Submit up to two original photos that represent what the United States means to you and you could win an Apple iPod Touch, a Digital Photo Frame, or a Flickr Pro account membership!
The American Center encourages photos not only from people who have traveled to the U.S., but also images and icons from anywhere that represent American ideals and values. Winning submissions will be determined by a review panel and the number of “likes” received on the American Center Facebook page. The American Center Facebook community will be invited to vote for the winners beginning the week of June 13, 2011. “Friends” of the American Center Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/achanoi.usembassy may access the Contest photo album and click “like” to cast their votes until 11:59 PM Hanoi time on June 24, 2011. The three photographs that have received the most “likes” at the close of voting period will be the winners.
Opera “Carmen”
26 & 27 May 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
The opera “Carmen” will be performed by more than 150 artists, musicians and Singers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet.
Originated from the novel by Prosper Mérimée, the opera Carmen was completed in the autumn of 1874. It was the last work of Georges Bizet, and also is the most popular opera on the stage in the world until now. Bizet, through his music, told us a tragic story behind brightness, and depicted the optimistic, straightforward but wild personality of a Gipsy girl, Carmen. The opera discloses the bald-faced passions, describes the eternal confrontation between men and women, shows the ruthless but beautiful life, and proves the perpetual co-existence between love and death.
In this opera, Bizet managed to create vivid dramatic melodies with Spanish elements. Some excerpts such as Habanera, Les Toreadors and the Prelude have been highly cherished by many artists and performed again and again in the past century
Directed by Swedish director Helena Röhr
Performers:
Carmen : Vành Khuyên
Don José: Thanh Bình, Anh Vũ
Escamillo: Phan Đức, Mạnh Dũng
Micaela: Thăng Long
Zuniga: Huy Đức
Morales: Kiều Thẩm
Fraquita: Thu Hương
Mercedes: Phương Dung
Lillas Pastia: Hoàng Hoa
Dancaido: Khánh Cường
Remendado: Phi Hùng
and the Hanoi International Choir, the Orchestra of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet.
Ticket price: 150 000, 250 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND
All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House, or with the free delivery service below:
www.ticketvn.com
ticketvn@fpt.vn
0913489858 (Mr. Do Phuong)
0983067996
European Literature Day
Hanoi: Fri 27 May, 6 – 8 pm
Literature from Italy and Germany
Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Sat 28 May, 8.45 am – 4.30 pm
8.45 – 11.30 am: Children’s books from France
2 – 4.30 pm: Children’s books and Comics from Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles) and Denmark
L’Espace, 24 Trang tien
Book lovers can look forward to a new date in the program of the European Days: for the first time this year, European cultural institutes and embassies will stage a common literary event. The Goethe-Institut, Institut Francais – L‘ Espace and the representation of Wallonie-Bruxelles together with the embassies of Italy and Denmark, will present new books that have recently been translated into Vietnamese. The selection is broad.
From Italy comes the classic “Se questo è un Uomo” (If This is a Man) by Primo Levi and two childrens’s books “Lo stralisco” (Lo stralisco) and “Mattia e il nonno” (Mattino and his grandfather) by Roberto Piumini.
Germany is represented with no fewer than four titles, including the love story “Schweigeminute“ (Moment of Silence) by Siegfried Lenz and the fantasy novel “Nijura. Das Erbe der Elfenkrone” (Nijura. The Heritage of the Elf Queen) by the successful young Vietnamese-German author Jenny Mai Nuyen. The Italian and German literature night will take place at the Goethe-Institut.
See schedule for Fri 27 May 2011 below:
Italian literature translated in Vietnam: presented by H.E Ambassador of Italy Lorenzo Angeloni, in Italian and Vietnamese
Primo Levi, Se questo è un Uomo (Survival in Auschwitz, Nhã Nam); presented by Giuseppe Tidona (Cultural officer, Embassy of Italy), in Italian and Vietnamese
Roberto Piumini, Lo stralisco (Stralisco) and Mattia e il nonno (Mattia and his Grandfather), Thương Huyền, translated and presented by Bui Phuong Nga, in Italian and Vietnamese
Siegfried Lenz, Schweigeminute (Moment of Silence) Phu Nu Publishing House, translated by Nguyen Thi Tam Tinh, presented by Le Quang, in German and Vietnamese
Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt; (Measuring the World) Nha Nam & Literature Publishing House
David Safier, Mieses Karma (Lousy Karma); translated and presented by Le Quang, in German and Vietnamese
Jenny Mai Nuyen, Nijura. Das Erbe der Elfenkrone (Nijura. The Heritage of the Elf Queen) Kim Dong Publishing House; translated and presented by Ta Quang Hiep, in German and Vietnamese
For young readers, Institut Francais – L’ Espace presents “Encyclopédie Larousse des 6/9 ans” (Larousse Encyclopedia for 6-9 year olds) and new children’s books (Claude Roy), published by Alpha Books, with conference, games and books stand.
From Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles), the young will also discover the series of novels by Amélie Nothomb (Nha Nam Editions), a series of Children’s books of Kim Dong Editions as well as the Comic’s series “Lucky Luke” (First New Editions) and Cedric (Nha Nam) which give us a foretaste of the comic book festival which will open on 30 May. In addition,the children’s book “A journey” will be presented which is the result of a Vietnamese-Danish co-production, is published in two languages, and has received much positive attention in Denmark. The Vietnamese version is published by Kim Dong Publishing House.
See schedule for Sat 28 May 2011 below:
8.45 – 11.30 am: Children’s books from France
Edibooks: conference – games to discover 11 titles of Larousse Encyclopedia for 6-9 year olds
Alpha Books: Dr. Nguyen Thuy Anh presents children’s books by Claude Roy, Valckx and Pascale Chadenat
All books will be presented by experts who will give an entertaining introduction to each literary scene (in the respective language and in Vietnamese). There will also be book stalls of the publishers Edibooks, Alpha Books, Nha Nam, Kim Dong, Thuong Huyen, VNN Publishing, Phu Nu etc.
Free admission.
Residency and Research Program 2011
Open Calls of the International Creator Residency Program 2011 and the Research Residency Program
Deadline: 31 May 2011
Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama is now calling for international creators who could perform new creative activities based on the subjects which are core of our projects such as “Art and Environment”, “Cultural diversity and the activities of New Art Centres”, or “Possibilities of collaboration” during their residency at TWS Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence for three months.
Residency Period: From the beginning of January to the end of March, 2012
Details: Creators who are planning to undergo cultural study or research based at TWS Aoyama:Creator-in-Residence during the above period.
Number of participating artists: 2
Application Form must arrive at TWS Aoyama no later than Tue 31 May 2011. The application must be sent by traceable delivery service.
Please download the Application Package from following URL: http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/application/index.html
Exhibition “Villages in the City”
Opening: Thu 19 May, 6 pm
Exhibition: 19 May – 18 June 2011
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the exhibition by Vuong Van Thao titled “Villages in the City”. The exhibition is part of the works “Living Fossils”.
Born in 1969 in Hanoi, graduated from Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 1995 with painting major, Vương Van Thao is member of Vietnam Fine Arts Association.
Recent exhibitions:
- 2009 : Collective exhibition “ASIAN sculpture” in China
- 2008 :Installation exhibition ”Living fossils” at Bookworm Hanoi
- 2008 :Installation exhibition ”Living fossils” at Singapore Museum of Fine Arts
- 2007 : Installation exhibition ”Living fossils”, at L’Espace, Hanoi
- 2006 : Painting exhibition “Body and lotus”, at Suffusive Art Gallery, Hanoi
Free entrance.
Supersize Saigon Music Night
Thu 26 May 2011, 9 pm
Vasco’s, 74/7D Hai Ba Trung, Q1, HCMC
The live music-cum-DJ show will present with two huge names: the godfathers of Chinese rock, P.K.14 and JayCeeOh.
Headlining the main room will be the godfathers of Chinese rock, P.K.14, who are returning to Vietnam for what is anticipated to be their triumphant second show. Acclaimed the world over by the likes of Time Magazine and Rolling Stone, this will be P.K.14’s only other show in Vietnam before they headline the CAMA International Music Festival in Hanoi.
And taking over the decks in the Blue Room will be internationally acclaimed JayCeeOh whose top notch turntablism and selecting skills have seen him perform alongside the likes of Kanye West, Wu-Tang Clan and RJD2.
Support acts will include Bad Neighbor, playing a balls-to-the-wall punk-rock set in the yellow room, and the eclectically varied beat-driven sounds of Superkid, Jordan Howard and Dangle in the Blue Room. Expect everything from hip-hop and Baltimore club to electro-clash and Latin freestyle.
Ticket price: 150 000 VND (including a free Jim Beam & Cola)
Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling Kim Vy on 01698 485025 or by going to one of the following venues:
Vasco’s (74/7D Hai Ba Trung, Q1)
Latin Café (17 Dong Du, Q1)
Gringo’s (38 Ton That Thiep, Q1)
Café Evita (230 Nguyen Van Huong, Q2)
UNESCO Interactive Event
Sat 21 May 2011, 8.30 am
ietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St., Hanoi
UNESCO Ha Noi presents an all-day interactive event at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum in celebration of both International Museum Day (May 18) and World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (May 21). The event will offer activities for children such as painting and clay sculpture and guided tours on the image of early 20th century Vietnamese women.
Also featured is an art exhibition for children, “Manga realities – Exploring the Art of Japanese Comics Today” and a collection of Dong Ho style paintings depicting the Japanese character Ultraman.
The evening will showcase traditional music and dance performances from several countries.
One-Liners – 18 May 2011
Thu 19 May, 9 am – Workshop “Improvisation” with facilitator Ho Ngoc Bao Khiem at The Black Box – 54, 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi. For more information, contact: life.art.vietnam@gmail.com or visit www.artfordevelopment.vn
Thu 19 May, 9pm & Thu 26 May, 7 pm – Live music night with Phuong Dang – artist of the month at Son Tinh Lounge Bar – 31 Xuan Dieu, Hanoi. For more information, visit Son Tinh Lounge Bar’s website or contact Ms Ha at (04)37150577
28 & 29 May – Music Space number 2 with Tuan Ngoc and Nguyen Thao at Nguy Nhu Kon Tum Concert Hall – 19 Le Thanh Tong, Hanoi . More information about tickets, visit Music Space’s website.
Attention Enterpreneurs
Award “Dynamic young professional to promote Vietnamese design worldwide”: is calling for application
Deadline: 30 June 2011
The search is on for a design super-entrepreneur to represent Vietnam in London in the International Young Design Entrepreneurs Award for 2011/12.
To download the application form go to www.britishcouncil.org/vietnam. All competition entry requirements must then be sent to via email to tho.le@britishcouncil.org.vn or by post to British Council, Projects & Communications Unit, 25 Le Duan, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City (please write IYSE Award Application on the envelope). Candidates must be between 25 and 40 by 30 June 2011 (the competition closing date) and be working within the design sector:
Architecture, interiors and environment
Product design manufacture: furniture, industrial products and craft
Fashion, textile, accessories or perfume design and production
Design promotion: shows, exhibitions, festivals, events
Design retail: buying, merchandising
Design product research, sourcing, supply chain management
Design marketing, PR, branding, communications, journalism, publishing
For further information, please contact:
British Council HCMC
25 Le Duan, Dist 1, HCMC
T +84 (0)8 8232862 Ext: 2600
F +84 (0)8 8232861
tho.le@britishcouncil.org.vn
Group Exhibition “iM”
Opening: Tue 24 May, 7 pm
Workshop: Wed 25 May, 7 pm
Exhibition: 24 May – 24 June 2011
OM-studio, Cang Cong Thon, Yen Vien town, Gia Lam, Hanoi
M-studio welcomes all friends, artists and art lovers to group exhibition “iM”.
For more information about exhibition , contact Mr Nguyen Xuan Hoang on 01233771889
Conference “Living Skills for Children”
Sat 21 May 2011, 9 am
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to conference “Living skills for children” with the participation of Ms Nguyen Thi Dieu Ly, principal of kinder and primary international school Dream House.
Being parents is not an easy task. Whether or not children can develop normally and become a good citizen, that are influenced much from education of their parents. Traditional education or whip method is not always the best method. So how parent can understand children and give them the most positive education?
With 30-year-experience as a teacher, Ms Nguyen Thi Dieu Ly, principal of kinder and primary international school Dream House, shares some methods which she has applied in her teaching life, not only at Dream House, but also in other environments where she worked.
Language: Vietnamese
Free entrance.
Program “I Love Music 3″ by VNAM
Fri 27 May 2011, 8 pm
Concert Hall of Vietnam National Academy of Music, 77 Hao Nam Str., Dong Da Distr., Ha Noi
You are invited to the music concert titled “I Love Music 3″ at Vietnam National Academy of Music.
Ticket price: 100 000, 200 000 VND
Tickets are on sale at VNAM or call Ms My at 0904204248, 0913306786
HCMC – Nicolas Stavy Recital
Wed 25 May 2011, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House, No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
The French Cultural and Cooperation Antenna in Ho Chi Minh City presents a concert with Nicolas Stavy . Special Prize at the 2000 Chopin competition in Warsaw, Second Prize at the 2001 Geneva International competition, Second Prize at the 2003 Young Concert Artists in New York, Nicolas Stavy is an exceptional pianist. He will perform works of Liszt.
Program:
Liszt – literary inspiration
Consolations, S. 172
God’s blessing in Solitude
Poetic and Religious Harmonies
Petrarch’s Sonnet 104
After a reading by Dante
A fantasy, almost a sonata
From the Cradle to the Grave
Symphonic poem, version for piano
- The cradle
- The fight for life
- The grave: the cradle for the future life
Ticket price: 200 000, 150 000, 100 000 VND (50% discount for students)
All tickets are available at HCMC Opera House
Tickets delivery service: 08. 38237419/ 08. 62704450
Nicholas Stravy will also perform in L’Espace, Hanoi.
Farewell Show of Toothbrush
Sat 21 May 2011, 8 pm
Le Cooperative, 46 An Duong, Tay Ho District, Hanoi
Unfortunately Hanoi Rock City will be closed over the weekend to do some renovations, therefore, farewell party for Toothbrush will take place at Le Cooperative.
It is definitely going to be a party night with ‘Snook’ and the bands he has been involved with whilst in Hanoi. We will also be doing our best to tweak the sound-system and make this an event that everyone will enjoy.
Ticket price: 50 000 VND
More events you may find interesting:
Fri 20 May 2011, 1:30 pm – City Walk to discover about Hoan Kiem Lake. Meet in front of statue of Ly Thai To, in the park at corner of Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Lai streets. To register for the event, email Roman at FVH.CityWalks.English@gmail.com
Sun 22 May 2011, 1.30 pm – Dance competition at Foreign Trade University – 91 Chua Lang. For more information, visit FTU’s facebook.
28 May – 01 June 2011 – Performance of Legendary Bubble man Fan Yang at Viet Xo Cultural Center – 91 Tran Hung Dao. For more information about ticket price and schedule, visit Dong Do Show’s website.
28 May – 01 June 2011 – Music show and circus for children titled “Angelic Smile” at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien. For more information about ticket price and schedule, visit Dong Do Show’s website.
28 May – 01 June 2011 – Music show, magic tricks for children titled “Smiles for Children” at Hanoi Children Palace – 36 Ly Thai To, Hanoi. For more information about ticket price and schedule, visit Dong Do Show’s website.
28 May – 01 June 2011 – Performance “The Legend about Dragon Jade” for children at Au Co Performing Center – 8 Huynh Thuc Khang, Hanoi. For more information about ticket price and schedule, visit Dong Do Show’s website.
Jazz Music Night with Eric Legnini
Tue 14 June 2011, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to a Jazz music night of Eric Legnini. From an amateur of hip hop and swing, melodies of 1970s and mixtape of 2000, virtuosic jazz and splendid soul, Eric Legnini, after 10 years, has become one of most talent pianist in jazz scene.
After finishing his course at New York with Richie Beirach, he uses his talent to work with greatest artists like: Serge Reggiani, Henri Salvador và Claude Nougaro.
Although being swept away by the swing, inhabited by the requirement of brevity, led by the piano playing method which makes piano sound naturally, Eric Legnini’s compositions still remain faithful to the core values of jazz and show his love for African-American music in its diversity.
Ticket price: 100 000 VND
Special price: 50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
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