Hanoi- ‘Lang Toi’ (My Village) by Lune Production

May 6, 7, 10, 11, 6pm

Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District,

Lang Toi (My Village) is a delicate merge of tradition and innovation, where the poetic beauty of Northern Vietnam’s village life is presented through a new cirque approach.

Farming, building activities, traditional games, and the lifestyle of the Northern villagers are recreated through ancestral bamboo props, breath-taking cirque and acrobatics performances, and rhythmic dance, to distinct folk music from more than 20 musical instruments.

Ticket prices: VND 700,000- VND 1,050,000

Performance by Austrian jazz duo

May 5-7, 9pm

Bình Minh Jazz Club Hanoi on May 5 and Sax ‘n’ Art Jazz Club in HCM City on May 7

The tour will mark the first time musicians and composers Dominik Fuss and Jorg Leichtfried have performed in Asia.

While performing for the first time in Asia, the duo has played various venues in Europe and just recently played at the Catharge Jazz Festival in Tunisia, North Africa.

Free entry

HCMC- Performance by young string quartet

May 11, 8pm

Soul Live Project Complex at 216 Pasteur Street in District 3

A concert by the Saigon Philharmonic Youth Orchestra’s string quartet.

The quartet, consisting of violinists Lâm Hoài Bảo and Đoàn Trọng Hồ Nguyên, violist Nguyễn Kim Châu Giang, and cellist Nguyễn Hoàng Lê Quyên, will play works by popular composers including Trịnh Công Sơn, Thanh Tùng, Dương Thụ, Quốc Bảo, Bảo Chấn, Anh Quân, and Ngọc Lễ.

The Saigon Philharmonic Youth Orchestra was established early this year with the aim of promoting symphonic music and the city’s culture to people aged 18-25.

Tickets are available at https://dreamspass.vn/spyo-dauan/.

HCMC-Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture

Ảnh:

May 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 6pm

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1

‘Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture features a vibrant display of circus arts, aerial acrobatics, and tribal music within an hour-long performance.

The show highlights the lives of tribal families from the southwest highlands of Vietnam, using UNESCO-listed percussion instruments, such as Vietnamese gongs and buffalo horns, as well as vibrant costumes, and a stunning bamboo cirque depicting various landscapes and creatures from tribal folklores.

Price range: VND630,000 - VND1,470,000

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EXHIBITION

Hanoi- Exhibition "Dien Bien Moment In Time 

Until May 19

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street

Displaying 39 paintings and sculptures to mark the 65th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Battle Victory on May 7.

The works are made of various materials such as lacquer, oil painting, silk-painting and sculpture by 27 artists during and after the Dien Bien Phu military campaign.

Hanoi- Exhibition “PURE GOLD – Upcycled! Upgraded!”

Until May 26, Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm
Heritage Space, 1st Floor, Dolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang / 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh 2,

An exhibition by ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart, Germany) in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

Bulky trash, waste, cheap materials: pure gold! At least in the eyes of many active designers. “PURE GOLD – Upcycled! Upgraded!” explores the subject of rubbish and presents approaches to using trash to create valuable products.
Free entry

Hanoi- Photography Exhibition “A Little Bit of This and That”

Until May 12
Matca Space for Photography, 48 Ngoc Ha street, Ba Dinh district

A solo photography exhibition by Dinh Nguyen, a Ho Chi Minh City-based architect who has a passion for taking photos in order to see things outside of his day job and quotidian boredom.

Free entry

HCMC – Exhibition “My Marriage” by Vo Thuy Tien

Opening: May 10, 6 pm
Exhibition: May 10 – Jul 21, 10 am – 7 pm (Tue – Sun)
The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2,

An ongoing project by Vo Thuy Tien, which delves into the different layers of the artist’s personal life, and explores ideas of marriage and motherhood, domesticity and the family, and the complexity of love and relationships.
Tickets:

For adults: 50,000VND; For students: 40,000VND (with appropriate student ID); For children under 12: free (with appropriate ID)

There is no entrance fee applied on the opening night.

HCMC-Exhibition “Serpents’ Tails” by UuDam Tran Nguyen

Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyen Van Thu, Dakao, District 1,

A solo exhibition by UuDam Tran Nguyen on the industrial activities that wreak environmental imbalance and destruction.

HCMC – Exhibition “Interface” by Oanh Phi Phi

Opening: May 10, 6 pm
Exhibition: May 10 – Jul 21, 10 am – 7 pm (Tue – Sun)
The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2,

In the work of Oanh Phi Phi, lacquer is a material of not only physical, but also visceral density.

In ‘Interface’ we present two of her major pictorial installations – Specula, an immersive lacquered tunnel akin to stepping in to a glowing womb; and Palimpsest, which personifies tools of producing images (where projections magnifying glass paintings recall the lens structure of a human eye). What is most dazzling about these two ‘paintings as sculptures’ in this exhibition is the suggestion that these artworks are analogous to organs of a body, indeed their ‘shape’, their ‘skin’, their ‘interface’ infers protection, purpose and ultimately, an identity.

Tickets:

For adults: 50,000VND; For students: 40,000VND (with appropriate student ID); For children under 12: free (with appropriate ID)

There is no entrance fee applied on the opening night.

HCMC-San Art

Millennium Masteri, B6.17 & B6.16, 132 Ben Van Don, District 4,

A gathering of personal poetics by Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine and Truong Cong Tung.

The exhibition presents a collection of gouache sketchbooks and video diaries that document memories of, and intimacies with, the sprawling conurbations, sensuous landscapes and nameless faces that the artist has passed in Saigon and Buon Ma Thuot over the years.

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