A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from October 22 to 28.

HANOI

PERFORMANCE

Subscription Concert Vol.115

8 pm, October 25

Hanoi Opera House

1 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district

You are invited to Subscription Concert Vol.115 with the performance of:

Conductor: Honna Tetsuji

Soloists: Boulanger Trio – Piano – Violin – Cello

Piano Soloist: Karla Haltenwanger

Violin Soloist: Birgit Erz

Cello Soloist: Ilona Kindt

And the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra

Ticket: VND 200,000 – VND 350,000 – VND 500,000

Ca Tru Performance by Kim Duc Ca Tru School

7pm, October 27

Phu Sa Lab

21/52 To Ngoc Van Road, Quang An Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi

You are invited to Ca Tru Show – Kim Duc Ca Quan at Phu Sa Lab.

Entry Fee: VND 500,000 (include dinner and drink)

Piano Recital with Jean Louis Haguenauer

October 27, 8 – 9.30 pm

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi

Known as the first pianist to record all of Debussy’s works and their variations on Blüthner – Debussy’s own piano, Jean-Louis Haguenauer is appreciated for creating “iridescent, multi-tone melodies in an astonishingly fast tempo”. The artist will return to the stage of L’Espace to present famous works by Debussy, Chopin and Stockhausen.

Ticket price VND 210,000

L’Espace member price VND 130,000

Student price VND 100,000

EXHIBITION

Exhibition “Light – Dark” by Barbara Klemm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

The exhibition “Hell-Dunkel” (light – dark) is a reference to Barbara Klemm’s work in the former FRG and GDR. She photographed in both western and eastern Germany, thus documenting the path to the reunification of Germany.

Free entrance

Exhibition “Infinity of Mirror”

Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace

24 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district

The exhibition is expected to be a unique experience, giving audiences a chance to enjoy calligraphic artworks by Christian Hadengue and paintings by Le Thua Tien, with music composed by Mark Lockett playing in the background, accompanied by Hubert Haddad’s poems.

The exhibition is a meeting between artists who have adopted a language naturally, ‘out of step’ with their cultural backgrounds (Western and Asian).

Exhibition: “The Big Book Larousse of Space”

L’Espace’s Mezzanine

24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

Exhibition of images from the book “Le très grand livre de l’espace” (The big book Larousse of Space) – a great book to discover all the wonders of the universe, with six major thematic sections divided into sub-themes (satellites, galaxies, Ariane 5…), and ending with a large, beautiful double-page. The book also contains a great diversity of information, which is serious, anecdotal, unusual, humorous… but always extraordinary, helping children to approach the mysteries of space from different angles.

Free entry

HO CHI MINH CITY

PERFORMANCE

A O Show by Lune Production

6:00 pm, every day except Monday and Friday

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House

7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1

The A O Show features optical illusions and impressive acrobatics, paired with traditional music performances by a troupe of talented local artists.

Known as the Cirque du Soleil of Vietnam (minus the flashy outfits), this live show depicts the transition of rural Vietnam into today’s modern landscape, using props such as giant woven baskets, scaffolding, bamboo canes, and ropes.

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

EXHIBITION

Photo Media Exhibition “FoMO – Fear of Missing Out”

Toong Minh Khai

126 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, District 3

In his series ‘Fear of Missing Out’, Australian photo-media artist, Darren Tynan, documents video compression errors using broadcasts from free-to-air Australian television channels.

By intercepting broadcast signals, Tynan explores transmission glitches as a serendipitous phenomenon and as a creative tool in the photographic process.

A project spanning two years, FoMO is a world punctuated by randomness, disintegration and transmutation.

Free entrance

Duo Exhibition ‘site / shine / sight’

The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre

15 Nguyen U Di Street, Thao Dien ward, District 2

You are invited to come to ‘site / shine / sight’ – a duo exhibition featuring a collaboration between visual artist/filmmaker, Truong Que Chi and architectural studio, vn-a.

The artists will transform the space of The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre into a dim maze, where all of the light emits from the various sculptures, installations and photographs within the recesses of particularly placed, structurally specific louvers.

Tickets:

For adults: VND35,000

For students: VND 25,000 (with appropriate student ID)

For children under 16: free (with appropriate ID)

Solo Exhibition “lamina | ink” by Kenny Ng

The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre

15 Nguyen U Di Street, Thao Dien ward, District 2

Kenny Ng’s first solo exhibition, titled ‘lamina|ink’, will showcase a series of abstract characters, inspired by the diverse shapes and forms of mysterious deep sea organisms, combined with the colonial and old temple architecture of Ho Chi Minh City.

The architectural lines of these drawings tell a story of history and culture, both familiar and strange to Kenny, a young artist who returned to Vietnam in 2015, after 7 years of studying and living abroad.

Tickets:

For adults: VND35,000

For students: VND 25,000 (with appropriate student ID)

For children under 16: free (with appropriate ID)

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