Screening of “La Fille de Monaco”

Fri 12 Aug 2011, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to L’Espace to see the film “La Fille de Monaco” (“The Girl from Monaco”) of director Anne Fontaine, starred by HFabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise  
Bourgoin, Stéphane Audran, Gilles Cohen, Jeanne Balibar… It’s a light comedy but still has a deep story about love, passion and everything else.

Synopsis: Bertrand is a brilliant and neurotic attorney. He comes to  Monaco to defend a 70 year old woman who is accused of being a murderer. Christophe is Bertrand’s  
bodyguard. He adores intellectual person and especially those with diplomatic manners. Audrey is a local TV weather girl who is ambitious and uncontrollable. She doesn’t  
understand the concept of “limitation” or “taboo”. Somehow it’s better that those three don’t meet…

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for L’Espace memebers and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are now available at L’Espace.

Guitar Recital by Nguyen Van Phuc

Mon 15 Aug 2011, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the solo guitar recital of Nguyen Van Phuc who is now teaching at Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Nguyen Van Phuc has a Master in Music. He has won 4 prizes for “International Solo Guitar Recital” in Belgorod, Russia, and Grand Prix Price at “Meeting with the Celebrity” Festival, Moscow.

Ticket price : 50.000 VND
Special price : 25.000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace from 15/07/2011.

Subscription Concert Vol. 43 “Tchaikovsky Night”

18 & 19 Aug 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to a Subscription Concert Vol. 43 “Tchaikovsky Night” with participation of conductor Le Phi Phi, cello soloist Merit of Artist Ngo Hoang Quan and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.

Program including compositions of Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Thema and Variations on Rococo
Interval
Symphony No.1 “Winter Dream” Op.13

Ticket prices: 150.000, 250.000, 350.000, 450.000 VND.

All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over  www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859

Screening of “The Little Heart”

Fri 19 Aug 2011, 1 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to L’Espace to see the Vietnamese film “The Little Heart” of director Nguyen Thanh Van, starred by Do Nguyen Lan Ha, Kim Hanh and Hong Anh. According to Youth Newspaper “the film is not just for entertainment, the film helps us to live a better life.”

Synopsis: Mai who is 16 years old lives in a poor rural area and she is determined to earn a living being a prostitute. Minh, Mai’s brother stays at home with a wish one day he could go to the city like his sister to do something to change his own life. Once Mai knows she is HIV positive, Mai comes back home to stop her brother going on the same path as she does. She comes back to the village, however, ironically on the other side of the road, Minh is on the way to the city.

Language: Vietnamese with French subtitle.

Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for L’Espace’s member and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.

“Chihiro and Totto-chan” Exhibition

Opening: Tue 09 Aug, 10 am
Exhibition: 09 – 31 Aug 2011, 9.30 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Hall, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with the Chihiro Art Museum and Nha Nam Publishing House, shares the delight of hosting an art exhibition “CHIHIRO & TOTTO-CHAN”, by Iwasaki Chihiro. The organizers hope that everyone who sees this exhibition will enjoy the creative interplay between Iwasaki Chihiro and Kuroyanagi Tetsuko, who wish all the time for the happiness of children and peace.

Before the publication of “Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window” by Kuroyanagi Tetsuko (Actress, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Director of the Chihiro Art Museum) in 1981, the episodes were appeared serially in the monthly magazine “Wakai Josei” [lit. Young Women] (1979-1980).

However, Tetsuko said that even 20 years before the serial publication, writing about her childhood memoir was always in her mind, and finally made a decision to write about it when she found there were around 7,000 remaining paintings and illustrations of various postures of children drawn by Iwasaki Chihiro (1918 – 1974).

During the two years of the serial publication, Tetsuko, the author of Totto-chan (Totto-chan is a nickname of the author), repeatedly visited the Chihiro Art Museum and selected Chihiro’s artworks which were matched with each episode in her non-fiction story.

The story is about the author’s childhood memoir mainly on her life, during World War II, at Tomoe Gakuen, a Tokyo elementary school where unconventional education was conducted. The combination of learning with fun, freedom, and love at the school made Totto-chan a spontaneous girl and eventually led her to a successful life.

Over 7.6 million copies of Totto-chan have been sold in Japan, keeping the top- selling record of all time, and it has been translated into more than 35 different languages. While Totto-chan herself is charming enough to attract plethora of readers, the artworks on the book illustrated by Iwasaki Chihiro are also essential to the worldwide popularity of the book.

This year 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the Japanese publication “Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window”, as well as its launch of Vietnamese version by Nha Nam Publishing House directly translated from Japanese.

In commemoration of such a special year both for Vietnam and Japan, Chihiro’s 30 selected artworks mainly used for Totto-chan will be exhibited at the Exhibition hall, the Japan Fundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem).

The opening starts at 10 am on Tuesday 9 August, including a talk by the curator of Chihiro Art Museum and a reading. Special Vietnamese “Totto-chan” books with the author’s autograph might be presented to lucky visitors on the opening day, as well as the visitors during the exhibition. The exhibition is free admission. The Vietnamese version of Totto-chan is also on sale at the venue.

Exhibition “Transito”

Exhibition: 05 – 12 Aug 2011
Chaap Art, 82 Đê Quai road, Tu Lien, Tay Ho district, Hanoi
Open 10 am – 6 pm everyday, close on Sunday

You are invited to an exhibition of photography and installation “Transito” of 2 artists: Sitthiporn Banjongpetch (Thai artist) and Carol Canto (Spanish artist living and working in Hanoi).

Both are interested in reflexionate and create a subjectivity about the body like identity and like a part of the cultural context. Because the body is a territory of crossroads – of the biological, the pulsion, the social, the cultural and the spiritual. The body lends itself to being investigated and mapped. The body is, and holds a universe in transformation, because it is not univocal. There are no unique meanings. Carol reflects about the impact of the city to the body and everything that entails. Sittiporn speaks about behavior or feelings, some people do not always express. And others who do not know it as well and how people react and interact with an exclusion condition.

Free entrance.

Evening Lectures: Taking Paintings For a Walk

A miniature from Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur), 1483 – 1530

Thu 11 Aug 2011, 6.30 – 8 pm
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 6.30 – 8 pm
Chic Portrait Cafe, 15B, Phan Dang Luu Housing Estate, Binh Thanh District, HCM City

Chic Portrait Cafe in collaboration with San Art organizes 2 evening Lectures: Taking Paintings For a Walk, presented by Zoe Butt (Curator & Co-Director of Sàn Art).

Lecture 1: Thursday 11th August: ’Painting and printmaking in contemporary Asia: looking at how traditions are by nature in a state of constant change’ (examining select artists from Pakistan, India, China, Japan and Thailand)

Lecture 2: Saturday 13th August: ’How painting can inspire three dimensions’ (examining select artists from Vietnam, India, China, Taiwan and Korea.

This event is free of charge and everyone is welcome. Lectures will be delivered in English and Vietnamese.

Please visit our website for more information: www.san-art.org.

Children Painting Exhibition

Exhibition: 11 – 15 Aug 2011
93 Dinh Tien Hoang Str, Hanoi

The children’s painting exhibition displays art works of Cat Tuong’s drawing class organized by artist Nguyen Thi Nhan. The exhibition will be held in autumn. Come to the exhibition to see the works of arts by young artists and see how they see the work with their innocent mind, clever hands. It’s something too precious in the society where we have too many things to think about.

The drawing class Cat Tuong organized by artist Nguyen Thi Nhan has existed for quite a long time. Contrary to the quietness of the artist, the drawing class is known widely among parents. The artist spends time to do research on Buddhism and she has many art works relating to Buddhism theme.

According to Buddhism, Cat Tuong means good fortune and luck. That’s the meaning of the drawing class which attracts more children and more parents know about this.

In 2007, exhibition “The colours of Children in Springs” with the participation of 22 young artists at 29 Hang Bai Street attracted a lot of attention from the audience. And this year’s exhibition, it’s the landmark of the return of Cat Tuong’s drawing class after 4 years with 80 paintings of 40 young children. This is an interesting exhibition which diversified drawing material, train of thoughts. Some of the young children show exceptional talent. Especially, there are many art works by alumini of Cat Tuong’s drawing class from all over the world such as UK, Japan, US, Canada, China…

HCMC – Exhibition “Four Friends”

Opening: Sun 14 Aug, 10 am
Exhibition: 14 – 28 Aug 2011
Tu Do Gallery, 53 Ho Tung Mau Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

You are invited to an exhibition of painting and statues “Four Friends” of 4 artists: Dinh Cuong, Than Trong Minh, Hoang Trong Ban, Pham Van Hang.

5th International Manga Contest

The 5th International Manga Award: is calling for entries
Deadline: 31 Aug 2011
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam and the Consulates-General of Japan in HCMC are calling for entries from Vietnamese enthusiastic Manga artists for the 5th International Manga Award. The International MANGA Award was established to share Japanese pop culture and to help promote understanding of Japan. It was created to honor MANGA artists who have contributed to the promotion of MANGA overseas.

This is the fifth such award, the selection of which was officially decided to be carried out at the fifth International MANGA Award Executive committee who held on 5 July 2011.

The Golden Prize of the 5th International MANGA Award will be given to the best MANGA from all the entries and three distinguished works will receive the Silver Prize.

In addition, the Japan Foundation will invite the prize winners to Japan to attend the award ceremony. They will also have meeting with Japanese MANGA artists and visit publishing companies, etc., in Japan.

Folk-a-yolk Festival

Fri 12 Aug 2011, 8 pm
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Welcome to Folk-a-yolk fest !!Hanoi’s first and only 2-day fun-filled folk, rock, blues, acoustic festival for all!

Cooked up by the boys and girls of Hanoi Rock City, folk-a-yolk is the scrumptious summertime singer-songwriter scramble, packed with a diverse and talented mix of international and Vietnamese artists and acts.

Headlined by international artists: BRETT NEWSKI (Yes Please Records) and JORDAN SENIOR (Workshy Records).

Across two evenings (8pm – midnight) on Friday 12th August and Saturday 13th August, enjoy everything from harmonica blues to Hungarian rock to hardcore folk… plus supplementary festive fun, games, food and visuals across the weekend.

So however you like your eggs; traditional – soaked in fish sauce – made of chocolate – this is one tasty music treat waiting in the pan for every fan and festival goer.

Sizzle your senses and yolk it up!

Friday line-up: Brett Newski (USA), Pham Quang Tran Minh (Vietnam), Atilla (Hungary) and The Yard Dogs (Vietnam/Canada)

Saturday line-up: Jordan Senior (UK), Scott Ezell (USA), Mouth of the Wolf (South Africa) and Van Der Beard (UK)

Weekend ticket: only 150 000 VND (for both evenings).
Day ticket: 100 000 VND (available on either night).
All tickets sold at door (for weekend tickets, please buy at door on Friday night).

An Evening of Opera at LUNA – Programme 10

Wed 17 Aug 2011, 8.30 pm
Luna d’Autunno, Hanoi, 78 Tho Nhuom, Hoan Kiem Distr. – Ha Noi

After a summer break, Luna d’Autunno restarts its regular evening for lovers of opera.
This is a monthly event, and a great chance to enjoy live opera in an informal and intimate setting.

Special Concerts with Asian Youth Orchestra

Asian Youth Orchestra
15 & 16 Aug 2011, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi

Don’t miss the chance to enjoy two special concerts of the Asian Youth Orchestra, especially with the performance of violinist Stefan Jackiw and two famous conductors James Judd and Richard Pontzious. The two concerts will deliver the audience famous works of A Dvorak, J. Sibelius, S. Rachmaninoff, C. Saint-Saens, P. I. Tchaikovsky…

Ticket prices: 150.000, 250.000, 350.000, 500.000, 700.000 VND.

All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859

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