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Film Screening “Nowhere Boy” at TPD
Fri 10 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
In the next two weeks, you are invited to the MUSIC LEGEND FILM MONTH including Edith Piaf, John Lennon, Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan at TPD. The first screening features “Nowhere Boy”, a 2009 British biographical musical drama film about John Lennon’s adolescence.
About film
NOWHERE BOY is a 2009 British biographical musical drama film about John Lennon’s adolescence, his relationships with his guardian aunt and his mother, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles.
The film is based on a biography written by Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird. The film received its US release on 8 October 2010, coinciding with that weekend’s celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Lennon’s birth (9 October 1940).
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
Event “Low down in the High Desert” at Tadioto
Wed 08 Apr 2015, 9 pm
Tadioto
24B Tong Dan, Hanoi
Chad Parks presents excerpts from the writing produced during a 6-month residency in an artist compound in the California desert. Chad was living in Vietnam before having to return to the US to tend to family and personal matters. He has now returned to Hanoi and for this initial performance, he will be showing his own as well as a time-lapse art video by Jeff Frost.
Chad will be joined by Dan Henneberry with his extraordinary brand of music. Nguyen Qui Duc will read excepts from a poem about exile and home.
In between, Dj Mojave Djin will delight you with selected musical seasoning.
Printmaking Dialogue Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles) – Vietnam Exhibition 2015
Opening: Sat 10 Apr 2015, 5 pm
Exhibition: 10 – 20 Apr 2015
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
This exhibition is a dialogue between artists of two cultures sharing common art values while interpreting various printing medium and subjects, is an dialogue between traditional technique and contemporary art.
Since printmaking is an edition on paper, it have always be easier to share it with a lot of different people and make it travel all around the world. With the sponsor of Wallonie-Bruxelles international, 5 Vietnamese artists and 7 Belgian artists have organized together this printmaking exhibition. Last year, in September the exhibition was show in Fine Art Museum of Verviers and in The churchill Gallery in Liege, Belgium; This year on 10 April, it will be show in Fine Art Museum of Vietnam in Hanoi.
This group of artist experts in specific printmaking and engraving techniques, famous in their respective countries have all their own way of looking at the world and expressing this in their work. The exhibition will aim at showcasing to the artist community, student and public in Hanoi, a lot of different aspect of printmaking and engraving arts; 12 artists, 12 ways to use techniques, 12 contemporary art projects: Nguyen Phuong Nghia (coffe print), Phan Hai Bang (wood cut and paper), Pham Khac Quan (wood cut), Ngo Anh Co (aquatint and engraving), Le Huy Tiep (silkscreen, monotype and lithography), Pol Authom (computer print), Michel Barzin (wood cut), Marie-France Bonmariage (lithography), Virginie Faivre d’Arcier (printing on textile and installation), Chantal Hardy (lithography), Habib Harem (aquatint, linogravure, print, carborundum), Martine Monfort (aquatint).
Exhibition of Traditional Korean Paper Hanji
Exhibition: 04 – 30 Apr 2015
Korean Cultural Centre
49 Nguyễn Du, Hà Nội
Tel: 39445980
Opening hours: 9 am-12 pm, 1.30-6 pm from Mon to Fri, Sat: 9 am-12 pm, 1.30-5 pm
You are invited to the Traditional Korean paper Han-ji exhibition in Hanoi which features 15 artworks (about 100 small artworks) using joomchi (handmade) technique by Yang Sang Hoon, President of the Korean Paper Artists Association.
Hanji is strong and long-lasting traditional Korean paper, made from the inner bark of the dak (mulberry) tree, famous for its ability to resist fading, even after 1,000 years. This material is popularly used in the fashion industry, normal life and artwork creation.
Exhibition “In Situ” by Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini
Opening: Fri 10 Apr 2015, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 10 Apr – 02 May 2015, 10 am – 7 pm
Galerie Quynh
65 Đề Thám
District 1, HCMC
+84 (8) 3836 8019
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM; closed Sundays and Mondays
In Situ – an ambitious exhibition by Ho Chi Minh City-based architectural duo Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini of HTA + pizzini. The show will feature photo and text-based work along with installations that not only highlight the concepts driving their architectural practice but also reveal the pair’s own creative responses to the city they inhabit.
Observing the shifts in Vietnam’s social and cultural fabric alongside the rapid physical growth of its urban centers like Ho Chi Minh City, Tran and Pizzini regard the city as a transient organism – one that is impermanent, sensitive to the flux of Vietnam’s economic growth. Some architects will demolish existing sites to create something completely new to signify a modern city; others on the extreme pole will attempt to preserve the history of the site, eschewing any plans to modify the site and wishing to restore the building to its former glory. Tran and Pizzini deliberately tread a middle, more sustainable ground where they choose to build upon the rich layers of the history of a specific site. Tran states, “A city is enriched by accumulations over generations… Accumulation incorporates destruction, but keeps enough fabric to retain cultural identity, while obliteration erases everything, including the cultural fabric.”
Appropriately, Tran and Pizzini are presenting their work in the very gallery space they designed in 2013. Over a century old, the building’s rich social and historical layering provided the conceptual framework for the architects to design with accumulation and transience in mind. Pizzini reflects, “Can [the word] historic refer to a structure that embodies the events that have passed through it by showing the marks and residue of different circumstances, impulses and ventures? What type of building, the pristinely preserved, or the densely accreted, is most deeply infused with history?” ‘In Situ’ is a poignant and poetic testament to the architects’ ethical position favoring sustainability and resilience.
Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015
Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015: 09 – 11 Apr 2015
Various venues in Hanoi (see program below for details)
Day 1: Thu 09 Apr 2015, 2 – 11 pm
Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich
Day 2: Fri 10 Apr 2015, 2 – 11 pm
Hanoi Creative City, 01 Luong Yen
Day 3: Sat 11 Apr 2015, 7 – 10.30 pm
Van Ho Exhibition Center, 02 Hoa Lu
Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival aspires to create a unique world of quality electronic and experimental music and art with boundary-pushing sounds, creative performances and collaborations between International and Vietnamese artists to spur an interest among young Vietnamese audiences.
For the past 8 years, Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, initiated and organized by Tri Minh, has brought to Vietnam numerous talented sound artists and DJs from across the globe. In its 8th year, Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival welcomes several international artists of Vietnamese origin including Chi Thanh (Germany), Chi Thien – Chopstick (Germany) and Vannessa Van-Anh Vo (US). We will also witness the development of a new generation of Vietnamese sound art community through the Sound Awakener project by very young artist Nguyen Hong Nhung. Furthermore, there will also be the participation of Tri Minh’s very own quartet project “Sound from Hanoi”, which recently had a successful tour across the US.
Khán giả tại Liên hoan Âm thanh Hà Nội 2014Audience at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2014
Artist Line-up for Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015:
BRETT ZWEIMAN & OTHERS (US/International)
CHOPSTICK (CHÍ THIỆN) (Germany)
CHÍ THANH (Germany)
CHRIS BROWN (US)
DANIEL MARIUMA và MOTI SAADIA (Israel)
GAUTE GRANLI (Norway)
SOUND AWAKENER (Nguyen Hong Nhung – Vietnam)
THYLACINE (France)
VANESSA VAN-ANH VO (US/Vietnam)
Program and tickets:
Day 1: 09/04/2015
Location: MANZI ART SPACE, 14 Phan Huy Ich
14.00-17.00: MUSIC ART FILM
19.30-20.00: SOUND AWAKENER (VN)
20.30-21.00: GAUTE GRANLI (NOR)
21.00-22.00: VAN ANH VO/CHRIS BROWN (VN/USA)
22.00-23.00: CLUSTER OF SOUNDS/BRETT ZWEIMEN & OTHERS (USA/OTHERS)
Tickets: 200,000 VND
Day 2: 10/04/2015
Location: HANOI CREATIVE CITY, 01 Luong Yen
BERLIN CLUB NIGHT: Graffiti, documentary films, workshop, music
14.00-23.00: GRAFFITTI
14.00-18.00: DOCUMENTARY FILMS
16.00-18.00: WORKSHOP ABOUT DJ
18.00-20.00: OUTDOOR PARTY WITH DJ
20.00-23.00: BERLIN CLUB NIGHT/ CHOPSTICK & CHI THANH (DE)
Free entry
Day 3: 11/04/2015
Location: Van Ho Exhibition Center, 02 Hoa Lu
19.00-20.00: SOUNDS FROM Hanoi/TECHNO-TRI MINH & DEE.F (VN)
20.00-21.00: THYLACINE (FR)
21.00-22.30: DANIEL MARIUMA & MOTI SAADIA (Israel)
Tickets: 50,000 VND. You can buy tickets online to Day 3 here:
Ticket distribution:
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien
Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich
Cộng Cafe, 100A Xuan Dieu
Most Wanted Cafe & Pub, 04 Tho Nhuom
Exhibition “In – Out” by Young Artist Club: Call for Participation
Time to register: 01 – 10 Apr 2015
Young Artist Club, under the auspices of Vietnam Fine Arts Association is calling for young Vietnamese artists to take part in the exhibition “In – Out” on the 2nd floor of the exhibition house at 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi.
Over a period of 12 days, a series of short exhibition (1-3 days each) by individuals/groups will be organized depending on their idea.
All the member of Young artists club as well as all young artists (younger than 35 years old) are welcome to participate in this exhibition.
The cost including room rate, opening party, invitations, communication is fully funded.
Participants please send the information: author, artwork, or group of authors and works to the club’s email: clbnghesitrevn@gmail.com
For more information, please contact:
Đỗ Hiệp : 0983 613 984
Trịnh Minh Tiến : 0904 830090
Thái Nhật Minh: 0974 391 930
Trần An : 0982 136 159
Trà My : 0946 635 626
Art Project “March: Art Walk”
29 Mar – 09 May 2015, 9 am – 5 pm (Mon to Sat)
Sao La, Freeland Coffee, Lê Công Kiều Station, Nguyễn Công Trứ Studio
District 1, HCMC
In the first collaboration, Sao La and Freeland are pleased to present a group exhibition – March: Art Walk. Inspired by the desire to narrow the gap between contemporary art with the general public, as well as connecting artists, the exhibition is part of a bigger community art project with the same title hosted at four different spaces: Sao La, Lê Công Kiều Station, Freeland and Studio Nguyễn Công Trứ. Located in remained colonial architectures by Ben Thanh market of the former Eastern Pearl, four spaces by chance gather in the heart of Saigon to form a small circle of art that at the same time blends and contradicts to the surrounding shopping centers.
Like a reunion, twenty nine artists from different generations bring to March: Art Walk various kinds of artworks, from painting, photography, sculpture to installation, video, performance, experimental music and multimedia. Beside various presentations, the artworks also carry personal messages, subjective statements about various social issues, or strong yet interesting personalities of the artists. They, like beautiful colors of life, all harmonize with each other in embellishing a colorful painting of spring.
Along with the art exhibition, other activities including workshops, artist talks, film screenings and even interactive performances will be organised regularly during the project. This is also a chance for the general public to approach contemporary art which is still very new in Vietnam, especially young practices. All activities of this project will be free of charge.
How to participate:
– All of the project’s activities are free
– Proposed activites besides the exhibitions:
WEEK 1:
– Artist talk of Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai at San Art on 2/4/2015, at 4 pm.
WEEK 2:
– Documentary film screenings at the Institute of Documentary Film.
– Film screenings of independent film makers at Freeland.
WEEK 3:
– Documentary film screenings at Institute of Documentary Film.
– Workshop of performance art of Open Stage project at Le Cong Kieu Station.
– The performances of The Saigon Projects with live graffiti painting on sculptures of famous Vietnamese sculptors.
WEEK 4:
– Workshop about experimental music of Nguyen Hong Giang.
– Artist talks of Art Labor at Freeland/Le Cong Kieu Station.
– Liar Ben and ‘a search for “cô Mía”‘ at Freeland
WEEK 5:
– An interactive performance of media artist Xuan Ha with local community at Freeland.
– Film screening of independent film makers at Freeland.
– Ending:
• A music perfomance of Tofu band.
• A music performance of Nguyen Hong Giang.
Exhibition locations:
– Sao La: 1 Lê Thị Hồng Gấm street, District 1.
– Freeland Coffee – Vietnam Freelance Hub: 158/11 Nguyễn Công Trứ, District 1
– Lê Công Kiều Station: 1 Lê Công Kiều, District 1.
– Nguyễn Công Trứ Studio: 240 Nguyễn Công Trứ, District 1
Art Tour:
– Starting from week 2, Art Tours will take place weekly on Saturdays and Sundays with demonstration from tour guides.
+ Saturday: 2:30 pm – 5 pm
+ Sunday: 9 am – 11 am
– Ticket price: 100.000vnd/person, 50% off for students (please bring your student card along when purchasing tickets)
Contact for ticket registration:
+Freeland, 158/11 Nguyễn Công Trứ, District 1.
+Registration link
+Phone: 0935289586 | 08 62959106
+Email: project@simplea.vn
Talkshow “Fine Arts Museum in Contemporary Life”
Mon 06 Apr 2015, 2 pm
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi
The beauty of art is reserved in museums. In the mutable contemporary life, the core value of art needs to be changed to reach the audience in the correct and fastest way, to give better understanding about fine arts and contribute to improving the social aesthetic. How has Fine Arts Museum been changed? What are professionals and the public unsatisfied with?
With the participation of speakers artist Bui Hoai Mai and researcher Trang Thanh Hien, the talkshow themed on “Fine Arts Museum in Contemporary Life” promises to be a fascinating experience.
Language: Vietnamese
Documentary Screening “Manufactured Landscapes”
Sun 05 Apr 2015, 2 pm – 5 pm
Hanoi Old Quarter Culture Exchange Center
50 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi
You are invited to the documentary screening of “Manufactured Landscapes”.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, directed by Jennifer Baichwal, is a feature length documentary about environmental disaster affected by industrialization. China, the world’s biggest aggregate emitter, is a typical example.
The film involves the photographs and videos of photographer and visual artist Ed Burtynsky’s trip through landscapes that have been altered by large-scale human activity, captured with Super-16mm film… While some would some call the work beautiful, his main goal was to challenge notions while raising questions about the interplay of environmental ethics and aesthetics. The footage was compiled from a trip to China where Burtynsky visited factories which Western society has come to rely on for most of its appliances, including a factory that produces most of the world’s supply of clothes irons, which is one kilometer in length and employs 23,000 workers. The film also features the Three Gorges Dam, which, along with being the largest dam in the world, has uprooted more than one million people and flooded 13 cities, 140 towns and 1350 villages since the beginning of its construction in 1994. [Wikipedia]
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
Free entrance.
Films Screening “Much ado about nothing” and “Ran” at TPD
Screening of “Much ado about nothing”: Fri 03 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm
Screening of “Ran”: Sat 04 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
In the second week of Shakespeare film month, you are invited to the screening of two other famous films: “Much ado about nothing” and “Ran”.
Original language with Vietnamese subtitles
About films
Much ado about nothing is a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. It was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh who stars in the film. The film also stars Branagh’s then-wife Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut.
The film was released on May 7, 1993, reaching 200 U.S. screens at its widest release. It earned $22 million at the U.S. box office and $36 million total worldwide, which, despite failing to reach the mark set by Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, made it one of the most financially successful Shakespeare films ever released. It was also entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Ran is a 1985 Japanese-French jidaigeki epic film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The story is based on legends of the daimyo Mōri Motonari, as well as on the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear.
RAN was Kurosawa’s last epic. With a budget of $12 million, it was the most expensive Japanese film ever produced up to that time. RAN was released on May 31, 1985 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and on June 1, 1985 in Japan. The film was hailed for its powerful images and use of color-costume designer Emi Wada won an Academy Award for Costume Design for her work on RAN. The distinctive Gustav Mahler-inspired film score, written by Toru Takemitsu, plays in isolation with ambient sound muted.
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
Live Music Event “The Music Emporium” at Hanoi Social Club
Thu 02 Apr 2015, 8.30 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
The Music Emporium – a new intimate live music event at The Hanoi Social Club. 8:30pm every Thursday night.
In a 100-year-old house with classic architecture in the old quarter, lots of cozy spaces, where you can enjoy the skill of the musicians and feel the music in a more laid back environment.
Use your ears to listen to and enjoy musical stories. It’s not an “event” as such, more like people playing music in your loungeroom. Every week we have a different musician creating a set specifically for this event.
We’ll make you comfortable. It’ll be cozy, and intimate.
Tickets: 50,000 VND at the door
Live Music with Bluemato + Ừ + Racket Riot
Sat 04 Apr 2015, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
A night of live indie rock & motorbike pop!
► BLUEMATO
► Ừ (debut)
► RACKET RIOT (debut)
Bluemato
One of the finest young indie bands born and bred in Hanoi. Stylish guitars, lush harmonies and incandescent rhythms. Influenced by: larc en ciel , tokyo jihen , plastic tree , spitz
Vocal/Guitar – Cú
Drum/back vocal – Tùng
suport bass/back vocal – Nhã
The group formed in Hanoi on New Years’ Day after watching Planet Earth.
Ừ
Thị – performance performer
Ly Sinclair – lead guitarist + vox
Câylá Xanhstien – bass + drums
Xuân Carlos – vox+ guitar
Lance Lomas – vox + synth
RACKET RIOT
Racket riot are a three piece band playing their debut show.
Expect loud rhythms, shouty vocals and out of tune singing.
Stephen Hoang
Samuel Burno
Luke Troniak
PINNED POST
Tickets: 60,000 VND
Exhibition “Happiness Lies Beyond The Clouds” by Tran Minh Duc
Opening: Thu 02 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 02 Apr – 30 May 2015, 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Sàn Art
From the organizer:
You are invited to a solo exhibition ‘Happiness Lies Beyond The Clouds’ by Tran Minh Duc.
“Taking time, spaces and related stories based on history lines, ‘Happiness lies beyond the clouds’ according to its own title wants to narrate a story which relies upon connection of similarities of the two cities Sasebo City and Ho Chi Minh City, in a realistic yet dreamy way with the color pink…. [It] wants to sing a song of time and people, reminding history through memories, would like to not to repeat but to avoid repetition of past’s missteps, because it knows happiness is like a beautiful word in a song, romantic yet fragile as a piece of pink cloud in the blue sky.” – Tran Minh Duc
Film Screening “Vandal”
Fri 10 Apr 2015, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the film screening “Vandal” (France, 2013, 84 mins) directed by Hélier Cisterne.
“A bold and charismatic film which expresses the concern for adolescent” – Le Figaroscope
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Berlin Club Night at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015
Fri 10 Apr 2015, 4 – 10.30 pm
Hanoi Creative City,
Nr.1 Luong Yen, Str., Hanoi
In recent years, Berlin Club Nights have happened in India, Poland, Egypt and Brazil, a successful co-production between the Berlin club scene, the Goethe Institutes, visitberlin and German embassies. This year Berlin Club Night, at the invitation of the Goethe Institut, is the highlight of the festival Hanoi Sound Stuff 2015!
The festival kicks off on April 10 with a live street art performance by the graffiti artist Julian Bird on the buildings of Hanoi Creative City. This is followed by “Meet the Artists” at the Goethe Institute, where Lutz Leichsenring, founder of the Berlin Club Commission, and the two DJ’s CHI THANH & CHOPSTICK (SUOL/BERLIN) will share insights into the electronic scene in Berlin, and their networking and marketing. Excerpts from the film “SubBerlin” about the history of the legendary techno club Tresor will be screened. Then it’s on to Hanoi Creative City with the live concert by DJs CHI THANH & CHOPSTICK (SUOL/BERLIN), both well-known names in the Berlin club scene. The Club Night will be documented by Thorsten Konrad Founder, creative director & director of the digital production company “Nautik”.
On 11 April at the Goethe Institut the artists from Berlin will present a workshop on “The Art of Remixing”, for anyone interested in the production of electronic music.
Festival Day 2: 10 April, 4 pm to 10.30 pm
4 pm: Start Live Street Art Performance
7 pm: Film Screening “SubBerlin – The Story of Berlin’s Tresor Club”
8 pm: Panel Discussion
9 pm: Live DJ-Sets Chi Thanh & Chopstick (Soul/Berlin)
Free entrance
Special Guests from Berlin:
Chi Thanh is a German-Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, etc.), music producer and DJ from Berlin. His name translates as energy (Chi) and pure sound (Thanh). With this clear energetic mix in his music, he is also very successful, producing for such famous artists as Madonna, P. Diddy and Usher, and has released remixes of bands like Booka Shade and the top number 1 hit “Brutal Hearts”.
Under the names Chopstick & Johnjon, the German-Vietnamese artist Chi-Tien Nguyen and John B. Muder have successfully produced Techno, House, Electro and Hip Hop music for 10 years. They have now found their artistic home in the scene with the Soul Label and have created remixes for major artists such as LL Cool J, Xzibit, Deep Dish, Miss Kittin, Sister Sledge and many others. Chi-Tien Nguyen was born into a Vietnamese family of artists, who settled in southern Germany. He now lives and works in Berlin.
Photo Exhibition at Art Vietnam Gallery “Vietnam – 25 Years Documenting a Changing Country”
Opening: Fri 10 Apr 2015, 6 pm
Exhibition: 10 Apr – 08 May 2015
Art Vietnam Gallery
24 Ly Quoc Su (2nd Floor), Hanoi
Art Vietnam Gallery is honored to present, in celebration of the 20 year anniversary of diplomatic relationship between America and Vietnam, and the 40 year anniversary of the end of the American Vietnam war, the photographs of Catherine Karnow’s 25 year journey into the heart of Vietnam.
Renowned for her work for National Geographic covering the globe over the last three decades, Catherine presents an intimate view from the lens of the consummate insider.
Certainly her father, Stanley Karnow, the renowned journalist and author of the seminal book and Emmy award-winning documentary on the country, “Vietnam: A History”, has informed some of her passion, but clearly she has found her very own personal relationship to this land with its troubled history and promising future.
Catherine Karnow’s attachment to Vietnam, her 25 year history of photographing the changing society and landscape is a visual diary of how she entered this land of enigma and discovered its twists and turns at every intersection of life, becoming immersed in the land and its people.
Vietnam has a way of entering your pores, slowly, silently it becomes a part of your breath, the way you move in the world without you ever realizing it until one day you have absorbed its very essence in your being.
Vietnam has entered the soul of the photographer and at each juncture as she forms relationships – often lasting friendships – with her subjects we see not only the transformation of the country but also the photographer herself. Her photographs show her deep love for the country and its people. Behind the photographs are extraordinary stories of friendships and connections that seem destined, that perhaps define “gap duyen”: it is meant to be.
The exhibition is sectioned into periods of time from the somber years of the early 90’s, the General Giap era, the “doi moi” years, Agent Orange/Amerasians, and finally, the New Vietnam.
Each era holds its own special place, reflecting the moment captured by the lens of a sensitive camera attuned to the idiosyncratic atmosphere.
The early works are pensive and full of questioning. The Giap years from her initial visit with the General in 1990 to her historic return, as the solitary foreign journalist invited to his homeland for his funeral in 2013, are confirmation that not only is she accepted in this land, she belongs.
The Agent Orange/Amerasian works depict the sad legacy of war, tragedy for both sides, resolution unrequited. Disquieting images of disfigured infants, the loneliness of the abandoned Amerasians are not comfortable, but important. To face the tragedy of the past is to begin the healing. Amidst the sorrow one can perceive a faint hope, the promise of reconciliation and healing.
Doi Moi works portray a country with doors opening to international trade. Foreign alliances are formed as the country, poised on the cusp of a bright future, is hailed as the new Tiger of Southeast Asia.
Moving on to the New Vietnam series of works, the youth of Vietnam come forward, blazing with renewed energy and a passion for life that is palpable as we gaze at brazen consumption, fashion without rival, and extravagant lifestyles, all merely a dream only a scant 25 years before.
We are honored that Ms. Karnow will be present at the opening as well as many of the subjects in her photographs and other Vietnamese and American dignitaries.
A truly celebratory occasion as subjects and photographer confront their shared history reviving and sharing tender memories of long ago.
For two American women, photographer Catherine Karnow, and Suzanne Lecht, Art Director of Art Vietnam Gallery and resident of Hanoi for 21 years, this occasion is a tribute to all the people who have touched our lives and made Vietnam reside in our hearts.
Please join us in this celebration of the photographer’s reunion with the country and the friendships renewed as it has progressed through the decades and the grand occasion of the 20 year anniversary of the diplomatic relationship of America and Vietnam. United in peace and harmony we move together into a bright future.
A Night of Concert and Ballet – Changing of the Seasons
Thu 09 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to A night of concert and ballet – Changing of the Seasons with the performance of:
Conductor: Dong Quang Vinh
Singer: Thang Long (Soprano), Thu Quynh (Mezzo Soprano), Anh Vu (Tenor), Manh Dung (Baritone)
Pianist: Thu Huong
and the Dancers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet
Program
Part 1
Conductor: Đồng Quang Vinh
Perform: The symphony orchestra of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet
I. “The Marriage of Figaro” Overture, K.492 (W.A.Mozart)
II. Symphony no.40 in G minor, K.550 (W.A.Mozart)
1. Molto allegro
2. Andante in E-flat major
3. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio
4. Finale, Allegro assai
Intermission
Part 2
1. Ballet Chopiniana excerpts
Ballet “Chopiniana” also called “Les Sylphides” one act ballet, non-specific content that focuses on factors that evoke the vitality of romanticism.
Music: Frederic Chopin
Choreography: Mikhail Fokine
Staging choreography: People’s Artist Kiều Ngân
Perform: Hàn Giang – Thu Huệ
2. The Jewel Song from Faust by Gounod
Perform: Thăng Long (Soprano)
Pianist: Thu Hương
3. Recondita Armonia from Tosca by G.Puccini
Perform: Anh Vũ (Tenor)
Pianist: Thu Hương
4. Aria Dorabella (E a mo reunla dron cel lo…) from Cosi fan tutte by Mozart
Perform: Thu Quỳnh (Mezzo Soprano)
Pianist: Thu Hương
5. Avant de quitter ceslieux from Faust by Gounod
Perform: Mạnh Dũng(Baritone Bass)
Pianist: Thu Hương
6. Soa il vento from Cosi fan tutte by Mozart
Perform: Trio Thăng Long, Thu Quỳnh, Mạnh Dũng
Pianist: Thu Hương
7. Heart of Silk contemporary ballet
Music: J.S Bach
Choreography: Pontus Linberg
Perform: Ngọc Cần, Việt An, Như Quỳnh, Quỳnh Nga, Hải Ly, Phan Lương, Văn Đức, Văn Nam, Minh Hiền, Thọ Dương
As a foreigner travelling to the Old city of Hoi An, young talented choreographer Pontus Lidberg had a strong impression by many silk lanterns in the ancient street. The silk lantern could represent the symbol of an encounter. The bamboo inside resistant and strong like the swaying back of a male dancer, tenderly, supporting movements of female as silk, and these blends was made up of a golden love, shimmering…
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at ticketvn.com.
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Summer Concert at L’Espace
Thu 09 Apr 2015, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to summer concert at L’Espace with the participation of:
Conductor: Nguyen Khac Thanh
Viola: Nguyet Thu
Violin: Tran Quang Duy
and the Hanoi Chamber Orchestra
Program
W. Mozart
– Symphony Concertante for Viola, Violin and Orchestra
– Symphony No.25 in G minor
Tickets
Ticket price: 250,000 VND. All tickets available at L’Espace, Hanoi Opera House or can book online at ticketvn.com.
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Artist Talk with Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai about Video Project “Day by Day”
Wed 08 Apr 2015, 7 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Hosted by Nha San Collective, we cordially invite you to “Meet the Artist” Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai. Thanh Mai conducted several research trips throughout 2014 to Vietnamese fishing villages in Siem Reap, Pursat (Cambodia) and Long An (Vietnam). During her time here and there, she listened and recorded people who shared their intimate memories and spoke about their lives – lives that are ephemeral, uncertain and change “Day by Day”. The result of her journeys is the exhibition “Day by Day”, curated by Roger Nelson.
Day by Day was honored 2014 by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) and in 2015 she was a finalist of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Mai’s work forms a part of the long-term programme titled “Skylines with Flying People 3”. Nha San Collective will also give an introduction on this exciting project, which looks at Vietnam’s past and present histor(ies); and examines the nature and role of art in the context of contemporary Vietnam, as well as its interrelationship with other disciplines.
Language: Vietnamese, English.
Free Admission.
Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai
(born 1983 in Hanoi) is currently living in Hue. Mai’s practice has been largely centering on issues of female body, sex, and constructed social values that affect women. She has gained increasing recognition both at home and abroad. She will be attending the artist in residency program at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, until 2016.
Workshop 3/6 Rethinking Architecture with Designer Tran Quoc Trung
04 and 07 Apr 2015, 7.30 – 9 pm
Blossom Art House
6th Floor, 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
“But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai Khan asks.
“The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,” Marco answers, “but by the line of the arch that they form.”
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”
Polo answers:” Without stoes there is no arch.”
Excerpt from the book titled “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino.
Architecture is the invisible art. Unlike arts that focus on the objects, like paintings and sculptures, we can never escape architecture, but we hardly notice its existence. With this “3/6” Workshop, we will examine the omnipresence of architecture, realized in modeling a city based on Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
This workshop is an experimentation with abstract thinking, 3D forms and how they interact with each other, given a theme. Here you will have the opportunity to try your hands on model making, thinking outside the box as well as presenting your ideas.
Day 1:
– Introduction about Italo Calvino, excerpts from his book and the theme of workshop.
– Drafting ideas & initiating model making with materials provided by us or prepared by you.
Day 2:
– Introduction about Italo Calvino, excerpts from his book and the theme of workshop.
– Finalising models.
– Discussion and comments.
TIME
From 7:30 PM to 9 PM
Day 1: Saturday 04/04/2015
Day 2: Tuesday 07/04/2015
NUMBERS OF PARTICIPANTS: 10-12 (aged above 14)
Fee: For the 2 days 300,000 VND/ person
TO REGISTER:
Please send email with title “3/6 ReThinking: Architecture” stating your personal infos & contact number to email address blossom.arthouse@gmail.com before 12 AM Wednesday 01/04/2015.
ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR
Tran Quoc Trung
Graduated with a Bachelor degree in Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Now Trung is a freelance designer in Viet Nam, working in the fields of interior design, architecture, visual branding and marketing.
Trung’s focus is for the perfect combination of realistic demands between efficiency and aesthetics, as well as predictions for potential changes in the future, to finally create a space well designed for its users.
Performance of Music Theatre and Documentary Film Project “Arrival Cities: Hanoi”
04 and 05 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Hong Ha Theatre
51 Duong Thanh, Hanoi
Arrival Cities: Hanoi is a music theatre and documentary film project with the Vietnamese Swedish group The Six Tones, dealing with the dissolution of the relationship with tradition that urbanization brings. In the performance, multiple voices and perspectives create an expansive portrait of a city vibrant of memories from the Vietnamese countryside. Arrival Cities: Hanoi builds a narrative from the life story of Lưu Ngọc Nam, an actor and costume maker in traditional Tuồng theatre. His travels in the country, the homesickness and his life long love for Tuồng theatre becomes the point of departure for a piece of music theatre set at the threshold between traditional and urban culture. The piece was premiered in Sweden in November 2014.
The piece is now played for the first time in Vietnam in the Tuồng Theatre Rạp Hồng Hà, 51 Đường Thành, Hà Nội on April 4 and 5 at 20:00.
Tickets are free and can be collected from Monday 30th March at the reception of the Goethe Institute. Opening hours Mon-Fri: 9am-12pm and 1pm-5pm.
A seminar in which members of The Six Tones discuss the working process with the Swedish director Jörgen Dahlqvist will take place in the DOCLAB series at the Goethe Institute on April 6 at 18:00.
Produced by Teatr Weimar and Ars Nova with support from Kulturbryggan and the Swedish Research Council.
Co-organizers: DOCLAB, Dom Dom and the Swedish Embassy.
Video Night at Hanoi Social Club – Travel
Sun 05 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Have a relax Sunday night with Video Club. We will be showing short movies and short videos in the topic of Travel. This will also be a night for socializing with other people with same interests of watching movies or making films. At the end of the night, feel free to share your own videos.
Please come a bit early to order your drink on the first floor, before getting your favorite seat on the second floor.
Note: This event will be run mostly in Vietnamese.
Free entrance.
Cabaret Night in April 2015 at L’Espace
Sat 04 Apr 2015, 8.30 pm
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Cabaret Night will come back in April and offer a performance themed on an artist, an era or a specific subject.
Come and see your favorite played by Vietnamese and French artists.
Note the date and let yourself be seduced!
Free entrance.
International Music Festival (IMF) 2015
Fri 03 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
The International Music Festival is a series of philanthropic concerts, spanning over 70 cities, featuring local and up and coming artists. Bands participating in the IMF are eligible to win an all expenses paid world tour through Europe and Africa! All net proceeds go to CHOSA (Children of South Africa – chosa.org) and Musary (a music lending library located in Boston – themusary.org)
Come Support charity and your local Hanoi bands!
Performances by:
W A A H
Mimetals
Ngọt
18+ band
Tickets: 100.000 VND –> Entry + 1 Free Beer
Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2015
17 – 19 Apr 2015
F1 Pit Building 1 Republic Boulevard, Singapore
This spring, we’re back with over 70 galleries offering new and fresh works just for you! Joining in the galleries, we welcome our SG50 Feature Wall showcasing selected artworks from 50 artists at only $500. This Spring, we will also be launching a brand new night named ‘AAFter Glow’, so be sure to come down and unwind with us on this special Friday night!
We’re here to make art as fun, accessible and affordable as possible and whether you are a seasoned collector or a new enthusiast for the arts, we hope to bring you an educational and interactive experience for you to fall in love with art.
There are 2 Vietnamese galleries taking part in this edition: Vin Gallery from Ho Chi Minh City and ArtBlue Studio which represents Vietnamese artists but based in Singapore.
Ticket price: $12-$25. You can buy tickets here.
Read more about the previous editions of Affordable Art Fair Singapore reported by our team member, Hue Tran, from Singapore in 2014:
Subscription Concert Vol.79
03 and 04 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to Subscription Concert Vol.79 with:
Conductor: David Alan Miller
Piano Soloist: Ilya Rashkovsky
and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
Program
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings op.11
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 C-minor op.26
Interval
Edward Elgar Enigma Variations op.36
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn.
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Vietnam – Malaysia – Thailand Watercolor Art Exchange Exhibition
Opening: Wed 01 Apr 2015, 5 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 07 Apr 2015
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
You are cordially invited to the art exhibition VIETNAM – MALAYSIA – THAILAND. This is the first water color exhibition ever takes place in Vietnam for artists from those 3 countries. From Vietnam, we have artists: Phan Cẩm Thượng, Doãn Hoàng Lâm, Vương Văn Thạo, Hà Mạnh Thắng, Phạm Huy Thông, Đoàn Xuân Tặng, Vũ Phạm Trường Minh, Ngô Quang Dương, Lưu Bảo Trung, Bùi Duy Khánh, Trương Văn Ngọc. From Thailand, there are 2 artists: Direk Kingnok, Suwit Jaipom. And there is 9 other artist from Malaysia: Chow Chin Chuan, Chua Cha Hui, Chua Cheng Koon, Leong Kim Kuan, Tan Suz Chiang, Tang Moon Kian, Yong Look Lam, Long Thien Shin, Angelo.
Exhibition introduction by painter / art critic Phan Cam Thuong, translated by Nguyen Bich Thuy:
Natural colors have been used for painting since ancient time, traditional Chinese painting is a remarkable example. Vietnamese people have used natural colors that come from nature such as grass or stone: yellow comes from Hoe flower, black comes from Bamboo leaf, green comes from Cham tree and red comes from red stone. Those natural colors can be painted on paper and silk as they are naturally adhesive. However, when water color – a ready-made product was brought to Asia by Western people, Asian painters do not seek for natural colors anymore. The affect between natural colors and water color are not so much different. Chinese painters keep working with two techniques parallel: Shui tai hua is water colored-artworks and Guohua is natural colored artworks.
Since 1960s, Leningrad – a Russian water color product used to be popular to many Vietnamese painters, it has been a common, practical material for many painters for a long time. The idea of an exhibition of water colored artworks originated by Malaysian painters.
The first exhibition of water colored artworks by Malaysian, Vietnamese and Thai painters will be held at Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum.
Participants will travel and work outdoor together in the nature. The next time, there will be a workshop in Malaysia. Painters work together and artworks are exhibited after the workshop. The idea is to give prominence to using water color in Asia more often and water color is considered to use as a real material instead of using it for making sketches. In fact, water colored painting has been regarded equally as other kinds of painting in over the world. It has the same value as an oil painting or an acrylic paintings etc.
During the war of resistance, water color was a popular and effective material for many Vietnamese painters to make sketches at the battlefield. These sketches are vivid described. When painters went home they did not have time to repaint or to make these sketches into bigger paintings as they wanted. Nevertheless, many sketches were painted carefully as a completed painting not simply a sketch.
After the war time, during 1970s and 1980s Vietnamese painters travelled and stayed at the field or locations to paint, water color became less used. Since then, water colored sketch was reduced, there are painters continue using it for making design or water color is used among other materials in multi-media painting (with pencil, charcoal, gouache, ink, natural color etc.,).
If we look at paintings by Malaysian and Thai painters, we can see that realism is still highly regarded and water color is still given as a prominence material. A panorama landscape or a moment of high speed life can be visualized by individual feeling of creators, it does not matter if it is a painting or it is photography. It is a creation of realism. On the other hand, Vietnamese painters compromise their inspirations, follow their spontaneous imagination more than describe the reality. We can see these styles are different in spirit as well as techniques of using water color. Technique or personal style, however, both are respected because it is an individual exploration, it is the freedom of painters. The importance of this meeting point between painters from different countries is a chance to exchange experiences, views of life, creative process not simply an exhibition of water colored artworks or the comparison of technique between Cultures in South East Asian region.
Trio Vivo from Denmark Plays Music of the Romanticism
Sat 04 Apr 2015, 8 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
The expression ‘Vivo’ is used to describe music that is vivid, intense and brilliant. That is very fitting for these three, young and passionate musicians from Denmark, who have made their mark on the Danish music scene as both soloists and chamber musicians. All three of them can present a long list of prestigious awards. The Goethe-Institut Hanoi is pleased to host “Trio Vivo” and guests on their tour through Vietnam.
“Trio Vivo”, founded by three good friends in 2012, has performed at a number of significant concert series and festivals, including the Copenhagen Summer Music Festival. This evening, Trio Vivo will perform two major works by Brahms and Schumann, two of the most important composers of German Romanticism, as well as a piece by late-Romantic Danish composer Rued Langgaard and a tango by Astor Piazzolla. “Trio Vivo” will be accompanied by the violinist Nguyễn Mỹ Hương and the Danish violist Nicolaj Moeller Nielsen, who currently lives in Hanoi. Characteristic of “Trio Vivo” is the combination of great technical mastery and deep dedication.
Due to limited places we request that young visitors are invited at the age of 12 years up only.
Free tickets are available from Monday, 12:00, March 30th at the Goethe-Institut.
Program
1. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Trio No.1, Op.8
2. Rued Immanuel Langgard (1893 –1952) : ‘Fjeldblomster’ (Mountain Flowers) Andante molto
3. Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992): Primavera Porteña
4. Robert Schumann (1810-1858): Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Benedikte Damgaard had her debut from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in January 2014. She won the Jacob Gade Violin Competition in 2004, and in June 2013 the Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition. Johan Krarup has been a member of the National Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002. Emil Gryesten Jensen has also been educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He won both the 1st prize and the audience prize in Nordic Pianist Competition at Nyborg Castle in 2010.
My Huong Nguyen is one of Hanoi’s most prominent musicians. She was educated in Vietnam as well as in Graz, Austria and is a member of the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra, Vietnam Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi Ensemble and Trinity Piano Trio. She also teaches at the Vietnam Academy of Music.
Violist Nicolaj Møller Nielsen has over the last 10 years worked in nearly all Danish orchestras, completed two artists residencies at the Banff Centre in Canada and is currently working on his first solo album of electro acoustic viola music.
Exhibition “Day by Day” by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai
Opening: Sat 28 Mar 2015, 3 pm
Exhibition: 28 Mar – 09 May 2015
Sao La
1 Le Thi Hong Gam St., District 1, HCMC
You are invited to “DAY BY DAY”, a solo exhibition of Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai.
Thanh Mai is an internationally award-winning artist, based in Hue. The exhibition consists of four interrelated serial artworks in various media, which draw on one year of extensive research by the artist in several small fishing communities in Siem Reap and Pursat, Cambodia as well as in Long An, Vietnam.
Day by Day, the title Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai has chosen for this travelling solo exhibition, is a phrase the artist borrowed from villagers living in a small fishing community in Siem Reap province, in northern Cambodia. She heard it also in another fishing village, in Pursat, and in a village across the border in Long An, Vietnam. In her artist’s statement, Nguyen suggests that the villagers’ frequent use of this phrase “drew the picture of their future.”
“DAY BY DAY” presents a set of circumstances that are highly specific to the case of Vietnamese in Cambodia, yet also of broader relevance, intersecting with universal questions of citizenship and migration. (Roger Nelson)
* For parking: parking lot, 3 Le Thi Hong Gam St. (next to The HCMC Fine Arts Museum)
“DAY BY DAY” is part of a bigger community art project titled “MARCH: ART WALK” from March 29 to May 9, 2015.
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