WDDM Rock Show

Sat 13 Apr 2013, 8.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

“Three bands, including two relatively new bands take the stage for a heavy rock show on Saturday night, W.A.A.H, Mimetels and Đông Đô.

W.A.A.H describe their sound as predominantly, but not restricted to alternative/modern metal. Forming in 2012, they draw influences from bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, As I Lay Dying, System of A Down, X Japan, Muse, Dream Theatre and more.

Đông Đô, the rock veterans of the night have been crunching out the sounds of heavy metal, symphonic metal, nu metal and melodic metal for years.

Mimetels, another new band formed in the Fall last year, perform alternative and indie rock. Formed by Hùng M.O.X who made his name as guitarist of Cuộc Sốngs, this band represent a growing interest in the fresher, warmer indie sounds in Hanoi.

Tickets: 80k @ door includes a free beer.

Exhibition “Natural”

Opening: Sat 13 Apr, 8 pm
Exhibtition: 13 Apr – 04 May 2013
Commune
20A Đường Ven Hồ (Thụy Khuê), Hà Nội

Come to the first solo exhibition of Halee (Hà Lê) titled “Natural”.

Halee is a designer and artist. Her hobbies are arts, painting and making artworks. Visit her facebook page.

Program “Cinema Coffee”

Sat 13 Apr 2013, 3 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

You are invited to the program “Cinema Coffee” with chain of cinema activities and talk with the speakers. To start the first series “Cinema Coffee” in Hanoi, please attend the program with following content:

1. Introduction of the outstanding works from the course “We make film” 2012.
2. Launch of Contest “10 minutes to tell a story”

Speaker: Director Phan Dang Di. Curator: Duong Thu

After launching the contest, the following films will be screened:

Film
What is out there? – director Nguyen Diep Thuy Anh
Running on crutches – director Nguyen Ha Phuong

Documentary film
We are married – author Nguyen Thi Bup và Nguyen Ha Phuong
Listen by eyes – author Do Thu Hien

Language: Vietnamese

Screening of “How to Survive a Plague”

Fri 12 Apr 2013, 6.30 pm
ClickSpace
5th Floor, 28 To Ngoc Van Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

Last Friday’s screening of Argo was a huge success. This week, please join us for How to Survive a Plague, a documentary about two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Time: Patio open from 6:30PM, show starts at 7:30PM

Languages: Film in English without English or Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets: VND 50,000 at the door includes 1 beer or soft drink.

Space is limited to 40 people. Please RSVP at info@clickspace.vn.

Rockers Reggae Film Screening

Wed 10 Apr 2013, 7.30 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Reggae will be all the rage at a free screening of cult reggae adventure romp Rockers with reggae selections from three of Vietnam’s finest selectors before and after the film.
Rockers is a 1978 Jamaican film by Theodoros Bafaloukos, starring Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace and many other top celebrity Reggae artists of the day, including Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Jacob Miller, Jack Ruby, Big Youth, and Dillinger.

Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make some extra money selling and distributing records but runs up against some gangsters when his motorbike is stolen. With the help of his friends, Horsemouth sets out to reclaim his bike while robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.

With a deep appreciation of Jamaican music and culture, Rockers tells a simple ‘Robin Hood’ tale of Rastafarian redemption and triumph over the forces of injustice and iniquity.

Free entry.

Hanoi Soundwalk 2013

Walk: Sat 13 Apr 2013, 4 pm
Saint Joseph Cathedral (Nhà Thờ Lớn), Hanoi
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Workshop: Tue 09 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ích

The Hanoi Soundwalk is a chance to ‘see’ the history of the city through sound. Experience the hidden sounds of the environment around you by going on a soundwalk. Simply bring along your smartphone (Android or Apple iOS), put on your headphones, and join us on the 13th April at 4pm for an audio tour unlike any other.

What can you expect? You might hear people of times past talking of the place which you’re standing in, you might hear a rickshaw creaking past or a train passing. Perhaps a broadcast from the radio evoking a bygone age, or a performance of long-forgotten music. But you’re in the driving seat, you can choose which parts of the city to linger on, discover more or move on to the next place, because the sound will change according to where you’re standing.

To find out more and get an idea what the Hanoi Soundwalk will be like, come along to Manzi on the 9th April for our workshop. We’ll instruct you how to set up your smartphone and get ready for the soundwalk.

This year the Locative Audio project is taking place in 11 cities around the world, with 11 different soundwalks happening at the same time. The concept of the project in 2013 is ‘Chronologies’, and investigates the living history of the city around us. The idea is to find and use recordings that explain and evoke the unseen aspects of places within Hanoi.

The Hanoi Soundwalk 2013 is happening at the same time as the Hanoi Soundstuff Festival 2013, founded and coordinated by Trí Minh. Hanoi Soundstuff this year will have a full roster of international performing artists visiting Hanoi, and draws in crowds from all over South East Asia.

Hanoi Soundwalk is looking for volunteers with a smartphone and headphones to help blind children to join the experience. We would like to invite volunteers who have a smartphone (running Android or Apple iOS) and a high-quality pair of headphones (these are essential requirements to participate in the event).  It would be an advantage if you spoke Vietnamese. If you think you fulfil the requirements and you’d like to help, just drop us an email at hanoisoundwalk@gmail.com stating your name, contact details and make of smartphone, and that you’ll be free on the 13th April.

Future Shorts at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival

Sat 13 Apr 2013, 6 – 10.30 pm
Chu Van An High School
No 10 Thuy Khue, Hanoi

Future Shorts – the world’s largest and boldest pop-up film festival that plays in over 285 cities, 90 countries and 6 continents – is teaming up with Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival once more to bring you the most exciting music and short films from around the globe.

Films include: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, “Fishing Without Nets” tells the stories of Somalian pirates. Lucy Luscombe’s U.K. film, “Candy Girl”, explores the transition we make from idealistic childhood through the somewhat more murky world of the adolescent. “The S from Hell” is a short documentary-cum-horror film about the scariest corporate symbol in history.

That’s not everything yet… We’ll be bringing you some of the most awesomely kick-ass British short animations too. Now, go get your tickets, you party kids :)

TICKETS: 50.000 VND for entry into the festival. Free then to enter the Future Shorts screening area.
Discount 25% for Student with valid student ID card

Ticket Distributor:
-Goethe Institut/56, 58 Nguyễn Thái Học
-British Council/20 Thụy Khuê
-Japan Foundation/27 Quang Trung
-The Boombox Lounge/01 Nguyễn Khắc Cần
-Umbrella Bar/61 Mã Mây
-Swang Gang Shop/32 Ngõ 290 Kim Mã
-Ktoon Café/112A2 Ngõ 140 Giảng Võ
-Clownz Shop/19 Hồ Đắc Di
-AnCafe/173 Xuân Thủy

Screening of “How to Survive a Plague”

Fri 12 Apr 2013, 6.30 pm
ClickSpace
5th Floor, 28 To Ngoc Van Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

Last Friday’s screening of Argo was a huge success. This week, please join us for How to Survive a Plague, a documentary about two coalitions — ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) — whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Time: Patio open from 6:30PM, show starts at 7:30PM

Languages: Film in English without English or Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets: VND 50,000 at the door includes 1 beer or soft drink.

Space is limited to 40 people. Please RSVP at info@clickspace.vn.

Screening of “Kumare”

Wed 17 Apr 2013, 7 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “Kumare”.

“A provocative social experiment-turned-documentary, Kumare follows American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi as he transforms himself into a wise Indian guru, hoping to prove the absurdity of blind faith. Instead, he finds himself forging profound connections with people from all walks of life — and wondering if and when to reveal his true self. Will his followers accept his final teaching? Can this illusion reveal a greater spiritual truth? Winner of South by Southwest’s Audience Award, Kumare is an insightful look at faith and belief.”

Free entry.

Experimental Inception

Sun 14 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Thuyen Quang Lake Theatre
37 Tran Binh Trong Str, Hanoi

The wind from Sweden blows the scene of Hanoi this Sunday. Experimental Inception is the special concert for the grand opening of the new born center DomDom.

Seen as THE Hub for experimental art&music, DomDom will astound you with a multitude of performances bluring contrasts and interactions between personalities and characters in various talents. Swedish artists, Stephan Östersjö and Henrik Frisk will unite with experimental musicians from the local scene that will arouse sensations. In this context, Phu Luc- the performance-art group, musicians Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Ngo Tra My, Nguyen Duc Minh, sound artist Nguyen Manh Hung, film maker Nguyễn Trinh Thi, dancer Nguyen Anh Duc and emerging musician, Luong Hue Trinh, will play in a concert uniting talents.

An original concept and direction by Kim Ngoc.

Tickets

Free ticket available at Doclab – 56 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi and Manzi – 14 Phan Huy Ích, Hanoi
Hotline: 0912379171

Questacon Exhibition “Fascinating Science on the Move”

Hanoi: Sat 13 Apr 2013, 8.30 am – 3 pm
Ta Quang Buu Library
Hanoi University of Technology
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Da Nang: 16 – 18 Apr 2013
Da Nang University
41 Le Duan, Da Nang City
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HCMC: Fri 26 Apr 2013, 8.30 am – 4.15 pm
Sat 27 Apr 2013, 8.30 am – 3 pm
RMIT University
702 Nguyen Van Linh, D7, HCMC

Come to Questacon’s travelling exhibition, Fascinating Science on the Move. Fascinating Science on the Move is a portable, hands-on exhibition. It’s an intriguing exploration of a broad range of scientific themes including the principles of music and sound, human biology, light, force and motion, perception and puzzles. Science ‘shows’ , science teacher capacity building workshops, and with staff of key Government ministries, will add significant value to the exhibition.

Screening Documentaries of TPD

Sat 13 Apr 2013, 7 pm
TPD
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi

At 7 pm on Saturday 13 Apr, Movie Marathon program – Season 3 - A film making project will officially launch thescreening of 4 short documentary films of the first group, including: Bat Trang ceramics, Father and children, Going to school, Passion.

Movie Marathon is a program to introduce short documentary films of students of project to the audience. In addition, through this program, students will have the opportunity to practice teamwork skills, presentation skills video screening, promotional skill, organization skill…

At the screening, we also call for contribution to the youth cinema development fund. Fund launched for the purpose of financing the new film program of project.

Program:

- 6.30 pm: Welcome party

- 7.30 pm: movies screening (Vietnamese language)

- 8.30 pm: Discussion with filmmakers

Jamie Maxtone-Graham Talks ‘The Desiring Garden’

Fri 12 Apr 2013, 7 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi proudly present a very special talk with the photographer Jamie Maxtone-Graham, on the occasion of his solo exhibition ‘The Desiring Garden’, currently on show at manzi art space till the end of April 2013.

Jamie Maxtone-Graham has a professional background of more than 20 years in commercial and narrative cinematography in New York and Los Angeles. He became a Fulbright Fellow in 2007 when he moved to Hanoi where he currently lives.

His still photography has exhibited in London, Netherlands, Bangkok, France and Hanoi and has been published online at burn Magazine, Trans Asia Photography Review, Photography And Culture, tiny vices, Cultural Hall and other print and online publications.

The talk will be conducted in English with Vietnamese translation. Due to limited capacity, please register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 3.00 p.m, Thursday 11 April.

Hue – Installation Exhibition “Collections”

Opening: Sat 13 Apr, 5 pm
Exhibition: 13 Apr – 01 May 2013
New Space Arts Foundation
2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City
Tel: +84 543 600 668

You are invited to the installation art exhibition “Collections” of artist DOROTHEE BERKENHEGER. According to the artist: “The idea for an exhibition in Vietnam developed from my interest in _„special objects“ of different foreign cultures and the import of cultural characteristics. The collections of everyday objects adopted in my work are transformed into objects without use.

This transformation is defined by a time-intensive working process with calm and steady steps. Here, “Time” is a crucial component in my work. Not only the “collections”, but also all other site-specific works I create (with yarn, wood and other different materials), are long term projects.

The basis for the planned show in Hue is a collection of three works, which deal with the theme “collection” in a different manner. For my presentation, I will develop new, digitalized versions of three Installations (Installations with slide-projectors, Frauentorgarben 71, PP). In combination with these projections, I plan to create a new installation, with collections of objects I will find in Hue (the lime pots- digitalized). The digital projections will engage with the newfound objects and will comprise a spacefilling installation.

The theme “collection“ has been of large fascination and importance in my work for a long time. Not only is my interest in the characteristic cultural background of the objects, but also in possessing every single piece I can find from one product and then working with it: to study the variety, the endless variation of similarity, the very small differences.”

Update: Music – Poem Night “Strange Wharf”

Sat 13 April 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

“Strange wharf” - the program name is also the name of a poem written by the deceased father of pianist Dang Thai Son - poet Dang Dinh Hung ( poem book published by HCMC Van Nghe Publishing house – 1991 printed and published).

“Strange wharf is a long poem  the author wrote on his deathbed at the age of 60 … Perhaps puzzled feeling when we first access to poetry of Dang Dinh Hung derives from there, more than that, the multi-dimensional way of saying, halfway, conflict… which is his usual way of talking. His poetry is the up and down wave of wisdom. Each image, each statement is sparkling. Some time the words bear each other away as if led by a shadowy force, creating an emotion rather than an idea. And the stream of consciousness occasionally arises a pain that anyone must sympathize … ”

«Strange wharf’s prosody is not yet familiar to readers, but any true prosody always bear a sincere heart which is not strange to those who really listen. Please listen to “a sudden beating” on the chest of the poetry page ». (HCMC Van Nghe Publishing House )

Thus, in “Strange wharf”, artists would also like to try new things, explore a different way to express the poetry combined with music. Musician Phan Nam will write for the instrument: drum, guitar, Vietnamese two-chord fiddle, piano, these short music tracks along with unique sound and fusion of the well-known tap dancer Nguyen Tat Long as a kind of dialogue with ”Strange wharf”. With 2 voices speaking: baritone, ténor by Nha Uyen, Hoa Phuong Chi,  we hope Strange wharf is going to have a new approach to the public.

Ticket

Price: 120 000 VND
Tickets for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are now available at L’Espace.

Music Night “Absolute Pitch” with Pitch Tuner Band

Thu 11 Apr 2013, 8.30 pm
The Rooftop Bar & Restaurant
19th Floor Pacific Place, 83B Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hanoi

Featuring Pitch Tuner band from Germany – “We bring the Guitars back into the Disco”.

Come to this year festival’s special exclusive reception in program of Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013. Come to chat up to HSS 2013 artists, supporters and enjoy “smart and naïve at the same time” Pitch Tuner. This German pioneer is always searching for the perfect way to get together with the sequencers. Explore the infinite soundscape of the electronic sound universe and combine it with the liveliness of guitars.

For reservation: 04 3946 1901 | 0123 954 9900 | 091 370 6966

Screening of Films from Clarifying the Record

Tue 09 Apr 2013, 6.30 – 9 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of films from Clarifying the Record, curated by Jennifer Burris and Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen
Featuring films by Anri Sala, Lin+Lam, Jenny Perlin, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne

A son discovers a silent image of his youthful mother. Staging a maritime funeral of enemy soldiers, another government videotapes a fictitious parody of respect. Tracing propaganda films to the Library of Congress, two artists disrupt the narrative conventions of engagement.

Through these interrogations of displaced and lost archives and fictional histories, Clarifying the Record questions the tenuous links between documentation, social engineering, and truth construction.

By locating aporia in the making of a document and the architecture that both beholds and encases it, the works presented explore the charged relationship between the material’s plasticity and the complexities of power between generations of people.

Clarifying the Record is a Generation Loss program. Generation Loss is a critical platform investigating histories and new trajectories of the moving image. Clarifying the Record is brought to you in cooperation with Hanoi DOCLAB.

For more info, please visit here.

The screening is non-profit and aims for research and studies only.

Free Entrance!

Film Screenings: The City Limits: “Helsinki, Forever” + “Goodnight Sofia”

Wed 10 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Thu 11 Apr 2013, 8.30 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội

The Onion Cellar presents Chapter II of The City Limits – a self-curated documentary series focusing on the theme of ‘cities’ (starting last summer with two screenings of Copenhagen Dreams). The films are poignant love letters to cities across the world and the urban generation that lives and dies within them. This time, we travel to Helsinki and Sofia, and we travel to the past.

The screenings are organized with support from Hanoi DocLab.

HELSINKI, FOREVER (April 11 – 8.30 PM)

Dir – Peter von Bagh

Languages: Finnish, subtitles in Vietnamese and English

In the city symphony Helsinki, Forever’s opening sequence, unfazed Finns stroll along an icebreaker entering the harbour, in a kind of glacial encierro. But as impressive as the advancing ship and creaking ice are, many in the crowd cannot help but glance at the camera—and its presence is obvious in the attitudes, the coolness, the bravado. That sets the tone for a movie that is not only an ode to a city, but a love story between that city and the camera. A city dreaming its modernity in images, meeting its people in images, living history in images.

Peter von Bagh (born 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is a film historian and director. In Helsinki, Forever, he paints a portrait of Finland’s capital with materials taken from all sources, with the graininess of black and white newsreel footage finding a place as easily as scenes from atmospheric lush-coloured feature films (and even paintings); while the juxtaposition of happenings from different eras reveals the all too inevitable passage of time. Buildings raised up and torn down, people queuing for liquor, fighting, falling in love, departing.

But it has always been the same city witnessing it all, the same streets, same squares, same quarters. The history of Helsinki (and incidentally, Finland, Finnish cinema, and Finnish pop music) is recounted by three voices, two male (one of them von Bagh’s) and one female—each one reciting, with humour and humanity, what seems to be a slightly different style of poetic and essayistic discourse.

At separate stages we are introduced to the best-ever Finnish camera movement and the best Finnish musical, are invited to browse diverse neighbourhoods and eras, and are finally forced to admit that a surprising amount of very striking film footage has emerged from this country and city, put together by Peter von Bagh in a mesmerizing journey in search of lost time and landscapes and the ghosts of the past.

GOODNIGHT SOFIA (April 10 – 8PM)

Dir – Leonardo Moro

Languages: Italian, subtitles in Vietnamese and English

(Director’s notes)

“Goodnight Sofia is the story of a voice lost forever. A voice full of life and projects. My father’s voice.

The last memory I have of him, or at least the sharpest, is linked to Sofia and to his voice. It’s a small memory, but it’s the only one I have. A phone call, which lasted five or six minutes; I was passing through Sofia after a trip to Istanbul, he was home. Everything was normal, as usual.
My father took his own life two months later.

For a long time I asked myself how could I save him. Why I did not understand? For a long time I wasn’t able to look at pictures of him or to pronounce his name. I felt betrayed and abandoned.

I went back to Sofia to look for his voice, in those streets that he had never seen. Far from home, far from everything. I started from the end to find him.

In the film, the present is represented by a lonely girl in a ghost town. The past is the recall of an imaginary childhood, almost magic, through my childhood, cinema’s childhood, Sofia’s childhood, and the childhood of other families far and lost.

Goodnight Sofia is not a film on my father. Goodnight Sofia is a film for my father.”

Free entry.

Meet the Artists

Thu 11 Apr 2013, 7 pm – 8.30 pm
Goethe Courtyard
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội

“Meet the Artists”, co-organized by Hanoi Grapevine and Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival, is an event in the Grapevine Arts Forum series funded by CDEF.

This will be an opportunity for everyone to meet and chat with the experimental and electronic artists playing in the upcoming Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013 in a lovely, cozy and chilled-out atmosphere.  Beside the artists’ sharing about their passions for the art, there will be some sample acts from Leafcutter John (UK), Pitch Tuner (Germany), Richard Eigner (Austria) and Daito Manabe (Japan).

People taking part in the event will also have a chance to win a pair of free tickets to both nights of the Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival.

Information about the artists can be found in our previous post or on Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival website.

We have only 1.5 hours for the event so we will start at 7 sharp!

Language: English & Vietnamese translation

Free entry.

Exhibition “TY – 2013″

Opening: Sat 06 Apr, 10 am
Exhibition: 06 – 27 Apr 2013
Tu Do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau Str, Dist 1, HCMC

You are invited to the exhibition “Ty – 2013” of artist Ty (real name Mai Hoang Minh. This exhibition showcases Ty’s 20 choice artworks, created during the period 2006 to 2012. The subject of most Ty’s paintings are daily activities of farmers and fishermen. His images of people and animals are completely stylized and simplified, serving merely as vehicles to express the artist’s innermost feelings.

Talk with Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Screening of “1967: A People Kind of Place”

Mon 08 Apr 2013, 6.30 – 9 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Hanoi Doclab and Manzi proudly present a special talk with Canadian-French of Vietnamese origin, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen about her artworks and the screening of her film 1967: A People Kind of Place (2012).

Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen

Born and raised in Montreal (CA), French-Canadian of Vietnamese origin, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen is a research-based artist currently based in Brooklyn (NY) and Stockholm (SE). Nguyen recently completed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (Studio 2010-2011). She obtained her MFA and a post-graduate diploma in Critical Studies at the Malmö Art Academy in Malmö, Sweden (2003-2005), and had previously completed her BFA degree with distinction at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada (1999-2003). Amongst selected exhibitions, her work were shown internationally such as the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (2011); the Mason Gross Galleries in New Jersey (2011); the Galerie Im Regierungsviertel in Berlin (2010); Gasworks in London (2010), Pictura Gallery/Skånska Konstmuseum in Lund (2009), Cranbrook Museum in Cranbrook (2008), Rooseum Museum of Contemporary Art in Malmö (2005), and the Living Art Museum in Reykjavik (2004).

In 1967, the Canadian Centennial Committee named St. Paul the “The Centennial Star” on account of the quantity, quality, and originality of the small town’s year-long celebratory activity; namely, the decision to build the world’s first “UFO Landing Pad.” This oval-shaped platform constructed in cement was an idea translated into architectural form, a metaphorical welcoming of all people–including “aliens”–to the nation. In this way, the UFO landing pad functions as a symbol for Canada’s increasing emphasis on hospitality, tolerance, diversity, and unity at that point in history. This shift in both discourse and policy is also evidenced by the concurrent implementation of a point-based immigration system focused on a set of objective criteria rather than the applicant’s country of origin. A complex and paradoxical structural representation of both nationalist and anti-nationalist discourse, St. Paul’s landing pad opens up a historical investigation of Canada as the “instigator” of multiculturalism.

Free Entrance.

Project “Carp Dragon”

Project “Carp Dragon”: 02 – 14 Apr 2013
Various places in HCMC

Project Carp Dragon is a two-week-length and interdisciplinary art project in HCMC. The conceptual core of this project is to create a platform for invited artists /curator/organizer from Southeast Asia to work with local artists in HCMC.

For the project. ZeroStation will participate in organizing an Art-Lab, which is named COMMON LAB. The COMMON LAB will take place in 5 days, from 7-12 April (10am-5PM) at ZeroStation.

The participants of this Lab are invited artists from abroad, especially from Southeast Asia and local artists who are Tengal (Philippines, Manila), Ricky BABAY Janitra (Indonesia, Jakarta), Andreas Siagian (Indonesia, Yogyakarta), Mannet Villariba (Philippines, Manila), Luca Carruba (South Europe), Gina Carolina Castilla ( Columbia), Nam Viet Hoang, Linh Phan Vu, Tung Crazy Monkey and Ginag Writher Nguyen from HCMC, and more.

Please come to this link and click on the images of artists to read their profile.

The LAB will have Open door session every day from 3pm-5pm, which is welcome for audience to visit, participate the the lab or discuss with artists.

On 13 April, 2013, a closed panel discussion among local and foreign curators, artists will be organized with the subject on networking of Southeast Asian independent art space and art activities.

(This is not public event, so anyone who would like to join please email to zerostationvietnam@gmail.com)

The form of this project, interdisciplinary, multimedia, and multivenues, is very unique, and possibly speaking this could be the first time this kind of independent art project is taken place in HCMC. So please join, if not all, some events of the project. Thank you very much and see you very soon in project’s events.

This project will taken place in several venues of city, from private independent art spaces to public locations such as coffe shop or theater, so please go to the program, check time and venues and join (for free for all project’s events)

Extension of “Traditional Japanese Dolls” exhibition

Exhibition “Traditional Japanese dolls” will be extended until 01 May 2013
Vietnamese Women’s Museum

To meet the demand of many young people and families, the Vietnam Museum of Woman will extend the exhibition of traditional Japanese dolls and activities such as wearing Kimono, Yukata, the art of paper folding, Japanese cuisine until the end of 01 May 2013.

For further information please contact: (04) 38259936 / (04) 39361869

Concert “Traces on Experimental Western Art and Music”

Sun 07 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Cheo Theatre
15 Nguyen Dinh Chieu Str, Hanoi

We are very glad to invite you to the private and exclusive experimental concert organised by Domdom and its friends from Sweden. Entitled “Traces on Experimental Western Art&Music”, we will bring you the experience of experimental music as one of our privileged members.

Performed by Vietnamese and international artists, the concert will bring us back to the past, just after the World War II when experimental music made its inception.

Free entrance!

Music Night Rhythm Division

Sat 06 Apr 2013, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Rhythm Division – the premier league of dance parties, stuns Hanoi this Saturday night with Tokyo based, French born Julien Sato flown in to be joined by Hanoi’s very own Dirty Fingrz and Vietnam’s vinyl guru DJ-Y.

Rough around the edges, sexy as hell in the centre just like its hosting city – this is a Hanoi dance party where both artfulness and fun will be crucial to the core of enjoying electronic music.

It’s time for the Technics decks to show their romantic retro bodies in public again, luring only the finest, freshest and seductive cuts to touch their platters. The warmer and sometimes wilder dance grooves are set to spin in all their silky vinyl glory all night long at teasing house speeds. Out with the usbs. In with the needle and grooves.

DJ-Y and Dirty Fingrz need no introduction – these front runners of the local music scene have been proving their worth by moving your bodies week on week. Julien Sato meanwhile may be remembered from his classic dance parties in Hanoi almost a decade ago or from the Jetlag party in HCMC a few years back. Sato has been a resident DJ in Tokyo for the past 8 years playing Tokyo’s tastiest clubs such as WOMB, ELEVEN, AGEHA.

Once again we separate the wheat from the chaff on this one, with racy live visuals to provoke your pulse. Simply delicious.

Free entry.

Leafcutter John at Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013

Fri 12 Apr 2013, 6 pm
Vietnam National Museum of History
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Electronic Music Master Class: for music students and artists interested in electronic music
10 and 11 Apr 2013, 2 – 4.30 pm
Goethe Institut
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Workshop with Rhapsody Philharmonic: Electronic vs Classic Music
Tue 09 Apr 2013, 9.30 – 11 am
British Council
20 Thụy Khuê
Tây Hồ, Hà Nội

The British Council and Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013 present British musician Leafcutter John.

Yorkshire come London lad, Leafcutter John has graced the planet with his remarkable contributions to electronic, folk and experimental music since his primary explorations with an old computer, originally bought to write his Art School dissertation in 1998.

Since then he has released FIVE critically acclaimed albums which combine elements of music-concrete and electro-acoustic music with voice and guitar work more commonly found in folk music. He has performed his award winning work extensively throughout festivals in Europe and Australasia and also on television and radio.

Recently John composed the music for a major new production by Handspring, the pioneering puppetry company responsible for Warhorse which ran at the National Theatre before going on to the West End and Broadway.

Currently John is in the Leaf-lab developing a Light-controlled music interface, which opens up new avenues for laptop performers. He is also a full time member of the Mercury Music Award nominated contemporary Jazz band Polar Bear, providing electronics, guitar, and vocals.

Tickets

Ticket for Leafcutter John’s performance at Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013, click here.

Class and workshop: free entrance.

Music Night with Tri Minh and Friends

Tri Minh and Friends
Sat 06 Apr 2013, 8.30 pm
Chula
6 Nhat Chieu, near Water Park, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Come to Music Night with DJ Tri Minh and friends, one of the most popular electronic music solo artists in Vietnam, and some special friends. “Through my musical journeys, i have had many chance meeting so many interesting local and international artists. Via my project name “ Dialogue” I had the opportunity to meet artist Xuan Hoach and Pho Ha My and they made me feel really special and full of passion. This is part of Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013 on the 12th, 13th.” – Tri Minh

Special attending artists: Xuan Hoach, Tra My, Quang Minh, Pho Ha My, Duc Minh, Le Minh Chieu, Ha Huy Hoang.

About Tri Minh

Since the beginning of 90s, after graduated from Hanoi Conservatory of Music as Excellent in composing degree, Tri Minh, together with some other young musicians started to play Jazz music in various locations in Hanoi. After a period of improvising with Jazz music, Tri Minh has started to explore his territory in electronic music.

Since 1999, Tri Minh has begun to compose and perform as a DJ and electronic music solo artist in many location and venue in Vietnam and abroad. With its more and more popularity, Tri Minh has established as the first truly electronic artist in Vietnam who combine international trends with local inspiration. He had perform together or as part of with many international artists/DJs, some of the world most prestige artists/Djs: Robert Henke (DE), Robin Scanner (UK), Dickson Dee (HK) …from Denmark, UK, US, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Hong Kong, China, Philippine, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore…and has performed in Barcelona-Spain, Goteborg-Sweden, Copenhagen-Denmark, Cologne, Berlin-Germany, Taipei-Taiwan. Graz, Linz, Vienna-Austria, Paris-France…

Entry: 250.000VND including soft drink & sangria.

Performance of American Bluegrass and Country Music

Sat 13 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu, Hanoi

Kindly join Banh My and the Bad Debts – Jackson Garland, Dave Viale, Heiman Wertheim and Mike Ives – for an evening of American bluegrass and country music. They’ll croon about whiskey, heartbreak and southbound trains. There will be dancing. One night only!

Tickets: 100 000 VND.

Suboi and Lady Leshurr Live Concert

Wed 10 Apr 2013, 6 – 10.30 pm
Queen Hall
5 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D4, HCMC

Suboi, Vietnam’s Queen of Hip Hop and Lady Leshurr, Britain’s top 7 female rappers making noise will perform on stage for one night right here in Saigon on 10/4!

The event will also showcase various elements of Hip Hop in Saigon, MC, Beatboxing, Hip Hop dance with special guest performances from Rebelz (Justin Murta & Prof. Icee) & Antoneus Maximus, Milan Le & dance crew and much more.

SMS “Suboi” to #6766 for a free access code with only 15.000 VND.

Exhibition “Leave Your Mark”

05 and 06 Apr 2013, 6 – 10 pm
Sun 07 Apr 2013, 2 – 5 pm
Evergreen
No 5, ngach 7, Ngo 25
Vu Ngoc Phan, Hanoi

A Weekend of Art Parties to Celebrate the Inauguration of Leave Your Mark with a show of watercolors, sumi paintings and sculptures made by Dan Potter this season in Hanoi.

“My art is a way of connecting with others.
I listen to you by painting you
and as our conversation grows
new beings and old spirits come
to join us together.”

Dan began painting at five as the child of two artists, sold his first painting at the Whitney Biennale at the age of ten, and trained at Harvard and in Europe. He has had solo shows in New York, Istanbul, Phnom Penh, and this is his fourth exhibition here in Ha Noi. His Portraits of Hanoi gathered large crowds two years ago at the Maison des Arts.

Free admission.

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Symphony Concert with Conductor Daniel Gazon

Tue 09 Apr 2013, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
Tel: 08 38299976

You are invited to the symphonic concert to celebrate the return of the conductor, who is very successful in Europe: Daniel Gazon. This time, conductor Daniel Gazon and artists of HBSO will give the audience the experience of a brilliant achievement of classical music in all over the world: Each music artwork has a unique national stamp.

Program

Part I:
Paul Dukas Fanfare pour précéder La péri
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 82 “The Bear” in C major
1. Vivace assai
2. Allegretto
3. Menuet & Trio
4. Finale: Vivace
Jean-Baptiste Lully “Ballet Suite” redacted by Felix Mottl
1. Le temple de la paix
2. Le triomphe de l’Amour
3. Le temple de la paix
4. Alceste / Thesée

Part II :
Mikhail Glinka Kamarinskaya
Antonin Dvorak Czech Suite in D major, op. 39/
1. Prelude: Allegro moderato
2. Polka: Allegretto grazioso
3. Minuetto: Allegro giusto
4. Romance: Andante con moto
5. Finale: Presto

Tickets

Ticket price: 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)
All tickets are available at:
Ticket Counter, HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC,  Tel: 08. 38237419

Daito Manabe and Ametsub at Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013

Daito Manabe: Fri 12 Apr 2013, 6 – 10.30 pm
Vietnam National Museum of History
01 Pham Ngu Lao, Hanoi
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Ametsub & Daito Manabe: Sat 13 Apr 2013, 6 – 10.30 pm
Chu Van An Stadium
10 Thuy Khue, Hanoi

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam participates in Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013 by bringing two supreme Japanese electronic musicians, Daito Manabe & Ametsub on Friday 12 April and Saturday 13 April 2013, respectively.

Equipped with numerous awards including Excellent Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival, Daito Manabe explores the possibility of usages of ordinary objects for his experimental productions, mainly for music and visuals. His unique attempts are highly acclaimed not only among art/music critics but also among general public in Japan. He will surely bring another surprise to the Vietnamese audience this time.

Ametsub is a Tokyo-based electronic musician who has produced 3 albums since 2006. His second album “The Nothings of the North” (2009) was selected as “the best disc in 2009” by Ryuichi Sakamoto, a legendary famous Japanese musician/composer. In Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013, Ametsub plays a role as a DJ to provide his best of chill-out/cozy electronic tunes for the Vietnamese audience.

We do hope, with the enthusiastic efforts of the festival director Tri Minh and the supports from co-organizers and sponsors, Hanoi Sound Stuff 2013 will be an excellent platform to experience the diversity of music for all music lovers in Hanoi.

The tickets are available in advance and at the entrance on the days of the performances. With the price of 150,000 VND (for 12 April) and 50,000 VND (for 13 April) (25% discount for students for both days), the tickets are on sales at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem), Goethe-Institut Hanoi (56-68 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh) and British Council Vietnam (20 Thuy Khue, Tay Ho).

For more information and press release, please visit www.hanoisoundstuff.vn and/or www.jpf.org.vn

Vietnam Outdoor Trade Show II – Green Circle

Sun 14 Apr 2013, 10.30 am – 6 pm
Culture University
418 De La Thanh Str, Hanoi

“Vietnam Outdoor Trade Show II – Green Circle” Fair is the exchange program for travelers, sport lovers especially adventure sports in purpose of raising fund for charity.

This program still gathers full factors specialized in traveling and sported by diverse shops about sports, trekking, traveling, handmade, beach commodities. The highlight point in this program is “Green Circle” which helps you explore, discover the cycling hobbies being popular in the young generation today. Furthermore, you will also have the opportunity to meet many people from bicycle teams. You can find useful information about bicycle, purchasing, trading products, spare parts for bikes, experience the feeling of travelling and speed in difference perspective.

In addition, we will display and auction 2 documentary photo collections which are: Meticulous weasel coffee and hunting swordfish as well as a lot of items are sent from everywhere to us. All the collected money from trading and auction activities will be spent to buy sports shoes, items for poor children living in remote mountainous area in order to encourage, cheer, inspire their love with sport. In this event we will come up with children in Nam Mau primary school, Nam Mau town, Ba Be district, Bac Can province. So just come to enjoy and feel!

Free Reading Festival

04 – 07 Apr 2013
Indochina Plaza Center
241 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay District, Hanoi

You are invited to Free Reading Festival with a friendly space and more than 15 000 books of all kinds, games to help developing IQ and EQ, the event is full of useful activities, and the books are displayed and sold at a good price with special incentive for customers who participate in the festival with some very attractive presents.

Program activities:

- Book donation for charity.
- Photograph with artistic book arrangement.
- Display and introduction of books.
- Exchange program and book recommendation.

Register here.

Free entry.

Music Performances of Blu Simon Wasem and Pairs

Blu Simon Wasem: Wed 03 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Pairs: Fri 05 Apr 2013, 9.30 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Come to 2 music events this week. On Wednesday, Brazilian electronic nomad Blu Simon Wasem will be teaming up with visual artist~1escV? for a night of acoustic and electronic sounds with live visuals. On Friday, band Pairs – the bastard offspring of New Zealand and China – unlikely bedfellows indeed will perform. If you like the sound of a guitar and drum duo that are more drone than blues, then look no further.

Tickets

Wed: Entry by donation (all donations are for the artists)
Fri: Entry VND100 000.

Art Exhibition “NHA”

Opening: Fri 12 Apr, 7 pm
Exhibition: 12 Apr – 16 May 2013
DeciBel Lounge
79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, D1, HCMC

“NHA!!” is the first collaboration exhibition of two artists LiarBen (Vietnam) and Sautel Cago (France). These street artists had spend time on many art programs and projects in Vietnam. LiarBen is known as the first generation street artist who has been in practice of paiting murals and media stickers on the context of Vietnam street life. Sautel Cago is the street artist who has been pursuing the creations of electronic image and sound, in other words, those are what everything to be well-done mixing to create the images directly to the viewers.
In this exhibition “NHA!!” two artists will expose simple picture symbols which are imposed on symbols images and media stuffs and electronic music perfomance by Sautel Cago on videos which are made by two of them.

Screening of “The Prize” and “Silent Light”

Goethe Institut Vietnam
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Screening of “The Prize”: Fri 05 Apr 2013, 7 pm
Screening of “Silent Night”: Sat 06 Apr 2013, 7 pm

With The Prize by Paula Markovitch (2011) and Silent Light by Carlos Reygados (2007) the Goethe-Institut shows two artistically remarkable films which were supported by the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. Both films have won several international awards and were screened at many festivals such as the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) in November 2012. If you missed them then, catch these special films now.

Each year, the Berlinale with its World Cinema Fundsupports selected film projects from non-European directors and with grants and by helping to find co-producers. The Prize and The Silent Light have been screened at festivals, including Berlinale, and have won international prizes.

THE PRIZE
Director: Paula Markovitch, Mexico, 2011

A seven-year-old girl and her mother move from the capital to a remote village on the coast: the military dictatorship rules in Argentina, and the father, like thousands of others, has been disappeared and probably murdered. The mother warns her daughter to tell nothing to anyone. But one day when soldiers come to the village school and hold an essay contest, the girl makes a mistake that brings herself and her mother in mortal danger.

Paula Markovitch was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1968. She has taught screenwriting at the Center of Cinematographic Capacitation (CCC) and is writer and director of the short films Perriférico and Ambulance Music. She has also served as an adviser for the Fundación Toscano-Sundance Lab, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and the National Fund for the Arts and Culture (FONCA). The Prize is her first feature film.

SILENT LIGHT
Director: Carlos Reygados, Mexico, 2007

The film takes place in the vastness of northern Mexico, with the Mennonites, a Christian denomination with archaic beliefs and customs. Families live, despite modern technology, according to the same strict rules as 500 years ago. The whole of life is pre-planned. Disobedience is not permitted. When Johan falls in love with another woman, there can be no future for this love. This drama in wonderful images, told very slowly and with a surprise ending, has been showered with international awards.
Carlos Reygados

Carlos Reygadas, who was born 1971 in Mexico City, is a Mexican filmmaker known for the four filmsJapan (2002), Battle in Heaven(2005), Silent Light (2007), andLight After Darkness (2012). Owing to Battle in Heaven, he has become somewhat notorious for the raw depiction of sex and the physically unflattering use of actors. Reygadas’ films explore spirituality and the sublime through the interior lives of men suffering existential crises. With Silent Light, Reygadas competed once more for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and has become one of the most prominent writer–directors of modern Mexican cinema.Reygadas received the award for Best Director at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his film Light After Darkness.

Languages: Original language, with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

Free entrance.

Screening of “Sightseers”

Wed 03 Apr 2013, 7 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “Sightseers”.

Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way – on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan.

Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see – the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that separates these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him the wrong way, over a very jagged edge.

Free entry.

UPDATE: Tickets to Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013

Main event – Day 1: Fri 12 Apr 2013, 6 pm – 10.30 pm
Vietnam National Museum of History

Main event – Day 2: Sat 13 Apr 2013, 6 pm – 10.30 pm
Chu Van An stadium

Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013 is less than 2 weeks away. Come to collect your tickets. Quick!

TICKET INFORMATION:

150.000 VND/day 1-New Music
50.000 VND/day 2-DJ Dance Event
discount 25% for Student with valid student ID card

Ticket Distribution:

. Goethe Institut/56, 58 Nguyễn Thái Học
. British Council/20 Thụy Khuê
. Japan Foundation/27 Quang Trung
. The Boombox Lounge/01 Nguyễn Khắc Cần
. Umbrella Bar/61 Mã Mây
. Swang Gang Shop/32 Ngõ 290 Kim Mã
. Ktoon Café/112A2 Ngõ 140 Giảng Võ
. Clownz Shop/19 Hồ Đắc Di
. AnCafe/173 Xuân Thủy
. Street Culture/ 126 Trấn Vũ – Trúc Bạch

Ticket Hotline:

. Bảo Linh: 0164 7876068
. Đức Duy: 0123 3605868
. Vũ Phan: 0167 8262161
. Anh Quân: 0988 963553
. Biển Xanh: 01674911800

Screening of “Argo”

Fri 05 Apr 2013, 7.30 pm
5th Floor, 28 To Ngoc Van Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

Come to a weekly series of thought-provoking films for Hanoi’s international community. This week, Argo (USA, 121 minutes) will be screened.  In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were taken hostage. However, six managed to escape to the residence of the Canadian Ambassador. With few options, the CIA devised a daring plan to create a phony Canadian film project and smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. Argo won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture.

Languages: Film in English with English subtitles, no Vietnamese subtitles. Film is not suitable for children.

Tickets: VND 50,000 at the door includes 1 beer or soft drink. Additional refreshments available for purchase.

Live Music with Saigon Kiss

Fri 05 Apr 2013, 8 pm
DeciBel Lounge
79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, D1, HCMC

Saigon Kiss is gonna scar up your ankles with a soulful mix of originals and seductively brooding interpretations of older blues, rock and pop. This dark-folk duo is the basement-brewed Anarchist Cookbook recipe for an All-American girl: six strings, and a little sulfur — just add heartbreak. They will make you cry and like it.

Spanish Dance Performance “ENTOMO”

Mon 08 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Youth Theater
Youth Theater
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi

The Embassy of Spain in Vietnam and the Spanish Cultural Center (Instituto Cervantes) present ENTOMO by SPANISH choreographers EA&AE – ELÍAS AGUIRRE & ÁLVARO ESTEBAN.

The title piece, ENTOMO, is a duet by SPANISH choreographers ELÍAS AGUIRRE AND ÁLVARO ESTEBAN.
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Bringing ENTOMO to HANOI on their ASIA-PACIFIC tour, EA&AE have won 1st prize at the BURGOS-NEW YORK contest (SPAIN 2010) 1st prize at the IBERO AMERICAN DANCE CONTEST. ALICIA ALONSO (2010 CUBA) for the “maturity with which it was conceived [...] by an original and daring duo that arouses many existential and philosophical implications in the audience”. ENTOMO is also a recipient of AUDIENCE PRIZE and SUPERIOR DANCE conservatory prize at MADRID contest (2009) and 3rd prize at the CAPTURADANZA dance-video contest (MADRID 2010).

More information:

Instituto Cervantes – Hanoi

Hanoi University
Room 511, Building C
Km. 9 Nguyen Trai Str, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi
Tel: (04) 35 530 730
Email: adx1han@cervantes.es
Website: cervantes.es
Facebook: facebook.com/aula.hanoi

Entry is free (doors open at 19:30)

Photo Contest “Vietnam – The Timeless Charm”

Deadline: 31/05/2013 (by postmark)

You are invited to participate in the 6th national tourism photo contest with the theme “Vietnam – The Timeless Charm”. The contest is an opportunity for professional and amateur photographers to get closer, experience and the introduce “the timeless charm” of Vietnam to the world.

Participants

All professional and non-professional photographers who are citizens of Vietnam, Vietnamese people who live overseas and foreigners who are working and living in Vietnam, no age limited.

Content

The photo contest has the theme “Vietnam – the timeless charm” which is a wide theme towards reflection of the interesting, multiform, diversified characteristics of life, unique cultural activities of ethnic people Vietnam in many regions of the country, tourism resources, natural landscapes and especially the deep feeling of people hold the camera in front of tourism – culture works, national and regional tourism area, the types of tourism in Vietnam, UNESCO heritages, historical sites, festivals, traditional villages, the folklore … in all regions of the country.

Regulations of applied works

The works are color or black and white images, one single image (a collection is not accepted); unlimited number of applied artworks; size 30x40cm – 30x45cm, square image size 30x30cm, panorama with the longest edge not exceeding 45cm. All applied photographs must be attached with image files stored on CD or DVD, file has the smallest dimension: 30cm, resolution 300dpi, so that the organizers can enlarge for exhibition and use for printing materials, propagation and promotion of Vietnam tourism.

Prizes

- 01 First Prize – Gold Medal from VAPA (Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists) – with VND 15,000,000 and 01 Singapore travel tour coupon (4 days) valued at VND 9,000,000.
- 02 Second Prizes – Silver Medal from VAPA, with VND 10,000,000 and 01 coupon tour to Thailand (5 days) valued at VND 7,000,000 for each prize.
- 03 Third Prizes – Bronze Medal from VAPA, with VND 5,000,000 and 01 coupon for Nha Trang tour (4 days) valued at VND 5,000,000 for each prize.
- 05 Consolation Prizes: VND 2,000,000/prize.

Artworks to be sent to:

* Vietnam Tourism Magazine
No. 30A Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.
Tel: (04) 39393931 – Nguyen Thi Hai Ha: 0915492225 or Nguyen Thi Le Thuy: 0917626039
Or
* The Creation, Exhibition Department – Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists
51, Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.
Tel: (04) 39435885

Soft copy can be sent via email to tcdlvn@gmail.com.

For more information, please contact: trangle.vtr@gmail.com,  tcdlvn@gmail.com.

Future Shorts in April

Sun 07 Apr 2013, 7 pm
Saigon Outcast
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Wed 10 Apr 2013, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe

Showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world, Future Shorts returns to Ho Chi Minh City this April.

The world’s largest pop-up film festival, playing in over 285 cities, 90 countries and 6 continents, will host two screenings in HCMC.

Films include the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance “Fishing Without Nets,” which tells the stories of Somalian pirates, as well as Lucy Luscombe’s U.K. film, “Candy Girl”, a story exploring the transition we make from idealistic childhood to the somewhat murky world of adolescence, and “The S from Hell,” a short documentary-cum-horror film about the scariest corporate symbol in history.

For our local program, Future Shorts will showcase highlights from the 48 Hour Film Project 2012, including “Husbie, Open the Door,” directed by Le Binh Giang and REDone.

Tickets
60,000vnd
30,000vnđ – students (w/ID)
FREE for filmmakers (must bring copy of work)

Snap Cafe
32 Tran Ngoc Dien, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2, HCMC

Saigon Outcast
188/1 Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2, HCMC

Film Project Take 5

Hanoi: 12 – 28 Apr 2013
HCMC: 05 – 21 Apr 2013

TAKE 5, will be an annual film making competition for the Vietnamese creative community and their friends to make a 5 minute short film about the antics of a special character – “A Delivery driver”.

Over a period of 1 month, film makers from all over Vietnam will focus on making a film about 1 central theme – “The Delivery”. Their task is to make a 5 minute film within the 2 week filming period that features the mis/adventures of a restaurant delivery driver trying to make his food delivery on time.

Take 5 will accept team registrations from the 18 March in both HCMC and HN (and even in Hoi An). This can be done from the Alfreco’s website. Entry is FREE.

The Competition commences at on 5th April 2013 (HCMC) and 12th April 2013 (HN) and the Closing Date of the Competition is on 21st April 2013 (HCMC) and 28th April 2013 (HN) (the “Closing Date”). Entries received after the Closing Date will not be considered. The voting period will start 29th April 2013 (HCMC) and 6th May 2013 (HN) and the deadline for the voting on the films will be 12 May 2013 (HCMC) and 19th May 2013 (HN).

For more information, please e-mail take5@alfrescosgroup.com with “Take 5: Competition Question” in the subject line.

Rotten Sound Live in Vietnam

Fri 05 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Darts Club
224a Pasteur, Dist 3, HCMC

For the very first time, Vietnam’s audiences can enjoy the grindcore finese from finland, Rotten Sound as they land Vietnam before heading to grind the stage of Obscene Extreme Fest Asia, one of the 4 overseas installments of the Czech-born metal fest held dear by fans of extreme metal. The event will be headlined by Rotten Sound and two home grown talents Multiplex (hardcore) & Seismic Origin (death metal).

Tickets: 200,000 VND at door (1 jager drink included).

Israel-Based Artist and Austrian Artist at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival

Also expect some wonderful acts from Austria’s brilliant Richard Eigner and Israel-based Glitterbug at the upcoming Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013! Watch their videos below, guaranteed you’ll fall in love with them.

Richard Eigner is a composer, sound artist, producer and drummer residing in Vienna and Linz, Austria. In his music he is crossing the borders of »experimental acoustic music«, »minimalism« and »electronica« with a focus on the symbiotic use of acoustic elements and electronically produced and processed sounds.

Strenuous with numerous sonorous projects he is kept busy with his playful musical project Ritornell, the setup of Denoising installations or drumming for the likes of Patrick Wolf, Flying Lotus, Dimlite and Patrick Pulsinger. His compositions were used by Robert Seidel for his projection and paper sculpture »Chiral« at MOCA Taipei or by canadian director Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy zombie movie »Otto; Or, Up With Dead People«.

Glitterbug is a German composer, producer, DJ, artist and curator currently residing in Israel; standing tall in all musical genres he puts his fingers on. Be it deep techno, remixing, ambient works, writing music for films or audio-visual installations, his musical language always resonates with a score-like, visual approach.

Glitterbug draws from the manifold of his social and global experiences to bring substantial content to his delicate sounds. With masterful production and greatest attention to broadened frequency and smallest detail, he has managed to create unique audio landscapes; sonic experiences, emotive and powerful.

Glitterbug plays the second day of the festival (the DJ night).

Vietnamese and Swedish Artists at Hanoi Sound Stuff

Last but not least, Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013 also present many local talents ranging from performances/visuals to DJ music. Besides the famed Future Shorts (visuals) and DOCLAB’s The Sound We see: A Hanoi City Symphony (documentary with live music performance), there are also exciting acts from The Six Tones and DJ Kruise, DJ Slim V.

The Six Tones is a Swedish/Vietnamese project that works on a long-term basis on the amalgamation of art music from Vietnam and Europe. The ensemble works by means of transcriptions of traditional Vietnamese music for Western stringed instruments and traditional Vietnamese instruments, also in combination with live-electronics, and with new commissions to composers both from the West as well as from Vietnam.

The Six Tones are Ngo Tra My, two Vietnamese performers, and the guitarist Stefan Östersjö. Since the project started, the trio has been collaborating with the composer and improviser Henrik Frisk, who has both composed works for the ensemble as well as toured with the group as a lap top improviser. The main ambition with The Six Tones is to create a foundation for a meeting between two distinct musical cultures on equal terms. Another ambition has been to reach beyond a mere collage-like superimposition of elements and strive for a more complex and experimentally oriented sound.

The Six Tones will perform on the 12th of April (First day of the festival).

Vietnamese Artists: The two DJs playing the second night of the festival

DJ KRUISE (NGUYEN ANH TUAN) – the party rocker of Vietnam

For over 10 years in the entertainment industry, Kruise is the most wanted name for commercial events, exclusive parties and live broadcasting shows on national TV. Kruise rocks every party with his own developed music ranging from rock, pop, top 40 to electro , dubstep…

Not only being one of the most famous DJs in the country, Kruise also gained wide recognition and applause of audiences from Asia (Singapore) to Europe (Berlin, Vienna, Paris…). Parties and music shows would be just almost-had-it-all without him. That is the reason both audiences and event managers look for him, for major events such as the Hennessy Artistry in 2009, the Heineken Countdown in 2010, the Jack Daniel’s Global Tour…

Within the last 2 years Kruise teamed up with friends and operated Fuse club, a place where he claims music will be experienced in an exceptional way, standing out from clubs playing indifferent pattern of music. And just like Fuse club, as for every time spinning , music will always be uniquely Kruise.

SlimV is a Vietnamese DJ, music composer and producer. He began to study music and officially went to Vietnam National Academy of Music in 1998. He have won many prizes in Vietnam for his music compositions.

SlimV started his DJ career in 2006 with House, Hip Hop and has performed in some huge events in Vietnam. From 2010, SlimV began to produce his own music. Currently he is the leader of Rhapsody Philharmonic, an orchestra playing modern style music combined with DJ. He also joins in the compositions, transcriptions and performances..

He is also a member of an Alternative rock band called “I-teu” and have played “Rockstorm tour” with the band across Vietnam.

Book Giveaways “The Italian Travelers in the Journey of Vietnam Discovery”

The Italian Embassy, in cooperation with Hanoi Grapevine, is giving away 5 copies of the book “The Italian travelers in the journey of Vietnam discovery” (bilingual Italian-Vietnamese).

The book, authored by Ambassador Mario Sica, is a collection of notes and writings by Italian travelers who were in Vietnam a long time ago: from the time of Marco Polo to 1950, the missionaries, naturalists, geographers, writers, diplomats, etc. For more information, please see our previous post.

You have the chance to win this book by taking part in a small quiz game on our Facebook page. The correct answers with the most interesting perspective will be awarded with one of the 5 copies, given to you by the Grapevine Team.

Deadline is Thursday 4 April 2013, 5 pm.

The quiz game is for our Vietnamese readers only (because the book is not written in English anyway), and the content can be entered in either English or Vietnamese.

Music – Poem Night “Strange Wharf”

Sat 13 April 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to a Music – Poem night “Strange wharf”. Based on a poem – writting “Strange wharf” by poet Dang Dinh Hung, musician Phan Nam will write short pieces for the instruments: drum, guitar, Vietnamese two-chord fiddle, piano as a dialogue with “Strange wharf “.

With three voices speaking: baritone, ténor, bass, we hope Strange wharf is going to have a new approach to the public.

Le Thiet Cuong : Director
Phan Nam : Music director and percussion
Nha Uyen, Giang Trang : Poem reading
Nguyen Van Tuan : Guitar
Nguyen Tuan Nam : Piano
Nguyen Quoc Hung : Vietnamese two-chord fiddle

Ticket

Price: 120 000 VND
Tickets for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are now available at L’Espace.

Screening of “Intouchables”

Fri 12 Apr 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “1+1” (France, 2011, 112 minutes)  of director Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. The film has received 14 awards and 18 nominations in many film festivals. The film is “the second success in the French cinema history!”. For more information, see below:

Film’s synopsis: A rich quadriplegic, living in a mansion in Paris, requires a live-in carer. A young offender turns up for an interview, but he is not really looking to get the job. However, to his surprise, he is hired. The two men then develop a close friendship.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle

Ticket

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

HITS Spring Shorts

11, 12 and 13 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Chez Xuan
No 41 /76 lane, An Duong Str, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Spring Shorts will be a much shorter run than many of the HITS productions, just three shows and only 130 tickets per night so don’t miss out.
Show includes adult themes, may not be suitable for children.

Doors at 8pm, show start 8.30, afterparty 10 until late.

DJs Thursday Chad Parks, Friday Vaughan, Saturday Kulture

Language: English

Tickets: 150.000 VND (show and afterparty) 50.000 VND (afterparty only).
Advance tickets for the show will be available soon from Puku and from sponsor Joma (Westlake).

Subscription Concert Vol.59 “Tchaikovsky Night”

04 and 05 Apr 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the with conductor SHINOZAKI Yasuo, piano soloist Tran Thi Tam Ngoc and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information about the program and tickets, see below:

Program

P.Tchaikovsky
Marche Slave op.31
Piano Concerto No.1
Interval
Symphony No.5

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Book Launch “Vietnamese Contemporary Art 1990 – 2010″

Thu 04 Apr 2013, 6.30 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình Dist., Hà Nội

Come to the book launch of “Vietnamese Contemporary Art 1990 – 2010″ by authors Bui Nhu Huong and Pham Trung with participation of Đinh Q Lê talking about documenta 13 and moderator Uyên Ly.

„We do not have the ambition of including all of the artistic practices in contemporary art in recent years; It is also hard to define what is currently new in the art scene. We can only try to discuss a few characteristics, a few early observations that reflect the momentary nature of art.”

In spite of this modest statement, Bui Nhu Huong and Pham Trung – two art researchers and critics who have published many writings about Vietnamese fine arts – present a comprehensive outline of „Vietnamese Contemporary Art 1990-2000” reflected in 26 selected artist biographies. After the release of the English version last year, the Vietnamese version has followed recently, in a completely revised visual design. The Goethe-Institut Hanoi is proud to host this book presentation, with the participation of the two authors and the artist Dinh Q Le from HCMC as well as many personalities of the Hanoian art scene. For artists and audiences this is an opportunity to carry on the dialogue and discuss about Vietnamese contemporary art.

Nhu Huong (1953) graduated from Mendeleev Institute, Moscow, Russia. Pham Trung (1965) graduated from Hanoi University of Fine Arts, BFA and 2002 from Hanoi University of Culture, MA. Both of them are working as art critics and researchers at Fine Art Research Institute – Vietnam University of Fine Arts.

Dinh Q Le (Le Quang Dinh) was born in 1968, he lives and works in HCMC and in the US. He has a long history of professional artistic practice and has participated in many international exhibitions. Aside from his art practice, Dinh Q. Le is also a curator, a social activist and the co-founder of San Art in HCMC, a non-profit art gallery for contemporary artists.

Free Admission.

German and Swiss Artists at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival

Rocking the stage on the second day at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2013 (DJ night) are the energetic duo Pitch Tuner from Germany and Mimetic from Switzerland.

The History of Pitchtuner starts with a mix tape when Miki Yoshimura on her stop in Germany saw a show of Johannes Marx’s former band Planet 9 and asked him for a tape afterwards. Planet 9 had only released vinyl, so they had to make an appointment to make things happen. And things did happen! Shortly after, they formed Pitchtuner and since then has toured through Europe, Japan & China, releasing three albums to date, and ruining several cars and tour buses.

Pitchtuner built its style around a great combination of indie DIY spirit + 100% dance floor compatibility. Music critics loved their sound describing them as “Rocking Pop on electronic basics: smart and naive at the same time, exotic by nature, freshly grooving”

Jerome Soudan aka Mimetic is the artistic director of Electron Festival but also a prolific artist composing and performing for Art Zoyd and his solo project Mimetic. With a long and respected career on his hands counting already more than fifteen years on the music circuit, he produces sharp intelligent dancefloor electronica with powerful rich kicking beats.

Having a classical background, Soudan, through his project Mimetic has won one Qwartz award, worked with prestigious Dance Companies (Den Hagen NDT, Carol Brown, etc.) and collaborated with artists such as Von Magnet, Terence Fixmer, Column One, among others. Counting 15 releases through Ant-Zen, Hands, Prikosnovenie and LAM, he performed live on really different stages like Reworks Festival (Greece), Koneisto Festival (Finland), Présences électronique (Paris), Insomnia Festival, (Norway) Maschinenfest (Krefeld), Patchwork Festival, (Paris), Providence (US), Kobe Underground Festival (Japan) or Chicago International Movies & Music Festival (US)….

Exhibition “Endoscopy”

Opening: Sat 30 Mar, 5 pm
Exhibition: 30 Mar – 13 Apr 2013
Art Talk Cafe
12 Quan Su street, Hanoi

Come to an exhibition “Endoscopy” by artist Doan Hoang Lam. In this exhibition, Doan Hoang Lam will introduce 11 paintings made from pieces of X-ray film to capture the human body that he collected from the hospital.

From 1 visual material: x-ray films, the artist want to elicit the thinking about human nature. From that we can suggest the nature of the cross-correlation as well as the effects, conflicts between individuals in existence.

Screening of “The Red Chapel”

Tue 02 Apr 2013, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe
32 Tran Ngoc Dien, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2

Come to the screening of The Red Chapel. Det Røde Kapel (The Red Chapel) is a Danish documentary film directed by Mads Brügger. It chronicles the visit of Brügger and two Danish comedians to North Korea under the pretense of a small theatre troupe on a cultural exchange. The entire trip is a ruse, The trio are actually trying to get a chance to show you the absurdity of the pantomime life they are forced to lead in North Korea. It is shocking, funny, wildly outrageous and at times deeply emotional as the disability of one of the comedians is dealt with by the regime.

The film won Best Nordic Documentary at Nordisk Panorama 2009 and Best Foreign Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it was included in the Official Selection. It is filmed and edited by René Johannsen.

This film does not have Vietnamese subtitles, this film is not suitable for children.

Free entry.