A Friendship-Concert with German Children Choir

Mon 27 Apr 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

The Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, who has won several competitions, is visiting Hanoi and is having a friendship-concert together with his host, the Vinschool, on Monday, April 27th at 8 pm in the Hanoi Opera House.

Beside the performances of both choirs on their own, they are going to sing Hòa nhịp con tim and Let there be peace on earth together.

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200 000, 300 000 VND.

Tickets are available at:

+ Administrative Department, Vinschool Primary school, T36 Times City

Ms. Thu Hà: 0904198068

+ Administrative Department, Vinschool High School, T35 Times City

Ms. Tuyết Chinh: 0912278027   

Animation Screening “Asterix: The Land of the Gods” at L’Espace

28 Apr – 04 May 2015, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17 May 2015

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Few weeks after the premiere in France, the hot movie “Asterix: The Land of the Gods” (France, 2014, 85 mins) will be screened at L’Espace from 28 Apr – 17 May 2015.

Director : Louis Clichy, Alexandre Astier

Starring : Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Laurent Lafitte

“Asterix: The Land of the Gods” has generated high revenue when premiered in France. Launched in late 2014 in 696 theaters in France, “Asterix: The Land of the Gods” has collected 7.64 million dollars in the first week, with nearly 780,000 views, ranking first in highest grossing film list in France, surpassing 2 Hollywood blockbusters at that time – “The Hunger Games” and “Interstellar”.

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Screening Schedule:

Tue 28 Apr

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

4 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Wed 29 Apr

4 pm Vietnamese subtitles

6 pm Vietnamese dub

8 pm Vietnamese subtitles

Thu 30 Apr

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

4 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Fri 01 May

2 pm Vietnamese dub

4 pm Vietnamese subtitles

6 pm Vietnamese dub

8 pm Vietnamese subtitles

Mon 02 May

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

4 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Sun 03 May

2 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese dub

8 pm Vietnamese subtitles

Mon 04 May

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

4 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Sun 10 May

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Tue 12 May

2 pm Vietnamese dub

4 pm Vietnamese subtitles

6 pm Vietnamese dub

8 pm Vietnamese subtitles

Thu 14 May

2 pm Vietnamese subtitles

4 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese subtitles

8 pm Vietnamese dub

Fri 15 may

2 pm Vietnamese dub

4 pm Vietnamese subtitles

6 pm Vietnamese dub

Sun 17 May

2 pm Vietnamese dub

6 pm Vietnamese dub

8 pm Vietnamese subtitles

Language: Vietnamese dub or French with Vietnamese subtitles

Ticket

Ticket price: 60.000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace. Tel : 04.39.36.21.64

Special screenings of this film can be arranged on request. For more information, please contact the France’s National Audiovisual Institute.

Music Night “Grace Night”

Sat 25 Apr 2015, 8 pm

V-Art Room

11A Hang Khay, Hanoi

From the organizer:

You are invited to the music night with the performance of violaist Nguyet Thu and violist My Huong.

Surcharge fee: 200 000 VND. All profits go to charity fund to support children with autism.

For more information, please contact 04.39392445.

Exhibition “Hanoi – a Living Museum” of Nguyen The Son

Opening: Fri 24 Apr 2015, 3 pm

Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center

50 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi

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Exhibition: 24 Apr – 24 May 2015

Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center

and 42 – 44 Hang Bac street, 38 Hang Dao street, 87 Ma May street

From the artist:

You are invited to the exhibition “Hanoi – a Living Museum” by artist Nguyen The Son.

The exhibition is organized by the Hanoi’s Old Quarter authorities in the occasion of the opening of the Cultural Exchange Center at 50 Dao Duy Tu and the anniversary of 30 Apr – 01 May. The exhibition comprises of 2 parts: Looking for the community house (Đình in the old quarters) and Nhà Tây Transforms, which was exhibited at Manzi, together with some new artworks.

“Unlike the younger Saigon, Hanoi is a city with a very old established history. For me Hanoi is like a living body which is beautiful but whose form is shaped by the variability of the times. Hanoi is where layers of era and history, comings and goings, cascade like the geological stratum of time. Looking at the signs of fracture and remnants of an old Hanoi mixed with the symbols and imagines of the modern age makes me feel like I’m excavating through historic layers of the metropolis. So I think of Hanoi as a living museum that embodies the complete archive of past memories and assimilates the flowing and changing rhythms of contemporary life. This very concept and approach forms the background of my artistic projects. As if a debtor to the city, I tirelessly seek out and decipher the tenous linkages between the remaining visual signs of the past etched upon the facades of the structures and thing that that arrive all at once, then all of disappear in the relentless spiraling circle of today’s consumption society. Every project comes to me as a way to find new material, language or approach that is capable of delivering what I want to demonstrate. It can be silk painting, photography, calligraphy, installation art, videos or even a new visual language I call photo relief. Each artistic project raises a question to me and the audience about Hanoi’s values, the values of cultural and living spaces that we used to have and trying to build today, and what they will become in the future.”

(Nguyen The Son)

Book Launch “Through the Windows of Life”

Sun 26 Apr 2015, 2 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

We’re glad to meet you again in another event of Humans of Hà Nội. Ever since HOHN was founded, we have been working on a voluntary basis and haven’t had any regular financial supports from any organizations or individuals. Throughout one year of development, we always keep providing readers with 2-3 photographic stories a day. With one exhibition and one talk show held, we have gradually assert our aggressive and responsible working style. Perhaps that’s the reason why we have received the support from more than 110,000 fans on Facebook and many encouragements daily. In response to your love, we have always strived for the best products to satisfy all of our readers. The book “Through the windows of life” can be regarded as a brainchild of ours, which we would like to give to all of your as a token of our gratitude.

Currently, the Crowdfunfing campaign for the book is launched here.

This is also a big effort of ours with a view to maintaining, expanding and developing our activities in the near future. This will also equip us with vital energy to turn HOHN from a popular Fan Page into a “warehouse” where the history of Hanoians and part of their manners and spirits- at this very moment and site – is stored.

Let’s support us:

– So that the stories about Hanoians will be better preserved.

– So that the voice of the disadvantaged will come closer to the society.

– So that we can get closer to each other.

– And so that we – Humans of Hà Nội – can keep telling stories about Hanoians.

Further information can be found at the crowdfunding site of the project.

Thailand – Exhibition “There Is No Box” by Bui Thanh Tam

25 Apr – 23 May 2015

Thavibu Gallery

Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok, Thailand

You are invited to the art exhibition There Is No Box with new oil paintings by the Vietnamese artist Bui Thanh Tam.

Bui Thanh Tam in his paintings explores contemporary society from different angles. Vietnam is a conservative society as in most of Southeast Asia, and changing rapidly. The women in his paintings often serve as symbols and may be viewed as having non-traditional Vietnamese values. The artist questions the role of women in Vietnam’s society, the development of its contemporary society and also how the current society can be seen as chaotic, especially for its youth.

The artist says: “This series of paintings was created when Vietnam is in a transitional stage. The halfhearted communist regime is on its path to change and integrate into the wider world. This sudden change without orientation makes the human psyche overwhelmed, confused and disoriented. The result is that society often develops conflicts between parts of the Vietnamese culture that are Eastern and parts that have Western influences”.

Bui Thanh Tam is 36 years old and one of Vietnam’s most important young and upcoming artists. He graduated from the Hanoi Institute of Fine Art in 2009 and has taken part in international exhibitions in Hong Kong, Netherlands, Malaysia, and China as well as in Vietnam. This is his first exhibition in Thailand.

Film Screening “Les Beaux Jours” at L’Espace

Fri 24 Apr 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the film screening “Bright Days Ahead” (France, 2013, 94 mins) directed by Marion Vernoux.

“Marion Vernoux makes a sensitive film in which Fanny Ardant plays the role of a beautiful female soon plunging the couple in the race.” – La Croix

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.

Exhibition “Ba Hồi Ri, Ba Hồi Rứa”

Opening: Thu 23 Apr 2015, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 23 – 30 Apr 2015

Then Café

63 Le Trung Dinh, Hue

“BA HỒI RI, BA HỒI RỨA” is a group exhibition by young authors who were born after 1980 and now living in Hue City. Each of them selects a particular point of view toward “awkward” and “unstable” situations and creates experiment works from these stores, if possible …

With the participation of artists:

1. Nguyen An

2. Pham Anh

3. Nguyen Thi Ha My

4. Hoang Ngoc Tu

5. Hong Thien Quoc

6. Le Truong Thanh

Live Music Event “The Music Emporium” at Hanoi Social Club

Thu 23 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

Music Night with The Very Small Hats at the Hanoi Social Club

Wed 22 Apr 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

The Very Small Hats – a cello, a ukulele, saxophoneS (yes, more than one!) and a lead-singer with a lot to say and a talent for saying it. If you’re getting tired of the same old stuff in Hanoi, then this is the dose of zingy, fresh uber-music for you.

All original, all danceable, all lyrics hand-crafted with not a cliche nor forced rhyme to be seen. This is quality up-beat indie-pop music, to be sure. If you need a pick-me-up, done to music, in a 100-year old house, on Wednesday night, surrounded by other cool people, and candles, then come to see The Very Small Hats.

Tickets: 100,000 VND the door

Artist Talk “Within Times” by Ana Mejia Macmaster

Thu 23 Apr 2015, 6 pm

Sàn Art

48/7 Me Linh Street, District Binh Thanh, HCMC   

You are invited to artist talk “Within Times” by Ana Mejia Macmaster.

‘Within Times’ is about the relationship between the concepts of light and shadow.

My focus is on the principle of reflected light as a source of transformation of the physical space as it produces other layers of realities through the shadows projected on the surfaces.

The ephemeral, constant change is part of the subtle nature of shadows associated with memory, identity and time. I suggest shadows are silent testimonies of the ephemeral and changing world.

Light travels beyond limits of space, my work propose to go beyond those limits that define the territories to connect distant realities.’

– Ana Mejia Macmaster

Come and join in the talk to know more about Ana’s works!

* Entrance is free. The artist talk will be presented in English and Vietnamese.

Ana Mejia Macmaster is in Ho Chi Minh City from April 1 – May 1, with thanks to the ‘National Incentives Program’ of the Colombian Ministry of Culture who have chosen to partner with ‘San Art Laboratory’ in a 2 year artist-in-residency program. Two Colombian contemporary artists have been chosen from a national call across Colombia, to spend at one month in Ho Chi Minh City in 2014 and 2015. This program understands that to enable artistic exchange via the creation of new work, there must be stimulated dialog between cultures and producers to expand the horizon of critical thinking. San Art looks forward to welcoming our Latin American guests to Vietnam and introducing them to the local artist community.

Conference “Vietnamese Novel in Globalization” at L’Espace

Thu 23 Apr 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Most of the new generation of Vietnamese novelists were born after the war with vitality and a strong commitment to innovation. Instead of translation works, our original novels are more and more popular abroad. In this conference, Doan Thi Cam would talk about the impact of globalization on literary research.

Speaker: Doan Thi Cam, Lecturer at INALCO (Paris) and Manager of “Contemporary Vietnamese literature” Collection of Riveneuve Editions.

Language: Simultaneous translation French – Vietnamese

Free admission.

Basic Ballet Class for Adults

Class starts on 16 Apr 2015, every Tue and Thu, 5.30 – 7 pm

The Black Box

56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Welcome all of you to the Basic Ballet Class for Adults. Please register for class by filling this form.

Tuition fee: VND7,000,000 DIVIDED by the actual number of students.

Class is limited to 16 students so first come, first served! Contact for more details: Mr. Tu (+84-904-872-511)

Our ballet instructor is DO HOANG THI NGOC. Having graduated from Vietnam Dance College, he performed as a principal at Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) and collaborated with the renowned choreographer Reginé Chopinot and her company, Ballet Alantique. Ngoc is currently teaching Contemporary Dance at Black Box Studio and Military University of Culture and Arts.

Electronic and Traditional Music Event: World of Sounds – What you don’t know yet

Thu 23 Apr 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

yo yo yo, let’s come out what you are familiar with traditional music and forget that electro music can’t stand next to the traditional musical instruments. Join us to discover the unexpected sounds from electronic music and “dan bau” – a vietnamese traditional musical instrument in experimental style. Special program has the presence of the leading experimental musicians in Hanoi including Vu Nhat Tan, Dee.F, Nguyen Do Minh Quan, and Pham Thanh Tam.

Tickets

Early Bird ticket: 50,000 VND (Book ticket via ticketbox.vn)

On door: 80,000 VND

More information on Facebook’s event.

Vu Nhat Tan

“Vu Nhat Tan has found inspiration in ancient music, folk music, court music and chamber music from different regions of Vietnam. For then, the influence has become a peak through the sound sometimes mysterious, sometimes harsh glare of life …”

(New York Time)

Dee.F

Let’s come to the show to enjoy the melody that you can not stop dancing by Dee.F, who turns human life sound into the tone controls your legs!

Dee.F has performed in festivals like Kobalt Works (Belgium), Delicate Decibel (Thailand), Bass Kitchen (Taiwan),..What will he bring surprises to us? Please wait!

You can also learn more Dee.F’s music at his site about.me/deefmusic

Nguyen Do Minh Quan

Self – learned guitar at age 11, and then played in the band Rock / Metal as Nuranium and Thrasher, then became sound and recording engineer for a Vietnamese Post Punk band called Wood Lim, and then switched to play electronic music, the little guy Nguyen Do Minh Quan, never stops making audiences surprised with innovative and colorful music. He is very willing to give you an unforgettable night!

Keep swinging with his music in

Pham Thanh Tam

With Vietnamese musical instrument “Dan bau”, the young girl came out from Vietnam National Academy Music will give you an amazing night of time (past and contemporary) interference, the new combination between traditional instruments and electronic music. Having been selected in the list Synthesis Album Vol. 1, Urban Art Berlin 2014 – the album focusing on the work of leading female composers in the world, Pham Thanh Tam promises to bring an unforgettable musical space!

Concert with Parallel Asteroid and Musicians of Domdom

Wed 22 Apr 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

DomDom–The Hub for experimental music in collaboration with L’Espace –Institut français– proudly present: Concert with PARALLEL ASTEROID and YOUNG MUSICIANS OF DOMDOM.

“Parallel Asteroid”: Two musicians, two styles, one vision. The duo combines experimental, acoustic sounds with free form improvisations. The musicians are Cao Thanh Lan originally from Hanoi, Vietnam at the piano, prepared piano, objects and Gregor Siedl from Austria on saxophone and Game Calls.

Cao Thanh Lan has a strong classical contemporary music background and Gregor Siedl is a jazz musician with roots in improvised and experimental music. Their common ground is free improvisation with vigorous use of extended techniques and new forms of expression. The duo is actively connected to the thriving music scenes of Vienna, Berlin, Cologne and Brussels.

This time Parallel Asteroid returns to Vietnam by the invitation of Domdom and the financial support of Austria Embassy. After the intensive workshop and practice sessions with young musicians of the advanced improvisation class of Domdom, the result of this adventurous project will be presented in a unique concert for the audience of Hanoi.

Do not miss out on this special concert experience with the Duo Parallel Asteroid and the talented young composers of Domdom.

Free entrance.

Cao Thanh Lan – the only Vietnamese pianist who is specialized in classical contemporary music (graduated from Cologne Conservatory Germany with Highest Distinction in the Master program of New Music). She participated in world famous festivals of contemporary music, amongst others Manifest at Ircam Paris, Klangspuren and Impuls in Austria, Strom Festival in Germany…

Gregor Siedl is an Austrian musician with a background in jazz music who is also an expert in using instrumental extended techniques. He has won several prizes at prestigious international jazz competitions and has released numerous recordings as well as performed in many festivals in Europe and in Asia.

The young composers of Domdom are from different music backgrounds. Some were trained in classical music, others studied Vietnamese traditional music, some others are self-taught musicians. The educational courses of Domdom encourage and enable them to absorb and integrate aesthetical concepts of experimental music as well as develop their skills and necessary knowledge in performing experimental music. They became and will become the positive creative forces of the experimental music scene of Vietnam.

Screening of “Song to the Front” and “Vietnam the Movie” (by Nguyen Trinh Thi)

Tue 21 Apr 2015, 7 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

This upcoming April 30th marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, also formally known in Vietnam as the Resistance War against America. On this occasion, I would like to invite you to a screening of two of my found footage films, both concern themselves with the war.

2010 saw my first found footage film, Song to the Front, re-edited from the 1973 titular feature production by the Vietnam Feature Film Studio. The piece is also the first realized work in my pending project Vietnamese Classics Re-Cut Series.

The second film, Vietnam the Movie, is finished just a bit earlier this year. In this work, I ponder the definition of a nation and its place on the world map by watching how characters in movies and popular media had referred to Vietnam during the past 50 years.

Vietnam the Movie surveys how the word “Vietnam” appeared internationally (usually as a war, a symbol, an ideology, a concept), particularly in the context of the Vietnam War, and also the legacy of the Indochina War. It looks into the ways popular media forms our collective imaginations, memories, and understandings of a war, a country, a nation.

Along the side of Hollywood classics such as Apocalypse Now, Born on the Fourth of July, The Deer Hunter, Forrest Gump, Full Metal Jacket, etc., the forty chosen sources that directly employ the word “Vietnam” also feature the lesser known or virtually forgotten works by Harun Farocki, Fassbinder, Herzog, Nagisa Oshima, and Ann Hui. In particular, the making of this film has granted me the opportunity to explore the political stance of Jean-Luc Godard whose films held the most mention of “Vietnam”, at least among those of the filmmakers surveyed.

My motivations in recycling found footage is to preserve, deconstruct, subvert different kinds of film and media’s aesthetics and language; to re-tell, re-think, re-read, re-engage with history.

Duration: 70 minutes

In English with Vietnamese subtitles.

After-screening discussion with the filmmaker

Free Entrance. (Donations are encouraged and will go to Hanoi DocLab’s not-for-profit educational programs)

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