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Contemporary Dance “The Spinning Creator” in Hanoi and HCMC
The Spinning Creator
HCMC: Sun 10 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Ben Thanh Theater
06 Mac Dinh Chi, Dist 1, HCMC
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Hanoi: Thu 21 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Cultural Friendship Palace
91 Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi
CON TẠO XOAY (The Spinning Creator) is a contemporary dance carried out by The Association of Vietnamese Enterprises’ Cultural Department in association with Discovery Ballet Company and belongs to Project: For the popularity of Contemporary dance works.
With famous choreographers and artists of high quality, this work will bring the art of dance closer to audiences in the country as well as up to have the opportunity to rise and keep abreast with international fellows.
This play tells the changes of people’s lives through stages.
People are absorbed in the industrial apparatus which turns them into emotionless machines.
The struggle between the matter and the spirit of each person in different positions.
And eventually they realise the meaning of being alive in this world.
you can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Art Advisor: Composer An Thuyên
Script and Managing Director: MA Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Minh
Choreographer: MA. Tuyết Minh; Chí Thành; Đình Hải;
Executive Producer: Vũ Hiếu
Stage Designer: Đạt Tăng
Light Designer: Thăng Long
Costume Designer: Khánh Diệp
Artists: Tuyết Minh, Chí Thành, Trung X-Star, Đình Hải, Thành J-Buddha, Tuấn Đạt, Thái Sơn, Tố Uyên, Vân Diễm, Thúy Hiền, Văn Quý, Đình Hoàng, Vũ Khánh, Trà My and the team of Discovery Ballet Company.
Choreographer, Script and Managing Director MA Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Minh
Tickets
TP HCM: Ticket prices: 200,000; 250,000; 400,000 VND
Hà Nội: Ticket prices: 300,000; 350,000; 400,000; 500,000; 600,000 VND
Online tickets in HCMC at ticketbox.vn.
Screening of Film “The Kovak Box” (La Caja Kovak)
Sun 10 Aug 2014, 7.30 pm
THBC Spanish Tapas Bar
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to the film screening “The Kovak Box” (La Caja Kovak)(2006, 113 mins). Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, Made in Heaven) stars in the direct-to-video psychological thriller The Kovak Box. He portrays David Norton, a novelist and control freak who builds his life around the strategic manipulation of his characters and storylines. But suddenly, Norton watches his own life spin rapidly out of control when he is plunged into a bizarre series of events. Upon arrival in an exotic Mediterranean locale for a business conference, Norton receives the devastating news that his wife just received a mysterious phone call and subsequently threw herself from the balcony of their apartment building. One at a time, each of Norton’s friends and family members suffer from the same inexplicable fate. The author then searches desperately for answers and an escape from this black hole of terror, as the world closes in around him.
Free entrance.
Language: Spanish and English sub
Contact: 043 718 8246 (English – Vietnamese speaking)
Email: thbctapasbar@gmail.com
Comedy Show “Tee Hee in Tây Hồ #3″
Fri 08 Aug 2014, 8 – 10 pm
House of Sơn Tinh
31 Xuan Dieu, Ha Noi
You are invited to Comedy Show “Tee Hee in Tây Hồ #3″ featuring….
GARY JOHNSON (Hong Kong)
Plus support from local comedians …
Alastair Hill
Tien Dung
MinhHa Pham
Long Le
& comedy magician Rockstar Alex
Language: English
Tickets: VND100K/person
Tickets for this event are limited; in order to be sure not to miss out pick up an advance ticket from House of Sơn Tinh, 31 Xuân Diêu, from Friday 1st August!
EARLY BIRD PROMO: There will be 20 ‘early-bird’ tickets available for just VND50K each … first come, first served!
Documentary Filmmaking Courses in August at TPD
Deadline Classes H45, H46: 09 Aug 2014
Deadline Classes H47, H48: 16 Aug 2014
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
TPD Centre will continue our filmmaking course in order to initiate and connect the interest in cinema in between young people.
Students aged 15~20 (DOB between 01.01.1995 and 31.12.1999) can apply for the course for FREE.
For cinema enthusiasts over 20 of age, you can still apply with a little fee (see details as follows)
Class H45, H46, H47, H48 specialize in documentary films, starting on August, 2014
Instructors
• Phan Huyền Thư | Director and Scriptwriter (Child, we apologize to you !, Life behind the book )
• Bùi Thạc Chuyên | Director ( Living in Fear, Adrift )
• Nguyễn Hương Lê | Director of Vietnam Television
• Nguyễn Kim Hải | Director of Vietnam Television
• Bùi Thị Hà | Director, Silver Kite Prize for Best Short Film in 2012 ( The Debt )
• Hà Lệ Diễm | Director, Silver Kite Prize for Best Short Film in 2013 ( My Son goes to School )
Number of applicants: 20 / class
Time: 01 class / week
( 09:00~12:00 or 14:00~17:00, on Saturday or Sunday )
• Class H45 | start from Sat, 23 August 2014 | classes on Saturday afternoons
• Class H46 | start from Sun, 24 August 2014 | classes on Sunday mornings
• Class H47 | start from Sat, 30 August 2014 | classes on Saturday mornings
• Class H48 | start from Sat, 30 August 2014 | classes on Saturday afternoons
Deadline to register:
• Classes H45, H46 | Sat, 09 August 2014
• Classes H47, H48 | Sat, 16 August 2014
Location :
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD),
4th floor, 51 Tran Hung Dao
After the course, you will receive the Certification of class documentary at TPD center.
Students completing the course will have 20% discount for Fiction Film-making class.
For applicant over 20 of age : 1.500.000 VND / 01 person
Apply as a group (3 or more) : 1.200.000 VND / 01 person
Introduced by TPD’s students : 1.200.000 VND / 01 person
Application details
1. Applicant can apply directly at TPD Centre or through this link.
2. TPD Centre would get in touch with successful applicants to arrange a final assessment including a small test and an interview. Application fee: 20.000 VND / 01 person
3. Successful applicants would receive their results and complete their application process
Application forms and other inquiries please contact:
Project We Are Filmmakers
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD)
Cinema Development Join Stock Company (CDJ)
51 Tran Hung Dao St. , Hoan Kiem Dist. , Hanoi
Website | www.tpdmovie.com.vn
Facebook | www.fb.me/tpdmovie
Tel | (04) 39 366 559
Hotline | 098 357 8695 (Ms. Hà) – 097 530 3883 (Ms. Ngọc)
Email | chungtalamphim@tpd.vn
Note: Please put “PTL – H45, H46, H47, H48” as your subject when contacting us through emails.
Two Performances of Fish Sauce Band
Thu 07 Aug 2014, 9.30 pm
Z Bar
61 Luong Ngoc Quyen, Hanoi
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Fri 08 Aug 2014, 9.30 pm
Swing Lounge
21 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Come to two performances of Fish Sauce this week.
Fish Sauce is the most flavoursome band to come through Hanoi and impress taste buds this summer. A fresh blend of Vietnamese and Latin American artists, come for a night of original music composed by lead singer, Mai Khoi, on journeys through Mexico and Cuba.
Mai Khoi (Song and Album of the Year, 2010) is joined by Araceli (Nicaragua), Sebastian (Ecuador), Truong Sa (formerly PAK band and collaborator with Le Cat Trong Ly) and the Hanoi flamenco collective. Out of the bowl, Fish Sauce marinates your mind, body and soul.
The 4th K-Pop Singing Contest in Vietnam Final
Sat 09 Aug 2014, 6.30 pm
Au Co Arts Center
08 Huynh Thuc Khang Str, Hanoi
You are invited to the final round of “4th K-Pop Singing Contest in Vietnam″ at 6.30 pm, 09 Aug 2014 at Au Co Arts Center.
K-pop, also known as Korean pop music is favourite to young generations all around the world for being vibrant, listener friendly, and attractive enough to overcome language barriers.
The 4th season contest attracted nearly 300 candidates across the country, of which 15 talents were selected to the final round in Hanoi. This is an opportunity for contestants to show their passion in music in general and in Korean pop music (K-pop) in particular.
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
Percussive Fingerstyle Concert in August
Sat 09 Aug 2014, 8 pm
2nd floor, Paris Deli Restaurant
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi
Following the huge success of 2 performances in April and June, especially “Guitar…Never like before” with the participation of Khoa Le who just came back from US, Percussive Fingerstyle Concert will come back in this August. The SPECIAL guitar style will stay unchanged but with a new sonority.
Ticket price: 80 000 VND (including 1 free drink, optional)
Contemporary Music Concerts “Rendez vous en Août”
09, 10 and 11 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Manzi, Annual International Contemporary Music Festival and Chula are proud to bring you a not-to-be-missed series of contemporary music concerts entitled ‘RENDEZ VOUS EN AOÛT’.
Program 8.00 p.m. Sat 9th August 2014 – ‘Nguyen Bao Long & Trioture’
With the participation of ‘the jazz wizard of Hanoi’ – Saxophonist Bao Long and the classical trio including guess pianist Anne Chamberlain from New York, bassoonist Quang Vu and oboist Do Kien Cuong, this 1st event of the series will showcase a perfectly beautiful mix of Jazz and classical music, jazz and contemporary music.
Trioture group, together with Bao Long will also breeze up the night with an improvisation of jazz, world music & electronic music.
8.00 p.m. Sunday 10th August 2014 – New compositions
The 2nd night in the series will introduce new works by young contemporary composers of Vietnam: Do Tuan, Tran Luu Hoang, Dao Minh Pha, and Dirk Johan Stromberg from USA.
Highlight of the night will be ‘Lý Ngựa Ô Meets Jumpforjazz’ – a collaborative production by Bao Long and Do Kien Cuong, performed by the best jazz band in Hanoi, featuring oboist Do Kien Cuong and bassoonist Quang Vu.
8.00 p.m. Monday, 11th August 2014 – Sound Installation (interaction) – Dirk Johan Stromberg & Friends
This ‘Sound Installation’ by US composer Dirk Johan Stromberg is an interactive music performance by audience, artists and the composer. The event promises to be an exciting music party for music lovers of Hanoi.
Surcharge at door: 100,000 VND/pax/concert
Open Studio of Lab 5 and Artist Talk by Nguyen Manh Hung
San Art Lab Open Studio – Session 5: Sat 09 Aug 2014, 4 pm
Artist Talk by Nguyen Manh Hung: Sat 09 Aug 2014, 4 pm
Studio of San Art Laboratory
48/7 Pham Viet Chanh, Binh Thanh Dist, HCMC
An ‘Open Studio’ is an invitation to see the inside of a working artist’s studio. It is an opportunity to learn more about the process of an artist’s thinking, to see a ‘work of art’ in progress. It’s also a chance to meet the local art community, to get a sense of what kind of contemporary art you like or, don’t like! Visit Rudy Atjeh, a wizard with cutter knife with his myriad of sculptures from paper. Talk to Nguyen Tran Nam about the design of punishment, and the ongoing experiment beginning with stone. Learn what Pham Dinh Tien has pondered from Malaysian airline tragedy in Ukraine, compelled by the power of political perspective in determining blame. artist talk nguyen manh hung
FEATURE @4PM: Artist Nguyen Manh Hung to share his residency experience in Paris!
Working with the Mac Val Museum on the outskirts of Parisfor the past few months, Nguyen Manh Hung scored the local flea markets for landscape paintings by French amateur artists that he augmented with his own flair to produce ‘L’avventura – Lang Du’ – a project challenging the determination of value in art. Find out more from the artist himself!
Hyper-realistic Painting Exhibition
Exhibition: 05 – 28 Aug 2014
Tu Do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau Street, District 1, HCMC
You are invited to the exhibition by two typical Vietnamese Contemporary Hyper-realistic artists: Nguyen Thanh Hoa (Nguyen Phan) and Nguyen Quoc Dung. Realism seems to reach its perfection since The Renaissance and give way for other schools. But artists who love the realism don’t think so. They never give up seeking opportunities to express their love of life and nature more vividly, more minutely. All of them hope they could overtop the forerunners.
Exhibition “Encyclopedia of Heroes”
Exhibition: 01 – 31 Aug 2014
Meeting: Sat 16 Aug 2014, 9.30 am
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the exhibition – meeting on the occasion of publishing “Encyclopedia of Heroes” in Vietnamese with the participation of translator/researcher Cao Viet Dung and presenter Hoang Thanh Thuy.
Heroes are everywhere: on our screens, in children’s rooms or on teen T-shirts. Their life is nourished by universal themes – the fuel of best stories. We share the same feelings with them, but they are stronger than us and overcome all the hardships, filling our aspiration to transcend our condition. Follow their footsteps and rediscover the cultural and historical context of their birth to better understand what they embody and why they are immortal.
Language: Vietnamese
Free admission.
Exhibition “Lotus in Viet”
Opening: Sun 10 Aug 2014, 10 am
Exhibition: 10 Aug – 08 Sep 2014
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi
“Sen in Viet” is the 6th solo exhibition by Dang Phuong Viet who specializes in Lotus.
Dang Phuong Viet is commonly known as Viet Sen (Viet Lotus), which means he focuses on painting lotus. According to the artist “Lotus chose me like a destiny”.
Within nearly two decades drawing lotus flower with oil, on large canvas, Dang Phuong Viet gives each artwork a particular charm and freshness. The artist is a Buddhist, so his works are associated with the enlightenment “Buddha is likened to the lotus. Like a lotus that rises out of a muddy pond, Buddha rose above the defilement and sufferings of life”.
Through the exhibition, Phuong Viet introduces his brand new perspective on the beauty of the sacred lotus flower, which reflects the progress in his creative work. Although his creativity has been transformed and sublimated, the pure lotuses in his paintings stay unchanged, no matter where they are – above the mud, inside the water or above it. The lotus always wakes up the artistic mind in Viet.
Free Korean Film Month in Hanoi
Screening of Catch Me: 01, 09, 15 and 23 Aug 2014, 7 pm
Screening of The Plan Man: 02, 08, 16 and 22 Aug 2014, 7 pm
Keangnam Landmark 72
E6, Pham Hung Str, Hanoi
You are invited to the screening of two Korean romantic-comedies “Catch Me” and “The Plan Man” in “Korean Film Month” this August within 8 nights.
Free ticket will be distributed at Korean Cultural Centre, 49 Nguyen Du, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi. Contact 043.9445980 (ext 100)
Exhibition “Autumn Galleria”
Exhibition: 08 Aug – 30 Oct 2014
Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh, Bình Thạnh District, HCMC
Welcome to Autumn Galleria! Autumn takes shape by means of drawing, painting, and photography. Visit the fictional school from Thao Nguyen’s paintings, meet a family in their TV time framed inside Phan Quang’s photograph, contemplate in front of Nguyen Thai Tuan’s gate, see nature through Le Phi Long’s eyes, and come back to a hidden reality of death with Nguyen Van Du. Last but not least, take a peek at Bich Phuong’s painting the way her subject looks at you – tell us what you see.
Take a walk down a lane of history and visit the fictional school of Alexandre d’Rhodes, the French Jesuit missionary who created today’s written script in Vietnam. See the students whose eyesight is tested with blindfold and the art of play. This is Phan Thao Nguyen’s world of creating history through fragments with a mastery of both fact and fiction in careful gestures of oil on photographic film.
Similarly adept in the art of oil is Dalat-based painter Nguyen Thai Tuan, whose large-scale canvases are haunting reminders of another war-torn history, left in fragments. A cast-iron gate, sophisticated and reminiscent of French-colonial times in Vietnam is given central looming focus in his painting ‘Gate’. Conceived as part of his ‘Heritage’ series, this melancholic scene is a doorway into a Viet Nam that is left deliberately ambiguous with portent.
This feeling of ambiguity is left hanging in the balance with the paintings of Nguyen Van Du, whose visits to a local abattoir just beyond Ho Chi Minh City left an indelible mark on this artists’ representation of violence. A dead and bleeding animal lies dominant in the frame, a leg strapped to a nearby wooden pole, its guts pouring onto a dimly lit interior. It is the contrast of the brushstroke that lends particular tension to the scene, its background a careful flat monochrome in tone, compared to the heavy gestural marks of paint that are so thick it gives body to the carcass. Du questions the level of deceit with which we live our consumer culture, our readiness to devour what we cannot witness in death.
This presence of deceit is also alive in the photograph ‘TV Time’ by Phan Quang, whose family live under a bamboo cage. Such structures typically house chickens and roosters in Vietnam and across South East Asia, here the artist refers to humans as equal game to be monopolized, whether it is through the televised propaganda or the structures we choose as limits in our lives.
Le Hoang Bich Phuong also thinks about the mechanisms we manipulate in order to maneuver our desires in society. In ‘The Man I have Met’, a man poses with a sharp pointed beak of a bird, almost in an embarrassed state of shame or indolence. She asks whether such ‘masks’ can transform our true selves into better beings or is it all just a lie.
Such a border between nature and culture, also perhaps between nature and technology is found paramount in the art of Le Phi Long. In his careful ink drawings of dismembered tree limbs of Con Gio forest (a natural reserve in Saigon), Long heals these wounds of nature with metal struts, like Band-Aids, that he paints using silver leaf. Is Long suggesting that nature can be assisted through technology? Or is he suggesting that our new nature will be dominated by the realm of machines?
Exhibition “Conjuring Capital”
Exhibition: 08 Aug – 30 Oct 2014
Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh, Bình Thạnh District, HCMC
You are invited to exhibition ‘Conjuring Capital’, a group exhibition inspired by the resourcefulness of six contemporary artists who challenge the time invested in labor as an exchange value that justifies and determines wealth.
Participating artists include Adriana Bustos (Argentina), Christopher Myers and Hank Willis Thomas (USA), Nguyen Hong Ngoc (Vietnam), Sudarshan Shetty (India) and Than Sok (Cambodia). These voices come from the Global South, a complex yet problematic set of geographies that endure the residual effects of coloniality and its current neoliberal face. Encompassing videos, sculptures, installations, paintings and drawings, the exhibition is curated by Zoe Butt, as part of the three-year endeavor ‘Conscious Realities’.
DoN’t fEeD tHe moNKeY
Sat 09 Aug 2014, 5 pm to late
Q4 / Cargo Bar
7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D.4, HCMC
Get ready for the next installment of DFTM: an all day original music + art extravaganza including…
Live visuals, top notch works of art designed by Saigon local artists, body painting, a one of a kind, interactive, participatory, sound sculpture
11 live bands playing an eclectic blend of ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC (i.e. no hotel California covers)
The biggest live original music event of the summer!
Program:
Applesauce 5:00-5:40pm
MMMR 5:45-6:25pm
Saigon Kiss 6:30-7:10pm
Freckled Gypsys 7:15-7:55pm
6789 8:00-8:50pm
Tofu 9:00-9:50pm
The Love Below 10:00-10:50pm
James and the Van Der Beeks 11:00-11:50pm
L.A.V. Visual Show
SPACE//PANTHER 12:00-12:50am
Demon Slayer 1:00-1:50am
Growsound 2:00-2:50am
Tickets
Ticket prices: 150,000 VND for advance tickets; 200,000 VND at the door and 100,000 VND for students.
Buy advance tickets at:
- DeciBel lounge, 79/2/5 Phan Kế Bính, D1, HCMC
- Loughmans cafe, 58 No 1, Trần Não, Bình An, D2, HCMC
- Khói Thơm Mexican Restaurant – 29 Ngo Thoi Niem, D1, HCMC
- McSorley’s – 4 Thao Dien, An Phu, D2, HCMC
Music Night with Fingerstyle Guitarist Khoa Le
Sat 02 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Khoa Le is a fresh, brand-new and self-taught fingerstyle guitar artist currently based in Portland, Oregon (US). Born and raised in Da Nang, Khoa started his first guitar lesson at the age of 17 and has continued his passion for Rock since then. Khoa used to play in a band with Le Cat Trong Ly before he moved to the United States. Since 2009, Khoa has switched his passion to fingerstyle guitar – the technique of playing guitar by plucking the strings by fingertips and fingernails to produce different sounds. Khoa has performed in numerous venues in Portland.
Having worked and been inspired by “masters” in fingerstyle guitar such as Andy Mckee, Antoine Dufour, Don Ross, Kaki King, Trace Bundy and Sungha Jung, Khoa is excited to introduce a new interesting guitar style to Hanoians at The Hanoi Social Club.
Supporting him will be Trang Tooc – famous for being one of the first Vietnamese beat-boxers. A ukulele and honey-like voice are her tools of the trade.
Tickets: 60k @ the door
Hanoi Soundwalk Project
In 2013, the Hanoi Soundwalk was the first of its kind ever to run in Hanoi, and even the rest of Asia. This year it’s going to run again, with added extras – we’re commissioning two composers, we have devices to lend so you don’t have to bring your own, and we’re taking the Soundwalk to Copenhagen!
What is a Soundwalk? It’s a location-based audio tour: as you walk around the city, you hear sounds as you pass through the streets. Expect to be surprised – this is not a normal audio tour! You might hear sounds of Hanoi’s hidden past, stories by local residents, ambient environmental sounds conjuring a different space and time, even music performed by unseen musical troupes. The Soundwalk gives you the opportunity to experience the city through sound.
We’ve already got some support from the Danish Embassy in Hanoi’s Cultural Development and Exchange Fund and the Danish Composers Association, DJBFA, but to make the project we are calling for support through an online crowdfunding campaign.
To know more about the crowdfunding and to donate visit here. We’ve got a video explaining the Soundwalk, information about what perks you can receive, and instructions on how to donate.
At its core, the Soundwalk is a smartphone app and a map of sounds. To explore a Soundwalk, you need headphones, and the phone must be equipped with GPS and other location technologies. When you open a Soundwalk map, sounds will be played as if you are hearing them from a point, like surround sound, except the arena is the real world! That means when you move around, the sounds will appear to be coming from a particular location, and you can discover other sounds as you walk.
Why are we asking for support? Because we haven’t yet covered our development or administrative costs – we need to get the app completed on time; flights to Denmark – we need to have a presence there to successfully organise it; and while our Danish composer has financial support, our talented Hanoi composer Luong Hue Trinh needs to be supported as well.
When will it happen? We have no confirmed dates yet, but it will happen this Autumn.
We already have core support for some areas of the project, but it’s not enough yet. Last year, the project was unfunded, but we still made it happen. This year we’re doing it in two cities at opposite ends of the world, and offering two sound artists a unique opportunity, plus the walk will be completely free for participants. We need your support to make it happen.
Contact: hello@soundwalkproject.com
Bookworms Meet the Authors Series: DI LI in Conversation with DICK GEBUYS
Wed 06 Aug 2014, 7 pm
Bookworm
44 Châu Long, Hà Nội
Di Li, popular Vietnamese author and translator, will have a conversation with Dick Gebuys, Dutch poet, historian, playwright.
DI LI will converse with Dick about his Vietnamese themed poetry that she has translated into Vietnamese and Dick will talk with Di Li about her popular short stories.
DI LI is one of Vietnam’s foremost and successful younger writer of short stories, crime thrillers, non fiction and biography. Her written work enjoys huge popularity in Vietnam and her short stories have been published in English to great reviews. Di Li is also a recognized translator of popular English language fiction.
Dick Gebuys is a teacher of literature in Holland and a frequent research visitor to Vietnam. He is a recognized poet and playwright and active in cultural theater programs. A selection of his 30 poems about Vietnam were translated by Di Li and published in a leading literary magazine. At present he is writing a book about Vietnam.
Language: The conversation will be in English with some Vietnamese translation.
Free Entry … you can reserve a seat if you wish.
Enquiries: bookworm@fpt.vn, Tel 0437153711
Concert “Beethoven’s Symphony No 5″
Sat 09 Aug 2014, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
One of the most famous symphonies of Beethoven called “The Destiny Symphony” will be performed at Hanoi Opera House by HBSO Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of talented conductor Le Phi Phi, with the performance of 2 pianists Boris Kraljevic and Le Ho Hai.
Conductor: Le Phi Phi
Pianist: Boris Kraljevic, Le Ho Hai
Performer: Symphony Orchestra
Program
PART I:
Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Francis Poulenc Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra in D Minor, FP. 61
Piano I: Boris Kraljevic
Piano II: LE Ho Hai
PART II:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C Minor, op. 67
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.
Booking and delivery: 08 3823 7419; Ms. Hương 0989874517; Mr.Luân: 0903041959
Online tickets at ticketbox.vn
Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad in Hanoi
08 and 09 Aug 2014, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
The Goethe Institute presents already for the second time the Berlinale Shorts in Hanoi.
In the series “Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad” short films of the International Film Festival of Berlin go on a journey. Ten short movies were chosen to be shown in the Goethe Institute Hanoi at the 8th and 9th of August at 7pm.
“The Berlinale Shorts are a forum for the short form in the festival. A place for uncompromising films, which take an undisguised look on the present. Filmmakers are artists, who are aware of the formal possibilities and furthermore have the whole picture of cinematography in sight. Berlinale Shorts are films, which go beyond the event and contribute to the understanding. At once around the globe and back. The beginning is everywhere and here and now.” Maike Mia Höhne, curator of the Berlinale Shorts, invites the hanoian audience: “Please come and see by yourself!”
This year the short movies deal with very current topics. They range from surreal to real, from marvelous to cruel. The movies discuss a world which changes dramatically and endangers nature. This world forces nature to accommodate itself to it. To be ruthlessly and without morals. But the movies also talk about war and grief: How can you face them? How can you handle them? And what follows?
A highlight of the programs is surely the movie “Three Stones for Jean Ginet” which has already won an award and which will be played on several festivals this year. It is about desire and promises, a city, a friendship and the narration of a hidden story.
The Berlinale Shorts will be presented by the Goethe Institute in nine South-East Asian countries. For the first time they are welcomed by the Goethe Institute in Ho Chi Minh City Shorts in its cultural salon at the 15th and 16th of August at 7pm.
The International Film Festival of Berlin, also well-known as Berlinale, is the major film festival in Germany as well as the major audience festival worldwide. Films of all kinds of genre, length and format find a place in the several sections of the Berlinale. (Please find further information here.)
Berlinale Shorts in Hanoi – Programme I
8.08.2014, 7pm
1. Marc Jacobs
17 minutes/Director: Sam de Jong/Netherland
A journey to the country of his ancestors – Marocco. But where does Soufiane really arrive?
2. SYMPHONY NO. 42
10 minutes/Director: Reka Bucsi/Hungary
Animation film: How would it be, if animals were humans?
3. Birds
15 minutes/Director: Ulu Braun/Germany
Birds in urban habitats – Quo vadis, bird?
4. A Paradise
14 minutes/Director: Jayisha Patel/Cuba
A family is mourning the death of her son. The province is known for the tragic fact concerning the high suicide rate amongst youth.
5. Taprobana
24 minutes/Director: Gabriel Abrantes/Portugal, Sri Lanka & Danemark
Taprobana, now known as Sri Lanka, at the end of the 16th century. The Poet Luiz Vas de Camoes is writing his heroic history of Portuguese conquests.
Berlinale Shorts in Hanoi – Programme II
9.08.2014, 7pm
1. Smile, and the world will smile back
21 minutes/Director: B´Tselem/Israel & Palestin
A night like so many nights in Hebron, on the West Bank, under the occupation.
2. The white roses
20 minutes/Director: Diogo Costa Amarante/Portugal & USA
The memories of the mother are evoked by images enclosed inside Gabriel’s amulet.
3. Three stones for Jean Genet
7 minutes/Director: Frieder Schlaich/Germany
There are places of yearning. There are promises that accompany us our entire lives
4. The big house
25 minutes/Director: Juliette Touin/Cuba
A group of heavily pregnant women live in an old mansion in Cuba. They are waiting for what will come and don’t know what lies before them.
5. Wonder
8 minutes/Director: Mirai Mizue/Japan & France
Animation film: Music and sound, sequences of colour and movement.
Language: Original Language, Vietnamese and English Subtitles.
Screening of Film “Vive la France”
Fri 08 Aug 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Vive la France” (France, 2013, 95 mins) directed by Michael Youn.
“They do not know where they put their feet on! A success of humor, good ideas and excellent replicas”.
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.
Documentary Screening “Who Is William Onyeabor?” and DJ Set with Dan Lo
Thu 07 Aug 2014, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
This is a night to celebrate the Nigerian funk musician and band-leader, William Onyeabor, who had a series of records in the late 70s and 80s which exalted him into an iconic status in the history of Nigerian pop, often considered the founder of Nigerian electro Afro-funk.
His biography has been shrouded in mystery due to his own refusal to discuss it or his music since becoming a born-again Christian in the middle of the 1980s and retiring to pursue a career as a businessman running his own flour mill.
We will show the recent documentary about the mysterious man, Fantastic Man, and follow it up with a set from Saigon’s Afrobeat expert Dan Lo [The Observatory / Eclectic Aesthetic], who will be in charge of the decks all the night long, set to put William Onyeabor classics on alongside many other Afro hits, leading up to their influence on sounds of today.
Entry VND 50,000
A Night of Concert and Ballet “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Wed 06 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to a night of Concert and Ballet “Midsummer night’s dream” with the participation of:
Artistic Director: PhD. People’s Artist Phạm Anh Phương
Conductor: PhD. Meritorious Artist Nguyễn Thiếu Hoa
Perform by: VNOB’s Symphony Orchestra, Choir and Ballet troupe
Program
F. Mendelsshohn Music from “Midsummer night’s dream” by W. Shakespeare
Wedding March
Nocturne
Tchaikovsky Spanish Dance from ballet “Swan lake”
Rossini Figaro’s kavatina from opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia”
Soloist: Mạnh Dũng
Rosina’s cavatina from opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia”
Soloist: Thăng Long
Soloist: Vành Khuyên
Tchaikovsky Valse from ballet “Sleeping beauty”
Handel Choirs from “The Messia”
And the glory, Let all the angels of God, Amen, Halleluija
Tchaikovsky Duo from ballet “Nutcraker”
Intermission
Ballet “Secret garden”
Music: Sebastian Plano & Olafur Arnalds
Choreography & Staging: Sasha Evtimova
Video Animation: Predrag Milochevich
Perform: Phương Thảo, Việt An, Như Quỳnh, Thu Huệ, Hải Ly, Văn Lương, Văn Đức, Văn Nam, Hàn Giang, Thành Công, Đình Thùy
Tickets
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.
Saigon Chamber Music 2014
Mosaic of a Century: Sat 02 Aug 2014, 8 pm
Young Virtuosos Concert Series: Fri 08 Aug 2014, 7.30 pm
Masterclasses series: 03 – 07 Aug 2014, 4.30 pm
Ho Chi Minh Conservatory of Music
112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC
Tel: (+84)38-243-774
Saigon Chamber Music 2014 is a festival and school that offers a week long of intensive training for young musicians, by a faculty of internationally acclaimed artists from the UK and Norway. Highlighted in the programme are a faculty recital “Mosaic of a Century”, a student concert “Young Virtuosos Concert Series”, as well as seminars and masterclasses for a more rounded musical experience.
FESTIVAL SUMMARY
MOSAIC OF A CENTURY: 8 pm – Saturday 2 August 2014
A piece of upholstery woven from the impressionist and romantic tone colours, accented with the sweet sorrow of the 20th century music. The programme includes works by Ravel, Kodaly, and Shostakovich, taking the audience on a journey to the depth of human soul.
Programme:
Ravel Trio in A minor for piano, violin and cello (1914)
Modéré
Pantoum (Assez vif)
Passacaille (Très large)
Final (Animé)
Kodaly Duo for Violin and Cello op. 7 (1914)
Allegro serioso, non troppo
Adagio
Maestoso e largamente ma non troppo lento – Presto
Zoë Martlew “Salat Babilya” (Babylonian Prayer) (2008)
Bjarne Brustad “Veslefrikk” from Fairytale Suite (1932)
Shostakovitch Trio no. 2 in E minor op. 67 for piano, violin and cello (1944)
Andante
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto
Tickets: 100,000 ; 250,000 ; 300,000 VND
YOUNG VIRTUOSOS CONCERT: 7:30 pm – Friday 8 August 2014
Celebrating the young talents of Saigon Chamber Music 2014, trained by the internationally acclaimed artists in the faculty. 20 young musicians have been selected from HCMC Conservatory, Hue Academy and Viet Nam National Academy of Music
Tickets: 100,000 ; 150,000 VND
THE MASTERCLASS SERIES (*): 4:30pm daily 3-7 August 2014
*** All workshops and masterclasses are free on first come first served basis. About 20 seats are available to the pulic. We reserve the right to refuse admission when seats are filled. Reserving a seat will guarantee admission.
Sun 3 Aug: “Listening beyond the Dots”
Mon 4 Aug: Piano and strings Masterclass
Wed 6 Aug: Piano and strings Masterclass
Thu 7 Aug: Tango and Improvisation
Fish Sauce and Ngọt Debut Live Show
Sat 02 Aug 2014, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Fish Sauce is the most flavoursome band to come through Hanoi and impress tastebuds this summer. A fresh blend of Vietnamese and Latin American artists, come for a night of original music composed by lead singer, Mai Khoi, on journeys through Mexico and Cuba.
Mai Khoi (Song and Album of the Year, 2010) is joined by Araceli (Nicaragua), Sebastian (Ecuador), Truong Sa (formerly PAK band and collaborator with Le Cat Trong Ly) and the Hanoi flamenco collective.
Totally out of the bowl, Fish Sauce marinates your mind, body and soul.
Starting out the evening will be Hanoi’s fresh young talents Ngọt. A university combo quartet, this group will make you re-live your youth (or if you’re still young enough, be a reminder of how lucky you are!).
Sweet melody blends and indie folk harmonies, these are a rare act to find in our city. Let singer/guitarist Vu Dinh Trong Thang, bassist Ha Nguyen, guitarist Tuan Tran and drummer Nam Anh show you why they are already gathering a Beatles-esque following in Hanoi.
We’re lucky to have them whilst they are still without bodyguards!
Entry VND 80,000. Tickets can be picked up in advance to ensure entry.
Graduate Fashion Show and Exhibition “Still Believing” of London College for Fashion Studies Hanoi
Sat 02 Aug 2014, 4 pm
Grand Ballroom, Melia Hanoi Hotel
44 Ly Thuong Kiet Str, Hanoi
You are invited to Graduate Fashion Show and Exhibition “Still Believing” of London College for Fashion Studies Hanoi.
By joining the exhibition, you will have a chance to:
- Featuring collections from students in the Advanced Diploma: Designer/ Creative Merchandiser and Professional Diploma: Fashion Design & Technology
- Investigate British fashion education technology, from concept to production
- Meet directly with members of the LCFS staff, students and representatives from the UK to find out about courses experience, the application process, work placement and internship opportunities in Vietnam and UK , study transfer to the UK and much more
- Visit the Style Zone to get personal style consultancy advice towards improving your look, as provided by our students
- Participate in community activities “NEW CLOTHES FOR A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR” to help raise funds to produce new clothes for disadvantaged children living in poverty.
- Register to see the Graduate Fashion Show 2014 featuring the final creations of the students in Fashion Designers/ Creative Merchandiser Programme at 7.30pm on 03rd August 2014
RSVP to Ms. Mai Trang or Ms. Hong Minh at (04) 3719 9706 or info@fashionstudies.com.vn
Graduate Fashion Show and Exhibition “Still Believing”
Sat 02 Aug, 3 pm till Sun 03 Aug, 10 pm
London College for Fashion Studies
No. 48 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
You are invited to the graduate fashion show and exhibition 2014 “Still Believing” with the participation of students in Fashion Design/ Creative Merchandiser department 2012-2014.
Register for the Fashion Show to enjoy the creative collections by graduates on Sunday 03 Aug 2014 at 7.30pm
Please contact (04) 3 719 9706
Or email: info@fashionstudies.com.vn to register for invitation
Viet Pride 2014 – Together
01, 02 and 03 Aug 2014
Hanoi
In August 2012, Vietnam saw its first LGBTQ Pride celebration in Hanoi. A convoy of more than 200 people on bicycles and motorbikes, carrying rainbow flags and messages of equality, created a landmark for the LGBTQ movement in the South East Asian country, where prejudice against sexual minorities is still pervasive. The second
Viet Pride the following year was a significant step in strengthening the movement and expanding the scope to include the Viet Pride scholarship and an employment equality campaign.
This year, 2014, Viet Pride will be celebrated for the third time in Hanoi on the first weekend of August – the 01st, 2nd, and 3rd. Continuing the momentum, the third Viet
Pride aims to raise awareness of sexual diversity and the right to love that every person regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity is entitled to. Besides that,
Viet Pride 2014 also puts a strong emphasis on forging the connection and solidarity amongst diverse LGBTQ groups from all over the country through a series of discussions and networking activities. These two directions of focus are much needed in the time and place where equality and dignity for people of sexual minorities are circumscribed by the language of culture, and the consensus, solidarity within the LGBTQ community is vital to lead the movement forward.
The preparation for Viet Pride 2014 is being carried out with great excitement across the country, involving civil society organisations both in the North and the South of Vietnam, as well as foreign embassies, social enterprises, and the strategic partner of Viet Pride – the Goethe Institute. The organising committee also hopes to bring over LGBTQ organizations from overseas for exchange of good practices and transnational camaraderie. A great source of support comes from Civil Rights Defenders to put together the event and invite LGBTQ community leaders to Hanoi for the three days of Viet Pride and a number of community consultation/needs assessment sessions.
Speaking of the development and remarkable progress of Viet Pride, Nguyen Thanh Tam, director of the project since 2012, said, “Viet Pride is making small, yet firm and consistent, steps in fostering social acceptance and respect that has been sorely lacking in the Vietnamese society. I am glad that in only three years, Viet Pride has grown to become an annual tradition and symbol of respect for diversity, with Vietnamese LGBTQ youth and allies quickly becoming the leading force. I also appreciate the fact that Viet Pride has proven to be not an isolated event or confined within Vietnam but part of the global LGBTQ movement that is changing the world in a way unimaginable just a few decades ago!”
MAT CHI MAA – LGBT Live from Thailand
Fri 01 Aug 2014, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
The 3rd Vietnamese Gay Pride Festival – Viet Pride 2014 – this year brings a full live act from Thailand: MAT CHI MAA, an LGBT band originates from Chiangmai.
Support acts include the upcoming indie rock band Ngọt, followed by DJ.
Entry: 100,000 VND.
Exhibition “Today and Forever”
Opening: Fri 01 Aug 2014, 5 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 07 Aug 2014
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Str, Hanoi
You are invited to the exhibition “Today and Forever – 2014″ by 21 artists and sculptors from Haiphong.
Electronic Disco Night with Italian Artist Bottin
Fri 01 Aug 2014, 10 pm
The Observatory
Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC
Come to an electronic Disco Night with Italian Artist Bottin.
BOTTIN – “one of the finest purveyors of electronic disco around,” (Vice Magazine) – is once again hitting Saigon for a gig that promises to showcase the apex of what disco can really be.
Listen to his music on Soundcloud.
Supported by HIBIYA LINE (Optimist Club, The Observatory)
Entry 100,000 VND.
Opening of Viet Pride 2014 at Goethe Institut
Grand Opening: Fri 01 Aug 2014, 5.45 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Come to the opening of Viet Pride 2014 at Goethe Institut.
Languages: English-Vietnamese
Free Admission.
While the campaign to legalise same-sex marriage in Vietnam may have stalled for the moment, enthusiasm remains high as the nation prepares for the third annual LGBT Pride celebration – Viet Pride.
Under the theme ‘Together’, Viet Pride aims to sustain the momentum and solidarity amongst the diverse LGBT groups across the country, and also fostering the dialogues between LGBT community and strategic key partners including dedicated rights activists, supporting civil society organisations, relevant UN agencies and other allies in Vietnam.
Built on the success of previous campaigns, the event this year offers a wide range of activities, opportunities and platforms to embrace the diversity and dynamics of the movement; promote unity and coordination within LGBT-serving groups; facilitate interaction and communication within community and among participants in a cosy, vibrant and colourful atmosphere. Through solidarity and understanding, Viet Pride aims to harness the energy and strengthen the voice of LGBT people.
The event will take place over five days from August 01 to August 05 – with the capstone Viet Pride bicycle rally on Sunday August 03, an event celebrated widely in local and international media. Supporters are enthusiastically expecting a convoy of rainbow bikes, and volunteers with huge rainbow flags along the rally route in the centre of the capital. Such visibility carries the hope to gradually change the social attitude in Vietnam where homosexuality remains a taboo.
Screening of “Paulette”
Fri 01 Aug 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Paulette” (French, 2013, 87 mins) directed by Jérôme Enrico. This is “a modern comedy that explodes in all aspects.”
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.
Viet Pride 2014 Line Up of Events in Hanoi
Viet Pride 2014
01 – 03 Aug 2014
Goethe Institute – 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
American Club – 21 Hai Ba Trung
Hanoi Social Club – 6 Hoi Vu
Puku – 16-18 Tong Duy Tan
The 3rd Viet Pride Festival (Vietnamese Gay Pride Festival) will take place in Hanoi, on the 01st, 2nd, and 3rd of August, themed as “Together”. Continuing the momentum, Viet Pride 2014 aims to raise awareness of sexual diversity and the right to love that every person is entitled to. The agenda also includes activities that forge the connection and solidarity amongst diverse LGBTQ groups from all over the country.
The 3 days of Viet Pride 2014 will be celebrated with numerous activities centered on the subject of LGBTQ such as talks, conferences, film screenings… (many are on free admission basis).
The capstone Viet Pride Bike Rally will be held on the 3rd day (August 3rd) followed by an outdoor party at American Club with free beer and music for bikers!
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