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Friday 14 Dec 2012, 9 pm
House of Son Tinh – 31 Xuan Dieu
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Saturday 15 Dec 2012, 9 pm
CAMA ATK – 73A Mai Hac De
It’s all giggles this weekend in Hanoi as the Hong Kong Comedy Tour returns for a second bout of Ha Ha Hà Nội. Culturally inappropriate jokes, heavy irony and deadpan one liners make for great entertainment so bring a date, prepare your heckles and leave your skepticism at the door.
Tickets: VND100,000
Installation Exhibtion “Shapes”
Opening: Fri 14 Dec, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 Dec 2012 – 13 Jan 2013
21 NORTH, 49 Lang Yen Phu, Ha Noi
The installation “Shapes” by group8, witnesses a new way of conceiving architecture, where ‘shape’ is the result of a long analytical and conceptual process, and not the starting point of reflection.
Composed of nine successive red shapes, each form is specific and unique, responding to a series of parameters coming out of historical, cultural, economic and environmental contexts.
Exhibition “The Beauty of Korea in the Eyes of Vietnamese”
Exhibition: 13 – 21 Dec 2012
Korean Cultural Center
49 Nguyen Du, Ha Noi
You are invited to the exhibition of 70 art works of artist Thai Minh Son. This exhibition brings to the audience the beauty of Korea in 4 seasons: green summer, white winter, yellow autumn, the blooming of cherry blossom in spring; or daily activities in each corner that are similar to the Vietnamese; the modern scenery vs traditional landscape… Each art work is the memory of the artist of a country which he has visited.
Xmas at Bookworm and Hanoi Cooking Centre
Xmas at Bookworm
15 and 16 Dec 2012, 2 – 4 pm
Bookworm & Hanoi Cooking Centre
44 Châu Long, Hà Nội Now open every day 9am – 7pm
THE BOOKWORM and THE HANOI COOKING CENTRE invites you to enjoy a classical trio on Sat and jazz on this Sunday.
Every afternoon… free, warm and spicy Gleuhwine (mulled wine). Candy canes for the children.
DISCOUNTS ON: ALL BOOKS @THE BOOKWORM+ HCC CHRISTMAS TREATS
10% off take away Puddings, Mince Pies, Panfort
30% off all used books under 100 000VND…..10% all others except notebooks /cards
The Bookworm is the best little book cafe in southeast Asia and the coolest place to browse.
(Image from ‘Vietnam – Under the Sign of the Blue Dragon’ by Francois Jarlov)
Hue – Exhibition “Impressions”
Opening: Sat 15 Dec, 5 pm
Exhibition: 15 – 26 Dec 2012
New Space Arts Foundation, Hue
2nd Floor, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City
You are invited to art exhibition “Impressions” of artist Geraldine ANTON.
According to the artist: “Impressions” is about my experience in Vietnam. It is about the Land, the people, what I experienced, felt and saw during this journey. It is about the creation time of the Human Being in Vietnamese culture between traditions and modernity, shown through photography, drawings, sculpture and video.
HCMC – Exhibition “Meeting”
Nguyen Xuan Khanh
Exhibition: 08 – 31 Dec 2012
Tu Do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau Str, Dist 1, HCMC
You are invited to the oil painting exhibition “Meeting” by 4 artists Bui Quang Anh, Nguyen Tuan Duc, Nguyen Xuan Khanh, Pham Minh Tung.
Exhibition “But Is it Landscape?”
Opening: Wed 12 Dec, 12.12 pm
Exhibition: 12 – 26 Dec 2012
Art Talk Cafe
12 Quan Su Str, Hanoi
Come to the lacquer painting exhibition by Vu Duc Trung. Nguyet Nguyen comments about the artist: “Trung is quite interested in abstract-expressive expressions, and one can see the continuation in his works, from firgure to non-fir gure paintings. One cannot in lacquer calculate in advance how the work will look in fi nal stage. The process of drawing – polishing – drawing – polishing is rather an adventure;its traces could be tracked down beneath layers and layers of resin, creating emotion,improvisation and unpredictability. These are sometimes quietly displayed, sometimes they are expressed vigorously, re flecting the sound of forest, the sound from the wind, from the water, under which nature and life seems to be owing.”
Exhibition “What Delights the Spirits”
Exhibition: Wed 12 Dec 2012, 7 pm
Tadioto
12 Truong Han Sieu, Hanoi
Come to visit exhibition “What Delights the Spirits” by Emma Perrochon & Frédéric Sanchez (France).
Found objects, Sculptures, Paintings, Installations, Video.
An exploration of roots, spirits, culture and the ephemeral in the new Viet Nam.
Hanoi Musician Launches Debut Solo Album
Hanoi musician Michelle Stewart prepares to release her first fully-produced album, Sands of Time. Stewart has been living and performing her music in Hanoi since 2009.
The 12-track album was produced by famous Thai producer, Thananat Peerayagangvanglai from DBS Studio Bangkok, while Stewart is the sole musician on the album, as well as the songwriter, composer, arranger, and co-producer. The album will be released on December 10, 2012.
Sands of Time will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com, CDbaby.com, Spotify, and more, for $9.99. The album includes full lyrics with special photos from the magical place where it was all made.
Sands of Time was inspired in the northern Thai countryside of Pai, Mae Hong Son Province, where Stewart visited twice before finalizing the recording for all tracks in Bangkok. Four songs featured on the album were written in Hanoi.
Rockumentry Night
Wed 12 Dec 2012, 9.30pm.
R&R Tavern
256 Nghi Tam, Hanoi
Come to the Rockumentry night tonight.
Student Guitar Club Anniversary
Wed 12 Dec, 7.30 pm
Sports Hall, Hanoi Architectural University
Km10 Nguyen Trai, Van Quan, Ha Dong, Hanoi
You are invited to a music night to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Student Guitar Club from Hanoi Architectural University. There will be performances from the club members and guests including Viet Johan and Le Nguyen Tran Guitar Club, Van Anh and Acoustic Guitar Club, and guitarist Tran Anh Tuan.
Free entrance.
Measuring the World and Utopia
Opening: Tue 11 Dec, 6 pm
Exhibition: 11 Dec 2012 – 06 Jan 2013
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam and Nhasan Studio proudly present two contemporary art exhibitions, “Measuring the World” by Nguyen Huy An, Yuichiro Tamura, Kumpei Miyata and “Utopia” by Tuan Mami from 12 December 2012 – 6 January 2013 in Hanoi.
In “Measuring the World”, three artists from Japan and Vietnam will provoke you to re-think about the size and scale of the world around us, through their art works.
Nguyen Huy An measures the height of the Hanoi’s tallest skyscraper with pieces of paper and folds the pieces of paper into simple shapes. A newly-made paper installation will be exhibited.
Kumpei Miyata, meanwhile, tries to feel the world through his own eyes and with his whole body. In 31 October 2010, he left his home in Fukuoka for Lulea City in Sweden, telling his friend in Lulea by phone that he is coming to Lulea. Finally in 3 December 2010, via 18 countries without taking any airplanes, he arrived at the final destination. He will share this long journey with you through his video installation “I’m sorry for being late”.
Kumpei will also do the daily exercise to jump over the self-made jumping box in front of the exhibition hall.
Yuichiro Tamura, on the other hand, creates a video work without shooting any images but with using available online images from the Google Street View site. This award-winning road movie “NIGHTLESS” will be shown.
In “Utopia”, Tuan Mami will create a new land in the Japan Foundation Library by covering its floor with 100 kg of rice seeds and a thick sheet of glass. This installation aims to create a utopia space within a normal library. This large-scale installation is a part of his on-going project “Untouched Paradise” which aims to invite the visitors to come close to the created paradise resulting in irritation with not being able to touch it.
The pressed rice seeds by glass will grow even without water and soil day by day throughout the exhibition duration. The visitors might paradoxically feel the freedom of the rice plants that grow in such difficult conditions as well as the risky and impossible temptation of touching to feel the rice plant. This installation is conducted specially for elder mothers including Mami’s mother herself who live in Hanoi. By inviting them to this exhibition to enjoy arts, Tuan Mami would like to show to the audiences the definition of social view while explaining the “appearance/disappearance’ structure of an artwork.
These two exhibitions are the part of the project “Skylines With Flying People” which is a multiplex project of contemporary art. For more information on the whole project and schedule, please visit our websites at:
Remark: High heels are not recommended when you visit the Japan Foundation as the whole spaces are covered with wooden pallets during the exhibition period.
Exhibition Information
Measuring the World
By: Nguyen Huy An, Yuichiro Tamura, Kumpei Miyata
Duration: Wednesday 12 December 2012 – Sunday 6 January 2013
Open hours: 09:00 – 18:00 (closed on 29/12-3/1)
Venue: The Japan Foundation Exhibition Hall (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Utopia
By: Tuan Mami
Duration: Wednesday 12 December 2012 – Sunday 6 January 2013
Open hours: 09:30 – 11:30 / 12:30 – 18:00 (closed on Sundays and 29/12-3/1)
Venue: The Japan Foundation Library (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Tay Ho Flea Market
Sun 09 Dec 2012, 9 am – 3 pm
So 4, ngo 67, ngach 67/12 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
The Tay Ho Flea Market is a new way of shopping for Hanoians: buy really safe & tasty food, talk to the producers and have fun with your family and friends!
Free admission.
Screening of “The Scent of Green Papaya”
Sat 08 Dec 2012, 2 pm
TPD
You are invited to the film screening of “The Scent of Green Papaya” of director Tran Anh Hung.
About the film:
Script and directed by: Tran Anh Hung.
Stars: Truong Thi Loc, Tran Nu Yen Khe
Genre: Drama/ Music/Romance
Duration: 104 minutes
Awards: Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film; Golden Camera Award in Cannes Film Festival in 1993.
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitle.
Free entrance.
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
HRC UR2 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Sat 08 and 15 Dec 2012
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
HRC turns two years old this December and is celebrating with two huge free parties on 8th and 15th December under the title ‘UR2’. The parties honour the diversity of current and contemporary music and creative arts we embrace as a promoter and our emphasis on providing a solid, stable and dynamic creative platform for homegrown, grassroots talent as an arts space.
The main party will take place on Saturday 8th December followed by a Bass Streets Aftershock focusing purely on electronic music on Saturday 15th December. Both events are being headlined by quality international acts and will be joined by an array of Hanoi’s finest local talents including the likes of Tri Minh, Raggamuffins, Sebastien Gesell, Phuong Dang, Vu Nhat Tan, DJ Y (VN Tribes), Cybersnake, Inklings, Dirty Fingrz and more. Film by The Onion Cellar, live painting, fashion, vjing and interactive art activities will add a unique visual splash to the events.
Here is the schedule for 8th:
Saturday 8th December
Headlining on the 8th December are Berlin electronic reggae bigshots Illbilly Hitec feat. Longfingah. Illbilly Hitec mix reggae and electronics, blending influences of dub, breakbeat, hiphop and jungle. Made up of live drums, electronic sounds, heavy offbeats and sublimely selected reggae classic samples, cut into with chasey live vocals to create fat dance tunes and a gripping live performance that is made to make you move. The band’s first groove-induced EP “BadBoyBass”, several vinyl releases and growing feedback on their concerts in Europe, India, Japan and Mexico are all pointing towards one thing: Illbilly Hitec are arguably the most exciting newcomers of their genre from Germany. SEEED, the biggest name on the German reggae market has singled the group out as raw talent and is working on a remix of their upcoming single “Augenbling”. The group will be performing at HRC fronted by the supremely talented reggae singer Longfingah (Dubmatic, Mungos HiFi).
Saturday 15th December
At Bass Streets on 15th, we welcome award-winning DJ Chamber from Bristol, UK, to burn up the dance floor. Chamber is a founder of Bass Kitchen Worldwide and was voted Best Breaks DJ in the world at Breakspoll 2011. He has shared the stage across the globe alongside many of the electronic music scenes biggest artists such as Beardyman, Orbital, Benga, Dilated Peoples, Plump DJs, DJ Vadim, Ed Solo, Adam F, Donaeo, Stanton Warriors, Atomic Hooligan, The Freestylers, Benny Page, Lee Coombs, DJ Yoda, A Skillz, Freq Nasty, J Majik, Baobinga, Rennie Pilgrem, Jon Carter, General Midi, The Breakfastaz, Fabio & Grooverider and many more.
With tracks coming out on Mutated Sounds, Kick It Recordings and Unstable Label as well as gigs across China, Australia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand in early 2012 alone, this has been Chamber’s year. His club-night, Bass Kitchen, has recently expanded, launching further international branches across Canada, Taiwan, China and around Europe, which will be booking some of the biggest DJs across the electronic music spectrum. With a relentless work ethic, incredible skill behind the decks, huge amounts of potential and an impressive list of achievements under his belt already at only 23 years of age, Chamber is most certainly one to watch.
Full schedule of HRC UR2 December events is listed below. The full line-up for each event will be announced on our facebook page and website www.hanoirockcity.com very soon.
7th December Heavy rock show feat. Nuranium, 18+, Thrasher
8th December UR2 birthday bash headlined by Illbilly Hitec feat. Longfingah (Germany)
9th December UR2 hip hop festival feat. DJ beats, street art, skating and street dance battles
14th December Alternative/indie rock show feat. Rosewood, Re-Cycle, Thuy Trieu Do.
15th December Bass Streets Aftershock headlined by DJ Chamber (UK)
22nd December UR2 Wall of Dub special
Art and Music Showcase Fundraiser
Sat 15 Dec 2012, 5 pm
PUKU Cafe & Bar
16-18 Tong Duy Tan
We promise an exciting Saturday evening combined with art and music to support a good cause. We are raising money to support the Bo De Pagoda where over 200 sick, disabled and orphaned children and nearly 40 homeless people live.
Through a holistic plan with Projects Abroad, our intent is to dramatically improve many things at Bo De Pagoda including; improving the water filtration system, buying better medical supplies for sick children, while continuing to offer and maintain a long term educational program for the kindergarten children, building a library and introducing a teen orientation program.
Spread the word, save the date and come on down with to PUKU cafe and bar at 16-18 Tong Duy Tan!
5-9PM: Artistic workshops ~ Handpicked items and clothing sales
7.30-9PM: Art auction ~ Raffle prizes
6PM onwards: LIVE MUSIC ~ Pay as you go karaoke + Open Mic
Foods & Drinks available for purchase at PUKU (1st floor).
Projects Abroad is an English, family run organization, bringing volunteers from Developed countries into Developing countries. Our volunteers work in a variety of different placements, ranging from hospitals, to schools and Orphanages. At the moment, we are trying to help to improve the lives of the children at an Orphanage at Bo De Pagoda.
Entrance is by voluntary donation.
Screening of “Little Girl of Hanoi”
Thu 13 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
Come to the screening of “Little Girl of Hanoi” (73 minutes) - one of the most remarkable movies ever made anywhere during wartime— full of exquisite and startling images. It was produced in 1973 by veteran director Hai Ninh.
Filmed amid the rubble of a recently bombed Hanoi, this harrowing tale of a girl searching for her soldier father after losing the rest of her family during a bombardment is a powerful drama and a very rare look at life in the city during the Vietnam War.
The film won the Golden Lotus honor for best feature film at the Vietnam Film Festival in 1975.
Lan Huong, the artist who played the Little Girl will be able to attend the screening and take part in the question and answer session afterwards.
Languages: Vietnamese with English subtitles
Ticket: 150,000 VND (Please pick up and pay for your tickets on the evening of the event at the cinema, 6:30-7:15 pm).
Reservation: Please contact Hang at fvh.films@gmail.com
Your reservation is not confirmed until you receive our return confirmation email.
Reserved seating tickets are allocated on a first come – first served basis. We don’t pre-book seating but if you come early you can pick your favorite seats.
As a courtesy to those on the waiting list please text to 090.4488.995 or email: fvh.films @ gmail.com if you can’t come.
HCMC – A Night of Tchaikovsky
Sun 09 Dec 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
Tel: 08 38299976
Please be invited to A Night of Tchaikovsky at HCMC Opera House. The concert is conducted by Artist of Merit Trần Vương Thạch, with the performance of cellist Filip Tomic and pianist Boris Kraljevic. For more information about program and tickets, please see below:
PROGRAM
Fantasy Overture ”Romeo and Juliet”
Variations on a Roccoco theme, op.33 for cello and orchestra
Intermission
Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor
Tickets
Ticket price: 300 000, 250 000, 150 000, 60 000 VND (for students only)
All tickets are available at:
Ticket Counter, HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
Ticket booking and delivery: 08 3823 7419
Call for Entries: Typography
Deadline: 14 Dec 2012
With the support of Goethe-Institut, TDC (Type Directors Club) continues calling for entries for two competitions about typography: one about Communication Design and one for Typeface Design.
Request for Submissions:
All Entries of communication design and typeface design must have been produced or published during 2012 (01.01.2012-31.12.2012).
Entries must be submitted together with the entry form included:
Category name and number
Single or Series entry (indicate number of items, not boards, for series entries)
Title or identification of entry
Professional, Student Work
Complete information about the submitter (to be repeated on the Payment Form)
Deadline:
All Entries submitted with entry form and fee for entry must be sent before Friday, 14th of December 2012 and sent to the office of TDC before Tuesday, 15th of January 2013 at Type Directors Club 347 West 36th Street Suite 604 New York, NY 10018 USA.
The selected Artworks will be presented in the exhibition, which will take place at Goethe-Institut Hanoi and Hochiminh in 2013. For more Information about these competitions and contest rules please visit: http://branddance.vn/ or https://www.tdc.org/type-competition/#.UL1sDI6LG_s
About Type Directors Club (TDC)
The Type Directors Club is the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen. Founded in 1946, the TDC’s earliest membership included leading designers such as Aaron Burns, Will Burtin, Freeman Craw, Louis Dorfsman, Gene Federico, Edward M. Gottschall, Herb Lubalin, Edward Rondthaler, Bradbury Thompson, and Hermann Zapf. Every year, the TDC simultaneously holds two type competitions: one for the use of type and letterforms in design, and the other for the design of typefaces. The winners are reproduced in the TDC’s Typography Annual, published by HarperCollins Publishers, as well as displayed in seven exhibits that travel worldwide. The TDC56 exhibition, which displayed winning works from all over the world, was successfully organized in Hanoi Vietnam in 2011 by Richard Moore Associates and Goethe Institut.
Contact:
Vũ Thị Thu Vân
Bussiness Developement Associate – Richard Moore Associates
Tel: 84 4 3944 6505
Fax: 84 4 3944 6506
Email: VTTVan@RmooreA.com
Korean Film Festival 2012
Korean Film Festival 2012: 06 – 08 Dec 2012
Megastar Vincom, 191 Ba Trieu, Hanoi
The Korean Film Festival will be held in Megastar Vincom, Ba Trieu, Hanoi from 06 to 08 December 2012.
Continuing the success of the previous festivals, this time the festival will bring to the audiences films of different synopsis from As one, Punch, A Werewolf boy, Masquerade and Jumbagi.
Performance of Works by Dang Hong Anh
Sun 09 Dec 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
01 Trang Tien Str, Hanoi
For more information, see below:
Hanoi and Saigon Japanese Music Fest
Sat 08 Dec 2012, 6.30 pm
La Cooperative
46 An Duong Str, Hanoi
Come to Hanoi and Saigon Japanese Music Fest Vol 8 with Hanoi bands: Unit-K, Heimer’s, TearDrop.N, Hanoi Hearts, and Saigon bands: White Snow, Hell of the pest and two Japanese bands.
Entry fee: 100 000 VND.
A Ukulele Party with Some Christmas Songs
Sun 09 Dec 2012, 12 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to A Ukulele Party with Some Christmas Songs. You can see details of performers in the poster.
Ticket price: 100.000 VND (including one soft drink)
Limited seats available.
HCMC – Screening of VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT
Sat 08 Dec 2012, 7 pm
Saigon Outcast
The Onion Cellar proudly presents an official showcase of Sigur Rós’ VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT in HCMC. The event is organized in collaboration with Saigon Outcast. The film was also screened in Hanoi on 06 Dec.
It has been a while since that screening of INNI at Hanoi Cinemathèque. The first ever Onion Cellar event. I had no idea if we would make it this far.
Fast forward to the current days, on the back of a string of exciting Cellar happenings over the last 12 months (and new connections and friendships that mean more to me than any so-called success), it is only fitting to celebrate the ‘one year later’ with another SIGUR RÓS screening. After all, who doesn’t love those Icelandic dreamers?
Upon the release of their latest album Valtari, SIGUR RÓS gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the album. The idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Among the filmmakers are Alma Har’el, Andrea Arnold, Floria Sigismondi, Ramin Bahrani, and John Cameron Mitchell. At the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their own personal creations.
The weekend of December 7 – 9, a VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT program collects at least 17 commissioned “official” and fan-created short films created to coincide with the album VALTARI. The program will screen on all seven continents (including Antarctica). Venues will include cinemas, cinema-like spaces, rock clubs, Native American casinos, hardware stores, hairdresser salons, and beyond.
Entry: 50,000 VND at doors
HCMC – Photography Exhibition “Involvements for Peace”
Opening: Fri 07 Dec, 10:00 am
Exhibition: 07 – 25 Dec 2012
War Remnants Museum
28 Vo Van Tan, Ward 6, District 3, HCMC
The photography exhibition titled “Involvements for Peace” is a collection of photographs to tell the stories of many people who are suffering from the war remnants and landmine action of MAG and the positive impacts of these actions towards the economic and social development. The exhibition showcases 62 photographs taken by Sean Sutton, Aidan Dockery (UK) and Na Son (Vietnam).
The exhibition also displays pictures of activities of MAG – a non-profit organization which assists people in Vietnam affected by landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and SALW (Small Arms Light Weapons) since 1999.
HCMC – San Art Laboratory: Session 3 Open Call
Sàn Art Laboratory: Session 3 calls for application
Deadline: 23 Jan 2013
3 Mê Linh
District Bình Thạnh, HCMC
Sàn Art seeks your application for ‘Sàn Art Laboratory: Session 3’!
Begun in May 2012, ‘Sàn Art Laboratory’ is Vietnam’s first studio/residency program, initiated and managed by Sàn Art, in Ho Chi Minh City. It aims to provide 3 Vietnamese artists (under 35) with studio and living space for 6 months each. An additional studio and apartment is dedicated to international residents
During each ‘lab session’ (residency period), participating Vietnamese artists must be willing to participate in regular writing and discussion regarding their work and ideas with a specific ‘talking partner’.
Successful Vietnamese applicants will be granted USD1000 production money, a studio to make their art, separate living quarters and a small living allowance.
Each lab session will end with a group exhibition at Sàn Art showcasing realized work.
The ‘Sàn Art Laboratory’ Advisory Board’ will assess all applications for successful applicants.
(International applications will be considered with particular terms and conditions)
For more information and how to apply please see here or contact: hello@san-art.org
Electronic/Sound Mixing
Thu 06 Dec 2012, 9 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De Str, Hanoi
Three very different musicians from the Hanoi underground come together for a night of experimental DJ-ing and sound mixing.
Vu Nhat Tan is equally respected for his classical compositions, electronic experiments and DJ sets. Nurturing new talent and leading by example through ever-excellent Sub Elements events, Slo Lo is one of the most important players in the emergence of a sustainable and vibrant music scene in Hanoi. Rounding off the line-up is ex-NYC party starter, Chad Parks.
Entry: VND 50,000
HCMC – Screening of “THE LADY”
Wed 05 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe
32 Trần Ngọc Diện, Thảo Điền Ward, Dist 2, HCMC
You are invited to the film screening “THE LADY” (2011, 132 minutes) by director Luc Besson.
Film synopsis: The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris. An intimate portrayal of an extraordinary life.
Films are in English or have English subtitles. Films do not have Vietnamese subtitles. Films are not suitable for children.
FREE ENTRY
Contemporary Dance “Three Faces – One Word”
Three Faces - One Word
Sat 15 Dec 2012, 8 pm
Au Co Arts Center
08 Huynh Thuc Khang Str, Hanoi
“Three faces – One word” with the desire to create an annual cultural event in Vietnam to attract the attention of the experts, the audience and the art investors in and out of Vietnam. This program will give you the elegance definition of the classical art in mixed with liberal breath of contemporary art and the three different styles of works of four choreographers.
For free ticket, please contact: togetherhigher@gmail.com
HCMC – Exhibition “Revolution”
Opening: Thu 06 Dec, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 06 – 29 Dec 2012
Craig Thomas Gallery
27i Tran Nhat Duat, HCMC
You are invited to the exhibition Evolution, a solo exhibition of works by Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Luong Luu Bien. With his latest collection Evolution, Luong Luu Bien shows that the transformative process referred to in the title can manifest dramatic change, and yet also preserve the fundamental nature of a thing.
Exhibition “Roots” by Nguyen Thi Mai
Opening: Tue 11 Dec, 5 pm
Exhibition: 11 – 15 Dec 2012
Viet Art Centre
42 Yet Kieu Str, Hanoi
An exhibition of unpolished lacquer painting by NGUYEN THI MAI, an emerging talent in the Vietnamese contemporary art scene, and a fellow resident at Sedona Suites Hanoi! Featuring over 20 pieces of her latest lacquer artwork, this exhibition showcase her unique perspective and interpretation of this traditional Vietnamese art form.
Note: Opening Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 on 12th & 13th and 9:00 to 19:00 on 14th & 15th.
Concert “Il Tango da Napoli a Buenos Aires”
Mon 10 Dec 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
On the occasion of the closure of the Y-Viet 2012 Programme, the Italian Embassy in Hanoi in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam has the pleasure to announce the jazz concert “Il Tango da Napoli a Buenos Aires“ performed by the “Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice Duet” at the Hanoi Opera House on December 10th at 8 p.m..
The “Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice Duet” suggests a jazz interpretation of the traditional masterpieces of Roberto De Simone (Italian) and Astor Piazzolla (Argentinian) out of the “Tango from Naples to Buenos Aires” album, which was first presented in 2008 at the Opera House in Ankara.
Program
Antiche Pietre (G. Soscia)
Migration (G. Soscia – G. Iodice)
La Camorra III (A. Piazzolla)
Freedom Tango (G. Iodice)
Passaggio dei Delfini (G. Soscia – G.Iodice)
Ricordando Buenos Aires (G. Soscia)
SUITE NAPOLI ANTICA
I. Si te credisse (G. B. Basile – R. De Simone)
II. Villanella di Cenerentola – based on the “Gatta Cenerentola” (R. De Simone)
III. Tarantella di Cenerentola – based on the “Gatta Cenerentola” (R. De Simone)
Giuliana Soscia: accordionist, pianist and composer, she was awarded in 2001 the “Sonerfisa” Trophy in Castelfidardo, International Award for Best Italian accordionist, in 2005 the prestigious “XXXV European Personality Prize” at the Capitol in Rome. She is the first accordionist to join the prestigious Jazz Festival Lucca.
Pino Jodice Graduated in piano in 1987 he is currently Professor of Jazz Composition at the “D. Cimarosa” Music Academy in Avellino. Founder and Director of “Power Jazz Unusual Orchestra”. He won several international competitions for jazz orchestra composition and arrangement, he was awarded the “Positano Jazz Prize” as best new Italian talent in 2002.
Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice Duet: established in 2006, the group is engaged in an intense concert activity in the most important Jazz and music festivals.
“Tango from Naples to Buenos Aires”: The musical project addresses jazz versions of the two great masters Astor Piazzolla and Roberto De Simone: The two artists, with their passionate creativity, enclose and give a meaning to culture cohesion in a very similar way. Both had understood that traditions can lose their meaning if they become a habit. Giuliana Soscia and Pino Jodice highlight the importance of discussing on these issues and think over their importance.
The event will see the participation of the famous Vietnamese saxophonist, Mr. Quyen Thien Dac, from the “Vietnam National Academy of Music”.
Tickets available from 200.000 VND
Tickets will be available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or booking on www.ticketvn.com or by email: ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery, call: 091348 9858, 098306 7996, 35651806.
Screening of VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT
Thu 06 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
The Onion Cellar proudly presents an official showcase of Sigur Rós’ VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT at Goethe Institut Hanoi. The event is organized in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab.
It has been a while since that screening of INNI at Hanoi Cinemathèque. The first ever Onion Cellar event. I had no idea if we would make it this far.
Fast forward to the current days, on the back of a string of exciting Cellar happenings over the last 12 months (and new connections and friendships that mean more to me than any so-called success), it is only fitting to celebrate the ‘one year later’ with another SIGUR RÓS screening. After all, who doesn’t love those Icelandic dreamers?
Upon the release of their latest album Valtari, SIGUR RÓS gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the album. The idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Among the filmmakers are Alma Har’el, Andrea Arnold, Floria Sigismondi, Ramin Bahrani, and John Cameron Mitchell. At the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their own personal creations.
The weekend of December 7 – 9, a VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT program collects at least 17 commissioned “official” and fan-created short films created to coincide with the album VALTARI. The program will screen on all seven continents (including Antarctica). Venues will include cinemas, cinema-like spaces, rock clubs, Native American casinos, hardware stores, hairdresser salons, and beyond.
Free Entry.
Photography Exhibition “Heimat – Quê Hương”
Opening: Tue 04 Dec 2012, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 05 – 28 Dec 2012, 9 am – 6 pm
Vietnamese-German Centre
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Tran Dai Nghia Street
A large Vietnamese ex-pat community now lives in Germany, and presently constitutes the largest non-European immigrant group in Berlin. Yet what happens when – despite the better educational prospects, higher quality goods, and measure of social security that Germany may offer – a yearning persists among immigrants for the land of their ancestors?
Berlin-based photographer Nora Bibel visited Vietnam in 2009, to work on a book project sponsored by the German Foreign Office and produced by GCREP (German Conservation Restoration & Education Projects). Fascinated by the country, she returned in 2010, and spent a month getting to know a broad range of Vietnamese returnees, and taking photographs of them.
In cooperation with her subjects, she staged scenes depicting traces of homes “with a foot in two cultures,” so to speak, which thus prompted questions of universal relevance on the nature of home. Although the scenes in each image are staged and, in certain cases, artificially lit, they appear to have arisen spontaneously and by chance – as if everyone, for a brief moment, had put everyday life on hold, so as to think about the broader meaning of his or her life. Closeness to the person portrayed is paramount. “Bielefeld School” is how photographer Nora Bibel sums up this very special mix of precision, aesthetics and laconism. She also briefly interviewed her subjects about their biographies and motives for moving. And thus clearly communicates what “home” means to each one of them.
The exhibition is presented courtesy of the German Embassy in Vietnam, with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Vietnamese-German Centre.
Photographer Nora Bibel will be present at the exhibition opening.
Free admission.
HCMC – Charity Christmas Cabaret
Sat 08 Dec 2012, 6.30 pm
Hotel Sofitel Saigon Plaza
17 Le Duan Boulevard, District 1
Come to Christmas Cabaret with the performance of the International Choir and Orchestra of HCMC (ICOHCMC). This evening of entertainment will include a mix of holiday standards, carols and Pergolesi’s Magnificat.
Tickets are available for 1.890.000 VND. Proceeds of this concert will go to support two children’s charities: Loreto Vietnam-Australia Program and Poussiers de Vie (Dust of Life).
Project “Skylines With Flying People”
Exhibition: 04 Dec 2012 – 06 Jan 2013
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
Skylines With Flying People is a multiplex project of contemporary art in which art practitioners collectively work for achieving one primal mission: To explore the alternative methods of art-creation and team-working.
Curated by Nguyen Phuong Linh, various projects will go on simultaneously, ranging from renovation of space, open-studios, exhibitions, performances to artist talks and documentation of the whole projects.
One of the highlights in this event is the open-studio project. In this open-studio project, which is widely known in the world but rarely practiced in Vietnam, around 10 participating artists will stay and work at each “dream-come-true” studio constructed in the Japan Foundation to present archives of past works as well as “work-in-progress” productions. For those enthusiastic visitors, you can enjoy conversations with each artist to know further about their inspirations for creating arts, as well as to discuss about future creative plans.
The other side of the highlight is the exclusively constructed studios for the participating artists. Tsuneo Noda, a first-grade architect from Japan who successfully renovated old buildings into sustainable collective studios for all kinds of creators in Japan, will smartly renovate existing rooms and cleverly construct structures in the Japan Foundation, to realize the ideal studios which the participating artists discuss about and dream to work at.
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We do hope that the uniquely constructed studios will become stimulating platforms to inspire not only the art practitioners involved but also all visitors to communicate with each other and exchange ideas and thoughts on contemporary arts in Vietnam.
Notice: High heels are not recommended when you visit the Japan Foundation as the whole spaces are covered with wooden pallets during the project period.
For more information and the most updated schedule, please visit us at:
http://swfp.org/s/
www.jpf.org.vn
Projects
1. Renovation of spaces
Duration: Tuesday 20 – Friday 30 November 2012
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Tsuneo Noda (Architect) will renovate existing spaces and construct structures in several areas of the Japan Foundation in order to create studios for the participating artists. He will basically cover the whole spaces of the Japan Foundation with simple wooden pallets which can symbolize the platform to connect each studio and visitors. Interviews with Mr. Noda, photo takings, TV recordings are welcome during the process of renovation.
2. Open Skylines
Date & Time: 18:00 – Tuesday 4 December 2012
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
“Open Skylines” is the official opening to introduce the whole project to the public and media reporters. This event includes (but is not limited to): opening remarks, introduction of each open studio and a studio tour. The works which will be presented in studios are;
- “Laying Down” (2012), a photo series by Jamie Maxtone Graham
- “The World Is Continuous or Not” (2011), a video work by Yuichiro Tamura
- “Lake” (2012), a video work by Nguyen Tran Nam
- A video screening of past performances by Appendix
- Five art dolls created in 2010 – 2012 by Tran Thu Hang
- Dresses designed by Lai Dieu Ha
And more
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3. Open Studio
Duration: Wednesday 5 – Friday 21 December 2012
Open hours: 10:00 – 22:00 (no closed days)
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
The participating artists will stay and work at each studio to present the archives of past works, to show “work-in-progress” productions, as well as to communicate with visitors. You can visit anytime at any of the studios during their opening hours.
The line ups of the studios are as follows:
Information Center
This room includes: an office for curators, a public space for all the visitors, for coffee, tea and snacks, schedule boards of the whole projects, displays by Lai Dieu Ha, Nguyen Quoc Thanh, art doll decorations by Tran Thu Hang and creative products from Tohoku region in Japan through Tohoku-Kyushu Project (*).
*Tohoku-Kyushu Project is a 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction support project which aims to create jobs for artists and designers in Tohoku region (northeast of Japan) who lost most opportunities and channels to sell their creative products after the Earthquake. The project members in Kyushu region (southwest of Japan) have invited creators from Tohoku to several cities in Kyushu in order to promote and sell their products as well as to hold a series of talks by cultural experts from Tohoku region. Some of such products from Tohoku will be exhibited and sold at this Information Center for Skylines With Flying People project.
MAC (Mami Art Center) Hanoi
This room is run by Tuan Mami and Hiroyuki Hattori. It aims to be an experimental and alternative space for contemporary art by conducting the following activities: artist talks, dialogues, presentations and recordings/archives.
Media Lab
This studio is shared by 3 artists in media art, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Jamie Maxtone Graham and Yuichiro Tamura. They will shoot the videos & photos with visitors and show the process of editing their videos & photos. The following video and photo works will be also screened regularly:
“Unsubtitled” (2010), a video work by Nguyen Trinh Thi
“Laying Down” (2012), a photo series by Jamie Maxtone Graham
“The World Is Continuous or Not” (2012), a video work by Yuichiro Tamura
Mini Theatre
This small theatre is run by the artist collective, Appendix. Appendix designed a simple theater by using Vietnamese traditional mattress as a measuring unit. They will carefully construct meditative, near theatrical scenes. They will screen the video of their past performances.
Family Kitchen
This studio with cooking facilities is run by Nguyen Hong Ngoc. She will cook and serve foods to her selected visitors every day.
Sewing Factory
This studio with sewing equipment is run by Lai Dieu Ha and Nguyen Quoc Thanh. Lai Dieu Ha will carefully make sculptural white dresses in great detail, while Nguyen Quoc Thanh will create a series of uniforms which are used for different functions and contexts.
Mobile Gallery “ESCAPE”
A 3-wheels car is transformed into a mobile gallery at which Nguyen Tran Nam will work and exhibit his works. Some of his video works will be installed inside the car and this mobile gallery will go around Hanoi.
Gymnastic Field
One area of the courtyard in the Japan Foundation will be used by Kumpei Miyata for his physical exercise. He will vault over a self-made jumping box every day, making the box higher and higher by piling up more boxes on each day.
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4. Exhibitions
Exhibition I: Measuring the World
By: Nguyen Huy An, Yuichiro Tamura, Kumpei Miyata
Opening: 18:00 – Tuesday 11 December 2012, with artist talks
Duration: Wednesday 12 December 2012 – Sunday 6 January 2013
Open hours: 09:00 – 18:00 (closed on Sundays and 29/12-3/1)
Venue: The Japan Foundation Exhibition Hall (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
The three artists are different in selected media and usages of materials, but their creations all move towards the same direction: Measuring and grasping the world by their own units and re-building the world in their own interpreted ways.
Nguyen Huy An measures the height of the Hanoi’s tallest skyscraper with pieces of paper and folds the pieces of paper into simple shapes. A newly-made paper installation will be exhibited.
Kumpei Miyata, meanwhile, tries to feel the world through his own eyes and with his whole body. In 31 October 2010, he left his home in Fukuoka for Lulea City in Sweden, telling his friend in Lulea by phone that he is coming to Lulea. Finally in 3 December 2010, via 18 countries without taking any airplanes, he arrived at the final destination. He will share this long journey with you through his video installation “I’m sorry for being late”.
Yuichiro Tamura, on the other hand, creates a video work without shooting any images but with using available online images from the Google Street View site. This award-winning road movie “NIGHTLESS” will be shown.
The past but representative works of these three artists will provoke you to re-think about the size and scale of the world around us.
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Exhibition II: UTOPIA
By: Tuan Mami
Opening: 18:00 – Tuesday 11 December 2012
Duration: Wednesday 12 December 2012 – Saturday 5 January 2013
Open hours: 09:30 – 11:30 / 12:30 – 18:00 (closed on Sundays and 29/12-3/1)
Venue: The Japan Foundation Library (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
This exhibition is an installation by Tuan Mami who creates a new land in the Japan Foundation Library by covering its floor with 100 kg of rice seeds and a thick sheet of glass. This installation aims to create a utopia space within a normal library. This large-scale installation is a part of his on-going project “Untouched Paradise” which aims to invite the visitors to come close to the created paradise resulting in irritation with not being able to touch it.
Mami provokes the visitors to look back at our current behavior. Aren’t we always looking forward to a better future but regretting our past at the same time? How wonderful, how beautifully difficult, how sane and therefore real: a field of rice plant existing in a library. The pressed rice seeds by glass will grow even without water and soil day by day throughout the exhibition duration. The visitors might paradoxically feel the freedom of the rice plants that grow in such difficult conditions as well as the risky and impossible temptation of touching to feel the rice plant. This installation is conducted specially for elder mothers who live in Hanoi. By inviting them to this exhibition to enjoy arts, Tuan Mami would like to show to the audiences the definition of social view while explaining the “appearance/disappearance’ structure of an artwork.
Exhibition III: FLYING SKYLINES – The Final Day (the beginning of the ending) at Open Studio
By: Tuan Mami, Hiroyuki Hattori, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Jamie Maxtone Graham, Yuichiro Jose Tamura, Kumpei Miyata, Appendix, Nguyen Hong Ngoc, Lai Dieu Ha, Nguyen Quoc Thanh, Nguyen Tran Nam
Opening: 18:00 – Friday 21 December 2012
Duration: Saturday 22 December 2012 – Sunday 6 January 2013
Open hours: 09:00 – 18:00 (Closed on 29/12 – 3/1)
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
In FLYING SKYLINES, as equally important as OPEN SKYLINES, the participating artists will exhibit their final productions (or “work-in-progress” productions) which they have created at each studio during their stay there for three weeks. The artists’ stay at studios will end on this day but the final productions will be exhibited until Sunday 6 January 2013.
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5. Performance
“Clinging Hybrid”
By: Lai Dieu Ha
Date & Time: 18:00 – Tuesday 18 December 2012
Venue: Goethe Institute Hanoi (56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi)
Lai Dieu Ha is one of the most promising and energetic female performance artists in Vietnam, who strongly, bravely and directly expresses the female identity and sexuality. In this performance at the Goethe Institute’s garden, she will create her own imaginary space all covered with white creatures – a place where chaos and tranquility, sorrow and contentment, vigor and delicacy, ephemeral and immortality coexist.
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6. Talks
Various issues and experiences on contemporary art will be intensively discussed during the talk sessions.
Day I
Date & Time: 18:00 – Wednesday 5 December 2012
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Each speaker’s title will be confirmed later. Speakers on the day include:
Nguyen Phuong Linh Artist / Director of Nhasan Studio Vietnam
Nguyen Manh Duc Founder of Nhasan Studio Vietnam
Tran Luong Independent curator Vietnam
Nguyen Trinh Thi Artist / Director of Hanoi DOCLAB Vietnam
Nguyen Huy An Artist Vietnam
Appendix Artist Collective Vietnam
Day II
Date & Time: 18:00 – Thursday 6 December 2012
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Each speaker’s title will be confirmed later. Speakers on the day include:
Hiroyuki Hattori Curator of Aomori Contemporary Art Center Japan
Tuan Mami Artist Vietnam
Susanna Husse Curator of Note On & The District Berlin Germany
Day III
Date & Time: 18:00 – Friday 7 December 2012
Venue: The Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hanoi)
Each speaker’s title will be confirmed later. Speakers on the day include:
Kumpei Miyata Artist Japan
Yuichiro Tamura Artist Japan
Jayeong Park Curator of Work on Work South Korea
Hyejin Jang Curator of Work on Work South Korea
Back To Africa : ZAMINA’S FINAL SHOW OF 2012
Sat 01 Dec 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
Africa reggae vibes go head to head with nitty gritty London underground d’n'b sounds in Zamina’s final show this year with ZAMINA + SPECTRUM + special guests. They’ve got you dancing more than any other band in Hanoi. They’ve drawn you out from your holes on cold, rainy and sweaty summer nights.
They unite Africa and Asia through music and they don’t let you go home until you are grinninga ear to ear and skanking toe to toe. Show some love for the last time in 2012 for the one and only ZAMINA!
Celebrating their second year as a band, a superb achievement, Zamina will take us back to Africa one more time under these dragon wings.
The night will then explode into a ruckus of reggae-influenced and dancey d’n'b belters laid out by fresh-outta-Kingston-London, DJ/promoter Spectrum.
Spectrum is true drum ‘n’ bass to the core, a resident DJ for Waxworks (London) showcasing some of the finest UK drum ‘n’ bass and dubstep talents. He’s shared the stage with drum ‘n’ bass heavyweights like Danny Byrd, Total Science, Brookes Brothers, Culture Shock (Ram Records), Spectrasoul, DC Breaks and more. This boy’s got raw talent and knows how to spin a great party.
Ticket price: 50k @ door. 50% discount for holders of Vietnam student card
SAY IT LOUD. On Words and Actions
Mon 03 Dec 2012, 6 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Curator Susanne Husse will give an introduction to the exhibition SAY IT LOUD. on words and actions on 03.12 at Goethe-Institut Hanoi. Recently shown at District Berlin, the exhibition investigates the extent to which language is used in the construction of public identities and as a medium of social interaction. This talk is related to the art projectSkyline with Flying People curated by Linh Nguyen who will give an introduction and participate in the subsequent discussion.
SAY IT LOUD. on words and actions, was an art project at District Kunst- und Kulturförderung in Berlin in October 2012, with 12 international artists assembled by the curators Susanne Husse, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Megan Marissa Steinman,. The various works in the exhibition reflected critically on the essential character of speech and text while simultaneously pointing out their inherent power relationships. In the context of contemporary communications, which increasingly prefer text-based interaction to physical communication, SAY IT LOUD asks artists and their audiences to question both the hierarchies and possibilities woven into the relationship between words and actions.
Biography:
Susanne Husse (born 1982 in Görlitz) studied literature and linguistic sciences, cultural management (M.A.), art history and philosophy in Rome and Berlin. She has worked since 2008 as an independent curator and author in Berlin. In 2009 and 2010 she was curatorial adviser and production manager for Hörspielpark Berlin. From 2008 to 2011 she was a member of Berlin Kunsthalle e.V. where, under the title The Arts and the City, she organised conferences, workshops and interventions at the interface between art, urban spaces, experimental exchange formats and community-based artistic engagement. In 2012 she was granted a lectureship at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art.
Cabaret Night in December
Sat 15 Dec 2012, 8.30 – 9.30 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Cabaret Night at L’Espace is the stage for new music talents. Come here to enjoy great drinks and listen to fabulous French, English and Vietnamese songs.
If you are a song-writer, singer or you can sing in French, Vietnamese or English, contact Cédric Drouard to participate in the Cabaret Music Night at L’Espace: cedminimum@hotmail.fr.
Free admission.
An Evening of Opera at LUNA – Programme 25
Thu 13 Dec 2012, 8.30 pm
Luna d’Autunno, Hanoi
78 Tho Nhuom
Hoan Kiem Distr. – Ha Noi
Another evening for lovers of opera at Luna d’Autunno.
This is a monthly event, and a great chance to enjoy live opera in an informal and intimate setting.
This month: An Evening with Christmas songs
This time a potpourri of the most famous Christmas song to bring u back to good moment…..Detailed program below:
Luna Opera 25
Screening of “Astérix et Obélix – Mission Cleopatre”
Fri 14 Dec 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening of “Astérix và Obélix – Cléopâtre’s Duty” by director Alain Chabat at L’Espace. The film has won César Award in 2003 for the best costumes for Tanino Liberatore, Philippe Guillotel, Florence Sadaune. Studio Magazine rates this movie “the most hilarious comedy ever”.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about the film’s synopsis, see L’Espace website.
Ticket:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Installation “The Wall”
Goethe Institut VietnamLe Huy Hoang-Installation The Wall
Opening: Fri 14 Dec, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 15 Dec 2012 – 07 Jan 2013, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe Institute
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
There have been walls either demolished or still existing in this world. All of them were and have been built on blood and sorrow of mankind. But not only walls made of steel and concrete, also virtual boundaries, such as prejudice, discrimination and ignorance of human feeling exist in the minds of society.
Also the life of the artist Le Huy Hoang was inspired by the Cambodian genocide during the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia by a border and engages this theme in his art. For the first time the Goethe-Insitute shows his installation art project The Wall. As shown in its name, this art installation is a high wall made out of bones pointing out the human’s cruelty and the meaninglessness of war.
Biography Le Huy Hoang (PDF, 144 KB)
Installation art project – “The Wall” by Le Huy Hoang
As a Cambodian- Vietnamese artist, this artwork of mine was originally inspired by the Cambodian genocide during the Pol Pot regime. From the beginning, this was just a story of an individual feeling and a story of my coutries Cambodia and Vietnam in this tragic time.
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However, the further I researched, the more I realised that the world has had the same sorrow.
There have been walls either demolished or still existing, either physical or virtual, in this world. They are the Berlin wall, the border between North and South Korea, the Gaza strip, the Ben Hai river which separated the North and South of Vietnam before 1975- all of them were and have been built on blood and sorrow of mankind.
Also, for me and for many people, “the wall’ is often used as the metaphor for isolation, block or denial of an individual or a community. There’s also, of course, always a wall inside each person, which could be prejudice, or discrimination or ignorance of human feeling.
As shown in its name, this art installation is a high wall made out of bones pointing out the human’s cruelty and the meaninglessness of war.
I believe the artwork will show some aspects of human sorrow. I hope the audiences and the Vietnamese art community will share and appreciate the idea of the work.
Free entrance.
Music Night “Third Quarter Moon”
Wed 12 Dec 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Continuing the success of “the music night “Floating memories””, you are invited to the music night titled “Third Quarter Moon” to enjoy some of the works of Trinh Cong Son and explore a space filled with beautiful words and melody.
Language: Vietnamese.
Performers:
Nguyen Van Tuan: percussion, guitar
Giang Trang: vocal
Suong Mai: Flute
Le Thanh Long: cello
Tran Xuan Hoa: percussion
Trinh Cong Son (1939 – 2001) was a Vietnamese composer, musician, painter and songwriter. He wrote over 500 songs. Many of Trinh’s songs are love songs. Others are anti-war songs, written during and about the Vietnam War; some of them were censored by the southern Republic of Vietnam and later by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Ticket:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace from 12 Nov 2012.
HCMC – Jazz concert with Sophie Alour
Tue 04 Dec 2012, 8 pm
IDECAF
31, Thai Van Lung, D1, HCMC
You are invited to a jazz concert with Sophie Alour. Saxophist Sophie Alour has received Django d’or Award for young talent in 2007. She will bring to the audience a kind of jazz which requires special technique yet very liberal, modern and creative. For this concert, she will be accompanied some exceptional pieces by Tran Manh Tuan, a popular saxophonist among jazz fans in Vietnam.
Ticket
Entrance: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets on sale at the IDECAF (Tel : 38 23 99 68)
Art Project “Ăn cơm chưa”
Opening: Thu 06 Dec, 7 pm
La 4uatrieme & Ete Bar
4th floor, 95, Giang Văn Minh, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Come to the opening of exhibition to discover the work of Colin Christy, artist in residence at la 4uatrieme.
Colin Christy is an artist who makes site-specific sculptures, installations, and drawings that combine natural and artificial materials using different techniques to create pieces that change and discover themselves over time.
He has recreated and destroyed burial mounds in St. Louis, transplanted river-side ecosystems to Oakland, and made guerrilla sculptures in the streets of Florence. He moved to Hanoi from Oakland in the summer of 2012 to explore collaborations with other artists working in Vietnam.
Exhibition “HANOI 18H/6H”
Opening: Thu 06 Dec, 6 pm
Exhibition: 06 Dec 2012 – 06 Jan 2013
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
The photograph exhibition of Sébastien Laval reveals another side of Hanoi at night when the light shows different colours.
The exhibition showcases photographs of the streets of Hanoi from 6 pm to 6 am the next morning in many years. These colour photographs shows another look of Hanoi at night time. Hanoi at night is a different city where the urban side of it changes the colour completely.
Free entrance
Dzung’s Xe dap
Dzung’s handmade handpainted bikes: 01 – 31 Dec 2012
Bookworm Too
09 – 31 Dec 2012
Bookworm Chau Long
44 Châu Long, Hà Nội Now open every day 9am – 7pm
Dao Viet Dzung’s family started to make miniature bicycles out of steel wire and scrap metal in 2001 when Dzung was in high school. Dzung hand painted them and traveled from his village and sold them on the streets of Hanoi.
Success breeds imitation and eventually too many copiers destroyed the market.
Since 2006 Dzung has made a series of bikes for the Bookworm every two years and now they have started to become collector’s items.
Dzung hopes that you enjoy series 2012 as much as he enjoyed painting them.
Bookworm does not charge artists rent or commission.
Price: 150 000 VND each bike
The Bookworm is the best little book cafe in southeast Asia and the coolest place to browse.
Christmas Concert
Hanoi: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
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Haiphong: Sat 08 Dec 2012, 8 pm
Opera house Haiphong
Year after year – The Christmas concert of the Goethe-Institut brings again Christmas to Hanoi and for the first time also to Haiphong. After an exciting year with a lot of cultural events, new German students and graduates Christmas is just around the corner. The Goethe-Institut invites kindly to celebrate the end of the year with compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Telemann, Mozart et al. in a tranquil atmosphere at the courtyard of the Institute.
Again under the direction of Graham Sutcliffe singers of the International Choir and young musicians from Hanoi attune the audience for the Christmas days. But this time not only Hanoi gets the enjoyment of the Christmas atmosphere. For the fist time the concert takes also place at the opera house in Haiphong.
Program
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) | Cantata “Nun kommt der heiden Heiland” (Choir) Ouvertüre
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) | Ouvertüre „A La Pastorelle”
Viste
Menuet
Air: Andante
Gigue: Tres viste
Caprice: Vistement
Carillon
Christmas song to sing along | „Macht hoch die Tür“ (Choir) (1 und 2 Strophe)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) | Concerto for viola and string orchestra
Allegro
Largo
Andante
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) | Kantate Nr. 61 „Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” (Choir) Ouvertüre
Christmas song to sing along | „O Du fröhliche“ (Choir) (3 Strophen)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) | Ave Verum Corpus (Choir)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) | Grillen Symphonie
Etwas lebhaft
Taendelnd
Presto
Christmas song to sing along | „Stille Nacht“ (Choir)
Tickets
Hanoi: Free admission
Haiphong: Free tickets are available at: August Theatre, 117 Đinh Tiên Hoàng
A Night of Beethoven “Pastoral”
06 and 07 Dec 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the concert with conductor HONNA Tetsuji, piano soloist Nguyen Viet Trung and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information, see below:
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Screening of “The Vertical Ray of the Sun”
Fri 07 Dec 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “The Vertical Ray of the Sun” (France, 2000, 108 minutes) by Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung. For more information, see below:
Film’s synopsis: The plot centres around three sisters and a brother. The youngest sister is single and living with her cute older brother, whom she is desperately in love with. A second sister is married to a man who has another woman and child elsewhere whom he loves just as much as his wife -with a few conditions, she agrees to carry on with the marriage. The third sister and her husband are overjoyed to discover she is pregnant, and though he is tempted, her husband remains loyal to her.
Language:: Vietnamese with French subtitles.
Ticket
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Jazz Concert with Sophie Alour
Sat 01 Dec 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the Jazz concert with Sophie Alour. Saxophist Sophie Alour has received Django d’or Award in 2007 for young talent. She will bring to the audience a genre of Jazz which requires special technique yet very liberal, modern and creative.
In her Asia tour this time, Sophie Alour will perform with Sylvain Romano from her album Insulaire (Nocturne 2005) and Frédéric Pasqua (drum) from her latest album La géographie des rêves (Naïve 2012).
The trio creates their own style. Sophie Alour always looks for a way to expand the limit of the duo by exploring all possibilities that this special trio is capable of doing.
Sophie Alour : saxophone
Sylvain Romano : Contrebasse
Frédéric Pasqua : Drum
Ticket:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace from 01 November 2012.
FOTOS Performs in Vietnam
HANOI: Sat 01 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Youth Theatre
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Sun 02 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Viet Duc School
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Hai Phong: Tue 04 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
August Theater
Goethe-Institut Vietnam proudly presents FOTOS on tour in South-East Asia. The popular German Pop-/Rock-Band FOTOS from the city of Hamburg shall play two concerts in Hanoi and one in Haiphong before heading to Bangkok. A workshop and a third concert will follow in Thailand. The FOTOS will play gigs from their latest album “Porzellan” and more recent hits.
The tour is jointly organized by Goethe-Institut and Hanoi Youth Theatre. By inviting the FOTOS a popular German band Hanoi and Haiphong students – especially those who are part of the PASCH partner school program – shall experience the latest rocking German tunes – all live!
Pop music made in Germany is divers , internationally acclaimed and most successful since the 1980ies. If Electronic-Music or Rap, Rock or Pop: Bands like Kraftwerk, Scorpions, Tote Hosen, Tokio Hotel and last but not least FOTOS mesmerize huge crowds. Popular tunes and German language made Falco´s “Amadeus” or Nena´s “99 Luftballons” mega hits on an international scale.
The FOTOS are four smart musicians: Thomas Hessler (Vocal, Guitar), Deniz Erarslan (Guitar), Friedrich Weiss (Bass) and Benedikt Schnermann (Drums).
Bassist Friedrich describes founding the band like this: “These four boys got randomly together and just matched really well on a musical and on a personal level.”
Their style of music is individual and not easy to put a label on. In their own way the band is mixing Indie-Rock/Pop, with German Rock and Electronic Sounds.
The FOTOS perform since 2005 and have released three albums so far. The FOTOS have been successful in Germany, England, India, Indonesia and Mexico. They played festivals in Austria, China and Kazakhstan.
Ticket
Hanoi: Tickets will be distributed on the 27th November at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.
Haiphong: Tickets will be distributed on the 30th November at August Theater, 117 Dinh Tien Hoang.
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
Viet Duc School
47 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi
August Theater
117 Dinh Tien Hoang, Haiphong
ELECTRIC KICKS in Hanoi
Sat 01 Dec 2012, 8 pm
The Boombox Lounge
1 Nguyen Khac Can Str, Hanoi
A house party atmosphere that EADJ parties are known for all over HCMC. DJ Pants and superkid rocking the dancefloor with all your favourite new and old indie electro, discopunk, nu-disco, indie rock, 80s new wave and 50s/60s.
Entrance: : 50,000vnd
Film Screening and Meet Director Asger Leth
01 and 03 Dec 2012, 7 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
On the occasion of the visit of acclaimed Danish film director Asger Leth, his two famous documentaries will be screened this week. On Saturday evening, we will screen MAN ON A LEDGE, with Mr. Leth present to do a Q&A after the film. On Monday, December 3 we will show his extraordinary documentary, GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL, with Mr. Leth again leading a discussion/Q&A after the film.Schedule
Sat 01 Dec 2012, 7 pm
MAN ON A LEDGE
followed by discussion/Q&A with Director Asger Leth
Mon 03 Dec 2012, 7 pm
GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
followed by discussion/Q&A with Director Asger Leth
We expect a full house, so please reserve early if you would like to attend. And please – if you do make a reservation and are not able to attend – PLEASE phone and cancel your reservation so we can give your seat to another member.
For reservations, phone us – daily from 14:00–21:00 – at (04) 3936 2648.
Benefit for Le Ly’s Global Village Foundation
Sun 02 Dec 2012, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
The evening will include a reception, followed by screening of Oliver Stone’s stunning HEAVEN & EARTH (based on the autobiography of Le Ly Hayslip) followed by a conversation/Q&A with Le Ly herself.
If you have never seen HEAVEN & EARTH and/or never met Le Ly Hayslip, we urge you to attend for an unforgettable encounter. The evening will be both entertaining and enlightening. And Le Ly will be doing the cooking!
Program
18:30 Reception with food and drinks
19:30 Screening of HEAVEN & EARTH
Followed by Conversation/Q&A with Le Ly Hayslip
Dinner + screening is for Hanoi Cinémathèque members and their friends and guests.
A $25 (VND 500,000) donation per person will go directly to Le Ly’s Global Village project – for teacher training and book distribution for rural children in Quang Nam province.
Reservations daily from 14:00 – 21:00, Tel: 3936 2648.
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