Exhibition of Metropole Nomade Project

Opening: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 4.30 pm
Exhibition: 29 Jul – 09 Aug 2012
Art talk Brazil contemporary art: Tue 31 Jul, 9.30 am
12 Quan Su street, Hanoi

Metropole Nomade is an art exchange project, which was formed under the proposal of the artist group Metropole artists in Paris (France). Metropole Nomade will be carried out in three years, from 2012 – 2014 in various locations in three continents Asia, Europe and Latin America.

In this year (2012) the project takes place in Hanoi, Vietnam with the participation of five French artists: Abigail Nunes, Annie Barel, Elli Drouilleau, Eric Huynh, Pat cam; four Brazilian artists: Erica Bettiol, Flavia Sammarone, Fabiana Mitsue, Flavia Vivacqua and six Vietnamese artists: Nguyen Tran Cuong, Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, Tran Gia Tung, Tran Trung Thanh, Vu Duc Trung and Hoang Duy Vang. The project will be on display at Mai Gallery from 07/29/2012 until 08/09/2012.


The theme of the project is Movement. The project aims at creating a group installation with participation of artists from three countries: Vietnam, France and Brazil. There will be several stages; each group of artists will further develop the initial idea which later will be assembled into an installation work. The idea is not fixed; it could be changed through the working process and up to artist’s creativeness and imagination. Thus there is no fixed location and timing; the project will be carried out by different artist groups from different countries.

The concept Movements has many meanings. It could be interpreted as ‘the going, the moving of action and ideas”, it could also be understood as a Trend – a change that have impacts on community or society. On the broader context, Movements aims at encouraging artists to achieve freedom and individual exposure through artworks, they can use all techniques and art forms, such as painting, printing, sculpture, photography, video, performance art etc. Artists need to be flexible so they can hand over their arts to the next group; they also need to adjust to circumstances which suddenly arise in the working process and out of plan.

In this project Metropole Nomade, each step of the project could also be seen as Residency activity. It is part of the project purpose: to encourage creativity and teamwork, the development of artistic idea along with artwork creating process and the serious attitude before introducing artworks to public. Each step is also a small art project, having its own independence and brings forward experiments to each participating artist.

Metropole Nomade is an open project which is challenging and ambitious. It needs huge amount of material and human resources, as well as the professionalism of participating artists and their attention. Artists in each group will have chance to introduce their work to a broad audience. They will then be able to further develop the ability to create artworks and to communicate with the international community, thus increasing their artistic capacity and awareness. These are also important purposes of the project.

Music and Dance Extravaganza DFOL

Fri 13 Jul 2012, 7 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De Str, Hanoi

Friday the 13th: Welcome to our first monthly night re-envisioning a Wild Summer Dance Rock Party where Post-Punk, Post-Indie, Neo-Garage dinosaurs will grind gears with deep Driving-You-Straight-to-Hell beats, and the Bat-Cave will swing hard with sexed-up full throttle peddle to the metal diesel hum. The Dirty White Boys gonna get nasty on the wrong side of the tracks and the Bad Girls gonna burn the hometown down gettin’ jiggy wid it!

Sound and Vision, Spin and Vibe deeply curated by OneBlackEye. Special surprise opening performances…..and of course, drink specials to get you loose, loose, loose…

Free entry. Doors from 7pm. Music, film, performance and dancing from 10 pm

Screening of “Screens”

Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8 pm
La 4uatrieme
4th floor, 95, Giang Văn Minh, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of Screens // digital video creation series. SCREENS is a video-creation curatorship managed by Damiàà Jordàà. In this selection we can find some of the works created by spanish and latin-american emerging artists over the the last three years.

SCREENS was born as a monthly series shown in La Clinica Mundana, an independent show-room and gallery in Valencia (Spain). Nowadays, we have become a travelling exhibition in order to foster the spanish contemporary art, focusing in those who use any language of video creation – video-performance, video-dance, experimental documentary, music clip, visual poetry, etc – , and trying to pay more attention to the most risky proposals.

Betwen the artists we can find Javier Marisco, who was the director of the recent 5th International Independent Art Festival Incubarte, in Valencia, Spain.

Also Damià Jordà participated like curator at the Festival. Or Avelino Saavedra who is one of the developers in the scene interested in sound as creative material in Spain (based in Valencia). Interesting work his project Stereotron (Avelino Saavedra & Jean Montag).

Free Entrance!!

Exhibition “Corridor Cracks”

Opening: Thu 12 Jul 2012
Exhibition: 12 Jul – 06 Sep 2012
Ete Bar
95 Giang Van Minh Str, Hanoi

Final Show of Machete Sex Mix

Thu 12 Jul 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Popular band Machete will play their final rock show to Hanoi audiences on Thursday 12th July in a free gig, with support band Gỗ Lim and Slo Lo.

Free entry.

London 2012 – Now Photo Competition

Deadline: 12 Aug 2012
From British Council:
20 Thụy Khuê
Tây Hồ, Hà Nội

Join the Games! Share the moments! And WIN the PRIZE!

You love sports. You are proud of the beauty of Vietnam. Your head is always exploding with creative ideas.  So this photo competition is definitely for YOU!

All you need to do is take a creative photo that includes the attached NOW picture (see below). It may be you holding the picture, a group of people holding the picture, a picture being placed at the centre of a creative installation or being placed in the natural beauty of Vietnam. Have a look at some excellent work by our Japanese colleagues to get some ideas.

There is no limit to creativity. You can make it as interesting and original as you want. The setting can be whatever or wherever you like, as long as the NOW picture is in the photo.

Please see below the step-by-step guidelines:

Right-click on the NOW picture to save the JPEG file on to your device.
Colour print the picture with A3 being the size recommended (but you are free to choose a bigger size and the print-out material as well)
Take a photo with this print-out following your creative concept
Email the photo to london2012NOW@britishcouncil.org.vn. Important notice: The maximum file size is 5Mb and the file must be saved in JPEG format.
In the body message of the email, provide the following details:
- Your contact information including your full name, your mobile/home number, your current correspondence address
- A few lines describing the photo that you took – this description should explain the idea, the place the photo was taken and the people in the photo.
Your photo(s) will be uploaded to the British Council Vietnam English Facebook page, the British Council Vietnam website and the British Council Vietnam Flickr site starting 27 July when the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games opens.

Exhibition “THIK thì NHIK”

Opening: Sun 07 Jul, 6 pm
Art Talk: Thu 12 Jul, 5. 30 pm
Exhibition: 08 – 12 Jul 2012
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

The exhibition contains installations and video installations by 9 young artists (they either had graduated or currently are studying at the Vietnam Fine Art University). “THIK thì NHIK” is made like a continuous idea from the first exhibition E.A.T named “Students Make Art” (03.01 – 08.01.2012 at Viet Art Center) to explore, open up art creations, and the effort towards technique perfection and the artwork quality. The artworks are on diferent subjects trying to experiemnt different emotions of each artist through contemporary art with a spirit: Making art because we like, when we like it we will do our best.” THIK thì NHIK” (We like so we do) is the achievement of the project E.A.T.

Project E.A.T (Exercitation.Art.Term) is a non-profit art education program founded, coordinated and curated by Ms Pham Dieu Huong (M.A), professor of the department of Art critic and History in Vietnam Fine Art University together with the help of two assistants: Phạm Ngọc Hà Ninh and Vi Tường Vi.  E.A.T was created with purpose of selecting and supporting some art students towards deeper understanding of contemporary art practices on different subjects over the course of a few months. The members of the projects also participated in theory lessons to support thinking, skills and methods of making art together with team activities to develop the concept and practice the chosen subjects. The end of the project is a group exhibition displayed the works, results of the learning and sharing process of the members in the group.

Artists  in E.A.T Group N°I

1. Bùi Minh Hà    2. Vũ Thị Hằng    3. Đỗ Tường Linh

4. Phạm Ngọc Hà Ninh 5. Trần Hoàng Ngân  6. Nguyễn Hồng Ngọc

7. Trần Văn Phong  8. Phạm Hoàng Tuân 9. Vi Tường Vi

Contact: E.A.T project

Email: exercitation.art.term@gmail.com

Hanoi Sound Stuff Mini Event

Sun 08 Jul 2012, 8.30 pm
Boom Box Lounge
1 Nguyen Khac Can Str, Hanoi

Hanoi Sound Stuff mini events: Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will bring electronic music to the youth in modern Vietnam in collaboration with the Boom Box, Hanoi Sound Stuff introduce Japanese group / France Cosmic Berry, this is event is to show young people in Hanoi the diversity of electronic music.

Piano Recital with Mark Damisch

Thu 12 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Vietnam National Academy of Music
77 Hào Nam,Ô Chợ Dừa, Đống Đa, Hà Nội

You are invited to a piano recital on July 12, 2012 in Hanoi, featuring American pianist, Mark Damisch and daughter, Alexandra Damisch.

Tickets are provided free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis.  Please CLICK HERE to register online if you would like to attend.

Registration deadline is 10am on Monday, July 9, or when all the tickets are registered.  

We will contact you via email by noon on Monday, July 9, 2012 if your ticket registration is successful so that you can arrange to come to the American Center, 170 Ngoc Khanh, Ba Dinh, Hanoi to pickup your tickets.

Irregular Hexagon: Luz Angela Lizarazo

Opening: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 6 pm
Exhibition: 12 Jul – 16 Aug 2012
Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh, District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

San Art presents the solo exhibition of contemporary established Colombian artist, Ms Luz Angela Lizarazo, as part of ‘Irregular Hexagon: Colombian Art in Residence’, an art project curated by José Roca (Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art, TATE Modern, London, UK), co-produced by Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (ascribed to Bogotá’s Culture, Leisure and Sports Secretariat) and the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Luz Ángela Lizarazo makes drawings, objects and installations that speak to the feminine condition, the fragility of life, vulnerability and the need for protection. The domestic realm appears as a recurring theme in her work, as do crafts traditionally associated with women like sewing or knitting; images such as flowers and birds; jewellery techniques like lost-wax casting; and delicate materials like porcelain, glass, gauze and human hair. But her images, paradoxically, are not “feminine” in the stereotyped sense of the term, revealing themselves as deeply disturbing and not complacent. In her more recent works that will feature in ‘Irregular Hexagon’, Lizarazo creates drawings based on the intricate patterns of gratings used to protect windows and doors; these forms are blown up to architectural proportions with stencils and applied to walls, or used in windows to create interplays of light and shadow; sometimes collecting actual gratings and piecing them together into large sculptural objects.

‘Irregular Hexagon: Colombian Art in Residence’ consists of six distinct one-person exhibitions of artists from Colombia, which are hosted by six institutions, located in places as diverse as Morocco, Israel, Australia, Turkey, Singapore and Vietnam. Each artist does a three-week residency at two of the spaces, and each space hosts two artists over the course of a year. These short-term residencies will provide the artists a unique opportunity to engage with the local context, its cultural particularities, its language and its images, subsequently contributing to the creation of additional new work for the exhibition realized at the respective host site. Curator of the project, Mr. José Roca states: ‘[‘Irregular Hexagon’] wants to give visibility to a group of Colombian artists that have already an important body of work, establishing partnerships with independent spaces that have residency programs. This will provide a rare opportunity to engage with the local public, beyond the opportunity to show the work.’ Other participating artists include Mateo López, María José Arjona, Gabriel Sierra, Delcy Morelos and Johanna Calle.

Sàn Art is honored to be a part of this international project showcasing established Colombian contemporary art for the first time in Vietnam. For further information on participating galleries in this project please visit www.san-art.org

Luz Ángela Lizarazo was born in 1966, Bogotá, Colombia where she currently lives and works. Lizarazo is a PhD graduate in Fine Arts from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Celosías. Estéticas de la Paranoia’ Magda Bellotti Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2010; ‘Injerto de Antejardín’, Jenny Vila Gallery, Cali, Colombia, 2009. Recent group exhibitions include ‘La Cuarta Cordillera’, Mor Charpentier Gallery Paris, France, 2011; ‘Referencias expansivas. Siete murales efímeros’, Nice Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia, 2010. www.luzangelalizarazo.com

Hanoi Geek Open House Party




Exhibition “Mental Places”

Fri 13 Jul 2012, 6 pm
House 18, alley 275 Au Co, Hanoi

“Mental Places” shows inner pictures which evoke by experiencing Vietnam and by ideas of collective dreams, whishes and fears.

I studied painting for 4 years in Germany. The last year I spent at The University of Fine Arts Vietnam, using lacquer painting, oil color, drawing and  etching technique. While being in Hanoi, the time of making art gave me a space to concentrate and to ease which I found hard in this busy city.

The change of my environment made me aware of how strong the influence is, places have on our state of mind. I was putting the focus of my works subconsciously on surroundings and locations. Therefore the pictures I’m showing barely involve stories between people, they are rather meant to trigger the viewers imagination of being at the depicted place and get a feeling about the atmosphere I tried to achieve.

To find intense moments and significant locations, I was dealing with topics like religion, working places, isolation, places of joy and salvation, often in a surrealistic or phantastic way.

Screening of “Chain Camera”

Fri 06 Jul 2012, 6 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening of Chain Camera by American director Kirby Dick. In this groundbreaking experiment in documentary filmmaking, ten students at a Los Angeles high school were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, they each gave their camera to a friend, who filmed their life for a week, then again handed their camera on.

Like chain letters, these cameras circulated through the student body for an entire year. The final film, culled from over 700 hours of footage, is a riveting portrayal of contemporary urban teenage life. Shot in 1999 and foreshadowing YouTube, blogs, and other DIY media that has exploded throughout culture, CHAIN CAMERA is a raw, intimate and provocative look at the thoughts, fears, and experiences of a generation on the cusp of the new millennium.

Language: In English with Vietnamese subtitle.

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

Free Entrance!

Exhibition “Memories of Hue”

Exhibition: 07 – 27 Jul 2012
Tu Do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau Str, Dist 1, HCMC

You are invited to a painting exhibition “Memories of Hue” of artist Ton Nu Tuong Hoa and Nguyen Khoa Nhy.

See more their works in the website of gallery.

GALLERY HOURS (EVERY DAY) : 09:00 – 19:00 (7 days/week)

Danang – Screening of Bran Nue Dae

Sat 07 Jul 2012, 7.30 – 9 pm
Le Do Cinema
46 Tran Phu Str, Danang City

You are invited to a screening of Australian  Indigenous film Bran Nue Dae in Da Nang city. Bran Nue Dae is a feature film adaptation of 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae. Released in 2010, the film has won numerous awards, including the Melbourne International Film Festival award and Audience award for Best Feature Film. The film highlights Australian Indigenous culture, tradition and humour.

Entrance is free of charge. Please contact the Centre for Film Launching and Screening inDa Nang City for tickets.

Screening of “Frogman”

Sat 07 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Cinematheque
22A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi

For ProjectBlack 8th documentary we are showing a revamped version of an old Vietnamese folk tale “The Toad who Dared to Challenge Heaven” This features the artist Pham Trung Kien whose paintings began to be mysteriously invaded by a large frog like creature. Eventually he realizes that this is his alter ego to help him challenge the problems of modern urban Vietnam. We follow him as he internalizes that old folk tale and finds within it some kind of hope that we see revealed in his art.

777 Vietnamese Rock Live Show

Sat 07 Jul 2012, 8.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Four bands + two hours of crushing live rock + one passion = 7 7 7. Saturday, the Seventh of July is about to go up in guitar-shaped flames.

HRC introduces four of the hottest bands of the moment in Hanoi, including the gold and bronze medalists of Tiger Translate’s best band competition in June, Oringchains and Nu Voltage.

If you want to find out what’s really going on out there in the Hanoi world of rock, this will be a gleefully spine-splintering place to start. Or if you’re a rock Việt old timer, it just might take your head off.

Show starts at 8:30 sharp. Support the local artists who are taking it to the next level.

Ticket

Ticket price: 100 ooo VND at door includes a free beer/soft drink.

Watch video of Oringchains winners of 2012 Tiger Translate:

Experimental Stage Projects Calls for Audiences

AN APPEAL TO AUDIENCES’ ATTENDANCE IN EXPERIMENTAL STAGE PROJECT “ERASABLE”.

We cordially invite you, who do love and care about experimental stage, to directly participate in our show  “ERASABLE”. This is an experimental art program with combination of contemporary dance, music, visual art and audiences.

There is no limit to age, occupation or gender.

+ Request: Register your full name, mobile number and email address to our email or one of our phone numbers and we will send you the invitation and scenario:

Email: openstage_hcm@hotmail.com

- In order to guarantee a certain amount of audiences in each night show [130 ppl/night], we do need your support in confirmation your presence at the show so that we can prepare costume and scenario for you!

About “ERASABLE”

- The show is 60 minute long, including 05 periods, each of which provides an interaction with audiences with no other aim but experimenting / observing the audiences’ emotion towards what is happening on stage.

- Therefore, instead of merely focusing on its specific content, the show will be opened and directed to improvisation that erases the gap between art and daily behaviors. “Erasable” differentiates itself from other shows by getting audiences involved in and contributed to the show with their very own mental or physical reaction depending on their improvisation.

- “Erasable” will be the first show experimented at Open Stage, then starting its practical tour to interact with many different classes namely rural people, students at universities, workers, etc. in the South of Vietnam.

- This program is sponsored by Cultural Development and Exchange Fund of Denmark and Open Stage Project of Arabesque Dance Company – HCMC Drama Theater.

Two night shows: 07 & 08 July, 2012 at 18h
At Lệ Thanh studio, 25 Phan Phú Tiên street, ward 10, district 5, HCMC.

Conference about Writer Hoang Ngoc Hien

Wed 04 Jul 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the conference about writer Hoang Ngoc Hien with the participation of other writers, researchers and translators: Da Linh, Do Lai Thuy, Nguyen Trong Tao, Nguyen Khac Mai, Nguyen Thi Minh Thai. Researcher, literature critic and translator, professor Hoang Ngoc Hien is a famous person in the Vietnam. He is the author of more than 30 books of different fields including literature critic, cultural research and translation.

Language: Vietnamese

Free entrance.

Screening of “Black Power Mixtape”

ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

CAMA ATK and The Onion Cellar present a free screening of the documentary Black Power Mixtape.

At the end of the Sixties and into the early Seventies, European interest in the US Civil Rights Movement and theUSanti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naiveté, Swedish filmmakers travelled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power Movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in theUSmedia as a violent, nascent terrorist movement.
In Black Power Mixtape, filmmaker Göran Olsson brings this newly discovered footage to light and introduces it to a new generation across the world in a penetrating examination of the Black Power Movement from 1967-75, and its worldwide resonance.

Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 70s ‘mixtape’, the Black Power Mixtape film is a cinematic and musical journey into the ghettos of America that features some of the country’s most innovative recording artists.

At its heart, The Black Power Mixtape is a story about empowerment. It’s a moving and inspirational vehicle that takes the audience on a journey through the specific time period of 1967-1975 and the pressing issues of concern then (the Vietnam war, failing public schools, drug addiction, record levels of incarceration, extreme poverty, lack of government accountability and the pervasiveness of structural racism), while at the same time organically provoking deep questions about where Americans find themselves and the country today.

As the Movement went far beyond the purely political, the film also takes us on a cinematic journey into the styles, culture, fashion and more deeply – questions.

Opening and closing the proceedings at ATK will be DJ No Crusts spinning some of the choicest cuts from’68 – ‘75”, including the likes of Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Gill Scott Heron, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Ray Charles.

Language: English with no subtitles

Free Entry.

Live Stand Up Comedy “Ha Ha Ha Noi”

House of Son Tinh
31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Sun 01 Jul 2012, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De Str, Hanoi

CAMA have teamed up with Hong Kong based promoters comedy.hk to give Hanoi a rare experience of English language hilarity. Four comedians, James Morlery, Michael Dorsher, Chris Musni and Nick Milne will be flying over the East Sea with a whole load of naughty, off the wall jokes to get you giggling.

As with all funny men, it’s better to let them speak for themselves, so I’ll allow let them make the introductions:
Chris Musni got his comedy start performing at his University graduation dinner by making fun of his professors. Since then he has been performing in Hong Kong, Mainland China and his native San Francisco as well as appearing on TV as a comedian, interviewer, and animated roast duck.

Nick Milnes missed the last chopper out of Hong Kong in 1997, allowing him to claim that he never came to China but that China came to him. He’s carried on performing his cheeky politicised comedy regardless, even taking it over the border into Mainland China where he’s cleverly avoided falling foul of the censors by insisting on performing only in English.

Michael Dorsher combines the warmth and openess of a young Tom Cruise with the razor sharp wit of a drag queen. As for his shoes, they belong with the latter aspect of his personality…. since they’re not on a box. Defying his age and defiling his audience’s sense of security, we’re never quite sure what he’s going to do next.

“When James Morley moved to China in 2007, he was so bewildered by Confucianism, Commerce and Chinese Civilization, he simply had to get on stage and start talking about them. Five years on he hasn’t stopped, and as audiences in Hong Kong, Bali, the Philippines, Australia and the Edinburgh festival can all attest, he’s still as bewildered as ever. Now it’s Vietnam’s turn to gain skewed insights into the 3′C’s from the over thinking man’s comedian.”

With two shows, Saturday at The House of Son Tinh and Sunday at ATK, there should be plenty of giggles to go around with complimentary shots of Son Tinh liquor for all attendees to help you get your funny bones loosened up. It’s been two years since Hanoi last enjoyed a taste of live stand-up comedy, don’t wait another two!

Language: English only.

Doors from 7pm; Show starts at 8.00pm

Tickets: 100 000 VND in advance; 150 000 VND on the door with a free shot of Son Tinh liquor

Ex-Book-Change – Exchange Old Books

Sun 1 Jul 2012, 8 – 11 am
Viet Nam University of Fine Arts
42 Yết Kiêu, Hà Nội

Let’s participate in the program “Ex-Book-Change”– a meaningful program to exchange old books for everyone in Hanoi. Ex-Book-Change is a Mottainai of books in Hanoi. Instead of exchanging used items in general like Mottainai, the only items that would be used to exchange are old and new books.

With its slogan “Let books light up children’s dream”, besides the purpose of creating a place where people can interact and share their passion on books with others, Ex-Book-Change has its philanthropic meaning: It is a warm-up event for the project Ngay Hoi Doc Sach – Reading Books Festival, which will be held by Circle of Friends – Youth Volunteer Organization and supported by Thang Long March Fund (Quy Thang Ba Thang Long). This project aims to support more than 8000 children at the 08 poorest communes in Ba Vi, Hanoi. All the books for children in primary and secondary schools that are donated from Ex-Book-Change will be used to build libraries for the children in Ba Vi. Books do not only link everyone and the poor children together but also equip new knowledge and skills that would be helpful for their future lives. Books evoke their dreams which have probably been limited by the daily material shortages in their lives.

Besides the main activity of exchanging books, there are many other games and contests such as My favorite book, EBC Colors, Lucky draw, Calligraphy, Portrait-Sketching, etc.

For more information, click here.

For more information, please contact:

Tran Trung Duc – Leader of Ex-book-change

Email: trantrungduc90@gmail.com

Nguyen Thi Sinh – Co-ordinator of Ex-book-change

Email: sinh.nguyen@vongtaybeban.info

Eternal Melodies Concert with Berliner Symphoniker

Free Concert with Music of Joy

Sun 1 Jul 2012, 6.30 pm
Melia Hotel, 44 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi

Music of Joy is a unique, multicultural group of musicians living in Australia who believe the purpose of music is to create and share joy. Exceptional joy – jubilant, relaxing, profound. As understood in many musical philosophies, the rhythm section of the group is the heartbeat of the music, without which there is no joy. It’s an experience the musicians love to share.

It’s Music of Joy’s second time playing in Vietnam, but the first for Hanoi so don’t miss it. Everyone welcome and it’s totally free! For information please call Ms Minh at 0989 069799.
    
Hanoi Love Stories and New Works Mini Concert

Sun 01 Jul 2012, 7.30 pm
Bookworm
44 Châu Long, Hà Nội Now open every day 9am – 7pm

The Bookworm Festival of Ideas and Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival presents:

Tri Minh, well known composer and musician, who will be joined by his talented friends on traditional and classical instruments to present his ‘Hanoi Love Stories’ and some new works before he jets off to Sweden amd other European destinations to perform in festivals.

Tri Minh recently returned from Austria where he gave workshops and performed at the Linz Festival.

He has been given a grant to work on a major composition.

Hanoi Love Stories is one of the most evocative pieces of music about Hanoi you are likely to hear and its ambient style music will make the city and its seasons come alive. Copies of Hanoi Love Stories will be on sale.

Tri Minh and Friends will perform on the Roof Top Terrace at the Hanoi Cooking Centre (if raining, under cover in the Restaurant).

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Book your ticket by email/tel: bookworm@fpt.vn/043 715 3711

Exhibition of Tam Van Tran and Dewey Ambrosino

Exhibition: 01 Jun – 05 Jul 2012
Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh
District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

San Art presents a two-person show by Los Angeles based artists Tam Van Tran and Dewey Ambrosino. ‘Tam Van Tran and Dewey Ambrosino’ explore the world of sound and surface. The artists state ‘It is the ear that penetrates darkness, and not the eye. We cannot see what is within a fruit yet we know through our senses and cultural learning that its contents provide an offering, an exchange and a form of sustenance’.

For this exhibition, watermelons will be cut open, its pulp removed and plaster castings of its dark interior will rest on the floor in front of a vibrating wall of highly reflective mylar. This large-scale sculptural installation marries the science of cymatics with the aesthetic realm. Cymatics is the study of sound as a visual world, exploring the proven fact that all matter in the universe cannot exist without vibration.

It is the artist’s intention that the viewer be drawn to the invisible element of sound as a powerful force that is not visually apparent, to engage the idea that in life there are many forms and structures that are not a part of our socially conditioned ‘ways of seeing’. By making hidden perishable matter permanent, by creating structures that gives shape to sound, Tam Van Tran and Dewey Ambrosino aim to provide a different kind of perspective on the natural schema of everyday life.

For more information, please contact hello@san-art.org

Modern Ballet “Dream Puzzles”

Fri 06 Jul 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

You are invited to the concert with the participation of English conductor Colin Metters and HBSO. See concert’s program on the picture above and ticket information below:

Ticket price: 500 000, 250 000, 250 000, 60 000 VND (for students only)
All tickets are available at:
Ticket Counter, HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC, Tel: 08 38299976
HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 3 Phan Van Dat, D.1, HCMC. Tel: 08. 38237419/ 08. 62704450

Screening of “Nos Jours Heureux”

Fri 06 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening of “Nos Jours Heureux” (The Happy Days”) of directors Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache at L’Espace. “Funny and hilarious from the beginning to an end, this film is an expectation for the summer” - Paris Match Magazine .

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Screening of “Les Enfants de Timpelbach”

Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace

You are invited to the screening of “Les Enfants de Timpelbach” (“Children of Timpelbach Village”) of director Nicolas Bary.  “The film attracts both children and adults because of funny games and excellent technique…” - Le Parisien.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

For more information on the film’s synopsis, see the Vietnamese side

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

The Song of the Earth concert

11 and 12 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the concert “The Song of the Earth” with conductor Honna Tetsuji, soprano Anna Eirnasson, tenor Nguyen Thanh Binh and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information, see below:

Program
Richard Wagner Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Ticket

Ticket prices: VND 200.000, 350.000, 500.000
All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House  or can book over  www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com

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Aki & Kuniko – A Guitar & Koto Duo

HCMC: Sun 08 Jul 2012, 8.30 pm
Youth Cultural Palace
HANOI: 09 and 10 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Vietnam National Academy of Music

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with the Consulate-General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, proudly presents music concerts by “AKI & KUNIKO” on Sunday 8 July in Ho Chi Minh City and on Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 July in Hanoi.

Formed back in 2002, AKI & KUNIKO has brought their unique world sound all over Japan and around the globe, from Europe to the United States, including on the main stage of Open Strings, the world’s largest acoustic music festival held in Germany.
They have released two albums, HA – AKI & KUNIKO in 2003 on the German label Acoustic Music Records and Over the Top, back in 2006.

Acclaimed by music critics, they have described to “create an innovative musical partnership” and to have “original, genre defying work.” Listening to how AKI & KUNIKO skillfully blend the notes from their two string instruments, seamlessly going from forceful to delicate to melodic, one can understand all the positive reviews.

In their first-ever tour in Vietnam, AKI & KUNIKO will conduct a performance at Youth Cultural Palace, 4 Pham Ngoc Thanh, 1st District, HCMC to participate in the “Japan Day” event, followed by two concerts in Hanoi at Vietnam National Academy of Music.

About artists

AKI (acoustic guitar)

Graduated from the Department of Cinema, College of Art, Nihon University, Japan. Won recognition from Peter Finger, a legendary acoustic guitarist of Germany, AKI started his career with lives in Paris, recordings in Europe in 1998. After coming back to Japan, he actively produced a series of albums. His super techniques and artistic quality are peerless indeed. In 2009, his song “How I Feel Now” was ranked as the number one song in the Jazz section on MP3.com in the US. He currently serves as General Producer of the acoustic music label Harvest Moon Record.

KUNIKO (koto / Japanese harp)

Earned a master’s degree in traditional Japanese music at Graduate School of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Graduated from the 37th class of NHK Hogaku (Japanese traditional music) Training Program for aspiring to be professional performers. Passed the NHK Hogaku audition. KUNIKO has given recitals since 1990, often invited to concerts overseas. She has also appeared in several TV programs on NHK. She serves as a lecturer at training class for music teachers conducted by Shimane Prefectural Board of Education. Grand Master of Miyagi-sha (Miyagi Koto School).

Ticket

HCMC: Free admission

Hanoi: Free tickets can be collected from Fri 22 Jun, 2 pm at:

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi (TEL 04-3944-7419)
[Opening hours] 09:00 – 18:00, Monday to Saturday, closed on Sundays

Vietnam National Academy of Music
77 Hao Nam, Dong Da, Hanoi

Youth Cultural Palace
4 Pham Ngoc Thanh, District 1, HCMC

Mon 09 Jul 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

You are invited to the ballet performance “Dream Puzzles” at HCMC Opear House.

“When your dreams are chartered, do collect those fragments and remember them. You might find a glimpse of hope in them” (Cherry Hartman). For more information about ticket price, see below:

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, Tel: 08 38299976
HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 3 Phan Van Dat, D.1, HCMC. Tel: 08. 38237419/ 08. 62704450

A Concert with Berliner Symphoniker

Sat 14 Jul 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to  a concert with Berliner Symphoniker, especially with director Lior Shambadal, piano Soloist Kun Woo Paik. The concert will perform famous works by Glinka, Chopin and Dvorak. For more information, see below:

PROGRAM

Glinka Overture – Russlan & Ludmila
Chopin Piano Concerto No 1
INTERVAL
Dvorak “New World” Symphony No.9

Ticket
Ticket prices: 800 000, 1 200 000, 2 000 000, 2 500 000, 3 000 000 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.

Music Night with Daisuke Tanabe

Sat 14 Jul 2012, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

CAMA keep consistent by bringing yet another well respected musician to Hanoi. This time it’s electronic beat maker Daisuke Tanabe who’ll be making the trip over the East Sea for his Hanoi debut on Saturday 14 July at ATK. Patience is a virtue, and few know that better than understated electronic beat-maker Daisuke Tanabe.

After carefully honing his craft from the age of 16, it was his first EP release in 2006 that really brought him to the attention of Gilles Peterson and Pete Adarkwah. Since then he has remixed artists such as Elan Mehler and Aaron Jerome, and released music on the ever-reliable Ninja Tune label. Daisuke’s sound has been likened to electronic music maestros like Bonobo and Pantha Du Prince, music to the ears of those into left-field ambient electronica.

Taking inspiration from jazz, folk, and reggae as well as the whole canon of electronic music, the young Japanese national will be playing his laidback electronica for one night only in Hanoi. It marks a rare chance for Hanoians interested in electronic music to enjoy an off-beat performer in a relaxed, laid-back lounge environment.

Ticket

Ticket price: VND 80,000 in advance; VND 120,000 on the door