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Opening: Sat 13 Jul 2013, 10 am – 10 pm
Nhasan COLLECTIVE
3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Please join us in the first Open Studio event of our programme, with newest works “Landscape Series #1″ (Video, 2013), “Landscape Series #1, 2, 3″ (Postcards, 2013 and on-going) by Nguyen Trinh Thi, and “Back to future” by Andrea Radai.
Both artists will be present when the Open Studio event starts at 10 am in Nha San Collective. At 7 pm please join us in the art talk, where the artists discuss with audience about their work, ideas, concepts as well as about the works on display. The opening reception will take place before the talk, at 6 pm.
Andrea Radai was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1964. Because of the work of her father, the Radai family lived for a couple of years in Vietnam and Laos during the 70′s. Back in Budapest, she applied to Art School, Magyar Képzömüvészeti Föiskola. A few years later she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Groningen and studied there for four years. In her final year, she went to Paris, France where she was took lessons from Tony Grand at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-art. She and her husband are living and working in Amsterdam.
Andrea Radai is an exceptionally talented painter who has covered a wide range of human related subjects over the years. Her work has been on show in Hungary, The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. It has been put up for auction by Sotheby’s in The Netherlands, Russia and Isreal. She is represented by Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
NGUYEN Trinh Thi is a Hanoi-based moving image artist whose works consistently engage with memory and history. Her materials are diverse – from video and photographs shot by herself to those appropriated from various sources including press photos, corporate videos, and classic films; her practice traverses boundaries between film and video art, installation and performance. She’s interested in exploring the in-between spaces: between documentary and fiction, narrative and abstract, control and chance, foreground and background.
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advices, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focus on.
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE will have “Open Studio” every last Saturday of each month to show the artist’s process of working.
If you are interest and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit
Screening of “Blancanieves”
Sat 13 Jul 2013, 2 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
On Saturday July 13 2013, TPD Centre will host the next session of Two Thumbs Up Movie programme. We will screen Blancanieves (2012).
Blancanieves is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white silent fantasy drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. Based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia.The film is intended to be an homage to 1920s European silent films.
The film was Spain’s 85th Academy Awards official submission to Best Foreign Language category, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film won the Special Jury Prize and an ex-aequo Best Actress “Silver Shell” Award for Macarena García at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It also won ten Goya Awards, including the Goya Award for Best Film at the 27th Goya Awards.
The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.
Exhibition “Korean Contemporary Fine Arts in Vietnam”
Exhibition: 12 – 18 Jul 2013
Korean Cultural Center
49 Nguyen Du Str, Hanoi
You are invited to the exhibition “Korean Contemporary Fine Arts in Vietnam”. 80 works by 51 Republic of Korean artists are currently on display at the exhibition. The paintings, which encompass a different genres including traditional Korean fine arts, Western fine arts, and folk art, will help visitors deepen their understandings of current Korean fine arts.
80 works offer richly diverse display of Korean and their country in the eye of contemporary Korean artists.
Exhibition “The Paradox of the Gap”
Opening: Fri 12 Jul, 5 pm
Exhibition: 12 – 22 Jul 2013
New Space Arts Foundation
2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City
You are invited to the painting exhibition “The paradox of the gap” by artist Jea Young Choi (Korea). Read the artist’s statement: From the contrast of a smile to the contrast of life…
In 2012, I was thinking a lot about finding a new opportunity for myself, so I stopped painting and started drawing pencil sketches. I thought, to express my ideas, the time-consuming process of painting lets the ideas at the moment slip away easily. When you have a first glance at my sketches, you might think that they are interesting, but when you take a closer look, they appear to be less amusing since they all imply contrasts. My artworksexpose the visible contrasts in every aspects, from the way people act, to their prejudice, capitalism, and their sexes. For heavy topics, I try to find a mild way to exhibit them so that the audience could perceive them easily. Avoiding the unnecessary expressions and only showing the implications/ concepts is one of my purposes. The reason why I do not use straightforward expressions but contrasts is because I want to give the audience the chance to think about it. If they think my artworks are funny, then they become amusing artworks, if they see the concepts, then they become artworks with inherent meanings.
After participating in the residency research program in India in 2012, my artworks in 2013 are united to center on contrasts, it is the gap in life. In many places, although classism has been suppressed class discrimination still exists and tremendously affects our lives, it is worse than the invisible power of money. It is sad to know the fact that we are all human beings, but our lives are controlled by money, so I started to think of a way to shorten the gap between people. In a money-dominated society, humans will not function if they do not, at least, get their compensation. It is like a contract. Sometimes money creates the phenomenon that breaks the living forms of society (ie holidays, relationships between people …..). What could be the plan that can solve all these problems? The answer is “The true compassionate heart” which represents love. In the relationships that money is not set above all, if we feel the love and the compassion, all problems are solved. My works in 2013 were started with the above components. Starting with “Gap”, the series makes people think by placing successful objects in capitalism and the opposite objects in the same screen, “How They Live”, my ongoing series creates a contrast of the relationship between silver and the spurned class by using silver, a technique in lacquer painting that I have been doing at New Space Arts Foundation. Unlike “Gap” series, “How They Live” series is not about the opposition objects, but it is the story of the prestige of labor (how to perceive them), the contrast between the objects and the materials by drawing the spurned class on silver background. Silver is expressed diversely, sometimes it is a river, places of life, harassing sunbeams, and sometimes partitions giving deep atmosphere. To get beautiful and varied shapes, in “How They Live” series, I mainly used small-size panels. “How to help” is the series I’m planning to do when my thinking is developed. This section describe how the richer in the contrast pairs help the poorer. Although the three series (Gap, How to live, How to help) are slightly different in the ways they are expressed in each section, the outcomes are the same thinking circuit as I mentioned above. Even if my works are only able to give people a chance to think a little bit about human love, I will take it as satisfying.
Art Talk of Exhibition “Autopsy of Days”
Artist Talk: Fri 12 Jul 2013, 6 pm
Goethe Institut
56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Goethe-Institut Hanoi and Hanoi DocLab cordially invite you to attend an art talk with the photographers of the exhibition AUTOPSY OF DAYS.
Come early and see the exhibition and stay for the conversation and Q&A.
The workshop and this exhibition were held by Hanoi DocLab’s ImageLab training project, sponsored by The Cultural Development and Exchange Fund – Embassy of Denmark (CDEF) and supported from Goethe-Institut
Free admission.
Painting Exhibition “Lộ”
Opening: Fri 12 Jul 2013, 6 pm
Exhibition: 12 – 17 Jul 2013
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St., Hanoi
“Lộ” is the first joint exhibition by two friends, Phuong Vu Manh and Nguyen Hac Long, who share a common love for painting. Phuong Vu Manh’s interest is experimenting with various genres of contemporary art while artist Nguyen Hac Long is a quiet master giving his whole mind to painting and martial art.
Two painting spaces of two close friends with distant personalities will be sure to swirly melt and leave deep impression within the audience.
The main subjects in Hac Long’s work are Life and Religion. He seems to ignore the rational principles of plastic arts technique as well as dither and desire to convey his sentimental heart.
Phuong Vu Manh: 12 oil paintings and synthetic material, subject of fire. This exhibition is a testament to his love of painting. The non-logo and inspirational works may give a new way for the viewers to feel and think about the fire.
Free Traditional Music Concert
Every Saturday, 8.30 pm
6th floor, 34 Hoang Cau street (Fansipan mushroom hotpot)
Every Saturday night, at 8.30pm, on the 6th floor of 34 Hoang Cau street (Fansipan mushroom hotpot), you can enjoy a terrific performance “Bach Van ca tru and friends”. Well-known traditional instrumentalists such as Ngoc Anh (flute), Thu Ha (tam thap luc – 36 strings), Thanh Nam (drum), Bach Van (ca tru singer) and Ba Hai (dan day – ca tru instrument) perform both classic ca tru melodies and contemporary music by traditional instruments with very interesting twist. This cozy space will draw the audience closer to the artists for a intimate yet respectful atmosphere you hardly find elsewhere. Best thing yet, this show is ABSOLUTELY FREE! Space is available on a first come first serve basis, however, so please arrive early to reserve your seats, no need to register.
Email: catruhanoiclub@gmail.com (English and Vietnamese)
Phone: Bach Van (091 354 4876) (Vietnamese only)
Music Night with London MC/DJ Spikey Tee
Fri 12 Jul 2013, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Come to music night with Spikey Tee. Spikey Tee is one of London’s original “rude boys”. Over the almost 20 years that Spikey Tee has been working in the music industry he has progressed from being a warehouse DJ in London, to band member of the avant-garde The Sindecut, to lead vocalist in Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart. All the while Spikey has continued to DJ, mixing hip-hop, R’n’B, ragga, and drum ‘n’ bass.
Expect Spikey Tee to be dropping wicked Jamaican inspired soul-style vocals over his trademark mix of hip-hop, R’n’B, ragga and drum ‘n’ bass.
Note: JC (Hanoi Sessions) 8pm, Spikey Tee 9.30pm
Tickets: 100,000 VND.
Charity Program “Wine for Books”
Fri 12 Jul 2013, 7 pm
The Matchbox
40 Cao Ba Quat, Hanoi
Hold hands with us for a night of outdoor wine tasting in the summer breeze while raising funds to buy books and build libraries for children in remote areas of Vietnam.
100% proceedings will be donated to Room to Read, in order to buy books and set up libraries for children in need around Vietnam.
Room to Read, founded by former Microsoft executive John Wood, is a world-acclaimed non-profit organization dedicated to “developing literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and supporting girls to complete secondary school with the life skills they’ll need to succeed in school and beyond.” – RtR mission statement.
Please join us in for a night of casual fun, live music, good wine, complimentary finger food, and great conversations for a truly inspiring cause, in the garden of Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.
Entrance fee:
Online reservation: VND 180,000/person
At door: VND 200,000/person
All proceeds will be donated to Room to Read.
Please follow this link for information about online reservation.
Dress-code: classy, chic and chill
Seminar “Alone in Europe or the Inner Journey”
Tue 09 Jul 2013, 6 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the seminar with the participation of Phan Viet and professor Ngo Bao Chau on the occasion of launching Phan Viet’s book “Alone in Europe “.
“Alone in Europe” is not merely a travel book. Along with the physical journey described in the book is an inner journey, with persistent pain…
Marriage is a journey. Getting out of marriage is a journey, too. The woman wanders alone through Europe to understand one thing that even though “fear of unhappiness is the most wasted fear in life”, every step away from marriage is full of torment.
Phan Viet is the favorite author of many Vietnamese readers. Born in 1978, she has created a collection of short stories: “Futility” (2005, Second Prize in Literacy Campaign for 20 III); “United States” (2009); novel “Human voice” (2008), and the book series “Misfortune is a fortune” (2013). After graduating from Hanoi Foreign Trade University, she got a PhD degree from the University of Chicago and currently being an associate professor cum university lecturer in United States.
Language: Vietnamese.
Free entrance.
Contemporary Music and Dance “Touching the Past”
Tue 09 Jul 2013, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
You are invited to the contemporary music and dance with premiere performance of several works: “Touching the Past” choreographed by two brothers Phuc Hai, Phuc Hung, “Vô đề cầm” - Vu Viet Anh … and some works that has performed recently and received high praise from the experts: “Mother land” – Tran Manh Hung, “nigh at Linh Nham” – Tran Dinh Lang, “The Wedding” – Nguyen Manh Duy Linh.
Program
Part I:
Vu Viet Anh : “Vô đề cầm” for Đàn Đáy (one Vietnamese type of musical instrument), percussion and string orchestra
Đàn đáy: Meritorious. Anh Tan
Nguyen Manh Duy Linh “The wedding” for percussion: glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba & tubular bells.
Tran Manh Hung “Mother land” for monochord and string orchestra
Do Kien Cuong “Dream love” for flute, oboe, clarinet and 2 pianos
Tran Dinh Lang “Night at Linh Nham” for soprano and chamber music orchestra.
Soprano: Ngọc Tuyen
Conductor: Trần Nhật Minh
HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO)
Part II:
CONTEMPORARY DANCE “TOUCHING THE PAST”
Script & Choreography: Nguyen Phuc Hai, Nguyen Phuc Hung
Music: Vu Viet Anh, Nguyen Manh Duy Linh, Henryk Górecki
Performers: HBSO Ballet
Tickets
Ticket price: 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)
All tickets are available at:
Ticket Counter, HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC, Tel: 08. 38237419. Email: info@hbso.org.vn.
Ticket booking and delivery: 08 3823 7419; Ms.Hương: 0989874517.
Screening of “Mother’s Soul” and “A Separation”
Screening of “Mother’s Soul”: Fri 05 Jul 2013, 8 pm
Screening of “A Separation”: Sat 06 Jul 2013, 2 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
You are invited to the two screening of TPD this week. At 8p.m. on Friday 05 Jul 2013, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Mother’s Soul (director Pham Nhue Giang).
On Saturday July 6th 2013, TPD Centre will host next session of Two Thumbs Up Movie programme. We will screen A Separation (2011).
About Mother’s soul
Year: 2011
Director: Giang Pham Nhue
Cast: Hong Anh, Hoai Linh
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 95 min
Synopsis: When her mother falls in love with a driver, a young girl suffers from the lack of maternal attention. As her mother become more and more obsessed with her lover, the neglect increases. and the daughter takes on a maternal role herself to the orphan next door. Through these tender human relationships, Mother’s Soul looks at the effect of capitalism on a former communist economy.
About A Separation
A Separation is a 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini. It focuses on an Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the conflicts that arise when the husband hires a lower-class care giver for his elderly father, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to win the award. It received the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, becoming the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, making it the first non-English film in five years to achieve this.
Screening on Friday: Different from other non-profit screenings on Saturday afternoon, the program Friday with Vietnam Cinema is a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future.
Screening on Saturday: The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.
HCMC – Chamber Music Concert
Fri 05 Jul 2013, 8 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music
112 Nguyen Du Str, Dist 1, HCMC
You are invited to the program “Chamber Music Concert” performed by violinist Nguyen Huu Nguyen, soloist of Orchestre National de France. Catherine Doise, cellist of Pasdeloup Orchestra in Paris. Pham Quynh Trang, pianist, lecturer of the Hanoi Conservatory and many lecturers of HCMC Conservatory of Music.
Besides the well-known string quartets of Beethoven and great tone of the clarinet quintet of genius Mozart, the Chamber music concert will play romantic works with lyrical melodies of Mendelssohn and Glinka.
Ticket price: 300,000 VND
Attention: The program is unavailable to children below 7 years old. Delivery fee: 20.000 VND/shipping ( inner HCMC)
For booking contact: Call Center: 1900 6130
Exhibition “One Planet” by Nguyen Manh Hung
Opening: Sat 06 Jul, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 06 – 28 Jul 2013
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
In collaboration with Galerie Quynh, Manzi art space and Hanoi Grapevine are proud to present ‘One Planet’ by visual artist Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng – one of the most important young artists in Vietnam.
‘One Planet’ features Hùng’s new sculptural installations which was on show in Ho Chi Minh City early this year and a series of paintings which the artist himself refers to as ‘Mauvais Gout’ (‘bad taste’) entitled ‘We’ve been here’
Drawing from his own personal history growing up in a cramped Soviet style apartment block in Hanoi, Hùng reflects on the idea of community, the conflicts that exist within and without constructed societies, and the complexities of civic development and individual responsibility. How is a community defined? Is the traditional idea of community just hollow rhetoric or an ideal that can evolve and adapt to modern day Vietnam? Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng confronts these issues with his trademark irony and humor highlighting the oftentimes absurdity of human behavior and endeavor.
‘When I make art I often use factors that relate to my family’s past as starting points. These factors contain and reflect both the history of my country, and its consequences’ Hung said.
‘Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng stages Vietnam’s past and present like a distinct planet in his unique way, never tragic to crave sympathy or mercy but always with the uttermost satire’ quoted from a review by Arlette Quynh -Anh Tran.
“One Planet” in Hanoi is brought to you by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development.
Born in Hanoi in 1976, known as one of the most important contemporary artists in Vietnam, Hùng has exhibited in a number of regional and international exhibitions including the Goethe-Institut, Hanoi, Vietnam; ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea; ifa Galleries, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway; ZKM Center for Art and Media; Karlsruhe, Germany; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA. His diorama Living in Paradise is currently being featured in the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.
Dong Ho Painting – The Convergence of National Hues
Sun 07 Jul 2013, 8 am – 4.30 pm
Cultural Exchange Centre for Dong Ho paintings
Dong Khe village, Song Ho Commune, Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province
Come to enjoy a full-day trip to Dong Ho Village, the cradle of the original paintings, where you can discover and decode historical sense contained on điệp papers and share concerns with one of two the last artisans. You will also have a first-hand unforgettable experience in directly creating such national colors.
Experiencing two centuries of heyday, Dong Ho painting is considered a fine reflection of the Vietnamese lifestyle in different walks of life. “Dong Ho paintings reflect human beings”, there goes a saying. In fact, one can see in such paintings various vividly-portrayed themes, from historical figures, folk tales and popular stories to daily activities like Đám cưới chuột (Rat’s Wedding Ceremony), Chăn trâu thổi sáo (Herds-boy playing the flute on his buffalo), Đánh ghen (A scene of jealousy) or Hứng dừa (Catching coconuts), etc.
Ticket: VND 200,000/person (The revenue from selling tickets is to cover the travel fee, lunch expense and other costs for the event, not for any commercial purpose.)
“San Art Laboratory: Session 4″ Extends Dealine
Extended deadline: 01 Aug 2013
San Art seeks your application for ‘San Art Laboratory: Session 4’!
All artists 40 years of age and under can now apply!
Begun in May 2012, ‘San Art Laboratory’ is Vietnam’s first studio/residency program, initiated and managed by San Art, in Ho Chi Minh City. It aims to provide 3 Vietnamese artists (under 40) 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 San Art showcasing realized work. The ‘San Art Laboratory’ Advisory Board will assess all applications for successful applicants.
(International applications will be considered with particular terms and conditions)
Lab Session 4 will take place from 6 December 2013 to 23 May 2014
Please see here for more information and how to apply or contact us at hello@san-art.org
The First Meeting of Film Studies Group (FSG)
Fri 05 Jul 2013, 6 – 9 pm
C0 Seminar room
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
After the launch of DocLab Film Studies Group (FSG) in the MiniDOCfest, the first meeting of the group, planned as an initial exploration of “Film and Reality”, will be organized on Friday, July 5th 2013, from 18h to 21h, at C0 Seminar room- Goethe Institut – 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ha Noi.
Since this meeting, Hanoi DocLab FSG will meet regularly every six weeks, discussing three intertwining major themes in film studies: Representation (Film and Reality, Film and Gender, Film and Race, etc.), Aesthetics (Editing, Personal Film, Essay Film, Experimental Film, etc.), and Film Criticism Discourses. The plan for each meeting will be communicated to you at least three days before the event.
We encourage a space that treasures every speaking being. Your free expressions about film and filmmaking will be valuable contributions. There will be no so-called “master language” framing the discussions. Instead, we expect the vibration, clash, interaction and non-interaction of languages on the moving image.
Issue No 1: Film and Reality
The relationship between “film” and “reality” is a recurrent issue in discussions about film. Figuring out the possibilities of this relationship is challenging, whether to make film or to enjoy film. Words such as “film” and “reality” open up plenties of colors and flavors of meanings. For an initial investigation into the relationship between film and reality, the first meeting of Hanoi DocLab FSG invites you to watch several short films and exchange your thoughts on how the filmmakers approach reality. Your conversations will constitute the main body of the meeting. Apart from that, based on the screened films, the film selecter will share her personal stories and briefly introduce some common concepts in film studies such as “discourse”, “anthropology”/ “ethnography”, “critical”, and “reflexivity”.
Vietnamese will be the main language for the meeting. However, as many participants can speak English, the meeting does not exclude English.
Facilitater: Phùng Hà Thanh, a DocLab member, currently a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at Michigan State University.
Free Entrance.
Screening of “Brazil”
Tue 02 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe
32 Tran Ngoc Dien, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2, HCMC
Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy film written by Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard. Set in a dystopian and totalitarian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained machines it is reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984 but with an extra layer of slapstick, whimsical wardrobe and nonsensical humour.
The film revolves around central character Sam Lowry, a bureaucrat in a retro-future world who tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. Starring Robert DeNiro, Michael Palin, Bob Hoskins and Jonathan Pryce.
This film does not have Vietnamese subtitles, this film is not suitable for children.
Free entry.
Heritage Approach of Contemporary Art Seminar
Fri 05 Jul 2013, 8.30 – 11.30 am
Hall of Vietnam University of Fine Arts
Vietnam University of Fine Arts
42 Yet Kieu Str, Hanoi
Vietnam Academy of Fine Arts invite you to Heritage approach of Contemporary art Seminar. For the first time, the artist express their opinions and views on art as well as heritage.
Language: Vietnamese only.
The seminar is within the framework of the project “Research, collect, promote and develop the value of communal house in North Delta village” performed by Vietnam Academy of Fine Arts in 2012 – 2013.
Content
The major points to be discussed in the seminar:
- Vietnam Contemporary art in relation with heritages.
- Experience in approaching heritage in regional and worldwide contemporary art.
- Arts and heritage.
- The role of heritage in art creation.
Beside presentations from the speakers, researchers and audience will also discuss many interesting topics related to arts and heritages.
L’Avenue Remake 2013 Performance
05, 06, 07 Jul 2013, 8pm
Sat 06 Jul 2013, 3.30pm
Worker Theater
42 Trang Tien St., Hanoi
L’Avenue Remake 2013 will officially return to the audiences with 3 evening shows and 1 afternoon show. Góc Phố Danh Vọng (L’Avenue) and Đêm Hè Sau Cuối (A Midsummer Night’s Murders) are parts of the 2013’s Musical Double Feature.The genre was experimented through 5 shows of L’Avenue at the end of August, 2012. With the return this year, the Musical Double Feature will be an original combination of contemporary pop hits, legendary numbers from various famous musicals and well-arranged choreography. Come to L’Avenue to enjoy the fairytale story of Rudolph, Roxanne and Flint. The musical also delivers a gentle message about the pragmatic lifestyles and the one-of-a-kind chaos in the Vietnamese showbiz.
The Musical Double Feature is a non-profit project produced by Phi Phi Anh Nguyen and his team which entirely consists of Vietnamese local and overseas students.
Tickets
Ticket price: VND 150.000 – 180.000 – 230.000 – 280.000
Hotline: 0124 241 6120
Free ticket delivery
Call for booking tickets (8 am – 10 pm)
Hà Dung: 0124 241 6120
Hằng Lê: 0906 140 303
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White Sheet Theatre Performance
Sun 07 Jul 2013, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
A theatrical experience that melds genres and the arts to share a vision of an everyday happening.A woman and her memories dissolve in an arcane reality. The powers that be grasp for control as barriers are torn down and the audience gets sucked in to a whirlwind of absurdity.
Set at the edge of dreamtime, this story must be lived, not told!
After three performances at the beginning of June, the cast decided to throw one more event before saying goodbye to Hanoi. With some little changes…”
Free entrance.
“Summer Paintings” Exhibition
Opening: Mon 01 Jul 2013, 10 am
Exhibition: 01 – 30 Jul 2013
Tu do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau, District 1, HCMC
We are proud to introduce the exhibition “Summer Paintings” created by 2 artists: Bui Quang Anh (born in 1940, Hanoi) and Trinh Thanh Tung (born in 1942, HCMC).Number of paintings: 26 (13 paintings/artist)
Bui Quang Anh does not draw what he sees but what he feels. Details in his works are the remaining of visual realism. He wants to express directly his emotions by using hand and finger paint (with neither brushes nor other tools). Hence, his works looks strong, generous and full of emotion.
The paintings of Trinh Thanh Tung whereas are peaceful and romantic with the image of young ladies: “White Summer”, “Woman in white shirt”, “Woman in floral shirt”, “Moonlight”. His paintings also express deep feelings about the past with gentle and graceful penmanship: “Moss”, “Suburb night”, “Nostalgia”.
Vietnam Italy 40 Concert
Thu 04 Jul 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
01 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Come to the Vietnam Italy 40 Concert with conductor HONNA Tetsuji, violin soloist Bui Cong Duy and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. The program includes works by L.V.Beethoven, for more information, see below:
Program
- Violin Concerto D major op.61
Interval
- Symphony No.5 C minor op.67
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Screening of “Les Triplettes de Belleville”
Fri 05 Jul 2013, 8 pm
Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of the cartoon “Les Triplettes de Belleville” (France – Belgium – Canada, 2003, 80’) made by Sylvain Chomet. Télé Ciné Obs Magazine has commented that “We are in the cinema to watch a wonderful movie!”.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese 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.
Exhibition “Tables”
Opening: Wed 03 Jul 2013, 6 pm
Exhibition: 03 Jul – 02 Aug 2013
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to art exhibition “Tables” to enjoy the art of designing tableware and traditional skills of France.
The exhibition is within the framework of 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
To modernize and develop the image of the little pompous tableware, hexagonal manufacturers have called upon the most outstanding designers and French producers. Ten table set evoke different meals, breakfast or brunch, lunch or picnic, delicate dinner or business lunch combining traditional design and creativity in various accessories: crockery, cutlery and glassware. The table are approached by means of aesthetic and contemporary vision as well as progressive ideology.
“Tables” is produced by the l’Institut Français. Curator Elisabeth Couturier - an art critic – is the director of this exhibition and other visual art programs (France-Culture).
Free entrance.
Screening of “Mariées mais pas Trop”
Fri 12 Jul 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of “Mariées mais pas Trop” (The very merry widows, France, 2000, 99 mins) directed by Catherine Corsini, starred by Jane Birkin, Emilie Dequenne, Pierre Richard, Clovis Cornillac. The film raises the question “Is marriage a wealth builder? “
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
“Son Ta” Lacquer Exhibition
Opening: Tue 02 Jul 2013, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 02 – 09 Jul
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
You are invited to group exhibition “Son Ta” with the participation of 9 artists graduating from Lacquer Studies – Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts: Nguyen Kim Dong, Pham Chinh Trung, Phi Van Cong, Nguyen Van Bay, Nguyen Duc Dan, Tran Ngoc Hung, Nguyen Xuan Luc, Ha Huy Muoi and Dang Phuong Thao.
Lacquer artists show their passion for art exhibition “Son Ta” for a long time with a desire to widely introduce to Vietnamese art-loving people a traditional art form – lacquer paintings. Their love, passion and serious attitude to work has brought 51 traditional lacquer works of 9 artists to the exhibition. Using the traditional material, Vietnamese paint, the artists do their own creation with different styles: traditional and modern style. However, the most common feature is their desire to preserve and develop this art form – lacquer paintings which bears deep Vietnamese tradition.
Opportunity to Exhibit Your Paintings in Danish Embassy
One of the selected artworks exhibited in Danish Embassy, “My daughter” (3) by artist Doan Hoang Lam
Promoting Vietnamese paintings project II in Danish Embassy: All of Vietnamese artist are invited to to send their paintings
Deadline: 26 Jul 2013
Note: This is only for Vietnamese artists
Promoting Vietnamese paintings project in Danish Embassy was set up in 2002. The selected works had been exhibited in the opening of first project in Jun 2013 with 9 paintings of 8 talented artists.
The initiative of Danish Embassy has contributed to promoting the works of Vietnamese artists, broadening art knowledge and supporting them – one of CDEF criteria.
The works are paintings or graphics with unlimited materials. The paintings selector group includes Danish Ambassador to Vietnam John Nielsen, Deputy Ambassador Lis Rosenholm and 02 members of the CDEF manager board: artist Le Quang Dinh and journalist Truong Uyen Ly.
Paintings expect to be hung within 6 months. The Embassy will hold a meeting to promote and introduce in public selected works and artists who involve in the project.
For more information, please contact Culture and Public Diplomacy Section, Embassy of Denmark.
Tel: (04) 38 231 888 (ext. 223)
Email: lytruonguyen@gmail.com
“The Desiring Garden” in Arles France
3 Jul – 15 Sep 2013
Galerie Le Magasin de Jouets
A group exhibition of photography from SE Asia (and Chine with Ren Hang) will open at Galerie Le Magasin de Jouets in Arles, France on 3 July and run through 15 September. An online catalog of the exhibition is available for viewing. The exhibition will include 10 of the images from Jamie Maxtone-Graham’s series of 20 selected from The Desiring Garden, photographs he made in Hanoi in 2011, and will be exhibiting with eight other photographer’s work made in the region.
Prior to this show, The Desiring Garden has shown at Noorderlicht Photofestival 2012 in Netherlands during September and October of that year, a solo exhibition at Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand in November and December, and at Manzi Art Space in another solo show in April 2013.
Folk Festival “Folk Me Folk You”
Sat 06 Jul 2013, 3 – 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
The Hanoi Social Club and Humanitarian Services for Children of Vietnam are proud (and absolutely stoked!) to present the inaugural Folk Me Folk You festival.
Spread out over two floors of The Hanoi Social Club, we have a host of awesome bands of the wider folk genre ready to play for you from the afternoon into the night. There will also be games and workshops happening at various times throughout the festival.
Bands already announced include:
Rabbit Hole
Dung Thuy & Chi
Follow the Lemming
Jordan Senior
The Nerys Joseph Band
Christophe
You Say Tomato
+ more to come!
All the door proceeds will go to assist HSCV’s Girls Foster Home and other programs in Vietnam.
Get amongst the summer festival vibe and join us for what will hopefully be the first of many successful Hanoian folk festivals.
Tickets are 150K (full)/100K (student) and available at the door on the day.
Barcamp Saigon – The Biggest Unconference in Town
Sun 07 Jul 2013
RMIT University
702 Nguyen Van Linh, Tan Phong Ward, Dist 7, HCMC
Barcamp is an unconference in which participants are also speakers. Participants get together discuss and about technology, agriculture, start-up, marketing, e-commerce, lifestyle, marketing, business, and more…..There are some interesting topics presented at Barcamp before “cloud computing”, “how to be a successful entreupreneur”, “travelling is awesome”. It’s an opportunity for anybody to present about anything they want and for participants to learn from each other.
BarcampSaigon organizers want the event to be better each year. This year, there are a lot more changes coming and it will bring you a professional and interesting event.
BarcampSaigon 7th with 7 new things
1. Presentation day for Barcamp’s presenters
2. Mobile apps for all the latest on BarcampSaigon
3. The event will be held at RMIT’snew building
4. New check-in system which is faster and easier for participants
5. Super networking
6. New T-shirt
7. Beercamp
Barcamp is such a wonderful place for active, curious and passionate people to learn and show who they are. One of the most special things about Barcamp is that everything is free. Please sign up now, go to RMIT and join us at BarcampSaigon.
Jazz Night with “Unit Asia” Featuring Tung Duong
Hanoi: Fri 12 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
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HCMC: Sun 14 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm
Ben Thanh Theatre
6 Mac Dinh Chi, District 1, HCMC
In celebration of 40th Year of ASEAN – Japan Friendship and Cooperation as well as the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with Consulate-General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, proudly presents a jazz concert by “unit asia” featuring best of the best vocals in Vietnam, Tung Duong, on Friday 12 July in Hanoi & on Sunday 14 July in Ho Chi Minh City.
“Unit asia” is a hybrid jazz band which consists of five outstanding musicians from Asia; Japan, Thailand and Malaysia. The band was formed in October 2008 to aim for “creating a new type of jazz music” and has been actively touring around the globe. Their first-time tour in Vietnam in February 2012 received enthusiastic applause and thanks to Tung Duong, it became one of the legendary concerts in the history of jazz scene in Vietnam.
The music style of “unit asia” is based around jazz, but they have managed to incorporate diverse musical elements such as rock, pops, blues and so forth into their music, enabling them to create their own original sound that exceeded the framework of nation, culture and musical genre.
Isao “SANKICHI” Miyoshi (guitar/Japan)
Koh Mr. Saxman (saxophone/Thailand)
Tay Cher Siang (piano/Malaysia)
Shigeki Ippon (bass/Japan)
Tomo’o Tsuruya (drums/Japan)
Needless to say, Tung Duong, Singer of the Year 2011 and Dedication Award for Song of the Year 2012 (“Chiec Khan Pieu”), is a perfect choice for “unit asia”. His emotional and strong voice will skillfully interplay with sounds of “unit asia” and will enrich its musical diversity as a whole.
Tung Duong
This year’s concert by “unit asia” with Tung Duong will be surely another legend for all music lovers in Vietnam. Their tour in Vietnam kicks off in Hanoi at Youth Theatre from 7:30pm on Friday 12 July, followed by the concert in Ho Chi Minh City at Ben Thanh Theatre from 7:30pm on Sunday 14 July. Both concerts are free admission but you are required to get free advanced tickets which will be distributed from 2pm on Friday 28 June at the Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi/TEL 04-3944-7419) in Hanoi and at Ben Thanh Theatre (6 Mac Dinh Chi, District 1, HCMC) in Ho Chi Minh City.
Please refrain from taking children under 6 years old to the concert.
Free ticket distribution:
Hanoi: From 2pm on Friday 28 June onward
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
[Opening hours] 09:00 – 18:00 (no closed days)
HCMC: From 2pm on Friday 28 June onward
Ben Thanh Theatre
6 Mac Dinh Chi, District 1, HCMC
[Opening hours] 09:00 – 18:00 (no closed days)
Alta risoluzione opera copertina -
Opening: Mon 01 Jul 2013, 5 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 14 Jul 2013
Casa Italia
18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi
The exhibition “Heavy Rain”, in which Anna started a dialogue between her art and the figures and the signs created by the children.
Anna Borghi was born in Italy in 1980. She graduated in 2004 in Painting and in 2010 in Cultural Heritage, both degrees obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, in Milan. She started to work with galleries in 2003 while she was still student. She won national awards and now her artworks can be found in remarkable private international collections.
She started to work with children in 2005. Two years later she moved to Spain, then in 2010 to Vietnam. Here she met children of “Pho Cap” School, a small school for street children located in HCMC. This school helps disadvantaged children, and it was opened in 2001 by three Vietnamese teachers with the support of the local authorities.
Since 2011 Anna has been teaching art in this school. She teaches with a strong method, in which students start a journey not only towards the masterpieces of international artists, but also exploring themselves. This experience created a massive change in Anna’s life and began a strong interaction between her artworks and the children’s works.
Exhibition of Fifteen Emerging Artists
Opening Reception: Sat, 29 Jun 2013, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: 29 Jun – 21 Jul 2013
Craig Thomas Gallery
27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, Q.1, HCMC
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6pm; Sundays 1 to 5 pm; and by appointment
On the occasion of Craig Thomas Gallery’s 4th anniversary, new works by 15 young Vietnamese emerging artists will be displayed at the gallery for almost all of the month of July. Among the artists are Ngo Van Sac, Bui Thanh Tam, Bui Tien Tuan, Nguyen The Hung, Tam Minh, Tran Quoc Tuan, La Huy, Lieu Nguyen Huong Duong, Le Kinh Tai, Bui Hai Son, Nguyen Thuy Hang, Mac Hoang Thuong, and Luong Luu Bien.
Four years on, we are proud of their continuing progress and evolution and would like to take this opportunity to introduce their latest creations as we celebrate our own development and growth as a gallery. Working in a multiplicity of mediums, materials and styles and hailing from throughout the country, we believe the fifteen artists represented are among the most talented and intriguing artists in Vietnam today.
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