Classical Concert “From Bach to the Blues” – Saigon Chamber Music 2015

Sat 01 Aug 2015, 8 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC

Opening concert of Saigon Chamber Music 2015, featuring the acclaimed Norwegian violinist Atle Sponberg, British cellist Zoe Martlew and Vietnamese pianist Tra Nguyen. The colour-rich playbill embraces the pure beauty of Bach’s music to the strong voices of 20th century in both America and Europe.

Program

J. S. Bach| Sonata in G-Major for Violin and Continuo BWV 1021 Allegro Moderato | Vivace | Largo | Presto

F. Mendlessohn | Trio in D minor | Andante con molto tranquillo

M. Ravel | Sonata for violin and cello | Allegro and Trés vif

F. Chopin | Ballade in g minor op.23

Zoë Martlew| Shift, Trip for amplified cello and soundtrack

Intermission

J. S. Bach | Partita no. 2 in D minor for solo violin | Chaconne

G. Fauré | Elegie for cello and piano

G. Gershwin | Selected pieces from Songbook for piano

N. Kapustin | Trio op. 86 | Allegro Molto

Tickets

Ticket prices: 250,000 and 300,000 VND

Online ticket via ticketbox.vn

Ticketing and inquiry: 096 514 0058

Positive Mass of July 2015

Fri 31 Jul 2015, 8 pm

St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Hanoi

“Positive Mass”, and event inspired by an international event called Critical Mass. It is a bicycle ride to promote cycling for all its benefits. Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world. The ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco. The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.

In Hanoi, Positive Mass (PM) is called “Đạp cho sướng”, literally meaning cycling for pleasure. Bikers meet on the last Friday of every month at St. Joseph Cathedral (Nhà thờ lớn) and travel around Hanoi following a prepared route with the ending point at the Cathedral. The first PM in Hanoi started in October 2012. After one year, since October 2013, PM has also been held in HCMC, Thai Nguyen and Son La.

Graduate Fashion Show and Exhibition “I Am” of London College for Design and Fashion Studies

Exhibition: Fri 31 Jul 2015, 3 – 8 pm and Sat 01 Aug 2015, 10 am – 5 pm

The London College for Design and Fashion Studies (Hanoi)

No. 98 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Fashion Show: Sun 02 Aug 2015, 7.30 – 9.30 pm

Melia Hanoi Hotel

You are invited to the Graduate Fashion Show and Exhibition 2015 titled “I Am” by London College for Design and Fashion Studies (LCDF) Hanoi.

The 2-day exhibition at LCDF and the fashion show at Melia Hanoi Hotel feature collections from students in the Higher National Diploma Fashion & Textiles.

Joining the exhibition at LCDF, you will have the chance to:

– Investigate British fashion education technology, from concept to production & marketing

– Meet directly with members of the LCFS staff, students and representatives from the UK to find out about courses experience, the application process, work placement and internship opportunities in Vietnam and UK , study transfer to the UK and much more

– Visit the Style Zone to get personal style consultancy advice towards improving your look, as provided by our students

– Register to see the Graduate Fashion Show 2015 featuring the final creations of the students in Fashion Designers/ Creative Merchandiser Programme on 02nd August 2015.

Exhibition: Free entry

Fashion show: register your name, phone number and email to collect your ticket (first come first serve) with LCDF:

Tel: +84 (4)3 719 9706

Email: info@designstudies.vn

Facebook event.

Suggested donation to attend the fashion show: 100,000 VND to help the charity fund “New clothes to school” for children in the highlands.

Water Puppet Exhibition: Colors behind the bamboo blind

Exhibition: Sat 25 Jul 2015, 9 am – Sun 26 Jul, 3 pm

Vietnam History Museum

01 Pham Ngu Lao Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the water puppet exhibition displaying paintings, pottery and some water puppet characters.

Behind the bamboo blind are artisans who preserve cultural traditions to pass over the puppet’s soul to the youth. The exhibitions aims to introduce the traditional art to not only Vietnamese youngsters but also foreign tourists.

Free entrance.   

Exhibition “Motion” by Phan Phuong Dong

Opening: Sun 26 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 26 Jul – 26 Aug 2015

Eight Gallery

Lafayette Building, 8 Phung Khac Khoan st., Dist 1, HCMC

From the organizer:

Life is motion relentless, with rhythmic, personal character and says so many things… Motion that could be seen is the movement from material to material, and unseen motion is the movement from material to immaterial… Using the phenomenon of “Motion” as the subject, with lines, surfaces, colors and space as components to create work with precise geometric forms, clear, pure, including factors of sculpture, painting, and architecture… Slow down to think and feel them through the different frequencies of awareness. Exhibition “Motion” is to introduce the new work of Phan Phuong Dong on the material of stainless steel, crystal, and Plexiglas by means of digital technology.

Phan Phuong Dong had had a solo exhibition entitled “Light” in 2010. Click here to read a review of the exhibition by our contributor KVT.

South Melody Program – Ballet “Còn Mãi bản Hùng Ca”

Wed 29 Jul 2015, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

With a view to take academic art to the young audience, in the Youth Melody Program in July, HBSO proudly introduces the premier ballet performance “Còn mãi bản hùng ca” scripted by People’s Artist Vu Viet Cuong, choreographed by People’s Artist Kim Quy, Nguyen Phuc Hung and Nguyen Phuc Hai, music composed by MA. Tran Vuong Thach. The ballet is written by the Performing Arts Department.

Long after the end of the war, immortal songs about the indomitable spirit and the pure, lofty love of people sacrificing for national liberation still remain.

These immortal songs would touch the sacred memory of each person and help them to be strong, kind and confident.

Free tickets are being distributed at:

– Student Support Center HCMC, 33 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC, Tel: 08 3827 4709

– Ticket Office at Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), 7 Lam Son Square, District 1, HCMC, Viet Nam, Tel: 08 3823 7419

Classic Ballet Performance “Swan Lake” with Russian Ballet Company Talarium et Lux

Sat 01 Aug 2015, 8 pm

Vietnam National Convention

57 Pham Hung, Tu Liem, Hanoi

Come to the performance of Classic Ballet “Swan Lake” with Russian Ballet Company Talarium et Lux.

The audience will see “The swan lake” in the magical, fantastic world of 3D animation in the classical execution of ballet dancers. The ballet “Swan Lake”, with a great number of admirers, wins favor of those who – for various reasons – have never been interested in this art form.

Artistic Director: Mikhail Leonidovich Lavrovsky

Choreographer: Marina Yurievna Aleksandrova

Choreographer: Yuriy Anatolievich Romashko

Costume: Dmitriy Paradizov

Solist: E. Nebesnaya, S. Smirnov

Russian ballet company TALARIUM ET LUX was founded in 2012, forming a professional dance crew comprising ballet artists from the light of Moscow and all-over-Russia theaters. The company interprets classical choreography in a modern way with the accompany of light show and multimedia. Thus, Talarium et Lux appears to be a new light in the Big Ballet!

“Our aim is to retain the priceless cultural heritage of our country, the Russian ballet school, which is revered around the world. We believe that today, at the time of completely substituted values and total domination of pop culture, it is everybody’s prime goal to support and promote the pure High Art,” says Irina Omelchenko, the director of the theatre. “Undoubtedly, such a task isn’t easy, but we’re willing to take a risk. In order to draw attention to the classics we produce our performances in modern multimedia settings, and we’ll create new, original performances on the basis of classical traditions with integration of innovative stage technologies. ‘Ballet and light’ is not just a word combination for us, it’s a concept for our intention to introduce the Russian ballet in a new light or perspective, the most beneficial and modern one”.

The Artistic director of Russian ballet theatre TALARIUM ET LUX is a People’s Artist of the USSR, a legendary ballet dancer, ballet master and dance coach Mikhail Leonidovich Lavrovsky. For many decades he has cooperated with the world’s most renowned ballet troupes, he continually creates new dance performances and opens new names in the Art of ballet.

Tickets

Ticket price: 1,000,000 – 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 – 4,500,000 VND.

For more details on free ticket delivery, please contact: 0913489858 / 0983067996.

TEDxBadinh 2015 – The Festival of Minds

Sat 01 Aug 2015, 8 – 11.30 am

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the event “TEDxBadinh 2015 – The festival of minds” organized by TEDxBadinh – an independent organization patronized by TEDxEvent, TED Global.

TEDxBadinh 2015, themed “The festival of minds”, aims to share a variety of perspectives in different fields (arts, philosophy, career orientation, education etc.) with vision to inspire curiosity and ignite new thoughts. Seven crucial representatives, who have new ideas for innovations and are willing to share their ways of looking have been invited to be our esteemed guest speakers.

Language: English

About registration:

TEDxBadinh is trying to help audience conveniently purchase tickets. Please book online tickets with TEDxBadinh.

Ticket Price: 130.000 VND

We will start to check-in at 8 AM and end at 11.30 AM, so please arrive on time. If you are late, you will have to wait until tea time.

Our Speakers:

1. Ms. Thao Griffiths: Country Director of the International Center – Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (IC-VVAF)

2. Mr. Bobby Liu: Founder of HUB IT, Asiastartups

3. Ms. Thùy Minh: TV host / writer and editor in chief in magazines

4. Ms. Milena Nguyen: Yoga teacher. Blogger. Writer

5. Mr. Vũ Đinh Trọng Thắng: Leader of Ngọt band, the host of The Music Emporium

6. Ph.D, Architecture Phó Đức Tùng: Independent expert on architecture and urban planning, professor, consultant, author.

7. Mr. Diego Cortizas Del Valle: Spanish fashion designer, the founder of Chula house

8. Ms. Nguyễn Thảo Vân: Director of “Nghị lực sống”, a Social Business supporting disabled people

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any concern, we are glad to answer as soon as possible.

Email: contact@tedxbadinh.com

Hotline: Nguyen Thu Ha – Phone 01689916412

French Melodies with Paul Gillet from Australia

Sun 26 Jul 2015, 8.30 – 10.30 pm

Don’s – A Chef’s Bistro Hanoi

16 Quảng An, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội

Come to immerse yourself in some romantic musical moments with guitarist/singer/songwriter Paul Gillett from Australia.

About Paul Gillet

Paul first heard the music of Django Reinhardt on the street as a child and has been fascinated ever since. As his alter ego Floyd Thursby, he has toured Australia performing his original music, and as a composer and leader of the film scoring project The Ang Fang Quartet. He has done extensive research into the French music of the early 20th century, including a study trip to France in 2009. His repertoire includes Jean Sablon, Tino Rossi, Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Joe Dassin.

Paul is currently the lead singer French jazz manouche ensemble La Mauvaise Réputation and has performed with the group at festivals, jazz clubs, private functions and high-profile events across Australia including Port Fairy Folk Festival, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Brisbane Festival, OzManouche, Inverloch Jazz Festival, Kingston Arts Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Viva Victoria Multicultural Festival, Queen Victoria and Coburg Night Markets, Boite World Music Café, Northcote Social Club, Spotted Mallard and the Paris Cat Jazz Club. The ensemble has also performed live on ABC Radio National’s The Music Show and many other radio programs across Australia. In 2011, they released their debut album Tours Eiffel en Plastique. Their second album Bad Reputation was released in 2014.

Free Entry.

Paul Gillet had had two performances at the Hanoi Social Club, one last weekend and one in May 2015.

Group Exhibition “PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” at Manzi Art Space

Opening: Sun 26 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Showcase: 26 Jul – 17 Aug 2015

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi art space is pleased to present “PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” – a group exhibition by Ly Hoàng Ly, Patricia Nguyễn & John Lee.

“PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” is an interactive multi-media video, sound, photography installation and poetry performance project including a series of artist’s books that explores the relationship between bodies, shifting landscapes, and cultural memory in Vietnam. Through an embodied experience attentending to the sense of sight, sound, and tactile navigation, “PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” – offers an experience that challenges the viewer to question the relationship between notions of memory and amnesia, home and displacement, and construction and destruction. Playing with the formation of memory and space through reflective distortions and through audience collaboration, based on the audience’s decision to actively participate or refusal to interact, “PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” can be considered as a gesture to invite the viewer to experiment with their perceptions of a world that is emerging alongside another world that is possible.

“PRISM – lăn[g] kính lăn[g] trụ” is made possible by collaboration between a Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, and Korean American artist.

Free entry.

Silk Painting Exhibition “The Order” by Le Thuy

Opening: Sat 25 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 25/07 – 25/08/2015

Chula

6 Nhat Chieu, near Water Park, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Come to the silk painting exhibition “The Order”, the first solo exhibition by young artist Le Thuy.

Artist’s statement:

“I have a cynical feeling about life. What my eyes see is only the tip of the iceberg, and the beauty that I observe is seemingly not itself. Everything appears to follow a certain order which has been created to control and arrange rules aiming at establishing an organized and disciplined society.

I express these cynical feelings about order through the placement and composition of the animal I paint such as fish, birds, and dogs, etc. They live in the natural order, namely groups or species. Sometimes they live separately, which is not against the order but strengthens the relationship. Just like in human society, there have been individuals trying to protest and make a change. The action is an essential part of creating the order, which sometimes might suppress emotion, freedom, and the development of humans.

I place these animals in a large, empty and flat spatial composition to express my confusion among the individuals and the group. In addition, the color of gold and silver represents intangible value in the group, with the view to expressing tangible linkage among individuals.

These threads are like values people wish such as money and social status.

Besides, I also feel a sense of loss and uneasy about death and bondage. I decided to repress the composition, or set it aside to express my emotion. Sense of death is also expressed through my simple palette using soft colors and blurring of details bringing me endless obsessions.

I am passionate about silk as it is a traditional typical material of Eastern Area. Silk is smooth but weaved with extremely tight silk fibers, just like connections among individuals in a society. I exploit the transparent aspects of silk to create the feeling of longing, mystery, and obsession. Viewers can focus on the image on the surface of the silk, or also see through the silk to what is behind the silk, to create tension that reflects my own obsessions.”

Le Thuy had participated in group exhibition “The Echo of Nature” with other young artists in August 2014.

Music Talk “The Beauty of Noise” with Artist Kim Ngoc

Sat 25 Jul 2015, 2.30 pm

Ca phe thu bay

No. 3 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

You are invited to the music talk with music composer and improv performer KIM NGOC on the topic: “The beauty of noise”, moderator: Dr. DANG HOANG GIANG.

The talk will be in Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Film Screening “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” by Guy Ritchie

Fri 24 Jul 2015, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi

On this Friday, you are invited to the film screening “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” directed by Guy Ritchie. Not recommended for children under 16 years old .

About the film

“LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS” is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. To pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang who happens to be operating out of the flat next door.

The film brought Guy Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Vinnie Jones, a former Wales international footballer, and Jason Statham, a former diver, to worldwide audiences. Based on a $1.35 M budget, the film had a box office gross of $28.3 M, making it a commercial success.

Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)

Movement and Contemporary Dance Workshop “Pendulum”



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Fri 31 Jul 2015, 7.30 pm

Blossom Art House

94B Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi

This class will focus on the fundamental aspect of contemporary dance, the pendulum concept, the idea that our body has two main weights (our head and our hips) and all movement is created by the pull and push of these two weights working together.

Think of how a baby moves. When it stands up it lifts its bottom first and then swings its head up so that it is standing. This is the very fundamental idea of movement which we tend to lose as we grow older. Using this idea of pendulum allows a person to give in to their body and let go of order and structure. Once a person allows their body, instead of the mind, to take control of their movements, creativity starts to flow. This is very important in today’s world where we are constantly having to think and follow rules, allowing our natural movements to flow gives us a break from the chaotic and stressful world around us.

By the end of the class the participants will have tapped into a new found creativity and be able to return to their most basic movements. Participants will have the opportunity to let go of rules and structure and give in to their natural movement.

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS

Max. 30 people

* You only need to come with a passion / a need to express yourselves, release your body with creative activities. No dancing skills or techniques required.

FEE: 200,000 VND

TO REGISTER

Email us your basic information (full name, age, phone number) to blossom.arthouse@gmail.com with title PENDULUM WORKSHOP by 6PM 25/07/2015.

TIMELINE OF WORKSHOP

– 20 mins to warm up

– 30 mins for understanding the idea of pendulum and momentum (participants will be shown and practice the ideas in pairs)

– 30 mins for basic steps lesson (using momentum and pendulum movements)

– 30 mins for free expression (participants will be asked to move around the room to music using the steps and ideas of pendulum and momentum)

– 10 mins to cool down

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

Emily George is a dancer from Cape Town, South Africa. She started dancing at the age of 4 and doing ballet for 8 years. She then decided to improve her dance abilities and began training in Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance and Cabaret Belly Dancing. A few years later she added Hip Hop and Tribal Fusion to her list and partook in many dance workshops such as Krumping and Spanish Dancing. In 2007, she was selected as one of the dancers to perform at the Gathering of the Tribes event held in Sydney, Australia. In 2010, she was tasked with choreographing and teaching a meaningful dance piece to showcase at the Gathering of the Tribes event in Cape Town, the Reddam House Evening of Dance.   

Film Screening “Couleur de Peau: Miel” at L’Espace

Fri 31 Jul 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Approved for Adoption” (France, Belgium, 2012, 75 mins) by graphic novelist Jung in collaboration with director Laurent Boileau.

“A totally singular film, which evokes the themes of rootlessness, identity and integration with poetry, humor and sensitivity.”

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Ty - 2015

09 AM,03 - 06 PM, 28 July

Tu Do Gallery 53 Ho Tung Mau, D.1, HCMC

Tu Do Gallery will hold an exhibition entitled ‘Ty’ by Vietnamese artist Mai Hoang Minh. Minh’s nickname is Ty, and she was born in Hue in 1960 and now lives and works in Nha Trang. A self-taught painter who began painting in 2000, Ty’s work is in the style of surrealist expression. The exhibition will present 25 of his new paintings in oil and acrylic completed between 2012 and 2015, which reflect the daily life of farmers and fishermen in the coastal area of central Vietnam. ‘For me, initiative in painting is always a start without an ending’, he said. ‘Things unknown, unseen, hiding somewhere in the deep part of our spirit, are suddenly on the canvas and become the product of the past forever. The recirculation has showed me the purity in the beauty of fear, in the beauty of desire for existence in an earthly place.’

Detailed Program of Viet Pride 2015

30 Jul – 02 Aug 2015

Goethe Institut, ATK, Giang Vo Lake, American Club

The 4th Viet Pride Festival (Vietnamese Gay Pride Festival) will take place in Hanoi, from 30 July to 2 August, themed “We are Queer, We are Here”. This year, Pride in Vietnam aims to promote visibility and awareness of LGBT people in public spaces such as the workplaces, cafes, parks, and on the streets. This resonates with Hillary Clinton’s remarks at the International Human Rights Day in Geneva, citing Eleanor Roosevelt , that “these [human] rights begin in the small places close to home – the streets where people live, the schools they attend, the factories, farms, and offices where they work. These places are your domain. The actions you take, the ideals that you advocate, can determine whether human rights flourish where you are. ”

The four days of Viet Pride 2015 will be celebrated with numerous activities centered on different aspects of the LGBT community including: a research presentation on the lives of LGBT youth in Vietnam – attended by major NGOs and embassies; a talk from PFLAG about coming out experiences and advice for LGBT people and their parents; four moving and thought-provoking film screenings; and a wild party called “Queer Disco Night”. To top it off, Viet Pride’s annual bike parade will be held on 2 August, followed by an after-rally party at the American Club with free beer and entertainment.

Viet Pride 2015’s events will be held consecutively at the following locations:

– Goethe Institute (56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi)

– CAMA ATK (72 Mai Hac De Street, Hanoi)

– Giang Vo Lake

– American Club (21 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi)

Program

Day 1: Save The Children’s Research Presentation – “Being LGBT Youth in Vietnam”

Time: 3pm – 5pm

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Save the Children to introduce and disseminate the result of their research on the lives of Vietnamese LGBT youths. In attendance will be major VNGOs, INGOs and embassies.

Day 2: Opening Ceremonies

Time: 6pm – 8.30pm

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Viet Pride 2015’s opening speeches, an award ceremony for Viet Pride Scholarship 2014 recipients, a presentation on Viet Pride’s new campaign Equal Office, and a presentation on the Netherlands and LGBT in Vietnam

Day 2: Film Screening: “The Good Son”

Time: 8.45pm – 10pm

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

(Stay tuned for further details)

Day 2: Queer Disco Night

Time: from 10pm

Place: CAMA ATK, 72 Mai Hac De

(Stay tuned for further details)

Day 3: Film Screening: It Gets Better

Time: 10am – 12am

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

(Stay tuned for further details)

Day 3: PFLAG talk + Film Screening: A Family Affair

Time: 2pm – 4.30pm

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

PFLAG to share coming out experiences and advice for LGBT individuals as well as their parents.

Day 3: Film Screening: The Way He Looks

Time: 6pm – 8pm

Place: Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

PFLAG to share coming out experiences and advice for LGBT individuals as well as their parents.

Day 4: Bike Rally

Time: from 9am

Place: Giang Vo Lake – the American Club, 21 Hai Ba Trung

Join Viet Pride’s annual bike rally as the massive crowd move through the streets of Hanoi, waving rainbow flags and shouting chants of LGBT rights.

Day 4: After-Rally party

Time: from 10.30am

Place: the American Club, 21 Hai Ba Trung

After arriving at the American Club, bikers will then go inside for a massive party with drinks, music and a flash-mob performance.

The very first Saigon Reggae Festival

Sat 25 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Cargo Bar

7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D.4, HCMC

For the first time in Saigon, we are gathering Reggae music artists from all over the world for a night of pure vibes. Starting at 6pm, get to

discover what Reggae Music is all about.

This is not only a festival for the ears, it’s also a unique visual experience. Our team of artists will set up the place like never before for a full

experience.

Music: 12 Djs / MC / Live Band from all over the planet!

Program

Saigon Reggae Festival-Program

Art: Saigon based young talented artists will paint big sized art pieces live on stage during the Saigon Reggae Festival!

1. DAOS501 (VN)

2. CHICKO, QUAY, SIRO, FIPER (VN)

3. KIM CO (VN)

4. KONG, BAUM (VN)

5. JAVIER MARIMON (ES)

6. ROWA (GER) LEE WESSELS (NL)

A group of artists from over the world will transform the space into a creative playground for one night! “ONE LOVE, ONE HEART” sang by Bob Marley refers to love and respect for all people, no matter where you are from. The “ONE HEART” art exhibition will overcome intercultural boundaries using visual arts as a common language.

A multi-disciplinary group of artists will exhibit their work, and team up to build an interactive installation full of movement and light that will give you a visual experience you won’t forget!

Tickets

Presale tickets available on tickbox.vn soon: 150,000 VND

Ticket at door: 250.000 VND (include one free drink)

Exhibition “Mơ” by Dang Viet Linh

Opening: Sat 25 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 25 – 29 Jul 2015

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

“Mơ” is Dang Viet Linh’s first solo exhibition, marking his achievement through the past 3 years of being a professional artist.

Dang Viet Linh always dreams about a world like Eden, where humans live without any cultural and racial discrimination; where freedom, joy, happiness and kindness reign.

Review of artist Nguyen Nghia Phuong about the exhibition:

Studying at Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Art, Dang Viet Linh is passionate about creating independent artworks. While the Industrial Fine Art

University requires logical thinking, Linh’s artwork is utterly free, spontaneous, and almost skips all regular, schooling rules for creating shapes in

a painting. These are the first observations when knowing Dang Viet Linh and admiring his artworks. Is there actually any conflict at all? To take it into consideration, there is no contrast between Plastic Art and Industrial Art, each has its own function. In visual art today, freedom, recklessness and “unusual feature” are always appealing, even in practical art or pure art. To have something that unusual in his artwork, the artist has to be up on the air and dares to “dream”, dreaming about a strange land, dreaming about a mystical, unreal place or a story streaming without opening and ending. To Dang Viet Linh, artists always dream and dream more about a world like Eden, where humans live without cultural or racial discrimination; only freedom, joy, happiness and kindness rule that land.

Being a very young artist, born in 1993, Dang Viet Linh is similar and yet dissimilar to other young people at his age. Born and growing up in an integrated world, obviously Linh together with his generation have a different eye on the whole world and the world inside each human being.

Linh’s own art world is a melting pot of many cultural origins, a world consisted of stories that are both traditional and modern, bearing in it hidden questions from all ages and lands. Thinking that the modern world is always flat and fair; all languages, cultures, races… are connected and

overlapped to make the whole picture of a civilized and integrated society, Dang Viet Linh has created more than 20 psychedelic, surrealpaintings. Linh’s artworks are the fusion and improvisation of bright flat blocks of colors to form a visual language with highly decorating patterns.

Motifs in Linh’s paintings bear signals to recognizable traditional culture and modern art of not only Vietnam but also many other countries in the world. Combining all these things in a big picture, the artist wishes to visualize his dream about an integration of all people in this planet because to him, we are all born in the same way, all have dreams and desires like each other.

The gouache on Do Paper paintings of Dang Viet Linh strikes the viewers instantly by bright and joyful blocks of colors, just like they are happily dancing on the white wrinkled Do Paper. Almost all the shapes painted naturally float in a surreal space. Blocks of colors or details are separated

by white lines, thus increasing the decorating purpose of flat blocks. This triggers a sense of a delightful and peaceful space of the viewers. The art images in Linh’s artworks are the combination of pluralism and multi-dimension; they are angels, white–winged magical horses, Botticelli’s

Venus; dragons and phoenixes from Eastern culture; musicians or dancers of Matisse; traditional and modern Vietnamese girls; ethnic people

with colorful clothes; weird animals usually appeared on folk paintings in many places on the planet. Flying people, colorful concertos in Linh’s paintings seem like pouring from somewhere in European glass paintings, Middle Asian and Anatolian carpet decoration art; images derived from African, Latin American or Australian aboriginal culture; Vietnamese clothing and folk art; from religious art to Renaissance art, and then to artworks by Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt and paintings by Surrealism artists now and then. Generally, with syntheticism, Dang Viet Linh not only brings about an aesthetic, cultural space that has a sense of humanity, but also expresses the sense and consciousness of a person in an integrated age. The art of Linh reflects naturally both the thinking and the emotions of nowadays young people, but also has a consistency in building images, icons and languages. This fact shows that the art arises and pours out of the artist’s heart, out of real dreams, dreams that are pure like children’s, dreams about a happy human society.

Paintings from “Mo” exhibition will be displayed at The Vietnam Nation Fine Arts Museum in the upcoming time are Linh’s journey to find the answer for the question: “Beyond our real, busy life that we know, is there any world?” Linh states that everything has its own soul and language.

Reflecting his own obsession and adventure into dreams, immersing himself into his imaginary world to find freedom is a method that has been used by many artists before. However, struggling to find the answers for the artists’ mental concerns, for life desiring to reveal his soul, is endless.

Each human being is a character, a small planet, so each artist has his own way to find that answer. The collection “Mo” of Dang Viet Linh is an ordinary dream with distinctive and yet, familiar visual language. Linh’s dream is also what all humans wish: a good life that is always cheerful and free, where people cherish everything they own, live to the fullest, a bit instinctively, a bit wildly, a bit adventurously and riskily, where people dare to dream and dare to follow their dreams till the very end.

About the artist:

DANG VIET LINH

(19/11/1993)

Born : Viet Tri – Phu Tho.

A 4th-year student of Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Art, majoring in Art

Attended exhibitions:

2007: Exhibition for ethnic minorities of mountainous region of the North Viet Nam at Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum (awarded the second prize)

2008, 2011, 2013, 2014: A exhibitions of Sector III by Vietnam Arts Association.

2013:

– Exchange exhibition with Korean artists in Vietnam

– The second exhibition for promoting Vietnam art at Denmark Embassy in Vietnam

– “Story of growing person” exhibition hosted by UNESCO Vietnam, Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam museum of Ethnology at

Vietnam museum of Ethnology.

2014:

– International open exhibition in Seoul, Korea

– The third exhibition for promoting Vietnam art at Denmark Embassy.

– Hanoi Open Exhibition II at Work room four.

– Vietnam art exhibition about the army force and revolutionary war.

– Had paintings exhibited at Korean cultural center in Vietnam.

– Had paintings collected by private collectors from America, Korea, China and Vietnam.     

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The Red Steinway Classical Concert

Fri 24 Jul 2015, 7 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC

Let the Red Steinway Concert take you to a fascinating and multidimensional sound-world…

From the etudes of Liszt and Chopin and the preludes of Rachmaninoff – aplomb, turbulent and romantic undercurrents pushing through the music’s surface; To the soft, playful, innocent theme across the sonatas of Mozart; Combined with smooth, elegant and deep arrangements from masterpieces of Schubert, Verdi and Rogers; As well as the French identity coming from unique music of Debussy, Poulenc or Fauré’s poetic pieces; And marked by the perfect fierceness of Chopin’s Scherzo or Ballade…

Entry by donation.

The First Italian Film Festival Moviemov in Vietnam

21 – 26 Jul 2015

CGV Cinema

6th floor Vincom City Towers , 191 Ba Trieu, Hanoi

Following the success of previous film festivals, this year, the Italian Moviemov chose Vietnam as the next stop, with the first episode of this 5th

installment of the event to take place on July 21 – 26, in the poetic capital city of Hanoi, now a new cultural center in Asia.

This is the first time Moviemov adds Vietnam to its agenda, and also the first time for an international film festival that converges cinematography and fashion to take place in Vietnam.

The event is conceptualized and managed by Goffredo Bettini, and held by The Embassy of Italy in Hanoi and “Playtown Roma” together with Italian Trade Commission (ICE) in Vietnam. Moviemov is made possible with the support from the Ministry of Culture – Cinematography General Department, Economic Development Ministry and Chamber of Commerce in Roma, and the valuable contributions from various partners and private donors.

Coming to Hanoi, the film festival will unveil to the public eleven outstanding recent award-winning Italian movies, including:

BLACKSOULS by Francesco Munzi

SO FAR SO GOOD by Roan Johnson

THE DINNER by Ivano De Matteo

LEOPARDI by Mario Martone

THE CHAIR OF HAPPINESS by Carlo Mazzacurati

THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher

WONDROUS BOCCACCIO by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

THE LEGENDARY GIULIA AND OTHER MIRACLES by Edoardo Leo

I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT by Sydney Sibilia

PARTLY CLOUDY (WITH SUNNY SPELLS) by Marco Pontecorvo

Notably, the movie “Fasten your seatbelts” by Ferzan Ozpeteck is chose to be screened in the Opening day of the Film Festival.

These motion pictures will be introduced to the public by Italian famed actors and film directors, such as Ferzan Ozpetek, Paola Minaccioni and

Stefano Fresi.The delegation also features Pippo Del Bono who comes to Vietnam to do surveys for his upcoming film adapted from the book

“Good news from St. Matthew” by Pier Paolo Pasolini.He will also take part in the interactive sessions held by Moviemov targeting the audio-visual industry.

Actress Valeria Solarino, the got mother of this festival, will start the Opening Gala by introducing the film “I can quit whenever I want” she starred in.

Apart from movies, the festival also brings to the audience another Italian specialty -fashion.Through the costumes made by Vietnamese young designers, inspired by the movies screened throughout Film Festival, and an exhibition that will last nearly a month’s time, the element of fashion will work like a unifying thread linking the events.

The fashion exhibition titled “The elegance of culinary art: Tales about food and fashion”, an idea of Stefano Dominella and the Italy-Vietnam Fashion Council, will go on between July 21 and Aug. 19, at“Casa Italia” – the “shop window” of Italian masterpieces in the heart of Hanoi.The exhibition embodies part of a larger ongoing exhibition in Mercati Traianei (Roma) orchestrated by Stefano Dominella, in cooperation with Bonizza Giordani.This is part of efforts to promote to Asian markets Italy’s most sought after fashion designers, as well as “capsule collections” from Italian and Vietnamese young designers.

The exhibition is a visual demonstration of a delicate mix of fashion and food, a combination of trending themes such as nutrition and sustainability (some of the core ideas of the Expo Milano 2015 exhibition), and an effort to showcase the creativity of young designers (from both Italy and Vietnam) and world famous names in the fashion industry.

The audience in the exhibition will be introduced to costumes dubbed “Natural couture” by the nature loving designer Tiziano Guardini, “Nuvola” by Italo Marseglia, or “Couture a la carte” by Guillermo Mariotto – all part of a complete upscale fashion collection from Gattinoni centering on

gastronomy.These will also come with an outfit by Ken Scott from 1970, two from Enrico Coveri, one from students of Maiani Fashion Institute, and four others from two promising young Vietnamese designers – Quang Nhật and Hùng Việt, also themed on gastronomy and sustainable energy.

Last but not least, jewelry designer Gianni de Benedittis from FuturoRemoto will bring to the show an interesting gift from Expo 2015 with his “Edible jewelry” collection.

In tandem with the main events in the film festival, other networking, trade promotion and professional exchange activities will also take place with the support and collaboration of Anica, Ice, Regione Lazio and Roma Chamber of Commerce.

On the cinematography front, there will be a roundtable on Vietnam – Europe cooperation discussing how to turn film festivals into an effective

means and opportunity for publicity and learning of new markets.In addition, the roundtable will also take a closer look at the Europe – Vietnam free trade agreement.

In respect of fashion, the Italy – Vietnam Fashion Council will launch a “Masterclass” to give young fashion enthusiasts interesting expert knowledge on the industry.

Schedule for free movies screened on July 22-25 at CGV, Level 6, Vincom Hanoi, 191 Ba Trieu

July 22, 2015

4:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

THE DINNER by Ivano De Matteo

6:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

THE CHAIRS OF HAPPINESS by Carlo Mazzacurati

8:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT by Sydney Sibilia

July 23, 2015

6:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

BLACK SOULS by Francesco Munzi

July 24, 2015

4:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

SO FAR SO GOOD by Roan Johnson

6:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

PRATLY CLOUDY (with Sunny Spells) by Marco Pontecorvo

8:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

MAGIC BOCCACCIO by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

July 25, 2015

4:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher

6:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

THE LEGENDARY OF GIULIA AND OTHER MIRACLES by Edoardo Leo

8:00 PM (CINEMA 4)

LEOPARDI by Mario Martone

Language: Film in Italian with English and Vietnamese subtitles

Free tickets for ten movies available at CGV cinema, Level 6, Vincom Hanoi (191 Ba Trieu), on July 22 – 25, 2015, 30 minutes before each

screening. Interested viewers can come and watch their favorite film at a timeframe that is most convenient to them.

Also, between July 21 and Aug. 19, 2015, at Casa Italia (18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi), a fashion exhibition titled “The elegance of culinary art: Tales about food and fashion”, will be open to the public for free between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM daily.

For more information, please follow the Moviemov Italian Film Festival Fanpage at Facebook.

Exhibition “Champa in a Valise”

Opening: Fri 24 Jul 2015, 7 pm

Talk: Sat 25 Jul 2015, 2 pm

Nha San Studio

2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi

So small what remains of a civilization, a culture, a person. So little what we’re capable of understanding and representing Champa – just a

traveling suitcase would be enough to contain it. Or perhaps, this image implies a wandering, geographically and mentally?

“Champa in a Valise” presents the initial results of a collaborative and educational travel project aiming to explore the Cham culture and

communities in Ninh Thuan since 2013, with the participation of 9 artists from Nha San Collective and 3 Cham artists/researchers from Ninh Thuan and Saigon.

The two-day presentation will include film screening, photography, poetry reading and installations, followed by a series of talks by the participating artists and cultural researchers discussing possibilities for projects crossing art and ethnography.

Participating artists: Nguyễn Huy An, Tạ Minh Đức, Vũ Thị Hằng, Jaka, Jamie Maxtone-Graham, Nguyễn Phương Linh, Nguyễn Trần Nam, Inra Sara, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Nguyễn Thuỷ Tiên,Vũ Đức Toàn, Trà Vigia.

The project is sponsored by the Danish Culture Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF)

Fashion Installation Exhibition “Dap Nieu”

Thu 30 Jul 2015, 6 – 8 pm

Work Room Four

24th floor, Packexim Building, lane 15, An Duong Vuong Str, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Come to “Dap Nieu” – an installation created and curated by Graduates from the BA Hons – Fashion Design course at the University of East London.

The aim of the project was to allow two self-directed and talented individuals to explore creatively their own responses to life and culture within

Vietnam. The students will rely on their technical ability and create inquiry in order to celebrate the experience and produce an installation within 3 weeks.

Creative development is a global practice and one that should be preserved, developed and discussed. Our objective is to introduce young

creative professionals to opportunities of industry connection and experience that span over different continents as well as design disciplines.

For more information, contact via email: workrmfour@gmail.com.

Film Screening “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel”

Fri 24 Jul 2015, 8 pm

Blossom Art House

6th floor, 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi

You are invited to the screening of “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel” – a fashion documentary, a film by Lisa Immordino Vreeland.

This is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, Diana Vreeland, an enduring icon

whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty, art, publishing and culture forever. It is a great introduction to a colourful and unstoppably

optimistic character, a unique and uniquely-determined woman that during her 50-year reign as the “Empress of Fashion”, Mrs. Vreeland

established herself as a controversial visionary who had an astonishing ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities and

photographers. She was a taste-maker for decades, working at Harper’s and then Vogue in an era when magazine publishing was as

adventuresome as painting, filmmaking and music. Her life, and her work, transcended what we think of as “fashion”.

Taken as a whole, the message is to celebrate your flaws, screw the establishment and live as rich a life as possible. She asked in 1936 for her

Harper’s Bazaar column, “Why don’t you paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys’ nursery so they won’t grow up with a provincial point of view?” Why not indeed?

Duration: 86 minutes

Language: Audio + Subtitles in English

FREE ENTRY. (A donation of 30k suggested)

First Announcement of Quest Festival 2015

06 – 08 Nov 2015

Son Tinh Camp, Ba Vi, Hanoi

Quest Festival is Vietnam’s only weekend camping festival. Held just a 40-min drive from Hanoi, Quest brings together locals, expats and visitors

in a celebration of music, dance, adventure and freedom of expression.

Returning to the beautiful surrounds of Son Tinh Camp, Ba Vi where Quest took place in 2014, Quest Festival 2015 is back to feature by far its

biggest and most complete program yet. Get ready for a world-class festival experience unlike anything else in Vietnam. Expect everything from

traditional Vietnamese music to banging local international DJS, from yoga workshops to BBoy rap battles. Go for a swim in the lake surrounding

the site on all sides, or grab a delicious bite from the selection of Hanoi’s best food suppliers. Escape for the weekend and live in a world away.

Quest runs from 12:00pm, Friday November 06 until 8:00pm, Sunday November 08. Earlybird tickets are currently on sale and expected to sell

out quickly. Quest has sold out every year since its beginning so get in early!

For more information visit Quest Festival’s facebook.

Tickets

Admission tickets (earlybird): 700,000 VND

Camping tent tickets: 120,000 – 650,000 VND

Bus tickets: 80,000 VND

Film Screening “Ma Maman est en Amérique et Elle a Rencontrée Buffalo Bill” at L’Espace

Sun 26 Jul 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the animation screening “My Mommy Is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill” at L’Espace, directed by Marc Boreal & Thibaut Chatel (France, 2013, 75 mins).

The story about Jean – a 6-year-old boy who always wonders why his mother is away on a long trip. And Jean starts to investigate by himself!

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Contemporary dance workshop “The Movement Kitchen” with Emily Navarra

Sun 26 Jul 2015, 10 am – 3 pm

Zerostation

12 the 43rd alley (at the back of Nguyen Thi Dinh elementary school),

Lam Van Ben st, Dis 7. HCMC

You are invited to join the “Movement Kitchen” Workshop by Emily Navarra. After receiving such positive and warm feedback for “Shhh! Just dance!” Workshop, Emily is now bringing you the “Movement Kitchen” workshop in hope of offering the chance to experience yourself via choreographic movements.

The workshop includes 2 part:

*10 am – 12 pm: Release/Reaction/Response:

– An improvisation-based class that will focus on each dancer’s physical response to various stimuli, presented in the moment.

– Starting from the floor up, this class will highlight and investigate the ‘basics’ of the ‘release’ technique.

– Additional work includes partnering and group structures to help dancers increase a keen sense of awareness through their physicality, energy, rhythm, personal choice, risk taking and celebration of limitations. Excellent for complete beginners wanting to add another dimension to their dancing.

*Lunch

*1 pm – 3 pm: Choreographic Devices/Environmental Movement Exploration:

– An initial emphasis on compositional structure fused with environmental surroundings. We use these ideas as a springboard to create new devices for expanding and inventing material.

– Through group dynamics we focus on listening, questioning, communicating and challenging ourselves through movement and moments of stillness.

– A large body of material will be created, varied and manipulated both in and out of the studio, while pushing towards the development of a new work utilizing the material built in class.

*Workshop fee: 550.000 VND (lunch included)

*In order for preparation, a deposit should be given in advance. Deposit fee: 275.000 VND

For more info, please email to: gemdartiste32@gmail.com

Payment shouLd be done via bank transferring:

Emily Anne Navarra

bank account number: 090 878182 001

bank name: HSBC bank – HCM

bank address: 235 Dong Khoi, district 1, HCMc

bank code HSBCVNVXXXX

Film Screening “La Vie Domestique” by Isabelle Czajka

Fri 24 Jul 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Domestic Life” (France, 2012, 93 mins) directed by Isabelle Czajka.

Adapted from a novel by Rachel Cusk, “Domestic Life” is a wonderful film which shows the role of women in today’s world.

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Exhibition “Disorientation – A Small Paris in Hanoi” by Matthias Meyer

Opening: Tue 21 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 22 – 26 Jul 2015, 9 am – 5 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

Since 2011, Matthias Meyer has been using a particular kind of photography to discover and present the secret parts and the coexistence of different cultures in the cityscapes of Hanoi and Paris: double exposure. The exhibition “Disorientation – A Small Paris in Hanoi” shows the results of this process – 20 pictures that display in clever superimpositions how strongly the two cities are related to each other. The combination of negative space, color and contrast in the photographs emphasize the architectonical heritage and the nostalgic relation between Paris and Hanoi.

Photographer Matthias Meyer has a very straightforward documentary style and is focused on street photography and photojournalism. Currently living in Hanoi, he is leading a course for photographers from all over the world. In addition to several group exhibitions in different countries, he had two solo exhibitions in Hong Kong (in 2010 and 2011).

Free admission.

OUTTAKES: Queer Asian Cinema

Sat 25 Jul 2015, 6 pm

Nha San COLLECTIVE

2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi

Queer Forever! and Nhà Sàn Collective are pleased to invite you to a presentation of experimental and documentary films of Asian American filmmakers.

OUTTAKES: Queer Asian Cinema

A special presentation of queer films by American-Asian filmmakers:

– The Heart’s Mouth/ Miệng của trái tim – Erica R. Cho

– LOVE BANG/ Tình yêu tay ba – Việt Lê

– Distance between/ Khoảng cách ở giữa – R. J. Lozada

– My beautiful resistance/ Sự chống cự đẹp đẽ của tôi – Penny Baldado

– To sit with her/ Được ngồi cạnh bà – Nicole Miyahara,

– Born to dance this way/ Sinh ra để múa như vậy – Jerell Rosales

– Looking for Jiro/ Đi tìm Jiro và Sex, Politics, and Sticky rice/ Tình, chính trị và cơm nếp – Tina Takemoto

– Deconstruction my depression/ Giải thoát trầm cảm – Sally Tran

The screening is made possible thanks to the permission by and kind collaboration with Tina Takemoto, Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts (QCCA), California College of the Arts (CCA), and Center for Asian Amercian Media (CAAM).

Films in English, with Vietnamese subtitles.