Round-table Discussion “Literary Translation: Possible or Impossible?”

Wed 10 Jun 2015, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the round-table discussion “Literary Translation: Possible or Impossible?” with the participation of translators Tran Quang Duc, Nguyen Duy Binh, Tran Ngoc Hieu, Le Quang.

The literary translation work is complex because it is almost impossible to reproduce a faithful translation in terms of: structure, form and message. Can we define a translation as successful and perfect, and if so, how? If it is not perfect, can we consider literary translation possible?

Language: Vietnamese

Free entrance.

Live Music Event “The Music Emporium” at Hanoi Social Club in June

04, 11, 18 and 25 Jun 2015, 8.30 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str., Hanoi

The Music Emporium – a new intimate live music event at The Hanoi Social Club. 8:30pm every Thursday night.

In a 100-year-old house with classic architecture in the old quarter, lots of cozy spaces, where you can enjoy the skills of the musicians and feel the music in a more laid back environment.

Use your ears to listen to and enjoy musical stories. It’s not an “event” as such, more like people playing music in your lounge room. Every week we have a different musician creating a set specifically for this event.

We’ll make you comfortable. It’ll be cozy, and intimate.

Tickets: 50,000 VND at the door

Book Introduction “The Meursault Investigation” by Kamel Daoud

Fri 05 Jun 2015, 5 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Kamel Daoud draws the reader into a maze without exit. He relies on predictions about the human origin and purposely confuses between the writer Camus and character Meursault to disorient the reader.

The novel “The Meursault Investigation” has been awarded 2014 Five Continents Prize of International Organization of the Francophonie.

Speaker: Kamel DAOUD, the author

Language: Simultaneous translation Vietnamese-French

Free entrance.

Film Screening “Blue” at TPD

Fri 05 Jun 2015, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

Following the green color in Amélie, this week you are invited to the film screening of “Blue”, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski and filled with another color – Blue.

About film:

THREE COLORS: BLUE ( French: ‘Trois couleurs: Bleu’ ) is a 1993 French drama film written, produced, and directed by the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. BLUE is the first of three films that comprise ‘The Three Colors Trilogy’, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; it is followed by ‘White’ and ‘Red’. According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.

Set in Paris, the film is about a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, she attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.

[ Wikipedia ]

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

Night Market for Nepal

Fri 05 Jun 2015, 5.30 – 10.30 pm

Eden Hanoi

264 Au Co, Hanoi

Come to Night Market for Nepal, a special night to raise funds to support the rebuilding efforts in Nepal.

– Live music from international and local musicians!

– International cuisine!

– Fun activities and workshops for kids and adults like face painting, henna tattoos, glass decorating, fashion workshops!

– Auctions of spectacular prizes!

Our ticket price is VND 150,000 which can be paid at the door. All proceeds from the entry will go towards building earthquake resistant structures in Rural Nepal. An organization in Nepal called Abari (Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute) will help us rebuild.

Bluegrass and Country Music Night with Cowboy band and Paul Kinsman

Thu 04 Jun 2015, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Bring your cowboy hat and dancing shoes for a rip-roaring, whiskey-soaked night of American country and bluegrass music. Yee. Haw!

Cao Bồi

Hanoi’s only 5-piece country-crooning band, including double bass, telecaster guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, cajon… must be witnessed live!

Paul Kinsman!

On his appalachian dulcimer.

A improvised forray into bluegrass!

Free entrance.

Film Screening “Harana” – Screening Program by The Onion Cellar at ASEAN Music Festival 2015

Wed 10 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Cinematheque

From The Onion Cellar:

The Onion Cellar presents a screening of HARANA (official Vietnam premiere), part of SOUNDS BY SOUTHEAST 1 @ ASEAN Music Festival 2015.

HARANA – THE SEARCH FOR THE LOST ART OF SERENADE

(103 phút / Philippines / 2012)

Directed by Benito Bautista

Produced by Floranter Aguilar & Fides Enriquez

“Upon his father’s death, Florante, a classically trained guitarist returns to the Philippines after 12 years of absence. During his stay he rediscovers the music of harana – a long-forgotten tradition of Filipino serenading when men sang under the window at night to fearlessly declare their love for a woman.

Intent on unearthing these unheralded songs, Florante travels to the remote provinces where he discovers three of the last surviving practitioners – a farmer, a fisherman and a tricycle driver.

Astounded by their golden voices, Florante asks them to travel with him to perform and record these unknown songs.

During their travels, the haranistas meet Brian, a shy young man who for years has been secretly in love with a schoolmate. The haranistas, who have not serenaded in the last thirty years, offered their services to serenade Brian’s object of affection, resulting in one of the most tender moments of genuine harana captured on film.

Word soon spread around Manila of leathery faced men whose style of untrained but sincere and expressive singing touch the hearts everywhere they performed, culminating in a series of triumphant live performances – from the small village to prestigious concert halls to recording the first authentic harana album in the last fifty years.

But the question remains – can harana be restored to its former glory or is it doomed to vanish silently into the night forever?”

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HARANA is part of SOUNDS BY SOUTHEAST (SXSE) 1

SXSE is a series of Southeast Asian music documentaries curated by The Onion Cellar and Vanity Production Vietnam. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, SXSE’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society.

SXSE 1 takes place in Hanoi & HCM City in June 2015. The Hanoi screenings are part of ASEAN Music Festival 2015

Other events:

YANGON CALLING – 17/6 @ ATK

Y/OUR MUSIC – 19/6 @ ATK

plus 1 further event to be announced

Entry by donation (on the door)   

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

At the end of the alley leading to Artist’s Hotel

Stand-up Comedy “The Canadian Connection”

Thu 04 Jun 2015, 9 pm

Phatty’s

40-42 Ton That Thiep, Q1, HCMC

Two of Canada’s finest comics, Pat Burtscher and Garrett Jamieson, will perform for a night of unbridled, north-of-the-border hilarity: “The Canadian Connection”.

Winnipeg born and bred Garrett Jamieson graduated from The Humber School of Comedy and is one of the founding members of the award winning sketch troupe, The BOOM, where he worked with dynamo Canadian comedians: Scott Thompson, Nikki Payne and Colin Mochrie.

Pat Burtscher has been on the comedy scene since 2005 and has since toured the globe with a pocket full of ideas, a brain full of questions and a heart full of love. His unique capacity for reducing the universal to the personal has earned him critical acclaim and recognition as one of the most exciting stand-ups working on the international comedy scene today.

The entrance surcharge is VND199,000 in advance or VND220,000 on the door. Table bookings can also be made at VND300,000 per person. Entrance includes a free San Miguel Draft. To purchase your advance tickets click on saigoninternationalcomedy.com/book-a-seat.

Photography Exhibition BABYLON 21 by Alisher Sharip

Opening: Wed 03 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 03 – 24 Jun 2015

Chula

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

This series of photographic portraits by Alisher Sharip represents the diversity of Hanoi, an amazing ethnic and cultural melting pot that is home to people from all around the world. By stepping out of the stream of daily routine and creating unconventional images, the participants question the concept of ethnicity itself and demonstrate how contemporary cities eliminate ethnic boundaries and create global citizens.

On the opening day, there will be an interview with Alisher Sharip and his team. But the exhibition is available for viewing (free admission) until 24th of June.   

Art from the Heart – Fundraising Week for School for Kids

01 – 07 Jun 2015

Different places in Hanoi (see details below)

“Each beautiful art piece is created from the heart, and felt by the heart.”

In order to raise USD20,000 in need to build a sub-school for more than 100 children in the mountainous village Lao Lung Tung of Ha Giang Province, School 4 Kids Vietnam, in conjunction with many other hearted and talented artists, is to organise an Art week for children, with activities happening everyday from Monday June 1st to Sunday June 7th ranging from live music to dance studio to DIY workshop, where you can enjoy the art while helping the children!

* ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

1. Mon 1/6: Live Music – Pop Music

Venue: Star Cafe 62 Nguyễn Chí Thanh St, Hà Nội.

Time: 8pm – 10pm

Artists: Dạ Ngân/Rubic Band

Cost: 50.000VNDpp (drinks not included)

2. Tue 2/6: Art class for children

Instructor: BAM Art

Cost: 50.000VNDpp

3. Wed 3/6: Cultural Talk – Education Now and Then

Speaker: Nguyễn Xuân Hồng

Cost: 100.000VNDpp (01 drink included)

4. Thur 4/6: DIY Workshop: Handcrafted Leather

Instructor: Mammon Handcrafted Leather

Venue: No 33 Lane 135 Đội Cấn St, Ha Noi

Cost: 50.000VNDpp

5. Fri 5/6: Live Music – “Nhạc Trịnh”

Venue: Tadibar Cafe & Lounge – E1 Chelsea Park, Trung Kính St, Ha Noi.

Time: 8pm – 10pm

Artists: Dạ Ngân/Rubic Band

Cost: 100.000VNDpp (drinks not included)

6. Sat 6/6: Dance Studio: Bellydance and Bollywood dance

Instructor: Bellydance Sadie và Let’s Bollywood Hanoi

Venue: Le Cirque No 6 Lane 73 Giang Văn Minh St, Hà Nội

Cost: 50.000VNDpp

7. Sun 7/6: Vegetarian Buffet – A Taste of Elegance

Venue: Helio Coffee (inside the Museum of Hanoi) – No 2 Phạm Hùng St, Hà Nội.

Time: 4pm – 8h30pm

Cost: 130.000VNDper adult – Free for children under 6 and 50% off for children from 6-12yo.

* HOW TO PARTICIPATE

– Tickets available from 28/5/2015

– Sign up for activities [2,3,4,6] at the following link

– Get tickets for activities [1,5,7] from the Contacts below or call to get tickets delivered to you by our volunteers.

* CONTACTS FOR TICKETS:

– Ms Linh Linh Mũm: 0973928988 (No 16 Lê Hồng Phong, Ba Đình, HN)

– Ms Châu Chau Nguyen Huyen (Hồng Hà, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội: 0915026525

– Ms Thảo Hoa Cuc Tay: 0986519629 (No 155 Trung Kính, Cầu Giấy, HN)

– Ms Trâm Nguyễn Ngọc Trâm: 0974193812 (Yên Viên, Gia Lâm, Hà Nội)

Techno Performance at “MoTioN” with Etapp Kyle (Ukrain)

Sat 06 Jun 2015, 9 pm

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

‘MoTioN’ is a special night which host international Producer & DJ. We bring talented artists from all over the world to develop the music scene in Hanoi.

This Saturday, we are honored to host one of the most talented techno producer Etapp Kyle from the well-known Klockworks recordings!

Today Etapp Kyle is on the threshold of a new level of creativity, alongside Techno music’s key artists. His studio work is being met with critical acclaims by respected artists and labels. Thus, his debut four tracker EP got released on Ben Klock’s label Klockworks, finally reaching the attention he deserves, channeling his music through sound systems of festivals and clubs worldwide. Having enlisted the support and interest of Russia’s Techno institution ARMA17, he made his first appearance in Moscow a couple of years ago. These days he is travelling across the world and also made camp with the Ostgut team.

Tickets: 150,000 VND.

Program “Village Affairs No 4: Story of Tent” with Tôi xê dịch

Wed 03 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Trung Nguyen Creative Space

52A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi

“Nowadays, whenever hearing the words “leu chong” (literally, “tent and bamboo bed”, implying “the royal Confucian examination”) many people are likely to surprise because those words have said farewell to us for nearly three decades. However, about twenty years ago and further, maybe over one thousand years, “leu chong” was dominent our country of “four thousand years of civilization”.

[…] The “Leu chong”, in Vietnam, was in fact a couple which had produced various types of people, both useful and useless. It was these things that had turned Vietnam into a cultural country. It was also them that had brought Vietnam to its extinction. With them, for a long period of time, Vietnam had experienced many bizarre situations which made people laugh, cry and be terro-stricken.”

The above excerption is taken from writer Ngô Tất Tố’s article published in magazine Thời vụ on March 10, 1939 – nearly 80 years later, we can see the same situation. When we (Tôi xê dịch) are preparing for the event Village Affairs No 4: Story of Tent and Bamboo Bed – Past and Present, some would-be participants make comments: “What a familiar and strange subject!”.

Mentioning the story of “Lều chõng” at a time when the annual exams are coming, Tôi xê dịch partly want to a backwards-looking but fresh view to our concerns: Academic distinctions and titles, the role of diplomas and future opportunities, individual talents and social imposition. Through exploring vivid stories in the past, as retold by journalist Nguyen Xuan Hong, a lover of traditional culture who is compiling sevaral books on Vietnam’s traditional culture, such as “Temples of Literature in Vietnam” and “Pictorial dictionary on traditional Vietnamese culture”, the “Lều chõng” will be an interesting topic of discussion for all of you.

“Village Affairs No 4: The Story of Tent and Bamboo Bed – Past and Present” is to be held on June 3rd 2015 at 18pm at Trung Nguyen Creative Space, 52A Hai Bà Trưng Street, Hà Nội. The event is a cooperation between Project Tôi xê dịch and Project School For Kids Vietnam (Xay Truong Cho Em). Participation fee is VND100,000, aimed to cover the costs of organizing the event, and the entire remaining amount will be donated to build schools in Lao Lung Tung mountainous village, Lung Ho, Yen Minh, Ha Giang, as part of Project School For Kids Vietnam. Detailed costs will be public and transparent on all media pages of this event.

Participants can register to attend here.

“Tôi xê dịch” is a social media project on traditional culture designed for young people, founded in June 2012, with the aim of encouraging young people to “travel more, live more”, understanding more about the nation’s values. Tôi xê dịch inspires and encourages young people to take actions in the conservation, preservation and creative promotion of culture, even in everyday life.

School For Kids Vietnam (Xay Truong Cho Em) is a community fund-raising project aiming to build schools and sub-schools in difficult and remoted areas, especially in mountainous areas. The vision of the project is to support ethnic children in difficult areas with long-time effects, by provide infrastructure and educational opportunities for ethnic which leads to a better future, starting with the basic condition that is a school. In 2013 School For Kids Vietnam successfully raised $13,000 to build a sub-school in Phieng Canh, Moc Chau Province. This year, with the fundraising goal of $20,000, a new school is to be built in Lao Lung Tung village, Lung Ho, Yen Minh in the summer of 2015, and to be opened ahead of the new academic year.

Subscription Concert Vol.81 “Beethoven & Schumann”

10 and 11 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to subscription concert vol.81 “Beethoven & Schumann” with the performance of:

Conductor: Adrea Pestalozza

Piano Soloist: Henri Sigfridsson

and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra

Program

L.V. Beethoven

Piano Concerto No.4 G-major op.58

Interval

R. Schumann

Symphony No.2 C Major op.61

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn.

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Chamber music Concert with Eine Flute Ensemble

Tue 09 Jun 2015, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

You are invited to the chamber music concert with the performances of Eine Flute Ensemble and HBSO, including 13 Korean artists and leading counterparts from HCMC: Dao Nhat Quang (Clarinet), Tang Thanh Nam (violin), Nguyen Tan Anh (cello), Bui Anh Son (viola), Joo Sun Young (piano)…

The concert will take the audience to traditional Korea songs and famous works by representative composers of Romantic period: Frederic Chopin, Camille Saint-Saens, Leroy Anderson, Antonin Dvorak, Henryk Wieniawski, etc.

Eine Flute Ensemble, founded in 1997, is a renowned ensemble in Korea, often known as TOP FIVE. They play traditional flute and often combine with different musical instruments performed by guest artists.

Tickets

Ticket price: 550,000 – 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)

Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Hương 0989874517, Ms.Huong Ly: 0908057972

At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square

Film Screening “Allez Raconte”

Sun 07 Jun 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Allez Raconte” (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, 2010, 77 mins) directed by Roger Jean Christophe.

“A funny cartoon, light as a feather, halfway between a cartoon and a musical. A great success confirms the strength of French animation.” – TéléCinéObs

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 – Hip Hop “Standards”

Sat 06 June 2015, 8 pm

Youth Theatre

11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi

You are invited to the contemporary dance – Hip Hop “Standards” by Pierre Rigal.

“Standards” mentions contemporary social issues through the hip hop performance of 7 dancers choreographed by Pierre Rigal.

The stage is covered by a huge red white blue flag, the strong symbol of a country and a community. He raised questions of its true meaning in the modern society and in contemporary life with a subtly socially and engaged viewpoint.

Tickets

Ticket price: 160 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 80 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Film Screening “Tu Veux ou Tu Veux Pas”

Fri 05 Jun 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Tu Veux ou Tu Veux Pas” (The Missionaries) (France, 2014, 87 mins) directed by Tonie Marshall.

A sentimental tale about desire. A marivaudage where Bruel and Marceau strike sparks.

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 “Carne Vale” by Nadège David and Sandrine Llouquet

Opening: Thu 04 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 05 Jun – 04 Jul 2015

Galerie Quynh

Level 2, 151/3 Dong Khoi, Dist 1, HCMC

You are invited to “Carne Vale”, an exhibition of new work by Nadège David and Sandrine Llouquet. The two-person show comprises drawing, sculpture and installation that reveal a poetic dimension to our human condition, through disconcerting yet strangely familiar imagery.

Carne Vale can be literally translated from Latin, according to folk etymology, as ‘farewell to meat’. In the exhibition, the adieu is to the flesh, to our human physicality and materiality. The artists also make reference to Carne Vale as ‘Carnival’, the costume festival of religious origins (where masks are obligatory) occurring before the start of Lent, during which eating meat is prohibited. Providing a visual diary of the tensions between human and nature, and of esoteric and imagined rituals, the exhibition digs into the very core of our existence.

Nadège David addresses the distressing and intense manifestation of the ‘other’ or the ‘elsewhere’ – the ‘unknown’. As during Carnival, when people escape reality by transcending and concealing themselves behind masks and costumes, while impersonating an alternate self, David confronts her drawing process as an evolving, transformative ritual on paper. The ink sinuously flows slowly revealing shapes, and in turn concealing others, developing like an exploration of the unknown and the unimaginable.

Familiar images cross with eluding shadows, as in her series La Communauté des Sentiments (2014) where realistic faces gradually dissipate/recede behind a black veil of Chinese ink, giving way to the formation of organic shapes as if their entrails were becoming visible. The darkness of uncharted and unfamiliar territories seems to envelop all, until it erases any trace of our physical being. David gives shape to the ‘farewell to flesh’, where human flesh is progressively replaced by what is left: the nucleus of its invisible essence and our animalistic, biological nature.

Sandrine Llouquet has created a personal syncretism that results from her in-depth reading and research into ancient Greek philosophy, Foucault, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Jung, and the exploration of Alchemy, through to the study of religion and rituals – and especially paganism and animism. Her work is “a marriage of the uncanny and the familiar” – Freud’s Das Unheimliche – with recognisable images from a variety of different sources combined to create dream-like tableaux.

Llouquet explores ritual transformation and the transmutation of reality, which is composed of archetypal imagery. By juxtaposing recognizable elements with strange and eerie surroundings, Llouquet, much in the same guise as a psychologist, hypnotist or guru, stimulates the deepest recesses of our unconscious and memory. Drawings in the shape of mandalas mounted on plinths stand solitary in the exhibition space, pointing to the sky, as if maps of both the unconscious and the starry void, or visualisations of ceremonial predictions and trances. Recurrent characters populate her scenes, faceless, masked, half-animal. Referencing myriad ritualistic and cultural traditions, the compositions exude an illusory higher knowledge of the world and of our place in the universe.

Although David’s and Llouquet’s processes are essentially opposite – from visualization to intellectualization and from research and conceptualization to visualization respectively – the two artists both engage with notions of transformation, transmutation, and transcendence of our physical being, spawning a skillfully fabricated parallel dimension to our human existence.

ABOUT NADEGE DAVID

Born in 1975 in Poissy, France, Nadège David received an MA in Political Philosophy at University La Sorbonne, Paris, and an MA in Contemporary Political Philosophy, University of Paris VIII. She was a lecturer in Sociology at University Marne La Vallée between 1999 and 2005. The artist lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

David’s first solo exhibition, Experience sweet and relaxing dreams, was held at Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City in 2007. In 2014, she presented Ho®s-Sol (Soil-Less®), her first solo exhibition at Galerie Quynh.

ABOUT SANDRINE LLOUQUET

Born in 1975 in Montpellier, France, Sandrine Llouquet has lived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since 2005. She graduated from École Pilote Internationale d’Art et de Recherche – Villa Arson in 1999.

Llouquet’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions that include the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California; and Tate Modern, London. She has also participated in a number of biennales with Vietnam-based art collective Mogas Station, such as the Shenzhen Biennale (2007), the Singapore Biennale (2006) and in Migration Addicts – a collateral event of the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her drawings, objects and videos are part of private collections around the world.

Misha Mishenko (Russia) Live in Vietnam

Wed 03 Jun 2015, 8 pm

lAcA Cafe

2nd floor, 24 – 26 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi

You are invited to a music night with Russian artist Misha Mishenko (ambient/ neoclassical/ piano/ electroacoustic) in Hanoi.

“I’m [merely] a boy who plays with the wind. My music is a tiny reminder of God. It’s a reminder of something that’s much greater than us in this world. It’s a harmonious link between all living things and the stars.”

the vast landmass of russia has, in recent memory, not seemed to produce the most current, modern-sounding batch of world-acclaimed artists, but few beats the russian artists in their so-called submersion and inspiration-drawing from the nature (and occasionally, the society itself that they live in) being an immense supply for their creativity – simply, they do not need to go anywhere else.

gaining his direct and constant inspiration from the far north filled with boundless valleys, crystal streams and ever-dormant volcanoes, as well as the lands of fire and ice of iceland regularly mentioned in his song titles, misha mishenko delivers a sound loosely defined as neo-classical, a term largely ignored amongst the academic circles. misha plays his sounds with a heart and mind of his peer, his generation, of 21st century artists, true to thom-yorkish spirit. fed up with the over-the-top performance exhibitionism, he opts to minimalism approach, in the likes of his contemporaries such as nils frahm, peter broderick, olafu arnalds who are gaining a cross-over audiences, on one hand the restricted classical audiences and the other the more popular. he, however, doesn’t want to detach himself much from russian authenticity – via his musical language and the seemingly oft-repeated piano melodies, he want to think of greater social issues around him.

the achieved sounds, therefore, can be described as melodious, dreamy, enthralling, like the endless journeys to a world unknown, and many a time tinged with sorrows. combining the wide range of musical instrument for desired expressions, including the sounds of violin, glockenspiel, ambient sounds, his signature sounds retain enough space for originality, to be experienced, through multilayers and diverse motifs. needless to say, his favorite artist is sigur ros.

Tickets

Students: 50,000 VND

Presale: 80,000 VND

Doors: 100,000 VND

Exhibition “The Young Ladies Sing Rural Operetta”

Opening: Tue 02 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 02 – 16 Jun 2015

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Giấy Dó (rice paper) is an old paper made of barks, and was formerly used for books, diplomas, certificates as well as some decorative paintings.

Ly Truc Son (former teacher at the Fine Arts School Hanoi and specialist in rice paper and lacks) is one of the first artists to use this paper for painting.

The series of paintings made on the character Vân Dại (Vân the mad) enables Ly Truc Son to describe the female character of Chèo (Xúy Vân) in different drawing forms inspired by the sung theatre. With rice paper and guided by his love for this music, Ly Truc Son tries to define a Vietnamese identity.

Free entrance.

Rock Show “The Dust”

Mon 01 Jun 2015, 8 pm

The Doors Café

11 Hang Chinh Str, Hanoi

As a tribute to friends and customers, on the occasion of 2nd birthday of Bui Store, the rock show “The Dust” will be held for one night with the

participation of relatively new bands in Hanoi: Khế, HUB and X-Five. As a rock store and a bridge between local rock bands and rock lovers, Bụi

Store hopes that “The DUST” will be an interesting musical feast which connects rock lovers in Hanoi. In particular, the lucky attendants could

receive rock shirts and special prizes from Bụi store and sponsors when participating in mini games or buying drinks.

Free entrance.

Vietnam and Korea Dance Performance “Cross Bow”

Tue 02 Jun 2015, 7.30 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

You are invited to the Vietnam – Korea dance performance titled “Cross Bow” based on the Vietnamese legendary story “My Chau princess” with

the participation of Korean guest artist – Chun Yoo Oh.

This unique performance will tell a touching story about love and tragedy, about My Chau princess and the magic cross bow.

Tickets

Ticket price: 400,000 – 200,000 – 100,000 – 80,000 VND

Contact: 08-38237498 (Vietnamese), 0904266003 (Korean), 0908492180 (English)