Exhibition “The Connection”

Opening: Sun 08 Jun 2014, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 08 – 23 Jun 2014

New Space Arts Foundation

2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City

You are invited to the exhibition “The Connection” by artist Hoang Anh.

Concept

The complex of oil paintings on canvas, installation and performance is named “Connection”

Statement

The life on earth is an endless cycle starting from giving birth, to maturing, getting old and finally decease. When a human being stops to exist other human beings are born to to the world to start the cycle all over again. This is a connection.

A Vietnamese proverb goes “Một giọt máu đào hơn ao nước lã” (“Blood is thicker than water”). People born to the same ancestors, regardless of their social status, destiny, or habitat, are connected by the same blood. Each of them in their own generation contributes to pushing the wheel of life forward.

While people use family annals records or a family tree to record the connection between family members, I choose to paint it.

Fourty years ago, millions of Americans were struck by the stunning novel “Roots” by Alex Harley. An impulse took the possession of them to trace their ancestors who existed many centuries earlier.

These are my paternal grandfather, my farther, my uncles, my brothers.

These are my maternal grandmother, my mother, my aunts, my sisters.

Still, not limited to the kinship connection, these are my close friend, my close friend’s friend, my close friend’s friend’s friend, and my close friend’s friend’s friend’s friend. They create a line of connection within this full-of-connections world.

And now you are here, let us join our hands to create a connection and make expand and prolong until ever after.

Exhibition “Vietnam Now: Changing Society” in the Netherlands

Opening: Sat 07 Jun 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 07 Jun – 31 Jul 2014

Canvas International Art

Gerard Doustraat 142 /144, 1073 VX Amsterdam, Netherlands

A group show of art from Vietnam will be presented in The Netherlands. The exhibition proves Vietnamese artists have a distinct visual language and are embedded in a unique social and economical context. Vietnam Now: Changing Society is curated together with Vera Poelmann Wolfs, who lives and works in Hanoi. The exhibition comprises of paintings, video, installations and photography that reflect upon contemporary culture in Vietnam.

Artists in this exhibition:

Uudam Tran Nguyen, Lena Bui, Phan Thao Nguyen, The Propeller Group, Nguyen Manh Hung, Nguyen The Son, Ngo Van Sac, Nguyen The Dung, Bui Thanh Tam, Hoang Duong Cam, Nguyen Phuong Linh

A selection of works is also presented at the KunstRAI from 04 – 09 Jun, this year celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Screening of “12 Angry Men”

Fri 06 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

This week, Cinema Space – TPD will bring to you “12 Angry Men” by director Sidney Lumet. In 2007, 12 ANGRY MEN was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Original language with Vietnamese subtitles. The screening is for educational purpose and supportive to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

About film

12 ANGRY MEN is a 1957 American drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Written and produced by Rose himself and directed by Sidney Lumet, this trial film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt. In the United States, a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous.

The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film’s opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse followed by the judge’s final instructions to the jury before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps, and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room. The total time spent outside of the jury room is three minutes out of the full 96 minutes of the movie.

12 ANGRY MEN explores many techniques of consensus-building, and the difficulties encountered in the process, among a group of men whose range of personalities adds intensity and conflict. No names are used in the film: the jury members are identified by number until two of them exchange names at the very end, the defendant is referred to as “the boy”, and the witnesses as “the old man” and “the lady across the street”.

In 1997 a remake of the film under the same title was released by MGM.

Talk “Việt Kiều Intimacy, K-POP Cover Dance”

Mon 09 Jun 2014, 6 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Vietnam, Queer Forever! and Manzi Art Space are pleased to invite you to a program of talks by Nguyễn Tân Hoàng and Dredge Byung’chu Käng.

Program

18h00 – Fooled by Love: Việt Kiều Intimacy in Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema

Nguyễn Tân Hoàng will look at the portrayal of returning overseas Vietnamese in Charlie Nguyen’s Vietnamese box office hit, the romantic comedy Để Mai tính (Fool for Love) (2010). The two central Việt kiều characters–Mai, young Vietnamese German aspiring singer-songwriter and Hội, a gay Vietnamese American entrepreneur–are set apart from the locals by their non-normative gender and sexual expressions. She shamelessly asserts her career ambitions, while he puts his effeminate mannerisms to good use in his cosmetic company dealings. Both are representatives of global capitalism’s enticing cosmopolitanism and transnational mobility. However, Mai’s and Hội’s economic interests are compromised by their erotic attachments to Dũng, a working-class heterosexual Vietnamese male. Hoàng names the difficult relationship between Việt kiều and local Vietnamese “Việt kiều intimacy,” a relationship that is marked by qualities of desire and disgust, past and future,public and private, far away and too close.

19h00 – 19h30: short break, refreshment

19h30 – K-Pop Cover Dance as a Model of Asian Development

For the past five years, K-pop cover dance—the copying of choreographed movements in K-pop music videos—has become a popular social activity among Asian sissies. Cover dance is organized into an extensive contest circuit leading to an annual competition in Korea. Thai sissies cover dances are performed in public spaces such as bars and shopping malls and get circulated extensively on the Internet. Indeed, Thai cover dance groups such as the Wonder Gay have achieved national fame. Dredge describes how cover dance constitutes a new social arena for feminine Thai males to express themselves through the idiom of modern Korean female embodiment. He argues that Thai K-pop cover dance can be read as both an aspiration for personal and national development that represents participation in a new cosmopolitan Asia. The cover dance phenomenon in Thailand highlights recent shifts in Asian regionalism, music fandom, and transgressive gender performance.

About authors

Nguyễn Tân Hoàng is a video artist and academic whose work examines forms of desire in queer Asian male identities, Vietnamese diasporic cultural production, and Southeast Asian cinemas. His critical writings have appeared in Porn Studies, Vectors, and Resolutions 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces. His book A View from the Bottom is forthcoming from Duke University Press in August 2014. He is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA.

Dredge Byung’chu Käng, MA is a PhD/MPH candidate in anthropology and global epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. His critical essays have appeared in Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. Dredge’s dissertation, “White Asians Wanted: Queer Racialization in Thailand,” argues that middle class Thai gay men are directing their romantic desires toward newly ethno-racialized “white Asians” (light-skinned Asians from developed nations such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan or economically powerful Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia).

Language: Talks in English with Vietnamese translation

Free entrance.

Launch of the Collection “Unseen”

Opening: Sat 07 Jun 2014, 6 – 8 pm

Module 7

83 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho, Hanoi

You are invited to the launch of the furniture and lighting collection by designer Pham Kieu Phuc. With the theme “Unseen, we will accompany you to a new experience on seemingly mundane things and look for the “latent” beauty in trivial daily objects along with designer Pham Kieu Phuc, founder of Module 7.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.” – Picasso

Do you usually take time to look at the shade of trees on the road you daily pass by, hear the joyous sound of cicadas suddenly falling silent, notice the change of seasons on the leaves’ colors, or find a familiar face more cheerful today than yesterday?

The quality of our lives has a lot to do with the quality of our presence at the present moment. If we miss the present moment, there are chances that we can bypass many lovely, pretty, simple little things everywhere around us. Our presence in the here and now also makes way to the subtle and profound feelings for things that are commonly considered as nothing of interests. By seeing life at such depth, you are more likely to harmonize, be open and accept everything with sincerity and easiness; the ability to find beauty in everything everywhere shall be awaken in you.

With interior designs, we also took the same journey. We explored from the entangled and complicated things toward the simplicity by eliminating unnecessary elements, then opening again to assemble everything into one perfect whole, where all things are beautiful in their own ways and exist in concord together as in the nature.

The collection will be available for display and sale all the time after the opening.

Contact: info@module7design.com or tel: 04 37197247.

Open Door at Lionel Descostes Studio

07 and 08 Jun 2014, 10 am – 6 pm

Lionel Descostes Studio

Lionel is a French contemporary artist, living in Vietnam for 14 years. He mainly uses one thread hand embroidery as medium after he was made ​​aware by the gradual disappearance of villages embroiderers around Hanoi.

He “secluded” himself 8 years in his studio and trained then employed nine deaf and mute girls to his embroidery technique, “by involving them in my project, I made them discover a different approach and purpose regarding embroidery and demonstrated that the profession still exists”.

Lionel Descostes’ previous exhibitions:

In 2010:

Lionel Descostes at Bui Gallery

In 2011:

Embroidery Exhibition by Lionel Descostes

Mai Chi on Embroidery Exhibition by Lionel Descostes

Concert “Vietnam – Our Heritage, Our Love”

Sun 08 Jun 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

Some of the most outstanding Vietnamese musical works from the beginning of the 20th century will be performed at concert “Vietnam – our heritage, our love”.

Program

PART I:

Hoàng Dương – Những kỷ niệm quê hương

Văn Cao – Đàn chim Việt

Đỗ Nhuận – Aria Cô Sao

Văn Cao – Sông Lô

Đàm Thanh – Cánh chim báo tin vui

Hoàng Dương – Tình ca

Lệ Giang – Đất nước tình yêu

Nguyễn Đình Thi – Người Hà Nội

PART II:

FOLK SUITE ”DÒNG CHẢY”

Arrangement & Composing: Trần Mạnh Hùng

Scenography: Trần Mạnh Hùng

Staging: Trần Nhật Minh

Choreography: Nguyễn Phúc Hải

I. Suối

Khúc mở màn

Mùa xuân

Ru em

Gà gáy te te

Hoa đào bên suối

Bắc kim thang

Đi cấy

II. Sông

Cây trúc xinh

Cò lả

Hò khiêng nước

Trèo lên quán dốc

Hò ba lý, Người ở đừng về

Cò lả

Lý qua cầu, Bèo dạt mây trôi

Xuân phong long hổ

Lý ngựa ô (Huế)

Lý ngựa ô (Nam Bộ)

III. Biển

Hò huê tình, Hạnh phúc

Hò thẻ mực, Hò hụi

Hạnh phúc, Lý kéo chài

Performing: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nga, Nguyễn Thu Hường, Nguyễn Thị Như Ngọc, Trần Duy Linh, Nguyễn Minh Khoa, Đinh Trung Kiên

Children Choir and HBSO Choir & Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Trần Nhật Minh

Tickets

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

Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Hương 0989874517, Mr.Luân: 0903041959

At The Opera House 7 Lam Son square

Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn   

Le Festival FanTASHtique

Fri 06 Jun 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

An extravaganza to end an era. A night of nights to shake your tail feathers and embrace your inner diva. Lose yourself among a diverse range of musical wonder, performance and art. Scream, jump and shout, let it all go. It’s gonna be a wild ride!

Featuring:

- Dr Peacock with Joss Berrett on drums, Dan Henneberry and Alex Formosa on guitar, Arnaud Grignard on bass and Natasha Kovalenko on keys

- XAI

- Solo and collaborative acoustic smoothness: Christophe, Dana, Lawrence and Zippy

- Live art by Poppin Fresh and Knee Jerk

- Body painting by Heather Chan…

Tickets: 50,000 VND entry. Free for students with valid ID   

Exhibition “Mountainous Area”

Opening: Tue 03 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Exhibition: 03 – 15 Jun 2014

Cuccu Cafe

Apartment No 103, H2A, Lane 469, Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi

Lam Tung – a young architect, with most passion of going “Phuot” and painting. He will bring to the art lovers the last one after the journeys through mountain, forest and national frontiers.

Watercolor is his favorite material and mainly used in his paintings. Through these works, landscape and people of the mountainous area is expressed simply, rustic and full of emotion.   

Music Night with Toby Tobias

Fri 06 Jun 2014, 9 pm

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC

Come to enjoy a music night with UK DJ and producer Toby Tobias.

TOBY TOBIAS [UK/ DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR / BUREK] is a veteran DJ & producer whose vast repertoire of eclectic, jazzy electronic productions has allowed him to claim a sound he can call his own.

A known figure on the global underground music circuit, his ability to spin dance floors into frenzied pits of sound-induced abandon has been well recognized from Latin America to Europe, while his deep musical knowledge has been honed by many a producer looking for his touch on countless remixes.

Tickets: 100,000 VND.

“Chiếu bóng” – 4 Outstanding Documentary Films from TPD

Fri 06 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

This coming Friday manzi is delighted to continue our new series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for cinema), in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab, TPD & YxineFF.

This time, a special selection of 4 short documentary films by young Vietnamese filmmakers of TPD (The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents) will be on screen at manzi. Each film is a different slide of life in Vietnam today.

The films include:

1. We’ve Got Married (2013), documentary, 21’, directed by Nguyễn Hà Phương & Mai Thị Búp

2. Who are you (2012), documentary, 18’54’’, directed by Hoang Thi Huyen My

3. The Debt (2012), documentary, 16’ 30’’, directed by Bui Thi Ha

4. My Son goes to School, documentary, 28’ 30’’, directed by Hà Lệ Diễm

Language: All films are in Vietnamese with English subtitle.

Ticket at door: 70,000VND | 50,000VND (for student) including 01 free drink

French Film at the European Documentary Film Festival 2014

Hanoi: Thu 05 Jun 2014, 7 pm

National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film

465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi

HCMC: Mon 23 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm

Hoa Sen University

93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC

You are invited to the screening of French Film “La Maison de la Radio” at European Documentary Film Festival 2014.

La Maison de la Radio (103′)

Radio France is the national radio broadcaster in France, created in 1975.

Today, the Radio France group includes 7 national channels, plus a multitude of local stations. Millions of listeners tune in everyday and many public stations are leading the market. Radio France also has a renowned Philharmonic Orchestra and a highly visited website. Podcasts of Radio France are commonly n°1 downloads on Itunes in France.

The staff of Radio France works in a very famous building: La maison de la radio, also known as The round house, because the building is shaped like a circle.

Director Nicolas Philibert helps us discover all the little secrets of this strange world that wakes up before dawn but actually never sleeps. He is the famous documentary filmmaker that previously directed Être et Avoir, a documentary that won the César for the Best Documentary film and has been seen by more than 2 million spectators in France and over 1 million worldwide.

Free entrance.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.

Exhibition of Wearable Art Pieces at Lucy’s Dream

Exhibition: 31 May – 15 Jun 2014

Lucy’s Dream

31 Hang Giay, Hanoi

Lucy’s Dream is a Mini Concept Store, showcasing the works of Young Vietnamese Artists under the form of Wearable Art Pieces.

This ongoing exhibition includes Wearable Art Pieces depicting the Dong-Ho (Đông Hồ) Painting culture of Vietnam, World Fairy Tales, and Surreal Photographic Sceneries.

This is the story of how Lucy’s Dream came to life.

I was just another girl working full-time for a corporation when suddenly it dawned on me that my purpose in life was to create truly original made-in-Vietnam East-meets-West style wearable art.

By Mid-2012, I had gathered a great team, composed of young Vietnamese artists who wanted to make a difference in the fashion & lifestyle scene of Vietnam. Lucy’s Dream was born in December 2012.

We hand-paint, digitally trace and print our own designs on fabrics, and manufacture unique and whimsical lifestyle products out of these self-designed fabrics.

For 2 years of constant effort, we have grown Lucy’s Dream from an online platform at www.lucysdream.net to two (02) brick-and-mortar stores in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Program of FVH in June

Please find attached the FVH program of events for the month of June. You’ll see it’s a quiet month – but interesting nonetheless – with City Walks around Hoan Kiem Lake (Saturday 14th) and Lan Ong Street (Tuesday 24th).

This will be the last month of FVH activities before a break in July and August.

Enjoy the walks in June and we look forward to bringing you more FVH activities in September.

For details please download this file: FVH Jun Program   

UK Film at the European Documentary Film Festival 2014

Hanoi: Sun 08 Jun 2014, 7 pm

National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film

465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi

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Hoa Sen University

93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC

You are invited to the screening of UK Film “Dreams of a life” at European Documentary Film Festival 2014.

Director: Carol Morley

Year of production: 2011

Duration: 95’

Would anyone miss you? Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life– not even a photograph. Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest, and is not only a portrait of Joyce but a portrait of London in the eighties—the City, music, and race. It is a film about urban lives, contemporary life, and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people. It is about how little we may ever know each other, but nevertheless, how much we can love.

Free entrance.

Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.

Future Now Music Festival

Sat 07 Jun 2014, 4 – 11.45 pm

Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC)

799 Nguyen Van Linh, Dist 7, HCMC

Future Now Music Festival (FNMF) – first time being organized in Vietnam, is expected to be the most anticipated EDM music festival with an international standard in this summer. Future Now with the headliner DJ Afrojack – ranking 9th in Top DJ of the world and the comeback of the American hip hop band – Far East Movement, is promised to bring a wild and impressive music night to EDM lovers.

And Future Now Music Festival 2014 also brings to you the stage of many famous EDM DJs in Vietnam such as the duo Slim V & Nimbia, Mike Hao, DuyDuy, Looze Khuong, and Brian Vo. In addition, the Vietnamese diva and dance-pop queen Thu Minh will also have a spectacular performance that she has been specially prepared for this festival to surprise all EDM lovers.

Ticket prices: from 500,000 to 1,500,000 VND.

Buy tickets online via Ticketbox.

Exhibition “Le Petit Prince”

Opening: Sun 01 Jun 2014, 5 pm

Exhibition: 01 – 30 Jun 2014

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi

15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi

Le Petit Prince, one of the most beloved children’s stories of all time, is coming to the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi next month.

Starting June 1, Hanoi’s storied old hotel is mounting a month-long exhibition, called le Petit Prince’s Journey, of the storied old children’s tale about a little boy fallen to Earth who encounters the strangeness of the adult world for the first time.

The exhibit includes scans of original manuscript pages produced by the book’s, author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery; selections of artistic photograhy by Vincent Nguyen of locations around the world traveled by Saint-Exupéry; and a rare color film of Saint-Exupéry in Canada in 1942, at work on Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince.)

As one stop in a larger tour of Sofitel hotels worldwide, the Metropole will open its exhibit with a ceremony on June 1, International Children’s Day, in Le Club Bar at 5p.m. All of the imagery associated with the exhibit will be displayed in Le Club Bar and L’Orangerie.

Sofitel organized the traveling exhibit as an opportunity to expose its work with the Saint-Exupéry Foundation, a group that promotes initiatives to support children in difficult environments.

For every family that books a stay at the hotel on the Magnifique Family package, the hotel is donating €2 per night to the Saint-Exupéry Foundation. The package includes 50% off a second room for children, complimentary breakfast for children, and late check-out (4 p.m.) for families.

The amenities associated with Le Petit Prince include a travel diary with a picture of the child on the first page and table mats at breakfast.

Screening of “Mobile Home”

Fri 06 Jun 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the comedy screening titled “Mobile Home” (Belgium-France-Luxembourg) directed by Francois Pirot. The film won Second Young Jury Prize in Locarno International Film Festival 2012.

“An interesting caravan road trip!”

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: 40 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Performance of Opera “Carmen”

02 and 03 Jun 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to performance of opera “Carmen”. The opera will be performed by more than 150 artists, musicians and Singers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet and:

Director: Helena Rohr (Sweden)

Conductor: Quang Vinh

Opera “Carmen”

Originated from the novel by Prosper Mérimée, the opera Carmen was completed in the autumn of 1874. It was the last work of Georges Bizet, and also is the most popular opera on the stage in the world until now. Bizet, through his music, told us a tragic story behind brightness, and depicted the optimistic, straightforward but wild personality of a Gipsy girl, Carmen. The opera discloses the bald-faced passions, describes the eternal confrontation between men and women, shows the ruthless but beautiful life, and proves the perpetual co-existence between love and death.

Performers:

Carmen : Vanh Khuyen

Don José: Thanh Binh, Anh Vu

Escamillo: Phan Duc, Manh Dung

Micaela: Thang Long

Zuniga: Huy Duc

Morales: Kieu Tham

Fraquita: Thu Huong

Mercedes: Phuong Dung

Lillas Pastia: Hoang Hoa

Dancaido: Khanh Cuong

Remendado: Phi Hung

and the Hanoi International Choir, the Orchestra of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet.

Tickets

Ticket prices: 250000, 350000, 500000, 700000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com

For delivery call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Theatre Performance “Mademoiselle Bonjour”

Mademoiselle Bonjour

Thu 05 Jun 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

After producing Feydeau’s work titled “An Absolute Turkey”, the amateur theater company Phapbulateurs will perform a work by Boris Vian this time. Combining ballet, chorus, choreography with an incredible story ending, Mademoiselle Bonsoir is a tender but volatile musical play.

Tired of replying open letters in a magazine office, the columnist and his secretary grab the need of a shy guy who wants to find a soul mate, and decide to establish an unusual business: offering the service of a girl who visits households at night to sing a lullaby. The team was charmed by graceful Clémentine and so do people who approach her, including an insomniac serial killer….

Tickets:

Reserved seating tickets: 150.000/80.000 VND, pre-order here

At door: 200.000/100.000 VND

Classical Concert with Quartet Parisii

Sat 07 Jun 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the classical concert with the performance of Quartet Parisii.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2013, the Quartet possesses excellence and maturity in their music performing skills which have created their reputation in theaters in Paris as well as across the country.

The concert will include works of composers Boccherini, Haydn, Webern, Debussy, Campo, Glass, and Schubert’s “Girl and Death”.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

6th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival in Hanoi and HCMC

Hanoi: 04 – 12 Jun 2014

National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film

465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi

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HCMC: 21 – 29 Jun 2014

Hoa Sen University

93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC

For the sixth time, EUNIC, the network of the European cultural institutes and embassies, and the National Film Studio for Documentary and Science Film Vietnam, will present European and South East Asian films. After each film from Vietnam there will follow a film from Denmark, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, Sweden or Spain. Standing in dialogue, the differences in both the cinematic language and the topics become clear, but foremost the common ground: The love of understanding the world through images. The festival takes place in Hanoi from 4 to 12 June and in Ho Chi Minh City from 21 to 29 June.

In the much acclaimed German contribution “Forget me Not” by David Sieveking a widespread disease sets the framework: Alzheimer’s. As the filmmaker’s mother suffers from it, the whole family is challenged. Although the story seems hard, Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother with humour and astonishing candor. During the screening in Hanoi on 4 June, the German cutter Catrin Vogt will be present and talk about the film.

In the context of the documentary film festival the Goethe-Institute furthermore invites to two workshops: One workshop will gather filmmakers from several South East Asian countries with the Finnish director Iikka Vehkalahti. Some of those filmmakers will also present their films during the film festival. The second workshop for young Vietnamese filmmakers from Hanoi takes place at the Hanoi DOCLAB under the direction of Catrin Vogt. The DOCLAB is a documentary film center at the Goethe-Institut. By providing professional equipment and workshops, it aims to promote and support the still young documentary film scene in Hanoi. On 6 June Catrin Vogt will give a talk on ‘Dramaturgical Editing of Documentary Films’ which will be open for all interested professionals.

Free entrance to all screenings.

Screening of “For June” (Dành cho tháng sáu) and Live Set “Ngọt”

Mon 02 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Hầm Hành

170 Doi Can Str, Hanoi

THE ONION CELLAR can’t wait to help you exorcise the ghosts of student days (or if you’re still a student this is gonna be a necessary reminder (enjoy it)).

A perfect Onion Cellar-ish combination of cinema and music: a rare screening of Vietnamese independent film DÀNH CHO THÁNG SÁU (FOR JUNE) – featuring a Q&A session with director Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn.

Plus a pre-film live set from NGỌT – one of the most exciting (young) Vietnamese groups these days.

DÀNH CHO THÁNG SÁU (FOR JUNE) (2012)

Director: Nguyễn Hữu Tuấn

81 mins

Languages: Vietnamese, with English subtitles

The first love and the last match.

Close friends Kien, Hoang and Minh’s perfect summer break is threatened when Kien suddenly leaves for his home village, abandoning his high school basketball team days before they face their most challenging game in an important competition. Realising that Kien’s unrequited love for Minh drove him away, Hoang and Minh go search for Kien in an attempt to save their friendship and the game.

NGỌT

Little streams do make big rivers.

NGỌT is an exciting trio of university students who write and perform breezy intimate songs that can sometimes pass for lullabies. Sounding little (if any) similar to their peers in the local rock/folk scene, the band exists in a bedroom of their own – though quite possibly one would find in this room: a copy of Pink Floyd’s Animals, the full Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs box-set, The Microphones’ The Glow Pt. 2, and perhaps a portrait of Lou Reed hanging somewhere on the wall. Or, you know, like that scene in Tran Anh Hung’s At the Height of Summer

Fronted by singer/guitarist Vu Dinh Trong Thang who croons surprisingly charming wisdoms (with just a tiny hint of bittersweet existentialism) over quirky instrumentation partly courtesy of guitarist Tuan Tran and drummer Nam Anh, NGỌT is truly a band you do not come across everyday. It all seems so effortless it feels like the music waltzs itself into existence, and one can hardly wait to see what the immediate future holds for this young promising group. The Onion Cellar is super chuffed to have them perform at Hầm Hành.

Tickets: VND 20,000 at doors.

Hanoi Slam Presents “Courage”

Wed 04 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

PUKU

16-18 Tong Duy Tan (‘Food Street’), Hanoi

Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Ever had to get going even while your teeth rattled and your stomach danced? Ever made a decision that left you with breathless and shaking? Ever reached inside of yourself to fetch something you didn’t know you had?

Hanoi Slam is celebrating the end of its current season by challenging speakers to share their moment of courage. They may be awesomely gigantic, or fleetingly small but all of these moments are diamonds and we can’t wait to hear about them!

Join us on June 4th from 7:30 p.m. as ten speakers dual for our fantastic prizes.

Entry is 100,000 VND on the door and all proceeds will benefit Humanitarian Services for the Children of Vietnam.

Want to be a speaker? Found the courage to front the mic? We want YOU! Sign up NOW by emailing Hanoistoryslam@gmail.com. Compete for fantastic prizes and mic glory while throwing it down for a great cause.

Theater Performance of “Impermanence”

06 and 07 Jun 2014, 7 pm

Barbecue garden Westlake

No 66, lane 12, Dang Thai Mai Str, Hanoi

“Impermanence” is a performing arts play which explores themes of death, memory and perception with one man’s disjointed awareness of reality.

A harmony of acting, dancing and beautiful visuals put together in one special performance. This is a play that questions perception, examines life, loss and the bountiful journey of creativity!

Doors open 7 pm, showing at 7.30 pm.

Entry fee: 100,000 VND.

German Film “Forget me not” at the Opening of European Documentary Film Festival 2014 in Hanoi and HCMC

Hanoi: Wed 04 Jun 2014, 7 pm

National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film

465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi

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HCMC: Sat 21 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm

Hoa Sen University

93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC

You are invited to the screening of German Film “Forget me not” at the Opening of European Documentary Film Festival 2014.

For the screening on the opening night of the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival in Hanoi, the editor Catrin Vogt will be present and talk about “Vergiss mein nicht”.

In Forget me not, David Sieveking portrays the domestic care of his mother, who, like millions of others, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. David’s parents were active in the student movement of the 1960s and led an “open relationship”, which is now being tested in a dramatic way through his mother’s illness. The changes taking place within her forces the family to face its own conflicts and even teaches them how to deal with these conflicts more tenderly, bringing them all closer together. With humor and astonishing candor, David Sieveking’s family chronicle is characterized by unaffected participation and loving affection, where it is the human at the centre of the story, not the illness.

Awards:

SR G SSR Critics’ Week Award Locarno 2012

Special Jury Prize Documenta Madrid 2013

Millenium Award Planete Doc Warsaw 2013

Free entrance.

Language: German with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

Screening of Documentary “Born into Brothels”

Sun 01 Jun 2014, 6 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Hanoi DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening of the “Born into Brothels” (2004) by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. This film won Oscar 2004 for Best Documentary Feature and Audien Award in Sundance Film Festival.

“Born Into Brothels” is a documentary about the inspiring non-profit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities. In 1998, New York-based photographer Zana Briski started photographing prostitutes in the red-light district of Calcutta. She eventually developed a relationship with their children, who were fascinated by her equipment.

After several years of learning in workshops with Briski, the kids created their own photographs with point-and-shoot 35 mm cameras. Their images capture the intimacy and color of everyday life in the overpopulated sections of Calcu . Proceeds from the sale of the children’s photographs go to fund their future education.

The photography is splendid, rich in color and subject matter, and the video camera following Briski through the squalid red light district, pausing to hear abusive mothers and drugged fathers deny their children passage into a better life, hearing the wisdom of the elders who desire something more for these children, captures a world few know. This is a touching film without being maudlin, beautiful without ignoring reality. Highly Recommended.”

Duration: 85 minutes

Language: The film is in English with Vietnamese subtitle

Free Entrance.