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Sat 30 Jun 2012, 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Zoe’s Talk: Sat 30 Jun 2012, 3 pm
Sàn Art
3 Mê Linh, District Bình Thạnh, HCMC
Please join San Art Laboratory’s 1st Open Studio this Saturday 30 June. Three artists-in-residence are spending 6 months with San Art Laboratory and this Open Studio is their official salutation to the public. After one month of making themselves’ accquainted with HCMC, Mami Tuan Nguyen (Hanoi), Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (Hue) and Truong Cong Tung (Daklak-HCMC) open their studio for visitors to ask questions and hear more of their first ideas and thoughts on what they aim to produce during their residency. Please come and have a casual and friendly chat in each artist’s studio!
At 3pm, Zoe Butt, Executive-Director and Curator of Sàn Art will share her experiences of the current exhibition ‘dOCUMENTA (13)’ by curator Carolyn Christov Bakargiev d13.documenta.de - arguably one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions that occurs every 5 years.
‘San Art Laboratory’ is a studio/residency program initiated and managed by San Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Situated in separate furnished premises with communal kitchen, nearby ‘San Art’ in Binh Thanh District, ‘San Art Laboratory’ provides three Vietnamese artists with an art studio and living quarters for six months each, beginning May, 2012.
Lab Session 2 is now open for application til 1st August.
Lab Session 1: May 14 – November 14, 2012
Lab Session 2: December 1, 2012 – May 1, 2013
For more information, please contact: hello@san-art.org
For artists bio and information, please visit: http://san-art.org/SanArtLaboratory/lab-session-1.html
Parking is located at 2 Me Linh, Binh Thanh (opposite San Art Gallery). San Art Laboratory is a short walk around the corner.
Attention Documentary Film Makers: ChopShots 2012
Apply now for ChopShots 2012 – Documentary Film Festival Southeast Asia
Deadline: 27 Aug 2012
We are seeking submissions of documentary films of any length produced after January 2011 for our first ChopShots Festival to be held in Jakarta Dec 5th-9th 2012.
ChopShots is a new documentary film festival for the Asia-Pacific region organized by DocNet Southeast Asia – a project initiated by Goethe-Institut and funded by the EU – and its partners from six Southeast Asian countries. The festival brings the Asian as well as the international documentary scene together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making. ChopShots is the ideal event for people from the documentary and digital industries to get together – to screen their work, share knowledge, do business, make new contacts and discuss innovations and challenges they are facing in the ever changing media landscape.
Many Awards of a combined 10.000 Euro up for grabs! Winning newcomers will get an opportunity to travel with their films to five countries for the ChopShots Travelling Festival: Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.
Some important submission Guidelines:
All submissions are free
Eligible entries for the competition are documentaries preferably on topics set in Southeast Asia
The online application form must be filled out at www.chopshots.net with acknowledgment that the submission guidelines have been read and understood.
Eligible entries must have English subtitles
Film makers can submit more than one film. Each film must be submitted through one registration form and on one DVD
Entry materials must arrive by August 27th, 2012 or earlier. Please either send a download link for videos in your online registration form or alternatively mail your film on DVD in PAL (Ratio aspect 4:3 or 16:9/Minimum picture resolution is 720×576 dpi) to:
Lulu Ratna
ChopShots Documentary Film Festival
Goethe-Institut Indonesia
Jl. Sam Ratulangi no.9-15
Menteng, Jakarta 10350
Indonesia
Video Series from 40 years of German Video Art
Thu 28 Jun 2012, 3.30 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Video Art Video cordially invites you to the first screening of video series form 40 years of German Video Art. Video art emerged in the 60s in the U.S. and Germany and has become one of the most influential genres of art of the 20th Century. Technical systems have developed further, changed or even disappeared: the former TV screen has given way to the computer monitor, video cassettes to software programs and hard drives.
The biggest challenge of video art is its own mortality, due to the short life of the electronic media. Thus, the survival of video art is dependent on a never-ending process of adaptation to new technological standards. 40jahrevideokunst.de, an initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation, has therefore taken on the task of the rescue, care and dissemination of video art. Five important museums in Germany have joined forces to realize this project, under the direction of Karlsruhe ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology). Here video art works are professionally archived, digitized, and protected from disappearing.
Video pieces:
1. Sun in your head (1963) by Wolf Vostell
2. Land art (1969) by Gerry Schum
3. Life – Death (1969/2004) by Katharina Sieverding
4. Filz TV (1970) by Joseph Beuys
The screening is non-profit and aims for studies and research only.
Free Entrance!
Northern Exposure 4
Sat 30 Jun 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Northern Exposure 4 is a go! This is one of our best attended events . 8 LIVE ACTS | 3 DJS | LIVE ART with Gypsy Doodle Collective.
This is your opportunity to share the love, passion and dedication Synergy artists have for music and for the city of Hanoi. Arrive early as music kicks off at 9pm exactly. We will be going till the early hours of the morning and would love to see a massive turnout from you all.
Special guests :’The Cotton Runts’ will be doing a one time show only, comprising mostly of the legendary “The Props” members, as Synergy bids farewell to Ed Merlin.
Performers:
Cotton Runts
Yo! Chi
Michelle & Musbaba
Thuong Dinh’s Shoes
One Black Eye
Vaughan
Divine Monkey Empire
Nam Jam Collective
Zamina
Machete.Sex.Mix
Ticket
Ticket price: 100 000 VND at door.
Francesco Tristano Live at ATK
Tue 26 Jun 2012, 9 pm
ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Young classical music pioneer, Francesco Tristano will be playing at ATK on Tuesday 26 June. A young musician and composer causing a stir, not only on the club scene, but also in classical concert venues is probably a world-first. Purists from both the classical and techno camps both agree: they don’t know quite what to make of this young, Luxembourg-born musician who refuses to stick to the rules.
He caused a stir by playing techno using sheet music, then riled up the Classical world by mixing his own composition – just like a DJ – into a piece by Frescobaldi.
29-year-old Francesco may well be the only musician in the world combining these two seemingly irreconcilable genres – Classical and Techno. His collaborations with Carl Craig have thrown up four to the floor dance tracks that appeal to both the brain and the feet with more than a passing resemblance to Four Tet’s recent work on Ringer and There is Love in You.
Unquestionably, Francesco Tristano throws up something different, which is why CAMA thinks you’re going to like him.
Free entry.
Performance of Simon Whetham
Wed 27 Jun 2012, 8 pm
La Fenetre Soleil
44 Ly Tu Trong, Dist. 1, HCMC
The Onion Cellar proudly presents a special live concert by SIMON WHETHAM in Ho Chi Minh City.
Simon Whetham is a British musician / sound artist who has been experimenting with environmental sounds since a research trip to Iceland in 2005.
His concerts are often based on an extensive use of field recordings captured by himself from various locations worldwide (to name but a few: the Amazon Forest, the Alps, a library in London’s Peckham, a decommissioned power station in Latvia, etcetera), but heavily processed and carefully assembled to create actual musical compositions, forming new sequences and frequencies that may or may not be there in the first place, resulting in what might be termed as soundtracks to imaginary films.
To date, Simon has released at least 20 albums though numerous independent labels, run various sound installations and workshops, performed at a large number of festivals and venues (including the famous Café Oto in London – haven for all things experimental). He has also shared the stage with luminaries of the scene, such as Colin Potter (of Nurse With Wound fame), Philip Jeck, Tim Hecker, Mark Fell, Scanner (who incidentally was the first electronic musician to play at the Hanoi Opera House back in 2003) etc.
In 2012 Simon has been travelling around the world, playing concerts and collaborating with local musicians at places he goes to. After a series of concerts in Australia (including a support set to “Godfather of Japanese Noise” Merzbow) and Hanoi at CAMA ATK, Simon will perform another concert at La Fenetre Soleil coupled with young noise talent Hong Giang (Writher). Minimalist performances like this aren’t for everyone – there definitely won’t be any dancing – but for those with open ears and minds, this isn’t one to miss.
Free entry.
Exhibition “Nowadays”
Opening: Fri 29 Jun, 6 pm
Exhibition: 29 Jun – 14 Jul 2012
Art Talk: Sat 30 Jun, 2.30 pm
Art Talk Cafe
12 Quan Su street, Hanoi
You are invited to a Group Show ” Nowadays” by 6 Artists: Nguyen Khac Chinh, Le Chi Hieu, Nguyen Duc Hung, Le Thi Minh Tam, Trinh Minh Tien and Pham Tuan Tu.
Exhibition “Sparkling Colours of Life and Religion”
Exhibition: 20 Jun – 03 Jul 2012
Exhibition House
16 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi
For more information about the exhibition, see below (click to enlarge):
Conference about Phung Cung’s Poetry
Thu 28 Jun 2012, 6 pm
Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the conference on the occasion of the publicatin of the collection Night Watch of poet Phung Cung with the participation of researcher Pham Toan, literature critic Pham Xuan Nguyen, writer Thai Ke Toai and poet Nguyen Thuy Kha. According to the poet Hoang Cam, the collection is a good source of reference on the life and the language of the great Central land in the past.
Language: Vietnamese
Phung Cung was born on 18th July 1928 at Vinh Yen. In 1945, he joined the revolution force. In 1949, he went to Viet Bac and participated in the art and cultural activities there. He passed away in 1979.
Free entrance.
Exhibition “A Transformative Disguise”
Opening: Wed 27 Jun, 6 pm
Exhibition: 28 Jun – 27 Jul 2012, 9 am – 6 pm
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
The Japan Foundation Center for cultural exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with San Art as a co-organizer, proudly hosts an art exhibition by Le Hoang Bich Phuong “A Transformative Disguise” in Hanoi.
Le Hoang Bich Phuong is a Ho Chi Minh City based young artist who was awarded an artist-in-residence at S-AIR inSapporo City, Japan, through the JENESYS Invitation Program for Creators operated by the Japan Foundation.
Crows are considered unlucky in Vietnam so when Le Hoang Bich Phuong found herself in Sapporo, Japan lost in her attempt to find an art supply store, she was hesitant to approach the only shop on the street that was surrounded by a flock of these black, loud birds. A Japanese man stepped forward to help her find her destination by a hand drawn game of Pictionary. From that day forward, crows have ceased to be unlucky for Bich Phuong. Such personal encounters are frequently referenced in the work of this emerging artist whose recall of human character is cunningly, at times comically analogous to the myths of the animal world.
In this exhibition a series of portraits in silk, representing herself, including various strangers and friends both real and imagined, wear the facial mask of particular animals — donkeys with buckteeth possess skeletal hands; an old bear towers like an oversized hooded jacket over a young child’s face; a pig sits sickly with a dripping and swelling red nose; or a Japanese operatic mask of a fox stands pulling at his lips as if he cannot speak. Deftly painted in subtle tones of watercolor, what these images refer are the indulgent and insecure habits of the human condition.
Fascinated with the way established and vernacular mythological narrative can offer moral or ethical lessons, Bich Phuong playfully alludes to a myriad of cultural tradition from Japanese and Vietnamese fairytale to insightful re-readings of Aesop and children’s nursery rhymes. In the world of Bich Phuong, the donning of invisible masks is a frequent practice in contemporary life where either by means of survival or psychological insecurity, these masks appears to offer some kind of protection. Accompanying these paintings is a series of miniature ceramic sculptures whose human bodies have bonded with their masks; some have limbs that are missing, while another has a fish tank for a brain. What Bich Phuong questions in ‘A Transformative Disguise’ is whether these masks once worn, can ever truly be removed.
This exhibition will transform the exhibition space of the Japan Foundation, playing with ideas of reflection and transparency, encouraging the audience to question what kind of masks they may be wearing in their own every day.
Le Hoang Bich Phuong (b. 1984,Ho Chi Minh City) is one ofVietnam’s most promising young artists whose study of Vietnamese and Japanese silk painting traditions has greatly influenced her own unique style and technique. Influenced by the ukiyo-e tradition, while also drawn to the popular world of the comic, Bich Phuong’s strong command of line and color creates an ethereal, near surreal presence. A graduate of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University, she was awarded an artist-in-residence in Sapporo, Japan, as part of the ‘JENESYS Program: Invitation Program for Creators’ of the Japan Foundation in 2011 and that same year was also one of the finalists for the DOGMA Art Prize in self-portraiture. In 2010 she was finalist in the ‘Talent Prize’ of the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund.
Recent exhibitions include:
Sapporo Biennale 2011,Sapporo,Japan, 2011
Shaping a line, San Art,HCMC,Vietnam, 2011
Saigon Contemporary, LaLantaFineArtGallery,Bangkok,Thailand, 2011
Free entrance
Discussion on Caricatures
Wed 20 Jun 2012, 7.30 pm
Trung Nguyen Coffee
52 Hai Ba Trung, Ha Noi
You are invited to the discussion about Political Caricatures and Portrait of Famous people with artist Ly Truc Dung. The discussion focus on the power of caricature in political and social life in all over the world both in the past and in the recent time.
The artist will showcase 70 caricatures of famous people from all over the world from the presidents, politicians, professors, poets, artists to cinema celebrities, footballers…
Artist Ly Truc Dung (1946) starts drawing caricatures in more than 30 years. His drawings are included in almost all magazines and newspapers in Vietnam and in some famous German newspaper. Apart from caricature, he also writes, discusses, collects and introduces international caricature and the history of caricature. He is the first to research about the Vietnamese history of caricature through the book VIETNAMESE CARICATURE (Nha Nam & Fine Art Publishing House, 2011).
Screening of “Welcome”
Fri 20 Jul 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Welcome” of director Philippe Lioret. The film has received 10 Cesar nominations in 2010 and “Les Lumières 2010″ Award for the best French film according to foreign newspaper.
“This film is excruciatingly beautiful and it makes us tremble…” - Télérama.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
Film synopsis: To get his wife’s attention back, Simon – life guard at Calais swimming pool risks everything to secretly help a young Kurd immigrant to swim across the English channel.
Ticket:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Art in Discussion – Matter Becomes Form
Goethe Institut Vietnam
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 6 pm
Goethe Institut HCMC
18, Str.1, Do Thanh, Ward 4, District 3, HCMC
Hertha Miessner, Susanne Wackerbauer andTraude Linhardt live and work in Munich, Germany. Each of them having her own way of life and her own style and art production frequently come together for joint projects and exhibitions. They share the artistic engagement to transform visual objects into abstract, serial and highly artificial compositions.
Hertha Miessner is using elements of traditional art-techniques only in order to put them into new contextualizations and combine them with modern technologies. Thus she is reinterpreting elements of western history of art, confronting the traditional with the most advanced technical developments.
Susanne Wackerbauers series and collections always have as their core items architectural and sculptural elements. She strives to give a halt to the time fluidum by showing the continuous change and continuous movements in the process of life. Save and collect is over and over again the main focus in the artist’s work.
Traude Linhardt is a sculptor and uses as a basis torso-shaped structures made from iron strings, which are covered with different materials. Her materials like beewax, jute or asian papers, thus reflecting archaic models, are being confronted with modern recycling materials like plastic, film or audiotapes. This juxtaposition marks the shape of each torso in its different sizes.
Free admission.
Screening of “American Movie”
Fri 22 Jun 2012, 6 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
You are invited to the screening of “American Movie” by American filmmaker, Chris Smith. You’re behind on your child support, your phone’s being turned off, and you owe money to the IRS — what do you do? Make a movie! At least that’s what beleaguered Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt decided to do in the Sundance smash American Movie.
Documentary director Chris Smith and producer Sarah Price followed Borchardt for two years as he struggled to complete a 35-minute direct-market thriller filmcalled Coven, with $3,000 borrowed from his semi-senile uncle and the loyal support of his unflappably affable guitar-playing best friend, Mike Schank.
The result is a poignant and often hilarious character study of a charismatic all-American underdog, who makes up in drive and vision what he lacks in talent. Interviews with Borchardt’s skeptical family and friends are combined with scenes of sparsely attended production meetings, no-budget film shoots, and camp-outs in the editing room with the kids.
Guaranteed to touch a nerve in anyone who has ever aspired to make films, American Movie is an offbeat, sometimes sad, but ultimately inspirational tribute to pursuing one’s dreams.
Languages: The film is in English with Vietnamese subtitle.
Free entrance. The screening is non-profit and aims for studies and research only.
If you’re interested in getting news, announcements from DOCLAB for its activities, workshops, and schedule of film screenings, etc., please email us at hanoidoclab@gmail.com to subscribe to DOCLAB news.
Event “Free Try for Bamboo Bike”
Bamboo Bike
Sun 01 Jul 2012
9 Xuan Dieu Str and 13 Hang Bac Str
Mekong Quilts is doing an event for its Bamboo bike. Come to the 2 shops in Hang Bac and Xuan Dieu to try the bike for free.
If you want to ride all around the West Lake come on the 9 Xuan Dieu in Tay Ho.
And if you want to ride in the little streets in the old district come to the 13 Hang Bac in Hoan Kiem.
See you the Sunday 1st July to discover a new way to move!!
Artist-in-Residence 2013 for Visual Arts
Artist-in-Residence 2013 for Visual Arts calls for applications
Deadline: 30 Jun 2012
Kyoto Art Center provides Artist-in-Residence programs for emerging artist and art researchers who wish to cultivate artistic creativities in Kyoto.
We call for artists and researchers in performing arts and visual arts altenately. In 2013, the program is open to the artists and researchers working in visual arts.
Film Screening and Discussion
Film Screening and Discussion HCMC
Sun 24 Jun 2012, 8pm
DeciBel Lounge
79/2/5 Phan Kê Bính,.Đa Kao Ward, District 1, HCMC
You are invited to the film screening and discussion (in English and Vietnamese) with Stephanie Lanasque and Francois Leroy. In this event film Red River by Stephanie Lanasque & Francois Leroy and film At Water’s Edge by Do Van Hoang will be screened. For more information, see below:
RED RIVER / FLEUVE ROUGE (HCMC Premiere)
Stephanie Lanasque & Francois Leroy
2012/14.00
This film follows the early hours in Hanoi for three young brothers newly arrived from their home village. Around the Long Bien bridge, which links the city and the countryside they cross the path of a young policeman and a street vendor.
AT WATER’S EDGE
Đỗ Văn Hoàng
17.00
An island by the middle-bank in the Red River. A popular site for people to get together and take a dip into the cool water naked. A place for them to get lost in nature, and share their deepest, most intimate thoughts and feelings.
MONK PUNK
Stephanie Lanasque & Francois Leroy
3.00
Free entry.
Live Concert by Sound Artist Simon Whetham
Sun 24 Jun 2012, 7 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
In association with CAMA ATK, The Onion Cellar proudly presents a special live concert by SIMON WHETHAM in Hanoi.
Simon Whetham is a British musician / sound artist who has been experimenting with environmental sounds since a research trip to Iceland in 2005. His concerts are often based on an extensive use of field recordings captured by himself from various locations worldwide (to name but a few: the Amazon Forest, the Alps, a library in London’s Peckham, a decommissioned power station in Latvia, etcetera), but heavily processed and carefully assembled to create actual musical compositions, forming new sequences and frequencies that may or may not be there in the first place, resulting in what might be termed as soundtracks to imaginary films.
To date, Simon has released at least 20 albums though numerous independent labels, run various sound installations and workshops, performed at a large number of festivals and venues (including the famous Café Oto inLondon– haven for all things experimental). He has also shared the stage with luminaries of the scene, such as Colin Potter (of Nurse With Wound fame), Philip Jeck, Tim Hecker, Mark Fell, Scanner (who incidentally was the first electronic musician to play at the Hanoi Opera House back in 2003) etc.
In 2012 Simon has been travelling around the world, playing concerts and collaborating with local musicians at places he goes to. After a series of concerts inAustralia(including a support set to “Godfather of Japanese Noise” Merzbow), Simon will perform a solo concert at CAMA ATK Hanoi, with a possible date inSaigonto be confirmed. Minimalist performances like this aren’t for everyone – there definitely won’t be any dancing – but for those with open ears and minds, this isn’t one to miss.
Free entry.
For more information about Simon, visit his website.
An excerpt from Simon Whetham’s Lightyears, click here.
Exhibition “Dust”
Opening: Fri 22 Jun, 6 – 8 pm
Exhibition: 22 Jun – 05 Jul 2012
Galerie Quynh
65 Đề Thám, District 1, HCMC
Galerie Quynh is pleased to present Dust, Nguyen Phuong Linh’s second solo exhibition in the gallery’s Emerging Artist Program. Initiated in 2009 to encourage young Vietnamese artists making experimental work, the program not only provides the artists with a platform to show their work, but also supports education and discourse through talks and publications. Salt (2009) was Phuong Linh’s first solo exhibition in the Emerging Artist Program.
In her latest body of work, Phuong Linh examines the traces of personal and collective memories and histories. Tied to the history of a given object or place, dust often collects on forgotten and disused objects; the accumulation of dust is a natural index of the passage of time. Phuong’s Linh’s minimalistic, yet sensuous artworks allude to the past, blurring deeply personal memories and national histories.
Dust comprises three recent works by the artist. The Dust Project, originally shown at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum during the artist’s residency in 2011, includes an array of small vials containing dust collected from various objects and different sites in Vietnam, Japan and Korea: a portrait of Ho Chi Minh, a relative’s altar, bridges crossed in three nations, cracks in destroyed homes caused by natural disasters, grave sites of soldiers, churches and numerous other sites that have been ruined or forgotten. Images of these sites documented through beautiful, muted blueprints – a printing method that is becoming obsolete with new technologies – accompany the delicate vials of dust. Like the dust Xu Bing collected from New York’s streets following 9/11, the dust in Phuong Linh’s vials are specific to the sites where it was gathered; each vial contains dust of varying hues. Through the simple act of collecting dust, Phuong Linh reflects on the importance of revisiting history, retelling stories and renewing hope when all appears lost.
Whitescape appears like pristine white dust. Comprising two tons of white limestone powder, the work appears like a stark, ethereal landscape. Limestone, formed by the skeletons of billions of marine animals over millions of years, is mined throughout the world for construction and agricultural purposes. The limestone powder brings to mind mortality, destruction, renewal and change. The small peaks in the landscape will slowly morph and erode throughout the course of the exhibition.
Steeped in the artist’s personal memories of Hanoi, Rubber, Soap, Tobacco consists of three compressed cubes of each of these common products widely consumed by both the Vietnamese working- and middle-classes. Inspired by Yellow Star Rubber Factory, Hanoi Soap Factory and Thang Long Tobacco Factory, three prominent companies established in the 50s and 60s in Hanoi that proudly marked Vietnam’s ability to produce light industrial products for the first time, the dense cubes sit on iron stands, strong and stoic, like totems of economic power.
About Artist: Born in 1985 in Hanoi where she is also based, Nguyen Phuong Linh is one of Vietnam’s most promising young artists. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions with recent solo shows at 3147966 cm3 mobile gallery in Thailand, Nha San Studio in Vietnam and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. Phuong Linh has also held many international artist residencies with organizations such as Seoul Art Space, Korea, Kaman Art Foundation, Rajasthan, India and The Luggage Store, San Francisco, California, USA.
Dust is generously supported by the Danish Embassy in Hanoi’s Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF).
An Evening of Opera at LUNA – Programme 19
Wed 20 Jun 2012, 8.30 pm
Luna d’Autunno, Hanoi
78 Tho Nhuom
Hoan Kiem Distr. – Ha Noi
This month: An Evening with Donizetti and Bellini
Detailed program below:
Concert of Francesco Tristano
Mon 25 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
TICKET GIVEAWAYS: We have 5 x 2 tickets to the Opera House show. 5 winners will each get 2 tickets.
Click here to register and enter your name to win.
Deadline to register is midnight on Tue 19 Jun.
From the organizer:
Pianist and composer Francesco Tristano returns to Hanoi for a piano concert at the Hanoi Opera House, on June 25 2012. Francesco Tristano will perform works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti and Igor Stravinsky along with his own contemporary upbeat compositions. In addition, on 26 Jun, he will be playing at ATK.
The concert at the Opera House – which is by invitation only! – will showcase Tristano’s passion for classic and contemporary music. Francesco performed at the Opera House in 2011 and provided several master classes to a group of skillful students of the Vietnam National Music Academy.
About artist: Francesco Tristano discovered the piano at the age of five. Aged 13, he played his first concert, presenting his own compositions. He later toured both as a soloist and with renowned orchestras, such as the Russian National Orchestra, the French National Orchestra of Lille and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
Tristano founded the chamber ensemble, The New Bach Players, with whom he has also performed as a conductor. Tristano is one of the last students at New York’s Juilliard School to complete Bach legend Rosalyn Tureck’s master class. He also studied at the music academies in Brussels, Riga, Paris and Luxembourg as well as the ESMUC in Barcelona. In 2004, he won the first prize at the International piano competition for contemporary music in Orléans, France.
Tristano has released twelve albums, among them recordings of Bach Goldberg Variations and complete keyboard concertos, Luciano Berio complete piano works, and Girolamo Frescobaldi Toccatas. Not for Piano (2007), presented his own compositions as well as classics at the piano. More recently, Tristano has signed with Universal Classics & Jazz. His first project, bachCage, produced by Moritz von Oswald, was released on Deutsche Grammophon in March 2011.
Conference on Village Regulations in Vietnam
Wed 20 Jun 2012, 6 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the conference to discussion the Vietnamese village regulations with History Professor Bui Xuan Dinh from Ethnology Institute, Vietnam Social and Science Academy and Professor Dinh Khac Thuan from Han-Nom Institute, Vietnam Social and Science Academy. These regulations exist together with the laws. They used to be tools to administer the traditional Vietnamese societies. They still play an important role in the development of Vietnamese villages.
1. How the village regulations were established and maintained
2. Origin, conditions and the start of the village regulations
3. Different types of regulations
4. The content of the regulations
5. The role and impacts of village regulations on the traditional Vietnamese society
6. The regulation issues nowaday
Language: Vietnamese-French simultaneous interpretation.
Free entrance.
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
Guitar Concert with Fabricio Mattos
Mon 18 Jun 2012, 7 pm
Vietnam National Academy of Music, Concert Hall
77 Hào Nam,Ô Chợ Dừa, Đống Đa, Hà Nội
Come to the concert of Fabricio Mattos, one of Brazilian greatest classic guitarists. Fabricio Mattos was awarded in more than ten national and international competitions, and was the first Brazilian musician in history to be elected a finalist for the prestigious Alexander Tansman Competition of Musical Personalities, in Lodz, Poland.
FABRICIO MATTOS
Fabricio Mattos was born in Curitiba, Brazil and studied at Padéia Music School in curitiba. When he was fourteen years old, he was introduced to the guitar and was fascinated by the possibilites of this instrument.
He has launched in 2007 his first CD, España. From September to December 2009 Fabricio toured in Brazil as part of the project SESC-Sonora Brazil, being invited to perform 83 concerts throughout Barzil, which is considered the most significant guitar tour ever realized in that country.
Awards in musical career:
Armando Prazeres Prize for Young Soloists of Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, 2003)
Ivor Mairants Guitar Award (Worshipful Company of Musicians, London)
Picker Trust Award (Royal Academy of Music, London
Webshow Video Award
Alexander Tansman Competition of Musical Personalities (Lodz, Poland)
Julien Bream Award (London)
Free entrance ticket from Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Contact: Ms. Ly- Cultural section
Tel: (04) 3843 2544
Australian Dance Company Performs in Hanoi
Sat 23 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Youth Theater
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
Sun 24 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
26 and 27 Jun 2012, 7 pm
Trung Nguyen Cafe
52 Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi
Dance is powerful form of art and communication that can link people and cultures in the most unexpected ways. This month, the Perth-based performing arts collective, Remnant Dance, brings their original contemporary dance works and films from the Australian outback to Hanoi from 22-30.06.
Remnant Dance premiers at the Vietnam Youth Theatre on 23.06, and then hits the floor at Hanoi Rock City on 24.06 where some of Hanoi’s best hip hop dancers bring it!
Remnant Dance is also partnering with members of the Hanoi Writers Collective and Apsara Dance Studio to present two nights of original, collaborative showings at the music friendly Trung Nguyen Cafe from 26-27.06.
“The creative process transcends cultural and linguistic differences and allows for human connectivity through one of the most powerful of human faculties: the imagination,” says Lucinda Coleman, Remnant Dance founder and choreographer.
Coleman says she is excited about bringing Australian contemporary dancers to Hanoi, where there is a long history and appreciation of dance. Coleman and five dancers will also host a dance workshop for members of the Vietnam Youth Theatre where the artists can share and learn from each other.
“We are looking forward to experiencing the passion the Vietnamese have for their own dance and cultural heritage – and sharing our own,” Coleman says.
Remnant Dance is visiting Hanoi in preparation for their 2014 Asia Tour. For more information about their Hanoi schedule, collaborative video project, and their work with My Kids, an Australian charity for children in Myanmar, please visit www.remnantdance.com.au
Notice: Vietnam Youth Theatre: Free entry.
Hanoi Rock City: Donation at door.
Trung Nguyen Cafe: Donation at door.
Special Screening about Music
Fri 22 Jun 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to a special screening: THE SPECIAL CONCERT OF FRENCH STARS 2011. Every year, French stars gather and perform in one concert to raise fund for poor people! This is a very special concert!
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Special Cabaret Night Gainsbourg
Sat 23 Jun 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Let’s relieve the moments with the famous Serge Gainsbourg and his well-known songs performed by the Cabaret band at L’Espace.
Whether you are a singer, a musician or you can perform songs of famous musicians/poet, you can sing in French, Vietnamese or English, contact Cédric Drouard to participate in the Special Cabaret night at L’Espace: cedminimum@hotmail.fr
Free entrance.
Subscription Concert Vol.52 “Tchaikovsky Night”
21 and 22 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Come to Subscription Concert Vol.52 “Tchaikovsky Night” with the performance of conductor Andrea Pestalozza, violin soloist Nguyen Huu Khoi Nguyen and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information, see below:
Program
(including compositions of Tchaikovsky)
Violin Concerto D major Op.35
Interval
Symphony No.6 “Pathetique” Op.74
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Interaction Video Art “Dharma – Realm”
Opening: Tue 22 May, 7 pm
Exhibition: 23 – 25 May 2012
Studio 3
½ Lane 99 Duc Giang st., Long Bien, Ha Noi
“Dharma-Realm” – an exhibition opening the curtain to the mystery of Buddhism.
Buddhism is a religion to which the artist, Pham Quang Hieu is extremely grateful, and through his Installation and Interaction Video Art Exhibition “Dharma-Realm”, 23 – 25 May 2012, he seeks to present an explanation to the mysterious, multi-interpretive Buddhist concept “Dharma-Realm”.
In Buddhism, the concept of Dharma-Realm has two basic interpretations: Dharma-Realm is the perfect representation of the true nature of things and phenomena; or Dharma-Realm is the region, mind and circumstance in which a being exists. But what is the true nature of an existence, when human beings have so many different perspectives and feelings?
Through the exhibition “Dharma-Realm” Pham Quang Hieu wishes to present an image, which conveys both the extreme simplicity and the infinite complexity, to partly explain this Buddhist concept. His aim is to pierce a small hole in the curtain of mystery – the “inconceivable” – surrounding Buddhism.
In the Video Art Exhibition four different installation and interaction videos will be presented: Dharma-Realm, Buddhas, the Glass of Beer and Reflection. These videos view the world as a net knitted by countless things and each existence as an individual and as a whole, and hence contribute to the explanation of the true nature of an existence.
Piano Recital of Roger Muraro
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the piano recital of Roger Muraro. Winners of prestigious international music competitions such as the Tchaïkovski competition in Moscow and Liszt in Parma, Roger Muraro has acquired exceptional performing skill. In 2011, he has a successful performance in Hanoi Opera House.
Program
Robert Schumann Waldszenen op. 82
Franz Liszt
Rhapsody Hungary No.15, S 244, “Rakoczy”
Concert paraphrase on ”La sonnambula” của Bellini S 393
Interval
Hector Berlioz – Franz Liszt
For more information on Roger Muraro, visit his website.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 200 00, 150 000, 100 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 100 000, 75 000, 50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening “Les Triplettes de Belleville”
29/06/2012
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of the cartoon made by Sylvain Chomet. Télé Ciné Obs Magazine has commented that “We are in the cinema to watch a wonderful movie!”.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
Synopsis: It is a crazy idea for Ms Bouza to give her nephew a bicycle that is beyond his expectation. Tour de France is coming. “The French mafia” has discovered the potential champion and decided to kidnap him. Souza and three other women of the same age might have to face with risk in a challenging race.
Ticket:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Exhibition of Gustav Klimt
Opening: Fri 15 Jun, 5 pm
Exhibition: 15 – 24 Jun 2012
National Library
31 Tràng Thi, Hanoi
“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) can be seen all over Hanoi on canvases, lacquer plates and boxes, coffee mugs….. Klimt embodies the beauty, seductiveness and boldness of “Art Nouveau”, the revolutionary art movement around 1900 in Europe like few other artists.
He lived in a time and a place of cultural path-breaking, together with fellow Viennese like Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, or Arnold Schönberg.
Painter of many “icons” – “The Kiss” is by no means the only iconic painting by Klimt. His many female portraits (depicting numerous ladies of the then Austrian high society), and female allegories form a narrative of the Vienna art nouveau era. These works depict a unique eroticism and psychological depth. His landscape paintings are of breathtaking beauty as well.
With an exhibition held on the occasion of Klimt’s 150th birthday and the 40th anniversary of Austria-Vietnam relations, the National Library of Vietnam and the Austrian Embassy want to present this Austrian, Viennese artist and his times to the public in Hanoi.
Noi Hanoi with the Theme of “Shades”
Sun 17 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Tadioto
12 Truong Han Sieu, Hanoi
Even in the hottest summer sun, Hanoi is a city of shades. In the shadows of its narrow streets or under its leafing flame trees, dark corners persist. Nothing is certain, moments are ambiguous, and everything takes on shades of gray. On Sunday, June 17, the monthly spoken word series Noi Hanoi brings together Vietnamese and foreign writers to explore this theme of “shades” and its various implications: bóng đen (black shadow), bóng dáng (appearance), and sắc thái (nuance). Please join us for an evening of poetry, stories, multimedia and spoken word. The night will also include an open mic and audience participation.
Admission is free.
Concert with Michelle & Musbaba
Sat 16 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
“Michelle & Musbaba” will be performing at the Hanoi Social Club this coming Saturday, June 16th. Be ready for another electrifying concert, this time in an intimate setting that will be recorded live (audio and video). This concert will give you a taste of what to expect in their soon-to-be released in-studio EP.
The concert will be Americana Roots Music (folk, blues, and soul), accompanied by traditional Malian percussion. Strong melodic waves, pulsing rhythms, and powerful vocals.
Ticket price: 65,000VND at the door. Doors open at 8pm but make sure to arrive early due to limited seating.
Concert with Trio Aurora
Wed 20 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Goethe Institut Vietnam
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
The Trio Aurora consisting of three former students of the Music Academy Vietnam inspired the audience in Hanoi and Haiphong already in 2011. This year, we sincerely invite you again to a concert of the Trio Aurora at the Goethe-Institute Hanoi. Nguyen My Huong (violin), Nguyen Hong Anh (cello) and Tran Thai Linh (piano) will play works of Schumann, Halvorsen, Beethoven and Piazzolla.
Program
Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856):
“Abegg” Variation – Solo piano, F major, op.1
Johan Halvorsen(1864 – 1935):
“Passacaglia” – Duo for violin & cello
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827):
“Ghost” – for piano, violin and cello in D major, op.70, No 1
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Largo assai ed espressivo
III. Presto
Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992) :
“La muerte del Angel”
About Trio Aurora
Nguyen Hong Anh studied cello from 1995 to 2004 at the Music Academy in Vietnam. In 1999, 2000 and 2004 she was a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and went on many concert tours to countries all around the world. In 2005 she played in the CISMA Orchestra in Quang Dong (China). 2009-2010 she studied at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. She now teaches at the Vietnam National Music Academy and is first cellist in the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nguyen My Huong studied violin at the Music Academy of Vietnam from 1992 to 2005. She then studied at the University of Music and Drama in Graz. In 1999, 2000 and 2006 she was a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and the PMF orchestra and thus took part in many concert tours including to Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia and USA. My Huong is now a lecturer at the Academy of Music and plays often in the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tran Thai Linh completed his piano studies at the Vietnam Academy of Music in 2006 and did his master’s degree under the guidance of Prof. Tran Thu Ha (Vietnam Academy of Music) and Prof. Max Olding (Queensland University, Australia). Thai Linh won the Second Prize at the International Piano Competition A.S.K.M Gold Coast VI.
Free admission.
Symphony Concert with Conductor Christian Schumann
Thu 28 Jun 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the concert with Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra – Vietnam National Academy of Music under the conduct of the German conductor Christian Schumann. For more information, see below:
Program
Do Hong Quan (1956*) | Rhapsody “Viet Nam”
Carl Maria Von Weber (1786 – 1826) | Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat major, Op.74
Performed for the 1st time in Vietnam
Allegro
Andante con moto
Alla polacca
Pause
Antonin Dvorak (1841 – 1904) | Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op.95: “From the New World”
Adagio—Allegro molto
Largo
Molto Vivace
Allegro con fuoco
Christian Schumann
Christian Schumann was born in Freiburg to Hungarian parents and had his first piano lessons at the age of six. While still a schoolboy, he was accepted for preparatory classes in piano, conducting and music theory at the Freiburg Conservatory. After completing high school, he began his studies in conducting and composition at the Franz Liszt Conservatory, graduating in 2007.
At 27 years of age, Christian Schumann is considered one of Germany’s young shooting stars. Immediately upon completing his studies he obtained a position at Theater St. Gallen, and he debuted in March of this year at the Bavarian State Opera. In addition he has already led such internationally renowned orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra und the Philharmonia Orchestra London. In Vietnam he is appearing for the third time as guest conductor with the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra of the Vietnam National Academy of Music.
Nguyen Quoc Bao
Nguyen Quoc Bao started his clarinet study at the music conservatories of Hanoi under the guidance of his father, Prof. Nguyen Lam, at age of 10. With the support of Prof. Vu Thach he obtained a scholarship by the Conservatoire of Moscow in 1984. He continued his studies at the Tchaikovsky Music Conservatory and completed it under the supervision of Prof. Lev Mikhailov (1936 – 2003) in 1994. Quoc Bao performed in many cities around the world: Hanoi, Hochiminh City, Russia, France, USA, Japan and Sweden. Today, he works as a lecturer at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and plays the First Clarinet in the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra – Vietnam National Academy of Music
The Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the best orchestras in Vietnam. At present, the Orchestra comprises of professors, lecturers and good students of Vietnam National Academy of Music. Many musicians graduated from many well-known international music conservatories: National Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky (Russia), National Conservatory N. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg (Russia). The Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra performs annually with foreign guest conductors. Every year, the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra plays several concerts not only in the capital Hanoi, but also in different provinces and cities such as Quang Ninh, Haiphong, Hue, HCMC.
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Performance of “The Soul of Vietnam”
15 and 23 every month in 2012, 5 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Sơn Square, District 1, HCMC
Tel: 08 38299976
“Hồn Việt- The Soul of Vietnam” promises to introduce the Vietnamese culture to foreigners and let them experience the best of Vietnam’s culture.
With more than 60 performers, the program includes different types of performing art such as cai luong, hat xam, royal singing, circus, traditional martial art in 60 minutes. The program comprises of 3 parts: the story about Hai Ba Trung, introduction about the life of the rural area, traditional games of 3 regions of Vietnam and HCMC’s culture.
Tickets
Ticket price: 300 0000, 180 000 and 100 000 VND.
For more information, contact:
Mekong Performance Company LTD
Address: 8A/ 9C1 Thai Van Lung, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC
Tel: 08 222 99 414
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