Pool party “Live by the ‘Pull’ Ver. 2.0″ in Hanoi

Fri 26 Jun 2015, 5 – 10 pm

Swimming Pool, 2nd floor

Pullman Hanoi Hotel

40 Cat Linh Str, Hanoi

To celebrate annually World Music Night, come to a summer pool party with the lively Caribbean & Latin music performed by DJ Phil-Good. The party is taken place at the hotel’s out-door swimming pool where music-lovers can enjoy the charming Hanoi view while listening to the music. A selection of delightful summer canapé is also prepared to fulfill the guests’ appetite.

Live By The ‘Pull’ ver. 2.0 is a continuation of the successful Live by the ‘Pull’ 2014 – a harmonious fusion of African and Vietnamese music concert, which attracted nearly a hundred of audiences.

The party offers free admission.

To join the party, contact: Tel: 04 3733 0688 ext 42315; Email: h7579-fb3@accor.com.

Photo Exhibition “Another Expedition” by Pipo Nguyen Duy

Exhibition: 24 Jun – 19 Jul 2015

Institut Français de Hue

 01 Le Hong Phong, Hue

Composed of about 600 cyanotype prints (monochrome photographic technique), “Another Expedition” exhibition brings together various botanical and geological specimens from the famous Monet’s gardens at Giverny.

Pipo Nguyen Duy patiently collected his samples, exposed them to different lights depending on the time of day and then assembled different prints in a composition that reminds us of the lilies of Claude Monet, the garden’s owner.

About Pipo Nguyen Duy:

Pipo Nguyen Duy was born in Hue, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States in 1975. He earned a Master of Arts in Photography, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is now Professor of Art at Oberlin College.

Pipo has received many awards and grants including an En Foco Grant; a Professional Development Grant from the College Arts Association; an American Photography Institute’s National Graduate Fellowship, NYC; a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in Salem, Oregon; a B. Wade and Jane B. White Fellowship in the Humanities at Oberlin College; and three Individual Artists Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio. He participated as an artist-in-residence at Monet’s Garden through The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship and also at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. He participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2004.

(Introduction from San Art & Galerie Quynh)

Read more information on artist’s website.

Pipo Nguyen Duy used to give an art talk at Galerie Quynh, organized by San Art, in 2012.

“Another Expedition” is also in showcase in Hanoi until 19 Jul 2015.

Free entrance.

Event “Swap Shop and Style Exchange” for fashionistas in Hanoi

Fri 26 Jun 2015, 5 – 8 pm

The London College for Design and Fashion Hanoi

No. 98 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

All fashionistas in Hanoi: You are invited to the event “Swap Shop and Style Exchange”!

How does it work?

Step 1: De-clutter your wardrobe

Reassess your wardrobe try everything on and place them in ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ piles, look at yourself in a long mirror and ask yourself:

1. Does it flatter my body?

2. Did I feel good the last time I wore this?

3. Can I remember the last time I wore this?

If you answer “No” to any of these questions, then wash, iron and bring your unwanted clothing the day before the event and exchange your items for Swap Shop tokens.

Step 2: Each person must bring a minimum of 5 items to our fashion swap shop in exchange for tokens.

Step 3: Clothing will be separated into garment styles: skirts, trousers, jeans, jackets… etc.

Step 4: When the Swap Shop opens you can exchange your tokens for new garments and update your style.

Step 5: Any clothes left over will be donated to charities ‘New clothes for a academic year’.

For more information please contact: 04 3719 9706.

Get Ready for the Fourth Viet Pride in Hanoi

Viet Pride 2015: 31 Jul – 02 Aug 2015

Hanoi

Into its fourth year, Viet Pride, a celebration of LGBT communities and diversity in Vietnam, is continuing the momentum and strengthening LGBT activism. A series of events scheduled for the first weekend of August (July 31 – August 02) in the capital city of Hanoi, the theme of 2015’s Viet Pride is “We are Queer. We are Here”.

In 2012, Viet Pride debuted with a kick-start event at Goethe Institut on August 03 followed by indoor activities such as film screenings, research presentations, and a bicycle rally on August 05 that attracted approximately 200 people riding to support the LGBT cause. Together with the rising LGBT movement in Vietnam and around the world, Viet Pride grew and expanded, now taking place in 17 cities and provinces in Vietnam, attracting around 700 bikers last year in Hanoi, and was reported on many mainstream media channels.

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

Viet Pride 2015 is proud to receive strong encouragement from the LGBT community in Vietnam, tremendous support from Civil Rights Defenders, Goethe Institut, US Embassy, Dutch Embassy, and welcomes the participation of many formal and grassroots groups/organisations including PFLAG, Save the Children, The American Club, 6+, Amazin Lethi Foundation, Echoes’ LGBT Soundwalk, Hanoi Panic, and Queer Disco. Organisations and grassroots communities interested in joining Viet Pride are also welcome to contact the organising committee.

Full program and information will be released on July 22 – stay tuned!

Exhibition Series “In – Out” by Young Artist Club in Hanoi

Opening: Fri 26 Jun 2015, 5 pm

Conference: Thu 09 Jul 2015, 9 am

Exhibition: 26 Jun – 09 Jul 2015

2nd floor, Exhibition House, 16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

Exhibition series “IN-OUT” is an annual activity of Young Artist Club, under the auspices of Vietnam Fine Arts Association. With the participation of nearly 30 young artists divided into 6 continuous exhibitions in 12 days including: 2 sculpture group exhibitions, 1 lacquer group exhibition, 1 portrait group exhibition, 1 solo oil painting exhibition and 1 solo installation exhibition.

Schedule

Sculpture Group 1: 26, 27, 28 Jun 2015

Tran Manh Cuong, Pham Van Hoang, Luyen Van Ket, Ngo Hong Giang, Do Ngoc Quan, Trinh Van Thang, Hoang Van Dung

Lacquer Group: 29, 30 Jun 2015

Nguyen Duc Dan, Nguyen Xuan Luc, Trinh Que Anh, Nguyen Huu Thong, Pham Tra My

Solo exhibition with oil paintings: 01, 02 Jul 2015

Portrait group: 03, 04 Jul 2015

Nguyen Thanh, Le Truong Quang, Nguyen Hoang Viet, Nguyen Khac Han, Ngoc Thuan, Tran Quoc Long

Solo installation exhibition: 05, 06 Jul 2015

Sculpture Group 2: 07 and 08 Jul 2015

Dao Thang, Pham Van Quy, Hoang Van Minh, Nguyen Van Luan, Dao Dinh Tan, Nguyen Huu Dat, Tran Van Minh, Ha Van Minh

Exhibition “One Country” at Craig Thomas Gallery

Opening: Fri 26 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 26 Jun – 25 Jul 2015

Craig Thomas Gallery

27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, Q.1, HCMC

Come to “One Country”, a group exhibition featuring works from fifteen Vietnamese young and mid-career visual artists.

Vietnam’s three most prominent fine arts academies are located in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City respectively. Aspiring artists tend to gravitate to the institution that is nearest to their hometown and to continue there career in one of the three cities after their graduation. The result is a trifurcated Vietnamese national art scene which arguably leads to a sum that is less than the whole of its parts.

Beginning in 2011, the organizer began introducing a mix of young Hanoi artists into our regular program of exhibitions. Aspiring to contribute to the creation of a single Vietnamese art scene, we will now be integrating Hue-based artists into our program over the coming months and years. The “One Country” collection – featuring works from artists based in all three centers – is the beginning of that process.

Exhibition “Manequins’s Life” by Nguyen Khac Chinh

Opening: Tue 30 Jun 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 30 Jun – 09 Jul 2015

Artist talk: Sun 05 Jul 2015, 2 pm

HCMC Fine Arts Museum

97A Pho Duc Chinh, Dist 1, HCMC

Solo exhibition “Cuộc Sống Của Ma-Nơ-Canh – Manequins’s Life” of Nguyen Khac Chinh – the second time – in showcase at the Ho Chi Minh Fine Art Museum, with 23 completed paintings in 5 years: from 2011 to 2015.

Nguyen Khac Chinh chose arts as a means to express his thoughts, feelings and reflections on life.

The series are a manifestation of personal narratives. If you look at them thoroughly enough, you will feel the artist’s ambition and desire expressed through the symbols that he wants to develop into some kind of styles. He is ambitious to embrace all of those universal faces out there in the life that he’s living in, especially those of the young generations. He paints what he feels by creating multiple unreal faces, all of them alike as empty shells with no sensitivity or emotions. Abstinence and control happen continuously on a figure or a group of figures depicted with skepticism, frustrating viewers in a hard to describe way. And it works!

On the other hand, there is a clear desire to get his message across and remind each viewer to stop and look back at their own life, to see whether they have been living it mostly with their true feelings and emotions or mostly like mannequins in this “plastic” era. This even opens up a broader message, that men are being ‘mannequin-ized’ and human qualities are being transformed in human technologies, which in turn are penetrating deeply into how behaviors towards traditions are evolving…

The series “Life of Mannequins” consists of several different topics (e.g. “Looking for the real face”, “Gossips”, “ “Working in office”…), but throughout the series, there is a consistent hidden underlying idea behind each painting: the state of being lonely in this modern life. Is it because of the human race towards wealth or fame that people have to be reactive in every moment in life and thus have to wear different faces? The Internet, Facebook, and other connection devices born as gifts of high technology, are in fact disconnecting people from other real human beings living right next to them. Everybody claims that no one understands him, but does he really understand himself? People are lonely in this very crowded life. Not with sarcasm or criticism, Chinh simply wants to reflect genuinely the nature of human psychology through his paintings.

Figures of girls in traditional outfits and with monotonic actions lure viewers into mysterious ancient spaces, but here and there signals of a modern life can still be found as the reminders of reality (e.g. an iPhone, a laptop, or a glass of wine). Do they co-exist, or conflict with each other? It’s not to be known. But if you look at the paintings long enough, you will see loneliness hidden from all those tiredness and anxiety. Loneliness emerges as a co-product of all those states of being. Chinh uses oil paint with hot and deep colors and smooth surfaces, together with some reasonable decorative details, which are typical strengths of silk painting. With his proficient technical skills, such intentional misuse of materials is in fact quite exciting and compelling, making this series unique.

Nguyen Khac Chinh’s paintings bring us back to ourselves and urge us to look into things deliberately and slowly and not to be distracted. Peace in mind will then come. Mannequins are fake human beings. Leave them and get back to who you are.

In short, this is a very unique, oriental series of painting, yet very modern and full of compassion.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Live Performance

Tue 23 Jun 2015, 7 pm

Cargo Bar

7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D.4, HCMC

Thao Nguyen is the leading Indie artist in the United States from Vietnamese heritage. She is riding a wave of success in the US and is very excited to visiting the homeland of her parents for the first time, headlining the ASEAN Pride Festival and playing her first gig in Saigon.

Thao’s music is infectious and immediately catchy. We hope that the young, aspirational Vietnamese community will get behind one of their own and show her a great welcome home.

Tickets

Advance from ticketbox.vn: 200,000 VND / 100,000 VND (student ID)

At Door: 350,000 VND/ 250,000 VND (student ID)

Concert “Piano Magic” with Compositions by World-Class Composers

Sat 27 Jun 2015, 7 pm

81 Tran Quoc Thao Str., 3 District, HCMC

Have you ever lost yourself to the charming sound of piano…

from the fantasy movements of Schumann, Beethoven to the pure sonata of Mozart,

from some impressive touches of the Raven’s suite to the Glinka’s nocturne,

from Poland, Spain, Italian… to Vietnam with folk dance…

We collected here the pieces which show their enchantment in both content and performances.

Tickets: by donation

Painting Exhibition “Beginnings” by pre-teen painters

Lebon Cafe, Vietnam National Museum of History

1 Pham Ngu Lao street, Hanoi

The children’s painting exhibition “Beginnings” will feature the first paintings of four preteens who love to paint: Ngo Tan Kiet, Ngo Minh Chau, Nguyen Ha Nhu, Luong Hoang Mai to raise funds for mountainous poor children. After seeing the photos and meeting these children, they were extremely excited to partly help them together with their parents and the staff of Cafe Lebon. All the proceeds will be contributed to the charity funds to build schools and houses for children with the message: “JOIN HANDS TOGETHER TO HELP MOUNTAINOUS CHILDREN”.

Open Studio: “Souvenirs d’ Indochine” by self-taught artist Nguyen Hoang Giang

Opening: Fri 26 Jun 2015, 7 pm

Artist talk: Sat 04 Jul 2015, 4 pm

Exhibition: 26 Jun – 07 Jul 2015

Nha San Collective

2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi

Nha San Collective proudly presents the Open studio session by young artist Nguyen Hoang Giang.

This exhibition showcases Nguyen Hoang Giang (author of the project “The Blackhole”)’s 2 new practices with photography. The first work, “Souvenirs d’ Indochine”, is created from Giang’s interest in damaged portraits from his family’s photo album. Giang had these portraits restored by different photo labs. The results of this process become raw materials for his experiments during this open studio. The paint-by-number “DIY war”, on the other hand, invites the audience to reflect about the war between the U.S and Vietnam (or the civil war between the 2 Vietnamese governments?)

Born in 1989, Nguyen Hoang Giang is one of the most promising Hanoian artists today. Although trained in the Italian language, Hoang Giang decided to follow his passion for art and creativity, and now works as a self-taught illustrator, graphic designer, photographer and artist.

Hoang Giang first caught the attention of the local art community in 2013 when he participated in the group shows ‘Autopsy of Days’ (Goethe Institut, Hanoi). Subsequently he was picked by Nha San Collective as one of the three most gifted young artists to join their education workshop and exhibition ‘De/constructing Memories’ (Nha San Collective, Hanoi). Hoang Giang went on to exhibit at the ‘Hanoi Open Exhibition’ (Workroom4, Hanoi) and the “100 video artists to tell a century” project (Italy) and FEST 2014 (Portugal).

Since 2014, Hoang Giang has started to work on a long-term community-based project entitled “The Black Hole”. This project invites people to anonymously confess their secrets, which the artist then illustrates and shares them with the public. Because of the controversial contents and nature of the project, “The Black Hole” receives mixed reactions by the public. Recently it becomes a major hotly-debated topic on both online and offline publications when Hoang Giang initiated a crowd-funding project to help raise money to publish “The Black Hole” in the form of an artist book.

Film Screening “Jean de la Lune” by Stephan Schesch

Sun 28 Jun 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of the French animation “Moon Man” (“Jean de la Lune”) (Germany, France, Ireland, 2013, 95 mins) directed by Stephan Schesch.

Based on the much loved best-selling children’s book by Tomi Ungerer, “Moon Man” invented a small astral hero who descends on the earth to save human from a dictator.

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.

Film screening and Discussion about Climate Change “The Light at the end of the Tunnel”

Sat 27 Jun 2015, 2 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “The Light at the end of the Tunnel” and discussion about climate change with the participation of the youth and organizations.

Speaker: Dr. Dao Trong Tu, director of Center for Sustainable Development of Water Resources and Adaptation to Climate Change (CEWAREC) – Vietnam.

How to talk about climate change in a context that energy issue keeps coming? The film screening “Story of energy”, produced by The International Institute for Sustainable Development and Live and Learn Association, will open the discussion: what is the future of the earth? How to find appropriate solutions?

Language: Vietnamese

Free entrance.

Film Screening “Les Gazelles”

Fri 26 Jun 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Les Gazelles” (France, 2014, 99 mins) directed by Mona Achache.

Beyond a mere comedy for girls, Les Gazelles also shows that nothing is simple for men.

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.

Film Screening “Y/Our Music” by David Reeve and Waraluck Hiransrettawat Every

Thu 25 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Charlot Hall, 2nd floor

Hoa Sen University

8 Dinh Van Trang Str, Dist 1, HCMC

ASEAN Music Festival 2015 also features the debut of sounds by southeast (sxse) – The Onion Cellar & Vanity Vietnam’s co-rated series of southeast asian music documentaries. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, sxse’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society: Yangon’s underground punk-rockers (in Yangon Calling), the last haranistas of the Philippines (Harana), practitioners of traditional Thai music (Y/our Music), and Vietnamese left-field pathfinders (the Vietnam films of Vincent Moon).

Y/OUR MUSIC (82 min / Thailand / 2014)

Directed by David Reeve & Waraluck Hiransrettawat Every

Y/OUR MUSIC immerses itself in the world of Thai musical expressions, from traditional music to labor songs and classical pop to urban indie music, spanning different locales and generations.

As nine musicians display their musical expression, the rural or urban environments that influenced their sound are also explored. The hands that play traditional instruments amid the red dust clouds, the work songs being hummed in front of grains awaiting harvest, and the indie music born out of concrete basements – all create a melodious ecosystem, captured in a sensory journey from the noisy polluted streets of Bangkok to the calm, arid fields of Isan (the country’s northeastern region bordering Laos and Cambodia).

While inhabiting different worlds, the musicians are linked by the same passion to bring their artistic aspirations to the fore and survive outside the pop mainstream.

Screening schedule

22.6 harana – philippines

23.6 the vietnam films of vincent moon – vietnam (obviously)

24.6 yangon calling – myanmar

25.6 y/our music – thailand

Entry by donation (on the door)

“Encounter” presents lectures by urbanist Marco Kusumawijaya

Lecture “Community as an alternative way of life towards ecological sustainability”: Tue 23 Jun 2015, 6.30 pm

Lecture “Arts and community: What next?”: Thu 25 Jun 2015, 6.30 pm

Room Marie Curie (6F), Hoa Sen University

8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist 1, HCMC

 ‘Encounter’ presents Marco Kusumawijaya with two lectures on Tuesday, 23 June and Thursday, 25 June 2015. Marco Kusumawijaya is an architect and urbanist. He studied at Parahyangan University in Bandung (Indonesia), and at the University of Leuven, in Leuven (Belgium).

Lecture “Community as an alternative way of life towards ecological sustainability”

Can community be a viable alternative way of life, economy and desire?

A community is where certain commons are truly shared. Its advantage is in providing bounds that can be immediately and concretely felt by the individual and sensed by the state. But modern states and economies treat people as individual citizens and consumers: they call forth the modern idea of individual freedom, through a critique of the oppressive traditional communities.

Nowadays that ecological consciousness – of limited resources and other species – is rising, it brings about the awareness and necessity of bounds. Can it lead to real changes towards sustainability? This lecture will argue the emerging value of community in the context of urbanized environments, particularly in developing Southeast Asian countries.

Lecture “Arts and community: What next?”

Communities provide materials, inspirations, reasons and worthy audience. Over the last few decades, from rural to urban contexts, artistic experiments with communities have been intensifying and spreading. The artists’ engagement in a community can be as simple as serving the community members.

Environmental concerns are often important reasons for artists’ interaction in the community. How can we evaluate these concerns, and what lessons are to be learned for the future, aesthetically, ethically and politically? How are they related to the idea of community? This lecture will present various successful projects initiated by artists, collectors, art spaces and cultural workers to inspire and to get inspired with the living community.

Entrance is free. English-Vietnamese translation will be provided.

Film Screening “Harana” by Benito Bautista

Film Screening “Yangon Calling”

Wed 24 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Charlot Hall, 2nd floor

Hoa Sen University

8 Dinh Van Trang Str, Dist 1, HCMC

ASEAN Music Festival 2015 also features the debut of sounds by southeast (sxse) – The Onion Cellar & Vanity Vietnam’s co-rated series of southeast asian music documentaries. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, sxse’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society: Yangon’s underground punk-rockers (in Yangon Calling), the last haranistas of the Philippines (Harana), practitioners of traditional Thai music (Y/our Music), and Vietnamese left-field pathfinders (the Vietnam films of Vincent Moon).

YANGON CALLING (61 min/Myanmar/Germany/2013)

Directed by Alexander Dluzak and Carsten Piefke

In the 90’s, sailors brought the first punk rock cassettes into Myanmar. Since then a scene with several hundred followers has emerged in Yangon.

The film YANGON CALLING introduces the main protagonists of the punk rock scene and shows their life in Myanmar’s underground. During six weeks, the filmmakers Alexander Dluzak and Carsten Piefke filmed secretly and without authorization in Yangon, using small cameras. They accompanied the punks to their homes and met their friends and families. They went along with them to work in the tailor shop and tattoo studio, to rehearsal rooms and secret illegal concerts. They spoke with punks who had sat in jail during the military dictatorship and saw them fight their frustration with heroin.

YANGON CALLING is a film about life in an authoritarian state, about personal tragedy and the struggle for freedom in a country where punk is still true rebellion.

Screening schedule

22.6 harana – philippines

23.6 the vietnam films of vincent moon – vietnam (obviously)

24.6 yangon calling – myanmar

25.6 y/our music – thailand

Entry by donation (on the door)

Mon 22 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Charlot Hall, 2nd floor

Hoa Sen University

8 Dinh Van Trang Str, Dist 1, HCMC

ASEAN Music Festival 2015 also features the debut of sounds by southeast (sxse) – The Onion Cellar & Vanity Vietnam’s co-rated series of southeast asian music documentaries. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, sxse’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society: Yangon’s underground punk-rockers (in Yangon Calling), the last haranistas of the Philippines (Harana), practitioners of traditional Thai music (Y/our Music), and Vietnamese left-field pathfinders (the Vietnam films of Vincent Moon).

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?”

Screening schedule

22.6 harana – philippines

23.6 the vietnam films of vincent moon – vietnam (obviously)

24.6 yangon calling – myanmar

25.6 y/our music – thailand

Entry by donation (on the door)

Screening of The Vietnam Films by Vincent Moon

Tue 23 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Charlot Hall, 2nd floor

Hoa Sen University

8 Dinh Van Trang Str, Dist 1, HCMC

From Vanity Production Vietnam and The Onion Cellar:

ASEAN Music Festival 2015 also features the debut of sounds by southeast (sxse) – The Onion Cellar & Vanity Vietnam’s co-rated series of southeast asian music documentaries. Consisting of 3 feature films and a special showcase of shorts, sxse’s first installment celebrates musicians operating on the fringe of society: Yangon’s underground punk-rockers (in Yangon Calling), the last haranistas of the Philippines (Harana), practitioners of traditional Thai music (Y/our Music), and Vietnamese left-field pathfinders (the Vietnam films of Vincent Moon).

“Vietnam was a mystery. Known in the foreigner’s eyes for other aspects than music forms, my first knowledge of it was through some rare tribal recordings of the northern and central mountains, and not much more than that. I didn’t expect to encounter trance rituals, highly syncretic religions, experimental noise-music and funeral music at every corner, all this over one month travel from south to north. After spending some time in the Mekong Delta and in near-by Tay Ninh for a Cao Dai ceremony, we went north – to the northern mountains around Ha Giang, amongst tribes trying to maintaining an old way of celebrating their land, while in the same time opening up for very modern tourism. Back in Hanoi, the most fascinating megalopolis on this side of the world, we spent a few weeks between new electronic music, ancient trance rituals, funeral ceremonies… All this through the noise of the crowd, motos, screens and speakers. The constant sound of the globalized civilization. Vietnam kept a mystery, all through this travel. Those 6 films are not trying to uncover it by any means – more to unfold them in a new direction, like drawing hypothesis on the meaning of hand movements.”

Screening schedule

22.6 harana – philippines

23.6 the vietnam films of vincent moon – vietnam (obviously)

24.6 yangon calling – myanmar

25.6 y/our music – thailand

Entry by donation (on the door)

Film Screening “Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de sa Majesté”

Sun 21 Jun 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de sa Majesté” (Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia) (France, 2012, 109 mins) directed by Laurent Tirard.

A well-crafted script, an amazing cast and chiseled dialogues make this fourth Asterix’s adventure a success on the big screen – La Croix

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.

“Always Be Summer” – An Oboe Music Night For Hanoi at Manzi

Sun 21 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Manzi is pleased to bring you a lovely oboe concert entitled ‘Always Be Summer’ featuring Oboist Nguyen Hoang Tung and other outstanding musicians from the Vietnam National Academy of Music, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, and the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet.

Famous pieces by Charle Henry/Andre’ Sablon, J.B. Lully, Mozart, Glinka, Marcello, Schuman, Aston Piazzola, Telemann, Francios Couperin, Gaetano Donizetti and Đỗ Kiên Cường will be performed at the concert.

Participating Artists:

– Oboe: Nguyễn Hoàng Tùng, Ngô Phương Đông, Nguyễn Mạnh Trí, Hoàng Minh Phương, Phan Việt Cường, Đỗ Kiên Cường, Hoàng Mạnh Lâm, Nguyễn Minh Ngọc, Aurelie, Nguyễn Xuân Sơn, Sitthi Sỏn, Hoàng Đình Cương, Lê Anh Ba, Vũ Tuấn Anh, Nguyễn Tiến Dũng.

– Piano: Vân Cơ, Ngọc Linh

– Cello: Hà Miên

Surcharge at door: 200,000 VND/person (incl. one free drink)

Due to limited seating capacity, please pre-register via manzihanoi@gmail.com before 8PM, Friday, 19 June 2015.

Video Night at Hanoi Social Club in June – Vietnamese Award-wining Shorts

Sun 21 Jun 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

Have a relax Sunday night with Video Club. We will be showing Vietnamese award-wining shorts. This will also be a night for socializing with other people with same interests of watching movies or making films. This time, we will be gladly welcoming Film Addicts Production, who will share their knowledge, experience in movie-making, and script-writing. At the end of the night, feel free to share your own videos.

Please come a bit early to order your drink on the first floor, before getting your favorite seat on the second floor.

Note: This event will be run mostly in Vietnamese.

Free entrance.

Exhibition “Amazing, Such a Harmony” by Eric Toebosch at Heritage Space

Opening: Sat 20 Jun 2015, 6.30 pm

Exhibition: 20 – 30 Jun 2015

Heritage Space

Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi

You are invited to the exhibition “Amazing, Such a Harmony” by Dutch painter Eric Toebosch. This is the first time one of the famous Dutch painters introduces his latest works in Vietnam.

The exhibition will feature 30 paintings on synthetic materials and more than ten pottery works created recently in Bat Trang pottery village.

About the painter:

Eric Toebosch was born in 1949 in Netherlands. For nearly 30 years, Eric Toebosch has been pursuing his art adventure tirelessly. From his hometown – Netherlands, Eric has traveled all over the world – from Bali to East America, Egypt to Africa, searching for “humanity” value of his artworks. “Humanity” is a reunion, a harmony between identities of each ethnic group, religion and belief. This is the most important principle that Eric sets for himself during his journey. He collected the typical images, symbols and motifs of each region he visited, then selects and produces a particular aesthetic.

Exhibition “Tran Van Can with Watercolor Sketches”

Opening: Fri 19 Jun 2015, 5 pm

Exhibition: 19 – 30 Jun 2015

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition of 83 selected watercolor sketches by artist Tran Van Can in the museum’s collection over several years at Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.

The exhibition will feature his watercolor artworks created during 50s-60s-70s on multiple topics such as wartime, landscape, daily life, portraits, etc… For the first time, his watercolor sketches would be exhibited independently and bring useful lessons.