Terracotta Sculpture Exhibition “The Life”

Exhibition: 25 Jun – 02 Jul 2014

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

From the organizer:

You are invited to the terracotta sculpture exhibition “The Life” by artist Vu Huu Nhung.

Screening of Documentary “5 Broken Cameras”

Sun 29 Jun 2014, 6 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Hanoi DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening of the “5 Broken Cameras” by Emad Burnat và Guy Davidi. The film won a 2012 Sundance Film Festivalaward, Golden Apricot at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film, and was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award.

Duration: 90 minutes.

Language: The film is in Palestinian with English and Vietnamese subtitle.

“An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. “I feel like the camera protects me,” he says, “but it’s an illusion.”

Free Entrance.

The screening is non-profit and aims for research and studies only.

Positive Mass in June

Fri 27 Jun 2014, 8 pm

St Joseph Cathedral

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

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

This month Đạp cho sướng – Positive Mass will be hold at 8:00 pm on Friday, 27 th of June.

Southern Groove #2 with NIC FORD and HIBIYA LINE

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

SATURDAY JUNE 28 – get ready for some sounds from the South as NIC FORD [DEEP BOOTH RECORDS] and HIBIYA LINE [The Observatory] return for their second bi-monthly.

Dan Bi Mong a.k.a HIBIYA LINE has been invited to bring a sample of what’s happening there up with him to Hanoi every two months.

For the second show, he’ll be making the trip with NIC FORD, a name that is resonating beyond his current Saigon base, as he is releasing music on respected European record labels such as Third Ear records (London), as a solo artist for Deep Booth records (Italy), and he has recently launched his own vinyl only record label “Shift Coordinate Points” for his productions as MadderModes.

These two DJs have plenty of experience working together to drive parties in Saigon wild with their fusion of house, techno, disco, afrobeat & more – and they are very much looking forward to delivering that explosive audio cocktail to you all during this visit to Hanoi.

So – get down to dance and celebrate the start of a very exciting tale of two cities!

Entrance: 50k

Book Signing “Hanoi Promenade”

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 5 – 7 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Martin Rama will be at Manzi to meet friends, and anyone who loves Hanoi, and to sign copies of the book Hanoi Promenade. There will also be copies of the Vietnamese version of the book for sale. Please join for a cup of tea, or a drink, and a chat.

Contemporary Art Workshop with Tran Luong – Part 2

Sun 29 Jun 2014, 6 – 9 pm

Nha San Collective

462 Duong Buoi Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the workshop series with artist/curator Tran Luong. The 2nd workshop is entitled: From an idea/inspiration towards a particular work…

The program will be conducted in Vietnamese, for more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Exhibition “More Graphic, Less Limit”

Opening: Sun 29 Jun 2014, 4 pm

Exhibition: 29 Jun – 10 Jul 2014

New Space Arts Foundation

2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City

You are invited to the art exhibition “More Graphic, less limit” by artists of the 2nd Hue Printmaking Workshop 2014 who come from HANOI- HCMC- HUE- DANANG- QUANG NAM- PHU YEN- QUYNHON $ THAILAND.

Screening of “For us and June”

Fri 27 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

At 7.30p.m. on Friday 27th June 2014, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film For us and June (director Nguyen Huu Tuan).

Different from other non-profit screenings on Saturday afternoon, the program Friday with Vietnam Cinema is a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future.

About For us and June!

Year: 2012

Director: Tuan Nguyen Huu

Cast: Trung Do Quoc, Tu Tran Thien, Huynh Anh

Genre: Romance / Sport

Runtime: 81 min

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Synopsis: A group of close friends – Kien, Hoang and Minh – shares the passion for basketball. However, they are about to miss their biggest game of high-school time when Kien quit and left after Minh has rejected his love. Hoang, his best friend, decides to search for him, accompanied by Minh. Can they eventually make it to the game?

The film was screened at Hầm Hành in early June and was applauded by the audience.

Entry: 20k (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)

Photo Contest “Story of the Train Station”

Deadline: 15 Jul 2014

You are invited to submit your works for the photo contest “Story of the Train Station”. The program is seeking professional and amateur photographers of Vietnamese nationality who are between 18 – 35 years of age.

For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Exhibition “54″ by Sebastien Laval and Le Vuong

Opening: Thu 26 Jun 2014, 11 am

Exhibition: 25 Jun – 06 Jul 2014

The Senat, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France

Art Vietnam Gallery

Lane 66, Number 2, Yen Lac Street Hanoi, Vietnam (Open by appointment only)

Sebastien Laval, a young photographer from France first came to Vietnam in 1995. Entranced by the people and landscape, he has devoted the last 18 years to documenting the lives of the 54 ethnic minorities and the life and landscape of this enigmatic land. Laval’s work along with the highly respected veteran photographer from Hanoi, Le Vuong, will be exhibited at the Senat in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris from June 25 to July 6, 2014. This exhibition was mounted in December, 2013 in the Ho Chi Minh City Museum as part of the Vietnam France celebration of cultural activities in Vietnam and France.

Laval’s works in black and white reflect the energy and delight of a young photographer discovering an intriguing, exotic world. His easygoing nature attracts his subjects and he captures their natural easy grace with measured precision. From everyday activities to poetic landscapes, Laval’s photos portray the passion and beauty he discovers in the simplest of moments. 0ver 60 of Laval’s works of the 54 minorities were recently displayed suspended from the Truong Tien Bridge in the Hue Festival this May. French film maker Bertrand Edel and the Faut Pas Rever/Thalassa France TV 3 had made a film about Laval and his works. See the film below:

Veteran photographer Le Vuong has dedicated his entire life to taking photos of Vietnam. Now 95 years old, the Hanoian goes out on his bicycle early every morning, exploring the capital and capturing the ordinary as well as secret moments. He has traveled throughout the country tirelessly collecting an archive of precious memories of how life has been lived in a country that is rapidly transforming. Mainly working in color, his works depict ordinary life in the city and country that he loves. Le Vuong’s works have been exhibited in Europe, Asia and are displayed in the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi.

The exhibition will be formerly opened on June 26 at 11:00 by Jean Pierre Bel, President of the Senat, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris.

Music Night with Projectionist, Numbfoot! and Lark Minkous

Wed 25 Jun 2014, 9 pm

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu

You are invited to the music night with 3 bands: Projectionist, Numbfoot! and Lark Minkous.

Projectionist – Post-rock

Projectionist will continue their quest to make your minds melt with this motley medley of musicians: Stephen Hoang, Hanoi-favourite, much-loved for his various projects including MacheteSxMx, Zamina and Dream Machine, is leaving Hanoi very soon. This will be one of your last chances to see this beast in action. With Samuel Burno on drums and Guille Parsons on trumpet, expect a big sound that goes from loud to very loud, to a bit quiet and then really f-king loud. This is also your FIRST and LAST CHANCE to catch Projectionist playing live with the Canadian whirlwind Alex Formosa. He’s bringing his experience of the Montreal and Barcelona post-rock scenes into the Projectionist mix for one last show, before leaving to study a PHD in Music in Hong Kong on Thursday. So come and say goodbye, he will be sorely missed. All this will be complemented by a visual feast, courtesy of Mr Nikolaj Svennevig.

Numbfoot! – Psychedelic Blues

“Brooklyn original Brett Zweiman teams up with Hanoi favourites Dave Payne (Ngu Cung, Zamina, Gibbon Suburbia, etc.) and Ha Dinh Huy (basically everyone, ever) to bring you Hanoi’s newest trio and rad musical concontion: Numbfoot! They’ll be bringing groove laden psychedelic jams from around the globe!”

If you were lucky enough to catch them at ATK a couple of weeks back, you’ll know what to expect: a really exciting new group combining their formidable musicianship with high energy, pulsating grooves. Not to be missed!

Lark Minkous – Soundscape

Lark Minkous – A.K.A Dan Henneberry – has been thrilling Hanoi audiences for years with a variety of different projects. Lark Minkous is beautifully balanced, delicately built soundscapes using an array of musical equipment. Float into other worlds on his latest musical voyage.

Entry: By donation

Workshop on Critique of Nhasan Collective

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 9 am

Nha San Collective

462 Duong Buoi Str, Hanoi

We invite you to sign up for a workshop on critique with artist Phan Thảo Nguyên with the assistance of Nhung Walsh, who is now studying at School of Art Institute Chicago. Critiques are common in art schools around the world, but still are quite new in Vietnam. This workshop aims at introducing to artists the importance of the critique through practicing criticizing works with each artist.

Artists will have the chance to participate in introducing their works, finished or in progress, or recorded documentation of the work or performance. Any important material in the process of creating the work can be a topic for a critique.

In an hour, artists will analyze, qualify, criticize and provide suggestions for one another. This will help artists share their work with a group of professional art experts and understand more deeply about the work.

Number of participating artists: 5 Each has one session of 1 hour and 15 minutes

Unlimited audience.

Introduction to the book “Splitting your Legs, Waiting for Spring”

Fri 04 Jul 2014, 2.30 – 4.30 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

“Splitting your legs, waiting for Spring” is an anthology that features Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Vietnam. The 50 mini-stories included, of which each is below 500 words long, tell about how LGBT people feel in love, the pains of being discriminated against, and most noticeably the desires to be loved and treated with dignity. The anthology reveals untold stories about the uncovered corners to the LGBT community.

“This is a collection of unusual and special works, which would leave remarkable impressions on any readers. We are impressed with the great appreciation for diversity found in the stories. Everyone has the right to love who they want to love. We should stick together in this changing world. Under any circumstances should we give our partner the best gift of love.”

(Writer Le Minh Khue, Head of the Jury of the contest “The six color rainbow”)

The stories of “Splitting your legs, waiting for Spring” were thoroughly selected from the total 354 entries to the contest “The six color rainbow” organized in 2013. The Jury consisted of Writer Le Minh Khue, Writer/Blogger Trang Ha, Poet/Playwright Hoang Nhuan Cam, Literary Critic PhD Chu Van Son, PhD Ngo Van Gia and Communications manager of ICS Huynh Minh Thao.

Free entrance.

Collaboration Skill Workshop for Artists

Fri 27 Jun 2014, 6 – 8 pm

Nha San Collective

462 Duong Buoi Str, Hanoi

In this series of workshops organized by Nha San Collective, Nối Projects provides training sessions for artists to enhance their communication skills and gain knowledge of working collaboratively with different partners in an art project.

1. Behind the scene – Volume of works behind an exhibition.

2. What is curating and why in Vietnam, curation is called “giám tuyển”? Working in a collaborative environment with curators, art administrators, gallerists, museums, and other parties in an art project.

3. Self-promotion and communication skills for artists – What to do outside exhibitions?

Register via email: contact@nhasan.org.

Exhibition “No Regret for the past, no project on the future, there is only Today”

Opening: Sun 22 Jun 2014, 6.30 pm

Exhibition: 22 Jun – 12 Jul 2014

Zerostation

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

Lam Van Ben st, Dis 7. HCMC

You are invited to the exhibition “No regret for the past, no project on future, there is only today”, the project “My city” by the artist Bang Duong. This exhibition also includes a sound work and an interactive photography.

The exhibition is curated by Truong Minh Quy and Phan Minh Tuan (Liar Ben).

The photographs of Bang Duong can be considered as the collections of the values of life, of HCMC culture, where he was born and are now living in. Probably because of his nostalgia and his Chinese origin, his everyday life photographs usually follow the traditional values also the active movement of the city.

In 2013, he participated in the photography workshop by Zhuang Wubin. This seven-day workshop is for photographers and artists who want to develop personal photo projects. Working with curator/photographer Zhuang Wubin, the aim is to take each participant through the process of developing his/her project, starting from the conceptualization to the realization/presentation of the work. This workshop is a starting point for Bang Duong to approach and make his contemporary photograph projects recently.

His “My city” project is a rove in searching for the multi view on the urban architecture. In the time of the fast urbanization, by capturing the transition between the old local architecture and the updated one, the artist puts the questions about the conflicts of the time values and the globalization.

His photography works in this project are taken with multi-exposure. This way helps us to capture more than 2 dimensions at one moment of taking photo. During an interval of 30 seconds between the two shutters, the artist seeks the two landscapes within a possible area. Watching this kind of photograph, the audience can have multidimensional view of an illusionary landscape that is overlapped, mixed and moved… The city landscape (or context) now is an interfusion of the modern meanings.

Free entry.   

Call for Contributions for Photo Book “TP. Hà Nội CAPITAL CITY”

Deadline: 01 Jul 2014

You are welcome to contribute your photos for Photo Book “TP. Hà Nội CAPITAL CITY”.

The main aim of the photo book “TP. Hà Nội CAPITAL City” developed in joint cooperation with Goethe Institute Vietnam is to visualize the recent urban change from a comprehensive spatial and social perspective and finally to contribute to a more sustainable development, in general. Given the rich history of Hanoi also aspects of heritage, art, culture and of the villages in the red river delta with traditional linkages to the capital city will be covered.

Its format, contents and design builds upon the highly successful photo book “TP. Hồ Chí Minh MEGA City” published in early 2014 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and with support from manifold companies and endorsement from numerous Vietnamese institutions. Publication date is due to January 2015.

Your photo contribution to this exciting project would be highly appreciated. The deadline for submissions is 1st of July 2014. This is a purely non-profit project. Sponsor money will only be invested into the production of book. Therefore no honorarium is paid. Contributors will receive complimentary hard copies of the photo book, though.

Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, is one of the most beautiful urban sites in Southeast Asia. Already in the year 1010 it got founded under the name of “Thang Long”, as seat of the Vietnamese emperor in the midst of the Red River delta. Various historic influences mix there and form an inspiring mélange of different architecture: relics of stately grandeur from the imperial era, the lavish boulevards, lined with trees, from French colonial rule; ostentatious villas in quiet gardens; numerous peaceful pagodas; uncountable representative buildings from the peak of socialist planned economy; and new buildings signaling the capitalist economy, growth and Đổi mới. The city administration has ambitious plans: its goal is to develop Hanoi into a modern and “civilized” metropolis (văn minh đô thị). Hanoi has been growing not only economically, but also geographically. Hà Tây, the former neighboring province west of the city, and other smaller provinces around Hanoi have been absorbed into the metropolis since 2008.

Hanoi’s growth and economic development is at a crossroads, though. How can Hanoi position itself as a world-class city in global competition without giving up its rich cultural and urban-architectural heritage? The city has further to live up to the demands of the higher living standards of its citizens; has to cope with the constant migration of the rural population to the city; overcome its traffic problems and, last but not least, provide an attractive location for international investors and knowledge-based industries. The charms of the inner city might be an attraction to the much wooed creative classes that should not be underestimated. In general, the challenge for Hanoi is to build on its uniqueness under global competition, instead of just falling back on it.

Following chapters are envisaged at the moment:

    Hanoi from above

    Change over time

    Hanoi heritage

    Housing

    Waterways

    The people of Hanoi

    Urban transport

    Hanoi villages

    Cultural life

    The soul of Hanoi

Michael Waibel as leading editor is a geographer at the University of Hamburg and did publish his PhD thesis on urban development of Vietnam’s capital in 2001. Ever since he has come back on a very regular basis – usually in the context of research and lecturing activities – and extensively documented the urban change.

“The first time I came to Hanoi in 1996, I fell in love with the city.”

Please don’t hesitate to contact Michael Waibel for further information: waibel_michael@yahoo.de.

Exhibition “Da Lat – And the Map Created the City”

Exhibition: 17 Jun – 04 Jul 2014

General Sciences Library

69 Ly Tu Trong, District 1, HCMC

You are invited to the exhibition “Da Lat – And the Map Created the City”.

This exhibition aims at discussing issues of heritage preservation and urban development prospective, offering visitors a cartographic reading of the history of the city. If more essentially photographic evocations were devoted to the colonial architecture of this mountain resort, urban history has hitherto been only partially addressed and illustrated.

Free entry.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, from 7:30 to 19:00. Weekend, from 9:00 to 17:00   

Zo Paper Party

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 3 – 11 pm

Chez Xuan

41, lane 76, An Duong, Tay Ho, Hanoi

It is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the ZO PAPER PARTY on the 28th of June.

We recommend you to arrive early so you can enjoy all our workshops, exhibitions and concerts.

It was nearly a year ago we founded Zo project.

Without the passion and motivation of its members and collaborators we would not be writing this invitation. There are so many people to thank and blessings to count. So, in some ways, this is also the Zo project 1st year anniversary.

We will also have an opening exhibition showcasing with Vincent Bertholon and his drawings and our very special photographer Joseph Gobin. We will show the works of the two village we work with through pictures and videos. Zo team and artists will offer an insight into the art, soul and endeavour of the paper.

Program

Workshop

Paper making

Book binding

Origami

Calligraphy

Concerts

Solo cello – Baptiste

Solo guitar – Lam Vissay

Electronic experimental – Vu Nhat Tan & friends

Exhibitions

Vincent Bertholon

Tien Quang

Tran Hien

Entry fee: 100K/adult, 50K/student and free for children!

You can also buy pretty Zo notebooks ONLINE on our Grapevine shop.    

Photo Exhibition “The Story of Lotus Flower”

Exhibition: 20 – 29 Jun 2014

Korean Cultural Centre

49 Nguyễn Du, Hà Nội

Tel: 39445980

You are invited to the exhibition entitled ”The Story of Lotus Flower” which features 41 photos by Lee Sang Bok on the subject of the Korean lotus flower.

This exhibition will focus on the beauty of Korean lotus flower in four seasons, in addition to photos of familiar lotus flowers in Vietnam.

Lee Sang Bok works as a teacher at the Korean International School in Hanoi. However, he has a passion for photography, especially on Korean lotus flowers. And in the past 15 years, he has perseveringly retained every beautiful moment of this flower.

Opening hours: 9 am-12 pm, 1.30-6 pm from Mon to Fri, Sat:  9 am-12 pm, 1.30-5 pm

Hanoi Urban Flea Market 4th Edition

Sun 22 Jun 2014, 9 am – 5 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Come to the open-air shopping and gathering place where all kinds of people come to buy and sell new and used stuff. So whether you are clearing out the attic, leaving the country, strapped for cash or just looking for a good day out , is the meeting point for all those who want to remove stuff in good conditions from home and for those who come to browse or simply have a good time with friends in a good atmosphere.

Here you will find a mish-mash of second hand, vintage and retro clothing, collectibles and antiques, as well as a tightly curated selection of jewelry, art, and crafts by local artisans and designers and much, much more! It is the best spot to meet your friends, browse, rummage, haggle, drink and eat delicious food.

Tickets: 15,000 at door.   

Talk on History “The Disruptions in Vietnamese Culture”

Sun 22 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” (Mark Twain)

Starting June 2014, manzi will host a monthly series of talk focusing on on-going and past historical aspects of Vietnam. The series will be led by culture researcher Tran Quang Duc – author of ‘Ngan nam ao mu’, a study of Vietnamese costumes from 1009-1945 – with the participation of well-known historians and researchers of Hanoi.

Entitled ‘The disruptions in Vietnamese culture’, the first talk asks if there is such a thing as a pure and unique culture in Vietnam, a country that has been affected and disrupted by so many other cultural influences and languages brought about by both civil wars and foreign invaders.

Language: Please note that the talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.

Entrance fee: 50,000 VND. All money goes towards supporting the organizing of events at manzi

Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 8PM Thurs 19 June 2014.

Fashion Design Competition “Sakura Collection Asia Student Awards 2014″ in Vietnam

Deadline: 15 Jul 2014

Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung

Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội

Sakura Collection Asia Student Awards 2014 is a fashion design contest open to all non-Japanese students and amateur designers in Asia. The Theme of SAKURA COLLECTION 2014 is “Japan”, participants need to make design based on “Japan”.

Design requirements: Participants choose maximum 3 collections, each collection has maximum 5 artworks.

Awards:

- Japan trip to join Sakura Collection in Kansai and Tokyo.

- Awards from Japanese sponsors

- The collection will be showcased at Sakura Collection Show in Paris

Applications can be sent to:

Email: sakuracollectionvn@gmail.com

Or Japan Foundation

27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

Tel: 04-3944 7419

Contact:

Japan Foundation

27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

Tel: +84(0)4 3944 7419/20 FAX: +84(0)4 3944 7418

For questions and further information:

MORE Production Vietnam, Room 601, Floor 6, 131 Bui Thi Xuan, Hanoi

Tel: 04 3974 1405 / Fax: 04 3974 1658

Email: sakuracollectionvn@gmail.com

Screening of “Living in Fear” at TPD

Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

Tel: 04 39366559

At 8p.m. on Friday 20 June 2014, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Living in Fear (2005) by director Bui Thac Chuyen.

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

About Living in Fear

Director: Bui Thac Chuyen

Cast: Tran Huu Phuc, Hanh Thuy, My Uyen, Ngoc Phuong

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 110 mins

Plot: Post-war Vietnam was full of mines and unexploded bombs. Not everyone wants to risk his life clearing them up, but some had little choice. Such as Tai. As a former soldier for the NME, he can’t get a job and has two families to maintain. With true contempt for death, he starts disposing of mines. This is a dangerous, almost suicidal job, but thanks to his disregard for death, from that moment on Tai is able to earn his living. (Gertjan Zuilhof)

Awards:

- Asian New Talent Award in Shanghai Film Festival 2006

- Grand Jury Award in Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2006

- Best Supporting Actress in Vietnam Film Festival 2007

- Jury Award in Vietnam Film Festival 2007

- Golden Kite Award for Best Director – Vietnam Cinema Association

- Golden Kite Award for Best Screenplay – Vietnam Cinema Association

- Golden Kite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Vietnam Cinema Association

- Golden Kite Award for Best Actor – Vietnam Cinema Association

British Council Film Collection Competition “View From Here”

British Council Film Collection Competition “View From Here”: calls for applications

Deadline: 18 Jul 2014

In the 1940’s, the British Council made a unique Collection of short documentary films to tell a story about Britain then. This summer, we want you to use those films to tell us another story about Britain now.

VIEW FROM HERE is an international filmmaking competition which invites you to plunder the British Council Film Collection to make your own short film.

Read terms and conditions of View From Here Competition.

Prizes: a range of exciting prizes including some money-can’t-buy opportunities!

- An Apple iPad mini with Animation Studio

- Attend an event at BAFTA

- A Subscription to Sight & Sound Magazine

- Tickets to the BFI London Film Festival

- A Dogwoof DVD goodie bag

- An editing workshop from The Farm Group

- A Mentoring session from IdeasTap

- A Lomography Camera

- A visit to Pinewood Studios

- A pass to the 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest

- A class pass to Warner Bros. Harry Potter Tour

All View From Here winners will see their entries showcased here on British Council Film’s website, as well as screened internationally through our network of offices in 110 countries worldwide.

Theater Performance of “Border”

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the theatre performance of “Border” by Les Rémouleurs Company. Les Rémouleurs, known for its creativity and stage machinery (puppet and Chinese shadow play) will cooperate with Thailand’s traditional puppet team (Ban Silpa Khang and Empty Space Chiang Mai) in this play.

Frontieres-les-Remouleurs

A traditional Thai nursery rhyme tells a story about one bird in search of a new nest. It will be performed with a long musical poem composed by two musicians: Francesco Pastacaldi, percussionist, and Ajan KB, flutist and multi-instrumentalist. Magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and other effects deeply scrutinize the wonders and woes of life.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

The Transitions Tour 2014: The Observatory & MoE Talk & Live in Saigon

Sat 28 Jun 2014, 7 pm

Zerostation

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

Lam Van Ben st, Dis 7. HCMC

Please be presented the first installment in a series of artist talk and performances of the usually ignored side of experimental arts that is music.

The event is also part of the TRANSITIONS 2104 TOUR featuring Singapore’s finest THE OBSERVATORY and Norwegian obscure gems MOE, followed by an intimate discussion about their arts.

Attention: There will be a much anticipated discussion and wild sharing on experimental music, the definition and around’s. Your attendance is greatly welcome and appreciated. For lovers of border-defying sounds and spectrumless emotions.

The Observatory and MoE also play in Hanoi on Fri 27 Jun with Hanoi’s own technopunk band XAI. For more information about the bands and listen to their sample music please see our previous post.

Tickets: 100,000 vnd upon entry. Free entrance for students with valid.

Music Night “Transitions”: The Observatory + Moe + Xai

Fri 27 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

THE ONION CELLAR proudly presents Singaporean astronauts THE OBSERVATORY & Norwegian heavyweights MOE – live in Hanoi! Support comes from new local technopunk formidable force XAI.

In all seriousness this is quite possibly going to be the LOUDEST AND RAWEST show in Hanoi this year. Specially dedicated to people who were rocking with us and ZENI GEVA almost a year ago!

THE OBSERVATORY (Singapore – avant-rock)

The heart and soul of The Observatory is in its constant reinvention. With each release, the members have persisted in their experimental take on the pop songform.

In 12 years, The Observatory have gone from folk electronica to prog to avant rock, to approaching a more primal sound in recent years, evident in their fifth album, Catacombs; a study in delusion, insanity and obsession.

Genre preoccupations aside, The Observatory’s music is texturally complex, viscerally emotional and splintering in its bleakness. The attempt to cross wasted borders and find musical extremities that parallel polarities within human existence provokes and inspires in a deeply enigmatic way. Even at its coldest and most abstract, it is human to the core.

Based in Singapore, the independent avant rock band has released five albums and several special project releases. Their indie and improv leanings reflect an obsessive intent to stifle inhibition and undermine mechanical ways of commercial music-making.

MOE (Norway – experimental noise rock)

The Norwegian band MoE is known for mixing their minimalistic compositions with alternative and experimental approaches that fails to fit in the rock genre.

With countless collaborations exceeding the borders of rock and noise, MoE seeks the absolute presence in the execution of the music. Loud and violently, they molest their instruments and brings the listener closer to a healthy insanity.

Their recent activity includes touring in Mexico, Japan, Europe, seeking new collaborations with experimental scenes all over the planet to expand the music. MoE continues working in an unpredictable, noisy and dark landscape, with a broad musical hunger. Over the years MoE have collaborated with musicians and bands such as cellist Okkyung Lee, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, The Observatory and Arabrot ++++.

XAI (Vietnam – technopunk)

XAI are hot lava that spilled when a group of young artists emerging from Hanoi’s experimental music school, DomDom, came together with two members of Vietnam’s rawest fem punk band, GỗLim, and recruited UK front woman Lizo to ‘play the microphone’.

Loosely defining their music as technopunk, this frantically playful, live electronic band blend trumpet and keyboard melodies with crashing drums, scratchy vocals and analogue object play upon layers of solid baselines and originally crafted beats and textures. Visual art, fluid performance and unrestrained exploration of sound expression bond and drive XAI, whose name literally translates to ‘wrong’ – but spelt wrong.

The band, still very much in the embryonic stage of development are one to keep on the radar for fresh future music.

TICKETS (please read carefully)

VND 30K – 25 EARLY BIRD tickets at this price available from HẦM HÀNH from 16.00 – 25 May

VND 60K – once those 25 early bird tickets run out, tickets will be priced at 60k and also available from HẦM HÀNH until 23.30 – 25 June

VND 100K – at doors

Pop-rock Concert with Mélissa Laveaux in Hanoi and HCMC

Thu 26 Jun 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace, Hanoi

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội    

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Sat 28 Jun 2014, 8 pm

IDECAF, HCMC

You are invited to the pop-rock concert with Mélissa Laveaux.

Mélissa Laveaux is currently reinventing herself without evading the unique identity displayed in her first acclaimed album (Camphor And Copper, 2008). She grew up in Ottawa but was born to Haitian parents in Montréal. In the wake of her first album, she moved to France. A delicate stage of her life that set the background for the lyrics on ‘Dying Is A Wild Night’, her last album released in 2013.

Instead of gentle and acoustic folk, the young artist prefers more sophisticated energy of powerful pop. The lyrics are personal as always, her voice is still sensual and youthful, but the arrangements place emphasis on rhythm and electronic sounds.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

HCMC

Ticket price: 100 000 VND

Special price for students: 50 000 VND

Tickets are available at IDECAF.

Subscription Concert Vol 71

25 and 26 Jun 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to Subscription Concert vol 71 with conductor Andrea Pestalozza and artists of Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.

Program

Alexander Scriabin: Reverie for Orchestra E major op.24 (Vietnam Premiere)

Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Opera “Tristan und Isolde”

Johannes Brahms: Symphony no.2 D-major Op.73

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com.

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Meeting with Pham Xuan Nguyen at L’Espace

Tue 24 Jun 2014, 9.30 am

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the meeting with literary critic Pham Xuan Nguyen on the occasion of publishing his literary criticism book entitled “Nhà văn như Thị Nở”.

Pham Xuan Nguyen is a critic / researcher at Vietnam Institute of Literature. He is also the Chairman of Hanoi Writers Association

“Nhà văn như Thị Nở” is the first literary criticism book by Pham Xuan Nguyen. The book depicts portraits of 51 writers of Vietnamese literature in past and present.

Speaker: Pham Xuan Nguyen

Free entrance.

Language: Vietnamese.

Lighting Workshop with Cinematographer Jamie Maxtone-Graham

21 and 22 Jun 2014, 9 am – 5 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to join a two-day intensive lighting workshop for filmmakers and cinematographers.

When: Saturday and Sunday – June 21, 22 2014

Where: Goethe Institut Ha Noi 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Cost: 2,000,000 VND // (2 scholarships available for ½ price for former DocLab students)

Class: 8-12 people

Instructor: Jamie Maxtone-Graham worked for more than 20 years as a cinematographer in New York and Los Angeles on feature films, commercials, documentaries and episodic television. He has a long list of film credits internationally, in Vietnam and the region.

Workshop will be in English (with translation available for those who require it) and is open to all camera people – particularly for those who would like to make cinematic documentary films. Anyone with basic to intermediate cinematography skills who is looking to improve the look of their work will benefit from this workshop.

This two-day workshop will focus on real life shooting conditions and problem solving for filmmakers working on location. Focus will be on:

• Lighting for the interview

• Creative framing and lighting to tell your client’s story

• Making the best of a bad location

• Active and passive lighting techniques

Day 1

Active lighting – how to work with daylight (HMI and LED) and tungsten lights, lighting the interview, classic three point lighting techniques.

Participants will work in small groups and after a short morning presentation and demonstration, they will work to create their own set ups with lights, diffusion and cameras.

Day 2

Passive lighting – lighting without lights, how to make a boring room look better than it is, available light and its qualities, mixed active/passive lighting, filming indoors or outdoors – how to make people look good in any condition.

Participants will again work in small teams and in a variety of practical locations designed to challenge their newly acquired skills.

This workshop will be hands-on, intensive and full of useful and practical information. Come prepared to work and to learn.

For more information, please contact: hanoidoclab@gmail.com

To register for the workshop, please fill in the Application Form in DOCLAB’s website and send it back to us.

Hanoi Doclab

Hanoidoclab.org

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

37342252/ext. 39

The West African Concert to Celebrate the World Music Night

Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 – 10 pm

2th floor, Pullman Hanoi Hotel

40 Cat Linh Str, Hanoi

Come to a special concert to celebrate The World Music Night 21 Jun with Musbaba Traore from Mali. The concert is a harmonious fusion of The West African hot vibes with the melodic Vietnamese instrument.

Musbaba is a Malian musician, composer and singer. His style could be defined as afro-pop-bambana, melting traditional Malian sounds with world music trends. He plays all sort of percussion instruments and one traditional string instrument called n’goni.

Musbaba is currently based in Hanoi (Vietnam) and has been working on the project Mali-Vietnam fusion. He integrated a traditional Vietnamese instrument (Dan Tranh) in his musical compositions, the result being a harmonious fusion of the West African hot vibes with the melodic Asian sounds. African dance performances are also part of the shows, creating a synergy between the artists and their audience.

Free entry.

Percussive Fingerstyle Concert

Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 pm

Heritage Space

Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi

You are invited to the Percussive Fingerstyle Concert with strong, funky and youthful melodies, which reveal the spirit and ambition of youth.

The concert on second Saturday night of every month with different themes/styles will bring different feelings and satisfy multiple tastes of music.

Ticket price: 80 000 VND (including 1 free drink, optional)

The Book Talk in June

Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Continuing our monthly literature series called ‘The Book Talk’, in collaboration with Nha Nam, the talk this month will be a discussion on the role of the Vietnamese Writers’ Association in the local scene.

Free entry.

Communications partners: Hanoi Grapevine and &OfOtherThings

The Songs of Bob Dylan Tribute Night

Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

The aaaanswer my friend, is blowing in … oh sorry about that.

Bob Dylan. America’s answer to Trinh Cong Son? Or an oversimplistic comparison? Who knows. What we do know is that we have a bunch of musicians ready to open the songbooks of this great folk singer (Bob Dylan, not Trinh Cong Son) and play some of his great works.

We’ve got strumming guitars, harmonicas, drums and scratchy voices supplied by pro-performers and loving amateurs. Playing Bob Dylan’s most popular and also lesser known songs. It will be ENTERTAINING!

Come and sway, feel all reminiscent, and enjoy folk music in Hanoi’s number one intimate acoustic venue.

Tickets: 50,000 VND @ the door.

Vietnamese Photographer at Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year in London

Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the very best in international environmental photography.

Filled with beautifully resonant images that explore issues such as innovation, sustainable development, biodiversity, poverty, climate change, human rights, culture and population growth, the exhibition opens 23 June at the Royal Geographical Society, London and continues until 04 July.

Do Tuyet Trinh‘s selected photograph Fishing net making in Mekong Delta, Vietnam depicts women from the fishing community of the Mekong Delta, and highlights the problems created by climate change and the inconsistency of the annual flood.

Do Tuyet Trinh, born in Hanoi, is a banker by profession and a photographer by passion. Travel is her first and foremost priority in her free time and she loves taking pictures along the way. Having been to five continents, she was fortunate to have chance witnessing and experiencing many facets of lives. She won a number of international photo contests, including “The Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2014” (UK) and “The People & Planet International Photo Competition 2013” (Australia).

Contemporary Magic Performance “Notte” at L’Espace

Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 pm

Youth Theatre

11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi

You are invited to the contemporary magic show “Notte” by Compagnie 14:20.

Immersing the audience in total darkness, Notte blurs the signal and hides body in the dark for a better reveal of calligraphy.

On stage are a man and a woman: a story about 2 different worlds that attract and repulse each other, forever searching for balance. This hypnotic ballet is complemented by bright balls, leaving behind trails of light as meteors. The magic does the rest and these balls turn into the constellations, swirling galaxies, in a unstable space…

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000/100 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000/50 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

La Fête de la Musique 2014 at Metropole Hanoi

Sat 21 Jun 2014, 5 – 8 pm

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi

15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi

On June 21st, entrance is free and buying drinks when joining the Fetê is optional. The Fetê is on at Hotel’s poolside from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Brazilian Happy Hour (Time to enjoy Champagne & Cachaça with special discount) runs throughout the Fetê.

This year, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi will welcome the season of sun with a very special music festival guaranteed to evoke the sounds of summer. We offer a Brazillian-infused La Fête de la Musique to honour the country which hosted World Cup 2014 and bring the exciting atmosphere of world’s most thrilling soccer event to Hanoi.

Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has been a French monument in Hanoi since the turn of the last century, and will host this year host an evening featuring a special Brazilian-themed party and a fashion show introducing new summer collections from Double Dose and Chula at the hotel’s poolside. In addition, our stylish French DJ GiMix will make transform Bamboo Bar into the perfect destination for a soulful night of chilled out grooves. Influenced by many electronic musical movements, such as Electro Swing and Balkan Beat, GiMix promises to take you on a melodic tour of musical genres.

La Fetê de la Musique is the popular street music festival which was launched in France back in 1982 to see in the Summer Solstice and ever since, it kept the role as the celebration of all genres and tribute to the libertarian spirit of French-style street fêtes. This day of music allows the fullest expression of all musical styles in a carnival atmosphere, inspiring young and not so young people from all social backgrounds to embrace music at this very special time of year. As a French brand of international hotels, Sofitel naturally plays an active role in this unifying cultural event.

Come and join us for an unforgettable evening!

Free entry.