KABAKO FOLI! Full Mali band for Musbaba’s Final Show

Fri 09 May 2014, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

Following smashing performances at the Hue Festival and L’Espace, Baba Energy hits Hanoi one last time for Musbaba’s final show in Vietnam.

This is a must see treat that will have the whole room rocking!

Tickets: 100K @ door

Photo Exhibition “Hanoi_Saigon”

Opening: Fri 09 May, 6 pm

Exhibition: 09 May – 14 Jun 2014

Chula

43 Nhat Chieu, Hanoi

From the organizer:

You are invited to photo exhibition “Hanoi_Saigon”.

Miguel Trillo is a famous Spanish photographer who makes portrait about young urban people around the world in the last 40 years. In this exhibition, he will show the portraits of people of HANOI and SAIGON.

Screening of “The Tin Drum”

Thu 08 May 2014, 8.30 pm

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

To celebrate the opening of our own cafe/ event space HẦM HÀNH, this week’s Onion Cellar will be a special showing of THE TIN DRUM – the film adaptation of Gunter Grass’ incredible novel that gave us our name.

THE TIN DRUM (1979)

142′ / Dir – Volker Schlöndorff

“Danzig, Germany, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy.

As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older.

Caught in a state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War II.

Honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum is a visionary adaptation of Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery [horse's head and eels], striking eroticism, and unflinching satire.”

Language: German, with English subtitles

FREE ENTRY. 10 FREE prints of an original illustration (based on the film) by Jessica Tjandra

Exhibition “Nem’s Story” by the Child with Autism

Opening: Thu 08 May, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 08 – 15 May 2014

KAI Art Center

342 Nghi Tam, Tay Ho, Hanoi

‘Nem’s story’ is an interesting adventure through a colorful, creative, and spontaneous world of the child with autism. Facing such adversity in life, yet Nem’s world always shines the brightest with hope, family’s love and dreams. Little stories of unconditional love from family, friends, and community to Nem.

Every child has hidden talent that is revealed and flourishes with the nurture of love.

May Open Studio of Nhà Sàn Collective

Sat 10 May 2014, 10 am – 8 pm

Nha San Studio

Dốc 462 đường Bưởi, Hà Nội

You are invited to May Open Studio by artists Vũ Đức Toàn and Nguyễn Ban Ga, hosted by Nhà Sàn Collective this Saturday 10.05.2014. The two artists will share their process of making work and present some new works and expect to have open conversation with audiences.

Open Studio will start from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advices, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focus on.

Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE will have “Open Studio” every last Saturday of each month to show the artist’s process of working.

If you are interest and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit

Weekly Performances of Ca Tru Thang Long

Every Tue, Thu and Sat, 8 – 9 pm

Ca Tru Thang Long

87 Ma May, Hanoi

Fans of Vietnamese Ca Tru traditional music flocked to a small art gallery in Ha Noi on a Thursday night to enjoy the unique genre’s sweet melodies. Entitled Ca Tru – Gin Giu Cho Muon Doi Sau (Preserving Ca Tru for Our Next Generations), the show was put on by Ca Tru Thang Long trio. The band included 83-year-old singer Nguyen Thi Chuc, dan day (long-necked lute-like instrument with three silk strings and 10 frets) player Nguyen Phu De, 88, and their student, singer Pham Thi Hue. “The performance is a way to vividly preserve this unique traditional folk genre, which is a part of our cultural heritage”, said well-known ethnomusicologist Professor Tran Van Khe.

According to singer Hue, different reasons encouraged her to set up the band. “The band not only gives us opportunities to practice and share experience, but we also bring the genre closer to the audience. Ca Tru is in danger of extinction along with an aging generation of elder artisans, who own most Ca Tru treasures. I hope younger generations will find the beauty of this folk music genre through our performances”, said Hue, 40.

Ca Tru Thang Long currently organizes weekly performances every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening.

Tickets: 210,000 VND. You can buy tickets online here:

Europe Day Jazz Concert – The “First Herd” of the Bavarian Youth Jazz Band

HANOI:

Jam Session: Thu 08 May 2014, 7 pm

Goethe Institut

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Gala Concert: 09 and 10 May 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

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HCMC: Sun 11 May 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

In celebration of the Europe Day, a group of the most gifted among the Bavarian Youth Jazz Band, also known as “Bavarian First Herd”, will perform a program ranging from traditional Swing by jazz greats like Count Basie or Duke Ellington to modern kinds of Bebop, Latin, Funk and Fusion compositions in Hanoi and HCMC. Moreover, the young musicians will present some of their own arrangements and compositions.

Before playing three gala-concerts in Vietnam, some of the musicians from the Bavaria Youth Jazz Band jam at the inner courtyard of the Goethe-Institut. You are warmly invited to bring your instruments and join the musicians.

Bavarian Youth Jazz Band 3

The Bavarian Youth Jazz Band (LJJB), under the artistic direction of Harald Rüschenbaum, is considered one of the most brilliant in Germany. The members have mostly been discovered at the federal music competition “Jugend jazzt”. Besides meeting four times per year for intensive working phases, the young ensemble regularly performs on national and international stages, examples being USA, Russia and the Czech Republic. Their aim is to build bridges between music and musicians from different cultural backgrounds.

Harald Rüschenbaum

The artistic director of the ensemble, is an internationally renowned percussionist and bandleader. He has been acknowledged with several awards for his dedicated commitment to the support of young jazz musicians. Besides managing the LJJB and other ensembles, Rüschenbaum is a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.

Bavarian Youth Jazz Band 2

Tickets

Jam Session at Goethe Institut: Free entrance

Concert at Hanoi Opera House and HCMC Opera House, free tickets can be collected from Tuesday 06 May 2014, 10 am at:

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Tel: +84 4 37342251 – 9

Goethe-Institut HCMC

18, Duong So 1, Cu xa Do Thanh, Quan 3

Tel: +84 8 36009587

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Exhibition “The Portrait”

Opening: Thu 08 May 2014, 7 pm

DeciBel Lounge

79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, D1, HCMC

Come to the exhibition “The Portrait” by artist Nguyễn Nhựt. He is presenting for the first time “The portrait” a series of digital paintings fragile and powerful at the same time. His style is influenced by religious imagery, fairytales and also classical and modern painters.

Nguyễn Nhựt aka Lai is a 28 years old Hanoian artist based in Saigon. A graphic designer and illustrator, he mainly works in digital media, prints or branding.

Exhibition ‘Ho®s-Sol’ (Soil-Less®) by Nadège David

Opening: Thu 08 May, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: 08 May – 07 Jun 2014

Galerie Quynh

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

Gallery hours: 10am to 7pm, Tuesday to Saturday and by appointment

You are invited to Ho®s-Sol’ (Soil-Less®), an exhibition of new works by Nadège David. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery comprises drawings and sculptures that examine and question the connection between Human and Animal.

Expressing a deep engagement with and concern for issues that explore the univocal aspect of this fragile relationship, David’s works are inspired by a fascination with anatomy, science, philosophy and human behaviour, as well as socio-political and economic realities.

‘Ho®s-Sol’ refers to the displacement of animals from their soil and their native state of being, transformed into mere objects, functional only in a multitude of categories made up by mankind. The ® alludes to this humanised identification and objectification of animals, and their metamorphosis into merchandised property.

David explores the specific relationships that mankind has created with animals, their diversity apparent in her artwork titles – arranged in a scientific, entomological categorization with initials and numbers like labels for scientific specimens. In Domestic Animal (DA), the animal is represented in its domesticity, with children contending a cute creature that becomes akin to a stuffed toy or a child riding a lion that has lost its fierce nature.

The imagery of Mythical Animal (MA) – in the form of a dead festering pachyderm – evokes the killing of animals throughout human history and what French philosopher Gilles Deleuze refers to as “the Death of the Animal”, eventually leading to extinction and becoming mythology. David’s sculptures reference this notion of death, through the creation of a mortuary collection of insects and small critters on colourful deathbeds sealed in glass vases. These sculptural works, reminiscent of a cabinet of curiosity, push her practice beyond the limitations of two-dimensionality and continue her narratives on a more tangible material plane.

While David does not aim to deliver moralising teachings, her haunting works communicate relevant truths about some of the harshest realities of human history born of the connections between Man and Nature.

The artist retains a childlike stupor and curiosity, and a sense of awe for the beauty of Nature – emotions that have often been forgotten through mankind’s history of exploitation towards other living species. Her creative process mirrors this attentive sense of wonder, her works slowly developing through time: she draws, she pauses, she observes, she continues.

Inspired by the precision of scientific drawing and Asian aesthetics, her watercolour and ink drawings spontaneously take shape and evolve organically – like the unpredictable flow of China ink on paper – mimicking the growth of living beings.

Almost playful in their manifestation, David’s subjects unveil a sinister nature that appears alien and devious, whilst retaining a familiarly anthropomorphic aspect. The artist’s instinctual creative process reveals an obsessive attention to details and to the composition of organic structures that take on a life of their own.

David states, “Drawing emerges to me as an expression of exchange between images, thoughts, and the languages of real and imagined worlds.”

David’s oeuvre has the potency to transport the viewer into a parallel world of quasi-magical beings that draws upon man’s innermost nature, creating delusions and dark fantasies that touch the deepest recesses of our human subconscious.

ABOUT NADEGE DAVID

Born in 1975 in Poissy, France, Nadège David received an MA in Political Philosophy at University La Sorbonne, Paris, and an MA in Contemporary Political Philosophy, University of Paris VIII. She was a lecturer in Sociology at University Marne La Vallée between 1999 and 2005.

David’s first solo exhibition, ‘Experience sweet and relaxing dreams’, was held at Mai’s Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, in 2007. The artist has exhibited in various group exhibitions, including at Galerie Vue Privée in Singapore and Galerie Quynh.

Nadège David lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City.

Exhibition “Meeting Point”

Opening: Sun 04 May, 4 pm

Exhibition: 04 – 18 May 2014

HCMC Fine Arts Museum

97A Pho Duc Chinh, D1, HCMC

“Meeting point “ is the title of an exhibition by Dutch and Vietnamese artists of all sorts of work. There will be abstract, figurative and installation art. The opening is performed by Dutch and Vietnamese artists.

Hetty van der Kloot for example, shows work which was inspired by her earlier visits to Vietnam. She works mainly with the computer and makes digital collages printed on different material. For this exhibition she experimented with printing on silk. Quite a contrast! Computer made work with the end product on a delicate material, which has been produced since hundreds of years. On the concept of the silk cocoon she also made a small installation, titled – Silk Song -, with printed Plexiglas.   

Performance of Oratorio ”THE CREATION”

08 and 09 May 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

After the thundering success of classic operas such as Magic Flute, Messiah, Dido and Aeneas …, you are invited to the Oratorio performance titled “THE CREATION” by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.

Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It tells the story of God’s creation of the world in 6 days according to the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament. The work is structured in 3 parts and scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus, and a symphonic orchestra. For the recitatives, the harpsichord will be used. At these performances, our conductor, Maestro Lars Notto Birkeland, will be accompanying the singers himself.

Conductor: Lars Notto Birkeland

Soprano : Cho Hae Ryong

Tenor : Erlend Tvinnereim

Bass : Halvor F. Melien

Vocal coach : Siri Torjesen

Chorusmasters: Lý Giai Hoa

HBSO Choir & Symphony Orchestra

Tickets

Ticket prices: 650.000 – 550.000 – 400.000 – 150.000 VND (Students only)

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

At The Opera House – 7 Lam Son square

Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn

Screening of “Hôtel Normandy”

Fri 09 May 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening titled “Hotel Normandy” (France, 2013, 97 mins), directed by Charles Nemes.

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Photo Exhibition by Réhahn

Opening: Tue 06 May, 6 pm

Exhibition: 06 – 29 May 2014

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

French photographer Réhahn has been living in Vietnam since 2011. His photography skills were self-taught during his travels to over 30 countries. Quickly did his heart turn towards Vietnam and after a dozen trips, he settled down there. In the first exhibition at L’Espace, Réhahn will feature a series of Vietnamese children’s portraits in their spontaneous joy as well as sadness.

It is the innocence of those faces that transcends all expressions, where the eyes turn marvel or darken in a flash. When looking at their eyes, could we keep a little of our inner child?

Free entrance.

Special Concert “Dien Bien Phu”

07 and 08 May 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the special concert “Dien Bien Phu” with conductor Honna Tetsuji, violin soloist Bui Cong Duy and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.

Program

Ernest Chausson

Poem Op.25

Nguyen Thien Dao

Giao huong diem hen – World Premiere

L.V.Beethoven

Symphony no.3 Eb major “Eroica”

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.    

Dien Bien Phu Battle Seminar

Wed 07 May 2014, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

60 years after Indochina war came to an end, three historians from Vietnam, France and Canada together with a journalist from Vietnam gathered to talk about the famous Dien Bien Phu Battle, the key battle leading to the end of Vietnam War I. They belong to a generation that mediates between those who lived in this war and those who were born in peace. 4 people, 4 approaches, 4 angles …

Language: Simultaneous translation French – Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to Vietnamese version of this post.

Free admission.

Exhibition “Smiling Poland”

Opening: Mon 05 May

Exhibition: 02 – 08 May 2014

Exhibition Hall

16 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi

For the first time the smiles were brought to Vietnam in the Exhibition “Smiling Poland” organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Hanoi at the Exhibition Hall 16 Ngo Quyen from the 2nd May to the 8th May 2014 on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Poland’s accession to the EU.

There’s a saying: “Laughter is the best medicine”. ‘Smiling”, a simple act, but according to Mr. Marek Wysoczynski, it can have a major positive impact on our everyday life.

Marek Wysoczynski, the initiator of the unique Project Smile has been collecting autographs of renown personalities in Poland and all over the world for many years. Numerous celebrities such as Jim Carrey, Michael Jackson, Diego Maradona have donated to the project their smile autographs.

These “smiles” have been demonstrated in different countries in the world such as Poland, Austria, Egypt, China, Spain and Mexico. In these countries, viewers not only had a chance to enjoy viewing a part of the collection of Marek’s thousands of autographs but autographs and smiles were also brought to hospitals like the Children Cancer Hospital in Cairo, pediatric hospital in China, etc., as the Project’s purpose is to create the smiles both on the faces and inside the hearts of disabled children and lonely people, those who are suffering much in their lives and have lost their smiles.

During the trip to Vietnam, in addition to the Exhibition, Marek Wysoczyñski will also visit the children at SOS Children’s Village to smile with them and together draw their own smiles. His desire is by creating smiles for children, we may not cure illness or sorrow, but can help them to reduce pain, get more energy and confidence in life. That is the greatest gift for Marek and the Project Smile.

Information about the Project Smile: Marek Wysoczyński is the founder and the Director of the Project Smile. He is also the Director of the Culture Promotion Office and has organized various concerts and novel exhibitions all over the world. Marek has organized the exhibition of 1000 autographs that he had as part of the Milennial Anniversary of the City of Gdansk. That was the start of the of the idea to collect smiley autographs for children’s hospitals and other Institutions. It was Marek who has managed to inspire and attract people, especially world celebrities to join in an Exhibition where a simple but wonderful concept of “Smile” has become much more important and meaningful.

Screening of “Red” and “Amour”

Screening of “Red”: Sat 03 May 2014, 2 pm

Screening of “Amour”: Sat 03 May 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

In the 2nd week of Cannes month, you are invited to the screening of other two masterpieces: “Red” directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski and “Amour” of director Michael Haneke, both of which will be on Sat 3 May.

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

About films:

Red (1994)

Red (French: ROUGE) is a 1994 film co-written, produced, and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the final film of The Three Colors Trilogy, which examines the French Revolutionary ideals; it is preceded by Blue and White.

Kieślowski had announced that this would be his final film, which proved true with the director’s sudden death in 1996. Red is about fraternity, which it examines by showing characters whose lives gradually become closely interconnected, with bonds forming between two characters who appear to have little in common.

Amour (2012)

AMOUR (pronounced: [a.muʁ]; French for “Love”) is a 2012 French-language drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on one side of her body.

AMOUR is a co-production between the French, German, and Austrian companies Les Films du Losange, X-Filme Creative Pool, and Wega Film.

The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and many well-known awards in other film festival.

Experimental Futurist Electronic Music with Tri Minh and Saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac

Thu 01 May 2014, 9 pm

The Rooftop

19th Floor, Pacific Place, No. 83B Ly Thuong Kiet Str, Hanoi

Vietnam’s famous saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac is going to have a special session with DJ Tri Minh, who has been always determined on his way of experimental electronic music. Don’t miss this highly anticipated cultural event.

Call us now for booking 04 3946 1901 – 0913 70 69 66.

Screening of “The Science of Sleep”

Thu 01 May 2014, 8.30 – 10.30 pm

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

You are invited to the screening of “The Science of Sleep”.

THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (2006)

105′ / Dir – Michel Gondry

“A film that rates -very- high on the weirdness scale as it tells the story of a man that has trouble keeping reality and dreamworld apart.”

“Shy Stephane has returned to his childhood hometown to accept a new job.

When the prospective employment offer fails to live up to expectations, Stephane is at least comforted by the close bond he has formed with his creative-thinking neighbour Stephanie.

Their blossoming romance finally awakens the sleeping confidence that Stephane was previously capable of displaying only in his dreams.”

“Although The Science Of Sleep delves into tortured love affairs and the fight for creative spirits to survive in a corporate world, it’s loaded with humour and imagination.

At least half of the movie warps into the alternate reality that Stephane dreams about, where stunning visuals feature entire cardboard cities, and boats drifting over seas of cellophane.”

Language: English and French, with English subtitles

FREE ENTRY. 10 FREE prints of an original illustration (based on the film) by Giang Hoang Nguyen

The film is curated by The Onion Cellar

“Chiếu bóng” – 5 Outstanding Shorts from YxineFF 2013

Sun 04 May 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi  

Bye bye April! Hello there May! This coming Sunday manzi is delighted to welcome back our new series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for cinema), in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab, TPD & YxineFF.

This time, a selection of 5 short films from YxineFF 2013 will show you the diversity of cinema in short filmmaking. Short films not only just tell inner-conflicts of human beings in life, but also can raise awareness of important social issues. You will see and be able to discuss with film director and one of the founders of YxineFF how incredibly creative and effective short films could be, both in terms of storytelling and technique.

Films include:

1) The black sun (2013) Vietnam, fiction, 12’55’’, directed by Trương Quế Chi (Paris, France) starring Đỗ Văn Hoàng and Nguyễn Thanh Mai

2) June Ek / June One (2013) India, fiction, 23’59’’, directed by Anadi Athaley (Raigarh, India)

3) Ruggero (2012) Italy, fiction, 14’13’’, directed by Franco Dipietro, produced by Lorenzo Conrgnati(Torino, Italy)

4) Das Mongolische Mädchen mit der Tüte voller Glücksgefühle / A Mongolian Girl with a Bag Full of Happiness (2012) Germany, documentary, 23’37’’, directed by Tatjana Kleut (Berlin, Germany)

5) Grandfather (2012) Vietnam, documentary, 10’11’’, directed by Đồng Thảo (Hanoi, Vietnam)

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