Talk with Nguyen The Son about Photography

Fri 31 May 2013, 6 pm

Exhibition house 29 Hang Bai, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

You are invited an art talk with artist / photographer Nguyen The Son. The topic is about exploring fine arts photography worldwide and introducing methods to do personal art practices in photography.

For detailed information, please contact:

Tạp chí Mỹ thuật và Nhiếp ảnh (Fine Art and Photography Magazine)

38 Cao Ba Quat, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

Tel: 04 37342261

Email: mythuatnhiepanh@gmail.com

Or call Vu Duc Toan (Mr.): 012 5299 2356

Screening “Mother’s Soul” and “Life of Pi”

Screening of “Mother’s Soul”: Fri 31 May 2013, 8 pm

Screening of “Life of Pi”: Sat 01 Jun 2013, 2 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

You are invited to the two screening of TPD this week. At 8p.m. on Friday 31 May 2011, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Mother’s Soul (director Pham Nhue Giang).

This Saturday, 01/06/2013, TPD Centre will host another session of From book to screen programme. We will screen Life of Pi by Ang Lee and have discussion with 2 guests after the screening.

About Mother’s soul

Year: 2011

Director: Giang Pham Nhue

Cast: Hong Anh, Hoai Linh

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 95 min

Synopsis: When her mother falls in love with a driver, a young girl suffers from the lack of maternal attention. As her mother become more and more obsessed with her lover, the neglect increases. and the daughter takes on a maternal role herself to the orphan next door. Through these tender human relationships, Mother’s Soul looks at the effect of capitalism on a former communist economy.

Screening on Friday: 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.

Screening on Saturday:  The program is also a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future.   

Artist’s Talk by Nguyen Manh Hung & Jompet Kuswidananto

Wed 29 May 2013, 6.30 pm

Sàn Art

3 Mê Linh

District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

You are invited to an artist talk by Nguyen Manh Hung and Jompet Kuswidananto.

Over the past month, Hung and Jompet have spent time together discussing their individual art practices and interests. They both realized they have an interest in the idea of ghosts as mythical presences that can reveal the past, but also as social symbols that have become lost tools who have forgotten their purpose.

On Wednesday they will speak of their individual practice and conclude by sharing how their mutual fascination for the ‘ghost’ has taken new perspective over their last one month of discussion.

Jompet is a visual artist from Yogyarkarta, Indonesia whose interest in theatre and music has contributed to an artistic practice largely inspired by the re-discovery of cultural historical texts. In much of his work, the idea of a ghost as a forgotten memory or haunting social presence has given birth to kinetic installations where symbols such as military costume come alive with sound and light.

Nguyen Manh Hung is a visual artist from Hanoi (currently based in Ho Chi Minh City) whose playful manipulation of scale and perspective has become a signature trait in his paintings and installations. Hung’s work references the tools of industrialized society in Vietnam – such as war tanks, collective housing; and aeroplanes to name but a few – examining their relevance and meaning today.

Jompet Kuswidananto and Nguyen Manh Hung are the first artists to take part in ‘Prod/Ponder’, the artist-in-collaboration program as part of ‘Conscious Realities’, a 3 year initiative bringing a cross range of interdisciplinary artists and thinkers from South East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and Africa to Vietnam.

A Free Ensemble Concert

Fri 31 May 2013, 8 pm

VNSO’s Concert Hall

No. 226, Cau Giay Street, Hanoi

Come to an ensemble concert with the aim of making this music more popular to the public. The concert will be performed by Hoa sen VN String Quartet, Hanoi Brass Band and conductor HONNA Tetsuji. For more information about the program, see below:

Hoa sen VN String Quartet: Lê Hoàng Lan (violin), Đào Mai Anh (violin), Nguyễn Thị Thu Nga (viola), Trần Thị Mơ (cello)

Hanoi Brass Band: Kim Xuân Hiếu (cor), Trần Hiền (trombone), Lê Minh Chiều (tuba), Nghiêm Mạnh Tuấn (drum), Phạm Văn Hiếu (trumpet), Nguyễn Thanh Hải (trumpet)

Program

Hoa Sen String Quartet

G.F. Haendel Passacaglia

Pachelbel Canon

Hanoi Brass Band

Leslie Pearson Hiplips II

Old Traditional Deep Down in the Cellar

Scott Joplin Ragtime Suite for Brass

VNSO

L.V. Beethoven I & IV mov.from Symphony no. 5

Admission is free for all audience.

For more information, please contact us:

Tel: 04.3.833.1448

Hot line: 096 628 1609, 091 438 9272

Program “Hello Summer 2013″ – Summer Book Fair

29 May – 01 Jun 2013

Vietnam Women’s Museum

36 Lý Thường Kiệt, Hà Nội

Preferential Policy on Price:

- Discount of 10-50% for all books

- Selling books at a fixed prize (5.000 VND – 30.000VND)

- Get discount card when purchasing books

You can see detailed program below:

Activity programs from May 29th to June 1st 2013

* On May 29 th:

+ 2 PM – 3.30 PM: Seminar “Parenting: Discipline without tears”

+ 7.30 PM – 9.30 PM: Opening Event “Welcome to Summer 2013”

With the performances from Bibi dance club, Vietnam national “Tuong” Theatre such as: wrestling, lion giving birth, the brave grey bunny’s performance, Thach Sanh guillotine python

* On May 30th:

+ 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM: Modern art in flower arrangement

+ 7.30 PM – 9.00 PM: Translators of books for children meet reader and sign books

* On May 31st

+ 9.30 AM – 11 AM: Launch Korean children’s literacy “Hen escapes from her cage”

+ 7.30 PM – 9.00 PM: Translators: Joe Ruelle, Phan Việt, Trương Anh Ngọc meet readers, and sign books

* On June 1st

+ 9.00 AM – 10.30 AM: Have a conversation with children about reading books

+ 10.30 AM – 12 AM: Seminar “Methods for Teaching English to Preschool & Elementary School Children

Activities at Discovery Room:

- Dressing up with Kimono, Yukata, Vietnamese traditional costumes, Singapore ethnic groups’ clothes

- Make hand-made product

- Play with Lego

- Vietnamese traditional games

- Paint clay oil lamp

- Do puzzle

Register for the program: 043.936.1869 (Ms Thùy Linh)    

Exhibition “Seasons in the Eyes”

Exhibition: 01 – 09 Jun 2013, 8 am – 9 pm

Vietnam Women’s Museum

36 Ly Thuong Kiet Str, Hanoi

You are invited to art exhibition “Seasons in the Eyes” by Tran Nu Vuong Linh.  The sales of paintings will be donated to children with disabilities and life-threatening illnesses.

Anyone interested in this exhibition is welcomed to come and enjoy. The exhibition is suitable for all ages.

Free entrance.

Jazz Night “Milestones”

Thu 30 May 2013, 8 pm

Dong Kinh Hall

16 Le Thai To, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

You are invited to Jazz Night “Milestones”, a tribute concert to Miles Davis (1926 – 1991). For more information about the program and tickets, see below:

Program

Overture

1.So What

2.My Stone

3.Solar

4.Blue in Green

5.All Blue

6.Round midnight

7.Tutu

8.Human Nature

9. You’re Under Arrest

Band Member

Nguyen Bao Long: Saxophonist &Bandleader

Nguyen Tien Manh: Pianist

Dao Minh Pha: Double Bass

Le Viet Hung: Drum

Guess :1 talent student(guitar) just graduated year 2013 from Vietnam National Academy of Music Hanoi.

Tickets

At door: 350,000 – 250,000 VND

Online booking: 300,000 – 200,000 VND

Tickets for student: 50,000 VND

Contact: 01699 496 401

Fusion Nights No.2

Tue 28 May 2013, 6 – 11 pm

Pots ‘n Pans Restaurant & Bar

57 Bui Thi Xuan Str, Hanoi

Following the success of the First Fusion Nights which was held last Tuesday, we are super excited to announce Fusion Nights No.2. It promises to be an amazing night with Live Jazz Music, free canapes.

For more information, please telephone 043 944 0204/5 or email info@potsnpans.vn.

Magician Erix Logan in Vietnam

27 May – 02 Jun 2013, 8 am, 10 am, 6 pm and 8 pm

Viet Xo Friendship Cultural Palace

91 Trần Hưng Đạo, Hà Nội

Famous Italian magician Erix Logan has scheduled 20 performances in Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong and HCMC from May 28 to June 23 during his first tour in Vietnam.

Having performed in many countries around the world, this summer, the magician star Erix Logan will come to Vietnam on an Asian tour. Erix Logan’s 20 shows will take place in Viet Xo Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi from 27 May to 02 June and in Quang Ninh on June 7-8, in Hai Phong on June 13-14, and in HCMC on June 22-23.

Erix Logan, whose real name is Enrico Del Buono, is a famous Italian magician. He has passion for magic: “Magic is spectacular. It brings about special gifts. This is the only way for me to show my talent.”

Tickets

Daytime performances: VND 100,000, 200,000, 300,000.

Evening performances: VND 150,000, 250,000, 350,000.

To purchase tickets kindly contact: Ms Hang: 0914.387.757 – 0913.99.22.16

Screening of “Searching for Sugar Man”

Wed 29 May 2013, 7 pm

The Hanoi Bicycle Collective

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “Searching for Sugar Man”.

Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ’60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation.

In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.

Free entry.   

Ticket Giveaways for Fyfe Dangerfield’s Concert in Hanoi

British Council in Vietnam is giving away 5 pairs of tickets to Music Night with UK musician Fyfe Dangerfield in Hanoi (28 May) exclusively for Grapevine’s readers.

Currently tickets to the concert have run out, thus, this is the only chance for you to see Fyfe Dangerfield on the stage.

Please leave a short comment with your full name under this post answering these questions (in either English or Vietnamese):

1. What is the name of the debut solo album by Fyfe Dangerfield?

2. How many tracks are there in the album and name them.

5 correct and earliest answers will be rewarded with 5×2 tickets to the performance.

For more information, please see our previous post or visit Fyfe’s website.

Deadline for comment submission is 2 pm TODAY 27 May! And to make sure it is fair for everyone, we will NOT approve any comments until the deadline (After submitting you will see “Your comment is awaiting moderation”, and that means your answers have already reached our system).

Young Melody Program – New World Symphony

Wed 29 May 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

In order to guide the young generation on the journey to explore the pinnacle of arts, the Young Melody Program will organize an event to introduce symphonic music, with moderation and explanation of Mer. A., conductor Tran Vuong Thach.

In this event the young audience will enjoy a live symphony to get the feelings and impressions. The program include New World Symphony by A. Dvorak, one of the most famous composers in 18th century.

To receive free tickets please contact:

- Student Support Center HCMC, 33 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai – Ben Nghe Ward – District 1 – Ho Chi Minh City, Tel: 08.38274709

- Ticket Office at Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), 7 Lam Son Square, District 1, HCMC., Viet Nam, Tel: 08 3823 7419, Ms. Huong: 0,989,874,517.   

Workshop with Jompet Kuswidananto

25 and 26 May 2013, 2 – 7 pm

San Art

3 Me Linh Street, District Binh Thanh, HCMC

You are invited to a workshop by visiting Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto.

Jompet is a visual artist whose interest in theatre and music has contributed to an artistic practice largely inspired by the re-discovery of cultural historical texts. In much of his work, the idea of a ghost as a forgotten memory or haunting social presence has given birth to kinetic installations where symbols such as military costume come alive with sound and light.

In his one-month residency with San Art Jompet has continued his fascination for ghosts with an intrigue for the historical Vietnamese stories such as ‘Truyền Kì Mạn Lục’ and The Case of Lychee Garden. You are invited to hear more of Jompet’s practice; with guidance from Nguyễn Tiến Văn – translator, writer and literature critic – who will give insight into the role of mythology in Vietnam. Following this, an actor will read a version of these historical texts and then you are invited to help the artist unpack its meaning and relevance to contemporary society today.

Exhibition of Korean Cartoon and Comic Characters

Opening: Sun 26 May, 9.30 am

Exhibition: 26 May – 01 Jun 2013

Korean Cultural Centre

49 Nguyễn Du, Hà Nội

Join our Exhibition of Korean Cartoon & Comic Characters! There are many different activities for children such as exhibition of paintings and prints, cartoon screenings, etc. Some of the famous works to be displayed including “Pororo The Racing Adventure” and “Leafie A Hen Into The Wild”. This exhibition is expected to be something interesting not only to children but also to adults.

Some famous Korean comic artists will join the exhibition, such as The Director of Korean Comic Association Jo Gwan Je, Yang Jae Hyun, Jeon Guk Jin, Won Hyun Jae, etc.

The organizers also invite 150 children to the opening ceremony. Some of them come from the social sponsorship centers and will be given books and other gifts related to the characters and comic books.

Program

- 9.30 – 10 am: Opening ceremony at The Center Garden stage

- 10.00 – 10.30 am: Authors signing and giving presents in the Center Garden

(Authors: Jo Gwan Je,Won Hyun Je, Yang Jae Hyun, Jun Guk Jin)

- 10.30 – 11.45 am: Drawing in the exhibition hall

- 3:00 – 4:30 pm: Drawing session with students from Sejong center in the exhibition hall

Registration to receive drawings: Ms. Bui Hai Thuong at 04.39445980 (ext. 104)

* Note: limited number of drawings, first come first serve.

Free entrance.

Live Lounge with The Strangers, Lady Gargamel and Hi-Jinks

Sat 25 May 2013, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

All about the local, live and fresh new music buzz!

Live Lounge is Hanoi’s premier regular live music party supporting brand new acts and bringing homegrown and Hanoi-based bands to the massives!

To cream off this May musical monster month, munch on this plethora of new riffs and regulars. Blues, funk, metal, pop, rock – LL May has got its kicks, snares and symbols covered.

And if you don’t come for brand new band THE STRANGERS and their alternative rock covers of Daft Punk, Radiohead and Bob Dylan, then at least show some self love and come to wear out our aircon!

Saturday nights at Rock City – ridiculous dancing – happy days – see you there!

Tickets: Free before 9PM. 50k after (50% off w/ valid student card)

Sound Affect Vu Nhat Tan and E.Rebus

Wed 29 May 2013, 8.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Fellow sound explorers Vu Nhat Tan and E.Rebus of France meet in a roomful of bizarre machines to challenge your ears.

E.Rebus – otherwise known as Emmanuel Ferrand – works at the crossroads of sound art and science, with a particular focus on the raw qualities of sounds and vibration phenomena, often in relationship with an architecture or an urban environment. His fascination with low tech and recycled equipment, analog devices, malfunctioning or modified consumer electronics devices has impressed audiences and made him a stalwart member of France’s DIKTAT quartet and La Générale, an independent art space in Paris.

The focus of the collaboration will be an improvised look at analogue sounds, found tapes, field recordings and drones as the two seek to add something new to Hanoi’s soundscape.

Entry: VND100k (Free before 7.30pm)

Hanoi Tango Blitz 2013

24 – 27/05/2013

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

At the end of the alley leading to Artist’s Hotel

Come to the first International Tango Event ever in Hanoi: Hanoi Tango Blitz 2013 from May 24th to 27th 2013 with Argentine Masters MILENA PLEBS & DAVID PALO. Tango Hanoi now joins Tango Blitz – a well-known Tango Festival Network in Asia.

The Eternal Tango Diva, Milena Plebs needs no introduction. Her name is synonymous to Tango, whereas, David Palo is a rising star with equal abilities to match that of Milena’s.

Both Milena & David were last year’s featured artists for TANGOXPOSED. They have been travelling to Asia in the last two years working in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and more recently in Singapore, Manila, Davao, Bali and Kuala Lumpur.

It is with great pleasure to have this wonderful duo back to share their immense talent with our regional community.

Milena is the creator of Tramatango where both she and David are the main stars of this great Tango spectacle.

The two masters will bring us a great opportunity to enjoy the real Tango Argentina from Buenos Aires with 4 workshops on 25 and 26; 3 Milongas on 24, 25, and 26. Especially, Grand Milonga on 25 of May will be great night when we will welcome the Argentine Ambassador and watch the two masters’ performances.

Weekly milongas every Wed and Sat.

For more information, please contact mail: duongthugiang@gmail.com.   

Photo Contest “I Love Panda”

Time of contest: 20 May – 09 Jun 2013

To celebrate the new domain foodpanda.vn, Foodpanda Vietnam opening a photo contest for Foodpanda lovers with an award of Ipad Mini.

The participants will share coolest photos taken or designed by themselves or their friends with captions showing their loves to Panda in order to win an iPad Mini.

Who can attend?

Anybody who is currently living, studying or working in Vietnam including Vietnamese citizens and foreigners who living and working in Vietnam

The content

1. Registration time to submit your blog photos to email: contest@foodpanda.com from 20/5 – 2/6/2013. Voting process taking place from 00:00 3/6/2013 to 24:00 9/6/2013

2. The users need to provide exact and necessary personal information including: Name, Email, Blog address and mobile number.

3. How to attend?

a. Attendants take or create cool, cute, funny photos (ok with photo edited by photoshop) from any devices such as cameras, Mobile phones, computers… to show your love to Panda along with your comment about the photos showing your ideas behind.

b. Post the photo to your blog (Blogger, Blogspot, WordPress, Tumblr…) or your website ( Facebook or other social networks will not be considered to be personal blogs)

c. Send the link of your blogs or websites with the photos on (in case you do not want to create one, you can ask your friends who have) to email: contest@foodpanda.com with your personal info.

And in order to verify the blog and the website, to avoid spam and to make sure you are full owner of the blog or website please put the link of foodpanda.vn below your photo in the post.

d. We will check and publish the match-the-criteria photos with your blog/website links to one album in our Foodpanda Facebook homepage of 30000 fans liked

e. Our 30000 fans will vote for your photos and the highest votes get the Ipad Mini

f. Users can introduce to your family, friends about the photos in your blogs you have shared in order to attract the voting likes from forums, social network, blogs, websites…

Reward

- Every participants who have their photos published on our Facebook page will receive a 2D megastar movie ticket.

- The photo with highest likes will receive an Ipad Mini

Responsibility of the participants

- Participants have to guarantee that they have the full right to use the photo taken or designed. Photos will not be allowed to take from any sources which are against the copyright and the users have to keep the original picture for further information. Foodpanda Vietnam reserves the rights to use your photos and will not be responsible for any photos used without concerning copyright from the participants.

- Foodpanda will completely refuse to publish any sexual, against the Vietnam culture and government policy pictures. In case the users intentionally go for it, Foodpanda will delete the photos, cancel the results of the participants and directly inform to Vietnam authorized department.

Rights of Foodpanda

- Foodpanda reserves the right to use the user´s personal information, photo related to contest or provided by the users for commercial uses of Foodpanda Brand

- Foodpanda reserves the right to change the process and procedure of the contest without informing to the users in advance because of the unexpected things happened during the contest.

- Foodpanda will not be responsible for any lost of the data and photos from users due to the data transferring and saving process or being attacked by hackers during the contests or any other unexpected situations.

- Foodpanda has full authority to make the final decision about the winners. In some case, Foodpanda can also refuse to give the reward to the winner if the winner having some problems against the contest´s regulations.

Film and Music with Onion Cellar and HRC

Fri 24 May 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

The Onion Cellar and Hanoi Rock City.

Headphones. Films. Space. Live electronics. Free. Friday.

“….same concept – different set-up – different dynamic – different films (the premiere of a new feature by DALIBOR BARIC (remember his twisted films from our I AM THE COSMOS event last year?) + a showcase of videos by pioneer artist PIPILOTTI RIST + a classic chain-reaction experiment…)” – Onion Cellar

“…we would like to change the space, and add more textures and more dimensions to the experimental scene and community in Hanoi. This time, the audiences would have a completely different night experience with movies, visuals, sound, space and experimental music.” – HRC

Free entry.

Tone Ripples Debut in Hanoi

Fri 24 May 2013, 9 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Exciting new Hanoi band make their debut. The dan tranh (16 string zither) goes astral in Hanoi’s local – expat collab: Tone Ripples. A contemporary take on tradition, Tone Ripples are Hanoi’s latest sonic experiment.

Made up of talented musicians from a host of countries, The Tone Ripples look set to sound like something only Hanoi could produce. Dan Henneberry’s experimental guitar sounds are responsible for keeping things astral, while American Bill Badger’s percussion drives the sound. Arnaud Grignard’s French jazz background supplies intricate bass-lines to pull everything together, and – having played everything from French films to Mali rhythms on her once-traditional instrument – Nguyen Thuy Dung provides the rhythmic melodies that push the dan tranh far into the next century. The result is one of the most unique sounds ever heard in Hanoi – or beyond.

Using the theme of ripples in all its associations with sound waves, causality, cultural mixing and Hanoi’s numerous lakes, the group stand a pretty good chance of being Hanoi’s next big thing.

Entry: 50,000 VND

A Night at the Opera – The Flying Dutchman

Mon 27 May 2013, 7.30 pm

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi

For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) will be screened.

The Flying Dutchman is a German-language opera by Richard Wagner. It is the first opera in which Wagner’s musical and operatic maturity is advanced as regards thematic handling and portrayal of emotions and orchestration, musical styles that were further developed in his later operas. The story of the opera revolves around a ghostly ship captain who once invoked Satan; the ghost captain is cursed to roam the sea forever without rest. An angel brought to him the terms of his redemption: every seven years the waves will cast him upon the shore; if he can find a wife who will be true to him he will be released from his curse. The captain’s ship is dashed against a vessel that has taken refuge in a storm and the grappling irons hold the two ships together. The captain of the vessel seeking refuge has an unmarried daughter named Senta, and he agrees to the marriage in return for a treasure chest.

Language: The opera will be screened in the original German with English subtitles.

For those with membership at the Cinémathèque, make a reservation as usual by phoning the Cinémathèque, daily between 14:30 – 21:00 at 3936-2648. A limited number of tickets are also available through the Opera Guild, send an email to info@hanoioperaguild.com. A donation of VND 60,000 is suggested.    

Screening of Danish Film SuperClasicó

Mon 27 May 2013, 8 pm

Tue 28 May 2013, 8 pm

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi

The Embassy of Denmark is contributing to the European Film Festival 2013 - “Europe on Screen” this year with the film Superclasicó, a modern comedy about divorce, love, passion, and the personal journey towards discovering that what we want isn’t always what we need.

The title Superclasicó refers to the famous football matches between Spanish clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona – a rivalry that brings out the warm blooded passion in football fans all over the world. The same kind of rivalry and passion arise between the film’s main characters, who have become divided by cultural differences and expectations towards life.

The film is directed by well-known Danish director Ole Christian Madsen and depicts the story of Christian (Anders W. Bertelsen), a Copenhagen based wine-seller, recently separated and on the brink of bankruptcy. Christian’s ex-wife, Anna (Paprika Steen), who now lives in Buenos Aires, is enjoying a Latin life of luxury with one of Argentina’s top football players until Christian and his 16 year old son arrive under the false pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers. In reality, Christian is hoping to win Anna back…

The film was picked as the Danish contribution to the Oscar Academy Awards in January, 2012 and has been screened at several international film festivals receiving great reviews from press and audience.

Tickets are available free of charge from TODAY 23/05  at:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

For more information on tickets and programme, please visit EU Film Festival site.    

Screening of “Days of Being Wild”

Sat 25 May 2013, 2 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

On Saturday, TPD Centre will host another session of Two Thumbs Up Movie program. We will screen “Days of Being Wild” by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai.

About Days of Being Wild

Released in 1991, Days of being Wild is considered a classic of Hong Kong cinema. The film is ranked third in ‘100 Greatest Chinese-speaking Films of All Time’, voted by Hong Kong critics in 2005, fourth in the same list voted by Taiwanese critics in 2011, and second in Hong Kong audience’s “Favourite Films of All Time” list, after Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993).

Initiating Wong Kar Wai’s series of arthouse films, Days of being Wild is followed by In the Mood for Love (2000) and 2046 (2004), forming an informal trilogy. Like the latter two, the film does not suggest a coherent story line or dramatic plot, only using characters’s psychology to depict its content.

The screening is free entry.

Exhibition “Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia”

Exhibition: 24 May – 13 Jun 2013

Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum

97A Pho Duc Chinh St, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1, HCMC

The exhibition is a part of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Australia.

Come to an art exhibition Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia. The exhibition features a selection of 21 artworks from the Australian Government’s Artbank collection; it has been displayed in many countries and is currently undertaking a tour in the Asia’s region.

This Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia underlines the vitality, energy and innovation of Indigenous communities and artists. It takes audiences beyond the popular contemporary Indigenous art movement of the Western Dessert to the personal experiences of life in urbanised Australia. Australia is a tolerant and multicultural society that values the traditions, cultures and contributions of people from all backgrounds, including Indigenous people.

Message Stick will be open to the public from 24 May to 13 June 2013 at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, 97A Pho Duc Chinh St, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1 (except every Monday).

Entrance fee for Vietnamese 5,000 VND and for foreigners 10,000 VND.    

Concert Forgotten Gems

24 and 25 May 2013, 7.30 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Str, Dist 1, HCMC

This wonderful concert will include Franz Joseph Haydn‘s Great Organ Mass, Randall Thompson‘s Frostiana, settings of 7 poems by Robert Frost, and will culminate with John Rutter‘s spectacular Gloria.  It will also include the final movement of Alessandro Scarlatti‘s Dixit Dominus (Musica Sacra MS 710), which has never been published.  The transcription we will be using has been taken directly from the only surviving, hand-written manuscript at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” di Milano.

It will be an evening of fine music that is not to be missed!

Tickets: 490.000 VND (Adults), 300.000 VND (Children). Bookings here.

All proceeds go to charity.

Mincity – Art Inside You

Sun 26 May 2013, 9 am – 4 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Mincity – Art inside you is the series of events from Mintown – The town of handmade, dedicates to the fields of art and high quality handicraft products, high-ends fashion designs.

At Mincity, you can enjoy the exhibition space with real art works from artisans’ hands. We also have high quality handicraft stalls providing creative designs. Moreover, vibrant music activities are ready all day.

Additionally, the artistic space at HRC – Hanoi Rock City is the most grateful location for artistic emotions uplifting. Mincity will nourish your heart and soul in “The true art”.

HRC

The main activities:

- High quality handicraft products and designs stalls

- Art exhibition

- Music space

Let’s melt this summer!

Free entrance.

Experimental Music Night “The Sounds of Summer”

Thu 23 May 2013, 8 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Manzi is proud to present ‘The Sound of Summer’ – a special experimental music night with pioneering sound artist Vu Nhat Tan & percussionist Tran Xuan Hoa.

Combining contemporary electronic music with percussion, the concert promises to be a wonderful & magical night at Manzi this Thursday.

Vu Nhat Tan: Having collaborated with various local & international artists, and performed at many festivals throughout Europe, Australia, America & Singapore, Vu Nhat Tan will once again bring back to Hanoi his exhilarating sonic work.

Tran Xuan Hoa: Graduated from Hanoi Music Conservatory, Hoa has been playing as a lead percussion player at the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet. He also acts as founder of the well-known percussion team named ‘Go Group’ .

Ticket at door: 150,000 (including a free drink: Hanoi beer or soft drink)

KASA Japanese Dance

Sat 25 May 2013, 9 pm

Umbrella Bar

61 Ma May, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

Are you looking for something “super” new in Hanoi?

Are you looking for something weird (in a good way) that you can’t help listening to and staring at?

Are you looking for a new event with lots of fun, good music, free tequila shots to welcome the hot summer in Hanoi?

Then if you answer just 1 of 3 above questions, get yourself (don’t forget your crew too) to Umbrella Bar – 61 Ma May on this Saturday night (25/05/2013).

You can not go wrong with our Japanese dance and Geisha and Cosplay girls around. Get ready to get down for DJ Spectrum from 10 pm till late. 808 Dance Crew and Carmelia are gonna bring you the best Japanese Dances with live Japanese Visuals that surely you can never find anywhere. Say why not?

And what’s more (there’s always more), free gifts for booking a table in advance at 0936397393! What else are you waiting for? Pick up the phone, right nowwwwwwwwwww.

About 808 Dance Crew

THE NAME

808 – originally inspired by the first drum machine Roland TR-808 (beat box)

808 – the drum machine that has inspired modern music genres

808 – a familiar number for music industries, representing strong, exciting and continuous beats

808 Dance Community was developed by a group of enthusiastic member of Hip Hop Jazz Club – Hanoi, with the yearn of connecting passionate individuals, maximizing the strengths of individuals and the community as a whole, developing a diversified, professional and friendly dance industry of Vietnam, and creating accesses to international dance communities.

Screening of Persepolis and Song Hong

Fri 24 May 2013, 6.30 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Hanoi    

Hanoi Doclab cordially presents the screening of two animations “Persepolis” and “Fleuve Rouge, Song Hong” and discussion with the two French directors, Stephanie Lansaque and Francois Leroy.

Persepolis talks about the life of Marjanne Satrapi, an Iranian comic book artist, as a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands.

Fleuve Rouge, Song Hong by French directors Stephanie Lansaque and Francois Leroy. The story takes place in Hanoi, Vietnam, the animation shows a single day through the eyes of three brothers who have arrived in the big city of Hanoi for the first time from the countryside. Using a mix of animation and real life imagery such as photos and film, the visual style becomes a dreamlike hypnotic experience.

Both Persepolis and Song Hong are animation films but close to the documentary genre in their making. Francois Leroy, co-director of Song Hong, also worked on Persepolis as animator and special effects artist.

Francois Leroy and Stephanie Lansaque will discuss their works after the screening.

The screening aims for studies and research only.

If you’re interested in getting news, announcements from DOCLAB for its activities, workshops, and schedule of film screenings, etc., please email us at hanoidoclab@gmail.com to subscribe to DOCLAB news.

Concert “In the Moment”

Concert: Sat 25 May 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Cheo Theatre

15 Nguyen Dinh Chieu Str, Hanoi

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Art Talk: Sun 26 May 2013, 7 pm

Manzi

14 Phan Huy Ich Str, Hanoi

Domdom presents the contemporary improvisation concert “In the moment” with performance of Danish artist Lotte Anker and Hanoi’s most prominent musicians and improvisers: Kim Ngọc, Sonx, Ngô Trà My, Dee. F, Nguyễn Hồng Quang, Gentle Ohm, Việt Hồng.

Known as one of the most significant improviser in the free-form/ improvisation/ new music/ experimental music in North Europe, Lotte Anker has come back to Vietnam after the festival Hanoi New Music Meeting 2009.

In this collaboration project with Vietnamese musicians and improvisers, Lotte Anker presents to us a music that will be based on absolute improvisation to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sounds in a contemporary musical landscape.

In the moment is more than anything, the adventurous landscape of tradition and abstract modernism; traditional Vietnamese instruments and Western electronics; energetic, hardcore and fragile, deep.

One day after “In the moment” concert, Lotte Anke will have an art talk which focuses on contemporary improvisation and its relation with the audience.

Free entrance (please come on time, the door will be closed 15 mins after the concert starts).

UK Musician Fyfe Dangerfield to Vietnam

Hanoi: Thu 28 May 2013, 8 pm

Youth Theatre

11 Ngo Thi Nham Str, Hanoi    

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HCMC: Sun 26 May 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Str, Dist 1, HCMC

Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield joined by their percussionist Greig Stewart to play a stripped-down selection of his and the band’s songs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city. This is one important event included in our series of activities celebrating the 40th anniversary of Viet Nam and UK diplomatic relations and 20th anniversary of British Council presence in Vietnam.

The two concerts are also part of Europe Days 2013.

Fyfe Dangerfield is best known as the founding member and songwriter / frontman of Guillemots, a band with members from all over the globe who first came to attention back in 2005, with exuberant, colour-drenched singles such as “Made-up Lovesong#43” and “Trains to Brazil”. Their debut album “Through the Windowpane” followed in 2006, picking up a Mercury Music Prize nomination and vocal praise from many music luminaries including Sir Paul McCartney, and a Brit Nomination followed the next year for Best Live Act.

Since then, albums “Red” (2008), “Walk the River” (2011) and “Hello Land” (2012)  have continued to feed the group’s reputation for making gorgeously unpredictable, dreamlike music, with the latter album also marking the start of an exciting new phase for Guillemots – an ambitious project to release four albums loosely based around the seasons, recording in a Norwegian hideout with producer Jonas Raabe; the second, “summer” album is currently in production.

In 2010, Dangerfield released his own debut solo album, the gold-selling “Fly Yellow Moon”, which included a surprise Top 10 hit with one of its bonus tracks, a cover of Billy Joel’s “She’s Always A Woman”. He is also increasingly working as a composer and arranger; the CBSO premiered his debut orchestral piece, “In Wait”, in 2007, and he has written a number of pieces for both cellist Natalie Clein and the choir Ex Cathedra. 2011 saw his first soundtrack, too, for a theatre production of the fairytale “Howl’s Moving Castle”.

As an instrumentalist, Fyfe plays keyboards with tea-dance-gone-wrong free jazz improvisers Gannets, whose album “Transmissions of Not” – a recording of a BBC Radio 3 session – was released in 2012, and is a part-time guitarist for roll-n-roll tradesmen The Courtesy Group. He is also currently collating a series of random recordings with which to launch his own Pitch Squirrel record label.

Free tickets can be collected at the British Council HCMC at 25 Le Duan, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City from 9 am and British Council Hanoi at 20 Thuy Khue, Tay Ho, Hanoi from 10 am Thu 23 May 2013.

Screening of “Living in Fear”

Fri 24 May 2013, 8 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

At 8p.m. on Friday 24th May 2013, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Living in Fear (director Bui Thac Chuyen).

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.

Agenda

- 19:30: Reception

- 20:00: Screening of the film Living in Fear (with English Subtitle)

Booking

- Via email ( tpdmovie@gmail.com).

- Directly at TPD Center

- Via phone

Methods of contribution

- Direct donation at TPD Center (for direct booking method).

- Suggested Donation 50,000 VND

Facility

- Full HD projector (1920×1080)

- Wide screen

- Digital sound 5.1

- 30-seats screening room.

Living in Fear (2005)

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

• A black comedy about landmines that flirts with outright slapstick (Variety)

• “Living in Fear” vividly portrays the wounds left by the Vietnam War, wounds salted by social pressure and anxiety. The director handled this unique subject matter with maximum impact through powerful cinematic elements.” (Gertjan Zuilhof – Rotterdam Int. Film Festival)

Screening of “The Maltese Falcon”

Wed 22 May 2013, 7 pm

The Hanoi Bicycle Collective

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “The Maltese Falcon”(1941, USA, 100 minutes).

After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett’s detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941–or, rather, John Huston, a long-established screenwriter making his directorial debut, got it right, simply by adhering as closely as possible to the original.

Taking over from a recalcitrant George Raft, Humphrey Bogart achieved true stardom as Sam Spade, a hard-boiled San Francisco private eye who can be as unscrupulous as the next guy but also adheres to his own personal code of honor. Into the offices of the Spade & Archer detective agency sweeps a Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor), who offers a large retainer to Sam and his partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) if they’ll protect her from someone named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Since Archer saw her first, he takes the case — and later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby. Miss Wonderly’s real name turns out to be Brigid O’Shaughnessey, and, as the story continues, Sam is also introduced to the effeminate Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) and the fat, erudite Kasper Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet, in his film debut). It turns out that Brigid, Cairo and Gutman are all international scoundrels, all involved in the search for a foot-high, jewel-encrusted statuette in the shape of a falcon. Though both Cairo and Gutman offer Spade small fortunes to find the “black bird,” they are obviously willing to commit mayhem and murder towards that goal: Gutman, for example, drugs Spade and allows his “gunsel” Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.) to kick and beat the unconscious detective. This classic film noir detective yarn gets better with each viewing, which is more than can be said for the first two Maltese Falcons and the ill-advised 1975 “sequel” The Black Bird.

Free entry.

A Design Exhibition

Opening: Mon 20 May, 4 – 7 pm

Exhibition: 20 – 23 May 2013

Arts Centre, UNIS

Phu Thuong Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi

Come to the 2nd annual UNIS Design Exhibition to have a look at the future generation of international designers.

By invitation only and please contact dgibb@unishanoi.org to register.

Eco Picture Diary Contest 2013

Time to submit: 02 May – 03 Aug 2013

The Eco Picture Diary Contest will be launched the first time in Vietnam to help students improve their awareness of protecting environment, as well as promote their creativeness, writing and expressing skills.

Eligibility

Foreign and Vietnamese students living and studying in Vietnam, at the age of 6 to 15 (born from 2nd May 1998 to 2nd May 2007 according to their birth certificate)

Content and Method

- Each contestant to receive 01 Eco Diary Book from Organization Board.

- With their creativity, contestant will complete 10 pages of Diary recording activities in 05 different days and do not need to be consecutive.

- Content relating to:

+ Eco activities that contestants have taken part in, at schools, local or other organizations.

+ Eco lessons that contestants have learned.

+ Contestant’s thoughts of environment and environmental protection

- Format of each day diary includes 2 pages:

+ 01 written page (not exceed printed lines in the Diary)

+ 01 illustrating page (Drawing, painting, inserting photographs taken by contestant or collected from magazines or newspapers. If inserted photographs were from widely publicized magazines, contestant has to specify the source and author’s name. If insert photographs from unpublished magazines or prohibited copying works, have to submit the permission from author).

- Language: Vietnamese or English (English is preferable)

Place to submit (Directly or by post)

- Panasonic Risupia Vietnam

2nd Floor, Sunrise Building, D11 Tran Thai Tong St., Cau Giay Dist., Hanoi

Tel: 04. 3795 8238

- Planning Department

Panasonic Vietnam Ltd., Co.

Plot J1-J2, Thang Long Industrial Park, Dong Anh Dist, Hanoi

Tel: 04. 39550111

Prize:

10 best entries selected from the first round will be judged in second round to be awarded:

+ 01 First Prize: 4 days and 3 nights travel to Paris, France to participate in Eco Picture Diary Global Contest with 01 guardian (including return air tickets, hotel accommodation, meals and local transportation within the trip’s itinerary. The winner and his/her guardian will be responsible to ensure their own passport, visa fee, travel insurance and personal arising costs)

+ 01 Second Prize

+ 01 Third Prize

+ 01 Creative Prize

+ 01 Eco Idea Prize

+ 05 Encouragement Prizes

For more information about the contest, you can contact:

Ms. Nguyen Huyen Trang

Email: huyentrang.nguyen@vn.panasonic.com

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong

Email: thuhuong.nguyen@vn.panasonic.com

Event Fusion-oi

Sat 18 May 2013, 7.30 pm

Clickspace

5th floor 28 To Ngoc Van, Hanoi

Join us on Tay Ho’s coolest patio for the return of Hanoi’s hottest party concept: Fusion-Oi. Meet new people, discover new music, enjoy a cocktail and free-flow beer, and experience a little of what makes Hanoi a great place to live.

Fusion-Oi aims to create cultural collage events that draw people closer together. Our events create a fun, relaxing environment that delight the senses through Funky fusion music, food and social connections. We encourage you to bring along your friends and new acquaintances to a night of socializing and enjoyment.

DJ Jody O’Dea @ 9:30

Original cocktails by Vietnam’s top mixologist 2012 Pham Tien Tiep.

Tickets: VND 100,000 includes admission, food, free flow beer, signature cocktail — not a bad deal.

Mottainai Stuff Exchange Festival 2013

Sat 18 May 2013, 8 am – 5 pm

INDOCHINA PLAZA HANOI

239 Xuan Thuy Street, Cau Giay district, Hanoi

Join us and form a good habit of protecting the environment by this small action: exchanging old things that you don’t use any more on the Mottainai Stuff Exchange Festival 2013.

Bring your second hand articles to exchange with our vouchers, then you can feel free to use those vouchers to do your shopping at different shops and booths. There are a large variety of items, from Book, Souvenirs, Clothes, Household stuff for you to choose. You can also have a chance to create Handmade things at the booth “Instructions to make handmade goodies”, and many other interesting activities.

Guest artists

- The program ambassador: Singer Khánh Linh

- Sign In Band, Dương Trần Nghĩa, Tạ Quang Thắng, B-Symphony, Quỳnh Anh Shyn – Bê Trần, etc.

- Linh Rin, Hà Lade

Program

- Booths of second hand goodies for you to choose

- Handmade shops with recycled toys

- Japanese culture display, with services such as Tarot, Portrait painting, etc.

Body Painting and Dance Show at Umbrella

Fri 17 May 2013, 9 pm

Umbrella Bar

61 Ma May, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

This Friday, Umbrella Bar will be holding a special dance show and body painting event with the appearances by artist Phuong Vu Manh, dancer Doan Minh Hoan, musician Vu Nhat Tan and guitarist Hoai Anh, as well as DJ Tuan Kruise.

If this isn’t a mind-blowing party mix then nothing is!

Phương Vũ Mạnh is a Vietnamese artist living and working in Hanoi, Vietnam. Manh graduated from the Hanoi, Vietnam College of Culture and Art, with majors in painting and drawing in 1991. He later completed five years at the Hanoi University of Fine Art, where he graduated with top marks in 1998. He has participated in many group and solo exhibitions, including installation and performance shows.

Recently Mạnh has been working intensively in the medium of lacquer, but Mạnh has extensive experience in oil, wood block, ink and other mediums. Mạnh chooses the appropriate medium to best express his art ideas. This Friday the artist’s canvas will be the human body.

LINE UP:

9PM -10:30PM Body painting and modern dance show

Artist PHUONG VU MANH

Dancer DOAN MINH HOAN

Music by VU NHAT TAN & HOAI ANH on guitar

10:30PM till late

DJ TUAN KRUISE

ENTRY FEE: 100,000 VND includes one drink

Exhibition “YAYOI KUSAMA: Obsessions”

Exhibition: 25 May – 28 Jul 2013, 9 am – 6 pm

Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội

In celebration of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly present the best of Japanese contemporary art exhibition “YAYOI KUSAMA: Obsessions” from Saturday 25 May to Sunday 28 July 2013 in Hanoi.

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist, has received the National Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2006 but is still, or even more, hyperactive to create new art works.

In her over 7 decades-career as an artist, Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and installation. Having continuously innovated and re-invented her style, Kusama’s obsessive repetitions and patterns of dots have been widely celebrated and become her trademark.

Kusama has received numerous awards including the Order of Arts and Letters (2003/France), the Order of the Rising Sun (2006/Japan), the Praemium Imperiale (2006/Japan) and has recognized as the Person of Cultural Merit (2009/Japan).

Her solo art exhibitions have been also held in various prestigious museums such as Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Centre Goerges Pompidou (Paris) and Tate Modern (London).

It is consequently quite natural that her artworks fetch around 4,000,000 – 6,000,000 USD at recent auctions, the highest price as an active female artist in the world.

Yayoi Kusama, however, regardless of being extremely highly established, never stops being avant-garde and goes forward to explore new possibilities in a new environment; this time – in   Vietnam.

Kusama will occupy the site of the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi) with a variety of her famous immersive installations.

The half of the courtyard will be covered with 1,500 silver balls to install her legendary installation “Narcissus Garden” and 9 huge objects with polka dots entitled “Guidepost to the New Space” will be arranged in the other half of the courtyard and the car garage.

The main exhibition hall will be turned into a room for the installation “Dots Obsessions” in which you can enjoy Kusama’s one of the most popular installations with mirrors and dots balloons.

Last but not least, the small kitchen room in the appendix building will be dedicated for the relatively new installation “I’m Here, but Nothing” where you can experience the illusive confusion of two and three dimensions with dizzy illuminated dots.

We do hope this exhibition will provide a good opportunity not only for adults but also for kids to appreciate world-class contemporary art with free admission.

Remark: Yayoi Kusama will not come to Vietnam this time but her special message to Vietnam will be delivered at the opening of the exhibition.

About Yayoi Kusama

1929 Born in Nagano, Japan

1957 Moved to the United States

1973 Return to Japan

Selected Awards

2000        The Education Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize

The Foreign Minister’s Commendations

2001         The Asahi Prize

2003        The French Ordre des Arts et des Letters (Officier)

The Nagano Governor’s Prize

2006        The 2006 National Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Order of Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette

The Praemium Imperiale – Painting

2009        A Person of Cultural Merit

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1993         YAYOI KUSAMA, Japan Pavilion, the 45th Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy)

1998        Love Forever: YAYOI KUSAMA 1958-1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, the US)

2004        YAYOI KUSAMA: KUSAMATRIX, Mori Art Museum (Tokyo); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo (Japan)

2004        YAYOI KUSAMA, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (Japan);, Matsumoto City Museum of Art

2008        YAYOI KUSAMA: Mirrored Years, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Netherlands); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Australia); City Gallery, Wellington (New Zealand)

2011         YAYOI KUSAMA, Look Now, See Forever, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (Australia)

2011-2012    YAYOI KUSAMA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain); Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France); Tate Modern (London, the UK); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, the US)

2012         YAYOI KUSAMA: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The Museum of Art, Saitama (Japan); Matsumoto City Museum of Art (Japan); Niigata City Art Museum (Japan)

Others

2012         Collaboration with Luis Vuitton for “Yayoi Kusama Collection”

Yayoi Kusama Guidepost to the New Space 2012 Installation, Mixed Media Installation view: Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan

Round Table “For 21st Century Young People”

Fri 17 May 2013, 2 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Welcome to the round table discussion with the writers and translators Glenn Pian, Phạm Văn Thiều, Phạm Xuân Nguyên on the occasion of the 5 new book launch for young people in the 21st century (Pour Les Adolescents du XXI è siècle). 11 books in the collection “For young people in the 21st century” have been selected as “Good books” of Vietnam in 2012. The round table is under The Third European Literature Days 2013

The collection includes many small books introducing life skills and living values ​​for adolescents that the curriculum of formal education have not written deeply.

5 new books will be introduced together with 11 books which have already been published.

Language of discussion: Vietnamese

Free Entrance.

Free Filmmaking Course in Summer at TPD

Deadline: 08 Jun 2013

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

After 3 years in development and 24 free film making courses completed, TPD Centre’s project “We Are Filmmakers” has successfully worked with nearly 200 trainees, produced 100 documentaries, 50 films of short length. The project has also built a large community for young people to share their love of cinema.

As summer 2013 approaches, TPD Centre will continue our film making course for free in order to initiate and connect the interest in cinema in between young people.

Starting with class H30, students aged 15-20 can apply for the course for free. For cinema enthusiasts over 20 of age, you can still apply with a fee of VND 1.000.000/course.

Our classes H30-H31 specializing in documentary films will consist of 10 classes, starting in 16th June 2013.

Number of applicant: 25/ class

Time: 1 class/week on Sunday morning or afternoon

Application deadline: 08/06/2013

Eligible for anyone living in Hanoi.

Application details

1. Applicant could apply through post or email or directly at TPD Centre.

2. TPD Centre would get in touch with successful applicants to arrange a final assesssment

3. Successful applicants would receive their results and complete their application process

Application form can be downloaded here.

Application forms and other inquiries please contact:

Project We Are Filmmakers

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD)

Vietnam Cinema Association

Address: 51 Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi

Tel: (04) 39366559

Email: chungtalamphim@tpd.vn

Website: www.tpdmovie.com.vn

Note: Please put “PTL H30-H31” as your subject when contacting us through emails.

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.

Music on the Roof – Love Story

Fri 24 May 2013, 8.30 pm

The Rooftop Bar & Restaurant

19th floor, Pacific Place, 83B Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hanoi

Music on the Roof is coming back with the most talented young artists. Our passionate music hopefuls promise to bring a youthful rooftop.

In our first show “Love story”, experience stories of love from Huong Tram, Nguyen Dinh Thanh Tam & Hoang Quyen.

Dance your way up and be under the spotlight with brilliant DJs. The joy lingers till midnight.

For more information, please contact 043 946 1901 – Hotline: 091 370 6966 – 0123 954 9900

Music Night “Blast for the Last”

Fri 17 May 2013, 8.30 pm

The Rooftop Bar & Restaurant

19th floor, Pacific Place, 83B Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hanoi

There is no better way to celebrate a decade than to throw a party in its honour.

Dive in the world of the golden age of music and let the feeling of nostalgia wave yourself.

Come back to a time when everything is laid back and carefree. With the participation of DJ Eks Viet.

For more information, please contact 043 946 1901 – Hotline: 091 370 6966 – 0123 954 9900

Screening of “Bi, Don’t be Afraid”

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

You are invited to the two screening of TPD this week. At 8p.m. on Friday 17th May 2011, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Bi, Don’t be Afraid (director Phan Dang Di).

This Saturday, 18/05/2013, Two Thumbs Up Movie will commence at TPD Centre with A Royal Affair, a gem of Danish cinema.

About Bi, don’t be afraid

Year: 2010

Director: Di Phan Dang

Cast: Tran Tien, Hoa Thuy, Ha Phong, Thanh Minh

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 90 min

Synopsis: In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears and settles at their house. While Bi gets closer to his grandfather, his father tries to avoid any contact with his family. Every night, he gets drunk and goes and see his masseuse, for whom he feels a quiet strong desire. Bi’s mother turns a blind eye on it. The aunt, still single, meets a 16-year-old young boy in the bus. Her attraction to him moves her deeply.

Awards:

- ACID/CCAS Award – Cannes Film Festival

- Best First Feature Film and Best Cinematography Stockholm International Film Festival.

- Special Mention Vancouver International Film Festival

- New Talent Award – Asia-Hong Kong Film Festival.

About A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair (dir: Nicolaj Arcel) is one of the five films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards.

Screening on Friday: 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.

Screening on Saturday: The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

After a short disruption, we are back with our weekly screenings on Saturday afternoons. Starting this May, we will split the programme into 3 smaller ones, operating one after each week:

- From Book to the Screen: screening famous films adapted from literary novels, accompanied by a talk with guests after the screening.

- Topical screenings: introduction to different directors, filmmakers and cinema movements around the world of films.

- Two Thumbs Up Movies: screening classic films, films with prestigious nominations and/or awards (Golden Lions, Golden Palm, Oscar. . .) that still remain largely unknown.

VNTG at Hanoi Social Club

Sat 25 May 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

We are lucky enough to have Vietnam’s top experimental sound artist & electronic musician, Vu Nhat Tan playing at The Hanoi Social Club. Having collaborated with various local & international artists, and performed at many festivals throughout Europe, Australia, America & Singapore, Tan will once again bring some stellar sonic style (that’s alliteration, folks) to the streets.

For this event he will be teamed up with the ever awesome “đàn tranh” artist Nguyen Thuy Dung. Dung has started to make a name for herself through her genre-defying collaborations. Whether playing with African musicians, creating free-form experimental improvisations or filling floors alongside international DJs, Dung is constantly pushing the boundaries of what the traditional “đàn tranh” can do.

Come and listen to what happens when tradition and contemporary sounds meld together.

Tickets: 100,000 VND

European Food Festival in Hanoi

Sat 18 May 2013, 4 pm

Hanoi National Library

31 Tràng Thi, Hà Nội

The European Food Festival has always been one of the most expected events of the year – and now it is back! We have prepared a plethora of live performances, lucky-draws, delicious food, drinks, music and much more to ensure a great experience for all.

The European Food Festival in Hanoi has become a tradition to celebrate Europe Days in a festive spirit. The Food Festival will therefore be one of greatest social events this year and it will introduce a variety of unique European culinary experiences, bringing together the international and Vietnamese communities to celebrate in unison.

With the presence of Hanoi’s most beloved restaurants, 5-star hotels and hospitality providers, a broad variety of European dishes will be available for you to enjoy. This is a great opportunity to discover and experience the diversity of European legendary tastes and flavors like Paella, Beef Zurichoise with Spatzle, Italian Lasagna, Spaghetti Bolognese and lots of assorted baguettes and pizzas.

European Food Festival 1

The culinary experience will strengthened through music and activities; there will be music playing, a DJ, funny games, lucky-draws and a kid’s corner. As always, our Food Festival is the perfect forum to spend time with family and friends, so come join us for a great day in a relaxing atmosphere!

Program:

4 pm: Venue Opens, Kid’s Activities, DJ JeremiX

5 pm: Dancing and Singing by The AJC Stars

6 pm: Opening Ceremony, Food Stalls Opens

6.15 pm: Live Music with Hi-Jinks Playing Funk Reggae Jazz

7.15 pm: 1st Lucky Draw

7.30 pm: Live Music with The Guests Playing Swing Groove Sounds

8.30 pm: 2nd Lucky Draw

8.45 pm: Free Dancing with Music by DJ JeremiX

Ticket

VND 290,000 (including 10 food/drink coupons)

Free entrance for children under 10 years old

For tickets, please contact Ms Linh, Tel: 04 37152228 or email linh@eurochamvn.org.

Opening of a Design Studio in Hanoi

Wed 29 May 2013, 4 – 7 pm

Room 507, 5th floor, Ta Quang Buu Library Building

Hanoi University of Technology

01 Dai Co Viet Str, Hanoi

Come to the opening of a design studio on the 29th of May, from 4pm to 7pm, come to discover and test our 1st prototypes! And get involved in our design process by giving us your feed-back on our designs for future offices!

Future Living Studio (FLS) is a temporary design studio. During three months, a design team of three Vietnamese designers and three International designers is collaborating with three local manufacturers to produce environmentally and socially conscious products. The subject of the 3rd edition, which is now happening in Hanoi, is to develop a collection of new products and solutions for future offices.

Symphony Concert with Conductor Kuusela Jukka Pekka

Mon 27 May 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the symphony concert with conductor Kuusela Jukka Pekka (Finland), piano soloist Do Hoang Linh Chi and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information about program and tickets, see below:

Program

Dang Huu Phuc

Suite for Strings

Chopin

Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra

Interval

Sibelius

Symphony No.1

Tickets

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

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Screening of “Two Days in New York”

Fri 31 May 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of  “Two Days in New York” (French, German, 2012, 95’) by Julie Delpy. Elle magazine commented on the movie: “Proper, hilarious, touching…the best of Julie Delpy”.

Please click here to see the synopsis (in French).

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Screening of UK Film “WUTHERING HEIGHTS”

Hanoi: Sat 25 May 2013, 10 am

Sun 26 May 2013, 8 pm

National Cinema Center

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HCMC: Thu 23 May 2013, 7 pm

Sat 25 May 2013, 7 pm

Cinebox

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Danang: Sun 26 May 2013, 8 pm

Le Do Cinema

Within the framework of the European Film festival 2013, British Council will show “Wuthering Heights” in English language with English subtitles. Andrea Arnold’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. For more information about the film, see below:

**World Premiere – 2011 Venice Film Festival**

Winner – Best Cinematography

**Official Selection, 2011 Toronto International Film Festival**

**Official Selection, 2012 Sundance Film Festival**

Directed by Andrea Arnold

Running Time: 128’

Starring

Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer, Steve Evets, and Oliver Milburn

An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Living in Earnshaw’s home, Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer’s teenage daughter, Cathy, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his son, Hindley. When Earnshaw passes away, the now-grown characters must finally confront the intense feelings and rivalries that have built up throughout their years together.

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

HCMC:

Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50

British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62

Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610

Da Nang:

Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74

Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/  or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam   

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi   

Cinebox

212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, HCMC   

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu, Da Nang

Exhibition “Angel in the City”

Opening: Tues 28 May, 6 pm

Exhibition: 28 May – 30 June 2013

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the exhibition of photographer Jean-Paul. It is the mixture of modern and taste, dream and poetry, creation of images of the city, the varying noisy and gaudy city, somehow it still welcomes ‘‘a sobbing heart and its silent guard’’.

The urban scenes are like the base of an icon character who bears the signal revealed the recession of his characteristic, however it still makes an effort. A heart, described as a ” new mascot for our modern life, in the heart of modern urban”, following Apollinaire, who wrote “Let’s legendize the mediocre present”

Jean-Paul Lefret is a photographer. He currently lives and works in Paris as an advertisement photographer however he also takes part in the publishing and contributes to the art magazine The Play Ground. He has studied ’’mascot in the city theory’’ since 2007.

Free entry.

Screening of “Two Days in Paris”

Fri 24 May 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

From L’Espace:

You are invited to the screening of “Two Days in Paris” (French, German, 2007, 96’) by Julie Delpy. According to Positif magazine: “For a very longtime I haven’t laughed that much when watching a movie. Julie Delpy is not only Woody Allen but also our La Bruyère!”.

Please check L’Espace website for the film synopsis in French or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Cabaret Night in May

Sat 25 May 2013, 8.30 – 9.30 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Cabaret Night at L’Espace is the stage for new music talents. Come here to enjoy great drinks and listen to fabulous French, English and Vietnamese songs.

If you are a song-writer, singer or you can sing in French, Vietnamese or English, contact Cédric Drouard to participate in the Cabaret Music Night at L’Espace: cedminimum@hotmail.fr.

Free admission.

Francophone Drama Festival for Pupils and Students

Thur 23 May 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to The first Francophone drama festival for young students from high schools and universities in Hanoi , this is the opportunity for young people who love theater to meet and discuss together.

The festival will start with an improvisation contest and then will be followed by the performance of four plays which were adapted from the works of Giraudoux, Frédéric Sonntag, Ghelderode and self-composed play.

This festival is for everyone and this is an opportunity for young theater lovers to meet and discuss together. Plays will be translated from French into Vietnamese and screened on stage.

Free entry, seats are limited.

Trio Aurora at Goethe Institut

21 and 22 May 2013, 8 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

We cordially invite you to the Goethe-Institut for a doubtlessly remarkable concert by Trio Trinity with Nguyen My Huong (Violin), Nguyen Hong Anh (Violoncello) and Tranh Thai Linh (Piano). During numerous concerts, Trio Trinity has delighted the audiences at Goethe-Institut: brilliant interplay and attractive musical programs, ranging from classical chamber music to 20th century pieces, distinguish the trio.

The compositions of Maurice Ravel and Joaquín Turina, two main representatives of impressionism, might be best described by “Sound and Colour Art”: acoustic patterns that musically evoke a certain atmosphere. In Dmitri Shostakovichs piece by contrast, the listener experiences the plainness and clarity of late 20th century neo-classicism.

Program

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):

Trio for piano, violin and cello

1. Modéré

2. Pantoum : Assez vif

3. Passacaille : Très large

4. Finale: Animé

Joaquín Turina (1882-1949):

Trio for piano,violin and cello No.1, D major,op.35

1. Prélude et Fugue

2. Thème et Variations

3. Sonate

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):

Trio for piano, violin and cello, No.1, C minor, op.8

Tickets

Free Tickets are available from 14.05.2013, 10am, at the Goethe-Institute Hanoi

Concert for adult and teenagers from 10 years up – Child care with kid movies in our library

BIOGRAPHY

Nguyen My Huong studied violin at the Music Academy of Vietnam from 1992 to 2005. She then studied at the University of Music and Drama in Graz. In 1999, 2000 and 2006 she was a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and the PMF orchestra and thus took part in many concert tours including to Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia and USA. My Huong is now a lecturer at the Academy of Music and plays often in the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nguyen Hong Anh studied cello from 1995 to 2004 at the Music Academy in Vietnam. In 1999, 2000 and 2004 she was a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and went on many concert tours to countries all around the world. In 2005 she played in the CISMA Orchestra in Quang Dong (China). 2009-2010 she studied at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. She now teaches at the Vietnam National Music Academy and is first cellist in the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tran Thai Linh completed his piano studies at the Vietnam Academy of Music in 2006 and did his master’s degree under the guidance of Prof. Tran Thu Ha and Prof. Max Olding (Queensland University, Australia). Thai Linh won the Second Prize at the International Piano Competition A.S.K.M Gold Coast VI.

Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013 Evie Wyld to Vietnam

Thu 16 May 2013, 9.30 – 11.30 am: Talk at Literature department

Hanoi USSH

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Fri 17 May 2013, 6 – 7.30 pm: Book presentation with participation of Di Li – Vietnamese writer

Goethe Institute

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Sat 18 May 2013, 5 – 6.30 pm: Round table on “Writing fiction today”

Goethe Institute

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Mon 20 May 2013, 9.30 – 11.30 am: Talk at English department

HCMC USSH

Joining the European Literature Days 2013 in Hanoi, Evie Wyld, an exciting new voice included on the list of Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013, will talk to Di Li, a young Vietnamese writer on the next generation of British writers. The author of the acclaimed novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice also joins other writers from Spain and Denmark in a public talk on ‘Writing Fiction today.’

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom; it published the first list of 20 young British novelists in 1983. Since then, the list has been announced every 10 years with many of its selections have been ‘prescient.’ As many as 12 Granta listers moved on to win or be short-listed for significant literary awards such as Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize.

Atonement author Ian McEwan, Never Let Me Go author Kazuo Ishiguro, England, England author Julian Barnes – to name just a few – were among Granta Best Young British Novelists. The 2013 list was announced on 15 April at British Council in London.

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is Evie Wyld’s debut novel and earned her a number of literary awards. The novel was critically acclaimed, with the Daily Mail stating that Evie Wyld can ‘match the finest storytellers working today with awesome skill and whiplash wit.’

Also in her time in Vietnam, Evie Wyld will have talk with students from University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi and HCMC.

Evie Wyld’s schedule in Vietnam (16-20th May):

16.05.2013    09:30 – 11.30

Talk at Literature department – Hanoi USSH on British Contemporary Literature

17.05.2013    18:00 – 19:30

Book presentation with participation of Di Li – Vietnamese writer

at Goethe Institute

18.05.2013     17:00-18:30

Round table on “Writing fiction today” with writers from Spain, Denmark, Vietnam at Goethe Institute

20.05.2013    09:30 – 11.30

Talk at English department – HCMC USSH on British Contemporary Literature.

Free entrance to the above events.   

Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities

336 Nguyen Trai Str, Hanoi   

Goethe Insitut

56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi   

HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities

10-12 Dinh Tien Hoang, Dist 1, HCMC

Exhibition of “Le Petit Prince” and Discussion

Sat 18 May 2013, 9 am

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to an exhibition combined with discussion, drama and book reading, etc. of Le petit prince (The Little Prince). This is an ambitious event for teenagers. The program is within the framework of The Third European Literature Days.

Le petit prince is the most famous work of Antoine de Saint-Expéry.

This is a poetic philosophical story which was written as a book for children, published in 1943, about issues as living, love, death, friendship, attitude and concerns about life, and also suicide. Indeed, each chapter telling a story about the little prince’s encounters new friends contains a moral lesson, with one or two simple sentences reflecting friendship and life.

The book was also illustrated by its author. Simple paintings, somehow innocent, are themselves as famous as the book.

Participants joining drama and book reading will receive books as presents.

Language: French – Vietnamese

Download the invitation (in Vietnamese).

Download the registration form (in Vietnamese).

Free entry.

Hue – Exhibition “My Mother in Law”

Opening: Fri 17 May, 4.30 pm

Exhibition: 17 May- 03 Jun 2013

New Space Arts Foundation

2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City

You are invited to the exhibition “My Mother in Law” of artist Truong Thien.

His statement about the exhibition: “From the community art project Last Holidays (2007 – 2009), with the collection and exhibition of family pictures to illustrate a space that changed, in this exhibition, I collected pictures from my mother in law’s family, those are from black and white photography era in Vietnam…”

“I understand that each individual is a knot to create links of family, clan, bounding relationships as a network. Together they become the so-called community, the nation, the country. By studying an individual, and establishing a multi-dimensional genealogical tree made of images and stories from time to time, I want to query the history of the formation of community, the way that they developed or changed, and the outlook of this community about itself”.

HCMC – Artist Talk ‘San Art Lab – Session 2′

Thu 16 May 2013, 6.30 pm

Sàn Art

03 Me Linh, Dist Binh Thanh, HCMC

Join us in a conversation with three artists-in-residence from San Art Lab – Session Two.

In this event, Nguyen Huu Tram Kha, Ngo Dinh Bao Chau and Tran Xuan Anh will share ideas, revelations, challenges and dilemma’s discovered over the course of the last 6 months as residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’. They will focus discussion on research and ideas concerning their artworks currently on display at San Art. Bao Chau will share her fascination for the science of light; Tram Kha will share her desire to empower women through their biological make-up; while Xuan Anh will explain her own questioning of what it means to make art in Vietnam.

Exhibition by Jack Clayton and Pat Bradbury

Opening: Thu 16 May, 7 pm

Exhibition: 16 May – 05 Jun 2013

DeciBel Lounge

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

Come to the exhibition by Jack Clayton & Pat Bradbury. The opening will have special DJ guest JOEY T.

Jack Clayton is an artist from East London who has spent the last three years travelling the world, and the more he sees the more his art changes. His body of work is an interlinking mix of woodcut prints and intricate pen and ink illustrations. With the former he entwines images into the grain of the wood, letting the natural patterns inform and dictate the work in progress; with the latter he manipulates form to create labyrinthine illustrations that unravel and reveal the more they are scrutinized.

Pat Bradbury is an image maker from the UK who will be showing some of his collages and mixed media works he has been making during his time in Ho Chi Minh city.   

Concert Vol.61 The Apotheosis of Dance

16 and 17 May 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Come to the Subscription Concert Vol.61 “The Apotheosis of Dance” with conductor Honna Tetsuji, viola soloist Imai Nobuko and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information about the program and tickets, see below:

Program

A.Schinittke

Suite in old style

A.Schinittke

Monolog

Interval

L.V.Beethoven

Symphony No.7

Tickets

Ticket prices:  200,000; 350,000; 500,000VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Program for Europe Days in Vietnam 2013

We are delighted to present the tenth edition of the European Union’s annual “Europe Days” programme in Vietnam. The one-month programme will include a cycle of entertaining and stimulating events, jointly organised by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam, the Embassies of the European Union Member States, and the European Cultural Centres in Vietnam.

Below are some highlights:

Exhibition “Comics, Manga & Co. – The New German Comics Culture”: 09 May – 02 Jun | Goethe Institut

The exhibition of 55 different comics will take place in the Goethe-Institute Hanoi from 8th- 2nd June 2013. It presents two generations of artists, which have been influencing the German comic culture in many different ways.

Europe Day Concert with The Munich Chamber Choir from German and Afro Jazz Beat from Belgium.

European Film Festival 2013: 15 – 26 May | Hanoi, HCMC and Danang

Vietnamese cinema lovers from all walks of life are again offered a unique chance to take a cinematic trip around Europe on screen through a rich line-up of films by European directors at the 14th edition of the European Film Festival (EFF).

Europe Film Festival 2013

3rd European Literature Days: 17 and 18 May | Goethe Institut and L’Espace

Classics or contemporary novels and short stories, books for young readers, comics for all ages and a theatre performance in French – lots of discoveries await book lovers, both young and old.

European Food Festival in Hanoi

On Saturday 18 May, the biggest, tastiest and most fun EuroCham event will take place in Hanoi. We have prepared a plethora of live performances, lucky-draws, delicious food, drinks, music and much more to ensure a great experience for all.

British indie rock band Guillemots to perform in Vietnam: 26 May in HCMC | 28 May in Hanoi

For more information, visit the website of Europe Day. And don’t forget to watch Hanoi Grapevine closely for detailed updates of each event.

Concert of Elixir Trio from Australia

Hanoi: 16 and 17 May 2013, 8 pm

VOV Theatre

58 Quan Su, Hanoi

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Da Nang: Sun 19 May 2013, 7.30 pm

Trung Vuong Theatre

35 Phan Chau Trinh, Da Nang

The concert is a part of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Australia.

Elixir is a trio of friends and musicians — multi-platinum selling songstress Katie Noonan, outstanding saxophonist Zac Hurren and the highly-regarded jazz guitarist Stephen Magnusson, who joined the group in 2005. Each artist brings to the project an individual style and potency. The result is a sublime blend of lyrical, improvised folk and jazz-inspired music.

Elixir’s self-titled first album became a top 20 bestseller upon its release in 2003, and their long-awaited second album “First Seed Ripening” debuted at #1 on the ARIA Jazz charts, then went on to take out the 2011 ARIA Award (Jazz category).

Katie Noonan’s technical mastery and pure voice makes her one of Australia’s most versatile and beloved vocalists. A mother, singer, producer, songwriter, pianist and business woman, this 4 x ARIA Award winning and 6 x platinum selling songstress first received widespread praise as the angel-voiced songstress of indiepop band George and has since taken audiences on sublime excursions through Jazz, Pop and Classical music.

Free tickets available at:

Hanoi: VOV office and the Australian Embassy (8 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, phone 04 3774 0100) from 9 May 2013 on first come first served basis.

Da Nang: Trung Vuong theatre (35 Phan Chau Trinh, Danang) from 10 May 2013 on first come first served basis.   

European Film Festival 2013 “Europe on Screen”

National Cinema Center

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HCMC: 15 – 25 May 2013

Cinebox

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Danang: 17 – 26 May 2013

Le Do Cinema

Vietnamese cinema lovers from all walks of life are again offered a unique chance to take a cinematic trip around Europe on screen through a rich line-up of films by European directors at the 14th edition of the European Film Festival (EFF).

Following the great success of the festival in Danang last year, this year for the second time the EFF is brought to the central city’s audiences from17 to 26 May 2013. The festival will be opened in Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi on 15 and 16 May 2013 respectively.

EFF2013 showcases Europe’s cultural diversity, portrayed in 16 films from 14 different EU Member States. Many genres will be represented throughout the festival, including children’s animated films, drama, romance, comedy and documentary. Most films screened in the festival are recent and have gained growing acclaim, notably by being selected in international film festivals and winning awards all over the world. One of the remarkable features of this year’s festival is the presence of the producer of Swedish film “Eat Sleep Die” at its first screening, which will mark the opening of the festival in Hanoi on 16 May.

Held for the first time in 2000, by the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam, the Embassies of EU Member States and the European Cultural Institutes, the European Film Festival is recognised as one of the most successful multi-cultural events in Vietnam. It has become an established and credible avenue to bring new and captivating aspects of European culture to the attraction of Vietnamese people, by showcasing films that would otherwise not be shown in Vietnamese commercial cinemas.

“The silver screen world has no borders. No passports or visas are required to take you from one country to another. Nor does it take much, other than setting yourself in a theatre with a box of popcorn, to experience life from the eyes of a child or a traveller. Cinema has successfully shared diverse cultures, people, histories and perspectives to audiences from across the globe for over 100 years. As the birthplace of cinematography and home to a number of prestigious international film festivals, Europe is renowned for its cinema heritage. This year again we are proud to introduce this firework of European cultural diversity and creativity to Vietnamese audiences. The films showcased in this festival may belong to a specific country, but together they are representative of Europe’s common cultural heritage”, said H.E.Dr Franz Jessen, Ambassador – Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam.

This cinematic event is part of a broader series of “Europe Days 2013” events clustered around Europe Day (9 May), a cycle which since its inception in 2004 has gained a high profile in the cultural life of Vietnamese people.

The European Film Festival 2013 will take place at:

Hanoi: National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha

Danang: Le Do cinema, 46 Tran Phu

HCMC: CINEBOX, 212 Ly Chinh Thang Str., Dist. 3

In Hanoi and Hochiminh city most films will be screened in two sessions with Vietnamese subtitles. In Danang, each film will be screened once, with Vietnamese voice-over.

Europe Film Festival 2013

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

HCMC:

Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50

British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62

Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610

Da Nang:

Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74

Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/  or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam   

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi   

Cinebox

212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, HCMC   

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu, Da Nang   

Screening of “Vincent Wants to Sea”

Hanoi: 19 and 21 May 2013, 6 pm

National Cinema Center

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HCMC: 17 and 20 May 2013, 7.15 pm

Cinebox

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Danang: Thu 23 May 2013, 8 pm

Le Do Cinema

The Belgium film “The Fairy” will open the European Film Festival on Thursday evening, 15th of May, in Ho Chi Minh City. This year, European Union member states will be presenting films in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City until 26 th May.

Within the framework of the European Film festival 2013 the Goethe-Institut will show “Vincent Wants to Sea” in German language with Vietnamese and English subtitles. Vincent Wants to Sea was awarded, among other prizes, with the German Film Prizes 2011 for Best Film and Best Actor.

The death of his mother pulls Vincent, who suffers from Tourette-Syndrome, out of his sheltered and isolated world and confronts him with the reality of a nursing home. He later escapes with two fellow patients — an anorexic named Marie and the obsessive-compulsive Alexander. His mission is simple. He wants to bury his mother’s ashes in the seas off Italy, as was her dying wish. But to get there he and his friends have to steal their doctor’s car. If caught, it could all be quite an embarassment for Vincent’s politician father. For the lovable but odd trio the escape becomes the starting point for an independent life. The dynamic story manhandles the balancing act between a touching medical story and an entertaining road movie.

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

HCMC:

Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50

British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62

Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610

Da Nang:

Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74

Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/  or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam   

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi   

Cinebox

212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, HCMC

    

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu, Da Nang

Screening of Austrian Film “Crossing Boundaries”

Hanoi: Fri 17 May 2013, 8 pm

Sun 19 May 2013, 4 pm

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi-

HCMC: Fri 17 May 2013, 7.15 pm

Sat 18 May 2013, 5.15 pm

Cinebox

212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, HCMC

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Danang: Sat 25 May 2013, 8 pm

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu, Da Nang

Within the framework of the European Film festival 2013 the Embassy of Austria in Hanoi will show “Crossing Boundaries” in English language with English subtitles. For more information about the film, see below:

Director: Florian Flicker

Writers: Florian Flicker, Karl Schönherr

Stars: Edmund Jäger, Andreas Lust, David Miesmer, Stefan Pohl, Martin Schwanda, Raphael von Bargen, Andrea Wenzl

Two men and one woman are involved in a dramatic triangle between love and passion, transgression and betrayal. Florian Flicker has set Karl Schönherr’s “Der Weibsteufel” in Austria’s borderland shortly after the turn of the last century. In the remote swamps next to the March River, Hans and Jana are living in a criminal idyll that comes tumbling down when a young solider enters the pictures.

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

HCMC:

Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50

British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62

Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610

Da Nang:

Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74

Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/  or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam

Screening of Finnish Film “Le Havre”

Hanoi: Sat 18 May 2013, 8 pm

Mon 20 May 2013, 6 pm

National Cinema Center

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HCMC: Thu 16 May 2013, 7.15 pm

Sat 18 May 2013, 7.15 pm

Cinebox

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Danang: Sun 19 May 2013, 8 pm

Le Do Cinema

The European Film Festival “Europe on screen” will present this year feature and animated films from fourteen European Union Member States.

Finland will present Aki Kaurismäki’s  film “Le Havre”.  The film premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize.

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa.

As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill and is bedridden, Marcel once more has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon of innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier, but against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy.

It’s time for Marcel to polish his shoes and reveal his teeth.

All tickets are free of charge and can be picked up from 9 May 2013 for screenings in Ho Chi Minh city and from 10 May for screenings in Hanoi and Danang at the following addresses:

Hanoi:

Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, tel: (04) 37 34 22 51

British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, tel: (04) 3 8 436 780

National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, tel : (04) 3 514 2856

HCMC:

Goethe Institut: 335/4 Dien Bien Phu, District 1, tel: (08) 3 9 12 52 50

British Council: 25 Le Duan, D.1, tel: (08) 3 8 23 28 62

Cinebox: 212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, tel: 08 3935 0610

Da Nang:

Le Do Cinema, 46 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 25 74

Cinema & Film Distribution Centre, 68 Tran Phu, tel: (0511) 3 82 32 84

Full information on the film festival can be found at: http://europeday2013.com/  or www.facebook.com/EUandVietnam

National Cinema Center

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi   

Cinebox

212 Ly Chinh Thang, D.3, HCMC   

Le Do Cinema

46 Tran Phu, Da Nang

The Third European Literature Days

Opening: Fri 17 May, 10 am at Casa Italia

Literature Day 1: Fri 17 May 2013

Literature Day 2: Sat 18 May 2013

Goethe Institut, L’Espace and Casa Italia

For the third time, EUNIC, the association of European Cultural Institutes and Embassies, presents literature from Europe in Hanoi. Books from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Wallonia-Brussels(Belgium) and Poland, which have recently been published in Vietnamese translation, will be presented in an entertaining way. Classics or contemporary novels and short stories, books for young readers and comics for all ages – lots of discoveries await book lovers, both young and old. Meet writers, enjoy a theatre performance in French and listen to talks and readings taking place at the Goethe-Institut, L’Espace and the new Casa d’ Italia.

British Council has invited Evie Wyld, the award winner of this year’s “Best of young British Novelists”, Spain presents the writer/photographer Ruben Abella and the Goethe-Institut invites audiences to a Franz Kafka theme night, presenting two new publications. Wallonia-Brussels Delegation presents a theatre piece, an adaption of a famous classic author’s work, performed by students of the HanoiUniversity. For those interested in Italian literature, H.E. Ambassador Lorenzo Angeloni, a writer and an essayist himself, will give a speech at the opening ceremony, where there will also be a presentation of three fantastic novels by Italo Calvino.  This program is within the framework of Europe Days in Vietnam 2013.

Le Petit Prince

Focus on children’s and youth literature

Like last year, a focus will be put on books for children and young readers. Denmark introduces the Luc Buc stories for kids and their parents by writer Sally Altschuler and illustrator Tove Krebs Lange, Switzerland presents the popular story of their hero “Wilhelm Tell” in a fresh way.  Poland introduces the teenager novel “Miss Nobody” and France will present not only the classic “The little Prince”, but also a series of non-fiction books for young readers about such essential topics as the origins of mankind and of the universe, about religion, philosophy and non-violence.

The comprehensive program of presentations, round table discussions and activitiesfor children will be supplemented by publishers’ bookstalls at the Goethe-Institut, where books can be purchased at discount prices.

Detailed schedule

Friday, 17 May

10-12 am              Casa Italia: Opening Ceremony and Lectures by H.E.

Ambassadorof Italy Lorenzo Angeloni , “What is Literature for?” and byRubén Abella, “Literature and Photography”

2 – 5 pm             L’Espace: Books for young readers: The series “Pour les adolescents du XXI è siècle” and the novel “Miss Nobody” by Tomek Tryzna.

6 – 9 pm              Goethe-Institut: Lecture and talkwith “Best of young British

Novelists 2013“ Award Winner Evie Wyld,PrizeCeremony of the 1st German-Vietnamese translation contest and KafkaNightwith readings from“Brief an den Vater” and “Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens”

Saturday, 18 May

Goethe-Institut

9 -12 am                Book presentationand readingsof the“Luc Buc” stories by Sally Altschuler and Otfried Preussler’s “Der kleine Wassermann” with music for parentsandyoung children

(3 to 6 years)

3 – 6.30 pm        Book presentation of “The story of Wilhelm Tell” by Jürg Schubiger (15-15.45 pm for children over 10 years)and Italo Calvino’s“The Nonexistent Knight” and “The Cloven Viscount”, followed by talks and roundtable withwriters from Denmark, Great Britain, Spain and Vietnam

L’Espace

9 – 11 am                Lectures and activities for children aroundthe story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The little prince”

7 – 9 pm              Lecture and theater performanceby students of Hanoi University

Free admission.

3rd European Literature Days (2)

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Tel.: +84 4 37342251

Fax: +84 4 37342254

info@hanoi.goethe.org   

Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Tel: (84-4) 39 36 21 64

info@espace-ccfhanoi.org   

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu Str, Hanoi

Sound Affect with VNTG

Thu 16 May 2013, 8.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Monthly live music showcase continues, with classical composer and sound artist Vu Nhat Tan being joined by multi-instrumentalist Nguyen Van Thao.

Thao is often referred to as a “one man band” for his ability to improvise across a variety of instruments. He’ll be adding a modern rock-oriented interpretation of the Dan Bau and Dan Nguyet to Tan’s electronic compositions. These two instruments are both classics of traditional Vietnamese music. The Dan Bau, or “Vietnamese Monochord” – perhaps Vietnam’s most famous instrument – needs little introduction, but the Dan Nguyet, or “Moon Lute” is less widely known. Featuring just two relatively slack strings and low frets, the guitar like instrument relies on pushing the strings to achieve bending notes.

Sound Affect is a monthly live music night featuring Vietnamese musicians and hosted by Vu Nhat Tan. Tan is one of the capital’s best known classical composers, noise musicians and sound artists.

Co-organized: The ATK; Hanoi To Go; Hanoi Grapevine

Tickets

Ticket price: VND 100,000. Free entry before 7 pm