“Chèo” Performance

Sat 30 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Kim Liên Commune House

No. 148A, Kim Hoa, Dong Da Dist, Hanoi

For years, “Chèo” has been known as a purely-Vietnamese art form which is familiar with native’s daily life. Until now, “Chèo”, along with “Ca trù” and “Dân ca quan họ”, has become important “key words” for those who want to discover Vietnamese traditional culture.

“Chèo” first came into being in the tenth century in Hoa Lu old capital by a talented singer and dancer named Pham Thi Tran. At the early age, “Chèo” existed in the form of folk dancing. Gradually, it became an annual activity that appeared in every vacation and festival, attracting a lot of people. Since then “Chèo” has been regarded as the symbol of Vietnam folk art.

One of the most special things in every pieces of “Chèo” is characters, which almost originated in real life such as Xuy Van, Thi Kinh, Thi Mau, Me Dop and clown. With these characters, people expressed their thoughts and feelings about their life as well as their society. Traditionally, “Chèo” concentrates on the struggle between good things and bad things. Through this struggles, old Vietnamese express their outlook on life and their hopeness of a good, equal and happy life.

For a long time, many pieces of “Chèo”, such as Quan Am Thi Kinh, Luu Binh Duong Le, Kim Nham, etc., have continuously been enjoyed by generations of Vietnamese people. However, “Chèo” is no longer attractive to the youngsters, including both of the viewers and the artists. What is the reason? Is it because Vietnamese young people today dislike “Chèo”? or Is it because of the gap between the old artist’s transmitting methods and the young’s access to “Chèo”? or “Chèo” is overshadowed by the rising of many modern art forms?

We hope that through this program about Chèo, today Vietnamese will have a chance to fully enjoy the atmosphere of this traditional art. Participants will come to the community house, sit in sedge mats and learn how to enjoy “Chèo” in a right way. In addition to playing some pieces of “Chèo”, we also have a talk show with “Chèo” artists and researchers to know more about the state of “Chèo” and their thoughts of this folk art.

Speaker: “King of chèo” Trần Đình Ngôn and Meritorious artist Thanh Ngoan, Director of Vietnam Cheo Theatre

Detailed program:

7 pm – 7:05 pm: Hề dẹp đám

7:05 pm – 7:15 pm: Piece from “Thị Mầu lên chùa”

7:15 pm- 7:35 pm: Part 1: Chèo in the old days

7:35 pm – 8 pm: Piece from “Thị Kính cắt râu chồng”

8 pm – 8:45 pm: Part 2: The art of Chèo and Try to be a Chèo artist

8:45 pm – 9 pm: Part 3: Chèo nowadays – Talk about preservation and development of Chèo elites

9 pm – 9:20 pm: Piece from “Việc làng”

Get ticket: Nhà Mẹt Café, 142 Doi Can, Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi

Register at: http://bit.ly/dkwd9

SURVIVALISM: Eating the Apocalypse By ‘The Weather Bureau’

Sat 30 Nov 2013

Talk: 5.30 pm

Pop-up exhibition: 6.30 pm

San Art Laboratory

40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Ward 19, Binh Thanh Dist, HCMC

Based on their ongoing exploration on using food as material in recreating and photographing natural disasters, ‘The Weather Bureau’ (represented in Saigon by Lena Cobangbang) is prompted by the recent ravage of the Southern islands of Visayas in The Philippines. The overwhelming call for international awareness in coping with climate change and the everyday struggle one faces amidst the crisis brought on by natural disasters and social weathering (wars, economic embargos, economic policies), ‘The Weather Bureau’ decided to make an installation that refers to the tenuous relationship between concepts of survival , preservation and consumption. In this installation the refrigerator is used as a metaphorical and visual platform for their objects and tableaus. Composed of jars of preserved and fermented vegetables and fruits, carved and composed as idyllic postcard rural landscapes; apocalyptic scenarios of cooked food but sealed in the freezer compartment – all is sealed in posterity for their picturesqueness or kept for future consumption. The wealth and diversity of the food culture of Vietnam provides a veritable source for exploration for this artistic duo. Examining ideas of conflict between hunger and waste, amplified further in ‘The Weather Bureau’s physical distance from the current crisis of their homeland, this project cynically refers to general worldwide hunger brought about by social and natural change, which with time, perhaps brings us closer to an apocalypse or total dystopia.

ABOUT ‘THE WEATHER BUREAU’

‘The Weather Bureau’ designs propositionary structures and conditions for an ideal state of utopia. They build these designs from seemingly failed plans of defunct totalitarian states. They seek to re-adapt/ rehabilitate in order to question the possibility of a utopia, which perhaps is just a nowhereland in timeless stasis. Founded in 2010 by Lena Cobangbang and Mike Crisostomo, who started collaborating as production designers and product stylists for ad virals, print, packaging designs and stage sceneries. Their vision as ‘The Weather Bureau’ is to picture essences of the ideal as inherently dictated by the constraints of the form, illustrating perhaps an ideology in plasticity.

‘The Weather Bureau’ are the second artist-guests to take part in ‘Prod/Ponder’, the artist-in-residence 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.   

Music Night with Bonaparte and Zamina

Fri 29 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Tadioto

2nd Floor, Building A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi

Bonaparte

They’ve been called “the best band in the world”, “a wild rock’n’roll-trash-punk-troupe de force”, and “a bizarre fantasy”. And now this rolling, roiling, ever-changing collective of noisemakers and rabble-rousers are set to bring their one-of-a-kind show to Hanoi for the very first time this Friday, 29th November.

With six albums and their own feature film under their belt, Bonaparte have built a reputation as one of Berlin’s most dynamic live acts, gaining rave reviews worldwide for their energetic live shows. Lead by Swiss songwriter Tobias Jundt, the band are a true rock’n’roll circus – a rotating collective of 20 musicians, designers, dancers from around the globe, who bring a theatrical, trashy punk energy to the stage.

Having toured the world from Russia and Australia, the band’s first Asian excursion will take in 15 groundbreaking dates across China, Thailand and Vietnam.

Supporting Bonaparte will be Hanoi’s favourite six piece afrobeat-reggae band Zamina, who are back in town for this night and treating us to their reunion performance.

Tickets: 200,000 VND; 180,000 VND (Advance) via ticketbox.vn or ATK (73 Mai Hac De)

Exhibition “Art – Women – Hanoi”

Opening: Thu 28 Nov, 5 pm

Exhibition: 28 Nov – 05 Dec 2013

Maison des Arts Hanoi

2nd floor, 22A Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

Performance of Nutcracker

29 and 30 Nov 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

HCMC Opera House

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

You are invited to the performance of ballet “Nutcracker”- one of the most famous ballets all over the world by Tchaikovsky. Based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, this sparkling, attractive and dramatic composition is always chosen to perform in Christmas Eve.

Music: P.I.Tchaikovsky

Choreography: Johanne Jakhelln Constant

Conductor: Meritorious Tran Vuong Thach

Clara: Dinh Thi Diem Trang

Nutcracker: Ho Phi Diep

Mr. Drosselmeyer: Dam Duc Thuan

Fairy – Snow queen: Tran Hoang Yen

Dew drop: Thu Trang

Admiral Doll: Lan Huong

Mouse King: The Chung

Performing: HBSO Ballet

Women’s Choir & HBSO Symphony Orchestra

Tickets

Ticket price: 650.000 – 550.000 – 400.000 – 150.000 VNĐ (for students only)

All tickets are available at:

Ticket Counter, HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC, Tel: 08. 38237419

International Typographic Exhibition 

Exhibition: 30 Nov – 7 Dec 2013, 9 am – 6 pm

Award ceremony for winners of the graphic design contest for students: Wed 04 Dec, 6 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Graphic Design at Goethe-Institut Hanoi: 59th International Typographic Exhibition of the New York Type Directors Club

On the milk carton, we take out of the fridge for breakfast every morning, it says how fresh the product is in big Arial letters. On the advertising board in the bus, the best mobile phone tariff is advertised in Helvetica and in Times New Roman the sign hanging outside of the office reminds costumers of the opening hours. Printed letters and words surround us every day.

The 59th exhibition of the New York Type Directors Club (TDC) at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi deals with this exactly topic: From 30th November to 8th of December visitors get the opportunity to discover the works of the winners of the international TDC-Competition 2013, which awards excellency in the use and design of types, typefaces and letterforms.

The Type Directors Club was founded in 1946 and is the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen.

The exhibition T59 presents works from all over the world. In this year’s contest more than 2000 works from 33 countries have been admitted from which 215 winning entries emerged.

The 2013 exhibition in Hanoi is organised by Richard Moore Associates in cooperation with the FPT (Future Philosophy and Technology) Arena and the Goethe-Institut.

The TDC especially welcomes all professionals and students in graphic design, advertising, marketing, communications, multimedia, publishing and education, who have a keen interest in type and the written word.

Free entry.

Art Talk of “Right Fiction?”

Thu 28 Nov 2013, 6.30 pm

San Art

3 Mê Linh

District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

This will be an artist talk as performative interview. It will involve Phan Thao Nguyen and Nguyen Hong Ngoc interrogating each other regarding subjects, materials, process and methodologies concerning each of their artwork production over the last 6 months as residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’. They will give you a window onto their trials and experiments with materials such as jute, charcoal, neon, bronze, oil on x-ray film and light, sharing not only the in-depth research they carried out of these materials, but also their analysis of the history and meaning behind them.   

Live Music Night with ‘Say Oms’

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 8 pm

The Kitchen

30 To Ngoc Van, Hanoi

The ‘Say Oms’ (a play on the VN ‘Xe Om’) are an exciting 4 piece band. They are original, inventive, fun and above all else, musically very talented! They have played to sell-out audiences all around Hanoi.

This is your chance to see and hear this exciting new band play live.

Tickets are 100K available on the night from 7pm. The show starts at 8pm

Music Night with French garage-rockers Departure Kids

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Get ready for a night of raucous antics and infectious guitar hooks as French garage-rockers Departure Kids make their Vietnam debut.

Straight from the streets of Marseille, these energetic youngsters have drawn comparisons with The Libertines and The Strokes for their swaggering combination of 60s twang and punk rock attitude.

Coupled with the soul fueled Detroit house stylings of Hanoi’s own InCogNegro – this is another night not to be missed.

Get amongst it!

Tickets: 100,000 VND   

Donation Concert for the Victims of the Recent Fire in Zone 9

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 6.30 – 11 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

A tragic fire on Monday the 18th was caused by welders during construction of a club in Zone 9, the art and entertainment center of Hanoi. Six workers died.

The Goethe-Institut shares the shock and the grief about the tragedy that has happened in Zone 9. Our thoughts and hearts are with the families of the victims.

It is our honor to host a concert as an event of joint remembrance as well as an occasion to contribute directly to sharing the burden with the families and with the tenants of Zone 9.

This voluntary musical event will include the participation of Japanese artist YOSI HORIKAWA – JASE NGUYỄN (Sài Gòn), TRÍ MINH, SƠN X, The Dom Dom Hub for Experimental Music and Art (Hà Nội), and other invited artists.

Program

18.00 – 18.30: Reception

18.30 – 19.00: Performance of Tri Minh

19.00 – 19.10: Opening Speech of Dr. Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch’s – Director of Goethe Hanoi Institute

19.10 – 20.00: Performance of Thai Thuy Linh and Kid Singers (Taca Emca Art Club)

20.00 – 20.45: Performance of Sơn X and Kim Ngọc

20.45 – 21.30: Performance of Yosi Horikawa

21.30 – 22.15: Performance of Jase Nguyễn

22.15 – 22.20: Fundraising announcement

22.20 – 23.00: Performance of Tri Minh

23.00: Closing

3rd European Language Day

Sat 23 Nov 2013

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Good news for all present and future polyglots: On November 23rd the 3rd European Language Day will be organized by Hanoi´s EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) cluster members British Council, Goethe-Institut, the Embassy of Poland, the Delegation Wallonie-Brussels and the Italian Embassy. EUNIC is aiming to introduce the diversity of the national languages in Europe, promote multilingualism and discuss patterns of Training of Teachers of a Foreign Language.

In the morning linguists, scientists and teachers shall meet . In the afternoon from 2 p.m. onwards the floor is open to the public and a language festival is going to happen. The Festival is targeting youngsters, students and parents interested in languages and culture. At the Festival of European Languages representatives of the participating institutions will present their respective languages and countries. 30-minute model lessons in English, French, German, Italian and Polish will be offered to everybody interested. Posters, books and brochures will not only excite curiosity for European languages but also for the different countries and cultures. Additionally short films from the participating countries shall be screened at Goethe-Institut´s exhibition hall.

A Night of Concert and Ballet

Thu 28 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to A Night of Concert and Ballet with director Poeple’s Artist Pham Anh Phuong, conductor: Quang Vinh and artists from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet.

Program

Part I.

Gabriel Faure

Requiem for Choir and Orchestra

Tenor: Huy Duc

Soprano: Thang Long

and the VNOB’s Choir, the Hanoi International Choir

Interval

Part II the contemporary Ballet “An absent-minded Guy” (45’)

Music: Roderick Vanderstraen-Sean Callery

Choreographer: Phạm Minh

Performed by dance team of Vietnam National Opera & Ballet

Sometimes, people themselves want to be absent-minded to forget pains and bad memories in life…Then those forgotten spaces are to be filled with hopes and desires for happiness.

Tickets

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

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Painting Exhibition “Sen Việt”

Opening: Mon 25 Nov, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 25 Nov – 09 Dec 2013

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition “Sen Viet”, by the Vietnamese artist Dang Phuong Viet. The Exhibition will be a special opportunity to learn more about Vietnamese art.

Born in 1972 in Hanoi, Dang Phuong Viet graduated from Hanoi Fine Arts University. Viet’s works are mainly oil on canvas, in the language of modern realism. In the last fifteen years, Viet participated in several exhibitions, both in Vietnam and abroad. His works are displayed in numerous galleries and in private collections.

Dang Phuong Viet has been famous for his works with lotus flowers. His special oil painting technique and usage of colours is impressive. Viet gave a modern vision to the traditional concept of lotus as symbol of beauty, resilience and enlightenment. The artist choice of colours is challenging, with a seeming cacophony of colours – ranging from acid greens to shocking fuchsias and fire-engine red, combining them harmoniously: the results indeed are surprising. It seems that the painter is working more with the emotions that with the reality.

A Night with Chris Buchmann

Thu 21 Nov 2013, 6.30 pm

The Hanoi Bicycle Collective

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Chris will talk about his bicycle trip and his support to LINK an organization helping North Korean refugees.

Hi, I’m Chris, LiNK’s International Nomad. For the next year, I’m riding my bicycle 14,000 miles from Thailand to Turkey to raise funds to rescue North Korean refugees. I hope to raise $1 per mile, or $14,000 total; more than enough to rescue 5 refugees. While on the road, I’ll be giving screenings of LiNK’s documentaries at hostels, cafes, and organic farms; anywhere and to anyone who will watch with me All funds donated through my page go straight towards refugee rescues; none of it goes to me or to LiNK’s other programs. If I can raise $14,000 over the next year, 5 North Korean refugees will have started a new, freer life in either South Korea or the USA.

Free entrance.

Exhibition “Champa Streak of Sunshine”

Champa Streak of Sunshine

22 Nov – 06 Dec 2013, 7.30 am – 9.30 pm

Mozek House

02 Cua Nam Str, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

“Champa Streak of Sunshine” is a paper carving – shadow art exhibition of Lan Hoi Community Art Project – “Borrowing Time Vibes”

Champa which used to be a country located in the Southern of Vietnam has a long-standing history and integrated into Vietnam territory under the Nguyen Dynasty from the early nineteenth century. Located between China and India-two great Eastern empires of culture at that time, Champa culture is a special mix of the two cultures and local beliefs in Vietnam.

Our desire is to provide a more comprehensive way of looking at Champa art to the audience, and this exhibition also marks the maturity of Lan Hoi in 2013. The whole content is created by Lan Hoi team, therefore it will contain many unique individual elements, hoping it will inspire the perception and respect of Champa art to the spectators.

Free entrance and no pre-registration.   

Installation Exhibition “The Foaming Weariness”

Opening: Fri 22 Nov 2013, 5 pm

Exhibition: 22 – 30 Nov 2013

New Space Arts Foundation, Hue

2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City

You are invited to an installation art exhibition “The Foaming Weariness” by artist Chu Chun Teng (Taiwan).

Foaming steam、different country’s electric adapters adapting endlessly、rice cooker、scent of rice… The foaming weariness is a very simple and personal piece among my practices, it truly reflects my personally state in the pass three years.

Since 2008, I moved to London from Taiwan, and have been being just like most of international students who were expecting the experience of studying abroad would bring better/different future, but the cultural impacts and hardships in daily life are everywhere; For the reason, I pushed myself, also yearned for a better language ability, appropriate behaviors, and logical thoughts in order to integrate into this new society/cultural more. Measwhile, I started to be aware of the my native context and difference through this accommodation, then to struggle and question myself about that if it is impossible and unnecessary to change myself…

In conclusion, the endlessness-like adaptor connections shows a mental process that all kind of complex band together and entangled to another, in which the fatique me overflows by boiling just as the rice cooker.

“The Rain in Spain stay mainly in the plain” is the sentence that Professor Higgins uses to train Eliza to pronounce the “A” sound in “My Fair Lady.” This sentence appeared constantly and was the most famous line in the movie; it eventually became the standard to judge if Eliza had succeeded. This video has continued my concern toward the impact of the post-colonial phenomenon on the individual and cultural identity crisis. This is also my second work inspired by the classic 70’s movie “My Fair Lady.”

This time I would like to present more directly, the parts in the movie that were deliberately beautified – the pains and struggles faced in the process of transformation. I found pre-sessional (a pre-Master’s English class, student’s that language grades did not fulfill entry requirements must pass the course before gaining official school entry) students and their instructors to film because these students that just arrived in England were just starting to face the clash between different cultural systems and self-identity. I attempted to reproduce how Professor Higgins trained Eliza in the movie. In the film, each student had a sheet of paper that was printed with “The Rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.” After the students read the sentence aloud, the professor would repeatedly correct the student’s pronunciation and articulation problems. In the final work, I removed the professor’s training process, and only showed the students repeating the line and making corrections, it is similar to NG footage in a movie, but no one can predict their performance in the next take.

Embarrassment, frustration, numbness, trying to pull oneself together, and frustration once again, reality is so cruel, we seem to clearly observe a transformation from being totally untrained to after training, but my question is what did we change in the end?

Screening of Documentary Film: Exhibition, Great Art on Screen: Munch 150

21 and 22 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

You are invited to a screening of a documentary film, Exhibition, Great Art on Screen: Munch 150, a virtual tour of the biggest retrospective exhibition of Edvard Munch’s work ever organized.

Free admission. Seating is first come first served, so come early to be sure you get a seat.

Hue – Photography Exhibition “Made in Vietnam”

Opening: Fri 22 Nov, 5 pm

Exhibition: 22 – 30 Nov 2013

New Space Arts Foundation, Hue

2nd Floor, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City

Come to a photography art exhibition “Made in Vietnam” by artist Astrid Schulz (Germany).

Screening of “Rivers and Tides”

Fri 22 Nov 2013, 6 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening of the documentary “Rivers and Tides” by Thomas Riedelsheimer.

Documentarian Thomas Riedelsheimer shows us Andy Goldsworthy as he creates art in natural settings using natural materials such as driftwood, ice, mud, leaves, and stones. Goldsworthy comments on his “earthworks” and occasionally responds to off screen questions from Riedelsheimer while he painstakingly builds his outdoors sculptures. With some exceptions, such as a winding stone wall that he built in Mountainville, NY, Goldsworthy’s creations are intentionally mutable works.

We see how several of them fall apart, melt, or drift away due to exposure to the elements; we also see, for example, a complex structure of interconnected sticks collapse while Goldsworthy is still working on it.

Riedelsheimer takes us to Goldsworthy’s home in Penport, Scotland, and to a French museum, but the emphasis of the film is on observing Goldsworthy at work.

The film is in English with Vietnamese subtitle.

Free Entrance.

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

Annual HIWC Charity Bazaar 2013

Sun 24 Nov 2013, 10 am – 3.30 pm

UNIS in Ciputra

The Hanoi International Women’s Club is delighted to have 43 countries and communities participating in this year’s Charity Bazaar, with Austria joining us for the very first time.

The annual bazaar takes place at UNIS in Ciputra between 10.00 and 15.30 on Sunday 24th November and always attracts a huge international crowd. The bazaar includes stands for countries and communities, commercial organisations, charities and social enterprises, a silent auction, kid’s corner and entertainment on the main stage throughout the whole day.

Last year’s bazaar raised a little under 2.5 billion VND which is used to support a number of projects with the humanitarian objective of improving the lives of women and children in Northern Vietnam.

Tickets are on sale now from: Kitchen on To Ngoc Van, Oasis and Pure Heaven on Xuan Dieu, Jaspa’s in Hanoi Towers and JAFA in Ciputra.

European Music Festival 2013 – Opening Concert with the Virtuosic Guitarists Katona Twins

Hanoi: Fri 22 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Youth Theatre—

HCMC: Sun 24 Nov 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

For more than 10 years, the European Music Festival has been an important cultural bridge between Europe and Vietnam and stands for musical diversity at the highest stage. This year the festival in Hanoi will open with the German guitar-duo Katona Twins: The twin brothers Peter and Zoltán Katona with their virtuosic guitar music have had great international success.

Whether they play Michael Jackson or Piazzolla, Queen, Bach or Led Zepplin, the Katona Twins effortlessly transfer from strictly classical, into more popular musical genres and it’s not by chance, that the guitar duo is known as one of the world’s best in classical music.

Well received by the international press, the twins Peter and Zoltán Katona have already given recitals in major concert venues throughout the world including performances at the New York Carnegie Hall, the Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London and also captivated the audience in the concert halls of Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt.

In 2009, as the soloists of the “Night of the Proms” they performed live to half a million people in arenas across Europe. The twins have won several international prizes at major competitions in Great Britain, the USA, Germany, France and Hungary.

At the 2013 European Music Festvial Vietnam, the Katona Twins will play works by Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach and Manuel de Fallas and will present a performance of Astor Piazzolla together with musicians from the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra (in Hanoi) and the Conservatory (in HCMC). Furthermore the artists will offer an “Open Lesson” for guitar students at the National Music Academy in Hanoi.

Free tickets are available at:

Hanoi: Goethe-Institut Hanoi (from 19.11.2013, 2 pm)

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Tel: +84 4 37342251 – 9

HCMC: Goethe-Institut HCMC (from 20.11.2013, 2 pm)

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

Tel: +84 8 36009587   

Youth Theater

11 Ngo Thi Nham Str, Hanoi   

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du str., Dist. 1, HCMC

Jazz Concert with Austrian Musicians HARRI STOJKA and his Band

Hanoi: Sat 23 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Youth Theatre

HCMC: Mon 25 Nov 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Conservatory of Music

You are invited to a concert by one of Austria’s greatest jazz musicians – HARRI STOJKA and his band. The program is within the framework of EU Music Festival 2013.

Harri Stojka: Gipsy Jazz Guitarist – Infectious Gipsy Swing.

One of Austria’s greatest jazz musicians has musical roots that run deep: He comes from a Roma Gipsy family that surrounded him with rhythm and harmony before he could even talk.

Line up/ ban nhạc:

Harri Stojka: guitar

Claudius Jelinek: guitar

Herbert Berger: clarinet

Gidon Öchsner: rhythm guitar

Peter Strutzenberger: doublebass

SONY DSC

Austrian jazz-guitarist Harri Stojka began his career in 1970 together with Jano Stojka at the Arena in Vienna. Soon after that the young self-taught musician joined Karl Ratzer’s band “Gipsy Love” as bass player and realized himself as guitarist in Peter Wolf’s “Objectiv Truth Orchestra”. In 1978 he founded the “Harri Stojka Express”, which was the only Austrian band among acts like Jimmy Cliff, Eric Burden, Van Morrisson and Carlos Santana at the Open Air Festival at the “Wiener Prater”. Carlos Santana said backstage about Harri, “that’s how one should be able to play guitar”. This was followed by an invitation to legendary Jazzfestival Montreux, where Harri Stojka played alongside Larry Coryell at the “guitar summit”. This performance, played in front of expert audience, where also fellow world class musicians paid tribute to him, was the breakthrough for Harri. The LP “Live at Montreux” offers a nice recording of the beginning of this impressive world career.

Since then Harri Stojka has been turning into one of the most important Austrian jazz musicians. Invitations to jazz festivals as headliner followed: Paris, Anger, Prague, London, Barcelona, New Delhi, New York, Syracuse, Montreux and Detroit. With Harri Stojka’s band European Jazz was heard for the first time in China and India. On all his travels he tells the fascinated audience about him being Austrian Roma and thus plays a part in Austria getting popular abroad. In 2006 “A Tribute To Swing” was re-released at ZOHO Music in New York. In Germany it was nominated for the German Music critics prize within only a week. With this project Harri Stojka and band gave two concerts at the Jazzfestival in Montreux, Kahmoro Festival, Sziget Festival Budapest, the famous Django Reinhardt Memorial Festival in Augsburg, Graz Jazz Festival and the jazz festivals in Jakarta and Yogjjakarta.

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Harri Stojka has achieved something many would wish for – creating his own guitar style and being recognized as Harri Stojka after only a few notes played. What makes Harri Stojka unique is the mixture of virtuosity and blues feeling, the special drive, phrasing and sound of his gipsy jazz acoustic guitar. His home can be found in many music styles, from pop to avant-garde jazz, from gipsy to be-bop, from hard rock to heavy metal. Through his diversity and the consistent further development of his music, Harri Stojka has influenced many Austrian guitarists and always supports young musicians.

Free tickets can be collected from Tue 19 Nov 2013 at 2 pm at the Goethe-Institut and from Thu 21 Nov 2013 from 9:00 to 16:00 at Austrian Embassy and will be handed out on a first come first serve basis at:

Hanoi

Austrian Embassy: 8 floor, 53 Quang Trung. Tel.: 04- 39 43 30 50

Goethe Institut: 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Tel: 04 – 3 7 34 2251/52

HCMC

Austrian Honorary Consulate: 27A Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Da Kao Ward, Dist 1, Tel: 08 3827 5766

Goethe Institut: 18, Str.1, Do Thanh, Ward 4, Dist 3, Tel: 08 36009587   

Youth Theater

11 Ngo Thi Nham Str, Hanoi   

HCMC Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du str., Dist. 1, HCMC

Cabaret Night in November

Sat 30 Nov 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.

Hanoi New Music Festival 2013

DomDom – The Hub for Experimental Music & Art proudly presents HANOI NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2013!

From 30th November to 8th December The Hanoi New Music Festival 2013 will celebrate its premiere. It is the first time ever an experimental music festival will be held in Vietnam, establishing this brand-new showcase event on the annual festival agenda.

HNMF 2013 - The Rest is Noise

More than 50 extraordinary international and national musicians from countries like UK, Germany, Italy, France and Scandinavia will perform on over 7 stages showing their skills to the public. The Hanoi New Music Festival presents five new commissioned compositions by local musicians/ artists/ choreographers among others SonX, Vu Nhat Tan, Nguyen Manh Hung, Nguyen Duc Minh, Pham Thi Hue, Nguyen Anh Duc; as well as outstanding international and national productions including Go To Hell by The Six Tones, What Makes The Spider Spin Her Web by Kim Ngoc, Phonotope by Rolf Wallin, Thanh Giong by Ton That Tiet. The festival gathers renowned musicians, improvisers and groups like The Six Tones, SISU, Hanoi Ensemble, Camusi, Lotte Anker, Stefan Östersjö, Kim Ngoc, Henrik Frisk, Thank Thuy, Jakob Riis, Burkhard Beins, Tri Minh, Tra My, Terje Thiwång and many more.

HNMF 2013 - What Makes The Spider Spin Her Web- Photo by Dang Hao

On top of the 8-day programme, festival goers have the rare chance to see excellent interactive music productions, improvisations, music installations and music theatre in the city of Hanoi. In addition to the presentation of electro-acoustic music, a range of contemporary chamber music is an integral component of the festival.

HNMF 2013 - New Meet Old 2

The festival’s vast experimental music shows are supplemented by an extensive cultural programme of performances and screenings.

Under the title ‘The Blind Spot’ the festival aims not only to change the ‘invisibility’ of contemporary music in the local scene, filling the gaps in knowledge, but also to generate synergetic effects to strengthen musical infrastructures between Vietnam and the worldwide contemporary music scene.

HNMF 2013 - Go To Hell_Thuy and My

The Hanoi New Music Festival 2013 will take place in different venues in Hanoi including DomDom the Hub for Experimental Music & Art which is one of the most exciting cultural venues in the city at the moment.

Enjoy the premiere of the first Hanoi New Music Festival!

You need to register for a festival pass or individual entrance:

Yellow Pass: grants access to all events of the Festival

Green Pass : valid for an individual event (1 Show)

HNMF 2013 - Camusi (Stefano Giust_Patrizia Oliva) _live

Registration fee

- Yellow Pass: 200.000 VND

- Green Pass: 30.000 VND

Festival passes are available at:

1. DomDom – The Hub for Experimental Music & Art

Block A, 3rd Floor- 9 Tran Thanh Tong

Open: 10 am – 5 pm everyday

2. Goethe Institut 56 -58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Open: 9 am – 4 pm (Mon – Fri)

3. Manzi – 14 Phan Huy Ích

4. L’Espace – 24 Tràng Tiền

5. Tadioto – 2nd Floor, Block A, 9 Trần Thánh Tông Hà Nội

* With one Festival pass, 10% discount off all drinks purchased during the Festival week at Manzi Café.

Further info: www.hanoinewmusicfestival.vn.

Beaujolais Nouveau 2013

Opening: Thu 21 Nov, 5.30 pm

Le Panorama – 19th Floor

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Beaujolais Nouveau 2013: 21 – 30 Nov 2013

Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

1 Thanh Nien Road, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

The long-awaited release of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau wine vintage will be available at Sofitel Plaza Hanoi this November from November 21 – 30.

Each year, Beaujolais growers honour the end of the harvest by making a sumptuous wine to drink and party with! At one past midnight on the third Thursday of each November, over a million cases of Beaujolais Nouveau begin their journey through a sleeping France for immediate shipment to every corner of the globe.

Be among the first in Vietnam to taste the newly arrived Beaujolais Nouveau from the renowned Georges Duboeuf winery from France. It is best served chilled to really bring forward the fruity flavours due to its release date and food-friendly tasting notes.

VND 100,000 net/ Glass – VND 500,000 net/ Bottle

Exhibition “I Live Green”

Opening: Thu 21 Nov, 3.30 pm

Exhibition: 21 Nov – 14 Dec 2013

Vietnam Women’s Museum

36 Lý Thường Kiệt, Hà Nội

In the context of global climate change and the exhaustion of the world’s natural resources, empowering people to live more sustainably is meaningful and practical work. To recognise the efforts of members of Green Living teams towards a sustainable lifestyle, Action for the City has cooperated with the Vietnam Women’s Museum to hold the exhibition ‘I Live Green’.

The photographs and objects will show the cooperation of an Irish and Vietnamese NGO in supporting urban citizens to live green through the project “Neighbourhood Empowerment in Hanoi”. The photographs taken by Paul Zetter record daily life activities of the members of Green Living teams in Hanoi and Hoi An that significantly contribute to saving resources, reducing garbage and raising awareness with their neighbours. With more than 5000 households in Hanoi, Danang, Hoi An and over 2000 households in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland, the Green Living movement is connecting individuals and communities in the two countries in their shared efforts to build sustainable urban communities.

As well as photographs and everyday objects, the exhibition will also display a greenhouse made from recycled bottles – a joint effort between Action for the City, architects Hoang Thuc Hao, Vu Xuan Son, Nguyen Van Au and volunteer students from the University of Civil Engineering. The greenhouse was adapted from a design by the community in Ballymun. All recycled bottles were collected by students and Green Living groups in Hanoi.

Music Night with David C.Murray

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 6:30 pm – 9 pm

The Budest

1 floor, 17T7 Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh, Hoang Dao Thuy Str, Hanoi

Tel: 04 628 11301/ Hotline: 0967 236 886

You are invited to the music night with American singer David C. Murray & Cube band.

David C.Murray is a black singer who plans to develop his music career in Vietnam. Contrary to some foreigners’ thought that singers can’t earn money here, David C.Murray evaluates Vietnam as an open market and worthy to pursue. And his ability and prospect are gradually demonstrated in real life.

David C.Murray

You will have a chance to:

- Enjoy special dinner in a classy and trendy atmosphere

- Launching Wine Tales program from 23rd Nov 2013 till 31st Jan 2014

Entrance fees: 900.000++/ person (including wine and barbecue party)

Other offers:

10% discount for pre-booking

20% discount for group reservation of 10 people or above

20% discount for all wines of the month only on 23rd

15% discount for all wines of the month from 24th Nov 2013 till 31st

For more information, please contact: 090 610 1240 or visit website, facebook.

Talk Show “Love in the Time of Cholera”

Wed 20 Nov 2013, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi is pleased to introduce our “Right or Wrong?” November edition, the discussion led by MC Dang Hoang Giang this month is entitled “Love in the Time of Cholera”

What has happened to love and marriage in Vietnam today? ‘Single mum’ movement has become a phenomenon! Vietnamese women keep spreading the words ‘Don’t marry Vietnamese men’! Fast food- divorce is getting more and more popular among the young generation!

Have men been left behind in this modern society or have women forgotten their female vocations and their traditional values? Would ‘Mars and Venus’ be able to fly together? Come and join us in this controversial discussion at manzi.

Guest speakers: Writer Trang Hạ

Psychologist Đinh Đoàn

Blogger Joe Dâu Tây

Free Entry.

PLEASE NOTICE: The talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.

Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 3PM Tues, 19 Nov.

Screening of “Two Days in New York”

Fri 29 Nov 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening titled  “Two Days in New York” (France-Germany, 2012, 95 mins) directed by Julie Delpy.  “Relevant, hilarious, moving … The best movie of Julie Delpy!”. (Elle)

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

UK Concert 2013

21 and 22 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

No 1 Trang Tien, Ha Noi

The world renowned British conductor, Professor Colin Metters will return to Vietnam this November for a special concert to celebrate 40 years of Vietnam – UK diplomatic relations. He will be accompanied by Guy Johnston, a British cellist who won the 2000 BBC Young Musician of the Year.

The concerts will be on 21 and 22 November at the Hanoi Opera House (No.1 Trang Tien Street). The programme will feature the Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5.

Ninety musicians of the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) also joined the repertoire while the young talented Vietnamese conductor Tran Nhat Minh from the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will be the Assistant Conductor to Colin Metters.

Colin Metters was invited to Vietnam for the first time 16 years ago by the British Council to begin a training project for the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. It became one of the most successful and longest UK – Vietnam cultural partnerships.

Colin Metters was awarded the Cultural Activists Medal by Vietnamese government in 1999 for his services to Vietnamese culture. His work in Vietnam was even featured in a BBC documentary called Harmony in Hanoi, directed by Anthony Fabian in 2003.

Tickets

Prices vary from 200.000 to 500.000 Vietnam Dong; students who can produce a valid Student’s ID can enjoy a discounted price of 100.000 dong (limited tickets).

Tickets are available from Hanoi Opera House (No.1 Trang Tien Street). You can also order for free delivery, using the following numbers 0913489858, 0903067996.   

Screening of “Ernest et Célestine”

Fri 22 Nov 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the cartoon screening titled “Ernest et Célestine” (French-Belgian, 2012, 79 mins) directed by Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar. According to Le Monde, this is “A rapture from beginning to end”.

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Fashion Exhibition and Win Tickets for Special Events

Exhibition: 16 – 20 Nov 2013

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi

On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the establishment of the Diplomatic Relations between Italy and Vietnam and in the framework of “The Beautiful and Well Made: the Italian Excellence and the Vietnamese Perspectives” activities, the Embassy of Italy is delighted to introduce to the Vietnamese and International public the Fashion Exhibition “Fernanda Gattinoni. Fashion and stars at the time of Hollywood on the Tiber », together with Photografic Journey “Rome in Fashion” by Paolo Belletti. The Exhibition was curated by Dr. Stefano Dominella, President of the Maison Gattinoni.

Participate in contest to win tickets for special events of Fashion Exhibition. The contest is conducted in Vietnamese only, see more here.

Sad and Beautiful World – Introduction on this Weekend’s Films

Spotlight on the next batch of films from SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD festival – all screening at Hanoi Cinematheque this weekend.

MATTHEW’S LAWS (2012)

Dutch – with subtitles in Vietnamese and English

20.30 – 16/11 – Hanoi Cinematheque

15.00 – 23/11 – TPD

Director Marc Schmidt films his childhood friend Matthew, who, due to his autistic disorder, desperately tries to create order in the chaos around him. Schmidt follows him close to the heart. Explosive confrontations with the outside world are alternated with stylized observations and personal confessions. Little by little the film unravels Matthew’s complex way of thinking and shows the catastrophic consequences it eventually has for him.

Read more about the film here.

AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000)

285 mins

English – with Vietnamese subtitles

14.30 – 16/11 – Hanoi Cinematheque

“As I Was Moving Ahead… is a record of subtle feelings, emotions, daily joys of people as recorded in the voices, faces and small everyday activities of people I have met, or lived with, or observed — something that I have been recording for many years. This, as opposed to the spectacular, entertaining, sensational, dramatic activities which dominate much of the contemporary film-making” (Jonas Mekas)

“Peter Kubelka once said of his friend, ‘Jonas has realised that, whatever paradise there is, it should be here and now. Loving care is a key to it.’ As I Was Moving Ahead is a loving portrait of Mekas’ early family life, a song of beauty and a testament to the possibility of Paradise. Appropriately, Mekas concludes the film in song, accompanied by his tireless accordion:

I do not know where I am, and going to, where I am coming from. I have seen some beauty. Glimpses of beauty and happiness. Yes, la beauté. And it is still beautiful in my memory. And it is real, as real as this film.” (Senses of Cinema)

Read more about the film.

I AM BREATHING (2013)

73 mins

English – with Vietnamese subtitles

16.30 – 17/11 – Hanoi Cinematheque

I AM BREATHING reminds us what it is to be alive – a tale of fun and laughs with a smattering of upset and devastation.

Within a year, Neil Platt goes from being a healthy 30-something British bloke with a great sense of humour to becoming completely paralysed from the neck down, thanks to the devastating illness he has inherited

Knowing he only has a few months left to live, and while he still has the ability to speak, Neil puts together a letter and memory box for his baby son Oscar and communicates his experience and thoughts about life in a blog – and in this film which he was determined to make. The directness of his communication mingles with images of the sensory details of a life well lived, and makes us revalue the ordinary.

SAD & BEAUTIFUL WORLD: A Secret Screening

Tue 19 Nov 2013, 8.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

As part of SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD film festival, The Onion Cellar and manzi are delighted to present: A SECRET SCREENING!!! An event in which the only way to find out what exactly we are screening – is to be there.

What is that all about? And the concept behind it?

There is no concept, really.

We just (wholeheartedly) believe that expectation is overrated, that the world needs a bit more pleasant surprises, that once in a while people should come to a screening having absolutely no idea what is going to happen, free from all the storms of blurbs normally thrown their way (yes, we would be the first to acknowledge our guilt).

Wouldn’t it be refreshing? Wouldn’t it be nice?

And above all, trust us (and our taste), this will be an evening full of laughters – laughters in the face of….

(SPOILER – just a tiny one here. Forgive us)

..death.

FREE ENTRY    

Fundraising Event: Screening “Rescue a North Korean Refugee”

Sun 17 Nov 2013, 7 pm

The Hanoi Bicycle Collective

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi    

Hi, I’m Chris, LiNK’s International Nomad. For the next year, I’m riding my bicycle 14,000 miles from Thailand to Turkey to raise funds to rescue North Korean refugees. I hope to raise $1 per mile, or $14,000 total; more than enough to rescue 5 refugees. While on the road, I’ll be giving screenings of LiNK’s documentaries at hostels, cafes, and organic farms; anywhere and to anyone who will watch with me All funds donated through my page go straight towards refugee rescues; none of it goes to me or to LiNK’s other programs. If I can raise $14,000 over the next year, 5 North Korean refugees will have started a new, freer life in either South Korea or the USA.

Liberty in North Korea (LINK)

Every year, thousands of North Koreans risk their lives to escape political persecution and economic hardship. If caught trying to escape or caught in China and sent back, they are at risk of extremely harsh punishments, including brutal beatings, forced labor, forced abortions, torture, and internment in a political prison camp. To make matters worse, while hiding in China their illegal status forces them to work in invisible industries and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers and sex traffickers, as they have no recourse to any authorities. Although many refugees try to escape, many do not have the resources or connections to get themselves out of China.

Free entrance.

Open Stage November 2013

Sat 16 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Lệ Thanh Theater

25 Phan Phu Tien, Dist 5, HCMC

Come to Open Stage November 2013 with Brainstorming Studio No2.

Concept, Choreography and Direction: CLAUDIO MALANGONE

Dancers: Vincenzo Capasso, Claudio Malangone

Music: Dario Casillo, J.S. Bach

Video: Ugo Petillo

Lighting design: Francesco Ferrigno

Organization manager: Maria Teresa Scarpa

Fee: 80.000 VND. Contact: 0903966798

Art Event “Memories of the Lang House”

Exhibition: 15 – 30 Nov 2013

The Muong’s Cultural Museum

202 Tay Tien Street, Thai Binh District, Hoa Binh city

“Memories of the Lang House” is an art event which is based on the origin, the history, the architectural values​​, the cultural values​​, the memories of the visitors, the residents; and the relics – the remnants of the 100 year – old house, which is conserved at Muong’s Cultural Museum, after the fire on 24th October, 2013. This event is organized to remind and improve the awareness of people about the protecting of the culture heritages of Vietnam.

“Memories of the Lang House” includes art praticing, experimental and exhibiting of contemporary art. The main activities of this event are included exhibition of Installation works, Site-specific works, Media Installation and Photos show “Memories of the LANG House” – to tell a story of the Lang house by pictures.

The event is a collaboration of Muong Studio – an zone for Contemporary Art under the control of Muong’s Cultural Museum -  with the Visual artists such as: the sculptor Dao Chau Hai, Nguyen Ngoc Lam, Thai Nhat Minh, Pham Thai Binh, Media artist Nguyen Quang Tuyen, Germany visual artist Kai Hügel, visual artists from Ho Chi Minh city and so on. The visual artists will use the left parts of the Lang House after the fire to create their works. Artist Nguyen Quang Tuyen will set up a Video and Sounds works on the foundanation of Lang House and between the trusses remaining columns. Especially, Kai Hügel (Germany) will base on the Recycled Art to compose. Photo exhibition will exhibit the images of the photographer Thai A, Thai Kien, Nguyen Ba Ngoc, Trinh Vu Hieu and pictures from the storage data of the Museum.

This is the first time Muong’s Cultural Museum – Muong Studio co-ordinates with the artists to use contemporary art in improving the responsibility of publics about the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. To mention directly about the social responsibility of each individual, the works raise a multi – dimensional perspective in the audiences about the values of Lang House through the two senses: Visual and Hearing.

The event “Memories of the Lang House” will be officially opened at 5pm, 15th November, 2013 with free charge for everyone who would like to visit. This is not only an activities to response the “Culture, Sports and Tourism of Northwest Ethnic” the XII, held on 16th November, 2013 at Hoa Binh Province but also the one towards Celebrating 8 years in Vietnam Heritage Day 23/11/2005 – 11/23/2013.

German Ball Saigon 2013

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Intercontinental Asiana Saigon

Corner Hai Ba Trung Street & Le Duan Boulervard., District 1, HCMC

You are invited to a special night of German Ball Saigon 2013 on 23 Nov.

If you’re looking for a touch of central European elegance in your galas, the German Ball Saigon should make your day. Program features include a Champagne reception, an exquisite four-course gala dinner, a classical dance orchestra and two world-class German party bands, ballroom dancing, and top-notch entertainment by internationally known performers.

For ticketing and information, please contact +84 909 023 006 or email to info@german-ball-saigon.com.

Jazz Concert with Nguyên Lê

Wed 20 Nov 2013, 8 pm

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Welcome to the Jazz concert “Songs of Freedom” with the performance of Nguyên Lê. The program is within the framework of 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.

“Songs of Freedom” concert, whose title is borrowed from a Bob Marley’s song, gives the audience an exotic view of the pop classics of the 70′s. This concert will reintroduce symbolic songs of global culture through a splendid jazz improvisation. The standard rhythms of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Cream or Bob Marley will be enriched by the diversified performance of the orchestra.

With the participation of artists:

Nguyên Lê : guitar

Himiko Paganotti : vocal

Romain Labaye : bass guitar

Illya Amar : vibraphone, marimba

Stéphane Galland : percussion

“The guitarist Nguyên Lê, an outstanding talent in rearranging masterpieces, will bring a superb concert with his burning out performance” TELERAMA

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace from today.

Jazz Concert with Quartet Erik Truffaz

Sat 23 Nov 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Jazz concert with the performance of Quartet Erik Truffaz. They leaves a trail of admirers with their unique style, where the trumpet is never limited to jazz only but also blended with hip hop, electro, rock and funk.

Erik Truffaz has a passion for all three genres of rock, jazz and classical music. During his time at the Conservatory, he chose jazz when discovering the rhythms of Miles Davis, who also changes music style all the time to adapt. Like his teacher, Erik Truffaz never wants to be locked in a fixed genre. That resulted in his unique style, where the trumpet is not limited to jazz only but also blended with hip hop, electro, rock and funk.

Members of the Quartet

Erik Truffaz : trumpet

Marc Erbetta : drum

Benoit Corboz : keyboards

Christophe Chambet : bass guitar

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Jazz Night “Friends Reunited”

Wed 27 Nov 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the unique French – Vietnamese art program, which combines between jazz and Vietnamese traditional instruments.

Following successful meetings and several concerts in both France and Vietnam from 2002 to 2007, which led to the creation of “Search for Wind” in 2005, the musicians of Mezcal Jazz Unit will come back to HCMC to reunite with Vietnamese friends in a new French-Vietnamese program combining jazz and Vietnamese traditional instruments.

With the participation:

Tran Manh Tuan: saxophone, compositions and Vietnamese friends

Emmanuel de Gouvello: bass, compositions

Christophe Azema: saxophone

Jean Marie Frédéric: guitar

Vivian Pères: bass

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Sad and Beautiful World: A Film Festival

15 – 24 Nov 2013

Hanoi

Inspired by and named after a Sparklehorse song, SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD is an underground film festival that celebrates life in all its hardships and wonders and ‘brief glimpses of beauty’.

We will be screening 13 films spanning various styles, lengths and subject matters: depression, autism, schizophrenia, suicide, natural disasters, uncertainty, death, etcetera. But at the same time, there is, as there will always be, hope, peace, freedom, and love, and beauty.

Sort of like how a musician who shot himself in the heart after suffering from endless bouts of depression was also someone who wrote, in our humble opinion, the most beautiful songs ever – sad songs still, but sad music somehow seems to have an uplifting aspect to it. The comforting knowledge that we are never alone: in a different time and place, someone has lived through similar experiences, and now passes their stories on through artistic creations.

No doubt that was the case with Mark Linkous, his music and words his exorcism, conjuring up surreal imageries that manage to feel personal and strangely universal at the same time: of long-gone childhood, dogs that eat birthday cakes, hair that smells like sunshine, bees who die at sea, skinny wolves, owls, cows, pigs, the moon, horse’s heads, diamond eyes, necklaces of leaves, hearts of darkness…

It is a trap one could fall into, but we are in no way trying to romanticise all the negativity in life. With SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD we hope to make people become more aware of things which maybe they have not really tried to understand. To challenge the taboos, especially the taboos on mental illness, and to help those for whom life has not been exactly easy. It may sound like a horrible cliché (and talking about cliché is also a cliché in itself, so go figure), but one thing we really believe in, is this: arts can heal.

In a way, this is also our exorcism.

LINE-UP

JAPAN IN A DAY

MATTHEW’S LAWS

AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY

IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY

I AM BREATHING

SLEEP FURIOUSLY

GALLIVANT

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON

SOUND TO MUSIC

ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND

THE VOYAGERS

Plus a Secret Screening – what will be screened at this event will not be revealed (but believe us, this is an awesome film everyone should see) – info regarding location to be announced.

All films = official Vietnam premieres

Language: All films will be screened with subtitles in Vietnamese and English (whenever original language is not English)

TICKETS / DONATIONS

Individual screenings: 50,000 VND / 20,000 VND (concession for students (both local and international))

Festival pass (entry to all events): 250,000 VND

Departure Kids Live in HCMC

Sun 24 Nov 2013, 7.30 pm

Q4 / Cargo Bar

7 Nguyen Tat Thanh, D.4, HCMC

French indie garage-rockers, DEPARTURE KIDS will make their Vietnam debut on 24th November.

Their raucous stage shows and infectious hooks have drawn comparisons with The Libertines and The Strokes, with waves of energy whipping unsuspecting crowds into a frenzy.

As always, there will be a top-notch support bill and DJ’s after. This will be another great value show with advance tickets 100k VND.

Tickets on sale from 28th Oct. Get tickets here.

Sad and Beautiful World – Introduction of 2 Japanese Films

The Onion Cellar proudly presents 2 Japanese films that will be screening at Sad and Beautiful World festival (taking place in Hanoi from the 15th to the 24th of November).

JAPAN IN A DAY (2012)

Philip Martin & Gaku Narita

91 mins

Japanese – with subtitles in Vietnamese and English

20.00 – 15/11 – Hanoi Cinematheque

14.30 – 17/11 – Hanoi Cinematheque

Sunday 11 March 2012 marked the first anniversary of the catastrophic Great East Japan Earthquake. The most powerful earthquake ever to strike Japan caused immeasurable damage not only to the stricken areas, but also to the nation as a whole. To commemorate the tragedy, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and Fuji TV collaborated on a project inspired by Kevin McDonald’s Life in a Day, asking people across Japan to pick up a camera and capture something about their day. What shines through are the thoughts, feelings and hopes that the remembrance of this terrible event inspired. The filmmakers fashioned this moving, eloquent testament from more than 8000 films shot by contributors from 12 different countries and uploaded onto YouTube. (BFI)

There’s a sense we are seated on one of Japan’s bullet trains as it speeds through the countryside, giving us blurred glimpses of marathon runners, downhill skiers, sparrows being fed and high-spirited teenagers goofing around on city streets.

A Buddhist monk chants sutra in a temple, an apology from humanity to nature. An elderly couple pick through the reduced-to-rubble house of the woman’s missing best friend, while another man notes that spring’s cherry blossoms are still beautiful. (Hollywood Reporter)

SOUND TO MUSIC (2010)

Tomoyuki Hattori

90 mins

Japanese – with subtitles in Vietnamese and English

14.30 – 24/11 – Red Room @ HRC

SOUND TO MUSIC is a documentary about the Japanese OTO ASOBI project.

OTO ASOBI consists of 16 people with learning disabilities and their families, about 20 artists from various fields, and music therapists. Individuals with learning disabilities include autism, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and so on, whose ages range from 8 to 42. They collaborate freely with artists such as free improvisers, pop musicians, butoh dancers, and installation artists. Over 50 guest artists have been involved so far to create new performances. Parents of the people with learning disabilities are also important members who make their own music using cardboard boxes, kitchen utensils, and even hoovers.

“I came to know about OTO ASOBI only very recently, and yet this little intriguing project immediately garnered a great deal of my interest and respect, for its beautiful objective, its humanity, and its tireless efforts in trying to bring an idea not the easiest to realise, into the realm of reality.

Having certain past experiences with individuals with learning difficulties, I am aware of how tricky it must have been to gather all these idiosyncrasies into even the least resemblance to a unit, let alone one that is supposed to play music together, in sonic harmony of an improvisational nature.

Furthermore, how well would the professional musicians get along with the kids? Would the two groups play equal roles in the ensemble, or would the latter simply be dragged along the former’s artistic trails? Would the project be able to achieve its aim of discovering a new language of musical expression?

Happy to report, they succeeded. It is difficult not to be moved by the enthusiasms of all involved. And when came the days of the public performances the whole group were working towards, it was truly a pleasure to witness such coming-together of minds and souls – no distance found between kids, musicians, volunteers, parents, and music’s profound power of connecting people championed, once again.” (Hung Tran)

Tickets

Individual screenings: 50,000 VND / 20,000 VND (concession for students (both local and international))

Festival pass (entry to all events): 250,000 VND (pre-order here.)

For all details on Sad And Beautiful World festival, please see www.onioncellar.org/festival, or www.ow.ly/qj0Cy

Screening of “Street Vendors”

Tue 26 Nov 2013, 7.30 pm

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) would like to present to its members the screening of “Street Vendors” – produced by Rolf Jensen with support from the Vietnamese Woman’s Museum in Hanoi

The three films of “ Streets Vendors “ features the voices and stories of a group of rural women in Vietnam, who leave their children and husbands at home and go to Hanoi to work as street vendors.

The first film: “Their voices” features nine women speaking to two different audiences. Their first message is to the foreign audience that understands little about who they are, where they come from and why they do the job they do. Their second message is to the Vietnamese audience that largely sees the street vendors as a nuisance, who they feel come to the city only when they have nothing better to do at home.

The two remaining films focus on two very touching stories of two street vendor women – Ms. Thuy and Ms. Loi.

Thuy’s story tells us of her difficulties she faces while working in a city that is largely hostile to the presence women like her, the pressure from the police and customers who mistrust and look down on her.

Loi’s story is about a 56 years old woman whose husband died years ago and she has been struggling to get out of poverty her entire life. Living in bad conditions in Hanoi to save money she stills worry about her married daughter and family.

Vietnamese with English subtitles and run time is 56 minutes.

Cost: 150,000vnd

Limit: 90 participants

To reserve seats contact: nguyenvu_nganhang@yahoo.com

Your reservation is not confirmed until you receive our email.

Please pick up and pay for your tickets on the evening of the event at the cinema (7:00 to 7:15 pm). As a courtesy to those on the waiting list please cancel if you can’t come (phone 090 602 0960 or 090 347 5768). Reserved seating tickets are allocated on a first come – first served basis.

We don’t pre-book seating but if you come early you can pick your favorite seats.

Concert Tour Of German Band Aufbau West

HANOI: Tue 12 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Youth Theatre

Sat 16 Nov 2013, 6 pm

Museum of History Hanoi

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HAIPHONG: Thu 14 Nov 2013, 7 pm

August-Theatre Hai Phong

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HCMC: Tue 19 Nov 2013, 7 pm

Youth Culture House

Finally the time has come: German Rock and Pop music will present itself in Vietnam again. Last year it was the band FOTOS from Hamburg, these year it is AUFBAU WEST – a quite young band from Erwitte, Münster and Berlin. There will be two concerts in Hanoi. The first concert takes place on the 12th of November in the theatre of youth and the second one on the 16th of November is open air in context of the German festival. Moreover there will be a concert in the August-theatre in Hai Phong. For the conclusion of the concert Tour AUFBAU West will play an open air concert on the 19th of November in Ho-Chi-Minh-City, youth culture house district 1.

Florian Berres, Jendrik Leismann, Martin Kuntze and Sebastian Gödde – these are the members of AUFBAU WEST, an ex-hilarant, upward striving German band. The band had been refining their musical skills last year by participating in the PopCamp, a master’s class workshop organized by the German Music Council. The last two years the band has been on tour as supporting act for Jennifer Rostock as well as it has been playing their own concerts and participating in various festivals in Germany. Now in November upon invitation of the Goethe Institute AUFBAU WEST will finally be appearing live on stage in Vietnam.

Matching to arrival of the german pop music band AUFBAU WEST in Vietnam, the Goethe-Institut offers a little game for you! Please join the game and you will win lots of special prizes. The best player will get a language course at the Goethe-Institut with the value of 3.000.000. VND – join in and find out here.

Tour dates

12 Nov 2013, 19:00

Youth Theatre Hanoi, 11 Ngô Thì Nhậm

14 Nov 2013, 19:00

August-Theatre Hai Phong, 117 Đinh Tiên Hoàng

16 Nov 2013, 18:00 Open Air

At the Museum of History Hanoi, Phạm Ngũ Lão

19 Nov 2013, 19:00 Open Air

Youth Culture House, Dist. 1 (behind the cathedral), Saigon

Free Tickets are available as of:

• 06 Nov 2013 at the Goethe Institute Hanoi for the concert on Nov. 12, 2013 at the Youth Theatre Hanoi

• 08 Nov 2013 at the August Theatre in Hai Phong for the concert on Nov. 14, 2013

• 12 Nov 2013 at the Goethe Institute HCMC for the concert on Nov. 19, 2013 at the Youth Culture House in Ho Chi Minh City    

Concert: Silence Teaches You How To Sing

Thu 14 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

ASPIDISTRAFLY : ambient folk duo from Singapore

JRG_ONE : cassette-tape-based live set

SEBASTIEN GESELL : quiet minimalism DJ set

YOU: talkless, shoeless, floor-sitting, mind-cleansing, being

In which The Onion Cellar challenges you to not utter a single word. To be at peace with your silence.

Definitely not an ordinary event, as proved by the first edition back in August, SILENCE has more in common with the teachings and practices of meditation. A silent retreat for the iPad generation, accompanied by beautiful, abstract and non-intrusive visuals and sounds.

One strict rule applies throughout the evening, at all times and not only while the artists are performing: once you have entered the Red Room (which, for the occasion, would be transformed to resemble more its namesake h

ABSOLUTELY NO TALKING ALLOWED.

That means, no ‘hello’ and ‘how’s it going’, no making acquaintances, no exchanging phone numbers, no finding out you two live on the same street, no flirting, no discussing arts and English football and Murakami and the war on terrorism. That means having a decent (and potentially transcendental) ‘night out’ without all the things you take for granted.

It might seem ironic to provide sound and visual accompaniment at an event partly inspired by John Cage’s (masterpiece) 4’33 – but we believe the warm texture, voice and acoustic guitar sounds from the excellent ambient folk duo ASPIDISTRAFLY, the hauntingly delicate sounds and abstract analogue visuals from JRG_ONE, and the super-rare minimalism DJ set from SEBASTIEN GESELL, will be the perfect vehicles for your ascent to galaxies afar.

REMEMBER: SHOES OFF AND OUTSIDE, PLEASE. ENJOY THE CANDLELIGHTS.

From Singapore, ASPIDISTRAFLY consists of composer and vocalist April Lee (b.1984) and producer Ricks Ang (b.1980) – both also being founders of Kitchen. Label.

The duo play a flickeringly filmic mixture of ambient folk with gossamer-like vocal harmonies and guitar-based drone wrapped in a delicate lo-fi haziness. April’s beguiling visions and lyrics form the backbone of ASPIDISTRAFLY‘s storytelling.

ASPIDISTRAFLY released their debut EP The Ghost of Things in 2004, followed by first full-length album I Hold a Wish for You in 2008 which gained much recognition and attention around Japan and Asia. In December 2011, they released their second album A Little Fable, recorded in autumn/winter 2010 in Japan in collaboration with several kindred spirits (Haruka Nakamura, Junya Yanagidaira (ironomi), Akira Kosemura, Janis Crunch and more).

Fascinated by the patina of time and themes of folklore, A Little Fable narrates a surrealist procession of tales, twelve compositions simmering one into the other lyrically and picturesquely. This album sees the duo returning to a warm, organic palette of closely-whispered vocals (which see April’s distinctly smoky and melancholic tone compared to Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs), fingerpicked guitar, string arrangements and their trademark texture-focused arrangements.

In Landscape with a Fairy, a tale of loss and longing during the earliest dawn mist – the world in its daily transition – is daubed in the hues of intensified sunlight, foliage or shadows, only to be diffused and faded by time, not unlike Andrei Tarkovsky’s polaroids of the Russian countryside. April Lee’s intimate vocals and acoustic guitar gently break the silence of a cold morning, backed by graceful string flourishes arranged by Kyo Ichinose. Kitchen. Label’s very own Haruka Nakamura and Junya Yanagidaira (ironomi) add harmonizing colors of the guitar and piano respectively.

JRG_ONE’s previous live appearances in Hanoi saw his woven sonic textures crafting a delicate (yet equally haunting) take on experimental music.

For the second installment of SILENCE TEACHES YOU HOW TO SING, he has crafted a set which ditches the standard laptop setup and instead makes use of prepared audio cassette tapes and numerous tape players fed through a mixer and live sampler. What better complement to rare silence in the digital age than subtle strains of pure analog tape hiss, punctuated by the sound of tape heads engaging with the push of clunky PLAY and STOP buttons?

What’s on the tapes? A whole host of fuzzed-out synthesizer sequences, mellow drones, sound effects, ambient field recordings, voices from the ether, and likely some sounds that will surprise even the artist himself, all of them awash in warm, beautiful “tape tone.” The resulting blanket of sound will rise and fall in waves that are looped, layered, pitch shifted and fed through various effects, all while being complemented by live ethereal vocal sampling and snippets of short-wave radio static. There will be no pre-determined play order to the massive pile of tapes laid out for the set, so close your eyes and ride the hissssssss…

Sebastien Gesell's moon musick DJ set - Set DJ 'nguyệt ca' của Sebastien Gesell

Back on the Silence stage due to popular demand and the wonderful feedback he received for the set in August

SEBASTIEN GESELL has always been one helluva versatile DJ, and while this very special set of quiet minimalism music he will showcase on the night could not be more different from the tunes he usually throws at Hanoian ravers, it will be just as trance-inducing.

Tickets

VND 50,000 (presale) – PLEASE REGISTER VIA THIS FORM.

VND 50,000 ((Vietnamese/ international) student concessions – available at doors)

VND 100,000 (doors)

International Dance Festival

Performance: 20 and 21 Nov 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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Workshop: 16, 17 and 22 Nov 2013

Le Thanh Theatre

On Nov 20th and 21st 2013, you are invited to The Very First International Dance Festival in Ho Chi Minh city with participation of choreographers and dancers from Italia, Japan and Korea.

This Festival includes 03 workshops with choreographers from Italia, Japan and Korea, and 02 Night Shows at 8:00pm at HCMC Opera House.

20th Nov, 2013 – Performances of choreographers and dancers from Italia, Japan and Korea.

21st Nov, 2013 – Performance of Arabesque: “The Mist”.

16th Nov, 2013 – Workshop with Claudio Malangone from Italia [9:00am - 10:30am]. Content: Awareness of the body in contemporary dance.

17th Nov, 2013 – Workshop with Kaiji Moriyama from Japan [3:00pm – 4:30pm]. Content: contemporary dance movement and experience Kaiji’s creative process of choreography shortly.

22nd Nov, 2013 – Workshop with Sungyong Kim from Korea [9:00am - 10:30am]. Content: Floor dance technique.

Ticket reservation via phone is now open, please call 0903.966.798 for further information about tickets and workshop fee.   

HCMC Opera House

No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC   

Le Thanh Theatre

25 Phan Phu Tien, Ward 10, Dist 5, HCMC

“Z” Factor – Shines Your “U”

Sun 17 Nov 2013, 8 pm

Dai Dong International Dance Club

46 Hang Cot, Hanoi

With a hope to popularize Zouk, connect the dance community as well as promote Hanoi young people to participate in community-oriented activities, event “Z” Factor – Shines your “U” will take place this Sunday.

Besides the participation of Hanoi dance clubs, the event features two professional dancers coming from the Netherlands with their unique Brega Zouk style – Anthony Brega and Maria Louise. In addition to the workshops to introduce zouk to the dancers and lovers, Anthony and Maria will perform as well as join the social dancing in the “Z” Factor – Shines your “U” and together with Hanoi youngsters, give a hand to the people in need in the Central provinces of Vietnam.

The proceeds from the event will partially channelled to the Fund for the Central provinces (the forum of www.chatdocdacam.vn, operational under the Fund for the victims of Agent Orange – Vietnam Red Cross Association). After that, the proceeds will be handed over to the people in need in the Central provinces of Vietnam to help them recover from the consequences of the recent typhoons.

The organizers of “Z” Factor – Shines your “U” wish to increase the dance scene in Hanoi, make know such new dances as Zouk to the Hanoi youngsters and together, support the needy people.

Contact information: Hotline: 0938 279 510.   

Saving Little Thuy

Painting conservator Caroline Fry returns to Vietnam.

The weight of responsibility to save a national art treasure from the ravages of time must be great but this is what Australian painting conservator Caroline Fry took on with the restoration of Tran Van Can’s painting ‘Em Thuy’ (1943) in 2004. For four months in Hanoi she surveyed every millimetre, every brush stroke, groove and crack of the canvas and then applied a combination of science and great conservation skill to save ‘Em Thuy’ from the accumulation of sixty years of humidity, dust, poor storage, light, over-painting, gecko excreta, pollution and degradation. For her efforts the Vietnamese Government presented her with a medal for ‘contributions to the preservation of Vietnamese art.’ and through the force of her personality and passion for people, art and restoration she also helped create a new culture of care and expertise at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Art in Hanoi, which meant she left behind much more than a restored painting.

So now almost 10 years later Caroline has returned to Vietnam on holiday to reconnect with old friends and to ‘check up on her little girl’. You can’t spend that much time with a beautiful object and not let it somehow permeate your soul and it’s clear that Caroline’s relationship with ‘Em Thuy’ goes deep but is very positive. When you restore a painting you also uncover and relive the past, with every scrape of the scalpel trying to understand and harmonise with the artist’s original intentions, materials and historical context. The conservation process over the four months in 2004 was very public as the Vietnamese art world closely scrutinised every development, but for Caroline it was also intensely personal as she worked day and night in microscopic detail to save the painting. It was a moment of intense pride for all involved when the restored work was shown at the end of Caroline’s time here and ‘Em Thuy’ herself, now an old lady, came for the unveiling.

For Caroline, now so much time has passed, her reflections are more personal and less technical as the inscrutable innocent little girl looks back at her. ‘I’ve grown and aged in the intervening years but she’s stayed the same’ she observes, ‘so like Keats’ Ode On A Grecian Urn;

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

my reflections are now less about myself as conservator but as a lover of art. Now I can truly appreciate the painting on its own terms’.

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness!

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time

So what’s left for Caroline ten years since the restoration are old friends at the museum, a love of Vietnam and memories of an emotional four month rescue operation to save a little girl who holds a place in a nation’s heart. It’s not traditional to credit individual conservators on such projects but in Caroline’s case it doesn’t matter, she left her mark by restoring the artist’s and her passion is reflected in the painting’s renewed patina.

Credits: lines 46, 47 and 1, 2 of ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn’ by John Keats

You can see ‘Em Thuy’ on the second floor of the Museum Of Fine Art at 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi

TEDx Youth Day 2013

Sun 17 Nov 2013, 2 – 5 pm

7th floor, Arena Multimedia

4 Ton That Thuyet, Hanoi

You are invited to the event “TEDxYouth@Hanoi2013” which is organized by TEDxBadinh – an independent organization patronized by TEDxEvent, TED Global.

TEDxYouth@Hanoi2013, themed “ The Spark”, aims to share particular ideas in different fields (arts, philosophy, career orientation, education etc.) with vision to inspire curiosity, ignite new thoughts and empower young leaders . Five crucial representatives, who have new ideas to have innovations, and are willing to share their ways of looking at the youth futures are invited to be our esteemed guest speakers.

Language: Vietnamese and English.

About registration:

TEDxBadinh is trying to help audience conveniently purchase tickets. Please book online tickets with TEDxBadinh. Registration link.

We will start to check-in at 1:30 PM and end at 2 PM, so please arrive on time.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any concern, we are glad to answer as soon as possible.

Email: tedxbadinh@gmail.com.

For further information, please visit our Facebook.

Five enthusiast representatives who have new ideas to generate innovations, and are willing to share their perspectives at the youth futures are invited to be our esteemed guest speakers. Three of them are:

1. Nguyen Anh Tuan – a freelance architecture with profound experience working in international environment

2. Tran Thi Thuy Trang – a bright young entrepreneur currently works as Co-founder and Coach at Domino Education

3. Vu Khanh Van, MC – singer from Vietnam’s got talent 2012.

Hanoi Run for Children 2013

Sun 17 Nov 2013, 9 am

Ciputra Hanoi International City

Join us for the 14th Annual Hanoi Run for Children that will be held on Sunday, November 17, 2013 – 09:00 at Ciputra Hanoi International City (main gate entrance with prancing horses).

The Hanoi Run for Children started out in 2000 as one of the participating events of the Terry Fox Run. It was given a new name and format in 2009, to allow more diverse ways to help disadvantaged children in Vietnam.

Fashion Presentation

Sat 16 Nov 2013, 6 – 8 pm

Tadioto

2nd Floor, Building A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi

Come to enjoy the latest collection from KAAREM, reflecting extreme simplicity and sophistication; with ten models and guitar accompaniment from Minh Tuấn.

Go!Go!★Japan! Rock Concert 2013

Sat 16 Nov 2013, 6.30 pm

Van Ho Exhibition Centre

02 Hoa Lu Street, Hanoi

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam and Rockpassion.vn proudly present an exciting night with the cutting-edges of Japanese and Vietnamese rock bands, “Go! Go! Japan! Rock Festival 2013” held in Van Ho Exhibition Center (2 Hoa Lu, Hanoi) on Saturday 16 November 2013, kicking off at 18:30.

OKAMOTO’S, a young Japanese rock star in high demand globally, comes back to Hanoi to celebrate the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013. Made up of four 22-year-olds from Tokyo, this psychedelic garage rock band radiates youthfulness via the passionate performance of the vocal, Sho Okamoto, backed up with highly skillful musicians, Koki Okamoto (guitar), Reiji Okamoto (drums), and Hama Okamoto (bass), who recently signed an endorsement contract as a first Japanese bassist with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, one of the leading instrument makers of the US.

One of the new faces from Japan for Vietnamese music fans is THE TON-UP MOTORS, a “rock’n soul” band from Hokkaido, the northern end of Japan. Having attracted a large number of audiences from north to south in Japan, by overwhelming live performances with straightforward Japanese lyrics and melodies based on black music (i.e., soul, funk, blues, etc.), this four-piece powerful band finally makes a debut outside of Japan, here in Vietnam.

The first “Go! Go! Japan! Rock Festival” was held in December 2011 in Hanoi to promote the rejuvenation of Japan in the aftermath of the 3.11 disaster and celebrate the on-going solidarity between Japan and Vietnam, resulting in approximately 2,000 audience’s wild enthusiasm on the performances by Japanese and Vietnamese rock bands, including OKAMOTO’S.

In response to the ongoing calls for an encore, “Go! Go! Japan! Rock Festival 2013” is finally realized thanks to the 40th anniversary of Vietnam – Japan diplomatic relations.

This year’s festival will be kicked off by Thuy Trieu Do, a long-established Vietnamese heavy metal band who celebrates the 10th anniversary of their active performances since 2003. Based in Hanoi, they have been energetically appearing on numerous numbers of festivals both inside and outside of Vietnam, including Rock Storm, Tiger Translate, and Rock Typhoon Yamaha to name but a few.

(From left to right) Nguyen Hong Vy (Guitar Lead), Nguyen Linh (Drum), Le Son (Vocal), Pham Khanh Duong (Keyboard), Le Quang Hung (Guitar Bass)

Another delight from Vietnam is Oringchains, the winner of “The Tiger Translate Battle of the Bands 2012”. Formed in 2009, this versatile modern rock band, covering various rock styles ranging from alternative, nu metal to rap core, has rapidly won the heart and mind of music goers in Vietnam. Combining popular rock with electric effect (DJ), their music provides the audience a new, powerful yet enjoyable musical experience.

(Left) Tetsushi Hiroyama (Right) YAPAN

Last but not least, RYUKYUDISKO, a techno unit of twin brothers from Okinawa, the southern end of Japan, will be the enhancer of the festival by offering danceable tunes in two sessions, one featuring Okinawan style, the other featuring techno style at the end of the festival. They will surely enthuse you, until midnight, with their unprecedented techno music blended with Okinawan sounds to make this special rock night memorable.

The festival will be advanced by MC Thuy Trang, a young female presenter gifted with both wits and beauty and the host of a popular fashion TV program “Fashion & Style” on Hanoi TV, to link the audience to the all above five bands from Japan and Vietnam in a friendly and communicative manner.

“Go! Go! Japan! Rock Festival 2013” is held in Van Ho Exhibition Center (2 Hoa Lu, Hanoi) on Saturday 16 November 2013, kicking off at 18:30. Get the free tickets at the following spots to be entitled to enjoy the “Don’t miss” event of the year for all music and dance fans.

Ticket distribution spots:

The Japan Foundation, 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, TEL 04 3944 7419 [09:00 – 18:00, no closed days]

Rockpassion.vn, 66 Ngo 40 Ta Quang Buu, TEL 04 668 45619 [8:30 – 17:30, closed on Sat & Sun]

Café M Day, 110 Cau Giay, TEL 0163 353 8868 [6:30 – 23:30, no closed days]

Major 7 Café, Cuoi ngo 95 Chua Boc, TEL TEL 098 756 95 86 [8:00 – 21:00, no closed days]