World Music Sunday Brunch

Dung Hit & Musbaba
Sun 14 Oct 2012, 12 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

After the success of the performance last week, Musbaba and Dung Hit will play at Hanoi Bicycle Collective this Sunday. Enjoy a merging of music from Vietnam and Mali with Dung Hit, a young Hanoian Dan tranh player and Musbaba, a West African musician who has recently been impressing Hanoi audiences.

Musbaba is from Mali and has been in Hanoi since May 2012. He is well recognized in the African music scene, having played with the Symetrique Orchestra and collaborated with top African musicians. He plays Djembé, tamani (talking drum), dundun, calebasse and n’goni (pictured). He is both a musician and a composer. Hanoi has been very very lucky with his arrival, there are not many musicians with his talent.

Dung Hit is a 23 young Hanoian, who plays Dan tranh ( traditional Vietnamese plucked, stringed instrument).

Musbaba and Dung have been cooperating together for a few months, and have managed to intermingle traditional Mali and Vietnamese music. The result tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener’s attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music.

Ticket

Entrance 100,000 VND including one free drink.
There is limited seating.

Live Lounge IV

Sat 13 Oct 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Live Lounge IV. All about the local. All about the live.

Come down in support of five local acts who will take to the stage with an eclectic assortment of sounds and unique charisma. Whether you like it groovy, rocky, poppy, jazzy, or brilliantly Zippy, this is a real pick ‘n’ mix of the melodies. Hanoi is creating in bedroom-studios across the city… expect to go home with a music-induced spring in your step and a new favourite band or two for the Autumn.

Downstairs, we’ll be showering the garden in classic 60s – 70s flower power tunes for a funkin’ good, golden time.

Performers :

AC/EC
HI-JINKS (smp)
DIVINE MONKEY EMPIRE (smp)
GOOD GRAEFF (smp)
ZIPPY

Ticket

Ticket price: 50 000 VND. Holders of a Vietnam student card get 50% discount.

Film screening “The Legendary Love Story of Water God”

Sat 13 Oct 2012, 2 pm
TPD
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi

You are invited to the film screening of “The Legendary Love Story of Water God and talk with director Ha Son. For more information, see below:

Program::
- 2 pm: Film screening
- 3.15 pm: Talk with director Ha Son.

About the film:
Script and director: Ha Son
Camera: Tran Quoc Dung – Phi Tien Son
Cast: Vo Hoai Nam, Le Van, Minh Thu, Sy Cuong
Genre: Film for children
Duration: 70 minutes
Film’s synopsis: Based on the short story “The Beautiful Days” of Hoa Van, the film The Legendary Love Story of the Water God offers another perspective on the familiar fight between Son Tinh and Thuy Tinh . Based on the opinion of princess Mi Nuong, the love story between her and the Water God is told and it is both loving yet bitter. It is also the explanation for the annual storming season in Phong Chau land.

This is provisional programme. Free entrance

    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.

HCMC – Exhibition “Autumn Meeting”

Frederic Domenech – ArcEnCiel
Exhibition: 10 – 30 Oct 2012
Tu Do Gallery
53 Ho Tung Mau Str, Dist 1, HCMC

You are invited to the painting exhibition by artists Frederic Domenech (1961 – Blois, France) and Tran Hoang Minh Duc (1964 – Hue, Vietnam) entitled “Autumn Meeting”.

For more images of paintings, please visit the gallery website.

HCMC – Concert with Swing Quartet

Fri 12 Oct 2012, 8 pm
IDECAF
28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC

You are invited to a jazz accordion concert with Swing Quartet on October 12th 2012 at 8pm at IDECAF. Established in 2010 in Hanoi, the Swing Quartet had their first performance in the Youth Theater.

The concert is performed by the young accordion player Thibault DILLE, winner of the renowned Toots Thielemans Award, Bruxelles 2010. It will bring to the audience swing tunes of famous French composers such as Gus Viseur, Marcel Azzola, Richard Galliano.

Performers:
Thibault Dille: accordion
Nguyễn Tiến Mạnh: piano
Christophe Hache: contrabass
Nguyễn Hùng Cường: percussion.

Ticket
Ticket price: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets will be on sale at IDECAF very soon (31 Thai Van Lung, Q1, HCMC), tel: 08 38 29 54 51

Electronic Music with UK Beat-maker 1DAN

Sat 13 Oct 2012, 9 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Underground UK deep house beat-maker 1DAN is passing through Hanoi and will perform at CAMA ATK Saturday 13 October. In between teaching beat-making to young offenders, 1DAN has been playing underground and free parties in London and Brighton, his efforts securing a residency at the Glade Festival Backstage Bar.

His mixes, remixes, original tracks and DJ sets brought him to the attention of Atmospheric Existence Recordings (AER), one of UK deep house’s coolest, most soulful labels, who released Foundations, 1DAN’s otherworldly dub-infused first pressing, as part of their Refined Textures Vol. 1 EP.

Since then, Maltese label BattiBatti have picked up on 1DAN’s sound releasing a rash of his work on short run vinyl pressings. Through BattiBatti, 1DAN put out his Wish You Well EP and contributed to Basement Tracks, a compilation which rode to 13th in the Juno.co.uk best-seller chart.

At ATK, 1DAN will be playing his own cuts and others using the house’s trusty CDJs. Expect dub-infused, soulful deep house ranging from the chilled out minimal to the absolutely glorious.

Ticket

Ticket price: 50 000 VND (All tickets sales are for the artist – if you like music, support it)

Documentary Film “On the Contrary”
 
Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

“On the Contrary” is the last but definitely not the least film from the Black Project this year. The film featuring artist Nguyen Minh Nam from Bac Ninh city which is one of the Vietnamese cultural tradition origins. Being brought up under the old traditional atmosphere, Nam witnessed the social struggle of women nowadays between the traditional way of Vietnamese women and the modern day western liberation. With the influence from his artist father, Nam decided to state the contemporary Vietnamese feminism issues on his canvas. This time Black Project worked with Nguyen Minh Nam and recorded a day’s life of a club dancer Ms. Pham Bao Tien, through the daily of this so called “modern girl” the film is trying to connect the relation between her and Nam’s works in contemporary society of Vietnam. Please find out more in the film. There will also be an action art performed by Nam and Tien at the opening, and live music performance by musician Nguyen Van Thao and Nam.

Free entry.

TPD’s Documentary Class

Deadline: 20 Oct 2012

After nearly three years of implementation, with 24 free filmmaking classes inHanoi, Project “We are film makers” has trained nearly 200 students, launched 100 documentaries, 40 short films. Besides, the project also has developed  a community of youth who share the passion for cinema.

Since 2009 until now, all the training programs, film project were supported by Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation closed representative office as well as stopped all activites inVietnam. As a result, TPD center has  no more financial sponsor to maintain free filmmaking classes. In 2012, TPD center will charge fee for filmmaking classes. The revenue will be used to pay for lecturers, lecturer assistants and project activities.

Our current enrollment is documentary class H27 with course consists of 10 sessions

No. of students: 20 students
Duration: 1 session / week (Sunday morning or afternoon)
Deadline: 20/10/2012
Target: all young people reside in Hanoi.
Tuition fee: 80,000/sessions, total: 800,000VND/course

Download registration form here.

Application letters should be sent to:

WE ARE FILM MAKERS
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) – Vietnam Cinema Association
Address               : No 51, Tran Hung Dao Street, Hoan Kiem District,Hanoi
Tel                         : + 84 4 39 366 559
Email                    : chungtalamphim@tpd.vn
Website               : www.chungtalamphim.vn

Notice: Any questions or registration via e-mail should have subject “PTL H27″.

Exhibition “This is my Mexico – This is my Vietnam”

Exhibition: 06 – 13 Oct 2012
36-38 Ly Thai To Str., Hoan Kiem,Hanoi

Come to an exhibition of children’s drawings “This is my Mexico – This is my Vietnam”. The collection is made of 42 drawings of Mexican children living abroad and 42 Vietnamese children living in Hanoi.

The Mexican drawings are part of an itinerary exhibition result of the Children’s Drawing Contest “This is my Mexico”, which today has become a tradition, involving thousands of Mexican children, and of Mexican origin living around the world. The theme of the call was “Traditional Mexican Cuisine: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” as a way to join the glee of the declaration made by UNESCO in November 2010, and to celebrate the XV years of the Contest.

Vietnamese children were invited to capture in small strokes and colors the meaning of Vietnamese food for them. The response was immediate: the most beautiful expressions of the rich culinary culture.

Musbaba and Dung Hit

Sun 07 Oct 2012, 12 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Enjoy a merging of music from Vietnam and Mali with Dung Hit, a young Hanoian Dan tranh player and Musbaba, a West African musician who has recently been impressing Hanoi audiences.

Musbaba is from Mali and has been in Hanoi since May 2012. He is well recognized in the African music scene, having played with the Symetrique Orchestra and collaborated with top African musicians. He plays Djembé, tamani (talking drum), dundun, calebasse and n’goni (pictured). He is both a musician and a composer. Hanoi has been very very lucky with his arrival, there are not many musicians with his talent.

Dung Hit is a 23 young Hanoian, who plays Dan tranh ( traditional Vietnamese plucked, stringed instrument).

Musbaba and Dung have been cooperating together for a few months, and have managed to intermingle traditional Mali and Vietnamese music. The result tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener’s attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music.

Ticket

Entrance 50,000 VND including one free drink.
There is limited seating.

Momiji Festival 2012

Sun 07 Oct 2012, 9 am – 5 pm
Center for Women’s Development
20 Thuy Khue, Hanoi

You are invited to the asianbeatvn MOMIJI 2012 Festival . The event has various activities including Yosakoi dance peformed by well-known Yosakoi clubs such as ULIS Yosakoi, HANUYO  Yosakoi; Kendo and Aikido performance of Hanoi Aikido Federation and cute dances by Cosplayers.

Visitors will also have a chance to taste special cuisine from Fukuota province, play traditional Japanese games, try on Yukata, find out more studying opportunities, buy souvenir, etc…

Specially, in the asianbeatvn MOMIJI 2012 Festival, a karaoke contest will be organized for the first time in Hanoi. Also a contest to select KAWAII Ambassador to represent asianbeatvn to attend FACo fashion Show in Fukuota for spring next year will  be organized.

Free entrance.

Invest in Girls, Invest in the Future

Date: October 11, 2012: The International Day of the Girl Child

Today governments, international development agencies and people around the world are celebrating the inaugural International Day of the Girl Child, a resolution adopted unanimously last year by the United Nations General Assembly.  
Here in Vietnam I hope we too can add our support to this important day.
The answer to why we need it is simple – because we don't pay enough attention to the specific difficulties and problems faced by girls.  
We need to face up to these difficulties and find real solutions to ensure girls have the same opportunities in life as boys. We cannot allow girls to be forgotten at a time when development priorities for the next generation are being decided.
Globally, one-third of girls are denied their right to an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence, discrimination, and harmful practices. Girls are missing out on an education at a time when they have the power to transform their lives and the world around them.  It is a huge, unjust waste of potential.
Girls are less likely to attend primary school than boys and even less likely to attend secondary school. They make up the majority of the 67 million children globally not currently in school.
Meanwhile girls out of school are more vulnerable to trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation and exploitative labour.  Giving vulnerable girls greater access to education increases their options in the job market keeping them from the clutches of traffickers.
Simply put, supporting girls’ education is one of the best investments we can make.  If we ensure girls are given the same opportunities as boys from the moment they are born, we help them and their families break the cycle of poverty, giving them the chance to become empowered women, mothers, workers and leaders. For each year a girl stays in school, her eventual income will rise by 10 to 20%.
With these objectives in mind Plan International, officially kicks off its Because I am a Girl five-year campaign on Thursday (October 11). The aim is to support 4 million girls in receiving the education, skills and support they need to transform their lives.
We are working with girls and boys, communities, teachers, leaders, governments, global institutions, and the private sector to enable children to participate in decision making and inspiring action as well as pushing for increased funding for girls’ education.
We sensitise parents, equip schools and train teachers so girls receive both a quality pre-primary, primary and secondary education. We are adamant about seeking an end to child and forced marriage and violence in schools, empowering communities to speak out and governments to take action to stop these practices.
In Vietnam early marriage among ethnic minority girls remains very common.  A significant number of girls drop out at 14 or 15 to marry or provide domestic labor. This is a common in spite of child marriage not being permitted by Vietnamese law.
Additionally, in Vietnam, Gender based violence (GBV) is widespread. Some 58% of women have experienced at least one form of abuse.  Violence experienced by adolescent girls in Vietnam takes place against this backdrop and stems, in part, from a violent history, societal attitudes and unequal power relationships. The impact of such violence causes damage to adolescent girls’ physical and psychological health as well as effecting school attendance and academic achievement. Girls, more than boys, are sexually assaulted, abused and harassed by their classmates and even by teachers.
Recent research conducted by the Institute for Social Development Study (ISDS) and Centre for Study and Applied Science on Children, Women and Adolescent (CSAGA) in selected high schools in three provinces, suggests a prevalence of sexual harassment in high schools. Some 10% of respondents revealed being sexual harassed of which, 81% were girls. This included 17% who were forced to be kissed, 20% being sexually touched and 4.3% being sexually abused. While violence against women has become a public health and human rights issue in Vietnam, the incidence of such violence in formal schooling has not been explored. There is no national data on this particular issue.
The International Day of the Girl Child -- a day campaigned for by Plan International with support from the Canadian government, the European Union and others -- will focus the world's attention on the importance of girls' rights and create a foundation for advocacy to ensure girls get the investment and recognition they deserve.
Plan works to help marginalised children across Vietnam, especially those from ethnic minority groups in mountainous regions.
We implement programmes and projects involving some 226,000 households in 142 communes in Central and Northern Vietnam, including 40,000 sponsored children and their families.  
ENDS
For more information contact Tran Thuy Quynh, Communications Manager, Plan Vietnam 0438220661 x 32 or email quynh@plan-international.org

Vuong Thao’s Art at Bookworm Too

Fri 12 Oct 2012, 6 – 9pm
Bookworm Too
Lane 1/28, Nghi Tam Village, Hanoi

To celebrate the recent opening of Bookworm Too inNghiTamVillage, one ofVietnam’s best known and successful artists will create a gallery there over two levels.

Vuong Thao’s new work returns to the days before his fossil sculptures became so famous that the Singapore Art Museum purchased the complete 64 piece ‘Old Quarter’ series for their collection.

Thao’s ‘bum’ paintings are in important international and private collections and his new canvasses are an art collector’s and connoisseur’s delight. They are delightfully whimsical and totally Vietnamese.

As part of this exhibition Thao continues his fossil series with new illuminated sculptures in composite cubes. A feature are the historical skulls covered with Chinese and Vietnamese script and are figures that represent historical and cultural values in particular times in Vietnam’s history. The skull shown was inspired by the poem ‘The Tale of Khieu’,Vietnam’s epic poem composed by Nguyen Du about 200 years ago.

Since 2007 Thao’s living fossils have been his determined attempt to preserve historical and cultural values and concepts before they are destroyed by progress, indifference or greed.

All of Thao’s work is for sale. The Bookworm does not charge gallery commission or rent so this exhibition offers collectors and art lovers a chance to cut a few financial corners

Exhibition “Hanoi in Those Bombing Days in 1972″

Opening: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 6 pm
Exhibition: 11 Oct – 09 Nov 2012
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the photograph exhibition “Hanoi in Those Bombing Days in 1972″. The exhibition introduces all stages of the bombing in chronological order (choosing strategic targets, the involvement of the air force, damages to infrastructure and human, etc) and the silmutaneous negotiation happening at that time.

Free entrance.

Global Rhythm Live Beats

Fri 05 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu, Hanoi

Come and see some beats and original electronic music layed down before your eyes with Unconventional Science – heady, international beats, layers of diverse electronic soundscapes – artistic blends of old and new – this is no mindless doof-doof.

Come and see what intelligent electonica is about. A real DJ. Mixing it up live – no smoke or mirrors! Layers built on improvised layers. World rhythms. A set prepped just for the Hanoi Social Club.

Reach into the contemplative, fresh sounds of Unconventional Science. The Hanoi Social Club – bringing you new, unique music once again.

Ticket

Ticket price: 60 000 VND at door.

HCMC – Film Screening in Oct at IDECAF

Sat  06, 13, 20, 27 Oct, 3 pm
IDECAF
28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC

You are invited to the film screenings in October including: Mon Frère se Marie, Kerity, La Maison des Contes, Les Beaux Gosses, Mother’s Soul. All films are original and have Vietnamese or French subtitles.

For more information about the screening schedule and the ticket price, see below:

Screening schedule:
Sat 06 Oct, 3 pm: Screening of Mon Frère se Marie
Sat 13 Oct, 3 pm: Screening of Kerity, La Maison des Contes
Sat 20 Oct, 3 pm: Screening of Les Beaux Gosses
Sat 27 Oct, 3 pm: Screening of Mother’s Soul

Ticket:

Ticket price: 15 000 VND.
Tickets are available at IDECAF.
    
Performance of Duo Good Graeff

Sun 07 Oct 2012, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

Heartfelt, beautifully crafted songs with lyrics as powerful as the melody is moving.

That is what you will get at a Good Graeff gig. Making folk gold with just a cello, guitar and ukulele, Good Graeff play the sort of music that will win you over regardless of your musical tastes. Pop, folk and contemporary country influences – their music can be as reflective and laid bare as much as it can be finger-snapping and smile-inducing.

It’s the perfect way to end a week – grab a glass of wine, make yourself comfy, and let yourself be transported into the friendly, folky world of Good Graeff.

If you haven’t seen them, see them.

If you’re wondering what top-end pop-folk sounds like, come on down.

If you want to end your week on a massive feel-good high – you know where to go!

Ticket

Ticket price: 70 000 VND at door.    

HCMC – Exhibition “Tales of Chewing Gum, Noodle Soup, and Other Stories”

Hoang Duong Cam, Supply chain
Exhibition: 03 Oct – 17 Nov 2012
Galerie Quynh
65 Đề Thám, District 1, HCMC

‘Tales of Chewing Gum, Noodle Soup, and Other Stories’, an exhibition that brings together for the first time new and rarely seen works by acclaimed HCMC-based artists Nguyen Trung and Hoang Duong Cam.

Vietnam’s most accomplished and respected abstract painter, Nguyen Trung (born 1940) unveils rarely exhibited paintings that collectively span a decade of the artist’s creative output. Drawing upon personal memory conflated with broader cultural sources, Trung’s works are exquisite formal investigations into remembrance and Buddhist thought. In the ‘Moonlight’ paintings, Trung reflects on his wartime recollections of the Vietnamese countryside. The works conjure scorched and ashen landscapes under silvery moonlight. White, a color commonly associated with mourning in Vietnam, features prominently in these ethereal works that are grounded by stains of earthen pigment – a reminder that destruction brings forth renewal.

A decade later Trung’s paintings display the artist’s continued interest in textured surfaces. In the ‘Urban’ works, old walls and temple ruins surface from within the compositions and draw the viewer into the mysterious and opulent worlds of past civilizations. With ‘Crying River’, meditative and enigmatic, the artist creates intimate yet powerful works that allow viewers to pause and contemplate the vagaries of daily life.

In his newest body of work, Hoang Duong Cam (born 1974) displays his strength as a multi-faceted artist. Drawing upon the historical accounts of Hanoi by former East German journalist Thomas Billhardt in his 1972 photo essay “Hanoi Am Tage vor dem Friede,” the artist combines photographic technique with painterly skill to produce works that are evocative and enigmatic in both appearance and subject matter. The artist began this series of paintings by reshooting particular pictures in Billhardt’s book using a pinhole lens, intentionally creating gaps and distortions of the original images. The paintings themselves are simultaneously figurative and abstract with elusive forms and suspended, colorful fragments. Cam reveals a complex set of narratives through deceptively ordinary images. Personal memory and stories of childhood fantasies also play an integral role in the new works, as the artist celebrates with characteristic irony a dramatic period of Vietnam’s recent history.

Electronic Music Night with VNTG

Vu Nhat Tan
Thu 04 Oct 2012, 9 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

CAMA is pleased to announce that the first Thursday of every month will now be a showcase of Vietnam’s electronic music scene via an Electronic Music Night hosted by the Vu Nhat Tan Group (VNTG).

Not to be confused with Tan’s Experimental Music Night on the last Thursday of every month, the electronic version promises to feature more accessible artists and sounds.

If you’re not familiar with Tan’s work then you’re in for a treat. A composer, noise musician, and all round musical polymath, Tan has had a profound influence on Hanoi’s musical landscape through his compositions, performances, collaborations and lectures at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music.

Each month, Tan will be inviting other electronic musicians – both foreign and local – to come perform with him in ATK. Expect a myriad of instruments, from home-made electronic devices to electrically souped-up traditional instruments and free style vocal gymnastics.

The first event on Thursday 4 October will feature Vu Nhat Tan on keyboard and other electrical devices alongside Pham Hoai Anh and Daniel Henneberry on electric guitar and vocals.

Ticket

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

HCMC – Solo Exhibition by Le Quang Ha

Opening: Wed 10 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 10 – 30 Oct 2012
Eight Gallery
No 8 Phung Khac Khoan Str, Da Kao Ward, Dist 1, HCMC

You are invited to the exhibition “Blinded Realism” by artist Le Quang Ha.

According to the artist “My work is a process of seeking answers and counterpoints to the questions I ask about what is happening around me. And while looking for an answer to my doubts about “Romantic Realism” or “Naked Realism”, I found myself ever closer to a new artistic concept. Allow me to provisionally call it “Blinded Realism”.

Reggae Night at HRC

Sat 06 Oct 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Gold Stripe reggae night will light up the shiny, crisp Autumn leaves with jamming live music and pumping DJ sets.
We welcome special guest producer/dj BLOOD DUNZA to the Hanoi city stage for one night to join up with local skankers, ZAMINA, RAGGAMUFFINS and DIRTY FINGRZ.

Blood Dunza is the founder of Hong Kong Heavy – Hong Kong’s number one bass sound system. He’ll be dropping reggae driven sounds and paying heavy respect to the wickedest spin-off genres like jungle, ragga, and d’n'b.

Check out some of his awesome productions and DJ sets on the HRC website and on www.dubtemplerecords.com.

Local talents Zamina meanwhile need no introduction, and new boys Raggamuffins are rapidly raking up a decent fanbase, plus HRC’s own homegrown talent, Dirty Fingrz will go for the bass heavy sounds to cream off the night in golden style.

Ticket

Ticket price: 50000 VND at door (50% discount for Vietnam student card holders)

Sapa Cultural Night at Metropole

Wed 03 Oct 2012, 6.30 – 9.30 pm
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi

On 3rd October, 2012, join us at Sapa Cultural Night which will be held at the Metropole’s courtyard with the participation of 12 ladies from Taphin, Sapa. These members of the Red Dao people will bring their own home made products such as brocade, silver jewelry, displaying and selling in the hotel with the purpose to bring mountain atmosphere to the landmark address of Hanoi.

All monies raised will go back into their community. Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi in cooperation with Community Based Tourism (CBT) training project, funded by Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).

Straight No Mixer/Inklings

Fri 05 Oct 2012, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

It’s all vinyl all night when Straight No Mixer is around with anyone welcome to bring down their own selections and drink free while they spin. SNM events typically start off slow with some jazz, country or lo fi classics, pick up an off-kilter groove of reggae, rock n roll, new wave and funk, before getting everybody dancing with a grandstand finish of House and Techno.

Last month’s show saw the Straight No Mixer organisers mix it up still further by combining the concept with Inklings – a straight up, no holds barred pen fight that saw two illustrators go head to head all night. The crowd decided who’d won the contest with Son from S5Ink Tattoos defeating French stencil/graffiti artist Herve. Stay tuned to hear who will be battling it out in October.

All contributions are welcome and you’ll drink free while you play. Eclectic mixes of Chicago House, Hip Hop and Rock’n’Roll have made SNM CAMA’s favourite regular ATK event, the real delight being the stuff we had no idea anybody had and didn’t know we were going to get.

Free Entry

HCMC – Screening of “Petites Planetes”

Thu 04 Oct 2012, 8 pm
DeciBel
79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, HCMC

By now you may have heard of the intriguing name of Vincent Moon, thanks to The Onion Cellar’s 2 Take Away Shows in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. After the recent success of La Faute Des Fleurs – one of the highlights from OTO | EIGA, here’s another chance for Vietnamese audience to experience the unique ‘Moon magic’.

That image of indie bands and artists performing impromptu gigs on the streets of Paris probably automatically makes people think of La Blogothèque, and especially Vincent Moon.

But such limited description would do this talented French filmmaker injustice. His recent nomadic years have seen him travelling around and across the world, from the remotest African villages through deserts, rainforests, South American cities thousand metres above sea level, witnessing mythical religious rituals, breathing in urban dusts from thousands of South East Asian motorbikes.

However, what he has been looking for is probably not even the most magnificent sight of the Earth. The same camera and a few low-budget microphones that have helped him film hundreds of Western indie bands are now used to capture traditional arts and music that are constantly facing the threat of being consumed by modernity, or local musicians that seem to have been forgotten by the world and the passing of time. Everywhere he goes to, more and more ‘Take Away Shows’ take place – though with decidedly local exotic flavours. Gradually, a new series take shape: Petites Planètes – Little Planet.

Once again, the films will be curated by The Onion Cellar, including some new unreleased shorts by Vincent Moon.

FREE ENTRY.

Screening of “Inside Job”

Wed 03 Oct 2012, 7.30 pm
Snap Cafe
32 Trần Ngọc Diện, Thảo Điền Ward, Dist 2, HCMC

“Mê Phim” (Passionate about film) presents the film ‘Inside Job’ (2010, 120 minutes) by director Charles Ferguson at Snap Cafe on 03 Oct 2012.

Film synopsis: Inside Job is a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, it is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. It is about the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the effects of which are still resonating worldwide.

This film is not suitable for children. Watch trailer here.

FRE ENTRY.

Exhibition “Those Old Days…”

Opening: Mon 01 Oct, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 07 Oct 2012
Viet Art Centre
42 Yet Kieu Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition “Those Old Days….” of Class K9 of Vietnam Fine Arts University.

Concert “Toward Hanoi”

Tue 02 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to Hoang Duong’s Music Night titled “Toward Hanoi”. The performance is conducted by Tetsuji Honna and performed by percussionist Tran Manh Hung, celloist Ngo Hoang Quan, My Linh, Trong Tan, Thanh Lam, Tung Duong, Dang Duong, Phuong Uyen and VNOB. For more information, see below:
PROGRAM
Part I:
Vũ Khúc H’Rê – for cello
Tiếc Thu - My Linh
Tiếng mưa rơi- My Linh
Tiếng hát anh tìm em - Trong Tan
Tím chiều- Dang Duong
Ru lại tình sau- Dang Duong
Đã muộn rồi lời yêu - Phuong Uyen
Mai em đi rồi - Phuong Uyen
Hát ru ( Solo Cello & Dàn nhạc – Ngô Hoàng Linh)

Part II:
Tình ca - Trong Tan
Tiếng hát anh tìm em – Trong Tan
Kỷ niệm Mat-cơ-va – Thanh Lam
Hướng về Hà Nội – Thanh Lam
Đôi mắt đen - Tung Duong
Anh còn gì cho em- Tung Duong
Tiếng hát sông Hương (Solo Cello Ngo Hoang Quan & Orchestra)
Tickets

Ticket prices: 300000, 500000, 600000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over  www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Exhibition “Venus in Vietnam”

Opening: Wed 03 Oct, 6 pm
Art Conversation: Fri 05 Oct, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 04 – 14 Oct 2012, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Installation and sculptural work by Vu Dan Tan and recent pieces by Nguyen Nghia Cuong focus on female iconography and sexuality. The exhibition compares and contrasts the works of two Hanoi artists a generation apart.

This year marks the third anniversary of Vu Dan Tan’s death. In honor of this extraordinary artist, who is considered one of the leading artists of Vietnam’s post-Doi Moi scene, the Goethe-Institut presents the exhibition Venus in Vietnam, curated by Iola Lenzi in collaboration with Natasha Kraevskaja. The exhibition Venus in Vietnam features works by Vu Dan Tan (1946 -2009), that have never been shown in Vietnam: Delicate cardboard suits and miniature installations of female figures in glass-lidded cigarette boxes. They are representing two important series of Vu Dan Tan’s works, the Venus and Fashion series, the artist worked on over several years until shortly before his death. Some of these sculptures were exhibited in Germany (8th Sculpture Triennial -Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2001), and later included in major exhibitions in Japan, Holland and Singapore, but in Vietnam, they were known only to friends and other artists who dropped into “Salon Natasha” while Tan was working on them.

Vu Dan Tan whose multi-media cross-disciplinary practice broke new ground in the 1980s with its conceptual and playful use of found materials, is now recognized as a pioneer of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary avant-garde. This exhibition offers access to a facet of his work yet widely unknown in Vietnam.

Nguyen Nghia Cuong (b. 1973), a graduate of Vietnam Fine Arts University, now mid-career, is known for his ironic approach to contemporary reality, dominated by consumerism and brand-culture. In his recent series Beauty High Quality, he continues his investigation of the intersection of popular culture, advertising and consumerism, with life and society.

The present exhibition showcases works focusing on female iconography and sexuality, and these two themes’ expanded meaning in the social and cultural context of late twentieth century-early 21st century Vietnam. Vu Dan Tan’s key works of the last decade, juxtaposed with new works by Nguyen Nghia Cuong, together offer a so far little-explored but art historically relevant perspective on the role played by gender, sexuality and woman in Vietnamese visual art of the turn of the century.

Venus in Vietnam: Vu Dan Tan and Nguyen Nghia Cuong is documented by a comprehensively illustrated catalogue including an essay by Southeast Asian contemporary art specialist Iola Lenzi. Lenzi is also a frequent curator of Vu Dan Tan.

Art Conversation: Nguyen Nghia Cuong, Natalia Kraevskaia, and Iola Lenzi on sexuality and woman in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary art.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Goethe Institut – Hanoi is organising an art talk formatted as a lively conversation between Nguyen Nghia Cuong, Hanoi-based curator, writer, lecturer, and Salon Natasha Director Natalia Kraevskaia, and curator, critic and lecturer Iola Lenzi. The artist and two curators will have an art conversation about the current exhibition and more broadly the theme of gender and sexuality in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary art. The panel will open the discussion to the attending public at the end of the art conversation.

Free admission.

Saigon DeathFest 2012

Sat 06 Oct 2012, 1 pm
Lao Dong Culture House, D11
622 Lac Long Quan, Ward 5, 11 Dist, Ho Chi Minh City

Come to a world class metal show, with the name of “Saigon Deathfest 2012″. To the Vietnamese metalheads, this event would be considered as the biggest extreme metal show ever. They are now talking about a real “metal storm” is coming to town.

It is not an overstatement when we call it a storm as it would be last from 1pm till very late at night, with a long list of band line-up. This will totally ease the thirst of “metal” from the rock fans.

8 metalbands from Vietnam, Philippine, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan will team up for Saigon Deathfest the first time in Oct 6, will blow the rooftop off the Lao Dong Culture House, D.11.

Line-up: Asilent (Singapore), Down From The Wound (Philippine), Blood Legion (Malaysia), Gotsu Totsu Kotsu (Nhật Bản), Hydrophobia (Nhật Bản) and Vietnamese bands: Disgusted, Wừu, Polar Lost.

Ticket

Ticket price:
Pre-sale:  200.000 VND
Door: 250.000 VND

Don’t miss your chance to join one of the biggest events of the year, call now 0935196388 (Trung) or 0932283366 (Ngọc) for Pre–sale discount tickets.

Cracking Bamboo 2012

Sat 06 Oct 2012, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
Sun 07 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
In HCMC: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music

After the successful concerts in 2008 and 2010, the Goethe-Institut Vietnam presents for the third time the percussion music festival CRACKING BAMBOO. On the foundation of percussion instruments and rhythm CRACKING BAMBOO combines Asian and Western music, which produces an exceptional and unique sound. The festival also supports the cultural exchange of western and eastern nations and besides the music it is an initiative to support innovative methods and practice in the field of music and performance art.

This year, around 31 participants from Asia and Europe, including Germany, Norway, France, England, Mongolia, Canada, Belgium, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, will come together for workshops inBangkok. From Vietnam three percussionists from the music academy Ho Chi Minh City will take part, just like three musicians from Hanoi who are going to play Vietnamese string instruments like the „Dan Bau“ and the traditional bamboo xylophone „Dan T`Rung“.  All musicians spend 5 days in mixed and roughly equal-sized ensemble groups to create a program in which individual solo contributions, improvisation and short composed segments should result in a “composed” or arranged program inBangkok,Hanoiand Ho Chi Minh.

On October 6th at the courtyard of the Goethe Institute Hanoi will host the introduce concert during which the various artists will present themselves musically.

The resulting program will be performed in the concert on October 7th in the Youth Theatre inHanoi and on October 10th in Conservatory in HCMC. In this final concert the artists will present a music, which doesn’t have a special name: it is not only new music or traditional music, not World music or cross-over music: it is a music, all artists are creating on the same eyelevel in respect for the music culture of others. It is a wonderful adventure of listening for the musicians and the audience, too.

With CRACKING BAMBOO 2012, we promise again a very colorful, surprising and creative project.

Ticket

In HANOI

Performance on Sat 06 Oct, 7 pm at Courtyard, Goethe-Institut: Free entrance.

Performance on Sun 07 Oct, 8 pm at Youth Theatre: Free Tickets on 01.10.2012 at 10.00 am at Goethe-Institut Hanoi

In HCMC

Free Tickets on 03.10.2012 at: Goethe-Institut HCMC, 18, Str.1, Do Thanh Ward 4, Distrikt 3,Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam

Screening of “Kerity, La Maison des Contes”

Fri 05 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace

You are invited to the film screening of “Kerity, the House of Fairy Tales” (France, 2009, 80 minutes) of director Dominique Monféry. “The movie is one of the highlights of French cartoons”. For more information, see below:

Film’s synopsis: Natanaël Natanaël, seven, still doesn’t know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children’s literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

Ticket:

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 “Les Beaux Gosses”

Fri 12 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening of “The French Kissers” (France, 2009, 90 minutes)  of director Riad Sattouf. The film has received the César Award in 2010 for the Best Film for director Riad Sattouf. “The movie is extremely funny and is loved by many people” – Premiere Newspaper. For more information, see below:

Film’s synopsis: The film is a coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters. Hervé is 14 years old tuổi and lives with his mum. At school, he is not surrounded by his good friends.

By going out with a girl, it has changed a lot of his thoughts. However, he will get used to it so he won’t get so tongue-tied. One day, he has developed a very good relationship with Aurore who is one of the prettiest girls in the class…

Language: French with Vietnamese substitle

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Subscription Concert Vol.56 “Mahler Cycle”

12 and 13 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Subscription Concert Vol.56 with conductor Honna Tetsuji and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. The artists will perform famous works of Mahler and Webern.

Program

Anton Webern Passacaglia op.1
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.7
Ticket

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Concert with Swing Quartet

Sat 13 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Jazz -Accordion concert with the Swing Quartet. The concert is performed by the young accordion player Thibault DILLE, winner of the renown Toots Thielemans Award, Bruxelles 2010. It will bring to the audience swing tunes of famous French composers such as Gus Viseur, Marcel Azzola, Richard Galliano.

Establish in 2010 in Hanoi, the Swing Quartet had their first performance in the Youth Theater.

Performers:
Thibault Dille : accordion
Nguyễn Tiến Mạnh : piano
Christophe Hache : contrabass
Nguyễn Hùng Cường : percussion.

Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Opera “Cosi fan Tutte” by W.Mozart

05 and 06 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

On 5 and 6 October 2012, at the Hanoi Opera House, the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet will perform one of Mozart’s best loved operas – one of the “big three”, namely COSI Fan TUTTE the libretto of which was written by Lorenzo da Ponte (The other two operas, also with texts by Da Ponte, are of course The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni).

Cosi fan Tutte is an opera which was “ahead of its time” – a classical opera written in 1790 but with a theme that is utterly contemporary and completely relevant to modern audiences. This is the story of relationships, love and sex, and being faithful and loyal to one’s partners. It shows women trying to be faithful but eventually giving in in the face of temptation by the very partners they say they ought to be faithful to! Should people follow their heads or their hearts, or even simply their passions and feelings? This is a truly contemporary story we see on TV screens and in cinemas every week!

The story shows partners being swopped – unknowingly on the part of the women, but very much intended by the men! The ending is unclear, do the lovers return to their original partners, stay with the new ones or indeed do the four of them live together happily ever after? The audience is left to decide…

The opera was performed several times in forward-looking Vienna but after Mozart’s and the Emperor’s deaths began to be considered quite shocking and so was hardly ever performed anywhere throughout the 19 century.

Although the VNOB has performed this opera before, this production is a new, shortened version directed and conducted by Graham Sutcliffe.

The opera will be performed entirely by members of the VNOB – in Italian – with Vietnamese and English subtitles. There are six roles of which the two soprano roles, Fiordilgi and Dorabella will be sung by Pham Ha Thang Long and Huong Diep/Phuong Dung. Gugliemo and Ferrando, the two male roles are sung by Phan Duc and Thanh Binh, and Kieu Tham and Anh Vu. Don Alfonso will be sung by baritone, Manh Dung, and Despina by Vanh Khuyen.
Ticket

Ticket prices: 200.000, 300.000, 400.000, 500.000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over  www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
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Chamber Music Concert

Tue 09 Oct 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

The chamber concert program at Ho Chi Minh opera house in Octorber 9th 2012 evening is organized by Ho Chi Minh city Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, provides special chamber music works from renowned composers of Romantic Music as well as the famous pianists in their time: Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, Gershwin, Henryk Wieniawsky. Their works for piano solo and ensemble as well as their talent in performing are successful and bring the passion for the audiences all over the world.

The concert will be impressive with works of two most representative names of American Classical Music: George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Liberal music and a little sounds of Jazz from Gershwin as well as arias from Bernstein’s music.

This program will be performed by top artists of HBSO: Mer.A. Nguyen Tan Anh, Ly Giai Hoa, Dao Nhat Quang, Tang Thanh Nam … and special guest artists: pianist Joo Eun Young who is trained in Russia and now has successful career in Europe, soprano Cho Hae Ryong – the voice is familiar and admired by Vietnamese audiences.

PROGRAM

Part I
Edvard Grieg – Sonata for violin and piano No.3
Violin: Nguyễn Trúc Thuyên
Piano: Lý Giai Hoa

Robert Schumann – Adagio & Allegro in A Flat Major for Cello and piano
Cello: Mer. A. Nguyễn Tấn Anh
Piano: Nguyễn Thùy Yên

Leonard Bernstein – Arias from opera ”Candide” for soprano and piano
Soprano: Cho Hae Ryong
Piano: Joo Eun Youn

George Gershwin – Preludes for clarinet and piano
Clarinet: Đào Nhật Quang
Piano: Joo Eun Young

Part II
Henryk Wieniawsky – Polonais Brilliant for violin and piano
Violin: Tăng Thành Nam
Piano: Joo Eun Young

Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor
Violin: Nguyễn Trúc Thuyên
Viola: Bùi Anh Sơn
Cello: Mer. A. Nguyễn Tấn Anh
Piano: Nguyễn Thùy Yên

Ticket

Ticket prices: 300.000 – 250.000 – 150.000 – 60.000 (for students)VNĐ
Ticket booking and delivery: 08.3823 7419; info@hbso.org.vn; http//www.hbso.org.vn

Artwork by Pham Thai Binh
Opening: Sat 06 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 06 – 21 Oct 2012
Talk: Sat 03 Oct, 3 pm
3rd Floor – Mai Gallery – Art talk cafe
12 Quan Su, Hanoi

You are invited to the sculpture of 9 artists: Khong Do Tuyen, Nguyen Huy Tinh, Nguyen Ngoc Lam, Tran Trong Tri, Pham Thai Binh, Pham Bao Son, Hoang Mai Thiep, Nguyen Huu Thai and Thai Nhat Minh.

Exhibition’s statement:
“…What we are doing is not necesarily art but our lives. It’s been quite long since Vietnamese sculptors are too busy with many a living. We are different, we want to be ourselves and our works live and be accepted by the society simply because our works are contemporary. Therefore, we know sculptures could only survive when they can be admired by visitors and the settings where they belong… ”