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Hanoi Photography Workshop by Justin Mott
24 – 27 Jan 2014
83 Xuan Dieu, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Experience what it’s like to be an assignment photographer learning from editorial and commercial photographer Justin Mott. Mott is a frequent contributor to The New York Times along with working for such international publications such as TIME, WSJ, Forbes, Conde Nast Traveler, IHT, and numerous others.
This workshop is aimed at amateur, aspiring, and professional shooters looking to sharpen their skills and become a more well rounded photographer. If you want to make a living as a photographer you have to be versatile, the goal of this workshop is to teach versatility.
The 4 day hands on workshop will take place in Hanoi and revolve around the build up Tet (Vietnamese New Year) holiday. Along with daily discussions and a portfolio review each student will receive a daily assignment. The assignments will range from portrait, travel, news, and profiles and will be treated like a real editorial assignment.
VIETNAM Party Congress
PRICE $500USD
(Your place can only be reserved by paying the full fee via Paypal).
STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO:
-Be able to communicate in English
-Have an understanding of photography and your camera (This class is not teaching basic photography).
-Have your own equipment
To register please contact:
Claire Nguyen
Producer at Mott Visuals
ngoc@mottvisuals.com
+84 946861139
Registration is open to all ages and all nationalities.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN (ONLY 15 SPOTS AVAILABLE)
“Cơn bão” Concert
Fri 31 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Dai Nam Theatre
89 Pho Hue, Hanoi
Come to the charity concert titled “Cơn bão” to support people in the Center of Vietnam who were influenced badly by the recent hurricane, with the participation of well-known Vietnamese singers such as Tan Minh, Khanh Linh, Ngoc Khue, Dinh Manh Ninh, Duong Truong Giang, Nhat Thu, Pham Thu Ha and MC Thanh Trung, Phi Nguyen Thuy Linh.
The event also auctions a few paintings capturing scenery of Central Vietnam and portraits of late general Vo Nguyen Giap by artist Tran Thinh.
“Cơn bão” concert is a part of the Emergency Relief Campaign for Central Vietnamese, which lasted from 20 Oct – 20 Nov 2013. All the proceeds from donation, ticket sales and auction will be transferred to the victims.
Please donate at the following addresses:
(1) Cau Giay, Lang area: No. 194 Trung Kinh, Yen Hoa, Cau Giay. Mr Vu Lam – Tel: 0926000960
(2) Dong Da area: Simple Cafe – No. 10 Lane 142 Hao Nam – Mr Dao Hoai Son – Tel: 097 577 498
(3) Minh Khai area, Giai Phong street: VTC Online Building – 18 Tam Trinh. Mr Tien – Tel: 0902022121
(4) Nga tu So area: No. 96 Khuong Thuong. Mr Viet – Tel: 0912580088
(5) Zone 9 area, Consignista: 2nd floor, A building, 9 Tran Thanh Tong. Ms. Quynh Anh – Tel 0987231303
Ticket price: 200.000 – 300.000 – 500.000 VND
Hotline: 0902022121 / 0936300688
“It is Just Smoke” – October Open Studio
Reception: Wed 30 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 30 Oct – 03 Nov 2013, 2 – 8 pm
Nha San Collective
3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Nhà Sàn Collective is pleased to invite you to “It is Just Smoke” – our October open studio with Nguyễn Phương Linh, Nguyễn Trần Nam and Vũ Đức Toàn. During the open studio, the artists will be present to meet and discuss about their works.
Nha San Collective’s October open studio presents the work in progress of three artists: Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Phuong Linh and Vu Duc Toan. The artists shared that the works that they show in the open studio is somehow related to war. However, as I see them, there is no shadow of war in it. And if it is, it was faint and easy to be blended, like smoke. Indeed, intentional or not, the structure of Nam’s, Toan’s and Linh’s artwork is connected by the medium of smoke.
Invisible gun smoke characterized the video of Tran Nam. In the video, a father carefully teaches his four years old son how to use a gun. His son smiles brightly when he fires the first shot in his life, while his father is clearly proud of it. The video, a found footage from Youtube, is edited to be slower. The audience can carefully observe every gesture and the changes in behaviours of the two characters. Could affection and violence go along? Could affection beatify violence? The aestheticization of violence, according to film critic Steven Jay Schneider is “looked upon violence as an artist might look on paint. What are its components? What’s its nature? Its glamour?” . Nam’s father was a painter in wartime. To look upon violence in a far-off and doubtful situation of an outsider is a difficult position that Nam has to deal with.
Phuong Linh continues to experiment with blueprint photography. Gigantic blue mountains of smoke appear in various shapes, like Baroque ceiling murals of god and the angels in the clouds. Phuong Linh is intrigued by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities were mentioned in Christian bible, the Tanakh and the Quran. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by the Lord because of its decadence. Only Lot’s family is able to leave, in a condition, they are not allowed to look back when they leave Sodom. However, Lot’s wife does. As a result, she turns immediately into a pillar of salt. It is a coincidence that salt was also Linh’s main material in her previous exhibitions. What the wife has seen remained a mystery. So that Phuong Linh’s conjecture through blueprint photography is fictitious and conveys a prophetic quality.
Duc Toan is known for his quiet, thoughtful and metaphoric style of performance. In the open studio, Duc Toan represents documentation of his performance through photographs. The performance took place in Vi Xuyen Martyrs cemetery in Ha Giang . In the cemetery, instead of using incenses, Toan showed his respect to every soldier by treating him or her a Thang Long cigarette . The democratic attitude and the warm brotherhood of this act were recorded through photographs and videos. All cigarettes’ filters were re-collected only to be teared apart later, like Ruốc . The mixture of cigarette smokes and incense smokes in Vi Xuyen matyrs’ cementry is a poetic suggestion of the concept of ‘resting’. The temporary rest, when soldiers put down their weapons, light up a cigarette and chat, in comparison to an eternal rest, which is death itself.
Three artists with three distinctive artistic personalities decide to show works together. Their works are sometimes well connected and sometimes disjointed, just like smoke. Through the act of displaying artworks together, the artists create intricate webs of connections, similar to the way ancient tribes used to send messages to each other by lighting up big fire to create columns of smoke. The metaphoric and prophetic power of art therefore will follow these smoke columns to spread out to many far far away places.
Nguyen Tran Nam’s display is part of his works-in-progress and on-going research for his upcoming solo show, which will place early in 2014 at manzi art space, with support from the Prince Claus Funds
A part of Nguyen Phuong Linh’s new works was created during her artist in residency in Jordan last September. It will be presented in the exhibition “The Conversation”, 25th anniversary of art space Darat Al Funnun, Amman, Jordan in November this year.
Halloween Celebration – “Summit Secta”
Thu 31 Oct 2013, 7 pm
1 Thanh Nien Road, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Have you ever experienced the spooky thrills of Halloween mixed with a dash of fun-filled fear?
Join us at the magnificent Summit Lounge for a one of a kind cocktail – our special Halloween party to celebrate the ghoulish spirit of the night of October 31.
Indulge your inner demon with fabulous creepy cocktails, plus refreshing beverages with devilish decorations and get ready for mind-blowing scary movies and manic music mixes from our ghoulish guest DJ.
Be the freaky diva or haunting hunk of this unforgettable night at our delightfully frightful Halloween party.
DJ from 8.30pm to 11.30pm.
Call the hotline for all enquiries and table bookings:
Mr Arnaud (016 3926 4754), or Mr Trung (091 468 0406), email: bars@sofitelplazahn.com.vn.
Keep Your Passion: Zombie Night
Thu 31 Oct 2013, 7 pm
M-day Cafe
110 Cau Giay, Hanoi (Inside Cau Giay Hotel)
Come to the next chapter on the Keep Your Passion Series: ghostly rock showcase ZOMBIE NIGHT.
Band lineup includes: Thuy Trieu Do, Re-Cylce, Project 4.20 and Megacombo.
Everyone is encouraged to arrive in costumes. Prizes will be awarded for the best.
Free face-paiting till 21:00.
Mini game with many interesting prizes await.
Coupon includes 1 free drink
Presale: 40K
At door: 60K
Tickets available at RockPassion Office No 66, Alley 40, Ta Quang Buu and M-day Cafe 110 Cau Giay, Hanoi
Hotline: 097 337 8605 (Ms Trang- RockPassion) or 0163 353 8868 (Mr. Hai- M-Day Cafe).
Come party with some Spooky, Sexy, Scary Rock Acts!
Lecture about Theatrical Fields in Contemporary Art
Thu 31 Oct 2013, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Come to the lecture “Performative Formats and their Potential as Critical Practice in Contemporary Art” by Prof. Ute Meta Bauer, art scholar and curator, Berlin-Singapur.
“Theatrical Fields” discusses the use of theatricality and performative formats and their potential as critical practice in contemporary art. The lecture will draw attention to time-based art and its producers: artists of different generations and backgrounds, navigating between art, film, theater, and dance. “Theatrical Fields” will relate to feminism as a political methodology and practice to deconstruct linear histories and ascriptions. Introduced artists will include the African–American artist Lorna Simpson, American artist and writer Judith Barry, Austrian filmmaker and artist Constanze Ruhm, and last but not least the video and performance pioneer Joan Jonas.
Ute Meta Bauer is an internationally renowned arts researcher and curator. Until summer 2013 she was professor at the Royal College of Art, London, currently she has taken a new position in Singapore. Among other things she was co-curator of the documenta 11 (2006) and director of the 3rd berlin biennale for contemporary art. She regularly contributes with her curatorial work to the most important art exhibitions and is invited to lectures, teaching assignments and conferences around the world. Additionally, she has published works concerning art theory, feminist art, philosophy and curatorial practice.
Language: English with Vietnamese translation.
Free Entry.
Carnival of the Dead
Sat 26 Oct 2013, 6 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
This evening is built around a rolling number of happenings, many of them short performances.
Be there Early! Because for your pleasure we have… Live performance acts including fire, dance, music, wandering theatre and art.
Costume competition: Get a Tailor, build something from cardboard, make a mask, find some facepaints. Do whatever you need to do.
DJs: Some of the finest DJ’s in this great city will be gracing us with their presence.
Cybersnack (Berlin) Synergy
Cache (Australia)
DJGiMiX (FR)
GingerWork (UK)
Live Performances: Variety is the spice of life.
- Doan Minh Hoan (Contemporary Dancer!)
- Art’s Jazz Band (Debut Show!)
- Fantashtic (Musical stylings of the amazing TASH!)
- Hazel Word (Ukulele Bird Show!)
- Christophe (Uke and Vocals will Dazzle you!)
- Stephanie (Gorgeous Uke and, for the first time, paired with her sister in arms!)
- Lawrence Kemp (Guitar & Vocal Improv will horrify and delight!)
Haunted Circus Caravan: Incredible Performance and Live Art
Tickets: 150,000 VND.
Screening of “Mon Oncle”
Wed 30 Oct 2013, 8 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “Mon Oncle” (France, 117 minutes).
Five years after his first appearance, Jacques Tati’s M. Hulot returns with Mon Oncle, a film set along the dividing line between Paris’ past and its future. Aligned (as is the film) with the former, Hulot lives in a colorful, overpopulated Parisian neighborhood and, lacking employment, spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school, and subsequently escorting him to his parents’ ultra-modern house. Filled with gadgets, some turned on only to impress the neighbors, the house seems designed specifically to frustrate Hulot, who unwittingly disrupts its operations at every opportunity. Concerned about his future, Hulot’s relatives attempt to find him gainful employment and pair him off with a neighbor, with little success on either front. The nearly dialogue-free film is less concerned with the family’s attempts as they relate to an overall plot, and more interested in how they play into its overall scheme of contrasts and allow for Tati’s unmistakable sight-and-sound gag set pieces.
Language: Movie in French with English subtitles.
Free entry.
Exhibition “Minutes to Conform”
Exhibition: 26 Oct – 03 Nov 2013, 8 am – 9 pm
Vietnamese Cultural Space
16 Ly Thai To, Hanoi
You are invited to the charity exhibition “Minutes to Conform” by Tran Nu Vuong Linh.
Performing two charity projects after exhibition “Seasons in the eyes” ( first time in Thach That district, next one in Nguyen Dinh Chieu school for Blind), Tran Nu Vuong Linh will launch her second exhibition named “Minutes to conform”.
This is the result of 5 – month process to create the whole new paintings, with different materials. She does not call out for fund but pay the entire cost of this charity exhibition herself.
For more information, please contact via email: trannuvuonglinh@gmail.com
A Talk on Residencies in Vietnam for Foreign Artists in Singapore
Sun 27 Oct 2013, 2 pm
Your MOTHER Gallery, 91A Hindoo Road, Singapore
Come to a talk by New Space Arts Foundation and Muong Museum. They will introduce their respective artist residency programmes in Vietnam. This presentation is part of the Residency Exchange under Pulau Ubin Artists-In-Residency Programme organised by The Artists Village.
Scope of presentation:
New Space Arts Foundation
NSAF will share about the various projects and residency programme which they have been running in the recent years.
Muong Museum
Title of their presentation is “The Muong Studio – An new art zone for Vietnamese contemporary art”. It aims to introduce all aspects of art space of the Muong’s Culture Museum, Workshops that used to be held there and projects for artists coming to stay and work at current time.
The talk will be divided into three parts:
- Introduce the Muong’s Cultural Museum, the first private museum in Vietnam.
- Introduce the Muong Studio, an Art zone of Muong’s Cultural Museum
- Review some art events and activities that used to be held in Muong Studio, and the current programs.
Admission is free.
A Night at the Opera – L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)
Fri 25 Oct 2013, 7 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
Come to the screening of a lively version of L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
Written in haste in a six-week period, L’elisir d’amore was the most often performed opera in Italy between 1838 and 1848 and it has remained continually in the international opera repertory. Today it is the most frequently performed of all Donizetti’s operas: it appears as number 13 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.
The story is about a country bumpkin (Nemorino) who longs to win the love of a more educated lady (Adina). When he hears her tell the story of Tristan and Isolde, he decides he must find the elusive Elixir of Love that will cause her to fall in love with him. An itinerant quack arrives in town selling all sorts of concoctions and the stage is set for comic misunderstandings that eventually resolve in everyone’s favor.
Language: The opera will be screened in the original Italian with English subtitles.
For those with membership at the Cinémathèque, make a reservation as usual by phoning the Cinémathèque, daily between 14:00 – 21:00 at 3936-2648. A limited number of tickets are also available through the Opera Guild, send an email to info@hanoioperaguild.com. A donation of VND 60,000 is suggested.
Workshop for Curators and Artists with Ute Meta Bauer
30 Oct and 01 Nov 2013, 9 – 12 am and 2 – 5 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
What is essential for artistic practice today? This is the topic of the three days’ workshop conducted by the renowned German art scholar and curator Ute Meta Bauer. This workshop is targeting artists and (upcoming) curators.
Facilitator: Tran Luong.
Language: English (partly with Vietnamese translation).
The number of participants is limited, therefore please apply (with contact dates and motivation letter) until 25 October via e-mail to: curatorsworkshop@hanoi.goethe.org.
Ute Meta Bauer is an internationally renowned arts researcher and curator. She regularly contributes with her curatorial work to the most important art exhibitions and is invited to lectures, teaching assignments and conferences around the world. Additionally, she has published works concerning art theory, feminist art, philosophy and curatorial practice.
FVH Film Event: Screening of TPD’s Project “We Are Filmmakers”
Thu 24 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
The Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) project “We Are Filmmakers” has successfully worked with nearly 200 trainees and produced 100 documentaries and 50 films of short length. FVH would like to invite you to join us for a showing of five of these many films produced by the students of the TPD center.
Come and enjoy the talents of 4 different Directors, their stories of love, life style, gender identity, coal miners’ lives and maybe how you think about yourself.
“We’ve got married” (2013) A touching story about two lonely souls who love and protect each other. But does one need a sound mind and a certain intelligence to be in love?
Directors: Nguyễn Hà Phương, Mai Thị Búp –
Awards: Golden Lotus Bud Award 2013 – Jury Award.
“Mother and Daughters” This is set in the context of the family home, the main character is Director My’s mother and tells the story about the daily life within.
His mother tends to be a traditional, disciplined and somewhat imposing mom, while her teenage children keep trying to lean towards a more lively and modern lifestyle.
The film shows the conflict between the generations but in the end, love conquers all.
Director: Phan Huyền My
Awards: Golden Lotus Bud Award 2010 – Audience Award, – Golden Bee Award 2011 – Audience Award.
“Who you are?” (2012) This film centers on the difficulties of life as a teen, who must try to face her family and society to live her true-self. “No one can choose which gender to be born, but everyone has the right to live a life consistent with their true gender identity”.
Director: Hoàng Huyền My
Awards: Golden Lotus Bud Award 2012 – Jury Award.
“Hard Coaling” (2010)
This is a short film about the lives of coal workers living here in the port city. They have come from the remote countryside to earn money for their families. Their work is hard and they must live in overcrowded, poor quality housing but they love their job. This shows an actual account of their work and their strong attachment to their coal life.
Director: Lê Mỹ Cường
Awards: Silver Lotus Bud Award 2010.
“Old Romance” (2010)
This documentary shows an elderly couple living in poverty in a small floating house on the Red River. They are only two people depending on each other but they worry because there are no children to take care of them. Should one of them die, who will take care of the other then ? Everyday they leave their floating house to earn their living collecting plastic scrap to then return to an empty home in the evening. This poor life and hard work can make their appearance seem old and shabby but their spirit is always bright with their love for the other.
Director: Đỗ Thanh Hà
The films total time 80 minutes.
Vietnamese with English subtitles
There will be a question and answer session afterwards with TPD’s Director and 3 of our films’ talented directors.
Cost: 150,000vnd
Limit: 90 participants
To reserve seats contact Hang: 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.
Music Night “The other Side of Sound”
Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Our stage lights up again for the one-and-only Vu Nhat Tant! Next Thursday night 24 Oct, Tan will work his magic fingers & mind, and treat us to another night of chill-out music with experimental piano.
Free entry.
This event is part of manzi’s art programme and is supported by the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF).
Communications partner: Hanoi Grapevine.
PLEASE NOTICE:
Our art shop will be closed from 01 – 30 November 2013 due to exhibition.
manzi will be closed from 10 – 15 December 2013 due to private hired event, and will re-open 16 December.
Opening Film of Science Film Festival 2013 “Chasing Ice”
Sat 26 Oct 2013, 2 pm
Kim Dong Cinema
As opening film of the 3rd Science Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut Vietnam presents the award winning, internationally recognised film “Chasing Ice” on 26th of October at 2pm.
To find prove for the changing climate of our planet, environmental photographer and scientist James Balog travelled to the Arctic regions of the world. With revolutionary time-lapse cameras he captured hauntingly beautiful videos, a multi-year record of effects of global warming, of ancient glaciers disappearing at a breathtaking rate. Balogs impressive work compresses years into seconds and shows, that global climate change is no tale to scare children, but cruel reality.
Chasing Ice won more than 30 awards at international festival, among others the Sundance, Hot Docs, Full Frame, Big Sky und River Run Film Festival (Trailer and more)
In 2013 the Science Film Festival takes place in Vietnam for the third time from 24th October to 15th December, focusing on renewable energies and sustainability. In addition to the opening movie “Chasing Ice”, the Goethe-Institut initiates Activity-Days on 27th October and 2nd /3rd of November with games and films for the whole family.
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
Free tickets for the Opening Film Chasing Ice at Goethe-Institut.
Kim Dong Cinema
19 Hang Bai, Hanoi
Trần Hậu Yên Thế and Nguyễn Thế Sơn Talk about ‘Nhà Tây Transform’
Mon 21 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
manzi and Art Vietnam Gallery present a very special talk with visual artists/researchers Nguyễn Thế Sơn & Trần Hậu Yên Thế on the occasion of their duo show ‘Nhà Tây Transforms’ at manzi this month.
Led by architect Phó Đức Tùng, the talk will not only focus on the artists’ practices and research, but also will form a controversial round table discussion on the physical, social and moral landscape of Hanoi as it transforms and mutates into the 21st Century.
‘Nhà Tây Transforms’ – would it just be the cover that the two artists have successfully recorded? What would make you remember of this city? Could it possibly be its ability of transform?
Free entry.
Languages: The talk will be conducted in Vietnamese with English translation
“Day of Love” – Mintown’s Special Event in Vietnamese’s Women Day
Sun 20 Oct 2013, 9 am – 10 pm
Phan Dinh Phung High shool
30 Phan Dinh Phung Str, Hanoi
“Day of love” is a special spiritual gift from the organizers – Mintown Handmade Community – to our beloved women on the occasion of Vietnamese Woman’s day 20/10. This event is a sweet combination of a typical Mintown’s Handmade fair and a variety of cultural and artistic activities.
“Day of love” brings you a handmade inspired open space with thousands of lucky wind chimes and an uncountable number of unique yet gorgeous handmade products.
The evening is going to be the highlight of the whole event with a miracle change from the decoration. The present of the Avatar Tree- a sparkling Tree of Life and romantic “Path of Light” decorated by 100.000 led will bring a plenty of interesting experiences for all of our guests.
What makes this event outstanding is the photography exhibition called “Half of Vietnam” by a French photographer Réhahn. Additionally, you can have the chance to listen to the photographer touching share about his photos and his love toward Vietnam.
Entrance ticket: 20000/ticket (buy in advance) or 25000/ticket (buy at gateway)
Jazz Concert with Hakan Rydin
Mon 21 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Vietnam National Academy of Music
77 Hao Nam Str, Hanoi
From the organizer:
Come to the jazz concert with Hakan Rydin trio feat Nguyen Manh.
Hakan Rydin is a Swedish jazz pianist and Professor of jazz piano at Malmo Academy of Music. He has been involved with teaching Vietnamese jazz musicians in Malmo for nearly 10 years.
Free admission.
PechaKucha Night Hanoi #7
Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Work Room Four
Zone 9, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Thursday Night sees the return of PechaKucha to Hanoi. PechaKucha nights happen in cities all over the world and involve creative people sharing projects in the unique 20 slides x 20 seconds format.
Doors open at 7. Presentations from 8pm. Cash bar. Entrance is 50,000 VND or 20,000 for students with a valid card.
There is still space for a couple of extra talks. If you have a project to share please email pechakuchahanoi@gmail.com by Tuesday.
Hanoi Freelancer Meetup
Tue 22 Oct 2013, 7 – 9 pm
Clickspace
5th floor 28 To Ngoc Van, Hanoi
Want to accelerate your career? Connect with clients and collaborators? Learn client management and productivity techniques?
Freelancer Hanoi Meetup is a monthly meetup for the city’s fast-growing freelance community. Each 2-hour meeting will include open networking, a speaker presentation, a group brainstorming exercise and speed networking.
All are welcome, especially strategists, consultants, solopreneurs, designers, writers, web developers, video producers, PRs and other creative professionals.
This event is FREE for everyone!!! Register here.
Exhibition of Talent Prize Contest
Opening: Tue 22 Oct, 9.30 pm
Exhibition: 22 – 31 Oct 2013, 9 am – 5 pm
Tadioto
2nd Floor, Building A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Come to the exhibition of an open architecture contest headlined under “Architectural Ideas for Improving Urban Spaces”. The contest showcases 39 pioneering and inspiring architectural ideas and designs by young talents from all of Vietnam.
The Talent Prize Jury consists of three renowned architects from Vietnam and Denmark – Nguyen Huu Thai, Pho Duc Tung and Hans Peter Hagens. They have nominated 10 projects to compete for the grand award consisting of a study trip to Denmark for the winner and a chance to work alongside some visionary Danish architects. All 39 projects are also eligible for the public award (amounting to 10 million VND cash) taking place online as well as at the exhibition.
Photo Exhibition “Hanoi – Spirit of Place”
Exhibition: 19 – 26 Oct 2013, 8 am – 5 pm
Gallery 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi
“Hanoi – Spirit of Place” will present a rare glimpse of Hanoi and its surroundings in the early 1980s.
It features photographs from a unique archive of some 1700 black and white images taken by John Ramsden while he was working at the British Embassy from 1980-83.
The exhibition has been organised by Vietpro, a group of young Vietnamese professionals working in the UK. The design and content is the work of KREU, a similar group of young Vietnamese working in the creative industries. Leading Vietnamese historians and others have kindly helped and advised, making this a truly collaborative project.
HCMC – Exhibition “Silk of Light”
Exhibition: 18 Oct 2013 – 15 Jan 2014
PHUONG MY Flagship Store
You are invited to the exhibition “SILK OF LIGHT: NGO DINH BAO CHAU”.
‘Silk of Light’ is a body of work inspired by light as both a physical and metaphorical medium. Bao Chau carefully studies the process of light as it covers, disperses and adjusts to the surface of different materials. The artist’s preoccupation with light arises from her deep interest in architecture, and its relationship to form, shape, line and, structure. Based in Ho Chi Minh City – the liveliest urban city in Vietnam – Ngo Dinh Bao Chau’s living environment is filled with manmade light and she is fascinated by its role in human forms of labor and urbanization.
Bao Chau’s works initially appear to be rigid, scientific and rational. Yet there exists a thematic poetic quality in her sculpture and lacquer paintings, evidenced in her 2 dimensional diamond and pentagon shaped lacquer works inspired by the shape of light as discussed in the scientific study of this material. Having researched the nature of ‘Platonic solids’ – whereby the geometric structure is divided into 5 distinct groups (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) – the artist became aware that the surface of these shapes differed in number which caused light to refract at differing intensities off differing materials. This led her to experiment with differing color and lacquer coatings to achieve maximum effect.
For this involvement with ‘San Art Productions x PHUONG MY’, Bao Chau is also inspired by the silk textile process, lured by the delicacy of light as it bounces off silk threads, as it is slowly released from the cocoon and stretched to produce a minuscule fiber. Indeed Bao Chau refers to her sculptural structures as cocoons of silk.
The game of light in Ngo Dinh Bao Chau’s exhibition corresponds to Phuong My’s 2013 Fall/Winter collection that complements with delicate pastels beneath strong angular line and bold monochrome color. Both Bao Chau’s artworks and Phuong My’s Fall/Winter fashion designs highlight the aesthetic of structure and the beauty to be found in its complexity.
For more information, please contact: hello@san-art.org.
PHUONG MY Flagship Store
81 Le Thanh Ton, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Oktoberfest Hanoi 2013
24 and 25 Oct 2013, 6 – 11 pm
Cung Xuan Event Center
Come to the biggest traditional German festival in Hanoi this 2013, the 04th Oktoberfest Hanoi.
Oktoberfest Hanoi recreates the authentic atmosphere found in the massive beer halls of the original Oktoberfest, complete with savory German cuisine, premium imported German brews and great party mood with very authentic Bavarian music from the familiar band in Munich “Gaudiblosn”.
Tickets
GBA non-member: 1,100,000vnd/ticket
GBA members and non-member with order of more than 20 tickets: 1,000,000vnd/ticket
For tickets reservation, please contact Ms. Anh at email: oktoberfesthanoi@gba-vietnam.org or call her at mobile-phone number: 0903 720 788.
Cung Xuan Event Center
01 Vo Thi Sau Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi
Interactive Culture Program “Berlin Live in Hanoi”
Sun 27 Oct 2013, 4 – 11 pm
Free entrance.
Zone 9
09 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
Berlin attracts artists and performers from all over the world: Since the 1990s the German capital has become a creative metropolis: Art and design, music and film flourish and have gained the attention of international audiences. On occasion of the official visit of the governing mayor of Berlin, Berlin live in Hanoi presents an interactive culture program in Hanoi’s “Zone 9“:
Berlin Live in Hanoi 5
Program
From 4 pm: Short films of the international film festival Berlinale and famous silent movies from Berlin in the 1920s at the galleries Nha San and Tadioto
7 – 9 pm: Hip Hop and Breakdance: Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop, Soulrock and Breakdancer ZEB.ROC.SKI
Street Art-Action: Stencil Branding and Graffitti Tattoo
9 – 11 pm: Light- and sound art: light projections, to electronic music of the artists Lichtpiraten
Lichtpiraten
The Berlin based artists from Lichtpiraten (“Light Pirates”) compose a fusion of light projections, messages and music, creating fascinating light performance.
Hip Hop Stützpunkt Berlin
The network Hip Hop Stützpunkt Berlin (“Hip Hop Base Berlin”) aims to promote and support Hip Hop culture and is connected with various artists around the world.
At Berlin live in Hanoi, MARC HYPE and JIM DUNLOOP, a DJ and piano live-set perform together with SOULROCK, who are specialized in Beat Box and vocal percussion. The Graffiti artists ZEBSTER and DICKID invite the guests to create their own T-shirts with Berlin motives according to the slogan “be creative-be Berlin”.
Hanoi Slam with the Theme “FEAR”
Wed 30 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Son Tinh Bar Lounge
31 Xuan Dieu str., Tay Ho dist.
Ha Noi
Hanoi Slam celebrates Halloween with a terrifying night of storytelling! We’re proud to announce that Hanoi Slam “Fear”.
FOLKS, THIS IS A HALLOWEEN PARTY! DRESS UP FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES AND CRED!
Fear finds us all. It captures us when we least expect it and it refuses to disappear. Our story tellers will be sharing some of their most fearful moments, and the courage they found to keep fighting. Expect anything, from the traffic in Hanoi, to meeting the coolest girl in school. As we’ve learned from previous slams, anything is possible and nothing can be predicted.
WHAT’S YOUR FEAR?
Our theme is fear and we want to know about yours: Have you ever been afraid? Share your story for the chance to share in the spoils. Our top story tellers will receive fantastic prizes and mic cred. Remember, the theme is yours to interpret. Inspiration (like fear) can come from anywhere. Hurry, spots are limited!
Contact us at hanoistoryslam@gmail.com.
Various prizes for Slam winners and best costumes.
Entry is 100k and all door proceeds will support Humanitarian Services for the Children of Vietnam (HSCV).
Vincent Moon Screening – Les Siestes Electroniques Pre-Festival Party
Fri 18 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
Vincent Moon screens films then Sebastien Gesell & the Les Siestes Electroniques gang play music etc etc
Money you have to give us to get in: zero
Duration: d = ax (d: duration; x: level of alcohol consumption*; a: constant)
* “i tend to make longer screenings when drunk” – Vincent Moon
Languages: loads
English subtitles: probably (Optional subtitles in Esperanto)
Art Chula Night – The Down Beat Drivers
Fri 18 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Chula
6 Nhat Chieu, near Water Park, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Hanoi’s latest groove merchants The Down Beat Drivers bring their unique blend of original soul, rock ‘n blues to Chula. Come dig their guitar, piano-vocals-violin, and congas in the courtyard!
Free entrance and free drinks.
HCMC – Exhibition “In the Midst of Life”
Opening: Fri 25 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 25 Oct – 25 Nov 2013
Craig Thomas Gallery
27i Tran Nhat Duat, Tan Dinh ward, Q.1, HCMC
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 6pm; Sundays 1 to 5 pm; and by appointment
You are invited to the exhibition “In the Midst of Life”, a solo exhibition of wood burn paintings by Hanoi-based artist Ngo Van Sac.
Ngo Van Sac says that one day he may return to using conventional canvas, but right now he is enchanted by the blocks of fresh, untreated wood that grip his images with rawness. The curved veins in the wood’s surface take the eyes gently up and down the portraits, sneaking into the intricacies of the pictures.
Sac’s making process must involve a lot of planning, but the artworks are never overdone. Minimal color and simple materials prevent visual saturation. Sac pencils the outlines onto the wooden blocks, then blowtorches them, masking off areas with a metal spatula to modulate the color. The burnt images are surprisingly detailed, and fire alone cannot offer such sharpness. A pyrography pen could work for strong lines, but Sac’s imagery is dominated by silhouettes and color gradation, not by linear drawing, so a gas blowtorch works best.
Sac has always painted people. In previous exhibitions, he has shown historical characters with older, wiser faces, or sometimes groups of sitters. This time, he turns inwards. This exhibition probably has more self-portraits by a single artist than any other solo show anywhere. While such a quantity of self-portraits could be construed as self-indulgent, it is actually an honest search, and an expression of personal emotion.
Bicycles, trees and water lilies fade their way into the images, like déjà-vues of a tranquil lifestyle that is almost mythical for the urban youth. Sac grew up in a village 20 kilometers from Hanoi. But childhood has gone. The artist is now a city dweller, for whom peace and nature are as inaccessible as memory. As he puts enough history behind his own life, Sac can appreciate its complexity and translate it into his work. ‘Many small images in the overall big picture bring depth to my work,’ he comments.
The two installation pieces of the collection create the sensation of a flow moving around the wooden shapes. Each prism presents different moods of the artist, under the perspectives of several individuals. The narrative unfolds as the viewer walks around, showing little action. It’s a story of the subtle changes in emotion that come and go all the time.
New Time for the Hanoi Open Exhibition
Exhibition: 26 Sep – 20 Oct 2013
Work Room Four
Building E, Floor 4
9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
The duration for the Hanoi Open Exhibition is extended until 20 Oct.
Here are the opening hours for the last week:
Tuesday 15th October: 10am – 6pm
Wednesday 16th October: 10am – 4pm
Thursday 17th October: 10am – 9pm
Friday 18th October: 10am – 6pm
Saturday 19th October: 11am – 5pm
Sunday 20th October: 11am – 5pm (awards and closing drinks from 3pm)
Halloween Positive Mass Hanoi and HCMC
Fri 25 Oct 2013, 8 pm
HANOI: Meeting at St Joseph Cathedral
HCMC: Meeting at Opera House, Dong Khoi, Le Loi
For this month: Bring your costume is Halloween and the first time Positive Mass in HCMC.
“Positive Mass”, and event inspired on an international event called Critical Mass. It is just a bicycle ride to promote cycling for all its positive reasons. Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world. The ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco. The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.
Cuca Contemporary Art Course
Registration deadline: 25 Oct 2013
You are invited to register for Cuca Contemporary Art Course, designed and instructed by artist, curator Pham Dieu Huong in Nov 2013. The attendant will have chance to attain general theories of Contemporary Art throughout this course.
Course language: Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Program
Class 1: Conceptual Art
Class 2: Minimal Art
Class 3: Pop Art
Class 4: Performance Art
Class 5: Contemporary Dance
Class 6: Installation Art
Class 7: Video Art
Class 8: Kitsch Trend
For more information, please contact:
Email: cucavietnam@gmail.com
Concert “Sieste Électronique” in Hanoi
Hanoi: Sat 19 Oct 2013, 3 pm – 6 pm
Independence Park
Let’s wander around the park, lean against a chair or lie down on grass, closes your eyes and discover sounds and world music with concert “Sieste Électronique”. Let’s forget about busy lives, pause for a second and open up your heart to enjoy the magical music. The mixture of electronic music, experimental music as well as Vietnam traditional music will enable the audience to relax and experience.
With French guest artists: Vincent Moon, Laurent Jeanneau, Jean Nipon and Vietnamese guest artists: Vu Nhat Tan and Nguyen Hong Giang.
Free entrance.
This is How We Walk on the Moon: A Film/Music/Culture Workshop with Vincent Moon
Wed 23 Oct 2013, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Les Siestes Electroniques, The Onion Cellar and CAMA ATK join forces to bring you an epic 4-hour-long film-and-music workshop with the renowned nomadic French filmmaker Vincent Moon, who will be delivering a long intimate talk and leading discussions on cinema and his filmmaking process, sharing his travel stories, screening his recent works, exchanging ideas with the audience, and more.
Expect an eclectic spectrum of topics from modern filmmaking technology all the way to shamanic rituals around the world.
On Vincent Moon
That image of indie bands and artists performing impromptu gigs on the streets of Paris probably automatically makes people think of La Blogothèque and 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 mystical religious rituals, breathing in urban dusts from myriads of South East Asian motorbikes.
What Vincent Moon has been looking for, however, is not even the most magnificent sight on Earth. The same camera and a few low-budget microphones that have helped him film countless Western 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 more and more ‘Take Away Shows’ (of a new, much more exotic variety) take place. Gradually, a new series takes shape: Petites Planètes – Little Planet.
A minimum donation of VND 100,000 is kindly requested (IN ADVANCE) – all proceeds go to Vincent Moon to help support his filmmaking and travelling.
Language: The workshop will be in English.
Concert with Paris Orchestra
Hanoi: Tue 29 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
HCMC: Wed 30 Oct 2013, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
You are invited to 2 special concerts of Orchestre de Paris (Paris Orchestra) in Hanoi and HCMC, conducted by Paavo Järvi. The program is within the framework of 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
Being one of the greatest French orchestras, Orchestre de Paris founded by Charles Munch is a regular guest of musical capitals, and has forged close relationships with New York, London, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, the Scandinavian countries, and Russia, as well as audiences in China, Japan, and Korea.
The Vietnamese audience will have the chance to enjoy their special performances in Hanoi and HCMC, which is conducted by Paavo Järvi.
Program
Joseph Haydn Symphonie n° 83 en sol mineur, “La Poule”
Edvard Grieg Suite Holberg “dans le style ancien”, op.40
Albert Roussel Sinfonietta, pour orchestre à cordes, op.52
Gabriel Fauré Fantaisie, for flute and piano, in E minor, op.79
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphonie n° 33 en si bémol, K 319
Tickets in Hanoi:
Ticket prices: 350 000 VND, 450 000 VND, 600 000 VND, 800 000 VND
Special price : 150 000 VND
Booking via ticketvn@gmail.com
For delivery, please call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Symphony Concert with Spanish Conductor Gomez Ramirez David
Wed 16 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Come to the symphony concert with conductor Gomez Ramirez David (Spain), violin soloist Takeda Anna (Japan) and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, see below:
Program
J. Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Interval
A. Dvorak
Symphony No.8
Tickets
Ticket prices: 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.
Screening of “Les Petits Ruisseaux”
Fri 18 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Wandering Streams″ (France, 2010, 94 mins) directed by Pascal Rabaté. This is “A beautiful film about love and freedom”. (Le Journal du Dimanche)
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.
Screening of Zarafa
Fri 25 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Zarafa″ (France, 2012, 78 mins) directed by Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie. According to Le Figaroscope, this is “a pure marvel ”.
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.
Concert with Arties Quartet
Thu 31 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the classical music concert with Arties Quartet. The program is within the framework of 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
Arties is a collective of international musicians who share the same passion for chamber music. All of them have graduated from great European conservatories and then travel around the world to play in the best concert halls. They are soloists, chamber or free artists or members of large French and European orchestras. These well-known and young talents want to overcome the general codes and protocol of classical concerts to offer an excellent performance in a friendly, generous and spontaneous spirit.
Piano Quartet:
Sullimann Altmayer : Violon
Julien Dabonneville : Alto Viola
Gauthier Herrmann : Violoncelle Cello
Romain Descharmes : Piano
Program
G. Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, opus 120
WA Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major k.493
R. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major opus 47
Ticket
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Punto Italia’s 5th Anniversary – The Italian Coffee Celebration
Fri 18 Oct 2013, 6 – 8 pm
Casa Italia
18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi
After five years of delivering the real taste of the Italian espresso and leading coffee machines and service to Vietnam, Punto Italia would like to express its sincere gratitude and appreciation to all its customers, partners and friends through “The Italian Coffee Celebration”. An informal evening to elect the winning barista of the Latte Art Competition and to celebrate together our 5 years of successful stories in Vietnam.
Guests will be invited to enjoy our complimentary night with your favorite choice of coffee made by Punto Italia’s recommended barista; Italian finger foods and drinks and attractive lucky-draw prizes.
Reservations are essential, please call us at +84-(0)4-6258 3510 or email info.vietnam@puntoitalia.asia.
“Drums and Voices” Musical Performance
17 and 18 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Au Co Arts Center
08 Huynh Thuc Khang Str, Hanoi
In celebration of 40th Year of ASEAN – Japan Friendship and Cooperation as well as the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents a musical performance “Drums & Voices” on Thursday 17 & Friday 18 October in Hanoi.
“Drums & Voices” is a special music troupe exclusively dedicated to celebrate the 40th anniversary of ASEAN & Japan and Vietnam & Japan relationships. It brings together 12 professional performers of traditional music from seven countries – Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Brunei and Japan.
As we can see Dong Son drums in Vietnam and hypnotic chants in the Asian region, drums and voices are most primitive musical instruments in the region, having fascinated human beings over millenniums with their intrinsic power and energy.
“Drums & Voices” is thus highly anticipated, for all of us as human beings, to bring dynamic, powerful and fascinating music whose rhythm emotionally beats our heartstrings and whose melody strikes our right chords harmoniously.
This attractive musical collaboration is, however, impossible to be achieved in one day. The participating musicians spent 4 weeks in total both in Thailand (June – July 2013) and in Vietnam (August – September 2013) to learn each other about the character, cultural background, and creative vision of their fellow collaborators.
To assist the orchestration of their collaboration, a Japanese famous music composer/director, Michiru Oshima also joins “Drums & Voices” as its music director. Equipped with awards for music composition for TV, animation and film, she smartly orchestrates the troupe to achieve “harmonious diversity” in their original music.
From Vietnam, two distinguished traditional music performers join the troupe. One is Merited Artist Mai Lien from Ba Pho Musical House, specializing in traditional percussions especially T’rung (a bamboo xylophone) & folk songs. The other is Merited Artist Minh Chi from Cheo Theatre Vietnam, specializing in Cheo and ethnic percussions.
Both Mai Lien and Minh Chi are highly celebrated for their superb skills and knowledge on Vietnamese traditional music and for their flexibility for international collaboration. Their participation made it possible for the “Drums & Voices” troupe to create uniquely arranged songs based on Vietnamese traditional music.
The other performers from the other countries include: Tsubasa Hori from Japan, who is a former member of the legendary Japanese drum troupe “Kodo” and herself is a composer/arranger, Academy Myanmar Pyi Kyauk Sein from Myanmar, who is a Pattalar (a Myanmar bamboo xylophone) player and an award winner for Best Music Award in Best Movie Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards 2012, to name but a few.
The “Drums & Voices” concerts will be held in all six ASEAN countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Brunei) throughout October and November 2013, before performing at the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, on Wednesday 18 December 2013.
Free admission but you are required to get free advanced tickets which will be distributed from 9:00 on Friday 4 October at the Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi/TEL 04-3944-7419, Opening hours: 09:00 – 18:00, no closed days).
For more information, visit Japan’s Foundation’s website.
Exhibition “The Optimistic Tragedy”
Opening: Fri 18 Oct, 6 pm
Exhibition: 19 – 30 Oct 2013
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St.
Hanoi
This is the first retrospective of the unique pictorial creation of TRAN TRUNG TIN (1933– 2008).
Described as MUNCH IN HANOI, Vietnam’s greatest expressionist artist painted in Hanoi during the American-Vietnam War (1964–1975) to express the sorrow of a people caught up in one of the most tragic conflicts of the twentieth century.
Born in the Mekong Delta, Tin joined the Resistance against the French at the age of twelve and fought on the Cambodian front. At the end of the Franco-Vietnam war in 1954, he worked as a film actor and scriptwriter, but, frustrated by propaganda films, the multi-talented Tin braved wartime censorship and turned to painting. Tin’s images of girl soldiers with guns and flowers, broken buildings and broken lives are balanced by tender depictions of lovers, mothers and spiritual renegades. His cityscapes and abstracts are ‘meditative retreats of loosely painted blocks in warm colours, a self-created visual sanctuary from the war raging outside.’
Major exhibitions of his works have been held around the world including solo exhibitions at the Singapore Art Museum and the British Museum in London.
Concert “In the footstep of Edward Grieg”
Sun 27 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Tel: 84.04.(39330113/4 – 39330131/2)
You are invited to the concert “In the footstep of Edward Grieg” with conductor Alf Richard Kraggerud, violin soloist Henning Kraggerud and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information about the program and tickets, see below:
Program
H.Sæverud : Kjempeviseslåtten
J.Sibelius : Violin Concerto
Interval
E.Grieg : Symphony in C minor
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Exhibition “Colors’ Beats of Vietnam”
Opening: Tue 22 Oct 2013, 6 pm
Exhibition: 22 Oct – 13 Nov 2013
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the lomography exhibition “Colors’ Beats of Vietnam”. Lomowall is created by stitching hundreds of Lomo photos.
Under the aspect of LomoWall, the unique and beautiful installation artwork “Colors’ Beats of Vietnam”, with photos of various artists using different techniques, offers an unique perspective in colors of Vietnam, a developing country which combines between tradition and industrialization.
Screening of “L’Illusionniste”
Fri 08 Nov 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the cartoon screening titled “The Illusionist″ (France, 2010, 80 mins) directed by Sylvain Chomet . This is “A touching, intelligent and delicate film, such an animation we are rarely offered”. (L’Ecran Fantastique)
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.
Cabaret Night in October
Sat 26 Oct 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.
Screening “In Memoriam of S.N. Goenka”
Wed 16 Oct 2013, 8 pm
The Hanoi Bicycle Collective
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to the next session of Cinexin Hanoi this week with the screening of “In Memoriam of S.N. Goenka”.
Film programme:
S.N Goenka UN Peace Summit speech (15 min)
“Doing time, doing Vipassana” (52 min)
Satya Narayan Goenka (January 30, 1924 – September 29, 2013) was a noted Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma, he followed the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, under whom he trained for 14 years. In 1969, he shifted to India and started teaching meditation, and started a mediation centre at Igatpuri, near Nashik in 1976. In time, he became an influential non-sectarian teacher of the Vipassana movement and a pioneer of the Vipassana meditation in India.[1] He trained more than 1300 assistant teachers and each year more than 120,000 people attend Goenka led Vipassana courses.
The technique which S. N. Goenka teaches represents a tradition that is traced back to the Buddha. Goenka emphasizes that, “The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma – the way to liberation – which is universal”[2] and presents his teachings as non-sectarian and open to people of all faiths or no faith. “Liberation” in this context means freedom from impurities of mind and, as a result of the process of cultivating a pure mind, freedom from suffering.[3] Goenka calls Vipassana meditation an experiential scientific practice, through which one can observe the constantly changing nature of the mind and body at the deepest level, a profound understanding that leads to a truly happy and peaceful life.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012 for social work.
Free entrance.
Screening of “Sound to Music”
Wed 16 Oct 2013, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
The Onion Cellar proudly presents: the highly-anticipated prologue to SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD – our little film festival taking place in Hanoi next month.
A preview screening of the incredibly moving Japanese music documentary SOUND TO MUSIC!
SOUND TO MUSIC (2010)
Tomoyuki Hattori
* SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD takes place in Hanoi from the 15th to the 24th of November. More information here. More films to be announced this week.
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)
Free entry.
Languages: Japanese with subtitles in both Vietnamese and English
International Art Film Festival Nos Yeux Grands Ouverts
Fri 25 Oct 2013, 7 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
International art film festival Nos Yeux Grands Ouverts (NYGO), collaborating with center of experimental and art film DocLab Hanoi proudly presents to the audience and film makers of Vietnam 11 short movies in this year’s competition. The screening will be started at 19h, Friday, Octobre 25 2013 at DocLab Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc street.
Guests in attendance for the international film and arts festival include Mr. Patrick FILLIOUD, former director of BFM TV channel (The news channel updated 24/7, France) and Mrs. Anne THOUMYRE (Professor of history of cultural heritage and the head of the Master of artistic and cultural activities management program).
The screening will be followed by an exchange between the guests and audience over the topics of art film and the contemporary art market in France.
Talk Show: Is Vietnam Ready for Same-Sex Marriage?
Thu 17 Oct 2013, 7.30 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Starting Sep 2013, manzi introduces our new series of monthly talk show “Right or Wrong?”. For each show, presenter Giang Dang will invite guest speakers to join him for a discussion on current social issues and cultural matters that are of public concern. As a multi-dimensional platform, “Right or Wrong?” reflects the frictions between different systems of values, aesthetics, opinions and tastes in contemporary Vietnamese society. Come join us – you will be entertained, and you will also be made to think!
For “Right or Wrong?” the Oct edition, our topic for discussion is “Is Vietnam ready for same-sex marriage?”
Guest speakers: Prof. Phung Trung Tap – Hanoi Law University
Mr. Luong The Huy – The Institute for Studies of Society, Economics and Environment (iSEE)
A Catholic priest
Dr. Nguyen Anh Thuan – Director of the Live Safely company
PLEASE NOTICE: The talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.
Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 3 pm Wed 16 Oct.
Science Film Festival 2013
Opening: Wed 24 Oct, 9 am
Public Festival Opening: Screening of “Chasing Ice”: Sat 26 Oct, 2- 4 pm
Kim Dong Cinema
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SFF- Activity-day: 27 Oct, 02 and 03 Nov 2013
Screening of “Mekong”: Fri 01 Nov, 7pm
In Vietnam the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with the Vietnamese Partnerorganisation A&C presents from 24th October to 15th December the third Science Film Festival with fascinating films, games and activities about nature, environment and new technologies. Since 2005 the Science Film Festival inspires students in South East Asian countries. The festival aims to raise young people’s awareness for current scientific and environmental problems through the media film and television.
This year the SFF focuses on renewable energies and sustainability. Which kind of energy will we use in the future? Facing climate change, which new approaches are there to protect our natural resources and live more sustainably? Which challenges are we facing in the coming decades? The Science Film Festival tackles these and more fundamental questions in a playful way. With this year’s focus topic the festival wants to contribute to the current debate and provide some food for thought for our next generation.
In addition to the Festival Pre-Opening on 24th of October the Goethe-Institut Hanoi for the first time holds a public opening of the Science Film Festival on the 26th of October at 2pm with the Vietnam premier of the award-winning film “Chasing Ice”-How climate change alters our earth: Expedition to the Arctic.
Moreover, activity days with films, games and experiments for the whole family at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi on 27/10, 2-3/11 will complement the events in different schools and universities in 11 provinces of Vietnam such as Hanoi, Thai Binh, Vinh Phuc, Quang Tri, Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An, Dac Lak, Ho Chi Minh und Bac Lieu
In the framework of the Science Film Festival the Goethe-Institut will also present the film “Mekong” about the impact of water power plants on the lives of inhabitants in the Mekong area in Vietnam.
Programme of the third Science Film Festival 2013 in Hanoi
24.10. 9 am:
Opening of the Science Film Festival 2013 at a School: Films and games about environment, nature and new technologies
26.10. 2 pm-4 pm:
Public Festival Opening: Vietnam Premier of the award-winning film “Chasing Ice” – How climate change alters our earth: Expedition to the Arctic
Kim Dong Cinema 19 Hang Bai, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi.
Free tickets available from 17.10.2013, 2 pm at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc.
More infos and trailer.
27.10., 02.11. and 03.11.
SFF- Acticity-day
9am-12pm: Films and games for families, children and youth
2pm-4pm. Films and games for families, children and youth
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Please register in advance with do.thuy@hanoi.goethe.org.
01.11. 19.00:
Film Screening “Mekong” (26’) by Director Douglas Varchol followed by a panel discussion with experts
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
For further information please visit here.
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Kim Dong Cinema
19 Hang Bai Str, Hanoi
Blues and Roots Music Night with TVJones
Fri 18 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Australian blues & roots legend TVJones plays The Hanoi Social Club.
Be sure to catch some polyrhythmic, roots n rhythms from this award winning songwriter and musician in Hanoi for one night only!
Having played literally hundreds of festivals and gigs around Australia with some of the biggest names in the industry, here is your chance to come and enjoy A-grade music in Hanoi.
Blending funk and folksy blues in the style of Fink and John Martyn, TVJones cranks some big catchy melodies from the smallest of guitars.
Tickets: 100k @ the door.
Music Night “Endless Adventure”
Thu 24 Oct 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the Flamenco concert ”Endless Adventure” with the performances of famous guitarist Tran Viet Anh and his Lang Du band, singer Dong Lan (French songs) and Vu Ha Anh (latin songs).
Program
1. La Vie En Rose – Dong Lan
2. L’Amour Est Bleu - Dong Lan
3. Je t’aime - Dong Lan
4. Toi Jamais - Dong Lan
5. L’aventure - Dong Lan and Vu Ha Anh
6. Aline – Dong Lan
7. Besame Mucho - Dong Lan
8. Telephone moi - pDong Lan
9. Little sheep - Dong Lan
10. Bailamos - Vu Ha Anh
11. Quando quando – Vu Ha Anh
12. Message of the eyes - Vu Ha Anh
13. It’s now or never - Vu Ha Anh
14. Volare – Ly Minh Hieu
15. Flamenco music of Lang Du band:
- Cascada – Jesse Cook
- Parasol – Jesse Cook
- Juliette – Chris Spheeris
- Casino – Acoustic Achemy
- Thinking of you – Oscar Lopez
- Driving to Madrid – Ottma Liebert
- Feanna – Gipsy Kings
- Caja de Cerilas – Johannes Linstead
- Cinecitta – Steve Stevens
- Ritmos de Valata – Bentti và Svoboda
Ticket: 300,000 VNĐ ($15), hotline: 0989.669.605
Performances of Finnish Dance Music Band Jari and Taika
Tue 22 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Octagonal Stage (Ly Thai To Park)
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Wed 23 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Workers Theatre
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Thu 24 Oct 2013, 9 pm
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi (Angelina Restaurant)
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Mon 21 Oct 2013, 8 pm
Hai Phong Opera House
Finnish Dance Music Band Jari and Taika will play in Hanoi and Hai Phong from 21 – 24 Oct. The concerts are part of the jubilee year program for the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Finland and Vietnam in 2013.
Jari & Taika is a Finnish dance music band formed in the year 2004. It mixes rhythms and genres from international evergreens to Finnish pop music and its own compositions. The band tours mainly in Finland but sometimes also abroad. More information about the band and their music can be found on their website.
The concerts in Hanoi in October take place at the Octagonal Stage (Ly Thai To Park) on the 22nd at 20.00 hrs, in the Workers Theatre on the 23rd at 20.00 hrs, and in Metropole Hotel on the 24th at 21.00hrs. In addition to the concerts in Ha Noi, Jari & Taika performs in Hai Phong Opera Theatre on the 21st October at 20.00 hrs.
Free tickets.
Concerts at Octagonal Stage and Metropole Hotel: free entry.
Concert at Workers Theatre: Free tickets can be collected from the Embassy of Finland at 6th floor of Central Building, 31 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi. Opening hours Mon–Thu 8.00–12.00, 13.00–17.00 and Fri 8.00–13.00.
Concert in Haiphong: For free tickets, please contact Mr. Do Quang Minh, Department of Foreign Affairs of Hai Phong, #15 Tran Quang Khai Street, Hai Phong, Tel: 031 374 5088 or 0121 609 2478.
Workers Theatre
42 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen, Hanoi
Hai Phong Opera House
27 Tran Hung Dao, Hai Phong
SPOT ART – SEA’s First International Juried Visual Arts Festival in Singapore
Festival: 26 Oct – 04 Nov 2013, 11 am – 9 pm daily
ARTrium@MCI, 140 Hill Street, Singapore
Togetherprojects, an organisation dedicated to nurturing art in South East Asia, today announces SPOT ART, an international, juried, visual arts festival that seeks to promote the best contemporary artworks by artists below 30 years old from the region.
Supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) Kickstart Fund, the National Arts Council, and the Singapore Art Museum, SPOT ART will be staged for the first time at ARTrium@MICA from 26 October – 4 November 2013, with the aim of bringing to the fore emerging artists to engage with supporters of youth, education, and the arts.
Jerry Gunn, Founder and Festival Director of SPOT ART said: “SPOT ART is the first and currently the only international platform where South East Asia’s most talented young artists under 30 years old, rigorously selected by a highly esteemed panel of art critics, curators and academic professionals, can be seen side by side with their peers from the region in a dynamic and meaningful way. In a highly fragmented and fast-paced contemporary art landscape, SPOT ART’s goal is to provide a centralized location where supporters and patrons can go to view and collect the best of the region’s young talent, and they can do that right here in Singapore while visiting the Singapore Biennale.”
Festival attendees to SPOT ART can look forward to seeing over 200 works produced by over 70 artists representing a total of 10 countries including: Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Ms Carrie Kwik, the Executive Director of Arts and Entertainment and Integrated Resorts at the Singapore Tourism Board said: “We are very excited at the launch of one of our first Kickstart Fund-supported projects. The team at SPOT ART has conceptualised an event that will not only help discover young talents in the region, but also expand the spectrum of Southeast Asian contemporary art experiences in Singapore. This affirms our Kickstart Fund’s objective to support and accelerate the launch of innovative concepts that have the potential to enhance Singapore’s wealth of niche experiences for locals and travellers.”
Out of the 70 artists showing at SPOT ART, 22 of the artists are currently living and working in Singapore.
The SPOT ART selection committee consists of some of the most well-regarded art experts from SE Asia including Aminudin TH Siregar, David Teh, Iola Lenzi, Luckana Kunavichayanont, Milenko Prvacki, Patrick D. Flores and Robert B. Epp.
Robert Epp said, “I welcomed the opportunity to be involved in the selection process for this show. This was the first time something like this has happened and SPOT ART has successfully made an important bridge in the region to our talented and emerging young artists in the region. As a juror for the exhibit I was deeply moved by some of the pieces and I am confident that the community who come to see this exhibit will agree that something exceptional has taken place here.”
Mr. Jerry Gunn said, “The difference between SPOT ART and the other art offerings in Singapore and the region are three things: Quality, Diversity, and that it is all in one spot: QUALITY in that our renowned selection committee of esteemed curators and experts on contemporary art in SE Asia has selected over 200 works of over 70 artists from an open call submission of over 1500. DIVERSITY in that the open call submissions went out to 10 countries through education networks of the best fine arts universities and institutions in the region. The outcome is an unprecedented broad survey of current trends in emerging contemporary art in the region.
And finally, ONE SPOT – Due to the economic, cultural, historical, and geographical diversity of the region, the arts scene tends to be quite fragmented. We provide a unique singular platform for the most talented young artists to showcase their work on the international stage alongside their peers.”
About the Jury
The Spot Art jury is an outstanding congregation of the region’s most eminent curators, academics, commercial gallerists and collectors. They include:
Mr. Aminudin TH Siregar – Director of Soemardja Gallery and lecturer of Art and Design at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Mr. Patrick D. Flores – Professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and curator of its Vargas Museum, and adjunct curator of the Singapore national Art Gallery.
Ms. Luckana Kunavichayanont – Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center
Mr. Milenko Prvacki – renowned artist and Senior Fellow at LASALLE College of the Arts;
Mr. David Teh – Researcher at NTU and Director of Future Perfect
Ms. Iola Lenzi – curator, critic and lecturer at LaSalle-Goldsmiths College of the Arts
Mr. Robert B. Epp – Director of ADM Gallery at NTU
Tickets
Tickets can be purchased through SISTIC or at the event at the following prices:
• Regular adult ticket is $10 per person and will admit 1 adult for 1 day.
• Regular child ticket (under 12 years old) is $5 and will admit 1 child for 1 day.
• Concession tickets for student, senior citizen, or NSF (with valid identification) is $5 and will admit 1 for 1 day
• School packages are offered to groups of 10 or more students.
Pricing of artworks for purchase will range from $500 to $5000.
For further information, please visit the organizer’s website.
Two Vietnamese artists to be showcased at the SPOT ART’s festival are Le Thi Huong Giang and Tran Chi Thanh.
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