Exhibition “Vietnamese Beauties Playing Traditional Musical Instruments” Wearable Art Pieces at Lucy’s Dream

Exhibition: 08 – 25 Sep 2014, 10 am – 10 pm

Lucy’s Dream

31 Hang Giay, Hanoi

Directions: Lucy’s Dream is just 10 meters away from Luong Ngoc Quyen street,

and 50 meters away from Ta Hien centre

Showcasing our latest collaborative wearable art collection featuring RED, the artist with his Watercolor Artworks, telling the tales of Vietnamese Beauties playing Five (05) of Vietnam most symbolic Traditional Musical Instruments. We hand-painted young and beautiful Vietnamese girls wearing ancient costumes, playing the traditional Bamboo Flute, Vietnamese Monochord, Pear-shaped Lute “Pipa”, Vietnamese 36-String Hammered Dulcimer and the Vietnamese Two-chord Fiddle.

The paintings, saturated in striking color palettes, are then digitally manipulated into printable digital versions. Tailored precision engineering achieves the seemingly impossible, water-colored paintings curving and folding around the human body to achieve a spectacular cumulative effect.

Exhibition “Color Love”

Exhibition: 05 – 19 Sep 2014

1st floor, Exhibition House, No. 16 Ngo Quyen Street, Hanoi

You are invited to the oil painting exhibition “Color Love” by Vu Tuyen.

“Life is full of colors … if we appreciate it, all the color will be love”, the exhibition is his special sublimation on color love.

Opening of German Film Festival 2014 with “Visitors”

Thu 04 Sep 2014, 7 pm

National Cinema Centre

87 Lang Ha, Hanoi

At the opening of the 5th German Film Festival in Vietnam the special guests Constanz Knoche and Leis Bagdach, the director and script writer of “Visitors”, will be present and look forward to a Q&A with the audience.

Visitors

Genre: Drama

Colour, 92 minutes, Germany 2013

age rating 16+

German with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

When Jakob (59) surprises his three grown-up children with a visit in Berlin, they start to panic: With hands and feet they try to hide their lack of independence from their father and themselves. But step by step, the spontaneous action of a usually not at all spontaneous man turns to be a pleasant shock therapy for all family members – including Hanna, Jakob’s wife and mother of the children, who completes the family. With pointed dialogues, VISITORS tells the story of the reconciliation of a family that has drifted apart long ago. At the end one realizes that not only children have to emancipate from their parents, but above all the parents have to emancipate from their children.

You will find more about the film “Visitors” as well as the whole film calendar for Hanoi in the festival’s website.

Free tickets available from 12 pm on 25th August 2014 at:

Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Tel. (04) 37 34 22 51/52/53 (ext. 9)

Constanze Knoche was born in Magdeburg. She completed studies in dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and studied direction at the University for Film Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg as well as the Film Academy Vienna and the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Lissabon. Since 2007 she has been working as an independent director, author and producer for Film in Berlin.

Leis Bagdach was born in Cologne. He studied German Studies and Theater at the University of Leipzig, with the focus on script writing. After that he attended dramaturgy seminars in Berlin where he has been working as an independent author and producer since 2000. Leis Bagdach has staged several theater plays, works regularly for TV channels and produces and writes feature and documentary films in collaboration with Constanze Knoche.      

Exhibition “The Clouds Will Tell”

Opening: Sun 07 Sep 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 07/09 – 05/10/2014

Nhasan COLLECTIVE

24 Ly Quoc Su Str, Hanoi

Nhà Sàn Collective is pleased to invite you to the opening of our new exhibition: “The Clouds Will Tell”. The event will take place at our new space at 24 Lý Quốc Sư on Sunday 7 September 2014.

The exhibition introduces works by Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Nguyễn Phương Linh, Tuấn Mami, Nguyễn Quốc Thành, Nguyễn Ban Ga, Nguyễn Trần Nam, Nguyễn Huy An, Vũ Đức Toàn, Nguyễn Thuỷ Tiên and Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng.

The diversities in the artist’s works forms an orbit of endless experimentation, in order to answer the board question “What is Art?”. In Nha san Collective, by using various mediums including video, installation, performances, paintings and photography; the artists share their different concerns and interests. However, overall, they all have that one thing in common: to question realities.

“Is it cloudy with a chance of rain? The Hanoi art world has been a bit under the weather recently. Exhibition spaces are scarce. The domestic market is virtually non-existent and the government has never supported the avant-garde. But there is a bright sky on the horizon as a new generation of artists is aiming to breathe new life into what long appeared to be stagnant waters of creativity. The phrase: “the Clouds Will Tell,” has an ominous ring, things may turn out bright or they could also cast a shadow on the future.” – Nora Taylor

A fashion catwalk Play Dead will be presented from 8:00Pm with music by Dee F, Lương Huệ Trinh and Nguyễn Đỗ Minh Quân.

Celebrate Mid Autumn Festival 2014 in Hanoi with Various Activities

Mid-Autumn festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Vietnamese calendar, during a full moon, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. Among the Vietnamese, it is considered the second-most important holiday tradition. Today, the festival is an occasion for outdoor reunions among friends and relatives to eat mooncake and watch the moon, a symbol of harmony and unity.

To understand more about the tradition, read Tet Trung Thu…Mid Autumn Festival…Children’s Festival – A beautiful nostalgic-mood writing from KVT that tells us interesting folk tales associated with Mid Autumn festival as well as the author’s own feelings and perspective on this century-long celebration.

This year, the festival is celebrated on Monday, 08 Sep 2014, and various pre-festival activities take place during the weekend. Below are some events that might be of your interest:

1. Sonic Moon Festival 2014

The annual festival of electronic music and experimentation in multimedia arts. The second year expands its size and capacity to six venues in the capital city of Vietnam. Each venue is selected for its characteristics and dedicated to the festival’s day and night time activities.

There is participation of Hanoi-based sound artists/musicians/DJs Vu Nhat Tan, Luong Hue Trinh, Tri Minh, Dee.F, Dan Henneberry, XAI, as well as artists from Thailand.

The festival goes on from 04 to 07 Sep.

2. Handmade Fair “Moon Light”

A free-entry handmade fair “Moonlight” on the occasion of Mid-autumn festival. Small handmade items made with passion together with some familiar and gentle acoustic melodies, in a little sunlight and chilly windy day of autumn is sure to bring you the most special day.

3. Mid-Autumn Celebration at Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

Join Sofitel Plaza Hanoi’s 2014 Mid-Autumn Celebration and live a unique festive experience with your beloved ones for this full-moon season. The party promises lovely moments for the kids and the most precious family time.

You can also find some traditional gifts for this occasion:

Tin Ships Re-Anchor at Bookworm

Another option for those at their loose ends this Mid Autumn festival is a special exhibition at Bookworm featuring beautifully designed ship toys which were usually sold on the streets during the occasion.

Mooncake at Sofitel Plaza Hanoi

Cherish bonding moments of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and express your appreciation to your loved ones with the magnificent gift of autumn – mooncake. Through its signature mooncakes, the hotel wishes to illustrate Sofitel’s “Art de Vivre” with its bakery expertise and its ambition to link the French touch to local cultures.

A Night at the Opera – Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly

Sun 07 Sep 2014, 7 pm

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

Come to the screening of a classic version of Madama Butterfly by the composer Giacomo Puccini. (Check out his other opera Tosca last year in 2013)

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera was not well-received at its premiere, whereupon Puccini re-wrote the composition and it was a great success thereafter. It has been a staple of the opera repertory since Puccini altered the original composition.

The story is set in Nagasaki in 1904. A U.S. Naval officer named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for him and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. She is a 15-year-old Japanese girl whom he is marrying for convenience. He intends to leave her once he finds a proper American wife. The story continues with Pinkerton departing to the USA and returning three years later to claim his son from Butterfly, of course ending in tragedy.

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.

Screening of Film Pa Negre (Black Bread)

Sun 07 Sep 2014, 7.30 pm

THBC Spanish Tapas Bar

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the film screening Pa Negre (Black Bread) (2010, 115 mins).

About the film

In the harsh post-war years’ Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

Free entrance.

Language: Spanish and English sub

Contact: 043 718 8246 (English – Vietnamese speaking)

Screening of Films “Pi” and “Following”

Screening of “Pi”: Fri 05 Sep 2014, 7.30 pm

Screening of “Following”: Sat 06 Sep 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

This September, you are invited to the screening of debut features of famous directors lately. The first week of debut film month comes along with “Pi” directed by Darren Aronofsky and “Following” directed by Christopher Nolan.

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

About films

Pi

PI, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

It is Aronofsky’s directorial debut, and earned him the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award.

The title refers to the mathematical constant pi. Like most of Aronofsky’s films, PI centers on a protagonist whose obsessive pursuit of ideals leads to severely self-destructive behavior.

Following

FOLLOWING is a 1998 British neo-noir drama thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.

As Christopher Nolan’s debut feature, it was designed to be as inexpensive as possible to make: scenes were heavily rehearsed so that just one or two takes were needed, thus economising on 16 mm film stock, the production’s greatest expense, and for which Nolan was paying from his salary.

Without expensive professional lighting equipment, Nolan mostly used available light. Apart from writing, directing, and photographing the film, Nolan also helped in editing and production. These efforts have made the film one of the least expensive films in history.

Entry: 20k (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)

Exhibition “Manequin’s Life” by Nguyen Khac Chinh

Opening: Tue 09 Sep 2014, 6 pm

Artist talk: Sat 13 Sep 2014, 2.15 pm

Exhibition: 09 – 14 Sep 2014

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St., Hanoi

“Life’s mannequin” is the first solo exhibition of artist Nguyen Khac Chinh in Vietnam. Born in 1984 in Hanoi and graduated from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2006, underwent a process of work, painting into mainstream contemporary art has given me a lot of experience in life and on the art road.

Artist’s statement

My educational and working background, with exhibitions in different forms and working with different media including, among others, installations, performances, video art, lacquer, has given me extensive experience with arts and a way to discover myself into a larger world of paintings, with its misty misery yet attractive beauty made of materials, colors and sublime emotions.

Through my paintings, I want to express my feelings, my thoughts and angles of my soul onto the canvas. From natural landscapes to portraits, from people and their daily activities to refined ideas and vague feelings… I want to express each and every thing through the most personal lens and purest shades.

Exhibition’s preview by Vu Lam

The series are a manifestation of personal narratives. If you look at them thoroughly enough, you will feel the artist’s ambition and desire expressed through the symbols that he wants to develop into some kind of styles. He is ambitious to embrace all of those universal faces out there in the life that he’s living in, especially those of the young generation’s. He paints what he feels by creating multiple unreal faces, all of them alike as empty shells with no sensitivity or emotions. Abstinence and control happening continuously on a figure or a group of figures depicted with skepticism frustrate viewers in a hard to describe way. And it works! On the other hand, there is a clear desire to get his message across and remind individual viewers to stop and look back at their own life, to see whether they have been living it mostly with their true feelings and emotions or mostly like mannequins in this “plastic” era. This even opens up a broader message, that men are being ‘mannequin-ized’ and human qualities are being transformed in human technologies, which in turn are penetrating deeply into how behaviors towards traditions are evolving… And it can be even more powerful and haunting if the ambiguity and skepticism demonstrated through the figures’ gestures and the overall space and ambience of the paintings get deeper into abstract sense and consciousness…

Exhibition “Catalyst” at Dong Phong Gallery

Exhibition Catalyst-Le Quy Tong-Dong Phong gallery

Exhibition: 09 Sep – 09 Oct 2014

Dong Phong Art Gallery

03 Ly Dao Thanh Street

Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi

Open everyday from 9.30 am to 6 pm

Catalyst is a mini-show that marks a new turn for the talented artist Le Quy Tong. His reputation is already well established through plenty of remarkable works of art with multiple themes: the structures of bridges, roads and architecture, weapons, and expressionist portraits. In this exhibition, however, Le Tong brings us new paintings from his continuous work with new kinds of materials over the past two years (from early 2013 to September 2014).

The artist gives us the following heartfelt statement to help us understand and feel the artworks for ourselves.

“I really like the idea of diverting or altering the initial meaning of a random image. The materials used for my creativity are mainly images from public media and available on the internet. The images could be anything from entertainment, traditional culture to history, world culture or past and present images of sexual-emotional changes. I intend to create different emotional sensations through the interactions between these images. The sensations could be a new conflicting mode, an incredulous perception, a stimulating reminiscence, perceptions of the present or a fundamental personal value, all of which give viewers different ways of understanding and feeling.

No judgment or conclusions are needed.

In this exhibition, I do not intend to create a specific message. My only concern is to create a catalyst for thinking.” (Le Quy Tong)

Dong Phong Art Gallery may be the last catalyst we need to get closer to Le Quy Tong‘s art.

Exhibition “Sylvan Sentiments”

Opening: Sat 06 Sep 2014, 10 am

Exhibition: 06 – 26 Sep 2014

Tu Do Gallery

53 Ho Tung Mau Street, District 1, HCMC

You are invited to the art exhibition titled “Sylvan Sentiments” with 20 oil paintings by Nguyen Trong Khoi.

Artist talk about his works:

“My paintings today are neither warnings nor messages, but just invitation and introduction about a peaceful space without uncertainty, dispute or guilt; a space in which no comparison or supervision with envious eyes or different social classes put us under pressure. Everything happens naturally and we simply satisfy with the righteous. Our feeling depends on nature and changes under the mystery of light and shadow. Humans beings are the main part of nature so they contain the mysteries as in the nature itself.”

Piano Duet Performance with Duo Mây at L’Espace

Sat 04 Sep 2014, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the piano duet performance at L’Espace with Duo Mây.

The young Duo Mây has gained huge success in both Hanoi and HCMC and then at the Guangxi Arts Institute in Nanning, China in March 2014.  Tam Ngoc and Quynh Trang are not only soloists but also piano teachers at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

The duo present a wide range of repertoire, from classical to contemporary, for piano four hands and two pianos. They are recognized as one of most talented chamber music groups in Vietnam.

Program:

Ryan Cayabyab – Pahilaga

Pamulinawen

Malinac Lay Labi

Mozart – Sonata for Piano four hands in C Major, KV 521

Allegro

Andante

Allegretto

Schubert – Fantasie in F minor, Op. 103

Đặng Hữu Phúc – Con gà rừng

Short Intermission

J. S. Bach – Concerto for two piano in C Minor, BWV 1062

Tickets

Ticket price: 160 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 80 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Subscription Concert Vol.73

09 and 10 Sep 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Subscription Concert Vol.73 with:

Conductor: Honna Tetsuji

Piano Soloist Nguyễn Việt Trung, Violin Soloist Lê Hoài Nam

Tue 09 Sep 2014

Conductor- Honna Tetsuji

Violin- Lê Hoài Nam

Program:

Đỗ Hồng Quân – “Trổ Một”

Phạm Minh Thành- Violin Concerto Vietnam Premiere

Dmitri Shostakovich- Symphony no.12 “1917 year”

Wed 10 Sep 2014

Conductor- Honna Tetsuji

Piano- Nguyễn Việt Trung

Program:

L. van Beethoven – Concerto Piano no.3

Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no.12 “1917year”                                                

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn.

For free delivery, please call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

German Film Festival in Vietnam 2014

Hà Nội: 04 – 11 Sep 2014 | National Cinema Center

HCMC: 05 – 12 Sep 2014 | CINEBOX

Hải Phòng: 05 – 07 and 12 – 14 Sep 2014 | Rap chieu bong Cong nhan

Huế: 11 – 17 Sep 2014 | Center for Culture & Information

Đà Nẵng: 12 – 14 and 19 – 21 Sep 2014 | Le Do Cinema

Thái Nguyên: 15 – 20 Sep 2014 | Data Centre, Thai Nguyen University

Beginning of September it is “Showtime!” again at the German Film Festival in Vietnam! After the overwhelming success of last years´ festivals with more than 50.000 visitors the Goethe-Institut opens the German Film Festival for the 5th time on 4th of September 2014 in Vietnam’s captial. A wide selection of last year’s most popular German films will be shown in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Hue, Da Nang, HCMC and Thai Nguyen. Once more the German Film Festival offers the Vietnamese audience the opportunity to get to know Germany from different perspectives and dive into the German film landscape via the silver screen.

In 2014 German films take up current topics about family ties and responsibility, home and identity and love and friendship. This year’s German Film Festival in Vietnam offers the audience a selection of 10 film highlights from renowned directors and with popular German actors. A taste of the films offers the Festival Trailer 2014.

At the opening in Hanoi, Hue, Da Nang and HCMC we will welcome the filmmakers of the opening film “The Visitors” Mrs Constanze Knoche and Mr Leis Bagdach as special guests from Berlin and look forward to a lively Q&A with them.

Film schedule in Hanoi:

Tickets for all films are free.

IN HANOI: Free tickets at: Goethe-Institut Hanoi from Mon 25 Aug 2014, 12 pm (noon).Tel. (04) 37 34 22 51/52/53 (ext. 9)

Please also take part in our film quiz! Answer questions about the films which will be screened at the festival and with a bit of luck you can win amazing prizes. For the quiz and more information on the complete schedule in all cities visit here.

Handmade Fair “Moon Light”

Sun 07 Sep 2014, 9 am – 6 pm

Le Ciné Cafe

22a Hai Ba Trung, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

You are invited to the handmade fair “Moonlight” on the occasion of Mid-autumn festival.

Small handmade items made with passion together with some familiar and gentle acoustic melodies, in a little sunlight and chilly windy day of autumn promise to bring you the most special day.

Main activities:

– High quality handmade booths

– Refresh your wardrobe with stylish items from HOT TEEN, HOT STYLISTS at competitive prices

– Acoustic live show

– Chibi Drawing

– Henna Tattoo

– Tarot

– Impressive and Creative Vintage space

– FREE handmade workshop

Free entrance.

Photo Exhibition “Gone with the Water”

Opening: Thu 04 Sep 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 04 – 27 Sep 2014

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to photo exhibition entitled “Gone with the water” by Le Nguyen Duy Phuong.

On his way to exploring Tri An lake, Phuong Duy immediately fell in love with this beautiful place. Within the year, he had been exploring around the lake and was fascinated by the seasonal rise and fall of the water level, as well as the fact that farmers have to adjust to these changes constantly. The charming scenery of Tri An landscape, where the reality blends with contexts and objects, as an awaken dream, is “the fantastic part of my job”.

Free admission.

Sonic Moon Festival 2014

04 – 07 Sep 2014

Hanoi Rock City, Phù Sa Studio, Đào Anh Khánh Studio,

Work Room Four, Hầm Hành, DOCLAB

The annual festival of electronic music and experimentation in multimedia arts.

The second year expands its size and capacity to six venues in the capital city of Vietnam. Each venue is selected for its characteristics and dedicated to the festival’s day and night time activities.

Performance schedule

Day 1 – “To the moon and back”

04.09 , 8PM , Phù Sa Studio

:: Vũ Nhật Tân

:: Lương Huệ Trinh

:: FM3V

:: Arnont Nongyao

The artists are a traveller, a healer, a magician, taking us through a sonic journey of beauty and into the realm of ambient weirdness.

Phù Sa studio is a “theatrical” studio with a capacity of 100 seats, sound work are carefully engineered by Nhất Lý, creator of the nationwide acclaimed “À Ố” show.

**Expect: ambience, noise, meditation, tranquility, soundscape, sound art.

Luong Hue Trinh

Luong Hue Trinh

Day 2 – “Them”

05.09 , 8PM , Hanoi Rock City

:: Space360

:: Dadahack vs. FM3V

:: Trí Minh

:: Dee.F

:: Dan Henneberry

Unorthodox . Obscure . Hypnotic . The second day takes the festival into a ravey dance club. Nothing but the grooves, the lighting, and trippy visuals.

Hanoi Rock City is an iconic live premium venue in Hanoi. Running in its 4th year, HRC is the host to many local and international live and DJ acts.

**Expect: electronica, minimal, IDM, techno, drone, dub, left field.

Dan Henneberry

Dan Henneberry

Day 3 – “Live pulse”

06.09 , 8PM , Đào Anh Khánh Studio

:: JRG_ONE

:: DMN SLYR

:: ZKIII

:: XAI

Stadium sound within nature and beauty. Last day of the festival will be taken place in a very unique venue in Hanoi – Đào Anh Khánh studio.

**Expect: psychedelic, conceptual, techno punk, stadium rock, drone, bass, nu beats.

XAI - photo by Nguyen Thuy Tien

XAI – photo by Nguyen Thuy Tien

Workshop, Opening and Closing schedule

Day 1 – 04.09 | 2PM – Work Room Four

:: Sonic Moon Festival Opening party

:: FM3V – Budda Machine

Day 2 – 05.09 | 2PM – Hầm Hành

:: Arnont Nongyao – DIY Instruments (sound art)

Day 3 – 06.09 | 2PM – Doclab

:: Space360 – Sound Design and Live Electronic Music

Day 4 – 07.09 | 5PM – Work Room Four

:: Sonic Moon Festival Closing party

TICKETS

Admission at door of the events:

VND100K / event

VND250K / 3 events

Workshop, opening and closing party are FREE.

Day 1 . Phù Sa Studio . 100 tickets only.

Pre-Sale tickets start now:

Grab yours at 50% OFF from:

- Hanoi Rock City – 27/52 Tô Ngọc Vân, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội.

- Hầm Hành – 170 Đội Cấn, Hà Nội.

- Work Room Four – Packexim Building Tower 1, 23rd Floor No. 49, Lane 15 An Dương Vương, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội.

- Puku Cafe – 16 Tống Duy Tân, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Vietnam

1 Day Pass @ VND50K 3 Days Pass @ VND125K

Students with a valid ID receive further 50% off.

Ticket hotline: 0188 748 7426

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

New Creative Classes in September

New Creative Classes started from 01 Sep 2014

Work Room Four

You are invited to join new creative classes. Classes will last for 6 weeks, starting from the 1st of September. Register today! Get a 20% discount if you are a student, or if you sign up and recommend a friend who signs up.

For further information, please contact Claire on 01202608562 or email workrmfour@gmail.com to register.

Seminar with Filmmakers of “Visitors”

German Film Festival in Vietnam 2014 2

Hanoi: Fri 05 Sep 2014, 9 am – 12 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

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HCMC: Mon 08 Sep 2014, 9 am – 12 pm

Hoa Sen University

8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist. 1, HCMC

Constanze Knoche and Leis Bagdach are an experienced team of filmmakers. They write screenplays for various successful German television series and have shot a number of feature films and documentaries together, including the opening film of this year’s German Film Festival in Vietnam: “DIE BESUCHER” (Visitors).

In this seminar, which is aimed at students and professionals in the film industry, they talk about the production process of “DIE BESUCHER”, discuss cinematic design with the participants based on selected scenes from the film and share their personal experiences as filmmakers.

The seminar will be held in English and Vietnamese.

At registration only:

Pham Thi Kim Chung

Culture Department, Goethe Institute

Tel.: +84 4 3734 2251/52/53 (ext. 36)

Email: kimchung.pham@hanoi.goethe.org

Ms. Nguyen Thu Hanh

Program Department, Goethe Institute

18, Str.1, Do Thanh, Ward 4, Distrikt 3

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Tel. + 84 8 38326716 / + 84 8 38326765

Email: info@saigon.goethe.org

Constanze Knoche was born in Magdeburg. She completed studies in dramaturgy at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and studied direction at the University for Film Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg as well as the Film Academy Vienna and the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Lissabon. Since 2007 she has been working as an independent director, author and producer for Film in Berlin.

Leis Bagdach was born in Cologne. He studied German Studies and Theater at the University of Leipzig, with the focus on script writing. After that he attended dramaturgy seminars in Berlin where he has been working as an independent author and producer since 2000. Leis Bagdach has staged several theater plays, works regularly for TV channels and produces and writes feature and documentary films in collaboration with Constanze Knoche.

Exhibition “Wrapping up Memories”

Opening: Fri 29 Aug 2014, 5.30 pm

Artist talk: Fri 29 Aug 2014, 4.30 pm

Exhibition: 29 Aug – 09 Sep 2014

New Space Arts Foundation

2nd Floor, Number 15 Le Loi, Hue City

You are invited to exhibition “Wrapping up Memories” by artist Ta Bach Duong.

Artist statement about Project Wrapping Memories

(Material: Polyester & mixed things);

Ideas:

Life isn’t fair to all of us: some are rich, others are poor; some are beautiful, but others are unfortunate… And it seems, wealth and fame are humankind’s life goals. People are rushing for them, but we all forget about the most important things: time – youth and life’s value.

It’s the abstract thing that we all possess. It’s fast, yet slow, once it passes by, there is nothing we can do to recapture it. It yanks away everything and leaves it with ashes and nothingness.

Such pity, my youth is going by faster and faster. My son is growing up every day, and so do I, I am getting older and older each day. Time passes by like a tornado. I’ve realized that I have been wasting my life’s time for the unworthiness.

Now, I want to start all over again, to enjoy each and every precious second. I am eager to capture every moment, to embrace all the little things in life, the emotions, feelings of joy, sadness, pain, hope and love… But I can see that it is impossible as time has its own way, and nothing can hold it back. My works – have been and will always be reminding me of those things – all the feelings that I’ve had. It’s the key to the Memory Box, touching it would bring back all the memories, no matter how much time has passed by.

Polyester is the main material of my work, together with some other materials. When it freezes, it looks like a thick block of water. It can cover, contain, secure everything I put in when it solidifies. I am using it to “capture”, to “wrap up” my feelings – my beautiful joy and sadness – which come and go.

Description of my work “Each day”.

Each day, I will capture the beauty of the place where I’m staying by using familiar materials that I collect here. Hence, I will pour polyester over and solidify them, creating small 3D spaces.

At the same time, I will also capture my feelings by combining the colors from habitual things like milk or fruit juice boxes (I drink them everyday here). They are very convenient and portable; many people have them on a daily basis as a habit. Such combinations express my daily feelings and thoughts. They’re the energy that encourages me to move on. I will “capture” it.