Screening of “INNI”

Thu 01 Dec 2011, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque, 22 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

Hanoi Cinematheque is pleased to host an official screening of the new Sigur Rós feature film, INNI.

Recorded in London in 2008, the film captures Sigur Rós’s final two shows following a lengthy tour in support of “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust,” which translates roughly as “With a buzz in our ears, we play endlessly.” Directed by Vincent Morisset, it’s a close look at the band in concert, often mere feet away. The majority of the film is in grainy black-and-white, reinforcing the view outside Iceland of the quartet as mythic and unknowable, as if it had risen from the fog-shrouded lava fields of its island home.

Their music may sound as if it falls easily from their fingers, but INNI shows just how hard the band work to create their sound. It is required by the producers that we issue the following notice: PLEASE BE ADVISED – strobe lighting and flashing images are used during Sigur Rós’s live performance footage.

Ticket price: 150 000 VND for non Cinematheque members.

Exhibition “Nguyen Linh III”

Opening: Fri 02 Dec, 5 pm
Exhibition: 02 – 07 Dec 2011
Viet Art Center, 42 Yet Kieu, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition of artist Nguyen Linh at Viet Art Center.

Danish Film Week

Hanoi Cinematheque, 22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
IDECAF, 31 Thai Van Lung, Dist 1, HCMC

Come to the Danish Film Week 2011 featuring the best of Danish cinema. The Film Week forms part of the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Diplomatic relations between Denmark and Vietnam.

Denmark has a remarkable history of film production and holds a key place on the world scene of cinema. When “In a Better World” by director Susanne Bier this year won the Oscar for the best foreign language film, it was not the first time that a Danish director and a Danish movie received international recognition. During the Danish Film Week you will be able to watch, among others, award winning productions: “What No One Knows” by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008) and “The Five Obstructions” (2003), directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth. We also screen the modern thriller “The Candidate” by Kasper Barfoed (2008) and the animation “The Apple and the Worm” by Anders Morgenthaler (2009).

You can see schedule of film week here: DanishFilmWeek Program

Free tickets can be collected from today at:

Hanoi: Hanoi Cinematheque, 22A Hai Ba Trung (from 2 – 6 pm)

HCMC: IDECAF, 31 Thai Van Lung

Limit 2 tickets per person per film. You must arrive 15 minutes before the film starts to claim your seat, otherwise it will be lost.

Music Night “A Journey of 55 Years”

Hanoi Friendship Cultural Palace, 91 Tran Hung Dao Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the music night to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the establishment of VNAM. The program includes many Vietnamese songs which are attached to the name of the singers who have studied at the VNAM previously.

Ticket prices: 300.000, 500.000, 700.000, 900.000, 1.200.000 VND.
All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Screening of “Un Secret”

Fri 02 Dec 2011, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the film screening of “Un Secret” of director Claude Miller, starring Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, and Julie Depardieu.  The film has received a Cesar Award in 2008 for best actress – Julie Depardieu.

Le Figaroscope has stated that “The movie is touching. With this secret, Claude Miller makes our heart ache with waves of emotions.”

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Run for Children Hanoi 2011

Sun 04 Dec 2011,
Thien Quang Lake, Hanoi

The Run for Children 2011 will take place on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 at its usual location, Thien Quang Lake. This is a friendship activity to raise the awareness and compassionateness of Hanoians, businesses, Canadian community and international friends who are studying and living in Vietnam. All proceeds will be used to fund programs for sick children from poor families at the Hanoi Heart Hospital, the National Hospital of Pediatrics and Heart Beat Vietnam. Funds are raised from participants’ cash donations, the sale of t-shirts and food, and corporate sponsorship.
The Run for Children 2011 proceeds from a charitable run named Terry Fox in Hanoi for the purpose of raising a fund for cancer treatment (from 2000-2008) and for poor children in Vietnam who have been suffering from cancer and heart diseases (2009-2010).

From 2000 to 2010, the Run has attracted nearly 50.000 people and raised the fund of more than VND 4 billion.

This year, sponsors can support the run by the following methods:
-         Buy T-shirts;
-         Cash and objects donation;
-         Treatment expenses will be paid according to the list of child patient provided by HAUFO on the web site.

The organisers would like to invite all Vietnamese and international communities, schools, organisations, companies to take part in and to support this meaningful event, as well as to join forces in the fight against fatal diseases.

This is not a race. You can run or walk for as long as you want. No roller blades or bicycles please.

Contact the organizers for team/group participation. Individuals can register on the Run day.

The organisers will provide water and soft drinks free of charge.

For more information about the event, visit Run for children’s website.

Art in the Auditorium

Le Thanh Theater, 25 Phan Phu Tien Str., Dist.5, HCMC

Screening for the second time due to popular demand ‘Open Stage Vietnam’ in collaboration with Sàn Art, and Whitechapel Gallery, London, presents ‘Art in the Auditorium’ – a selection of short film and video art by artists from Germany, Norway, Turkey, Lebanon, Chile, New Zealand and America.

Initiated in London, and having toured to all countries of participating artists, ‘Art in the Auditorium’ presents techniques of stop-motion graphics; documentary collage; performance and short film narrative to illustrate personal stories that are at times religiously zealous, culturally specific, fictionally surreal or just simply hilarious.

Artists featured include Elodie Plong, Marthe Thorshaug, Ergin Cavusoglu, Jalal Toufic, Kelly Nipper, Cristabel Loen and Rachel Rakena and Dinh Q Le.

Fee: 30.000 VND (All proceeds support the organizational costs of ‘Open Stage)

Exhibition “Assumption”

Opening: Mon 05 Dec, 5 pm
Exhibition: 05 – 25 Dec 2011
Au Co Gallery, No.1 lane 124/22, Au Co Str, Tay Ho Dist, Ha Noi

You are invited to attend the exhibition “Assumption” of artist Ly Truc Son. The exhibition continues until 25 Dec 2011.

Landscape Painting Exhibition

Exhibition: 20/11 – 10/12/2011
Korean Cultural Center, 49 Nguyen Du, Hanoi

You are invited to the painting exhibition titled “Landscape Painting” of 2 artists Nguyen Ngoc My and Tran Tuyet Nga. The paintings of the two artists, even though each artist has her own technique but they show the beauty of the Vietnamese landscape and the Vietnamese people.

Both artists were born and grew up in Hanoi. Tran Tuyet Nga graduated from Hanoi College for Industrial Art while Nguyen Ngoc My graduated from University of Hanoi Theater. The two artists are very passionate about arts. They both have their oil paintings and lacquer paintings displayed in many exhibition all over the country. Both artists are keen on drawing landscape and the every day life of normal people.

Tran Tuyet Nga focuses more on the beauty of lacquer paintings while Nguyen Ngoc My prefers oil paintings.

Exhibition “PHẬP PHỒNG”

Opening: Thu 1 Dec, 6 pm
Artist Talk: Fri 2 Dec, 6 pm
Exhibition: 2 – 13 Dec 2011, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

From the 2nd of December until the 13th of December the exhibition PHẬP PHỒNG takes places at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. Six young Vietnamese female artists from CHAAP COLLECTIVE confront themselves as well as their audience with the picture of women in the Vietnamese society by using a variation of installations and performances. This exhibition was prepared in a longer process by one of the most famous artists and curators in Vietnam, Tran Luong, together with the artists.

Artists: Ha Thi Hong Ngan, Nguyen Thi Hoai Tho, Pham Thu Thuy, Huong By Nguyen, Pham Hong, Vo Ngoc Hue

Curator Tran Luong writes about the exhibition:

“Legitimate as they are, gender and sexuality issues are still something that most of us mention with lot of shyness and discomfort. Citizens of a country that has not been through a sexual revolution, we are under an oppressive pressure of the vestige of Confucian morality.

It is another unfortunate instance of the market opening period, known as mở cửa, when there is an opportunity for instinctive needs to erupt and explode, but in a very wild and pathetic fuller picture, where moral values degrade unceasingly in all social aspects. In the sexuality area only, abortion could have hit a record, while sexually transmitted diseases and infertility are increasing at an uncontrollable speed!

Caught in such a grey zone, women citizens must always change their colors to act in different roles in some very typical circumstances. On the surface of what we see, Vietnamese women of today seem to have been much released. But if we get to know how carefree they really are when they are with their friends, we will clearly see the artificiality and the pressures they must suffer from as they need to frequently change their look and style, trying to dilute themselves in places where moral norms are expected. Workplaces, schools, public spaces, in-laws’, homelands, among many other places, become stages where they are forced to act!

A status of conflict smolders, between wanting vs. not wanting, erupting vs. squeezing, desiring vs. suppressing, ignoring vs. playing cool, being happy vs. being stunned, screaming vs. being silent, getting mad vs. getting blank, and much more.”

Free Admission

Screening of “Les Mains en L’Air”

Fri 09 Dec 2011, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to the film screening “Les Mains en L’Air” from director Romain Goupil, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and Linda Doudaeva.

Marianne has stated that “This is a touching film which makes you cry and smile”.

For more information about the film’s synopsis, visit L’Espace website in French

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Jazz Concert “DIALEKTOS”

Italy & Vietnam: Culture and Enterprises
Fri 09 Dec 2011, 8 pm
Labour Theatre, 42 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Sun 11 Dec 2011, 8 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music, 112 Nguyen Du, Dist.I, HCMC

In the framework of Y Viet and on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Embassy of Italy in Vietnam, presents “Dialektos”, a jazz concert performed by the famous Duo Maria Pia De Vito and Huw Warren, designed to give Vietnamese audience an insight on jazz Italian culture. “Dialektos” is a richly fruitful collaboration between the two musicians, playing as it does to their mutual love of folk roots, energetic rhythms and strong melodies.

Program

And the Kitchen sink : Huw Warren
Allirallena (De Vito-.Warren)
Strummolo a Tiriteppolo ( De Vito-Warren)
G continuo ( R. Marcotulli) (instrumental, wordless)
Curre Maria (De Vito-Jobim-Buarque-De Moraes)
Frevo em Maceio (H.Pascoal ) (Instrumental/wordless)
Curiosity threatens (Warren- instrumenta-wordless)
Vucella ( De Vito-Wisnik)
O Pata Pata
Whistling Rufus

Beatriz (Buarque- Lobo)
Miguilim( Marcotulli) wordless
Um a zero (Pixhinguinha)
Si fosse N’auciello (De Vito- Antonio De Curtis (detto Totò) :-)
Ginga Carioca (H.Pascoal ) wordless

Italian jazz and classical singer composer and arranger, Maria Pia De Vito is one of the most original figures on the Italian jazz scene. She has worked with visual artists, choreographers, and musicians such as John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Miroslav Vitous, Joshua Redman, and Italian Enrico Rava e Paolo Fresu. In 2008 and 2009 she has won the Critics Top Jazz Award as best singer, and in 2009 she has also won the critics award for her record ‘Mind in Gap’, as best international production. In 2010 The magazine ‘Jazz It’ elected her as best Italian singer.

Pianist and composer Huw Warren never ceases to amaze as an intriguing and thrilling musician and composer. The Winner of this year highly coveted BBC Jazz Award for innovation; Huw has established an international presence in recent years, as a musical director/pianist for contemporary folk diva June Tabor for well over a decade, and for his ongoing work with ex-Austrian Musician of the Year bassist Peter Herbert and NY violin virtuoso improviser Mark Feldman.

Dialektos is a richly fruitful collaboration between the two musicians, playing as it does to their mutual love of folk roots, energetic rhythms and strong melodies. Its cultural fulcrum is the southern Italian city of Naples, whose popular songs the virtuosic but earthy De Vito has celebrated on previous recordings. Despite the Neapolitan emphasis, much of the performance is sung by De Vito in a mix of scat, vocalize and human beat box, a style which allows her talent for exuberant rhythmic improvisation to flourish unmediated by the need to deliver a lyric. This is a strikingly beautiful and transporting voice-based jazz concert which communicates through rhythm and melody rather than language.

Ticket

In Hanoi:
Ticket prices: 200 000, 300 000, 500 000 VND. Tickets can be booked on www.ticketvn.com or by email: ticketvn@fpt.vn; For free delivery, call: 091348 9858, 098306 7996, 35651806.
Tickets will be also available at Labour Theatre (42 Trang Tien, Hanoi) from 06 Dec.

In HCMC: On invitation