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24 and 25 Mar 2012, 9 pm
The Rooftop Bar & Restaurant
19th Floor, Pacific Place
83B Ly Thuong Kiet Str, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi
Welcome the return of DJ Model Angie Vu Ha – Top 10 Sexiest Supermodel DJs in the world @ The Rooftop. Let’s the dance floor going! Angie Vu Ha (born 1 June 1987) is a Vietnamese Model, DJ and Producer. She’s best known as Asia’s Sexiest DJ and recently featured in the Top 10 Sexiest Supermodel DJs in the world.
The stunning Angie Vu Ha calls Hanoi home, but her good looks and talent behind the decks has taken her around the world – from the hottest catwalks to the biggest party destinations. She began modeling at the age of 17 – quickly cinching the title of Supermodel before moving on her other passion: music.
As one of the sexiest women in Asia, this FHM cover girl is making waves behind the decks. Dishing out the hottest, Hip Hop, House, Electro and Dirty Dutch tracks; she prides herself on playing whatever it takes to get the dance floor going.
Also in 2011 Angie stepped into the studio to start her own music production.
Her first release ‘Cookies’ gained instant support from BBC Radio 1’s Judge Jules, Marco V, Lisa Lashes and Michael Woods and is one of the fastest selling tracks on the worlds number 1 legal mp3 download site ‘Beatport’. Her second release ‘Cream’ features the sounds of UK’s vocalist Taya and received massive support from Gareth Emery, Marco V and Ministry of Sound Adam K.
Formerly resident DJ at New Asia Bar, one of the world’s finest clubs – Angie now spins internationally even headlining UK’s Escape Swansea party in Singapore.
Now having been voted one of the 10 sexiest supermodel DJ’s in the world she has over 245 press mentions to her name and is ready to keep on piling up the accolades – both for her music and her moves.
Free 1 shot whiskey for welcome drink
For more information about ticket and reservation:
Contact: 043 946 1901 – 0123 954 9900
W: www.therooftop.vn|E: therooftop@vnn.vn
Screening of “Still Life”
Sat 31 Mar 2012, 6 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Hanoi DocLab is pleased to present Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (2006). Still Life interweaves the story of a miner (Han Sanming) who travels thousands of miles to a town near the Yangtze River to look for his ex-wife and the tale of a nurse fetching her husband who has been working at the river without sending a single word home.
While the film does not let these two characters cross paths, together they reflect changes in people’s lives brought by the Three Gorges Dam, which flooded villages near the Yangtze River and led to the emergence of some new settlements. Already acclaimed for his earlier works, most of which also star Han Sanming and Zhao Tao, Jia is probably the best known Sixth Generation director. With Still Life, he continues his probing grassroots studies of Chinese life. Jia’s previous acclaimed titles Platform (2000) and The World (2004) also competed at the Venice Film Festival. Mainland Chinese director Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren), a last minute entry into the 2006 Venice Film Festival, eventually won the Golden Lion award thanks to its top-notch cinematography and wonderful storytelling.
Languages: The film is in Chinese with English and Vietnamese subtitles
Free Entrance. The screening is non-profit and aims for studies and research only.
A scene from Still Life, click here.
If you’re interested in getting news, announcements from DOCLAB for its activities, workshops, and schedule of film screenings, etc., please email us at hanoidoclab@gmail.com to subscribe to DOCLAB news.
Exhibition “The Walker”
Opening: Fri 30 Mar, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 30 Mar – 07 Apr 2012
HCMC Fine Art Museum
97A Pho Duc Chinh Street, District 1, HCMC
You are invited to a visual art exhibition from a female artists group who were born after 1975 in Sai Gon and Hanoi, including Le Hien Minh, Nguyen Thuy Hang, Vu Khanh Van, Ly Tran Quynh Giang and Nguyen Kim To Lan.
The show will exhibit thirteen art works that have a wide range of styles from oil painting to pop art to installation. The art works are a reflection of the personal issues of a woman contemporary artist such as: the forgotten of how to imagination; how the complexity of the inner world deals with the outsider world; the people’s insensitive to the changing of the world; the beauty of the solitude and the memory to the past.
Opening reception will have performances from pop singer Thao Trang, rock band Giao Chi and Dj Jeremy.
For more information, please contact at email: thuy_hang100@yahoo.com
Sculpture Exhibition 2012
Exhibition: 23 – 28 Mar 2012
Applied Arts Gallery
5 Phan Dang Luu, District 3, Binh Thanh, HCMC
You are invited to the annual exhibition of students from Sculpture Department on the celebration for 26th March of HCMC Fine Arts University. The exhibition comprises of 50 artworks of students at the university in various material and styles.
Students will receive a prize including: 1st prize, 2nd prize, 3rd prize and 5 encouraging prizes for the best art works. The exhibition is a driving force and a chance for students to further recognize their career path in arts.
Operation Smile Charity Saigon Jazz Concert
Thu 30 Mar 2012, 7 pm
Thao Dien Village
195 Nguyen Van Huong Str, Dist 2, HCMC
Language of the Youth
Artist talk: Thu 29 Mar, 6 pm
Exhibition: 29 Mar – 03 Apr 2012
L’Espace, 24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the exhibition and discuss with artist Thanh Phong, literature critic Pham Xuan Nguyen, professor Phan Van Tinh and professor Van Nhu Cuong. How do young people talk with each other? How has language changed and developed?
There are arguments, analysis, comparisons regarding chatting language into official dictionary.
The exhibition of artist Thanh Phong demonstrates so clearly and lively for more than 100 common phrases that are used widely. These phrases are gradually being accepted.
Free entrance.
ACCV Annual Fundraiser
Fri 30 Mar 2012, 5 – 10 pm
Australian Embassy in Hanoi
8 Dao Tan St, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
What, you may ask, is this event that has got everybody in Hanoi talking???
It’s a night of live music and entertainment for the whole family to raise money for seriously ill children. These children are from the poorest families and without our support they cannot afford life-saving medical treatment. The event is being organised by the Australian Charity for the Children of Vietnam and will be held in the lovely garden at the Australian Embassy on 30 March.
You will enjoy delicious food and wine, music and great prizes with an Australian and Vietnamese flavor from some of Hanoi’s top restaurants including Al Fresco’s, Hanoi Cooking Centre, Highway 4, the Warehouse and more.
The event starts at 5pm so you can come straight from work and will finish at 10:30 pm.
It is going to be a wonderful night of entertainment for the whole family:
• Children’s activities, including games, live music, dancing, an art competition and face painting;
• The famous Tung Min and his Halley Crew will amaze you with their incredible, energetic hip-hop dancing;
• Live bands and singers: Jamir Band, Phuong Dang, Hoanh Anh and more will play until late in the evening;
• The very talented classical musician Thanh Tung and his musical group will make a guest appearance and perform traditional and modern Vietnamese music;
• Great prizes, including a return trip to Australia with our major sponsor Vietnam Airlines; golfing packages; fine dining experiences; travel packages, art, photography, high fashion, pamper packages and more;
Tickets are on sale now on-line at www.musicshow.vn or at the following venues: Bookworm, Joma, Puku, Hanoi Cooking Centre or please contact Mai at accvmai@gmail.com or 0979 032 169
• Tickets at the door: 180,000vnd
• Pre-purchased tickets: 150,000vnd
• Family ticket (2 adults, 2 kids) 500,000vnd
It will be a wonderful evening for all, with a great cause at heart. We look forward to seeing you, your family and friends there.
Please make sure you bring identification to gain access to the Embassy.
100% of all funds raised will provide medical care and support to very poor families with seriously ill children in Vietnam.
Free Art House Cinema in March
Snap Cafe
32 Tran Ngoc Dien, Thao Dien, Dist 2, HCMC
You are invited to a free art house cinema at Snap Cafe. This week, film Four Lions (2010) will be screened. A comedy about a group of incompetent British jihadists who set out to train for and commit an act of terror. As the wheels fly off and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging and entirely plausible farce. This is a surprising comic tour de force which was much lauded by critics and audiences alike.
Watch the trailer
Films do not have Vietnamese subtitles. Films are not suitable for children.
Free entrance.
Music Night with THE UN1K at HRC
Sat 31 Mar 2012, 9 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
HRC Presents… an electronic extravaganza featuring hyper-creative French producer, THE UN1K (Buygore Records), flown in for one night only of staggering, splintering live bass, live beats, and live rhymes.
Shaping up to be an electronic event like no other this city has seen, make sure you bring along your best pair of ears for this massive collaboration between MCs, live digital music artists and dance-inducing DJs.
BEATS. BASS. RHYMES. provided by:
Buygore Records, French producer:
// THE UN1K //
Female rapper:
//GUM CLAPPER GIRL //
The slam dunkers of the city:
// NAM JAM COLLECTIVE //
The bad boy that blows you to bits from all angles:
// 3D //
The man who’ll make your eyes water:
// M.ONION //
And the filthy hands that pull it all together:
// DIRTY FINGRZ //
Headline act and BBC1XTRA play listed artist THE UN1K is being flown over to Hanoi for in for this very special night. Known for his off the hook live Ps and massive production, his first two eps were dropped on PLAY ME RECORDS, playlisted by Excision, Spor and Evol Intent among others, introducing The Unik to the beats world with a bang. On form and with nowhere to go but forward, this was followed by the massive Gazoline EP dropped on his own label Château Bruyant alongside fellows top french producers Niveau Zero and Habstrakt.
The UN1K has since been signed to BUYGORE RECORDS, the star of Dubstep Borgore’s Label. His track “Where I Came From” has received massive airplay, being played by Truetiger and Borgore himself weekly on BBC1XTRA, the UK’s freshest urban and street radio network.
When not haunting his studio in Provence, South of France, he delivers mad live sets mixing Dubstep, Drumstep, Drum and Bass and Electro in a personal yet explosive performance. The Unik like heavy beats and hard basslines and he’s not one to play to play love song. The UN1K… is unique.
Support to be announced.
Ticket price: 100 000 at door (50% discount for WOD attendees on 08.03.12 – bring your ticket)
Exhibition “Destination I”
Artwork of Zaim Durulaman
Opening: Sat 24 Mar, 5 pm
Exhibition: 24 Mar – 01 Apr 2012
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
Destination I expresses the artists’ wishes for more ways of sharing and exchanging their art works abroad. By friends of friends, the exhibition organizer can have an opportunity to welcome painter Yusof Ghani, the world painter of Malaysia, taking along two new paintings in his visit to Hanoi. It is the first time that one of the most well- known Malaysian painter introduces his new art works in Vietnam. There are two Malaysian painters beside 5 Vietnamese among them is an artist who has been living in France for long time.
Beside experienced painters, Nguyen Than (from Ho Chi Minh City), Vu Hoa (or Hoa Vu, living and working in France), Ngo Hai Yen (from Hanoi), there are two young and promising ones: Ngo Van Sac (born in 1980) and Luu Tuyen (born in 1982). They both live and work in Hanoi. They themselves concern about many social problems in Vietnam today such as violent games, games addiction of the youth, larger and larger distance of souls and feelings among people… Their art works can be obviously interesting comparisons to paintings on Malaysian fishermen by Zaim bin Durusalam or to others’which focus on various aspects in the human inner life. It is hoped that the exhibition can not only be well received by local art audience but give an interesting suggestion for many other artistic points of arrival in the future.
Northern Exposure 3
Sat 24 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Get to know more Hanoi bands and DJs! Come watch, dance or chill with DJs: VESS – Deep Tech, SLO-LO – Deep Dubstep, KULTURE – Electro Swing, VAUGHAN – Chunky Beats
And bands: ZAMINA – African-Reggae Music, GOLIM – Punk, MACHETE.SEX.MIX – Hard Core Ballet, ALWAYS – Electro Acoustic
PROGRAM
08:00pm – 08:30pm ALWAYS (Music Video Premiere of “Di Uong”)
08:30pm – 09:30pm Kulture
09:30pm – 10:00pm GOLIM
10:00pm – 11:00pm Vess
11:00pm – 11:30pm MACHETE.SEX.MIX
11:30pm – 12:30am Slo-Lo
12:30am – 01:30am ZAMINA
01:30am – 03:00am Vaughan
Ticket
Ticket price: 50 000 VND
March Event of Noi Hanoi
Sun 25 Mar 2012, 8 pm
ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Have fun while exercising your brain! Hanoi’s newest spoken word series continues, this month with a slightly different format. Four speakers will talk about an eclectic mix of topics guaranteed to make you think.
In words and pictures, each lecturer will give a 15-minute presentation, and the topics will be diverse: International-style architecture in Israel, travel to sacred sites, using poetry to understand medical care in Kenya, and a Vietnamese artist’s new series of paintings. Join us to have a drink, sit back, and learn something new.
Admission is free. More info at www.noihanoi.com.
Exhibition “Black”
Opening: Sun 25 Mar, 5 pm
Exhibition: 25 – 31 Mar 2012
Viet Art Centre, 42 Yết Kiêu, Hà Nội
Project Black holds its first exhibition “BLACK” at the Vietart Centre, 42 Yet Kieu Street from 25th to 31st March. The exhibition shows the works of the five artists featured the last few months in its documentaries at Hanoi Cinematheque: Tran Huu Nhat, Hoang Xuan Son, Tran Chi Thanh, Chu Viet Cuong. Also exhibiting is Project Black Artist leader Nguyen Minh Tan.
What do you do when you are a committed artist but your work is so controversial that no gallery wants to exhibit you but you know you’ve got something important to say? You form a gang and fight. So fellow artist and gang leader Nguyen Minh Tan has gathered us together and fighting under the banner of Project Black, though outcasts of the Vietnamese Art World we are determined to reach out to the wider community and say “Here we are. Reject us or accept us on our own terms. You don’t have to agree with us but at least we can talk.”
Viet Art Centre is located directly adjacent to the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
Brazilian Choro and Samba
Sat 24 Mar 2012, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque
22A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi
The Xeomistas hit the stage with a muito sexy set of Brazilian Choro and Samba arrangements. Featuring special guest Mr. Juanjo “Sete Cordas” Carrique Mas. Beleza !”.
Performers: Mike Ives – Cavaquinho
Luke DallaGrana – Saxophone
Junichiro Matsumoto – Guitar
Lucas Sversut – Guitar and Percussion
Heiman Wertheim – Percussion
Josh Kopecek – Melodica
Daria Hagemann – Vocals
Juanjo Mas – 7 String Guitar
Free entrance.
Screening of “Bi, Don’t be afraid”
Thu 29 Mar 2012, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque, 22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening of “Bi, Don’t be afraid” andQ&A with the Director Phan Dang Di. “Grounded in the authentic bustle of Hanoi and the uncomfortable interplay of familial relationships, Bi, don’t be afraid! is a thoughtful cinematic exploration of inchoate longing, the messy consequences of physical decline and encroaching death, and confirmation that sex and youthful exuberance spring eternal. Frankly and overtly sensual with scant dialogue, this contemporary portrait of relatives living in close quarters while harbouring secrets is conveyed with impressive visual assurance.” (Screen Daily)
The debut feature film by Phan Dang Di, Bi, Don’t be afraid! won the SACD Prize in the International Critics week of Cannes Film Festival 2010.
This adult tale centers around life in a dysfunctional family, as seen through the eyes of six-year-old Bi. The boy lives with his parents, his aunt, and a maid in a stifling old house in Hanoi. His parents’ relationship is getting worse, and his 30-year-old reserved aunt (a high school teacher) has never touched a man. Bi entertains himself under the watchful eye of the maid. His grandfather, a retired diplomat, comes home with a serious illness. At first, Bi seems afraid of his grandfather, but they soon begin to develop a closer relationship. Bi’s father, who spends time pursuing a relationship with his masseuse, escapes in alcohol and avoids the old man. Meanwhile, his aunt has sexual fantasies about a 16-year-old she met on the school bus. Left to his own devices, Bi escapes to the tall grasses by the river’s edge and the cool ice factory next door. In the stifling heat, ice turns out to be the only tangible connection between family members.
Languages: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Cost: 130,000 VND (65,000 VND for students with valid student ID)
Limit: 90 people
To Register: Please email Thu at fvh.films@gmail.com, Please leave your mobile phone number so we can contact you in case of any last minute changes.
Lecture “Arts and Culture as the Basis of a Nation”
Fri 30 Mar 2012, 6 – 8 pm
Conference room (6F Building D), National Library of Vietnam
31 Trang Thi, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents a lecture by Oriza Hirata, one of the most influential opinion leaders on the arts scene in Japan, on “Arts and Culture as the Basis of a Nation” in Hanoi on 30 March 2012.
In his thought-provoking book, “Geijutsu rikkokuron [lit. Arts as the Basis of a Nation]” (2001), Oriza argued that the key to restore Japan is in the attempts to put the arts as the basis of a nation, beyond the obsession of economic growth. His epoch-making vision in this book brought him the AICT (Association Internationale des Critiques des Théâtre) Critique Award in 2002.
Why should we put the arts and culture as the basis of a nation? How can we do so? In his lecture in Vietnam, Oriza will explain the reasons persuasively from his multiple experiences as a playwright, a director, a manager of a private-sector small theater and a professor for several universities, and will set out his concrete ideas and opinions on cultural policies for a nation from the first-hand experience as the former Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet (2009-2011).
In the very moments when the economics of Vietnam has been rapidly developing and the society has been drastically changing, we do hope that his lecture will provide you a good opportunity to re-think the position of arts and culture in Vietnamese society, and to consider how to shape the cultural policy in Vietnam.
A must-see lecture for arts and culture advocates is coming soon.
Languages: Vietnamese simultaneous interpretation.
Free admission.
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Ha Nguyen (Ext. 113) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123-384-4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam TEL 04-3944-7419 www.jpf.org.vn
Music Night with Superstar DJ Benji Boko
Sat 31 Mar 2012, 8 pm
ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
CAMA brings up and coming dance floor superstar, Benji Boko to ATK on the 31st of March for an unprecedentedly intimate performance. Benji is being touted by everybody with a mouth to be the next big thing in dance music.
His completely improvised live remixing has led DJ Yoda to describe him as “the future” of party music and is the reason why 17,000 people danced to his New Year set at the London O2 Arena. Quite amazing then that Benji will be re-inventing party tunes, cartoon themes and movie soundtracks for just 80 people at ATK.
In between touring Europe and playing all the major festivals like Bestival and Glastonbury, Benji still found time to put together his debut album “Beats, Treats & All Things Unique”. Released worldwide in 2011 on Brighton based label “Tru Thoughts” and featuring collaborations with Maxi Jazz (Faithless) & Ricky Rankin (Roots Manuva) it’s no wonder that MOBO described it as “A record so diverse you can listen to it in a mellow environment or at a crazy festival, there are no limits! Definitely someone for the future who will no doubt be around for many years to come!”
Ticket price: 250 000 VND (in advance), 300 000 VND (at the door)
Advanced tickets are available now from Exhibition “Destination I”
Artwork of Zaim Durulaman
Opening: Sat 24 Mar, 5 pm
Exhibition: 24 Mar – 01 Apr 2012
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi
Destination I expresses the artists’ wishes for more ways of sharing and exchanging their art works abroad. By friends of friends, the exhibition organizer can have an opportunity to welcome painter Yusof Ghani, the world painter of Malaysia, taking along two new paintings in his visit to Hanoi. It is the first time that one of the most well- known Malaysian painter introduces his new art works in Vietnam. There are two Malaysian painters beside 5 Vietnamese among them is an artist who has been living in France for long time.
Beside experienced painters, Nguyen Than (from Ho Chi Minh City), Vu Hoa (or Hoa Vu, living and working in France), Ngo Hai Yen (from Hanoi), there are two young and promising ones: Ngo Van Sac (born in 1980) and Luu Tuyen (born in 1982). They both live and work in Hanoi. They themselves concern about many social problems in Vietnam today such as violent games, games addiction of the youth, larger and larger distance of souls and feelings among people… Their art works can be obviously interesting comparisons to paintings on Malaysian fishermen by Zaim bin Durusalam or to others’which focus on various aspects in the human inner life. It is hoped that the exhibition can not only be well received by local art audience but give an interesting suggestion for many other artistic points of arrival in the future.
Northern Exposure 3
Sat 24 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Get to know more Hanoi bands and DJs! Come watch, dance or chill with DJs: VESS – Deep Tech, SLO-LO – Deep Dubstep, KULTURE – Electro Swing, VAUGHAN – Chunky Beats
And bands: ZAMINA – African-Reggae Music, GOLIM – Punk, MACHETE.SEX.MIX – Hard Core Ballet, ALWAYS – Electro Acoustic
PROGRAM
08:00pm – 08:30pm ALWAYS (Music Video Premiere of “Di Uong”)
08:30pm – 09:30pm Kulture
09:30pm – 10:00pm GOLIM
10:00pm – 11:00pm Vess
11:00pm – 11:30pm MACHETE.SEX.MIX
11:30pm – 12:30am Slo-Lo
12:30am – 01:30am ZAMINA
01:30am – 03:00am Vaughan
Ticket
Ticket price: 50 000 VND
March Event of Noi Hanoi
Sun 25 Mar 2012, 8 pm
ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Have fun while exercising your brain! Hanoi’s newest spoken word series continues, this month with a slightly different format. Four speakers will talk about an eclectic mix of topics guaranteed to make you think.
In words and pictures, each lecturer will give a 15-minute presentation, and the topics will be diverse: International-style architecture in Israel, travel to sacred sites, using poetry to understand medical care in Kenya, and a Vietnamese artist’s new series of paintings. Join us to have a drink, sit back, and learn something new.
Admission is free. More info at www.noihanoi.com.
Exhibition “Black”
Opening: Sun 25 Mar, 5 pm
Exhibition: 25 – 31 Mar 2012
Viet Art Centre, 42 Yết Kiêu, Hà Nội
Project Black holds its first exhibition “BLACK” at the Vietart Centre, 42 Yet Kieu Street from 25th to 31st March. The exhibition shows the works of the five artists featured the last few months in its documentaries at Hanoi Cinematheque: Tran Huu Nhat, Hoang Xuan Son, Tran Chi Thanh, Chu Viet Cuong. Also exhibiting is Project Black Artist leader Nguyen Minh Tan.
What do you do when you are a committed artist but your work is so controversial that no gallery wants to exhibit you but you know you’ve got something important to say? You form a gang and fight. So fellow artist and gang leader Nguyen Minh Tan has gathered us together and fighting under the banner of Project Black, though outcasts of the Vietnamese Art World we are determined to reach out to the wider community and say “Here we are. Reject us or accept us on our own terms. You don’t have to agree with us but at least we can talk.”
Viet Art Centre is located directly adjacent to the Vietnam University of Fine Arts.
Brazilian Choro and Samba
Sat 24 Mar 2012, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque
22A Hai Ba Trung Str, Hanoi
The Xeomistas hit the stage with a muito sexy set of Brazilian Choro and Samba arrangements. Featuring special guest Mr. Juanjo “Sete Cordas” Carrique Mas. Beleza !”.
Performers: Mike Ives – Cavaquinho
Luke DallaGrana – Saxophone
Junichiro Matsumoto – Guitar
Lucas Sversut – Guitar and Percussion
Heiman Wertheim – Percussion
Josh Kopecek – Melodica
Daria Hagemann – Vocals
Juanjo Mas – 7 String Guitar
Free entrance.
Screening of “Bi, Don’t be afraid”
Thu 29 Mar 2012, 7.30 pm
Cinematheque, 22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening of “Bi, Don’t be afraid” andQ&A with the Director Phan Dang Di. “Grounded in the authentic bustle of Hanoi and the uncomfortable interplay of familial relationships, Bi, don’t be afraid! is a thoughtful cinematic exploration of inchoate longing, the messy consequences of physical decline and encroaching death, and confirmation that sex and youthful exuberance spring eternal. Frankly and overtly sensual with scant dialogue, this contemporary portrait of relatives living in close quarters while harbouring secrets is conveyed with impressive visual assurance.” (Screen Daily)
The debut feature film by Phan Dang Di, Bi, Don’t be afraid! won the SACD Prize in the International Critics week of Cannes Film Festival 2010.
This adult tale centers around life in a dysfunctional family, as seen through the eyes of six-year-old Bi. The boy lives with his parents, his aunt, and a maid in a stifling old house in Hanoi. His parents’ relationship is getting worse, and his 30-year-old reserved aunt (a high school teacher) has never touched a man. Bi entertains himself under the watchful eye of the maid. His grandfather, a retired diplomat, comes home with a serious illness. At first, Bi seems afraid of his grandfather, but they soon begin to develop a closer relationship. Bi’s father, who spends time pursuing a relationship with his masseuse, escapes in alcohol and avoids the old man. Meanwhile, his aunt has sexual fantasies about a 16-year-old she met on the school bus. Left to his own devices, Bi escapes to the tall grasses by the river’s edge and the cool ice factory next door. In the stifling heat, ice turns out to be the only tangible connection between family members.
Languages: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Cost: 130,000 VND (65,000 VND for students with valid student ID)
Limit: 90 people
To Register: Please email Thu at fvh.films@gmail.com, Please leave your mobile phone number so we can contact you in case of any last minute changes.
Lecture “Arts and Culture as the Basis of a Nation”
Fri 30 Mar 2012, 6 – 8 pm
Conference room (6F Building D), National Library of Vietnam
31 Trang Thi, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents a lecture by Oriza Hirata, one of the most influential opinion leaders on the arts scene in Japan, on “Arts and Culture as the Basis of a Nation” in Hanoi on 30 March 2012.
In his thought-provoking book, “Geijutsu rikkokuron [lit. Arts as the Basis of a Nation]” (2001), Oriza argued that the key to restore Japan is in the attempts to put the arts as the basis of a nation, beyond the obsession of economic growth. His epoch-making vision in this book brought him the AICT (Association Internationale des Critiques des Théâtre) Critique Award in 2002.
Why should we put the arts and culture as the basis of a nation? How can we do so? In his lecture in Vietnam, Oriza will explain the reasons persuasively from his multiple experiences as a playwright, a director, a manager of a private-sector small theater and a professor for several universities, and will set out his concrete ideas and opinions on cultural policies for a nation from the first-hand experience as the former Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet (2009-2011).
In the very moments when the economics of Vietnam has been rapidly developing and the society has been drastically changing, we do hope that his lecture will provide you a good opportunity to re-think the position of arts and culture in Vietnamese society, and to consider how to shape the cultural policy in Vietnam.
A must-see lecture for arts and culture advocates is coming soon.
Languages: Vietnamese simultaneous interpretation.
Free admission.
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Ha Nguyen (Ext. 113) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123-384-4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam TEL 04-3944-7419 www.jpf.org.vn
Music Night with Superstar DJ Benji Boko
Sat 31 Mar 2012, 8 pm
ATK, 73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
CAMA brings up and coming dance floor superstar, Benji Boko to ATK on the 31st of March for an unprecedentedly intimate performance. Benji is being touted by everybody with a mouth to be the next big thing in dance music.
His completely improvised live remixing has led DJ Yoda to describe him as “the future” of party music and is the reason why 17,000 people danced to his New Year set at the London O2 Arena. Quite amazing then that Benji will be re-inventing party tunes, cartoon themes and movie soundtracks for just 80 people at ATK.
In between touring Europe and playing all the major festivals like Bestival and Glastonbury, Benji still found time to put together his debut album “Beats, Treats & All Things Unique”. Released worldwide in 2011 on Brighton based label “Tru Thoughts” and featuring collaborations with Maxi Jazz (Faithless) & Ricky Rankin (Roots Manuva) it’s no wonder that MOBO described it as “A record so diverse you can listen to it in a mellow environment or at a crazy festival, there are no limits! Definitely someone for the future who will no doubt be around for many years to come!”
Ticket price: 250 000 VND (in advance), 300 000 VND (at the door)
Advanced tickets are available now from ATK.
World Music with Kareyce Fotso and Aly Keïta
Thu 22 Mar 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
You are invited to the world music night with Kareyce Fotso and Aly Keïta. Kareyce Fotso plays blues, jazz or soul with traditional instruments and guitar and her amazing voice. She has received many awards including Visas pour la création award in 2009 (organized by Insitut Français) and many more.
Aly Keïta is a skillful balafon player (a wooden instrument of West Africa). He has brought this instrument to all over the world and to various audiences. He has performed with many famous people such as Omar Sosa, Joe Zawinul, Magid Bekkas…
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
ACCV Annual Fundraiser
Fri 30 Mar 2012, 5 – 10 pm
Australian Embassy in Hanoi
8 Dao Tan St, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
The Australian Charity for the Children of Vietnam (ACCV) is holding its annual charity event at the Australian Embassy in Hanoi. This event will be held on the Friday 30th of March 2012 from 5pm – 10pm and will help raise much needed funds for seriously ill children at the National Hospital of Paediatrics.
At the event there will be a children’s entertainment section starting from 5:00pm to 8:00pm and an adults entertainment section starting from 8.00pm to 10.00pm. Throughout the evening there will be fun activities, live music, auctions, raffles and food and drink, every ticket has a complementary free drink voucher.
Ticket
Tickets are 180,000VND at the door or 150,000VND if purchased before the event.
If you require any further information please contact Alison at accv@bigpond.com or Mai on 0979 032 169.
Screening of “L’illusionniste”
Fri 16 Mar 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the cartoon screening titled “The Magician” of director Sylvain Chomet. The film has received the César Award in 2011 for the best cartoon directed by Sylvain Chomet and Oscar 2011 nomination for the best cartoon by Sylvain Chomet.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information, visit L’Espace website.
Ticket:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Concert by Song Hong Chamber Group
Sat 17 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Song Hong Chamber Music proudly presents a spring concert with famous works of composers Franz Schubert and Antonín Dvořák. For more information you can see below:
Program
1. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quintet in C major op.163 for 2 violins, Viola and 2 Cellos
Intermission
2. Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet in A major no.2 op.81 for Piano, 2 violins, Viola and Cello
Members of Song Hong Chamber Music:
Piano: Pham Quynh Trang
Violin: To Trinh, Truong Son
Cello: Tran Thi Mo, Dao Tuyet Trinh
Viola: Ho Viet Khoa
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200 000, 300 000, 400 000, 500 000 VND.
Contact: Mr Pham Truong Son at 090 323 0685, email sonviolin@yahoo.com.
Screening of “A L’Origine”
Fri 23 Mar 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the film screening “A L’Origine” of director Xavier Giannoli. The film has received the César Award 2010 for Best supporting actress Emmanuelle Devos.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
For more information, see below:
To read film’s synopsis, click here
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Subcription Concert Vol. 49 “Scandinavian Night”
23 and 24 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to a Subcription Concert Vol. 49 titled “Scandinavian Night” with conductor SHINOZAKI Yasuo, violin Soloist TAKAGI Kazuhiro and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. The artists will perform works of Carl Nielsen, Jean Siberius and Jean Siberius.
Program
Carl Nielsen
Aladdin Suite Op.34
Jean Siberius
Violin Concerto D minor Op.47
Interval
Jean Siberius
Symphony No.2
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 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.
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
The Weekend Japanese Film Shows
16 – 18 Mar 2012
Room 4, National Cinema Centre
87 Lang Ha, Hanoi
On the occasion of one year after the 3.11 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam offers special weekend screenings of Japanese films, which are all related to the natural disasters occurred in Japan, from Friday 16 – Sunday 18 March 2012 at National Cinema Center in Hanoi.
People in Japan have long history to live and cope with various kinds of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes and typhoons. Tackling with these disasters itself is quite hard and tough, and it often takes long time to conquer and recover from these disasters once happened. These disasters, however, also inspire a certain number of film directors in Japan to make a film related to a disaster, or physically affect the film shooting itself. The selected 4 films are all such good examples.
“Quartet” (2012) is made in Urayasu City, where affected by severe soil liquefactions after the earthquake. The film crew could complete the film with the supports from united volunteers. When we know the background of the film, the message of the film (the importance of uniting family) shines brighter and reaches us more deeply.
“Haru’s Journey” (2010) is made in Miyagi Prefecture directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami. Although the film was made before the 3.11 disaster, the problems of the elderly depicted in the film give us hints to think over the elderly in the affected area.
“Fukushima Hula Girls” (2011) is a documentary film following the struggling lives and activities of “hula girls” in Spa Resort Hawaiians where hit by four disasters; earthquake, tsunami, nuclear accident and harmful rumors. Their efforts to rebuild the paradise and to bring back smiles to Japan are heartwarming.
“WANKO” (2011), on the other hand, depicts a life of a family and a dog who are living in Miyakejima, a small island where an active volcano exists. Based on a true story, this film induces the audience to burst into tears for the family and the dog.
We hope that the audience will keep the memory of the Tohoku earthquake and think over what is important in our life through these four films.
Languages: All films will be screened with Vietnamese and English sub-titles.
Free admission. Tickets are available at the Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi) from 10am on Friday 9 March.
For more information please contact at:
Ms. Huong (091-251-8771) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123-384-4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cutural Exchange in Vietnnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi TEL: 04-3944-7419 www.jpf.org.vn
Concert of Cloé du Trèfle
Sat 17 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Youth Theater, 11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
Within the event “The Francophonie Festival in Vietnam”, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Delegation to Vietnam would like to invite you to the concert performed by a singer from Bruxelles (Belgium) “Cloé du Trèfle”. The concert is a great opportunity for the Vietnamese audience to explore and enjoy a music night performed by an extremely talented singers of Wallonie-Bruxelles.
“After her basic piano class, Cloé du Trèfle, who can play many instruments has shifted to playing the electric guitar and continued her path to find out more about sound.”
Cloé du Trèfle has been awarded with many pretigious awards and she has performed in many tours including the Francophonie les Francofolies de SPA in 2003, 2004 and 2007, with Arthur H, Benabar, Stephan Eicher, Vincent Delerm, Yves Simon, and at the Botanique Cultural Center…
Tickets
For ticket reservation (free), please contact Ms Do Kim Oanh at oanhwb@walbruvietnam.org
Tickets are being distributed from 06/03/2012 during working hours at :
Wallonie-Bruxelles Delegation to Vietnam
P. 505 – 5th Floor – DAEHA Center (Daewoo Hotel compount)
360 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Tél. (+ 84) (4) 3.831.52.40 & 41
Jazz Concert with Artists from Sweden
Sun 18 Mar 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to a Jazz Concert with the Artists from Sweden. Performers of the concert: Saxophone: Quyen Thien Dac, Guitar: Per-Oscar Nilsson, Bass: Johnny Aman, Drums: Olle Dernevik.
Program
1) Another Northwind
2) Mother’s Lullaby
3) Market-Day
4) To Request The Queen
5) Trong com – Vietnamese tradtional song
6) Southern Moments
7) Beo dat may troi
8) Thang Long Dance
9) Drums & Horn
Ticket
Ticket prices: 300 000, 700 000, 10000 00 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 “Eraserhead”
Thu 15 Mar 2012, 3 pm
DOCLAB, 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Video Art Video presents the screening of Eraserhead, an experimental film by American director, David Lynch. Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist film and first feature film of David Lynch. David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as “a dream of dark and troubling things,” but the unclassifiable ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and even a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family.
Amidst a monochromatic wasteland teeming with smoke and shadows, Jack Nance’s wire-haired wage slave Henry struggles to navigate the horrors of mutant offspring, sinister hallucinations and, most terrifying of all, his new in-laws.
David Keith Lynch (born in 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, comic book artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed “Lynchian”, and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal, and in many cases violent, elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they “disturb, offend or mystify” their audiences.
The screening is non-profit and aims for studies and research only.
Languages: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
Performances of The Yard Dogs
Thu 15 Mar 2012, 9 pm
Heresy Bar, 7 Cao Ba Quat, Hanoi
Sat 17 Mar 2012, 7 pm
Track Bar, Underneath Long Bien Bridge
Come to two performances of Yard Dogs this week. On Thursday, they will play at Heresy Bar.
On Saturday, celebrating St Patrick’s Day at Track Bar, there will have live music with the Electric Yard Dogs followed by the Nam Jam Collective. Guinness and Cider available. Six Nations Rugby will be screened live at Midnight.
Mini Indie Fest
Sat 17 Mar 2012, 3 pm
Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi
HRC presents… ex.ugs.& rock’n'roll at Hanoi’s first alternative live music fest of the year!
Mini Indie Fest will be pulling in not one but two top bands and a DJ from Thailand this Spring for a real Bangkok blast blended with crunchy, homegrown talent and a whole host of smooth-spinning disk jockeys that will have you singing The Smiths through till Tuesday.
Featuring :
:: live bands ::
★ The Standards (UK/Thailand)
★ Playground (Thailand)
★ Machete.Sex.Mix (VN)
:: disk jockeys ::
★ DJ Yark
★ Jimmy Livewire
★ DJ Dave
★ safe&standard
★ Dirty Fingrz
more acts and full schedule to be announced soon.
Ticket
* Tickets in advanced: 100 000 VND
(please contact: indiefest@hanoirockcity.com, or purchase at HRC on the address above)
* Tickets on door: 150 000 VND
Music Night with Zamina
Sat 17 Mar 2012, 9 pm
Chez Xuan
41, Alley 76, An Duong, Hanoi
Come to a music night with Zamina on Saint Patrick’s day. This year come and enjoy live reggae and african music, brought to you with the same vibrant spirit that this fun day deserves.
A Multiple Event on Manga
Opening: Wed 21 Mar, 10 – 11.30 am
Exhibition: 21 Mar – 15 Apr 2012, 9.30 am – 6 pm
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange
International conference: 23 – 25 Mar
Vietnam Women’s Museum
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Women’s MANGA Research Project, asianbeat of Fukuoka Prefectural Government, in cooperation with Shojo Manga Power Project, share the delight of hosting a multiple event on Manga entitled “Women & Manga: Connecting with Cultures beyond Japan” in Hanoi from March – April 2012.
Manga, which is a kind of lingua franca, is now a global phenomenon connecting with cultures beyond Japan. Particularly, shōjo manga or the girls comics genre is interesting owing to its history of more than a half century which has been inspiring women to create, while previously around the world, many comics cultures have targeted boys, not girls.
In this multiple event, we will focus on manga works created by women for women, and explore the potential of such manga cultures beyond Japan, throughout three dimensional events; exhibits of manga works, workshops by manga artists (for invitees only), and an international conference by scholars on comics from different countries.
The exhibition is a visual introduction of shōjo manga, focusing on the artworks of two leading Japanese comics artists; Hideko Mizuno and Moto Hagio. Mizuno is one of celebrated shōjo manga pioneers who drew sparkling stars in character’s eyes, while Hagio is often called “A god of shōjo manga” with numerous awards.
There will be also a special section to exhibit the artworks of Mutsumi Hagiiwa and FSc (Singaporean) who will come to Hanoi for their workshops and talks. The opening will start at 10am on Wednesday 21 March at the exhibition hall of the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam (27 Quang Trung) and the exhibition runs until Sunday 15 April.
At the international conference, distinguished scholars and experts on comics will provide academic research topics on comics and manga with Vietnamese interpretations. Studying comics is quite new and this is the first conference in Vietnam solely dedicated to comic studies. The conference will be held at Vietnam Women’s Museum (36 Ly Thuong Kiet) from Friday 23 – Sunday 25 March.
We hope that you will enjoy manga not only visually but also academically and enhance the understanding of manga culture, especially of shōjo manga through our event.
Exhibition: Free of admission.
For more information, contact:
Ms. Ha Nguyen (Ext. 113) / Ms. Nha (Ext. 115) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123-384-4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam TEL 04 3944 7419 www.jpf.org.vn
Lecture “Emperor Trần Nhân Tông and the Trần Dynasty”
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, 27 Quang Trung, Hanoi
Professor Onishi Kazuhiko will present a lecture on Vietnamese emperor, Trần Nhân Tông, third emperor of the 13th century Trần dynasty. Professor Onishi is a longstanding researcher of Vietnam’s history and culture. He will share fascinating insight into the Trần dynasty’s military system and religious reforms.
Language: The lecture will be given in Japanese with English translation.
Cost: 100,000 VND (30,000 VND for students)
Limit: 40 people
Contact: Helen at helen.whittle@gmail.com
Please leave your mobile number so you can be contacted in case of any last minute changes.
An Evening of Opera at LUNA – Programme 16
Luna d’Autunno, 78 Tho Nhuom, Hoan Kiem Distr. Ha Noi
Another evening for lovers of opera at Luna d’Autunno.
This is a monthly event, and a great chance to enjoy live opera in an informal and intimate setting.
This month: French Evening
Detailed program below:
Earth Hour 2012
Earth Hour: Sat 31 Mar 2012, 8.30 – 9.30pm
Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for onehour to make their stand against climate change. Over the last 4 years, Earth Hour has become a global sustainability movement with millions people across countries participating. Earth Hour is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future.
Earth Hour 2012 in Vietnam will be organized by Ministry of Industry and Trade with technical support from WWF-Vietnam. It takes place on Saturday 31 March, from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.
Let’s join us and the business community across the world to turn off the lights and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet, and go beyond the hour!
Lectures on Japanese Contemporary Literature and Poetry
HANOI: Tue 20 Mar, 9 – 10.30 am
Conference Room 2nd Floor, Literature Institute, 20 Ly Thai To, Ha Noi
HUE: Thu 22 Mar, 9 – 10.30 am
Phuong Nam Culture Center, 15 Le Loi, Hue
HCMC: Sat 24 Mar, 2 – 3.30 pm
Room D201, University of Social Science & Humanities, 0-12 Dinh Tien Hoang, District 1, HCMC
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam invites Ms. Hachikai Mimi, one of the promising young poets/writers in Japan, to host the travelling lectures on Japanese contemporary literature and poetry in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City from 20 – 24 March 2012.
Equipped with M. A. in ancient Japanese literature at Waseda University, Mimi has been actively working on writing, ranging from creations of poems, novels, texts for picture-books, translations of foreign picture-books, to reviews on literature and poetry, and lectures at public spaces.
Her first book of poems, Ima nimo uruotteiku jinchi [The Position That’s Being Moistened Even Now], published when she was a graduate student, won the Nakahara Chuya prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for poetry in Japan. Her second book of poems, Ku mono wa kuwareru yoru [The Night Those Who Eat Get Eaten], in 2005, won the Geijutsu Sensho Shinjin prize [lit. the New Face Award of Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for Poetry].
Mimi also has a collection of mini-essays, Kujaku no hane no me ga miteru [The Eyes on a Peacock’s Feathers Are Watching], 2004, in which she says, “When you are about to write a poem, the time and space an instant before the words come out are dense. Tightly packed. Quick, if you can, you think. But once you put it down on words, there’s something that falls between words and never comes up. Sometimes it’s something you deliberately throw away in an instant, sometimes it’s something you drop without meaning to that never comes back.”
She often alludes to classical Japanese literature and engages in wordplay. Her fine sensibility on words, equipped with academic research on ancient Japanese literature, convinces us of broadening the possibility of poetry and literature.
Her varied achievements on literature will assure you of the understanding of stimulating issues on the contemporary literature and poetry, as well as its modern history. We hope the audience will enjoy the intellectual discoveries.
Languages: The lecture will be delivered in Japanese with Vietnamese interpretation.
Admission is free. Advanced registration is highly recommended.
For more information, please contact at:
Ms. Nha (Ext. 115) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123-384-4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam TEL 04-3944-7419 www.jpf.org.vn
Hue – Exhibition “Altered Cloud”
Opening and artist talk: Thu 15 Mar, 8 am
Exhibition: 15 – 29 Mar 2012
Hall of Hue University of Arts, Hue University of Arts, 01 To Ngoc Van, Hue City
The project will exhibit a sculpture block shaped as a cloud, which is transforming into a water monster (15 x 6 x 4 m) with many arms. The sculpture is made of aluminium beverage cans and will be exhibited as floating on the surface of Tinh Tam lake (literally Lake of the Serene Heart), which was one of the most beautiful landscapes of the capital city but is now seriously intruded and polluted.
Objectives of exhibition:
- Create changes in the landscape of Tinh Tam lake in a dialogue way. In the past few decades, there have been no projects or policies on amending and designing the lake for the new relationship between residential development and public landscape, but only the intrusion for little and private pragmatic benefits without cultural awareness. The appearance of the sculpture in a special location will attract public attention, create unusual feelings, and suggest ideas for broad discussions on the development of a heritage city.
- Call for the attention of the society and related institutions toward the problems of heritage intrusion and environmental pollution.
- Mobilize teachers and students of universities around Tinh Tam lake to raise the same voice to ask related departments and agencies to be more responsible for the cultural heritage complex of the Ancient Capital.
- Concretize the potential danger under the surface of Tinh Tam lake by a sculpture block.
- Stimulate visual artists to pay attention to pressing social issues. Particularly, students of University of Arts need to have concrete actions against the daily situation that is happening before their eyes.
Screening of “Maman est Chez le Coiffeur”
Wed 21 Mar 2012, 6 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the Swiss film “Maman est Chez le Coiffeur” (“Mum Going Out for A Haircut”) of director Léa Pool within the framework of the Francophonie Festival 2012. The film has received many national and international awards. For more information, see below:
International Awards:
- Soleure, Switzerland, Soleure Festival in 2009, the Public Prize
- Göteborg, Sweden, Göteborg Festival in 2009, the Public Prize
- Québec, Canada; Jutra Award – Soirée des Jutra, Award for the best Foreign Film in 2009 and was shortlisted in 2010
- Québec, Canada, Prix Jutra – Soirée des Jutra, Award for the best hair style, Martin Lapointe, 2009
Film synopsis: It is summer 1966, the time to enjoy summer vacation, total freedom, running wild in the fields, and crazy giggles with friends. But Elise becomes more aware of the dreams, sorrows and lies of the people closest to her. Élise sees her mother’s sudden abandonment thoroughly disrupt her family. While her brother Coco stubbornly seeks refuge in constructing a super car, the youngest, Benoît, plummets deep into his own internal world, retreating ever-further in the furnace room. As for her father, he is simply overwhelmed by the situation. Élise decides to take the helm of her drifting family in a poignant attempt to save them. With support from the living and breathing surrounding nature and the silent comfort Monsieur Mouche offers, Élise is on the verge of experiencing a summer unlike any other.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
Tickets
Ticket price: 10 000 VND.
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening of “Qu’un Seul Tienne et Les Autres Suivront”
Wed 28 Mar 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the film screening of “Qu’un Seul Tienne et Les Autres Suivront” (“The Silent Voices”) of directorLéa Fehner. The La Croix Magazine has rated this movie “A beautiful movie with feelings that touch the audience’s heart”
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle
For more information, see below:
Read the film’s synopsis, here.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Hue – Exhibition of Artist Jean CABANE
Exhibition: 07 Mar – 02 Apr 2012
French Cultural Center in Hue
01 Le Hong Phong, Hue
You are invited to an exhibition of French artist Jean CABANE.
Concert with Stradivaria
Tue 10 Apr 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to the Baroque concert with the performance of Baroque traditional works by the Stradivaria band and conducted by Daniel Cuiller. The band will perform one of the biggest works: the Stabat Mater of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1726).
Stradivaria has performed in many big stages from all over the work and participated in many large scale music projects. The members of the band changes depending on the music pieces, however, the band mainly has musicians of different instruments. They are known for their inspirational music and the quality of music they play.
Anne Magouët : soprano
Jean-Michel Fumas : contre tenor
Daniel Cuiller : director and violon
François Costa : violon
Sophie Cerf : viola
Annabelle Luis :cello
Jocelyne Cuiller : positive organ
Marie Noëlle Visse : flute
Ticket:
Ticket price: 100 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
A Night of Concert and Ballet
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to A Night of Concert and Ballet with conductor Kotaro Kimura, piano Soloist Mika Kawasaki, artists of Vietnam National Opera and Ballet. Famous works of Mozart and Sheherazade Ballet will be performed. For more information, see below:
Program
Part I
1-Overture: Marriage Of Figaro – W.A.Mozart
2-Piano Concerto No 20 – W.A.Mozart
3- Japanese song
Interval
Part II
Sheherazade Ballet
Music: Rimsky-Korsakov
Choreographer: Michel Fokine
performed by Dancers of the Vietnam National Ballet
Tickets
Ticket prices: 150 000, 250 000, 350 000, 500 000VND. 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.
Open Stage March “Moving Breath”
Sun 25 Mar 2012, 3 pm
Open Stage Vietnam, Le Thanh Stage, 25 Phan Phu Tien, D.5, HCMC
You are invited to the Open stage program in Mar 2012 with 2 workshops. On 23 and 24 Mar, the target audiences are for people who has knowledge about contemporary dance and on 25 Mar, there will have dance performance & discussion forum.
For more information, see below:
Artist: VU NGOC KHAI
* Workshop: 23rd-24th March, 2012 (14:00-16:30):
(For people who has knowledge about contemporary dance)
**Workshop 25th March, 2012 (starts at 15:00):
A Dance Performance & discussion Forum
FREE tickets to the show on 25th March, 2012 for attenders of 2 workshops!
Workshop fee: 100.000vnd/period (register prior to 20th Mar 2012)
Discount 15% for group of 5 and above.
For more information: 01228926510 (Ms.Thanh Phuong), www.openstage.vn
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