Electro Rock with Silvouplay

Time: April 16, 8 pm

Location: Van Ho Exhibition Center, 02 Hoa Lu Str, Hanoi.

You are invited to enjoy baroque melodies, vaporous psalmodies but exorbitant groove and brutal rock of Silvouplay, the most prominent duo of new electro scene. The program collaborates with Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2011.

Established in 2002, Silvouplay has two members: Sébastien Perronet and Bastien Aubry with music style influenced by rock electro, pop and other genres.

Ticket price: VND50,000

To buy ticket, contact: 0923487686

Subscription Concert Vol.39

Time: April 20-21, 8 pm

Location: Hanoi Opera House

The concert by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) on 20-21 April at the Hanoi Opera House will introduce music works by two of the most renowned composers in the music history of the world: the German composer Robert Schumann, a famous name of Romantic music in the 19th century, and Claude Debussy, one of the most French composers of impression music.

Participating in the concert will be the renowned Italian conductor Andrea PESTALOZZA, who has been very successful in European orchestras: Orchestre National de France, Festwochen, Konzerthaus, Teatro dell’Opera, Teatro Sao Carlos, Moscow, Leningrado , Krasnoyarsk, Thessaloniki, Milan, Maggio Musicale, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Teatro La Fenice, La Biennale

Program:

R.Schumann Symphony no.4

C.Debussy Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune

C.Debussy La Mer

Ticket price: VND450,000, VND350,000, VND250,000, VND150,000 and VND75,000 (for students).

All tickets available at: PR Department of VNSO – 226 Cau Giay Street., Hanoi (04 3833 1448, 091 290 8491, 091 434 2030, 091 358 8887)

Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi (01653500268)

SKETCH Magazine – 25 Truong Han Sieu Street, Hanoi. (04 3944 9510)

SHOP P – 8 Nha Chung Street (0168 514 4746 – Japanese language)

Vietnam Travel Cafe – 44 Hang Be Street – 04 66755002; 0932336568.

Booking ticket: http://www.vnso.org.vn; http://ticketvn.com

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Tel: 84.04.(39330113/4 – 39330131/2)

www.cinet.gov.vn/Websitenganh/nhahatlon1/Default.htm

haseco@hn.vnn.vn

Hop City Mini Fest II: The Rhythm Within

Time: April 16, 8 pm

Location: Hanoi Rock City

After the roaring success of the very first Hop City Mini Fest which drew hundreds into Hanoi Rock City in February, Hanoi Rock City is back with an awe-inspiring mid-April sequel that will feature some of Vietnam’s hottest and most high-profile stars alongside hip-hop artists from the USA.

Headlining the night will be DJ Justin Murta – owner of Red Pill Records and the Hip Hop Handbook (USA) and MC Antoneus Maximus (USA) whose impressive collaboration list includes the The Black Eyed Peas and Kid (from Kid N Play).

The line-up for the night will be completed by a trio of Vietnam’s own finest female talents:

The one and only SUBOI, young, emerging rapper signed to Music Faces Entertainment.

Star of last year’s hit movie De Mai Tinh (Fool for Love) Kathy Uyen.

Plus Vietnam Idol finalist Thao Trang.

Dr. Gosh (France) will be back to blow your mind with fresh live graffiti, while the big tunes and breathtaking Bboy battles will keep the night spinning on in style.

Ticket price: VND100,000 (at door)

Oil Painting Exhibition “Black Blood” at L’Espace

Time: April 14– May 17

Location: L’Espace, HCM City, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi 

You are invited to the opening of oil painting exhibition “Black Blood” of Pierre Fava, young talent artist from France.

At the beginning, Pierre Fava uses black as the main color for his monochrome paintings because of his passion for this color as well as its symbol which is close to his spiritual mood.

His paintings can be both violent and gentle. With him, monochrome is the expression of the purity of materials, the way to bring mildness and subtlety to forms.

Free entrance.

 Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Tel: (84-4) 39 36 21 64

info@espace-ccfhanoi.org

www.ifhanoi-lespace.com

Art Exhibition at Applied Arts Gallery

Time: 13 – 21 April 2011

Location: Applied Arts Gallery, 5 Phan Dang Luu Street, Binh Thanh District, HCM City.

You are invited to exhibition which is the collaboration of faculty of Music and Fine Arts of Hanoi National University of Education and HCM City University of Fine Arts.

The exhibition is the combination of different styles of two regions with more than 50 artworks of 15 artists.

It brings many expressions in art language, diversified style with different materials: lacquer, oil, silk, wood engraving…

Art Fundraiser for Japan

Time: 15 – 29 April 2011

Location: Galerie Quynh, 65 De Tham Street, District 1, HCM City

You are invited to the exhibition “Friends of Tohoku” to show your support for Japan! Seventeen artists from Vietnam as well as the international community have contributed artworks to raise money for Red Cross Japan.

These artworks, comprising various media including painting, drawing, installation, photo and video, will be shown in the exhibition “Tohoku no Tomodachi (Friends of Tohoku): Art Fundraiser for Japan,” organized by Tiffany Chung and Pamela Corey in collaboration with Galerie Quynh.

Works by this group of artists will be available for purchase (with prices ranging from US$300 to US$10,000) and 100 percent of proceeds from sales will go to Red Cross Japan.

Participating artists include:

Bùi Công Khánh (Vietnam) / Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA) / Đỗ Hoàng Tường (Vietnam) / Hoàng Dương Cầm (Vietnam) / Goh Ideta (Japan) / Roslisham Ismail a.k.a. Ise (Malaysia) / Đinh Q. Lê (Vietnam/USA) / Sandrine Llouquet (Vietnam/France) / Tea Mäkipää (Finland/Germany) / Michikazu Matsune (Japan/Austria) / Nguyễn Tấn Cương (Vietnam) / Nguyễn Kim Tố Lan (Vietnam) / Nguyễn Trung (Vietnam) / Nguyễn Đức Tú (Vietnam) / Sudsiri Pui-ock (Thailand) / Keisuke Takahashi (Off-Nibroll, Japan) / Mikuni Yanaihara (Off-Nibroll, Japan)

In conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Quynh, there will also be original creations by fashion designers Chương Đặng (Vietnam) and Chương Phạm (Vietnam/USA) available for sale at the gallery, from which all profits will be donated to Red Cross Japan.

Exhibition “Flow to Nothingness”

Time: 14 – 30 April 2011

Location: Himiko Café, 324Bis Dien Bien Phu, Ward 11, Dist.10, HCM City

The exhibition “Flow to Nothingness” introduces artworks by artists Nguyen Son, La Huy, Himiko Nguyen and Ha rom.

Painting Exhibition at Tu Do Gallery

Time: 16 April – 16 May 2011

Location: Tu Do Gallery, 53 Ho Tung Mau Street, District 1, HCM City

You are invited to a solo painting exhibition titled “Green Nature” by artist Nguyen Tuan Duc.

For more images of Nguyen Tuan Duc’s paintings please visit Tu Do Gallery.

Installation Exhibition “Forest of Memories”

Time: 3 – 23 April 2011

Location: New Space Arts Foundation, 28 Pham Ngu Lao, Hue City

New space arts foundation would like to invite you to arts exhibition “Forest of Memories” of Kristine McCarroll with Geoff Levitus.

The Forest of Memories is an installation. 15 banners of silk organza, suspended from the ceiling, each 280 x 75cm, acting as a forest of trees amongst which the viewers will be able to meander.

The artists’ concept of “memories” relates to the memories held by 12 people, whose images will be on 12 of the banners. These memories are evoked by the second/ tattoo/ background layer of each image.

They intend to reinforce the memory side of the project by incorporating video interviews of old people from Hue in English, French and/or Vietnamese. Geoff will be making the videos in which each person will tell their story with a separate video behind which evokes some aspect of Vietnamese culture or history. They use 3 additional “blank” silk banners to serve as screens for projecting those videos.

The interviews can also be shown on a loop on a plasma TV for the duration of the exhibition.

City choir to hold fund-raising concerts in May 

The International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City will hold two concerts next month to raise funds for needy children in the country, according a press release issued by the organization. 

The concerts, scheduled for May 27-28 at the Conservatory of Music in District 1, will feature works by Mozart, Vivaldi and Elgar.

Proceeds from the concert will benefit disadvantaged children through two charities - the Loreto Vietnam Australia Program and Poussieres de Vie (Dust of Life), the press release said.

Tickets are priced at VND300,000-450,000 (US$14.34-21.50) and will be on sale from early this month.

They can be bought at the music conservatory (112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1), and Mekong Merchant (23 Thao Dien Street, An Phu District); or booked online at www.hcmcchoir.com or  tickets@hcmcchoir.com with cash-on delivery.

Arts programme for charity to take place in Hanoi

An arts programme aiming to raise funds for heart diseases patients will take place on April 18 in Hanoi.

The event, entitled “Sympathetic Hearts”, will be jointly organised by the Labour Newspaper, Family and Children Magazine, the Capital Communications Company, the Hanoi Television and the Hanoi Red Cross.

It aims to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the “ Vietnam ’s Disabled Day” and is a response to the “Month of action for Children” (May 15 – June 30, 2011)

Through the programme, the organisation board and sponsors will fund heart operation for 30 disadvantaged children, who are inborn heart disease patients.

They also will offer 70 savings books, each worth VND5-10 million, to 70 disadvantaged families including 25 families of the landslide victims in Nghe An province on April 1 and 100 wheelchairs and gifts to the disabled people, the Agent Orange/dioxin victims, the orphans and the disadvantaged children throughout the country.

HCM City orchestra to stage choral music, tango concert

Vietnamese and South Korean artists will perform at a choral music and tango concert organised by the HCM City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra next Tuesday.

The night will open with American and Mexican folk songs like The Water Is Wide and Celito Lindo performed by the HBSO choir.

Soloist Cho Hae-ryong will sing Glitter to Be Gray from Candide, a very popular operetta, with music by American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. He will be accompanied by the choir.

Candide is based on a novella written by Voltaire and was first performed on Broadway in the US in 1956.

Bernstein's Maria from West Side Story will be sung by Nguyen Thi Thanh Nga and Pham Trang.

The choir, conducted by Tran Nhat Minh, will then perform the traditional American song Witness.

Pianist Le Pham My Dung and percussionists Nguyen Huong Bao Hieu and Luong Binh Khoi will also perform.

The second part of the programme will feature tango dances set to music by Astor Piazzolla.

The dances will be choreographed by Bui Ngoc Quang, Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung.

The concert will start at 8pm on April 19 at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1.

Tickets costing VND150,000 to 250,000 will be available at the venue.

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