Vui Day

Sun 13 Dec 2015, 9 am – 4 pm

Yen So park, Hanoi

Vui Day is a nonprofit playground with the participation of several social enterprises specializing in art, education and health. Providing innovative products for social values, they look forward to spreading this spirit to the community through Vui Day!

Activities: VUI DAY = PICNIC + SHOPPING + CREATIVITY + CHARITY + MUSIC OUTDOOR…

The event is to raise money for children in mountainous areas. The proceed collected from ticket sales of Vui Day will be used to build community playgrounds at schools to motivate the children in school days.

Participation fee:

Family package: 600 000 VND (max 6 people) (out of stock)

Personal package: 150 000 VND/pax joining all above activities

Register link here. Hotline 096 2277 480 or 094 3736 385

Live Minimal Disco with Roscius (France) and Cervo (UK)

Fri 11 Dec 2015, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Come to a live minimal disco act with Roscius (France) and Cervo (UK). Cervo will open and close the night with classic and contemporary African & Latin American rhythms, soulful grooves & global dancefloor sounds.

Expect: afrobeat, kwaito, neo-soul, cumbia, hip hop, house, footwork, jazz, disco, funk!

Originally from London, ROSCIUS is a class live act that mixes jazz with classical, melancholic with disco, and everything beyond and in between deep house, minimal electro, and world beats. His parents were choral conductors, he was part of a choir, and is now a world-class DJ that experiments with vocals from around the world. Add a touch of acoustic and electronic drums, keyboards, and some jazz improvs, and his experiment has got you on your feet.

With these elements which he loops, using a sample pedal, ROSCIUS creates a whole electronic universe, which runs between Steve Reich, LCD Soundsystem, deep house, minimal electro, disco and some world music. In the same vein as a DJ he draws together various topics improvised with or without breaks, in a club / performance format. The aim of the project is to return to music actually performed, removing itself from the entrapments of machinery, whilst remaining in a dynamic atmosphere, encouraging dancing, with a state of mind close to the contemporary music scene.

CERVO is one half of UK-based music website, club night and DJ duo Banana Hill, who focus on classic and contemporary African & Latin American rhythms, soulful grooves & global sounds for the dancefloor; afrobeat, kwaito, neo-soul, cumbia, hip hop, house, footwork, jazz, disco, funk and much more.

Past guests at Banana Hill parties include Gilles Peterson, Andrés, Quantic, Lone, Move D, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Spoek Mathambo, Marcellus Pittman, Auntie Flo + more.

Cervo also runs a residency at renowned club Soup Kitchen in Manchester alongside Boiler Room founder Thris Tian. In addition, he has played festivals such as Dimensions, Africa Oyé, Kelburn Garden Party and more, and curates stages for Tramlines & Outlines Festivals. His edits and productions have gained support on stations such as Rinse FM and NTS Radio, and he features monthly on Leeds station KMAH. Radio.

Tickets: 100,000 VND on the door.

Exhibition “True Blue” by Le Quy Tong

Opening: Sat 12 Dec 2015, 6.30 pm

Exhibition: 12 Dec 2015 – 11 Jan 2016, 8 am – 10 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

This December Manzi has the pleasure of hosting Le Quy Tong‘s solo exhibition, “True Blue”. It is the result of years of working in silence and marks a clear departure from the artist’s previous interest. Tong last exhibited in 2008, and has since been experimenting with new techniques and themes previously absent from his practice, making each research an inquiry into fine art’s most traditional medium – painting. The resulting body of work thus announces more than just a comeback; it marks a revitalizing chapter in Tong’s practice and fortifies his position as one of Hanoi’s most dedicated and resilient creative forces.

“True Blue” sees Le Quy Tong experiment with a hybrid of painting, decorated pattern and found imagery. Each of the works takes its starting point from photographic documentations of significant political meetings that influenced the course of history. The images – sourced from historical archives and mass media – have been taken out of their original contexts and appropriated, dissected and reassembled into something new and uncanny, making it difficult to decipher between the make-believe, the manipulated and the genuine. Together, they highlight the generic features of all meetings – big halls filled with hefty chairs, grand tables and elaborate chandeliers; men deep in discussion or signing papers. An air of ceremony lingers even when all content and context are stripped away.

Once a photograph found its way onto the artist’s canvas, he employed a number of editing devices such us pixelating, blurring and pattern overlaying. Each of the gloomy, cool and blue-colored finished collages is the accumulation of countless layers of paint, visual motif and imagery, which have been applied, erased, smoothened, scratched and piled on top of each other. Displayed together, they provoke a sense of glamorous nostalgia and contribute to a distinctively elegant style and rhythm, reinforced by a shared perspective, composition and treatment of paint and imagery.

As figures and shadows sink and rise, visual cues disappear and become, textures, forms and colors part and merge, recognisable events and times in history are rendered an illusion. But what seems to be specific could allude to any place and any time in any history. Déja vu! What appears before us is familiar to the eyes, yet the mind cannot identify why. Have we seen these imageries before? What do we see when we look at a singular photographic depiction of an event? What about the missing people, voices and actions in history that existed outside the realm of a single frame and evidence?

The construction of history and memory, or rather the construction of history and memory through photographic documentation, is called into question, and its limitations are revealed. Is the blurred meant to be forgotten, or hidden? Do the overlays introduce alternative narratives, or sugarcoat darker ones? Does the pixelation highlight individual elements, or obscure something and dismantle the whole? What happens when an image is used in a place and time other than where and when it was intended for? What does this act of displacement do to the final works? Does it inform our knowledge and reinforce our trust in photographic documentation? Or does it lay bare the ability to use it to tell lies, falsify reality and shape our perception with seeming evidence?

With his systematic, yet intuitive, ordered but open-ended, labour-intensive methodology, Le Quy Tong presents us with an alternative space to engage with the real and the imagined, the authentic and the fabricated, by erasing the illusive borders that separate them. The blue color palette which connects all the series’ pieces evokes a deeply sad and unsettling atmosphere, which reflects the mood at the basis of the work. The color also stands for loyalty and a commitment to truth – a perfect contrast to the deceptive nature of those concepts as revealed in “True Blue”.

About Le Quy Tong

Born in 1977 in Hanoi, Le Quy Tong graduates from Hanoi Fine Art Institute in 2000. He is currently working as lecturer of Hanoi Fine Art Institute, and also a member of Vietnam Fine Art Association.

Time, memory, emptiness, doubt and the act of constantly questioning the essence of things and events – these are the driving forces behind Quy Tong’s ever-expanding practice and continuous explorations into different painting media. Always dabbed with a veil of luxurious and cold color palette, the landscapes Quy Tong depicts never have humans in them. Here, the viewer is made lonely, confronted with symbols of a city currently going through a rapid process of modernization and industrialization. On the contrary, his experimentation with portraiture creates worlds that are both dreamlike and disorienting – where layers of pastel-coated shades and visual motifs both familiar and uncanny effortlessly draw us in and pull us out of reality.

He has participated in various local and international art events like: Asian exhibition by young artists, Japan (1999), ‘Visage du Vietnam’, Henry Martin Museum, Cahors, France (2003), Workshop ‘Vietnam, Thailand, America’, Bangkok, Thailand (2004); ‘Hanoi 5000 Ho Guom’, Hanoi Fine Art Museum (2007)… His works have appeared in Bodnar Art Collection, Post Vidai’s Vietnam Contemporary Art collection as well as various private collections.

Symphony Concert with Israeli Conductor Shalev Ad-El

Sat 12 Dec 2015, 8 pm

The Grand Concert Hall

Vietnam National Academy of Music

77 Hao Nam Str., Dong Da Distr., Ha Noi

Come to symphony concert at Vietnam National Academy of Music with:

Conductor: Shalev Ad-El (Israel)

Clarinet Soloist: Tran Khanh Quang

And the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra

Program

Meyerbeer: Alimelek Overture

C. Weber: Clarinet concerto No.2 in Eb major

Intermission

L. V. Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200,000 – 350,000 – 500,000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at ticketvn.com.

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.   

The “Brownian Movement” Exhibition

Opening: Sun 13 Dec 2015, 5 – 8 pm

Exhibition: 13 Dec 2015 – 13 Jan 2016

Heritage Space

Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi

“Brown Movement” is a chaotic movement, created by an impact. Based on that idea, an artist residency program that includes a lot of independent artists from various countries, religions, nations, ages… is organized. The artists meet, and of course, make up the bumps, creating new innovative ideas, according to Tran Trong Vu, is also a form of Brownian movement.

Within a month, rushing to become familiar with a new space, a new life, and of course, mix to adapt and immediately started work, Tran Trong Vu – as an artistic adviser – and 3 international artists with 12 Vietnamese artists, of which most are under 30, have completed their works, in time for the launch of the exhibition “Brownian Movement”.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTWORKS:

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS:

Yun Woo Choi – Korean artist coming from the United States who uses his own concerns to create: What is truth? Where am I? What I feel is true? Are the invisible things – like my emotions, supernatural phenomena, dreams, God,… true? Whether those things have their own space?

Thierry Fontaine is a photographer with the ability to arrange forms for his artworks. This time, with a view to composing familiar “Loneliness” is something inherent to the artist, the artist is lonely, he brought the chain works: L’île habitée, Cri blanc, Abolition, Le temps comme il vient.

Ludwika Ogorzelec gives us “Space” vitrification, with a spatial variation determined both form and usage. It is the vibration of the space forming small part “crystallized ” whose main purpose is to achieve a state of psychological aesthetics and new, affects consciousness and subconscious of the observer.

FROM THE VIETNAMESE ARTISTS:

Truong Que Chi, next to the cinematographic works, she is bringing to this event artwork “white body” made of white plaster decorated in architectural trends “parody neck”.

Quach Bac is bring to us his artwork “Raining” reminds us of the simple, easy to forget and the dark shadow areas in life.

Do Thanh Lang is an aspiring young artist with the format, recording the parameters of feelings by painting. His work brings this exhibition is no exception.

Ha Ninh brings to the exhibition the trilogy “Hello, East – West – South – North”, “Go to furture”, which were inspired by the contrasting shades or space at the venue of the event.

Tran Kim Hanh, based on projects on “Brown Movement”, brought encounter into the work. She wants people to stop and try to question their own judgment, not dismissing things that is beautiful and precious.

The guest Vietnamese artist also offers an exhibition of work that is equally impressive, bearing the stamp of contemporary artwork:

Cao Sỹ Thăng brings 2 artworks “layout and the movement” and “the man and the masks”, mentioned the deal, the impact, the back and forth in the lives of people today.

Nguyen Cong Cu exhibitors with goods, motion and at rest – two installation works unique, expressing the subtle movement of space.

Thùy Diên: for the purpose of expressing a particular idea, she made objects by hands (dolls and context), then captured them by film cameras.

Hoàng Khánh Du – an artist engraved with the shadow of mountain, the forest homeland, the ethnic Tay and the home village – brings the most genuine and lively paintings of the land by which he was born and raised.

Lê Đức Tuấn Định thinks that a human being, if isn’t playing a role, then at least he is an reluctant audience through “Negotiate or dance”.

Nguyễn Minh Phương – Maybe we should look at the small corners, the imperfect parts of people. Or human nature is inherently imperfect? Such ideas are expressed through “Broken Reality”.

Phú Viên brings artwork as a metaphor for humans in the busy life, the hustle and bustle in which they always want to shut off to avoid the temptations of life.

For further information, please contact

Mr. Tạ Tấn – PR

Mobile: 0979.026.472

Email: tan.heritagespace@gmail.com    

Saigon Classical Music Group’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Sat 12 Dec 2015, 7 pm

Southern Women’s Museum

202 Vo Thi Sau Str, Dist 3, HCMC

Come to Saigon Classical Music Group’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Concert.

The special occasion that you can have a heart-to-heart talk with musicians and artists, from the very experienced to the young and the potential, and listen to their dazzling performances which are displayed in various forms such as solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, piano concerto and orchestra.

For the first time, secrets are to be shared, and familiar faces are to be met.

The space is not only dedicated to music but also to soulmate-ship and friendship, all of which, we believe, could take place on the very same stage.

Program

PART I

Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh

Jacques Offenbach: Overture from “Orphée aux enfers”

Primo: Nguyễn Tuấn Mạnh, Secondo: Phi Phi

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale, from “6 Pieces, Op.51”

Nguyễn Lữ Hiệp

Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, II. Air

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K. 138

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich: Prelude, Gavotte and Valse from “5 Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano”

Swinging String

Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Paul McCartney: When I’m Sixty-Four

Bassissimo

PART II

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No.13 in B-flat major, K. 333, I. Allegro

Nguyễn Luân Du

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, I. Allegro

Piano: Nguyễn Lữ Hiệp & Swinging String

Charles Gounod: “Avant de quitter ces lieux” from “Faust”

Tito Mattei: Non è ver

Baritone: Nguyễn Hoàng Nhật Quang, Piano Accompanist: Lê Hoa Phong Lan

Ernesto Nazareth: Escovado

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 Mandolins in G major, RV 532, I. Allegro

Guitar Trio: Trần Quang Huy, Lê Ngọc Niễn, Hoàng Kiều Anh

Joao Pernambuco: Sounds of Bells

Issac Albeniz: Asturias

Guitar Quartet: Trần Quang Huy, Lê Ngọc Niễn, Hoàng Kiều Anh, Nguyễn Quốc Chính

Ticket price: By donate. Online registration here.

Proper attire required.

Children aged under 6 years will not be admitted into our venue.

We recommend you arrive at the concert venue a minimum of 15 minutes before the performance starts.   

Exhibition “100 Years Later” by Vu Duc Trung at Dong Phong Gallery

Exhibition: 12 Dec 2015 – 12 Jan 2016

Dong Phong Art Gallery

03 Ly Dao Thanh Street

It is too long humans may live and nobody knows who we are tomorrow. The visible and invisible faces patched by colours with streaks and blotches of different shades, lighted up with a brilliant lustre of lacquer materials. The paintings, that might be a self-portrait of the artist or portraits of someone cross his life, could only be deeply enjoyed at a far enough distance.

Ignoring the principles of shape and form, mastering lacquer techniques utilizing advantages of the substances, Vu Duc Trung expresses his emotional responses to human life by this series of the portraits. Showing somewhere in his paintings are wavering water and mystical landscapes, which are the artist’s main study subject. However in this period, the artist deliberately creates portraits like illusions, which as time goes by will fade away, will undergo change by falling into decay to miserable empty.

Talk less do more; continuation in his works follows the path that the artist has paved by years. His progress in art has endured through time without the existence of outliers.

5 years, 10 years, 20 years are in progress… This process was created and has been continued likes the flow of water, the sound of forest, the rise and fall of someone’s life, one hundred years after…

Come to the lacquer-painting exhibition “100 Years Later” by the Vu Duc Trung to enjoy and feel his works beneath layers and layers of resin. The exhibition will take place at Dong Phong Art Gallery, #3 Ly Dao Thanh, Hanoi, from 12 December 2015 to 12 January 2016.

Realist Artists Group Exhibition

Opening: Thu 10 Dec 2015, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 11 – 16 Dec 2015, 8 am – 4 pm

Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition of Realist artists group including:

Le The Anh

Nguyen Van Bay

Ngo Xuan Chinh

Pham Binh Chuong

Pham Minh Duc

Nguyen Dinh Duy Quyen

Nguyen Le Tan

Trinh Minh Tien

Toan Nguyen

Quang Tam

Luu Tuyen

Tran Thuc

Vu Ngoc Vinh

Free entry.

Exhibition “Miên du” by Bui Thanh Thuy

Exhibition: 06 – 12 Dec 2015

Exhibition house, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi

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HCMC:

Opening: Sun 27 Dec 2015, 4 pm

Exhibition: 27 Dec 2015 – 10 Jan 2016

Eight Gallery

8 Phung Khac Khoan, District 1, HCMC

You are invited to the exhibition displaying 36 oil and lacquer paintings by Bui Thanh Thuy in Hanoi and HCMC.

The exhibition is originated from the faith and childhood memories since Thuy was a little girl living with her family in the neighborhood of Protestant church, Ngo Tram street, Hanoi. She gets attracted by the church easily in all her life time. The exhibition not only demonstrates her faith, but her love, soul and her search for confidence.

Music Story of the Old Quarter in December

Fri 11 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Center of the Old Quarter’s culture exchange

50 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi

Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam has its proud 1000-year-old history and tradition. The music born here shares the same richness as the city’s history itself: diversified, unique and original.

“Music Story of the Old Quarter” is a chain of music shows whose objective is to introduce generally to the world the evolution of the Hanoi’s music, past to present.

The shows are to replicate the footsteps of the city’s music through history, using traditional voices, rhythms and beats combined with contemporary installation arts. The performance will be delivered by the top class singers and musicians.

Through portraying Vietnamese’s unique music, The Old Quarter’s story of music hopes to successfully communicate the core values inside Hanoi’s culture, history and humans to the audience, both foreign and native.

Incentive Idea: Vu Nhat Tan, Dam Minh

Create & arrange the show: People’s Artist Xuan Hoach, Thanh Hoa, Thanh Binh, Cong Hung and the team “Dong Kinh Co Nhac”

Artist: Ly Truc Son, Tran Duy Hung, Trinh Tin…

Hà Nội Kings

11 and 12 Dec 2015

Nha San Collective’s new space

From Nha San Collective:

Nicole Martine Lewis and Queer Forever! are pleased to invite you to our workshop HÀ NỘI KINGS on 11-12 Dec. 2015.

Program

FRIDAY 11 DEC 2015 18h00

Film screening and discussion about the art of drag king in “Venus Boyz” – a documentary film about drag king performers, Moderation: Nicole Martine Lewis

Language: English, Vietnamese

Synopsis: A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. Women become men – some for a night, others for their whole lives. Masculinity and transformation as performance, subversion and existential necessity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities.

English language with Vietnamese subtitles

Ha Noi Kings

SATURDAY 12 DEC 2015, 13h30

Practice of drag king with Sexy Galexy (aka Lexi Leigh – Australia) via Skype

Moderation: Nicole Martine Lewis

by registration only: Hanoi Kings <kingsofhanoi@gmail.com>

Language: English, Vietnamese

Nha San COLLECTIVE

15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi

‘Drag king’ is an English term describing women who cross dress as men on stage. And as the film shows, some people do it for their whole life. Women performing as men are a well-known phenomenon in Vietnamese culture, such as Quan Âm Thị Kính in poetry and chèo, and mediums in Mother Goddess religion. At this event we can also discuss and share our experiences, thoughts about the art of drag and its significance in understanding gender.

We would like to thank “Venus Boyz”‘s producers, ONIX Films, for allowing us to use the film footage in this event.

HÀ NỘI KINGS is a project by Nicole Martine Lewis, and it is a part of Queer Forever! 2015 in Hà nội from 9/12/2015 – 3/1/2016.

Queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015 is organized by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hà nội Queer, CAMA ATK and has received generous supports from Hanoi Creative City, Chula, SINE store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings www.andofotherthings.com và Hanoi Grapevine hanoigrapevine.com

Spirit of Sapa Cloaks the Hotel Metropole Hanoi at Christmas

In its first celebratory step of the holiday season, the Hotel Metropole Hanoi last week raised and trimmed a 15-metre evergreen and illuminated the hotel grounds with more than 5,000 colorful lights. But that’s not all.

Throughout the month of December and into the new year, the hotel’s restaurants, bars, shops and spa are presenting a panoply of festive opportunities, all complemented by decor inspired by the highland town of Sapa, its mountains, fabrics and chilly weather.

The Sapa theme thoughtfully links many decorative concepts throughout the public areas and grounds to the special fabrics and colours of several ethnic tribes including the black Hmong and red Dao. The Sapa decorative concept is part of Hotel Metropole Hanoi’s long-term relationship promoting several ethnic communities through various programs.

In addition, the Hotel has in certain areas placed innovative displays of the Sofitel brand “Art de Noel” or “Christmas Art” competition linking together French gastronomy and Christmas.

Beyond the fanfare of the tree-lighting ceremony, the Sapa decorative theme and “Art de Noel”, here’s what’s going on across the hotel.

•   Christmas Eve. Five distinct Christmas Eve dinners are on offer at the Metropole on Christmas Eve, each with a style and flair of their own and at price points that range from 1,9500,000 VND to 3,960,000.

◦   A six-course French dinner at Le Beaulieu.

◦   A special Vietnamese dinner at Spices Garden.

◦   Two seatings at a Christmas buffet in Le Club.

◦   A six-course menu of Italian fare at Angelina.

◦   And a Christmas buffet at Thang Long hall.

•   Christmas Day. On Christmas Day, there are buffets and dinner at two of the hotel’s restaurants, ranging in price from 1,650,000 VND to 2,640,000.

◦   A buffet and dinner, with a vegetarian option, at Le Beaulieu.

◦   And a Christmas day buffet at Le Club.

•   New Year’s Eve. With prices ranging from 1,700,000 VND to 4,510,000 gala dinners will be the order of the evening during the final hours of 2015, including:

◦   A gala dinner, and a complementary vegetarian option at Le Beaulieu.

◦   A gala dinner at Spices Garden. (Fast forward to the Tet lunar new year for a Binh Than Tet Holiday Menu on Feb. 7.)

◦   Two seatings for a special New Year buffet at Le Club.

◦   A gala dinner and a countdown party at 11 pm at Angelina.

◦   A buffet at Thang Long hall.

•   Ongoing. Throughout the festive season, day-in and day-out, the hotel features two particularly enticing opportunities:

◦   At the hotel’s award-winning Le Spa du Metropole, a holiday season spa spectacular stirs four elements into a 120-minute holiday package for 3,230,000 VND: a rose petal foot bath, a 60-minute So Exhilarating treatment, a 60-minute Sysley Aromatic facial and a signature gift.

◦   And for shoppers, the hotel’s gourmet food shop, L’Epicerie, is offering a range of international gifts, including foie gras, duck confit, and turkey imported from France, as well as the pastry chef’s piece de resistance, a Christmas log cake, known as the traditional French “Buche de Noel”.

Film Screening “Comment J’ai Détesté Les Maths”

Sun 13 Dec 2015, 6 pm

L’Espace

You are invited to the film screening “Comment J’ai Détesté Les Maths” (France, 2013, 103 mins).

Director: Olivier Peyon (Pháp, 2013, 103′)

Cast: Cédric Villani, François Sauvageot, Anne Siety

“Not only fun but also exciting. You hate math? You will love this film. ” – Le Parisien

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40,000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Knowmads Hanoi Team 5 – Info Meeting and Opening of Applications!

Wed 09 Dec 2015, 7 – 10 pm

Rauta House Cafe

No 1, lane 97 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi

In the week that we celebrate our 2-year anniversary, we are happy to invite you for the info meeting that will mark the opening of applications to join Team 5!

After 4 successful programs, we have seen the birth of a vibrant community of changemakers that includes alumni, staff and trainers who share the same passion to create positive change! We know that there are many people out there who are entrepreneurial, creative, curious, brave, involved and who want to take action while still wondering who they are, what they want to put into the world and how to do it.

This is a great opportunity for you to get to know more about Knowmads Hanoi, meet the people behind it and some other interested and interesting people who are also looking for the next steps in their life!

We’ll meet for some good conversations, and also to share with you all the information you might need to take the decision to join Team 5! Come with curiosity, questions and a smile and we’ll have a great time together!! :)

To know more about Knowmads Hanoi, please visit www.knowmads.vn.

Register here to save yourself a seat and a lot of hugs.

Queer Art Festival Queer Forever! 2015

Queer Art Festival Queer Forever! 2015: 09 Dec 2015 – 03 Jan 2016

Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe Insitut, ATK

We are delighted to invite you to our queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015, which takes place from Dec. 9th 2015 to Jan. 3rd 2016 in Hanoi.

Like the first time, the opening ceremony is dedicated to cinema, with a screening of “CHƠI VƠI / ADRIFT” (2009) – an award winning film by director Bùi Thạc Chuyên. Watching this film again, it is fascinating to observe how people and their relationships have escaped categorization by heteronormative or LGBT films. Please stay after the screening to meet renowned film director and author of “CHƠI VƠI / ADRIFT”‘s script: Phan Đăng Di.

On the weekend of Dec. 11th – 12th, Nicole Martine Lewis is making HÀ NỘI KINGS workshop. She would like to invite people who want to perform, to play, both on stage and in their everyday life, with men’s clothing and appearance. The workshop opens with screening of “Venus Boyz” – a documentary about drag king performers. We hope that this film followed by the next day’s workshop will start discussions about the art of drag, gender and performance. The Queer Disco at CAMA ATK right after the workshop on Dec. 12th will await HÀ NỘI KINGS!

The opening night of “ĐI XUYÊN // CROSSING” – an exhibition by artist Gabby Miller is taking place on Dec. 13th. The artist has been making new works during and after a long journey. In August, she departed from Oakland, USA for Xiamen, China on an ocean ship filled with thousands of empty containers. On its way back, the ship would carry goods and products produced in Asia. On this ship, Gabby followed one of the crossing roads of globalized economy, where products, capital and power flow and move freely, across all boundaries.

The video “eclipse / nhật thực” by artist Việt Lê is a portraiture of an intimate encounter of Hanoians with other places, time and sounds of the city. They become artists, dancers, friends, actors and actresses, lovers, and perform in rooms full of things that belong to the past, with the sounds of an old song by Đại Lâm Linh. The opening night of “heARTbreak!” by Việt Lê is taking place on Dec. 26th.

In tradition with the first festival, a series of talks, panel discussions will be carried out during QFF, around the topics of queer culture in the past and now. We will talk about places that might not exist anymore, about stories we say to make friends and acquaintances, about words we bend to express our love, intimacy or sadness. We invite you to come and meet Phan Đăng Di, Trương Quế Chi, Đinh Thị Nhung, Hoàng Tùng Lâm, Liễu Anh Vũ, Vũ Đức Việt, Dương Mạnh Hùng, Nguyễn Anh Dũng – people who are part of queer culture in Việt Nam, or in America – with our special guest Robert Ostertag.

On Dec. 20th we are inviting sellers, buyers, makers, traders, passer-bys to come to our Queer Forever LOVE ART Market. We hope for more queer creativity and labor to connect, more queer encounters to happen.

Queer Forever! 2015’s program

WEDNESDAY 9/12/2015

OPENING CEREMONY OF QUEER FOREVER! 2015

16h00 – Goethe-Institut Hanoi

Discussion: Urban spaces and gay male bodies in Vietnamese cinema

Presentation: Nguyễn Quốc Thành. Moderation: curator, film critique Trương Quế Chi

Language: English, Vietnamese

Adrift

Adrift

18h30 – Goethe-Institut Hanoi

Screening of CHƠI VƠI/ Adrift (dir. Bùi Thạc Chuyên, 2009, 110 min.)

Q&A with filmaker Phan Đăng Di author of film script. Moderation: Nguyễn Quốc Thành

Language: English, Vietnamese

FRIDAY 11/12/2015

18h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Workshop HÀ NỘI KINGS day 1

Discussion about the art of drag king in “Venus boyz” – a documentary film about drag king performers

Moderation: Nicole Martine Lewis

Language: English, Vietnamese

SATURDAY 12/12/2015

13h30 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Workshop HÀ NỘI KINGS day 2

Practice of drag king with Sexy Galexy (aka Lexi Leigh – Australia) via skype

Moderation: Nicole Martine Lewis

by register only: Hanoi Kings <kingsofhanoi@gmail.com>

Language: English, Vietnamese

20h00 – CAMA ATK

Queer Disco

SUNDAY 13/12/2015

18h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Opening night of “CROSSING/ĐI XUYÊN” – an exhibition by artist Gabby Miller

The exhibition will be open until: 3/1/2016

Crossing/Đi xuyên - Gabby Miller

Crossing/Đi xuyên – Gabby Miller

FRIDAY 18/12/2015

18h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Talk: “ABC LGBTIQ and ME” – queer history and how LGBT is translated across the world

Nguyễn Quốc Thành talk to experimental music composer, performer, electronic music instrument builder,

journalist, activist, prof. Robert Ostertag

Language: English, Vietnamese

Presentation of Tuyền Từ Quêêr – a Vietnamese queer pocket lexicon by artist Gabby Miller

SUNDAY 20/12/2015

10h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Queer Forever LOVE ART Market

Pop-up shopping stall booking:

Tùng Lâm: 0168 804 4501, www.facebook.com/Qforeverfestival

SATURDAY 26/12/2015

18h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Opening night of “heARTbreak!” – a photography and video exhibition by artist Việt Lê

The exhibition will be open until: 3/1/2016

19h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Panel discussion: Top, bottom, blouse, gym bottom, what else? All you can ask about gay men’s sex life

Panelists: Hoàng Tùng Lâm – community health activist, Liễu Anh Vũ – LGBT civil rights activist, Dương Mạnh Hùng, women and children rights, queer activist. Moderation: Nguyễn Quốc Thành

Language: Vietnamese

SUNDAY 27/12/2015

16h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Panel discussion: Đạo Mẫu/ Mother Goddess religion in Vietnamese queer culture

Panelists: curator, queer activist Đinh Thị Nhung; doctor of medicine, researcher on sexuality and Mother Goddess medium Vũ Đức Việt, writer, author of autobiography “Bóng/Shadow” Nguyễn Anh Dũng. Moderation: Dương Mạnh Hùng – women and children rights, queer activist.

Language: Vietnamese

19h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Talk: The curatorial approach to “The Cabinet” exhibition

Nguyễn Quốc Thành talks to queer activist Đinh Thị Nhung, the curator of the exhibition “The Cabinet” on the life of queer people in Viet Nam.

Language: Vietnamese

SUNDAY 3/1/2016

CLOSING OF QUEER FOREVER! 2015

16h00 – Nhà Sàn Collective, Hanoi Creative City

Talk: Queer spaces and legends in Hanoi in the 1980s-1990s

Nguyễn Quốc Thành talks to writer, author of autobiography “Bóng/Shadow” Nguyễn Anh Dũng

Language: Vietnamese

For more information, you can contact via email:queerforeverfestival@gmail.com or telephone Lê Thuận Uyên: 0985870316

All information of the festival will be updated at:

www.facebook.com/Qforeverfestival, queerforever.org

Addresses:

Nhà Sàn Collective, 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Bldg, no 1 Lương Yên st., Hà Nội.

Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58, Nguyễn Thái Học, Hà Nội.

CAMA ATK, 73A Mai Hắc Đế, Hà Nội

The queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015 is organized by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hà nội Queer, CAMA ATK and has received generous supports from Hanoi Creative City, Chula, SINE store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings www.andofotherthings.com và Hanoi Grapevine hanoigrapevine.com

Film Screening “L’Apprenti Père Noel”

Sun 13 Dec 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “L’Apprenti Pere Noel” (France, 2010, 80 minutes).

Director: Luc Vinciguerra

Cast: Line Renaud, Julie Gayet, Isabelle Mergault

“Behind the adventure is a beautiful message about transmission and the will to do well.” – La croix

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Paper Paintings Exhibition “The Flow of Time”

Opening: Fri 04 Dec 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 04 – 15 Dec 2015

Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center

50 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi

You are invited to the abstract paintings exhibition “The Flow of Time” by 4 painters: Jean Cabane, Dao Tu Khuong, Nguyen Tuan Cuong, Vu Tuan Dung.

THE FLOW OF TIME raises the notion of the long-lasting creative process; a random journey that leads to the reunion of friends. It symbolizes the different ways of researching Dó art and its development history.

The exhibition will feature 40 works on Dó paper with different styles but in same abstract language. The audience can feel the spirit of the East and the West in how to use visual language and techniques with new perspectives on Vietnamese nature, life and people.

Opening of “Queer Forever! Festival 2015” at Goethe Insitut

Wed 09 Dec 2015, 4 – 9.30 pm

Goethe Institut

The Goethe-Institut is pleased to once again host the opening event of the “Queer Forever!” Festival, this year on 9 December 2015. The first part of the evening deals with the different approaches to the portrayal of homosexual men in Vietnamese film. The curator and film critic Trương Quế Chi will moderate the discussion.

Following the discussion, the award-winning movie “Adrift” (2009) by director Bùi Thạc Chuyên will be screened: The mesh of relations between two women and several men has been perceived as a lesbian movie by the press, an interpretation which both Bùi Thạc Chuyên as well as numerous members of the LGBT community have objected to. How can we interpret the film today, 6 years after the official premiere? Which examples of gender roles beyond the hetero-normative model can already be found in Vietnamese films, and which perspectives are still imaginable? This will be topic of the discussion round with Phan Đăng Di, scriptwriter of “Adrift”, following the movie screening.

Programme:

4 PM. – 5.30 PM.

Discussion: Urban spaces and homosexual male bodies in Vietnamese film by Nguyễn Quốc Thành

Moderation: Curator and film critic Trương Quế Chi

5.30 PM. – 6.30 PM.

Break

6.30 PM. – 9.30 PM.

Film screening: “Adrift” (Bùi Thạc Chuyên, 2009, 110 min.)

Q&A with Phan Đăng Di – Filmmaker and scriptwriter of “Adrift”

Moderation: Nguyễn Quốc Thành

“Adrift” (2009):

When the young woman Duyên (Đỗ Thị Hải Yến), a young woman, marries – but her best friend Cầm (Phạm Linh Đan) plots a secret plan: She sets Duyên up with the attractive Thọ (Johnny Trí Nguyễn). Set in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the mesh of relations between Duyên, Cầm, Thọ and Duyên’s husband Hải (Nguyễn Duy Khoa) interweaves.

In the Venice Film Festival 2009, “Adrift” was awarded the renowned Fipresci-Award for young filmmakers.

Free admission.

* Queer forever! is a festival for queer art in Vietnam. Between 9 December 2015 and 3 January 2016, a broad range of cultural events, including a creativity market, various workshops, discussion rounds and a Queer Disco are scheduled.

Event venues:

Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

Nhà Sàn Collective, 15th floor, Hanoi Creative City, 1 Luong Yen, Hanoi

Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

CAMA ATK, 73A Mai Hac De, Hanoi

’ART FOR YOU’ Hanoi – Affordable Art Fair in Hanoi

03 – 07 Dec 2015

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

‘Art For You’, the affordable art fair event organised by Manzi Art Space and Work Room Four are back in Hanoi this December at manzi art space, 14 Phan Huy Ích.

The premise is simple and essentially follows the trend of affordable art fairs that have gained global appeal over recent years. It’s an art exhibition that is geared towards selling work at prices the majority can afford, removing the sometimes elitist nature of more traditional Art Gallery sales and create an event that is enjoyable, exciting and inviting for those looking to pick up a bargain or just get some inspiration and discover new artists and their work.

With three previous events under their belt in Hanoi and Saigon, Manzi Art Space and Work Room Four combine their respective artist portfolios to offer work created by over 90 artists sharing in excess of 300 works of art. The work is selected and curated to fit certain criteria. These are not the over-sized showstopper canvases or the prohibitively expensive sculptures of the solo show domain. Artists are specifically requested to peruse their repertoire and select older unsold works, preparatory sketches and smaller prints or photography or sometimes even create new work that they feel is good value for under $900.

When asked what the purpose of the event is and why they decided to begin the event, the

collaborators have a single voice: “‘Art For You’ offers a place to find something you love, something

that enriches your home. A work of ART that keeps you feeling alive and thoughtful everyday. Buy it.

Hang it. Cherish and share it. It is a good thing to do… for you, for the artist and for those you love.”

“From the last 3 ‘Art For You’ affordable art fairs, we have had immense pleasure in giving more than $40,000 to artists. That’s nearly 1 billion VND from Art lovers to the Art makers. We are a bit proud of that,” said the organisers.

Free entrance.

Thailand Day 2015

Sat 05 Dec 2015, 3 – 10 pm

Thong Nhat Park (Nguyen Dinh Chieu Gate), Hanoi

You are invited to Thailand Day 2015.

Activities include food and souvenir stalls, Thailand tourism booth, lucky draw, Art and Cultural performances by Muay Thai fighter group and Thai traditional & modern dance company, and music performance by the Royal Thai Navy Orchestra.

Free admission. All proceeds from the event (after deducting expenses) will go to the National Fund for Vietnamese Children.

Regarding tickets for lucky draw, you can buy in advance at the Embassy of Kingdom of Thailand (tel (04) 3823 5092/4) since 23 Nov 2015.

Film Screening “Up the Hills; Down the Valley”

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 3 pm

Hanoi Cinematheque

22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội

On the occasion of the World Aids Day, come to the screening of the film “Up the Hills; Down the Valley”.

“Up the Hills; Down the Valley” is a documentary film of 2 Thai women who are living with HIV in the Dien Bien province. Their husbands are drug users. The film document their daily work to earn a living, struggle with the disease, continue their lives and share both tear and joy within the Sunflower Group.

The 2 main characters, La and Tuong, and the directors of the film – Tran Phuong Thao and Swann Dubus- will join us for discussion/Q&A after the screening.

The film is also accompanied by a photo exhibition “A new life starts”. The exhibition consists of 12 photos and real stories of daily life from 4 men using drugs, living with HIV. They are now being treated at the Hospital No. 09, a hospital for HIV/AID care and treatment. Behind each story are deep aspirations for a “normal” life where they can share simple happiness with their beloved.

The entrance fee is free. Please kindly confirm your participation via email mcnv@mcnv.vn or telephoning to 043 8359005.

Exhibition “Vietnamese Lacquer – Korean Ottchil”

Exhibition: 30 Nov – 12 Dec 2015

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition “Vietnamese Lacquer – Korean Ottchil” which showcases 39 artworks – 27 made by 25 Korean artists and the other 12 made by 12 Vietnamese artists. They focus on the beautiful landscapes, portraits and life of people in two countries.

*Korean Ottchil (lacquer) mainly uses Najeon-chil technique (using mother-of-pearl shells). Ottchil paint is taken from Ott-namu – a type of natural, environmentally-friendly and harmless paint.

HCMC – Typography Exhibition 2015

Opening: Thu 10 Dec 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 11 – 13 Dec 2015, 9 am – 6 pm

Hoa Sen University

8 Nguyen Van Trang Str, Dist 1, HCMC

The Goethe-Institut Vietnam will present an exhibition by the Type Directors Club from 11 to 13 December 2015. On display is a selection of this year’s most interesting contributions to the world of typography and graphic design.

The Type Directors Club’s annual awards competition presents the best typographic designs in the world. The awards are widely considered one of the most prestigious in their field. This year, a total of more than 1551 works from 49 countries entered the competition. 272 works from 28 countries won prizes.

The exhibition is especially directed at professionals and students working in graphic design, advertising, marketing, communication, multimedia, publishing and education, as well as everyone interested in typography and the written word.

Free admission.

Vietnam Photo Fair 2015

Opening: Tue 01 Dec 2015, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 01 – 30 Dec 2015

Hang Da Galleria

1 Hang Da Str, Hanoi

This is the first time Vietnam Photo Fair is held in Hanoi, attracting 15 authors from all over the country with different styles and themes but all interested in asserting the true value of photography.

The price for each work will be publicly announced. In addition, you will have the chance to join three talks with experienced photographers on shooting techniques and the interactivity between photography and graphics.

5th Anniversary of Hanoi Rock City

04, 05 and 06 Dec 2015, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

“…Hanoi Rock City (HRC) started in December 2010, is an iconic venue, amongst many others who witnessing the gasps and breathes of the capital’s music and art scene.

Over the last 5 years, the scene has constantly evolving as well as experiencing its ups and downs. Artists are the driving force, taking up a challenging journey with a “hybrid” form of fuel from the audience. The excitements, coming off a night with its emotions left over the dance floor, tagged along the stage’s lights, are remarkable. We left with a half-finished conversation, knowing our smiles would carry us through the following week. There’re also moments of lost and confused, the sounds are (yet) defined / re-unified, meanwhile the words spelled the same. The poet finds his pivotal parrot. The carpenters trade secrets. The hairdressers start cooking. The musicians…

In 2016, we’ll sing, we’ll dance, we’ll call Ms. Tich to join, and we’ll look for more.”

Celebrating with us for 3 whole days of music and art ~~

PROGRAM

FRI 04 DEC – Live

:: ZAMINA

:: NGOT

:: XAI

:: DR.PEACOCK

:: F R O M H E R E

:: BIG MAN & BEAR

:: QUICKFIRE B2B VAUGHAN (DJ)

SAT 05 DEC – Electronic & DJs

:: DEE.F & DAN HENNEBERRY (live)

:: TOMES (live)

:: SONIC UPRISING (live)

:: NGUYEN DO MINH QUAN (live)

:: ALI B2B MAGGIE (DJ)

:: HLEB (DJ)

:: TRUNG.D (DJ)

:: MY.N (DJ)

SUN 06 DEC – Vietnamese Rock

:: DAI BANG TRANG

:: 18+

:: W A A H

:: WINDRUNNER

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

TICKETS: 100,000 VND (entry by donation to “Adopt A HIV Child”)

Film Screening “Pas son Genre”

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 8 pm

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Not My Type” (France, 2014, 111 mins).

Director: Lucas Belvaux

Cast: Emilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery, Sandra Nkake

A romantic love story between a philosophy professor and a barber who is a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston in a small town.

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

HITS’s Winter Show “Silly Shakespeare Shorts”

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm

Sat 05 Dec 2015, 2 pm and 7.30 pm

Sun 06 Dec 2015, 3 pm

Chez Xuân

41 lane 76 An Duong, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

HITS is performing three ‘condensed’ Shakespearean plays. Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest. Each play is about half an hour so hence the name “Silly Shakespeare Shorts”.

Our actors, directors, and crew come from a wide variety of countries, including Vietnam. We would like you to enjoy an interesting afternoon or evening of the Bard.

Tickets

Ticket price: 150,000 VND

Tickets are available at the following locations:

– Hanoi Social Club, 6 Hoi Vu, Hoàn Kiếm

– Chez Xuan, 41 NGO 76 An Duong, Tay Ho

– The Kitchen, 30 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

– Joma, 43 Tô Ngoc Vân, Tây Hồ

– Joma, 8 Lieu Giai (near Lotte Tower)

Film Screening “Paddington”

Sun 06 Dec 2015, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the animation screening “Paddington” (UK, France, 95 mins, 2014)

Director: Paul King

Cast: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins

An animation full of tenderness and humor that will appeal to both the young and old.

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Film Screening “You’ve Got Mail”

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

In the 2nd week of female directors’ film month, you are invited to the screening of romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail” with couple Meg Ryan – Tom Hanks. Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.

About the film

YOU’VE GOT MAIL is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. It was written by Nora and Delia Ephron. The film is about two people in an online romance who are unaware that they are also business rivals.

It marks the third coupling of stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who had previously appeared together in ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’ (1990) and ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ (1993).

[Wikipedia]

Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)

Exhibition “A touch of Tranquility” by Trinh Vu Hieu

Opening: Fri 04 Dec 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 04 – 10 Dec 2015, 9 am – 8 pm

Venue: Blue Gallery, 28 Trang Tien Str, Hanoi

You are invited to a solo artshow named “A touch of Tranquility” by artist Trinh Vu Hieu.

Artist Trinh Vu Hieu has came cross the period of figurative art that is full of challenge and charming. He got lost and panic in the maze of imagination and the shadow of many masters. And at the moment, he recognized that a road layered by thousands “martyrdoms” footprints is just a illusion, that stamped inside us. “Just” be calm, reflect through our mind, in the bottom of the lake, we might find ourselves.

A result of an attitude, a long process – if it could be named Spiritual Practicing, is a series of 11 one size – oil paintings with a title Tranquility from No.1 to 11. These artworks were made during 3 recent years, after many exhibitions (painting, photography, ceramic since 2003) by Trinh Vu Hieu.

And if A series of Tranquility is welcome with an understanding, hopefully, it would be a synthesis of a sense of equanimity.

Film Screening “3 Coeurs”

Fri 11 Dec 2015, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội    

You are invited to the film screening “Three Hearts” (France, 2014, 106 mins).

Director: Benoît Jacquot

Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni

The famous actress of “Nymphomaniac” transforms into a woman trapped in a love triangle with her sister’s husband…

For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 40 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Photography Workshop with Lawrence D’Attilio

12 and 13 Dec 2015, 9.30 am – 5.45 pm

Cafe Lo Mo

Develop Your Photography with a Workshop from Lawrence D’Attilio, one of the most experienced international photographers who has cooperation with many Vietnamese artists and photographers

1. Our workshops are perfect for you for learning to make exceptional photographs.

2. For people with some experience and beginners too.

3. This workshop is in English and Vietnamese.

4. Attend both programs or only the first or second one.

Here are lessons that 600 passionate photographers have learned from for 30 years

PROGRAM No. 1: At Café Lo Mo ( 92B Tho Nhuom Street, Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi) and then the Streets. Saturday, 12, December, from 9:30 AM to 5:45 PM

• Using camera’s settings for the best quality of photo

• Make the scene come alive with composition, color and a magic moment

• Make powerful portraits of people outdoors

• Photograph street life with strong feeling and clear ideas of importance

• Making action photos that control motion

• Develop a strong personal style of photography

PROGRAM No. 2: At Café Lo Mo 92B Tho Nhuom and then the Streets. Sunday 13 December, from 9:30 AM to 5:45 PM

• Using lighting for dramatic image and fashion look

• Help the model with a little advice for a relaxed look

• How to make natural photographs of people

• Controlling backgrounds

• How to make dramatic landscapes

• Basics of using editing applications

Pay Tuition: 800,000 dong or 39USD

DISCOUNT – Pay tuition 1400,000 Dong or 66USD if you attend both programs

Class size limited to 12 people each day.

Want people to love your photographs? Now is your opportunity to learn from the professional international photographer whose interviews have appeared over the past weeks in many Ha Noi news media. Your instructor has thirty years of experience exhibiting in the U.S., and teaching photography. Lawrence D’Attilio is one of the few photographers in the world with many years of background to help you develop your photography. His teaching powerfully reinforces your existing level of skill and helps you grow the way you see life around you.

Reserve your place NOW – call or text Ms. Hong Ky Le, Managing Director – Dattilio Studio

• Hong Ky Le Mobi: 01684329379 or Facebook message: Hongky Le

• Full payment due at Café Lo Mo within 24 hours after reservation

• OK to reserve one or more place for other persons

• Use your point and shoot camera, smart phone, DSLR, 35mm film or medium format

Remember Love – John Lennon Tribute

Tue 08 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Bia khu 9

Số 1 Lương Yên, Hà Nội

To pay a tribute to John Lennon, FlashBack Band HN will offer a special night of John Lennon and The Beatles.

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8 1980. The success of The Beatles is the key to the popularity of John as he was the band’s leader, singer, composer, instrument players cum orientor.

We hope you enjoy the old and immortal melodies of John Lennon and feel the sincerity of Flashback Band HN towards him and his masterpieces.

TICKETS

100.000 VND/coupon including 01 drink

Booking table for 2 people at least: FREE ENTRY

Hotline: 09 11 55 77 33

Japanese Contemporary Dance Butoh – Workshop & Performance with Katsura Kan

09 – 13 Dec 2015

Kinergie Studio

7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Following the successful debut in 2013, the leading Japanese artist Katsura Kan will come back to Hanoi to introduce Butoh Dance – Workshop and Performance.

Starting as an Experimental Performance in 1950s-60s, one of Japanese avant-garde art movement, Butoh is called “Surrealism of Flesh” nowadays as a contemporary dance form.

1. Video Lecture

Time: 4pm – 5.30pm October 12th, 2013

Venue: Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Fee (after concession): Free

This is a presentation about “Surrealism of Body” – a short history about a Japanese avant-garde art movement after WW Ⅱ in 1950s-60s as an origin of Butoh.

2. Butoh Dance – Practical workshop

Time: 18.00 pm – 22.00pm 10th, 11th, 12th December 2015

Venue:

1. The BlackBox, 2nd floor 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi: 10th, 11th December 2015

2. Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi: 12th December 2015

Fee (after concession): VND 700,000 (For Kinergie Students, the fee is VND 500,000)

Language: Vietnamese, English

Dress Code: Comfortable, easy for movements

The Butoh workshop explores the idea of “curious body” through the Group Observation of daily life, which is the key to Kan’s understanding of main stream of Butoh as a movement ideas. Participants will be instructed how to “awake the noise”, “focus on the other side of one’s reality” through his experiences of the significant elements of Butoh.

The workshop is suitable for everyone with and without previous Butoh experience.

Participants from workshop will have a performance on 12th Dec evening at Kinergie Studio.

3. Butoh Performance

Time: 20.00 – 22.00 pm, Sunday 13th Dec 2015

Venue: Kinergie Studio, 7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Fee (after concession): VND 150,000

Katsura Kan, Master of Butoh dance from Japan will perform his solo, and the collaboration work choreographed by Kan and Do Hoang Thi Ngoc, with the Kinergie dance group.

Participant: artists, dancers, and everyone who are interested in creative movements and dance.

Language: English – Vietnamese

REGISTRATION

Tran Hoang Long

Mobile: 0120 210 4630

Email: kinergie.studio@gmail.com   

Christmas Lighting Ceremony

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 5.30 – 7.30 pm

Crowne Plaza West Hanoi lobby

36 Le Duc Tho, My Dinh 2, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi

Holiday Season is coming, come to celebrate this special Festive Season with us!

This year marks the first time we hold the Lighting Ceremony to kick off the festive season with Christmas Carols by the Hanoi International School choir and the string quartet from the Vietnam National Music Academy on December 4th 2015.

Cocktail reception and welcome drink are served during the event.

Entrance: Complimentary

Dress code: Semi-formal

Performance of Classic Ballet “The Nutcracker”

10 and 11 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Come to performance of classic ballet “The Nutcracker” at Hanoi Opera House with:

– Artistic Director: People’s Artist Pham Anh Phuong

– Music: Piotr Illich Tchaikovski

– Choreography: Philippe Cohen

– Stage director: Philippe Lormeau

– Lighting: Reynald Bureau

– Costumes: Mary Payne Nguyen

– Costumes made by: La Hang

With 50 dancers of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet The School of Vietnam.

Performers:

Clara: Chuc Quynh

Casse – Noisette Han Giang

(the Puppet)

The Fairy: Thu Lan

The Prince: Nguyen Manh Hung

The Pricess of Forest: Huong Quynh

The Friends of the Prince: Quang Hung – Anh Duc

Spanish dance: Quoc Tuan – Minh Ha

Arabian dance: Kieu Ngan – Tran Ngoc Hien

The Clowns: Thai Son – Ngoc Truong

Russian dance: Tuan Anh – Hoang Diep – Minh Thong

French dance: Ngo Huong – Tuyet Dung – Hai Minh

and others dancers of the VNOB and the Dance School of Vietnam.

Tickets:

Ticket prices: 250,000 – 400,000 – 600,000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at ticketvn.com.

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

HCMC – Concert “Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5”

Wed 09 Dec 2015, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC

You are invited to the special concert “Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5” with the participation of 3 talents from the Goyang Philharmonic, South Korea.

– Conductor: An Hyun Sung

– Flutist: Ban Jin A

– Violist: Tran Huu Quoc

And HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera

PROGRAM

PART I

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture from the opera “La forza del destino”

Carl Reinecke: Flute Concerto in D Major, Op. 283

– Flute: Ban Jin A

Henry Vieuxtemps: Fantasia appassionata, Op. 35

– Violin: Tran Huu Quoc

PART II

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 are ranked among the most popular compositions of Tchaikovsky, who is well known not only as one of the most famous composers  

of Russia, but also as one of the most prominent author in the worldwide music scene. Featuring beautiful melody, impressive harmony, Tchaikovsky’s music enchanted the  

audience through the generations and continues to be performed in any theater. Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky will be performed in the second part of the event.

TICKETS

Ticket price: 550,000 – 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)

Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Huong: 0989874517, Ms.Huong Ly: 0908057972

At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square

Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn

Charity Run “Run for Heart 2015”

Sun 06 Dec 2015, 7 am

Yen So Park

Km 1.5 Phap Van Str., Hoang Mai Dist., Hanoi

At 7.00 am, on Sunday, December 6th, Charity Run “Run for hearts 2015” will be officially organized at Yen So Park to raise fund for heart operation of poor children, who suffer from congenital heart diseases all over the country.

Following the success of “Run for hearts 2015” in HCMC, the charity run will be held at Yen So Park in Hanoi. This special run is expected to welcome about 10,000 people to join in and raise fund over 1 billion dong to save poor children who are badly in need of heart operation.

This charity run at Yen So Park will be attended by the presence of the Ambassador of Heart Beat Vietnam Fund – 365 band and other famous singers such as Duy Khoa, Tran Lap, Minh Vuong, Quynh Nga, Thuy Trang; the Golden Ball 2008 Ngoc Tram; Master Chef 2014 Minh Nhat; actress Ngoc Thanh Tam and other famous artists. With almost 3-km running track, runners will enjoy charity activities and the running within lush greenery and lakes of Yen So Park which will make it an memorable day.

According to the Association of Cardiac Pediatrics and congenital heart disease, every year Vietnam has about 10,000 children born with heart defects. 50% of children need special medical treatment to maintain the life. Many of them have faced with serious cases as lack of timely medical care due to extremely high medical costs compared to their family income of their families.

The fundraising is rooted from sponsorship and registration fee. Each and every individual who attends the “Run for hearts 2015”, will donate VND 100,000 for the fund and receive a special T-shirt. All proceeds of this fundraising will go towards Heart Beat Vietnam Fund.

For online donation and registration, please follow this link or call at hotline: 04 3944 98 98.

International Literary Translation Contest “Close Approximations”: Call for Submissions

Deadline: 15 Dec 2015

Result announcement date: 15 April 2016

Fantastic news for emerging translators all over the world: “Close Approximations,” Asymptote’s journal hugely popular translation contest, is back! Open to translators at the beginning of their careers, this contest invites translations in three genres: poetry, fiction, and—a new category this year—literary nonfiction.

How to participate

Submit between 5 to 10 pages of translated poetry or between 10 to 25 pages of translated fiction or nonfiction via the ‘Contest’ option of Asymtote’s Submittable page, in the appropriate category.

Prizes

– The winner and runner-up of each category will walk away with 1,000 USD and 500 USD respectively.

– In addition, they will also be featured in the Asymptote April 2016 issue, joining an exceptional roster of translators published in our pages.

For more information and application form please visit the organizer’s website.

Hue – Film Screening “Pas son Genre”

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 7.15 pm

Institut français de Huế

01 Le Hong Phong, Hue

You are invited to the film screening “Not My Type” (France, 2014, 111 mins).

Director: Lucas Belvaux

Cast: Emilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery, Sandra Nkake

A romantic love story between a philosophy professor and a barber who is a huge fan of Jennifer Aniston in a small town.

Language: Original language with Vietnamese subtitles.

For more information about synopsis, please refer to Vietnamese version of this post.

Free entrance.

HN & HCMC – Dance Drama “Promise to 800”

HCMC: Tue 01 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm

HCMC Opera House

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Hanoi: Fri 04 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm

Au Co Theater

You are invited to Dance Drama “Promise to 800” in Hanoi and HCMC.

A.D. 1226. Lý Long Tường, the last prince of Ly’s Dynasty of Vietnam, escaped from rebellion and had to sailed on the distant sea route.

At the end of a long voyage, he came to Ongjin land of Korean Peninsula (Goryeo Nation, at that time). Over 800 years until now, there are about 2,000 descendants of Ly Dynasty living in Korea.

Basing on this meaningful story, “Promise to 800” was born of Stage Director – Mr. Jung Sun Goo’s script and Dancer – Mrs. Chun Yoo Oh’s choreography. This drama dance is motivated with many new artistic languages, enhanced artistic creative power, harmonized by dancing, drama and live music genre.

The life of Ly dynasty’s last prince named Ly Long Tuong (Korean name 이용상) will be presented on stage with tittle “Promise to 800” by a Korean dancer, a Vietnamese drama actor and a Germany musician.

Tickets

In HCMC, free tickets available at:

– HBSO ticket box, Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1, HCMC. Phone: 08 38237419

– Student Assistance Center of Ho Chi Minh City, 33 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, HCMC. Phone: 08.38277981   

HCMC Opera House

No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC   

Au Co Theater

No 8 Huynh Thuc Khang, Hanoi

Mui Ne Music and Arts Festival

04 – 06 Dec 2015, 7 am – 11.30 pm

Mui Ne, Binh Thuan

3 Days, 3 Stages, One Love.

The combined forces of some of the best party producers in Saigon are headed to the beach for three days of non-stop fun.

The organizer is taking over a beautiful Mui Ne hillside with panoramic views of the Mui Ne bay and fishing fleet. The festival will be open from late afternoon until midnight each day.

Then we will party until the sun comes up with joint effort after parties each night at Mui Ne’s finest clubs… Dragon Beach, Pogo and Line Up.

°°°° Main Stage °°°°

The Main Stage features the best of Vietnam’s original live music artists and a selection of international headline guests each evening. Perfume Genius has been announced as the Sunday night headliner with Friday and Saturday announcements to come. Confirmed so far:

+ Perfume Genius (Sunday headline)

+ Gen

+ Wild Salmon

+ James & The Van Der Beeks

+ Mekong Delta Force

+ Phil Holmes

+ CoCC

+ Masia One & The Irietones

+ Night Breeze Control

+ LG Trio

+ Background ALLstars

+ Red Amity

+ Seighart

More artists including Fri & Sat headliners will be announced soon.

°°°°° Reggae Stage °°°°°

More than 20 DJs will play the full range of Roots Reggae / New Roots / Digital / Dancehall / Dub / Dubstep / Drum n Bass / Jungle / Chill & Experimental / Bass & Trap sounds.

Get ready for 3 days of wicked outdoor vibes!

Reggae Stage Line Up:

+ Jase Nguyen

+ Dan – Lo

+ K – One

+ General Knappe

+ Selecta Morgan

+ Selecta Ivy

+ Skulz

+ King Cargo

+ Sonar Lee

+ Akihito

+ Slowbirds

+ Nori Nori

+ Cheezy Gangztaz

+ KCM

+ Kaztet D

+ Arlo

More artists will be announced soon.

°°°° Dance Stage °°°°

Dance Stage Line Up:

+ Franz Underwear (Slow Motion Records, Wrong Era – BERLIN)

+ Nic Ford (MadderModes, The Observatory – UK)

+ DeeJay Konka (FR, IBIZA)

+ Jimmy Ladd (Movement, SWP – UK)

+ Dsane (Monasterio – RU)

+ Darrell Johnston (Life Festival – IRE)

+ Noches (The Future – ESP)

+ Dan Lo (Eclectic Aesthetic – HCMC)

+ Josa (Amsterdam NL/UK)

TICKETS

Ticket price: 200,000 – 450,000 VND

Tickets on sale at ticketbox. Transport and Accommodation deals are available.

Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

Fri 04 Dec 2015, from 6 pm

Pullman Hanoi Hotel

40 Cat Linh Str, Hanoi

To start a joyful festive season 2015, come to join an event for family, friend, loved ones to share memorable moments together, a “Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony”.

The children will be the centre of the ceremony by having a Santa Claus appearing with many gifts. Not only that, a surprise present from our Santa Claus sure will bring joy to all participants. To create a warm atmosphere against the cold weather outside, the Christmas signature traditional Gluhwein (warm red wine with cinnamon and dried fruits) and light seasonal snacks in Pullman style will be served. The unique Up-side-down Christmas tree will gradually be lighted up in the Christmas melodies of the saxophone.

Entry Pass (invitation) is for everyone and limited. Please dial +84 4 3733 0688 to register as soon as possible.

Subscription Concert Vol. 86

03 and 04 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to Subscription Concert Vol.86 with:

– Conductor: Abe Kanako

– Piano Soloist: Hagiwara Mami

and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra

Program:

Lê Bằng Poem Symphony “Dòng chảy nghìn năm/ Flow of A Thousand Year”

Saint Saens Piano Concerto no.5 “Egyptian” in F major, Op. 103

Interval

Claude Debussy Prelude a’ l’Apre’s-midi d’un faune

Maurice Ravel “Daphnis et Chloe” Suite no.2 Vietnam Premiere

Tickets:

Ticket prices: 200,000 – 350,000 – 500,000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn.

For free delivery, call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Exhibition “Direction” by Artist Nguyen Duong at Dong Phong Gallery

Exhibition: 17 Nov – 12 Dec 2015, 9.30 am – 6.30 pm

Dong Phong Art Gallery

03 Ly Dao Thanh Street

Dong Phong Art Gallery is pleased to present “Direction”, the first solo exhibition by young Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thuy Duong. He was born in 1981 and graduated from  

Hanoi Fine Arts University in 2007 and is currently working as a freelance artist. This is the first time he presents his artworks to the public.

Exhibition Direction by Artist Nguyen Duong

The image of a little girl with red scarf covered her eyes and standing slanting in the lay-out of the painting gives us the feeling of dullness, loneliness, scare, timidity, flying into the orientation of the soul value’s existence…

Deadlock in freedom when we are on the way to find the essence of life…

Which way is suitable to us… ?

Turn left or turn right… ?

Flee or face…?

Go straight or stay still…? Accepted?

Mercy?

Everything can be closed or open?

Such disorientation is just like a game that the artist is searching for.

Welcome to the exhibition to see paintings by a new artist unveiled.

Christmas Concert “Sounds for the Season”

04 and 05 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm

St. Paul’s Convent Chapel

4 Ton Duc Thang, District 1, HCMC

Come to annual Christmas concert of The International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City featuring all of your favorite carols and songs. Also featured will be Hodie Christus Natus Est by Palestrina, and Francesco Durante’s beautiful Magnificat. Especially this year, for the first time, we will perform one Vietnamese language Christmas carol (originally composed in Vietnamese during the ’40s-’50s).

No tickets are required, seating is on first come first serve basis. For good seating, audience should be arriving 30 minutes prior to concert start.

Entry is by donation, all proceeds will go to our two charity programs: Loreto Australia and Poussières de Vie.

Concert “Ludwig van Beethoven” at Goethe Institut in December

Thu 03 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

This year, on the 245th birthday of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, the Goethe-Institut presents a four-part concert series at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. The ten sonatas for violin and piano will be performed by the renowned musicians Nguyen My Huong and Dao Trong Tuyen.

For the last concert of the Beethoven cycle, which the Goethe-Institut presented in honour of the great composer this autumn, musicians Nguyen My Huong and Dao Trung Tuyen will finish the cycle with sonatas No. 6 and 9. The latter also carries the name “Kreutzer Sonata”, after the French virtuoso violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer. Originally however, the sonata was dedicated to violinist George Bridgetower, with whom Beethoven played the debut performance in 1803. Legend has it that the two men quarreled over a woman, whereupon Beethoven subsequently changed the dedication to Kreutzer. Who knows whether it was the music or rather the dramatic story that inspired Leo Tolstoi to his novella “The Kreutzer Sonata” in 1887…

Beethoven has brought the Classical form to its highest expressive level and he is considered as a pioneer of Romanticism. With his sonatas for violin, composed between 1797 and 1812, he created an extraordinary musical cycle, which can, for the first time, be experienced in Hanoi in full length. Even more strongly than before, the violin appears as an equal instrument next to the piano in the “Kreutzer Sonata”. His contemporaries were surprised at the novel kind of composition, which they perceived as anarchic and wild. Experiencing these creations live is a very special opportunity for all music lovers.

PROGRAM

– Sonata No. 6 in A major, Opus 30

– Sonata No. 9 in A major, Opus 47

Nguyen My Huong studied at Hanoi Art School, Vietnam National Academy of Music with Professor Ngo Van Thanh as well as at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz with Professor Thomas Zehetmair. Among other prices she has been awarded with the “Youth Talent Award”. As a member of the Asian Youth Orchestra and the  

PMF Orchestra she played many concerts abroad and also took part in training courses in Japan, China, Germany, Austria and the USA. Currently, Nguyen My Huong works as a soloist in chamber music concerts with Vietnamese and foreign counterparts. She is second violin principal in the National Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. Moreover, she has received an offer to be concertmaster in Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dao Trong Tuyen studied with several prestigious piano teachers such as Hoang Vinh Huong, Hoang Hoa, Joel Pasquier, Professor Tran Thu Ha and Professor Đặng Thái Sơn. In 2007, he completed his Doctorate of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Montreal in Canada. Dao Trong Tuyen won the first prize in the National piano competition in 1990 and he has played concerts in Canada, France and Japan. He has recorded a large number of works for Vietnam National Television and Vietnam National Radio. He has also performed as a soloist with major orchestras in Vietnam such as Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra and Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

At present, Dao Trong Tuyen is a piano teacher at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

Due to the limited number of seats we kindly ask only visitors from the age of 12 and up to come.

Tickets for 03.12.2015 are available starting Thursday, 26 November, 9 am at Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

Solo Exhibition “White, Black & Gold” by Le Hoang Bich Phuong

Opening: Fri 04 Dec 2015, 10 am

Exhibition: 04 – 25 Dec 2015, 9 am – 6 pm

Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung

Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội

The Japan Foundation Center for cultural exchange in Vietnam, proudly hosts an art exhibition by Le Hoang Bich Phuong “White, Black & Gold” in Hanoi from 4 December to 25 December 2015.

Le Hoang Bich Phuong is a Ho Chi Minh City based young artist who was awarded an artist-in-residence at S-AIR in Sapporo City, Japan, through the “JENESYS Invitation Program for Creators” operated by the Japan Foundation. She had her first silk painting solo exhibition titled “A transformative disguise” in 2012 in Hanoi and HCMC supported by the Japan Foundation and San Art. In 2015, she comes up with “White, Black & Gold” with a new material, ceramic.

Since graduation, Phuong has always been attracted to traditional techniques. This project is a new experiment – a combination of her ideas and an innovative Vietnamese craft technique, a departure from silk painting. All artworks will be made of glass and ceramic, and are hand-made. This is done entirely with the support from the talented artisans of Bat Trang ceramic village. Through this project, it is her goal that these pieces will recall Vietnamese traditional art crafts that are now faded by modernizing trends in Vietnam.

In this exhibition a series of installations in ceramic will be divided into three spaces with three art works, representing her dreams or ours. People are constantly compelled by an unidentified urge to fulfill their dreams, and likewise gain greater access to life’s blessings. They struggle and evolve in an effort to reach these dreams, to reach this end. To Phuong, all of us are as random as the creation of planets. Born, then strung together in a cluster like a galaxy, an asymmetrical chain.

Following our creation, we are impacted and influenced by each other. Like asteroids, actions create sequences we can at times anticipate. Other impacts set in motion unintended consequences. We seek and chase the broader spaces. We pay no mind to the effects they may cause surrounding planets. Somehow, we deviate from the universal system of order. Our path breeds jealousy, as we seek greener pastures just over the horizon. It is her belief that peaceful consciousness instills order. It is in fact our forgotten promised land – abandoned in pursuit of meandering dreams.

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Le Hoang Bich Phuong (b. 1984, Ho Chi Minh City) is one of Vietnam’s most promising young artists whose study of Vietnamese and Japanese silk painting traditions has greatly influenced her own unique style and technique. Influenced by the ukiyo-e tradition, while also drawn to the popular world of the comic, Bich Phuong’s strong command of line and color creates an ethereal, near surreal presence. A graduate of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University, she was awarded an artist-in-residence in Sapporo, Japan, as part of the “JENESYS Program: Invitation Program for Creators” of the Japan Foundation in 2011 and that same year was also one of the finalists for the DOGMA Art Prize in self-portraiture. In 2010 she was finalist in the “Talent Prize” of the Cultural Development and Exchange Fund.

Recent exhibitions include:

– Sapporo Biennale 2011, Sapporo, Japan, 2011

– “Shaping a line”, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2011

– “Saigon Contemporary”, La Lanta Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011

– “A transformative disguise”, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2012 and The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, 2012

Admission free.

Happy Birthday, Beethoven

3 December

To celebrate the 245th birthday of composer Ludwig van Beethoven, musicians Nguyen My Huong and Dao Trung Tuyen will perform some of his piano and violin sonatas at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi.

8 p.m. 3 December: Sonata No. 6 in A major, Opus 30; and Sonata No. 9 in A major, Opus 47

Free tickets are available from 14 September at Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc St, Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi. Tel: (04) 3734-2251

Midnight sun

10 December

Axwell & Ingorosso from Sweden will perform and promote their album ‘Sun Is Shining’ at Long Island Castle on 10 December. The band was established in 2014. The event will also include performances by local and international artists.

Long Island Castle, 173 Long Thuan, Long Phuoc Ward, Dist.9, Ho Chi Minh City. Tickets start from VND1,450,000. Book tickets at www.ticketbox.vn

King of Trance

13 December

Armin Van Buuren is the most recognizable DJ around the globe. He was crowned the World’s Number 1 DJ four years consecutively by DJMag. He has also been dubbed ‘the King of Trance’. He will perform in Vietnam for the first time on 13 December, from 4 p.m. till midnight, at Ecopark Township, Xuan Quan, Van Giang District, Hung Yen City.

Ticket: VND750,000-VND17,500,000. Book tickets at www.ticketbox.vn

Beethoven’s Ninth

19 December

A special concert ‘Beethoven No.9’ will be held at 8 p.m. 19 December at Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien St, Hanoi. The concert will be conducted by Honna Tetsuji, accompanied by soprano Ha Pham Thang Long, alto Nguyen Thu Quynh, tenor Nguyen Anh Vu, bassist Fukushima Akiya and artists from Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, Hanoi International Choir, Hanoi Freude Choir. The show will play symphony No.9 in D minor, op.125 ‘Choral’.

Tickets: VND200,000, VND350,000, VND500,000. All tickets are available at Hanoi Opera House or book at www.ticketvn.comfor free delivery.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5

9 December

Guest artists from Goyang Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor An Hyun Sung, flutist Ban Jin A, violin Tran Huu Quoc and artists from HBSO Symphony Orchestra will perform ‘Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5’ at 8 p.m. 9 December at Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh City.

Tickets: VND200,000 to VND550,000. Online booking at www.ticketbox.vnfor free delivery

The Wave

10 December

The Wave Music Festival will be held at 3 p.m. on 10 December at Tan Trao, Phu My Hung, Dist.7, Ho Chi Minh City. The event will feature many DJs, especially the participation of DJ SNAKE, who is famous for the hit ‘Turn Down For What’.

Tickets from VND399,000. Book tickets at www.ticketbox.vn

Unfinished Symphony

19 December

A concert ‘Unfinished Symphony’ will be held at 8 p.m. 19 December at Opera House, with the performance of conductor Tran Vuong Thach, pianist Joo Eun Young, soprano Cho Hae Ryong and artists from HBSO Symphony Orchestra.

The programme has two parts. Part 1: ‘Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, op.18’ by Sergei Rachmaninov. Part 2: ‘Rosamunde’, ‘Ave Maria’ and ‘Symphony No.8 in B Minor, D.759’ (‘Unfinished’) by Franz Schubert, and ‘Il Bacio’ by Luigi Arditi.

Exhibition “Far in the North” by Ha Manh Thang

Opening: Wed 02 Dec 2015, 6 pm

Exhibition: 02 – 31 Dec 2015

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to painting exhibition “Far in the North” and the selection of Ha Manh Thang during the period of 2012-2015.

In a remote part of his subconscious, there is a place which Ha Manh Thang called “North”, a place where a blue-gray tint still remains, blending into twilight, which he believes is the far north…

“Far in the North” is one part of the series “Vietnam’s landscape” that Ha Manh Thang has been working on for the last 3 years. The series is mainly centered on the temples and pagodas of North Vietnam. However, the background of reality in this new series has totally disappeared and he only painted the temples and pagodas in the Northern countryside areas of Vietnam based on their architectural drawings and a bit of real context that has been left on them.

Previous exhibitions by Ha Manh Thang:

– Exhibition “Winter Hues” in Hanoi (2015)

– Exhibition “Khói sóng” tại TP. HCM (2015)

– Exhibition ““Fading Dreams – Disintegrating Realities”” tại Thái Lan (2014)

– Exhibition “Hevean Is A Place” tại TP. HCM (2013)

Pop-rock Concert with La Grande Sophie

20:00, 12/12/2015

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the pop-rock concert with La Grande Sophie.

Invited in 2013 to celebrate French year in Vietnam, La Grande Sophie was not able to give the expected concert in Hanoi, but it became the title of one of her new songs in the album released in France in Fall 2015…

As promised, this outstanding singer of French pop-rock scene has come back to L’Espace with guest Le Cat Trong Ly! A concert not to be missed!

TICKETS

Ticket price: 160,000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Christmas Concert 2015

Fri 04 Dec 2015, 8 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

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Sat 05 Dec 2015, 7 pm

Opera House Haiphong

Christmas – time of reflection and family gathering. On this special occasion, the Goethe-Institut cordially invites you to two traditional Christmas concerts in Hanoi and Haiphong to celebrate a successful year of 2015 together with our students, graduates, staff and all our friends.

Compositions by Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as popular Christmas songs to sing along will carry us into a magical world of Christmas. Similar to the previous years, we will be joined by the Vietnam Bamboo Ensemble Suc Song Moi, the International Choir Hanoi, a chamber orchestra, and numerous other artists.

See Christmas Concert Programme

In Hanoi: Free admission

ART for YOU back in Hanoi

03 – 07 Dec 2015, 10 am – 8 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

We did it here… then we did it there. Now we are here again.

After a successful ART for YOU HCMC (thanks again for such a warm welcome!), we are very happy to back on home turf. ART for YOU YOU YOU our beloved Ha Noi!

ART for YOU once again showing at the serene and superb Manzi Art Space from Thursday 3rd to Monday 7th of December, 10AM to 8PM daily.

Sketches, prints, paintings, photographs, sculpture, oddities and incongruities. A chance to enjoy and support the artistic endeavors of those who chose to create a more beautiful and engaging world. All hail… THE ARTISTS.

FREE ENTRANCE.

HCMC – Melting Pot 7: Art & Music Festival

05 and 06 Dec 2015

Saigon Outcast

188/1 Nguyen Van Huong, Thao Dien, Dist 2, HCMC

We are happy to announce that Melting Pot is back with a different spin this year! For those who don’t know, Melting Pot is an Art and Music Festival that aims to raise funds for charities such as Saigon Children’s Charity and other projects for local children in District 2.

The Melting Pot stage is a platform for local talent where professional and amateur artists are invited to exhibit their works in music, dance, poetry, art, cooking and more! We will have an action-packed weekend for all of you with surprising entertainment and exhibitions from the talented artists of Vietnam. This festival’s lineup focuses on local Vietnamese talent. We have some RAP, DANCE, LIVE BANDS, LIVE DRAMA, ACOUSTIC COVERS AND MORE! FULL LINEUP WILL BE POSTED HERE SOON!

Please stay tuned for more information. For now, mark your calendars because Melting Pot 7 is coming your way on the 5th and 6th of December!

LINEUP

DAY 1

Quy | Live Solo

Ngan Tieu | Live Solo

Wild Card | Live Duo

Datmaniac | Live Rap

Jase | DJ Set

XOI | Live Band | Hardcore Vietnam

Knife Sticking Head | Live Band | Hardcore Vietnam

9th Dimension | Live Band | Young Guns Records

Bui Gio | Live Band | Young Guns Records

Suboi | Live Performance

Duy Tuan | DJ Set

Maraphoria & Starchild | DJ Set

DAY 2

Ngu Nam | Poetry Reading

Lang Kinh | Live Drama

Saigon Children’s Charity | Presentation

Tung Tim | DJ Set

Saigonlag | DJ & MC

#HappiZoo | Live Band

House of Skarlet | Live Dance

Emily Navarra | Live Dance

X-CLOWN | Live Dance

Javana | Live Band

Hazard Clique | Live Performance

Slo-Lo | DJ Set

Maraphoria & Starchild | DJ Set

Tickets

1 Day Pass: 80K at the door

Promo Pre-Sale: 100K for 2 Day Pass (Saturday and Sunday)

(You can buy Pre-Sale at Saigon Outcast or sms 0907600897 to pick up in District 3)

Manganergy Workshop

Thu 03 Dec 2015, 7.30 – 9.30 pm

The Black Box

56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Have you been scratching your head to find out how to be more creative? Do you want your mind to be liberated? You know you have to “think out of the box” but you don’t know for what reasons you still see yourself stuck within the restrictions and rules of your habits.

The answer is within your reach.

Manganergy is a workshop for you to play freely with curves, shapes, and any combinations, surrounded by exciting music, connected by a series of exercises to activate your creativity.

Benefits:

– Activate your creative potential

– Discover new insights about yourself

– Release stress

– Free your mind

– And most importantly, have lots of FUN.

Who should join?

Anyone who wants to discover your creative capability. You don’t need to have talents or experiences in drawing.

With this workshop, you will be guided through every activity. Feeling the smallest changes, little challenging exercises will create the environment to energize your sensibility, observability, and help you express your natural and unique self.

Maximum number of participants: 25

Fee:

180.000 VND / adult

130.000 VND / student

(including drawing kits and materials for the whole workshop)

Payment should be made before 16:00, 1 Dec 2015 by:

– Bank transfer to: 0491000061588, Vietcombank, owner: Tran Nguyen Binh Minh

– Direct payment in cash at Life Art, Level 2, No. 56, Nguyen Khuyen, Dong Da dist, Hanoi

Instructor: Ms. Tran Binh Minh, Founder of SENSES Garden

* Note: The workshop will only be conducted if the number of participants exceeds a required minimum.

* For information and enquiries, contact via email: minhtran1312@gmail.com or hotline: 01668409806