Street Art Fair 2016

Sat 27 Feb 2016, 3 pm – 10 pm

1st floor lobby, Hanoi Creative City

1 Luong Yen, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

You are invited to the first street art fair at Hanoi Creative City on Sat afternoon this week with paintings, sculptures, music, and live performances, hosted by painter Vu Manh Phuong.

Main activities: exhibition, Japanese dance, DJ, live guitar, drum performances, Henna, Tarot and more.

Open to everyone. No need to register in advance.

Line-up artists (updating):

1. Phương Vũ Mạnh

2. Đào Anh Khánh

3. Lê Thiết Cương

4. Quách Đông Phương

5. Trần Nhật Thăng

6. Lê Thị Minh Tâm

7. Cấn Ngọc Chúc

8. Lưu Chương Dương

9. Nguyễn Ngọc Thanh

10. Lưu Danh Quang

11. Đoàn Xuân Tặng

12. Đỗ Khắc Hiệp

13. Nguyễn Quốc Thắng

14. Vũ Hồng Ninh (sculpture)

15. Phạm Quang Trần Minh

16. Xuân Hòa (drum)

Free entry

A Soiree of French Electro Pop “Vive la Fete”

Fri 26 Feb 2016, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

For one night only, femme-fatale-French-electro-pop obsessed DJs take over the stage.

DJs: Analogeliza (UK) DJ Arbre (Canada/Paris)

From the banks of Paris’ Siene to the shores of Hanoi’s red river, let’s kick it to diva-chic, chanson française, dark electronica, st.tropez beats, electro-clash + more!

Expect: Vive la Fete, La Femme, Sexy Sushi, Stereo Totale, Feu! Chatterton

Free entry   

Knowmads Connection Event & Last Info Meeting

Thu 25 Feb 2016, 7 – 10 pm

Bluebirds’ Nest

No 13, lane 19, Dang Dung Str, Hanoi

Looking back at our last events, we think one thing was missing: more time to connect with all the inspiring people around us, because it was already late when we finished the program!

So we decided to do something about it!

This time, we invite you to an event to connect with us and each other, talking about projects and ideas and maybe even making new friends and find partnerships! Something like a networking event, but a lot better! Want to know why? Keep reading!

If you have a project or idea, we’ll offer you a template to briefly describe it and write in what you need help with. You’ll stick the template to the wall and it will give you the chance to connect to people interested in it, get some great inputs and insights and also walk around to check the other projects!

EXCITED? Keep reading, there’s more!!

This is also going to be THE LAST INFO MEETING TO JOIN KNOWMADS HANOI TEAM 5 (tantantaaan!)!

We’ll share with you all the information you might need to decide if this is the right next step in your life! So, don’t miss this great (and LAST! tantantaaan!) opportunity to get to know more about our program, meet the people behind it and some other interested and interesting people!

OH MY GOD, I NEED TO JOIN THIS!! PLEASE TELL ME WHEN!?

Ok, ok, calm down! The event will take place on the 25th of February (Thursday), from 7pm to 10pm. So, save the date!

Come with curiosity, ideas, questions and a smile and we’ll have a great time together!!

As always, please register here if you are joining us, so we can better prepare.

At Knowmads we offer international, creative business education for people who want to make a positive difference. Curious? Check out our website! If you want to start your application for Team 5 starting in March, visit here for instructions.

Zen-Writing Workshop “Listen to your Inner Voice”

Fri 26 Feb 2016, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

The Black Box

56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Welcome the year of the monkey is a place where all emotions, thoughts, feelings harmonize in ZEN MUSIC, PENS, AND SCRIBBLED WORDS ON PAPER. A calming moment for a peaceful day.

This workshop is a journey of meditation and writing (Zen-Writing), alongside your friends, to reach and connect through self-discovery questions.

Zen Art helps us listen to our inner voice. Because mindfuless is a state in which we can awaken our creative energy. Zen Writing is a method of Zen Art, a combination between Zen and Writing.

In Zen-Writing, participants will listen to yourselves in your own mindful breathing and write down every thought appearing in your mind. Subconsciously, without judgement, without thinking. Zen-Writing helps us connect with life through words, listen to our soul, deeply understand our experiences, and be aware of everything that happens around and within. Most importantly, Zen-Writing helps us find, accept, and love ourselves. As the result, we can express and write in our way – and find the voice of a true artist inside us.

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

Fee:

100.000 / person (Bank transfer)

150.000 / person (Pay directly at Workshop)

Please make the payment before 16:00, 25 Feb 2016 by one of the following methods:

– Bank transfer: 0491000061588, Vietcombank, Account holder: Tran Nguyen Binh Minh

– Pay directly at the workshop at Level 2, #56, Nguyen Khuyen, Dong Da, Hanoi

Registration form

*Notes: The workshop will only be conducted if the minimum number of participants is met.

*If you have any enquiries about the workshop, please send an email to: minhtran1312@gmail.com or call Hotline: 01668409806   

Book Launch “Physical Anthropology”

25 Feb 2016, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the launching event of the book “Physical Anthropology” by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Musician Nguyen Lan Cuong, with the participation of:

– Assoc.Prof.Dr. Musician Nguyen Lan Cuong: General Secretary of the Vietnam Archaeology Association, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi Music Association, Lecturer at the Social Sciences Institute of Vietnam (under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)

– MC: Chu Hao – Director of Tri Thuc (Knowledge) Publishing House

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

Language: Vietnamese.

Free entry.

Quest Festival 2016 Calls to Artists

This November 04th-06th, Quest Festival is returning to the beautiful surrounds of Son Tinh Camp, Ba Vi, to hold the biggest edition of Quest yet.

Applications are now open for musicians, artists, DJs, performers, filmmakers and all other creative types.

Please visit Quest Festival’s website to submit your act.

Rated by multiple publications as one of the best festivals in Asia, Quest strives to stay on the edge and constantly seeks new acts and concepts.

For more information, visit Facebook page of festival.

A Casual Conversation with Artist Trương Tân

Fri 26 Feb 2016, 7 pm

Six Space

6th floor, 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi

Art, love, life, illusions about the West and discourse about meaning and significance of art. Come to an encounter – a talk with artist Truong Tan as well as to share and

exchange stories with Tan over tea and cake this fresh start of 2016.

About Truong Tan:

Truong Tan was born in 1963 in Hanoi, Vietnam. He graduated from the Fine Art School Hanoi in 1982, and the University of Fine Art Hanoi in 1989. He served as a lecturer

at the latter from 1989 to 1997 before becoming a full-time artist. Following the advent of the Doi Moi (renovation) policy in 1986, which liberalized Vietnam’s market policies,

there was a resurgent artistic romanticization of Vietnam’s past. Truong, for his part, abandoned the country’s then-current academicism in favor of a practice focused on the

complexities of human psychology and social circumstance. Through painting, drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, and ceramics, Truong challenges social

convention and investigates themes of identity and freedom of expression.

A pioneer in the fields of lacquer work, performance, and painting his work addresses many issues of oppression that individuals are forced to contend with within traditional

Vietnamese culture. Perhaps Vietnam’s first openly homosexual artist his work has opened the doors for those after him to discuss notions of sexuality in the arts. Some of

his most interesting work to date is what he is able to accomplish in the realm of lacquer, where he subverts the traditional aesthetic of this medium by introducing figures

that are reminiscent of street art in New York in the 1980’s and 1990’s. His influences range from ancient Greek iconography to the work of Keith Haring and Basquiat.

Truong has had solo exhibitions in Viet Nam and widely abroad. He lives and works in Paris and Hanoi.

* Please register, with your details (Full Name, contact number & email), via this link before 25/02/2016.

* Number of Attendees: 20 people.

* Please Note: Prior to this event, please prepare in written form or thoughts about: A wish, A space you dream of, A distance, A perception about art (changes & progress).   

Heartdance #2: Dance for Mother Earth

Sun 28 Feb 2016, 7 – 9 pm

The Black Box

56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

HEART DANCE MISSION:

To

Inspire dynamic dance journeys

– sometimes yin, sometimes yang

always hearted-centered –

to self-connect, attune and transform

through authentic expression,

rich sensory awareness and colorful soundscape.

Our planet

(Blood on the Dance floor)

Mother Earth is the sacred home to us all

The Earth is constantly providing and sustaining all life

There is no scarcity, only abundance and bounty

This is a natural state in which our planet is in

That is also a true state

We truly have it all

The elemental forces of the Earth

are the manifestation of the energy of life

We have the air, water, fire, and wind

These elements are manifestations that influence

and transform energy into matter

The Earth’s energy field is a powerful balance

creating dark and light

We are connected to this balance

Through Earth we receive energy, support, prosperity, and strength

We are never separate from the Earth

and its abundant energy

We are all in this together, we are one

I remember to see the world

through eyes of love and acceptance

All is magnificent in my world

I have come to this planet

To learn to love myself more

And to share that love

with all those around me

As I change my thoughts

Let’s connect with our root, to dance, to feel HER’s heart rhythm and knowing that she is always in us, always be our resource of energy, love and peace

Excerpts from the book “Talk With Mother Earth” (Tâm tình với Đất Mẹ) by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

• Fee:

Adult: Only 5 USD / or flexible from 80,000 to 100, 000 VND.

Student: 60,000 VND / person

FREE: Children under 14 accompanied, Senior (60+) and people with disabilities

• Register via Thu Thuy at 0989188806 or inbox to thuyntt08@gmail.com

payment online via Nguyễn Thị Thu Thủy: 04510002210 Ngân hàng VCB, Hà Nội (note: your fullname-Heartdance280216) or do payment by the door.

• Comfortable clothes for movement   

Artist Trinh Tuan at Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Program 2016 in Thailand

The Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Research Program is holding an exhibition of international lacquer art at the Chiang Mai University from 18-28 February. Over 50 lacquer

artworks from Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Cambodia, Taiwan and U.S.A will be exhibited, including works by Vietnamese artist Trinh Tuan.

The program began when its members first visited the Bagan Lacquerware Technology College in 2003. Since January 2005, yearly workshops and lectures have been held

by Japanese lacquer experts and artists in order to introduce Japanese lacquer art and techniques to the faculty and students of the College, as well as to the Bagan

lacquer community as a whole.

Beginning this year we are expanding the program to other SE Asian nations.

The program consists of workshops, lectures and exhibitions, in which the lacquer experts from Thailand, Vietnam Cambodia, Myanmar and Japan will introduce and

discuss the techniques, as well as the current state of lacquer crafts, art and education in each nation.

Artist Trinh Tuan is exhibiting his works at the program. He will also be taking part in lecture “Lacquer Art in Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Taiwan and Vietnam” with artists

Eric Stocker, Saeko Ando, and other experts on February 20.

GENERAL SCHEDULE

18 – 28 February, 2016

Exhibition Space back Gallery 1st floor, Chiang Mai University Art Center

Content：1 – Lectures, 2 – Demonstrations, 3 – Workshops, 4 – Exhibition, 5 – Performance

20 February, 2016

Lectures: 9:30-12:30, Auditorium

Artist Talk: From 15:00, Exhibition Space

Performance: From 16:30, Exhibition Space

Reception: From 17:00, Exhibition Space

21 February, 2016

Demonstrations: 10.00-12:00, Exhibition Space

Workshops: 13:00-15:00, Exhibition Space

Weekend Bookworm Closing Sales

26 – 28 Feb 2016

Bookworm Nghi Tam

Lane 1/28, Nghi Tam Village, Hanoi

After 4 years of successful operation, the Weekend Bookworm outlet in Nghi Tam will succumb to the kindle and go into permanent hibernation at the end of February.

Sale of quality steel shelving, books, artworks and craft works will take place on Friday, Saturday, Sunday Feb 26, 27, 28.

Kindlization has meant that not enough second-hand books are available to keep two locations supplied.

BOOKWORM will consolidate and continue to grow @44 Chau Long Street to duel with the kindle as it has done since 2000.

Exhibition “The Destination Point of an Oblique Line” by Dinh Thi Tham Poong

Opening: Fri 26 Feb 2016, 6 pm

Exhibition: 26 Feb – 26 Mar 2016, 10 am – 6 pm

Art Vietnam Gallery

2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su Str, Hanoi

(Oblique: Diverging from a given straight line or course, neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping, indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; Indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward: An oblique allusion – innuendo.)

One could say all of life is the intersection of oblique lines or occurrences. As we go throughout life, our point of view shifts, like the world on its axis, poised between just one aberrant movement that could send all into total chaos.

In this artist’s view, life is orderly. Tham Poong‘s childhood, born of an ethnic Muong father and White Thai mother in the remote northern region of Lai Chau, began in nature in close alignment with the seasons and the phases of the moon. Life was simple and free to morph and align with the shifts in nature. This natural spirit resides in the artist to this day and has always been reflected in her art. After graduating from the Vietnam Fine Arts University in Hanoi in 1993, Tham Poong quickly established herself as one of Vietnam’s leading female artists.

Art Vietnam Gallery presented her solo exhibition in 2006, Natural Extinct, comprised of works which reflected a structured convergence of her life in nature with her city life.

In these works, utilizing pattern upon pattern in a flat palette of color on traditional Do paper, the artist creates a world at once introspective and surrealistic. Depictions of ethnic minorities juxtaposed with flat decorative pattern are flights of imagination fused with normal daily life, they are but one destination point in this versatile artist’s work.

Tham Poongs new works are a departure in form, medium and presentation but are once again a convergence of the intersection of the many paths or lines she has crossed or encircled in her life. As the artist matures, she extrapolates the twists and turns, the lines, shapes and circles with the acute realization that all these elements come from a very simple shape or starting point but as they move, they fragment and multiply, provoking many different ways of being and seeing.

Acknowledging as one of her influences René Magritte, Tham Poong explains, “Magritte sees with his mind’s eye while painting, he represents not the apparent but the evolutive, not the present but the future, not what is being but what will be. As I have been on my artistic journey, I began to perceive the limits of the visible. Everything is held in, and partially veiled by, everything… I realize that the real can be deceptive and obscure the truth.”

The artist’s new works, comprised of many mediums, oil on canvas, ceramic fragments held by embroidery, natural bamboo baskets, are the result of the evolution of the artist’s thinking about new ways of seeing. As the artist says, “I perceive two ways of seeing. One, the real, actual mode of seeing the real point, and the second being the imaginary point, what one wants to see, or the aim or concentration point. These two different points connect and disconnect but they should not be too far apart or too connected.”

The works on canvas are a departure from her traditional Do paper, the texture alone evoking a different way of seeing and feeling. In the work “Like the Shadows on Water”, 2015, two figures sit beside Hoan Kiem Lake reading a newspaper, absorbed in their reading, seemingly floating atop the water while actually their shadow is an embroidered target, yet another point of concentration, pointedly focused. “Trying to Concentrate”, 2015, depicts three figures in a landscape highly focused on their activity and yet they are tentatively balanced upon a labyrinth of intersecting lines, all askew, the view is clear but the point of view is forever shifting. “Lake of the Sword 02”, 2015, is a serene cityscape surrounding the lake, lazy clouds reflected in the water that morph and change as they drift by.

Connecting and disconnecting these shapes reflect a reality at times near, at times very far. Departing from her visual landscape mode, Tham Poong has created a series of small golden ceramic pieces, like a small fingerprint, held in place on a canvas background much in the same way the weavers from her native village place an object in the loom to weave around thereby creating pattern. The threads are sewn straight or not straight, or turn in many ways as if they are trying to lead the viewer to a specific point.

“I Think As You Do”, 2015, is a diptych of the two forms of expression, the angular dissecting lines of embroidery at times mirroring the lines of intersection in the oil on canvas, creating a tension that at times intertwines and at times repels.

Completing the objects is a very large bamboo tray in which triangular cushions are placed in a pattern, referencing a mandala of the universe or the sacred dance of Venus and Mars, where the conjunction of the shapes indicates or forms the nature of the relationship.

She invites the viewers to enter the mandala basket and sit within its intersecting lines to explore the interconnectedness of those around them. Points of intersection, crossing, dividing and morphing into a new existence.

Dinh Thi Tham Poong has exhibited widely internationally and her works are in the permanent collections of the Singapore Art Museum, Fukuoka Asean Art Museum,

Fukuoka, Japan, the Rupertinum Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, the MacLean Collection Mundelein, Illinois, USA, and the Post Vidai Collection,

Vietnam/Switzerland among others.

”Off the Frame” Sound Workshop with Karsten Krause

Deadline to register: 29 Feb 2016

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

OFF THE FRAME is a practical orientated sound workshop for film and video production. We will look at a range of different recording techniques, we will learn how to mix and record, how to use a wide variety of microphones usually used and how to mix and arrange recordings to enlarge the space which the image displays. Because sound offers so many possibilities an image is not able to provide. Sound makes an image not just richer, but also deeper, wider, closer, darker, brighter or more vivid. After the workshop you will become more sensitive to sound, you will understand how to capture and transport your own sensory perception into the media.

About the instructor: Karsten Krause is an artist, filmmaker and producer working with film and video since 2004. He studied visual communication at the School of Fine Arts Hamburg. He realized several short films and a feature-length documentary films, which were presented at numerous international film festivals. Furthermore, he works as a location sound recordist with experience in short films, features, documentaries and advertising.

Workshop fee: 700,000 VND/person (with equipment supported by Doclab)

Schedule: March 2016

– Saturday 5th 10am-6pm

– Sunday 6th 10am-6pm

– Thursday 10th 6pm-9pm

– Friday 11th 6pm-9pm

– Saturday 12th 10am-6pm (shooting)

– Sunday 13th 10am-6pm (post production)

Venue: Hanoi Doclab, Goethe Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

You can register here.

If you’re interested in getting news, announcements from DOCLAB for its activities, workshops, and schedule of film screenings, etc., please email us at hanoidoclab@gmail.com to subscribe to DOCLAB news.

Reggae Garden – Zamina Live

Fri 19 Feb 2016, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Zamina is playing LIVE at Hanoi Rock City on the 19th of February and it’s going to be MASSIVE!

Zamina is a band that play LIVE African Reggae Beats. They will get you dancing and shaking to their soulful sounds.

Matty C playing a massive mix of Reggae, Dub and Roots expect big bass and bouncy tunes.

Your regular One NayTon will be playing all things reggae, big bass lines and a skanking beat!

50% OFF ALL RUM UNTIL 12AM

FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT

FREE LIVE BAND

2 FREE DJ’S

REGGAE MUSIC, LOVE, VIBES AND HAPPINESS!

WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

Hue – Artist Talk and Workshop by Artist Willem Wilhelmus

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 3.30 pm

New Space Arts Foundation

2nd Floor, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City

Come to the artist talk and workshop by artist Willem Wilhelmus from Finland.

Poetry Talk “Poetry on Life’s Journey”

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 9 am

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to poetry talk “Poetry on Life’s Journey” with the participation of:

– Mr ANDRÉ VELTER, poet

Winner of the Goncourt Prize for Poetry 1996

– Mr JEAN-PIERRE ORBAN, writer, poet, translator, researcher

Winner of European Book Prize 2015

– Mr NGUYỄN QUANG THIỀU, writer and translator

Vice Chairman of Vietnam Writers Association, First Vice Secretary General of Association of Afro-Asiatic Writers

– Facilitator: Mr PHẠM XUÂN NGUYÊN

Writer, critic, translator

Chairman of Hanoi Writers Association

Life is journeys. The footsteps of people riding on the same journey are to find a certain destination. Life’s journeys are made by humans’ destinies. Individuals’ life paths meet, intersect, come together and diverge, making life history of each one as well as of human race. To live is to walk on the path, walk on one’s feet and walk with one’s destiny. On such life journey, humans have created poetry, or literature in general, to have a companion and to share their feelings, experiences and experiments about life.

Stendhal, French writer once said each novel is like a mirror walking on the road, reflecting the high blue sky, and even a small puddle on the roadside. It can be added: the infinite universe inside everyone’s soul. How arduous are the human paths on earth, in desert paths, swamp paths, and plateau paths; Where are they – the little girls in fairy tales tasked with sprinkling flowers on such the paths, as the Swedish writer, Selma Lagerlof wrote.

Is poetry such flowers on one’s own life journey? Please come and listen to the conversation between the three poets, Andre Velter (France), Jean-Pierre Orban (Belgium) and Nguyen Quang Thieu (Vietnam) under the facilitation of the literary critic Pham Xuan Nguyen in the atmosphere of Spring and traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) to think and discuss. (Pham Xuan Nguyen)

Europe, just like Vietnam, has long history in poetry and poetry has become a tool to maintain and develop the diversity of European languages, historical and cultural values. On the occasion of Vietnam Poetry Day 2016, the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam is honoured to invite two renowned European poets, from France and Belgium, to participate in a Poetry Talk, together with Vietnamese poet and writers, with a view to facilitate cultural exchange and present European literature/poetry diversity to Vietnamese poetry lovers.

Language: French – Vietnamese

Film Screening “Connasse”

Fri 26 Feb 2016, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Connasse” (France, 2015, 82 mins).

Director: Noémie Saglio, Eloïse Lang

Cast: Camille Cottin

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.

Event “Pro-Action Café” with Knowmads Hanoi

Wed 17 Feb 2016, 19 – 21.30 pm

Hatch Nest

14th floor, 195 Doi Can Str, Hanoi

Do you have a project or idea that could create something positive in the world?

Would you like to share ideas and join inspiring projects?

Would you like to connect with other change-makers?

The Knowmads Hanoi community invites you for a conversation about moving projects forward! This will be an opportunity to get input for your project or to contribute ideas and join other inspiring projects.

What do we mean by “project”? Maybe a dream or idea that you wanted to start but didn’t have the opportunity yet. Or an interesting task at your workplace that you would love to get input from smart people. Or a question that if you gain some insights you could change something important in your life. Or whatever you think a project is!

If you don’t have any project, that’s also great! It will be a fantastic chance for getting to know other cool people and maybe even joining an inspiring initiative! Much better than staying home having a Tết hangover, right? ;)

This event will be a hosted process using Pro-Action Cafe, a collaborative methodology for moving projects from ideas into action. It is the first time this methodology will be applied in Vietnam, and it will be hosted by a team of experienced practitioners in the Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter.

The spaces are limited, so please register here to save your seat.

We kindly invite you to give a contribution of 35.000VND for HATCH so they can provide tea and coffee during the whole evening.

At Knowmads we offer international, creative business education for people who want to make a positive difference. Curious? Check out our website (www.knowmads.vn) and consider applying for Team 5 starting in March: http://knowmads.vn/program/apply-now/

Performances of Electric Yard Dogs in February

The Electric Yard Dogs continue to play regular dates at the following Bars and Clubs in Hanoi throughout February:

+84 BAR 23 Ngo Van So – Fridays – 19th & 26th February (9pm)

21 NORTH CLUB 49 Lang Yen Phu – Mondays – 15th, 22nd & 29th February (9pm)

1900 LE THEATRE 8 Ta Hien – Sundays – 21st & 28th February (8pm)

In various incarnations, The Electric Yard Dogs have been performing in Hanoi for over five years. Original members Jez Hartley and Simon ‘Otis’ Redington, who hail from the ‘70s London Punk Rock scene, have now been joined by Le Havre rocker Ricardo Canu on drums and Louisiana wildcat Scott ‘Shyboy’ Reynolds on Blues harp in a new revitalised Rockabilly, Rock’n’Roll outfit.

The music is a highly dance-able mix of fast rock, rhythm and swing, a style reminiscent of Dr Feelgood, the Texas Bar Room Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds with a touch of Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed thrown in for the hell of it!

Apart from local music venues around town in Hanoi, the band also tour regularly down south to Danang,Saigon and Phnom Penh where they have an increasing reputation for doing what they do best: Electric Blues with Soul & Style!

Film Screening “It’s such a Beautiful Day” by The Onion Cellar

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 8 pm

CineB

1-3 Lê Công Kiều, District 1, HCMC

The Onion Cellar presents a screening of “It’s such a Beautiful Day”.

‘You begin to see how death enriches life and gives everything its meaning’.

“IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY”

Dir – Don Hertzfeldt

2012, 62 minutes

English, with subtitles in Vietnamese

The Vietnam premiere of the film was part of The Onion Cellar’s Sad & Beautiful World film festival in 2013

“Meet Bill, a disconnected, ailing man, as he drifts through the unreliable, disorientating fragments of his past and present. Bill sees the world through small moving holes, and his many, fragmented social encounters reveal a man who is paranoid, obsessed, anxious and generally unable to connect with the world around him.”

“It’s only after overcoming a serious illness (we assume it’s cancer) that Bill slowly begins to get it together and comes to see the beauty that life can offer when you’re looking.” (Chris Robinson – Sight and Sound Magazine)

“Bill’s been slapped in the face with something horrible and the world is looking very different to him: sad and beautiful. It’s somebody facing death who hasn’t really yet lived. The routine things he’s used to doing are suddenly completely redundant.”

“You begin to see how death enriches life and gives everything its meaning. It’s the people who drift around wasting their time, weirdly assuming they’re going to live forever, that are the depressing ones, at least to me.” (Don Hertzfeldt)

A couple of things:

Something not known (and remembered) by many: in one of its past lives (2011-2013) The Onion Cellar was a double-headed (tiny) monster, whose strange doings unfolding in tandem in both the North and the South. Ambient bliss at Saigon Outcast, noise terror at Dương Thụ’s Cà Phê Thứ Bảy, or how about those Sunday nights at Decibel? Or that time when Zeni Geva and CoCC shared the stage at the Darts Darts Darts (RIP)? Seriously, if you remember them moments (and us), you’re Kool (with a capital K)!

And now: not even joking. Thirty-one months after its last event in Saigon, The Onion Cellar will be back in the buzzing city. For now, ‘for one night only’ (to mark the new year? or perhaps the success of the con… ?) – ON A BEAUTIFUL ROOFTOP IN DOWNTOWN SAIGON – but who knows what the future might bring (right?)

Anyway, two of the films that have proved much loved by the folks in Hanoi will now make their way to Saigon for the first time, on the same night of the 21st of February

– by Oskar M

Tickets:

Tickets: 40,000 VND

Tickets for both Onion Cellar screenings that evening: 70,000 VND

In the same evening: “ROHMER IN PARIS”, for more information visit Facebook’s event or Hanoi Grapevine’s previous post.

Artist Talk on Exhibition “Migration and Identity”

Sat 27 Feb 2016, 7 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

In the context of the exhibition “Migration and Identity”, the artists Duong Thuy Duong (Berlin) and Do Tuan Anh (Solingen), who live and work in Germany, present paintings which deal with migration issues in many different ways.

With the number of immigrants in Europe being higher than ever, migration is a highly topical issue particularly in Germany. However, the immigration of Vietnamese people into Germany has a long tradition and is considered to be a success story: Vietnamese people are often described as one of the best integrated immigrant communities in Germany. What does this adjustment mean for the identity of the migrated people?

In their artistic work, Duong Thuy Duong and Do Tuan Anh deal with migration and identity issues in various ways. As part of an artist talk, they will discuss these topics together with the audience on the 27th of February.

Language: German and Vietnamese

Free admission.

West African Waves with Dan Lo

Fri 19 Feb 2016, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

West African Waves is here to submerge your souls in the vast horizon of different sounds and styles to emerge out of the region over the last half century.

From traditional percussive rhythms from Cameroon and the first forays into a syncretic, funky sound attempted by Highlife in the 60s in Ghana and Benin, all the way over to Nigerian Afrobeat and its modern house-infused edits emerging globally – DAN LO will be picking them out of his collection with the specific aim of making the room shake and dance continuously.

Expect a lot of vinyl, powerful sounds and reasons to move!

Tickets: 50,000 VND at the dooor

Film Screening “Chocolat”

Fri 19 Feb 2016, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

Dear film lovers, in the first week of 2016, you are invited to a sweet movie titled “Chocolat” in its original language with Vietnamese subtitles.

CHOCOLAT (French pronunciation: [ʃɔkɔla]) is a 2000 British-American romantic comedy-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris, and was directed by Lasse Hallström. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, CHOCOLAT tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

Filming took place between May and August 2000. The film was shot in the village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, France, and on the Rue De L’ancienne Poste in Beynac-et-Cazenac on the Dordogne River in Dordogne, France. The river scenes were filmed at Fonthill Lake at Fonthill Bishop in Wiltshire, England and interior scenes at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, and four Golden Globes. Judi Dench won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the film.

[Wikipedia]

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

Exhibition “Migration and Identity”

Opening: Fri 26 Feb 2016, 6 pm

Exhibition: 27 Feb – 13 Mar 2016, 9 am – 7 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

With the number of immigrants in Europe being higher than ever, migration is a highly topical issue particularly in Germany. The exhibition “Migration and Identity”, which can be seen from 27th of February to 13th of March at the Goethe-Institut, shows three artistic positions that deal with questions of identity in a sometimes very personal way.

In 2014, approximately 20% of the German population had an immigrant background. These 16.4 million people encounter unknown traditions in their new home. Many of them are living with two cultures, raising questions of self- and external-perception again and again: Where do I come from? Where do I belong? How am I seen by others? The artists Do Tuan Anh, Duong Thuy Duong and Long Thanh were born in Vietnam and have lived in Germany for several years. Their art focuses on questions concerning life with and between two cultures, addressing issues of migration and identity.

Born in 1979 in Thanh Hoa Province, studied Graphic Design at the Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts. In 2013, he moved to Solingen (Germany), where he has been living and working as a freelance artist so far. The artist processes the experiences of his early days in a foreign country as well as the cultural differences to his home country in his current series of paintings called “Beginning”. For his earlier works, Do Tuan Anh has already won the Juror’s Choice Award and the Encouragement Award.

The artist Duong Thuy Duong, born in Vietnam in 1979, studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi and later took a degree in painting at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. She is currently based in Berlin. After 2007 and 2009, this is the third time that Duong Thuy Duong will exhibit her latest works in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. On display are paintings which focus on the representation of the inner human being.

Music Story of the Old Quarter in February

Fri 12 Feb 2016, 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…

Contact Mr. Tan at 01249125212 or email: vunhattan@gmail.com or dongkinhconhac@gmail.com any further information.

Free entry.

Film Screening and Artist Talk with Artist Nguyen Trinh Thi in Berlin

Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trinh Thi will hold two short film screenings and an artist talk as part of the Artists-in-Berlin Program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) on 18 February at daadgalerie in Berlin, Germany.

The two short films that will be screened are “Letters from Panduranga” (with which the artist won a Prudential Eye award), and “Landscape Series #1”. Both films have been screened at various museums and studios in France, Russia, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam.

“Letters from Panduranga” is an essay film portraying a Cham community living in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam, whose territory is threatened by the government’s construction of two nuclear power plants. Known as “Panduranga”, it is the last surviving territory of the ancient matriarchal kingdom of Champa. Acting as an ethnologist, Nguyen Trinh Thi explores the issues related to speech and history as well as new forms of colonialism.

The film is screened from 6 February to 19 March at daadgalerie (Monday-Saturday, 11-18h).

“Landscape Series #1” is a video installation made up of hundreds of images in which anonymous persons were pointing to one direction, with the exact posture, indicating “a past event, the location of something gone, something lost or missing”. In the artist’s words:

“As the journey starts, wide empty landscapes make one wonder what one is looking for. A mysterious object? A crime scene? Something horrifying? The scenes are getting more and more specific, but they do not lead to any concrete solution – only an injury in place of a metaphor. […] We are left knowing nothing about the people, their specific thoughts or feelings, only with their repetitious sameness […], which seems to be indicating a direction, a way forward out of the past, a fictional journey.”

After the screenings, Nguyen Trinh Thi will have a discussion with Dr. May Adadol Ingawanij from the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media of the University of Westminster.

*Detailed program:

18.02.16

18h30:

Filmvorführung

Letters from Panduranga (2015, 35 min)

Landscape Series #1 (2013, 5 min.)

19h15:

Künstlergespräch

Nguyen Trinh Thi &

Dr. May Adadol Ingawanij,

Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media

University of Westminster

06.02.16 – 19.03

Mon-Sat, 11-18h:

Letters from Panduranga

Nguyen Trinh Thi is an independent filmmaker and video/media artist based in Hanoi. Her diverse practice has consistently investigated the role of memory in the necessary unveiling of hidden, displaced or misinterpreted histories; and examined the position of artists in the Vietnamese society. She is founder and director of Hanoi DOCLAB, an independent center for documentary film and the moving image art in Hanoi since 2009.

The Berliner Künstlerprogramm is one of the most renowned international programs offering grants to artists in the fields of visual arts, literature, music and film.

Film Screening “Oggy et les Cafards”

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 4 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the animation screening “Oggy and the Cockroaches” (France, 2013, 80 mins).

Director: Olivier Jean-Marie

Cast: Hugues Le Bars

Adapted from a popular TV series worldwide, the film is a visual feast for kids over 3.

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.

HCMC – Screening of “Rhomer in Paris” by The Onion Cellar

Sun 21 Feb 2016, 6.30 pm

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The Onion Cellar presents a screening of ROHMER IN PARIS.

‘A love letter to legendary Nouvelle vague film-maker Eric Rohmer and the world’s most cinematic city.’

A COUPLE OF THINGS

Something not known (and remembered) by many: in one of its past lives (2011-2013) The Onion Cellar was a double-headed (tiny) monster, whose strange doings unfolding in tandem in both the North and the South. Ambient bliss at Saigon Outcast, noise terror at Dương Thụ’s Cà Phê Thứ Bảy, or how about those Sunday nights at Decibel? Or that time when Zeni Geva and CoCC shared the stage at the Darts Darts Darts (RIP)? Seriously, if you remember them moments (and us), you’re Kool (with a capital K)!

And now: not even joking. Thirty-one months after its last event in Saigon, The Onion Cellar will be back in the buzzing city. For now, ‘for one night only’ (to mark the new year? or perhaps the success of the con… ?) – ON A BEAUTIFUL ROOFTOP IN DOWNTOWN SAIGON – but who knows what the future might bring (right?).

Anyway, two of the films that have proved much loved by the folks in Hanoi will now make their way to Saigon for the first time, on the same night of the 21st of February.

Details on the first film can be found right here; the other – with its own event page – is to follow shortly.

ROHMER IN PARIS

Dir – Richard Misek, using footage from various films by Eric Rohmer

2014, 66 minutes

English, with subtitles in Vietnamese

So you are a dreamy young‘un, a college student, or perhaps (un)lucky enough to have a 9-5 somewhere. You travel through the city everyday, passing crossroads and streetlamps and buildings, for work, for silly gatherings with friends. The same route everyday, there and back. The familiar strangers’ faces, the familiar friendly faces.

On surface, the days repeat themselves, more or less, and yet the possibilities are endless. Little rendezvous of odds-and-ends conversations, fleeting encounters with other young‘uns of the city that make hearts skip… You are like them all. You don’t exactly have any great ideas about life, you don’t rescue anyone. Would a director ever care to make films about you and your little universe?

Here comes Eric Rohmer.

Rohmer’s Nouvelle Vague films – more often than not set in Paris – are charming in their own unassuming ways, with their light tender stories, with a little romance, a little humour – just like real life.

Life imitating art: like in many classic Rohmer films, it all began with a chance encounter. And before he knew it Richard Misek became so infatuated with Eric Rohmer and his films that he went on to watch all of them, not once, not twice… But simply watching them proved not enough: he went on to analyse every glance the characters exchange, every route they follow, all the crushes happening on the pavements, all the coincidences, all the tricks life plays; he cataloged doors, stairways, cafés, metro stations, benches, tree-lined boulevards, of Paris.

This process eventually manifested into ROHMER IN PARIS, an uncategorisable piece of moving-image painstakingly assembled using clips from various Rohmer films set in Paris, guiding audiences through this maze of a city – the beautiful Paris of a lost golden age. And perhaps, ROHMER IN PARIS will take you to the heart of the Nouvelle Vague that changed cinema forever.

[text by Lê Hà My, additional text by Oskar M]

Tickets

Tickets: 40,000 VND

Tickets for both Onion Cellar screenings that evening: 70,000 VND (details on the second film to follow shortly)   

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1-3 Lê Công Kiều, District 1, HCMC

Fireworks to Celebrate Year of Monkey 2016 in Hanoi and HCMC

Only six days left until the precious transition moment, and then we will gently “slip” into a whole new Year of the Monkey! If you are going to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Hanoi and HCMC, check out the locations for firework shows on the Lunar New Year’s Eve below:

Time: 00:00 – 00:15 Mon 08 Feb

In Hanoi:

6 high-range firework show locations:

– In front of Hanoi Post Office

– Thong Nhat Park

– Nguyen Hoang Ton Park (Tay Ho District)

– Van Quan Lake (Ha Dong District)

– My Dinh National Stadium (Nam Tu Liem District)

– Son Tay Ancient Citadel (Son Tay Commune)

And other 25 low-range firework shows will be organized in front of Ha Noi Moi newspaper’s headquarters, and in other districts and towns in Hanoi.

In HCMC:

– High-range show: Saigon River Tunnel – Thu Thiem Tunnel (District 2)

– Low-range show: Dam Sen Water Park

Conference about children book by Jean Piaget

Sat 20 Feb 2016, 9 am

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to introductory conference on the book “Symbol formation in children: imitation, play and dream, image and representation” by psychologist Jean Piaget.

Speakers:

Nguyen Xuan Khanh and Hoang Hung, translators of the book

Moderator: Chu Hao, Director of Knowledge publishing house

This book examines how humans are born with ideas and images that populate his mind and become the source of thought and creative imagination.

Language: Vietnamese

Free entry.

Film Screening “The French Minister”

Screening film with French subtitles: 19 February 2016, 8 pm

Screening film with English subtitles:  21 February 2016, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Come to the screening of “The French Minister” (Quai D’Orsay) (France, 2013, 113’).

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Casting: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup

Based on actual experiences of a government employee, the film is a hilarious look into politics. This funny portrait of a French minister also unveils the hidden corners of diplomacy world.

Synopsis:

“Alexandre Taillard de Worms is tall, magnificent, a dashing man attractive to women and, incidentally, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the land of the Enlightenment: France. His silver mane and his robust athlete’s body are everywhere, from the United Nations tribunal in New York to the powder keg of Oubanga. He admonishes powerful men and invokes the finest minds in order to bring peace and calm the trigger-happy – and to justify his aura of a future Nobel prize for cosmic peace. Alexandre Taillard de Worms is a powerful thinker, fighting with the back up of the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity and efficiency. He fights against American neo-conservatists, corrupt Russians, and greedy Chinese. Although the world doesn’t deserve France’s generosity of spirit, Taillard de Worms’ art feels cramped within the nation’s borders. Arthur Vlaminck, a young academic preparing his PhD, is hired by the minister. To put it plainly, he must write the great man’s speeches. But first he must learn how to deal with the prince’s moods and his entourage, forging a place between his cabinet director and advisers who haunt the Quai d’Orsay, where stress, ambition and underhand tactics are all part of operations. Just when he glimpses the world’s fate, he is threatened by the technocrats’ inertia.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 50 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Introductory Session to the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity

Workshop: Wed 17 Feb 2016, 8.30 – 12 am

Meeting Hall, Goethe Institute

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Deadline to register for the workshop: 14 Feb 2016

On 17 February 2016, UNESCO Ha Noi, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, will organize an introductory session to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) 2016.

The International Fund for Cultural Diversity, closely linked to the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, supports government agencies and civil society organizations in projects that lead to structural change through the introduction and/or elaboration of policies and strategies that have a direct effect on the creation, production and distribution of and access to a diversity of cultural expressions including cultural goods, services and activities in any form, such as music, theatre, audiovisual or design, among others.

The primary objective of the workshop is to provide practitioners in Viet Nam with updated information about and guidelines for applying for the IFCD 2016 (the official Call for Submissions to the IFCD 2016 will be released in late January 2016). Interested parties are recommended to consult the IFCD 2015 brochure and the official website of the IFCD.

In addition, the gathering is also dedicated to working with practitioners to identify capacity gaps that need to be bridged in order for young professionals to thrive in the creative industries and the concrete ways to address these gaps with the seed funds mobilized by UNESCO Ha Noi in 2016. The discussion will focus on the development of the training content and the modality of implementation.

In order to facilitate discussions at the workshop, participants are advised to review the IFCD 2015 brochure (the 2016 brochure will be disseminated in early February) and brainstorm potential proposals for funding prior to the workshop. Equally important, we request your support to filling out the questionnaire on training needs assessment, which will also be discussed at the workshop.

The deadline for registering for this introductory session is 14 February 2016. A tentative agenda of the session can be accessed here. To complete the registration process and fill in the survey, please click here.

For more information, please contact:

Nguyen Thanh Van

Programme Officer in Culture

UNESCO Ha Noi

Email: nt.van@unesco.org

Tel: (04) 3747 0275 (ext 37)

Contemporary Dance Workshop “Identity” with Huy Tran

Mon 15 Feb 2016, 7.30 – 10.30 pm

Kinergie Studio

7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Let’s explore contemporary dance with Huy Tran.

Participants: Artists, dancers, students and everyone who is interested in creative movements and contemporary dance.

With the theme ‘Identity’, the workshop includes special exercises that help improve the bodily and sensory awareness, opening up a conversation with yourself through the language of dance and movement. You will also learn a routine choreographed by Huy Tran with his unique style to enrich your movement ‘vocabulary’.

Born into an artistic family, Huy Tran decided to pursue a professional dance career at a very young age. Graduated from the Vietnam Dance College in 2006, he worked for the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) and eventually received a scholarship from Cinevox Junior Company in Switzerland. In 2011, he started to perform at Ballet Hagen Theater in Germany. He is currently working for the National Mannheim Theater (Germany).

Language: Vietnamese – English

Fee: 200,000 VND (20% off from 250,000 VND for the Lunar New Year Promotion, 150,000 VND for current students of Kinergie Studio)

Registration via this link

Mobile: 0912081950

Email: kinergie.studio@gmail.com   

Tet Celebration at Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

8.30 – 11.30 am and 11.30 am – 5.30 pm, 13 and 14 Feb 2016

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

Nguyễn Văn Huyên Cầu Giấy, Hà Nội

Tel: (84-4) 7562193

Opening hours: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, closed Mondays

Enjoy the Year of the Monkey at Vietnam Museum of Ethnology on the 6th and 7th day of Tet holiday (Sat and Sun, 13 and 14 Feb 2016).

The event will feature cultural characteristics of Central Highlands: Chiang tha (Brau); Bôông Bôông, Đing pú (Brau); To rung (Bana); Gongs & Sinus, Klong Put (Xodang/Bana); Giao duyen (Xodang/Bana) and zodiac, calligraphy, Dong Ho paintings. Participants are invited to explore the unique culinary of Central Highlands and Thai/Muong people, and playing folk games such as Tiger chases goat, walking on stilts, standing statue, etc…

Especially at 7 pm on the 6th day of Tet holiday (13 Feb 2016), the firework will take place at Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

Contact: 0437562193, 0437562192    

2016 Yangji-ri Residency in South Korea

Deadline: 10 Feb 2016

Time of residency: Between Apr and Oct 2016

The REAL DMZ PROJECT Committee calls for artists to apply for the “2016 Yangji-ri Residency” program. The program is established in order to provide a platform for experimental creative practices that center around critical perspective on the ironies of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Korea.

Eligibility:

Visual artist who is eligible to stay in South Korea for the duration of the residency (3 months maximum for international artist).

Admission: XX artists/teams

Deadline for submission: 10 Feb 2016, 5pm (South Korea’s time).

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

Exhibition “Polyhedron” by Nguyen The Hung

Opening: Tue 02 Feb 2016, 6 pm

Exhibition: 02 – 28 Feb 2016

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

“Polyhedra” is an exhibition following the series of three collections “And the flowers fell from the sky”, “Little Flowers” and “Lazy days”. In his semi-abstract style, Nguyen Hung The assembles pictures cut, gold leaf or more traditional materials, such as DO paper glued on fabric. He composes great characters, dressed in brocade similar to those of the Thai ethnic group, held in majesty in a world filled with myriads of small vegetable seeds.

Inspired by Buddhism and meditation of nature, Nguyen Hung The wants to discover, dig deep into the life on earth to find these seeds of love and hope, just waiting to sprout. The public will discover the new collection of Nguyen Hung The, new creations as well as older works, never exhibited but have been taken and reworked by the artist.

3D Painting Exhibition “World, Magic & Fun”

Exhibition: 20 Feb – 17 Apr 2016

(Weekday: 5 pm – 9 pm, Weekend: 10 am – 9 pm)

5th floor, Hanoi Creative City

01 Luong Yen, Hanoi

Following four successful editions in Belgium (one in Brussels and 3 at the Belgian coast during summertime), ‘3D World Magic & Fun’ starts its first edition in Hanoi.

‘3D World Magic & Fun’ is a unique event with huge painted backdrops and the visitor as the missing link. He or she completes the scene by carrying out some act, usually with a funny note. Meanwhile friends or family members take photographs of the performer-of-service.

The majority of sets consist of scenes with animals because the animal world is an inexhaustible source of fun confrontations with humans: together with a cute penguin you wake up a tall polar bear, or will you bring back home a lost dinosaur? Or why not frighten a giraffe with a small spider? But… ‘3D World Magic & Fun’ offers you so much more: an original encounter with The Minions, a game of tennis with an attractive Western lady, hiding for a big, big egg or – why not – becoming member of The Simpsons-family, or drinking coffee in a strange way?

This and much more at ‘3D World Magic & Fun Hanoi’ where the visitor is the hero, for it is he or she who completes the scene and makes the picture unforgettable.

Tickets

– Under 4 yrs: free

– Above 4 yrs : 50.000 VND

2% of the ticket price will be offered to the Charity Project “Chan am”