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Exhibition “Void” by Phan Phuong Dong
Opening: Thu 14 Jan 2016, 5 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 16 Jan 2016
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
You are invited to installation exhibition “Void” by artist Phan Phuong Dong.
“Void” is composed of a large quantity of discarded beer bottle caps collected over a long period of time, arranged on the floor like dust, may seen from afar as a large piece or upclose with detailed views of different angle and color of each beer cap. “Void” is all and all is void, originates from the void and returns to the void, void appears and disappears, space and time, interior and exterior, body and soul, tangible and intangible… includes the elements of meditation, minimalist art, architecture, sculpture, painting, linked to nature and contemporary.
Audio Visual Video Project “Island Gardens” by Mike Cooper
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Hanoi Doclab proudly presents famous artist Mike Cooper – he is currently in Hanoi and we will co-host a video screening with live music performance.
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date.
On the event night, Mike Cooper will talk about “Island Gardens” – an audio visual video project, show some of the videos and play live music to one of them with acoustic guitar and small electronics.
Free entrance.
More information http://www.cooparia.com/
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Tết DOME 2016
15 Jan – 05 Feb 2016
Hang Da Galleria
To contribute to preservation of traditional Tet, Tết DOME 2016 is organized with 200 paintings, 200 ceramics artworks, 50 Ao dai collections and hundreds of crafts suitable for decorating and renewing your home in Tet holiday.
Tết DOME 2016 showcases artworks of famous artists such as Le Thiet Cuong, Do Dung, Duong Viet Nam, Vu Thanh Nghi, Do Khai, Dao Anh Viet, Doan Hoang Lam, Tao Linh, Nguyen Viet, Bui Hoai Mai, Nguyen Tuan (Tuan pottery), Vu Van Gioi, Nga Cocoon, Trinh Bich Thuy, Adrian Anh Tuan…
And many fascinating activities such as interactive workshops, traditional cuisine, charity program “Cơm có thịt”…
”Sorrow of Noise” – Sound Performance by Tri Minh and Tri Nguyen in Germany
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 7 pm
Exhibition Hall
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
Ambient sound performance “Sorrow of Noise” by two Vietnamese musicians Tri Minh and Tri Nguyen will take place on January 15 in Berlin. It will be “a performance which blend the dark histories of Vietnam’s war but also showing hopes and sorrow,” according to artist Tri Minh.
A musical exploration of the trauma of the Vietnam War: Tri Minh’s composition, inspired by the stream of consciousness of Bao Ninh’s prize-winning novel “The Sorrow of War,” depicting lost innocence and class conflict transcending the clichés of Vietnam War literature.
An electro-acoustic soundtrack with đàn tranh zither sounds by Tri Nguyen, composed by Tri Minh — one of the first Vietnamese producer-musicians to gain recognition in the international Techno and Ambient scene.
Hue – Film Screening “3 Coeurs”
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 7.15 pm
Institut français de Huế
01 Le Hong Phong, Hue
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…
Language: Original language with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Free entrance.
”Story of 16 Coffee Tables” by Nguyen The Son
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 6 pm
Art Vietnam Gallery
24 Ly Quoc Su (2nd Floor), Hanoi
Nguyen The Son, Chinese scholar, photographer, artist on the move, once again provokes us to thought with his latest body of work, “Story of 16 coffee tables”, photo-installation, recently presented in the Mien Meo Mieng (Land of Distortion) exhibition at Umea Bildmuseet University, Sweden curated by Tran Luong.
For this series Son created 16 coffee tables made of lacquer. These 16 coffee tables represent the “16 golden words” – the pillars of the diplomatic relationship between Vietnam and China.
This version of the “16 golden words” is different from the 16 words which Son previously learned in school. The original versions are friendly neighbor, comprehensive cooperation, long term stability, and future-oriented. However, as time has gone by, these slogans have evolved into another version by which the tone has changed considerably. They are joint rivers and mountains, shared ideology, cultural similarity, and correlated fate. It is this version that Son used to make the 16 gold-molded Sino Vietnamese words, written in Chinese calligraphic style. Each “golden word” is carved on a lacquered table top, placed on top of a montage of photographs that portray stories of the various aspects of the meaning of each word in the two different countries, bound by the same ideological mentality.
The use of coffee tables where everyday life and stories are shared serves as a metaphor of this historic connecting of ideas.
It is this investigation of the line between evolution and loss, progress and amnesia that dominates in the work of this probing mind of the scholar/artist.
Also on display are Son’s newest works in the continuation of his Nha Mat Pho and Nha Tay Transforms series. As with the coffee table series, these works do not provide us with answers. Instead they do so much more, inviting viewers to see today’s Hanoi not as discontinuous with the past but as both creating and being created by its quest for the future.
Film Screening “Rain Man”
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 7.30 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
In the second week of Golden Bear films (the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival), you are invited to the film screening “Rain Man” directed by Barry Levinson.
RAIN MAN is a 1988 American drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish young wheeler-dealer, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Charlie is left only his father’s car and his collection of rose bushes. In addition to the two leads, Valeria Golino stars as Charlie’s girlfriend, Susanna.
RAIN MAN received overwhelmingly positive reviews, praising Hoffman’s role and the wit and sophistication of the screenplay, and was the highest-grossing film of 1988. The film won four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards (March 1989), including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Hoffman. Its crew received an additional four nominations. The film also won the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
Creative Dance / Movement Workshop
Thu 14 Jan 2016, 9.30 – 11.30 am
The Black Box
56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
You are more than welcome to Minh’s dance / movement session. This session invites you to connect to the essence of our breath, bodies, and Mother Earth. Through guided meditation, creative movement and improvised dancing, we will become deeply connected to the resources: our body and Mother Nature.
The trees in the winter now are gathering their lifeforce deeply inward, into the Mother Earth where their nourishment resides. The tree have shifted vibration from the high frequences of birdsong, dancing leaves into the deep bass, heartbeat thump off the Earth itself.
So too are we invited to ground into the base of authentic knowing that dwells deep within the core of us. We are invited to listen patiently for the whispering wisdom carried upon stark winter winds. We are tasked with tending our own hearts’s hearth, shedding light and warmth on our own unfolding. Just come and dance together at Minh’s session!
Registration (required) via this link.
The workshop is limited to 16 participants so please register early.
Fee: 180.000 VND (students: 130.000VND)
Transfer: Beneficiary Name: BUI TUYET MINH
Credit Account: 0021000482864
Vietcombank Hanoi
Pay rdirectly at Life Art, 2nd floor, 56 Nguyen Khuyen.
Please put your name and workshop name when transfer, for example: Le Thanh X_Visual art.
Hotline: 0966058741
FACILITATOR Minh Tuyet Bui graduated from a M.S in Dance / Movement Therapy at Sarah Lawrence College in New York (Fulbright scholarship). She is a member of America Dance Therapy Assocition (ADTA). Minh is a pioneer in applying Dance/movement therapy to education to benefit her home country. She has been working in education, specialized in serving as an art-based facilitator for personal and social development. DMT is a powerful tool for Minh to connect and enrich her emotion, physical and spiritual life as well as empower vulnerable people such as domestic violence victims, people with disability, children with autism, the senior with dementia…
Documentary Screening “Hunting in Wartime”
Thu 14 Jan 2016, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
At the end of the alley leading to Artist’s Hotel
Come to the film screening “Hunting in Wartime”, a documentary film by Samantha Farinella.
“Hunting in Wartime” profiles the extraordinary stories of Tlingit Vietnam (American) War veterans from the village of Hoonah, Alaska USA. The veterans talk about surviving trauma, relating to Vietnamese civilians, readjusting to civilian life, and serving a government that systematically oppresses its native people. “Hunting In Wartime” has the long-range perspective of how a soldier’s life was affected long after the war ended, giving us a glimpse into what present-day soldiers may confront now and in the future. Their stories give an important human face to the combat soldier and show the lasting effects of war on individuals, families and communities. The film portrays a stark reality of the human cost of war.
There are many films out today that profile veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This film traces the tension of the soldiers’ tremendous pride in service, the racism that affects their livelihoods and the challenges they faced (and continue to face) in the military and back at home.
With a population of 680, Hoonah, Alaska sent 28 of its sons into the US Armed Forces. 17 saw combat. 16 returned alive. The same skills that enabled these men to survive the harsh nine-month Alaskan winters made the Tlingit soldiers experts on the battlefield, hence the extraordinary survival rate.
During their time in Vietnam, many of these soldiers felt a kinship to the Vietnamese who also originated from small fishing communities. Several of the Vietnamese they encountered would call the Tlingit soldiers “same/same” because of their resemblance to those who they were supposed to be fighting.
Join us for a question and answer session afterwards with director Samantha Farinella.
Language: English
Film running time: 66 minutes
Cost: 150,000 VND
Limit: 90 people
Contact: Ms Hang, email nguyenvu_nganhang@yahoo.com
Notes: Your reservation is not confirmed until you receive our email. Please pick up and pay for your tickets on the evening of the event at the cinema (6:45 to 7:15 pm). As a courtesy to those on the waiting list – please cancel if you can’t come (phone 090 602 0960). Reserved seating tickets are allocated on a first come – first served basis. We don’t pre-book seating but if you come early you can pick your favourite seats.
Music Night with ARMS AND SLEEPERS from USA
Thu 14 Jan 2016, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
“Chamber-quiet, spacious music overflowing with delicate, luminous piano, floating synths, far-off guitars, and warm, crackling percussion…”
ARMS AND SLEEPERS are Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic from Boston, U.S. Their live act is Mizra alone, who will play for the first time, as part of his ASIA TOUR 2016.
Support acts: FROM HERE
About Arms and Sleepers:
The group were formed in 2006 and have since released 18 albums and EPs, written music for film and TV, and performed live around the world. They performed in Hanoi in 2011.
Inspired by childhood obsessions in the 80s, A&Ms latest album “Swim Team” draws from instrumental hip-hop, R&B-influenced instrumentation and a wide range of electronic music to capture nostalgic moments.
“Swim Team” is a compelling album characterized by a beautiful blend of lush textures, complex beats, and subtle harmonies which illustrate the duo’s growth and pursuit of invention and reinvention – becoming their most dynamic album yet.
Tickets:
Advance tickets 80,000 VND (at ATK), 100,000 VND (from ticketbox.vn)
At The Door: 150,000 VND
Exhibition “All about love” by Baptiste Gilloz
Exhibition: 12 – 14 Jan 2016
Floor 17, Hanoi Creative City
No. 1 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Come to “All about love” – a solo show by Baptiste Gilloz for TET ART 2016 Pre-opening.
The first installation ever realized in his latest project META, “All about love” (Group 1 – Scene 1/G1S1) is an introduction of what is at play for the artist focuses, surprises, emotions, intellectual encounters, relationships between things, the effect of affection in general. It is composed of a few pieces he has been working on which are particularly active with each other, especially inspired by the idea of first loves/bonds.
In Baptiste’s scenarios, it is up to us to remain focused on how they can arouse an idea, a memory, a feeling. It is up to us to reveal the lasting impact it has for ourselves, and to decide how we want to steer the whole thing. Being part of his profusion of thought became objects, he suggests us gently to dig further, to refresh our vision, and to play again our beliefs as he plays his.
Therefore, “All about love” is assuredly a gesture; an invitation to leave room for some more poetry in our lives.
* Baptiste Gilloz is a visual artist using mixed media to construct his works. Graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris – Cergy, he has had exhibitions in both France and Vietnam. META is his latest project, exploring the observation and experience of phenomena generated by the meeting of two or several elements. Controlled, yet autonomous and malleable, META is unfurled by what composes it, where it is received, and who sees it, forming an interactive whole, a producer of infinities.
TET ART 2016 will present the first three installations in this project, each of which shall invite us to allow ourselves to experience a uniqueness, or a breach; the conditions of a personal discovery.
Conference – Exhibition “Central Highlands and Champa in the Eyes of Jacques Dournes”
Conference: Thu 14 Jan 2016, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 Jan – 14 Feb 2016
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the conference – exhibition “Central Highlands and Champa in the Eyes of Jacques Dournes”.
Speakers:
– Writer Nguyen Ngoc
– Professor Le Hong Ly, Director of the Institute of Culture
– Dr. Andrew Hardy, lecturer and representative of the EFEO in Vietnam
His a-quarter-of-a-century stay on the central highlands has allowed Jacques Dournes to collect useful ethnographic information and bring together a large collection of photographs currently preserved at the library of Foreign Missions of Paris.
A selection of the finest pages of the notebook by ethnographer Jacques Dournes will be displayed in the mezzanine space.
Conference language: Simultaneous French – Vietnamese translation.
Free entry.
Knowmads Hanoi Team 5 – Info Meeting
Tue 12 Jan 2016, 7 – 10 pm
Deci Delà Café
18B Nguyen Bieu, Ba Dinh Dist, Hanoi
We are happy to start the new year inviting you for the 2nd info meeting to join Knowmads Hanoi Team 5!
This is a great opportunity for you to get to know more about Knowmads Hanoi, experience a Knowmadic Workshop, 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 at Deci Delà Café at 7pm 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!! :)
If you joined us in our 1st info meeting, don’t worry! We’ll host a different workshop this time!
To know more about Knowmads Hanoi, please visit our website.
Register here to save yourself a seat and a lot of hugs.
HCMC – Fine Arts exhibition “Meeting”
Opening: Sat 09 Jan 2016, 5 pm
Exhibition: 09 – 14 Jan 2016
HCMC Fine Arts Museum
You are invited to the Fine arts exhibition “Meeting” which features 33 painting, graphics and sculptures by 4 artists: Nguyen Quy Kien, Bui Duc Tao, Dang Hong Van, Nguyen Van Vu.
Nguyen Quy Kien expresses his nostalgic feelings through the image of harbors. Dang Hong Van tells her journey back to childhood, with the flavors, games, works or festivals in the North.
The paintings of Bui Duc Tao is an impressive mixture of fading and clearing images while Nguyen Van Vu is quite realistic, from the material (sculpture) to the story.
”Quỳnh by Night” – Solo Exhibition by Quynh Dong
Opening: Sat 09 Jan 2016, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 10 Jan – 20 Feb 2016, 10 am – 6 pm from Wed to Sun
Artist talk: Sat 09 Jan 2016, 4.30 pm
Nha San Collective
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Performance: Sat 09 Jan 2016, 6 pm
Halls – Hanoi Creative City
“Quỳnh by night” is the first solo exhibition by the artist Quynh Dong in Vietnam and also the kickoff event for a series of activities organized by Nhà Sàn Collective in the year 2016. In this exhibition, Quynh Dong designs a spectacle with layers upon layers of images, which have the ability to challenge the representation of cultural stereotypes and at the same time creates new perceptions in the most unexpected manner.
Interested in and inspired by the pop culture, Quynh Dong employs the material available in the tropes of the soap operas popular in Asia, the music prevalent in music shows or karaoke establishments, mock decorative miniatures, traditional paintings, common new year calendars, and children toys. Each and everyone of them is duplicated, and layered to construct a hyperspace overblown with cultural motifs that are questionable yet assembled in a harmonic, melancholic, sweet, and naïve way. The audience is hence completely bewildered, constantly shaken as though stranded in between amusement and anxiety. In such artificial and plastic world, the female characters, sometimes embodied by the artist herself, always appear in such typical portrayal that prompts skepticism. Which possibilities coming out of the display of consumerism, of propaganda, of collective memories?
Curator: Truong Que Chi
About the artist:
Quynh Dong was born in Hai Phong, Vietnam in 1982. She studied at Design School in Biel/Bienne, at Bern University of Arts, Zurich University of the Arts and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She recently completed her residency at MMCA Changdong run by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea in Seoul.
Recent notable exhibition: “When the wind touches yours skin lightly”, Lucie Fontaine, Milan, Italy (2015); “Tears of A Swan”, Kunstraum, Baden, Switzerland (2015); “The Twinkle World”, Deagu, Korea (2015); “BIG OPENING”, Riverside, Bern, Switzerland (2015), “Durch die Blume”, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland (2014-2015); “Rijksakademie OPEN 2014”, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2014).
Concerts “Liquid Nails”
Mon 11 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
The duo “Liquid Nails” with Mathias Kristersson and Jakob Riis has existed since 2009, and have been playing concerts in Denmark and Sweden. In Vietnam this time, the concept of “Liquid Nails” will continue developing in dialog with two Vietnamese musicians, đàn tranh player Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, and singer Đoàn Thanh Bình. Jakob Riis will be joining the “Liquid Nails VN” performances and Mathias Kristersson will provide a set of instructions in form of small symbolic performances, live sculptures and approaches for the musicians to carry out during the concerts.
Free Admission
Please note: for the concert at Manzi, please pre-register via manzihanoi@gmail.com before 8 Jan 2016.
Concerts organized by Domdom and Manzi.
Exhibition “Himalaya” by Photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh
Exhibition: 09 – 27 Jan 2016
Toong Co-working Space
3rd, 08 Trang Thi, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Exhibition “Himalaya” of photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh consists of 25 works selected from her trips to the lands surrounding Himalaya in North India in 3 years.
By far, Himalaya has become a source of creative inspiration for numerous movies, photos… due to its mystery, enchantment and grandeur. Quynh Anh is not an exception. In her eyes, this land has hidden an invisible attraction that makes her always want to come back once she arrived.
Many people ask her about why she could spend much time to take photos at this land, Quynh Anh said: “Maybe in the previous lifetime, I had been born somewhere in the Himalayas.”
This is an rare exhibition about Himalaya in Vietnam and this is how Nguyen Quynh Anh shares her own experience in the Himalayas, and thereby, introduces another insight of “The roof of the world”. A majestic nature, rugged terrain, harsh climate, but it seems that everything in Himalaya, from stone, grass and person, all imbues a sacred, pure and shining beauty.
About the photographer:
Nguyen Quynh Anh was born in Hanoi and grew up in Russia. She graduated with architecture major in Moscow, but has pursued photography and travelling as the greatest passions in her life after her trip to North India in 2012. And from here, India has become an unending source of inspiration for her compositions.
Her photos have been featured in numerous magazines, books, reports, and international organization’s websites including Lonely Planet Publications, Cosmopolitan, Yahoo Travel, BBC Travel… and got into the final round of some international photography contests of National Geographic Magazine. In particular, the photo “Tu Le Field” also appeared in the Top best photos monthly of National Geographic Magazine.
Dance Performance “Real Reality” with Nibroll
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
The Japan Foundation Asia Center (Tokyo) support the performance “Real Reality” by Japanese dance company, Nibroll in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this performance, one Vietnamese dancer will perform with them.
【Probing for corporeality we can really feel in the current age of diluted reality】
The development of television, the Internet, mobile phones, and various other technologies have made it possible to bring occurrences in the distant past and times from the past and future before our eyes, as if they were really there. We nevertheless cannot imagine the tragedies which happened long ago and share the bodies we see affected by them. Designed especially for this present age of diluted reality, this work taps the fundamental power inherent in stage arts, which definitely cannot be experienced without actually being there. It is aimed at imparting a genuine grasp of reality by presenting corporeality that can actually be felt by us who live here and now, for a limited, uncertain future.
About Nibroll
Since its formation in 1999, the Tokyo-based Nibroll has staged many performances inside and outside of Japan, and participated in numerous international festivals. As evidenced by the many awards it has received, it has been widely acclaimed in Japan and other countries for its dynamic productions, which combine dry but violent choreography with video, music, and art, and flood audiences with their sheer volume of information.
Meanwhile, the Mikuni Yanaihara Project, a theatrical project featuring Ms. Mikuni Yanaihara, Nibroll’s leader and choreographer, won even higher levels of recognition and note in the theatrical world when it was selected for the prestigious Kunio Kishida Drama Award in 2012. Yanaihara took the project on a nationwide tour in the summer of 2013, and it met with great success and fervent applause everywhere it laid, in spite of the one-of-a-kind, cutting-edge character of the means applied by its dramaturgy. Even in the global context, Yanaihara must be termed a rare artist who is highly regarded in both dance and theater. She is broadening the range of her energetic activity to the sphere of art, and avidly taking part in exhibitions and projects in Japan and other countries, mainly in Asia.
Free ticket distribution:
*Please refrain from taking children under 6 years old.
From 14:00 on 5 January onward
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
TEL: 04.39447419
[Opening hours] 09:30 – 18:00 (Sundays closed)
Performances of Electric Yard Dogs in January
The Electric Yard Dogs continue to have regular dates at the following Bars and Clubs in Hanoi through January:
+84 BAR 23 Ngo Van So – Every Friday (1st, 8th, 15th, 22, 29th January)
21 NORTH CLUB 49 Lang Yen Phu – Mondays (4th, 11th, 18th, 25th January)
CHEZ XUAN 41/76 lane, An Duong, Tay Ho – Saturday 30th January
ALL GIGS START AT 9pm.
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!
Program of Friends of Vietnam Heritage in January 2016
Start the new year with some great FVH activities. This month, we are pleased to offer the following events:
– Discover Hanoi city walk (in English) to Đền Quán Thánh (the temple of Trấn Vũ, Protector of the North) and Ngũ Xã bronze village on Friday 8 January
– Screening of the documentary “Hunting in Wartime” at Hanoi Cinematheque on Thursday 14 January
– “Introduction to Printmaking Techniques by Lê Huy Tiếp” lecture on Saturday 23 January
– Discover Hanoi city walk (in Japanese) to the Nhà Thờ area on Tuesday 26 January.
Plus, a special call for volunteers to join FVH in a regular activity to support the education of Vietnamese children in a village outside Hanoi. On the last Sunday of each month, FVH will travel to the small village of Phú Thịnh very near Phủ Thành Chương, approximately 30 kilometers north of Hanoi. There, Mr. Hiển, a dedicated philanthropist has built up his “Chúng em yêu sách Library” for the village youth. In this beautiful rural setting, we meet 20 to 25 of his students aged 9 to 16 years. We will help with reading, writing and speaking skills with these enthusiastic students.
You can also check our calendar at www.fvheritage.org for updates of the program.
For details please download this file: FVH’s Program in Jan 2016.
Friends of Vietnam Heritage
http://fvheritage.org/
Film Screening “Le Petit Prince” at L’Espace
08 – 24 Jan 2016
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
From 08 Jan 2016, you are invited to the adapted animation screening of “Le Petit Prince” at L’Espace.
Director: Mark Osborne (France, 2015, 107 mins)
Cast: Florence Foresti, André Dussollier, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Guillaume Gallienne, Vincent Lindon
“Wonderful adaptation of both modern and classic but especially Little Prince is respectful in terms of reminding us how important it is to continue to dream.”- le Journal du Dimanche
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post
Screening schedule:
Friday, 08 Jan 2016: 18:00
Monday, 11 Jan 2016: 18:00, 20:00
Tuesday, 12 Jan 2016: 18:00, 20:00
Wednesday, 13 Jan 2016: 18:00, 20:00
Friday, 15 Jan 2016: 18:00
Sunday 17 Jan 2016: 14:00, 20:00
Friday, 22 Jan 2016: 18:00
Saturday, 23 Jan 2016: 14:00, 16:00, 18:00, 20:00
Sunday 24 Jan 2016: 14:00, 20:00
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Tickets:
Ticket price: 60,000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Lomography Exhibition “No to Sorrow” by Maika Elan
Opening: Wed 13 Jan 2016, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 28 Jan 2016, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
Lomography is a style of analog photography, which works with the unpredictable image qualities of cheap cameras, like colour changes and negative effects. Maika Elan has been taking photographs with different Lomo-cameras since 2009. Her journey with Lomography can be seen in the Goethe-Institut from 14 to 28 January.
Maika Elan’s pictures play around with colours, shades, focus and perspective. They show both the trivial and exceptional scenes from the photographer’s life, and always reflect her optimism and happiness. On display will be a range of different photographs, from the areas of portrait, fashion and documentary photography.
Next to the exhibition at the Goethe-Institut, Maika Elan will also lead a workshop for young photographers from 14 to 18 January. During an artist talk with the photographer on 23 January, selected results of the workshop will be presented.
Maika Elan studied sociology in Hanoi, and began experimenting with a camera in 2008. Her career started as a fashion photographer, before she took up the documentary project “The Pink Choice” in 2010. The project portrays the life of homosexual couples in Vietnam. It has been published in numerous international and national magazines, and won several awards, amongst others the World Press Photo Award 2013 in Contemporary Issues. Maika Elan’s first solo exhibition took place in 2012, also at the Goethe-Institut.
New Year Gala Concert – A Night of Film Music
Sat 09 Jan 2016, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
You are invited to the annual New Year Gala Concert with HBSO to welcome the good things from the future.
The concert will be extremely impressive with brilliant musical excerpts from the world famous movies: “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Titanic”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Basic Instinct”, “Indiana Jones”, “Mulan”… which contribute to the success of the blockbusters and left a deep impression on audiences worldwide.
In part 2 of the program will be splendor waltz and polka of Austrian waltz king J. Strauss. His music is for festival, especially NYE. Besides are some romantic and cheerful songs by J. Strauss and F. Lehar performed by two beautiful soprano Pham Khanh Ngoc và Pham Duyen Huyen.
Stage director: Norwegian conductor Magnus Loddgard.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 800,000 – 650,000 – 550,000 – 400,000 – 150,000 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
Film Screening “Attila Marcel”
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Attila Marcel” (France, 2013, 106 mins) by:
– Director: Sylvain Chomet
– Cast: Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont
“Famous for 2 animations “The Triplets of Belleville” and “The Illusionist”, Sylvain Chomet features his first live action film about lost childhood.” – 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.
Music Night with DJ VADIM [Ninja Tune/BBE]
Fri 15 Jan 2016, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Come to a music night with DJ VADIM in Hanoi after two years!
DJ VADIM is an innovator and veteran hip hop DJ, producer and a stalwart of the world-renowned NINJA TUNE and BBE record labels.
His rule is to have no rules… expect electronic, hip hop inspired and tinged with reggae, trip hop, soul, funk, grime, dub and bass, with elements of African rhythms, house and boogie. As a producer, he has been responsible for seminal underground classics such as The Terrorist, Black is the Night, Kill Kill Kill, Soldier, Talk to me and Bluebird and has worked with talents such as WRETCH 32, FOREIGN BEGGARS, ALICE RUSSELL, SBTRKT, DJ KRUSH, THE HERBAILSER, BELLERUCHE, KILLA KELLA, FAT FREDDY’S DROP, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS.
Once described as ‘the John Coltrane of Hip Hop,’ always pushing boundaries, always collaborating.
When DJ Vadim first heard the phrase “don’t sleep” he took it literally.
In 1994, Vadim founded his own independent record label, Jazz Fudge and signed to Ninja Tune the following year. So begun Vadim’s adventure that is now approaching its 20th year and has seen him tour across 69 countries and perform over 2500 times, with shows at some of the world’s most prestigious events such as Sonar, Glastonbury, Big Chill, V Fest, Fuji Rock, Roskilde, Exit and more.
Tickets:
Advance tickets: 100,000 VND (at CAMA ATK) or 116,000 VND (on ticketbox)
On the door: 200,000 VND
Happiness Concert with Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
13 and 14 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Conductor: Honna Tetsuji
and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
Program
1. G. Rossini – Overture from Opera “William Tell”
2. Leroy Anderson – Bugler’s holiday
3. Leroy Anderson – Syncopated Clock
4. Leroy Anderson – Jazz Pizzicato
5. Leroy Anderson – The Walzing cat
6. L. van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
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.
Listen Differently: Multimedia Conversation Concert with Cao Thanh Lan (Piano)
Sat 09 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi
As part of the concert series “Listen differently”, which offers the audience surprising and exceptional hearing experiences, the Goethe-Institut presents a multimedia conversation concert with pianist Cao Thanh Lan.
For many years, Cao Thanh Lan has been interested in the esthetics of piano sounds and the question of what contemporary music should sound like. She experiments with tones and timbres, and confronts acoustic piano with electronic sounds. In Hanoi, she will play works of Tom Rojo Poller, who processed texts from Alexander Kluge, pieces by Peter Ablinger with voices of historical figures, as well as compositions by Olivier Messiaen, who was inspired by the singing of birds. The piano pieces will be complemented by audio recordings and video projections.
Many people perceive contemporary music as difficult and disharmonious. But does music need to be “harmonious”? What are the criteria for assessing new music, and can we even assess music at all? In direct conversation with the audience between the individual pieces, the musician will discuss her artistic approach. This way, she stimulates a critical and conscious perception of the music and the multimedia interplay.
Program
Tom Rojo Poller (DE) – (1978 – *) – Zeit ist nicht gutmütig (2011) for piano, transducer, audio and video projection
Tom Rojo Poller (DE) – Ein letztes Zeichen internationalistischer Solidarität (2011) for piano, transducer, audio and video projection
Tom Rojo Poller (DE) – Aus der Äonen-Chronik des Mönchs Andrej Bitow (2012) for piano, transducer, audio and video projection
P. Ablinger (AT) – (1959 – *) – from the cycle “Voices and Piano” – (since 1998) for piano and audio recordings
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu
Arnold Schönberg
O. Messiaen (FR) – (1908-1992) – Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (1985)
Le Rouge-gorge (erithacus rubecula)
Le Merle noir (turdus merula)
P. Ablinger (AT) – from the cycle “Voices and Piano”
Hanna Schygulla
Valentina Tereshkova
O. Messiaen (FR) – Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (1985)
Le Rouge-gorge (erithacus rubecula)
La Grive musicienne (turdus ericetorum)
P. Ablinger (AT) – from the cycle “Voices and Piano”
Billie Holiday
Setzuko Hara
O. Messiaen (FR) – Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (1985)
Le Rouge-gorge (erithacus rubecula)
L’Alouette des champs (alauda arvensis)
P. Ablinger (AT) – from the cycle “Voices and Piano”
Angela Davis
Cao Thanh Lan studied classical piano at the Hanoi Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. She became interested in, and studied, contemporary music, too, with professor Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Since 2007, she has won several awards in national and international competitions, and performed together with other musical ensembles at numerous festivals. Cao Thanh Lan moves between contemporary, classical and experimental music, always questioning the definition of music itself.
Free tickets are available from Monday 4 January 2016, 9 AM at Goethe-Institut.
Due to the limited amount of seats, please kindly note to not bring children younger than 12 years.
Music Night with Canadian Band FrOmHeRe
Sat 09 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
FrOmHeRe is a Canadian music group founded in 2013. The members of FrOmHeRe engage in a collaboration between disparate musical worlds like psychedelic soft-rock, experimental, contemporary classical, traditional folk, among others.
FrOmHeRe – a Canadian band of voices, a piano, a saxophone and a guitar. They make beautiful sounds in a lovely new way. Yes, it’s a real mix, pushing the boundaries of what you thought music was, but done in an oh-so-right way. FrOmHeRe will both engage you and expand your mind in the most harmonious way possible.
Supporting FrOmHeRe will be Jess Kuepfer and Aaron Pardy playing their own style of indi-pop/rock sounds with a piano and electric guitar. It’s an all-Canadian evening!
Tickets: 100,000 at the door
HCMC – Exhibition “Open Room II”
Opening: Fri 08 Jan 2016, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition: 08 – 22 Jan 2016
CAPA studio, No.13, 40 Street, Binh An Ward, Dist 2, HCMC
You are invited to exhibition “Open Room II”, introducing artworks by the following artists:
Trần Thanh Hà
Lập Xuân
Kim Duy
Ngô Đình Bảo Châu
Đào Tùng
“Open Room” is an art project established by artists Ngô Đình Bảo Châu and Đào Tùng. Every year, the project introduces new and on-going body of works of the two artists and other emerging artists.
Free entry
Hue – Exhibition “Fields of Vision”
Opening: Sat 09 Jan 2016, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 09 Jan – 09 Feb 2016
New Space Arts Foundation
2nd Floor, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City
Come to an art exhibition “Fields of Vision” by artists Andreas Hoffmann & Monika Weber (Germany).
Music Story of the Old Quarter in January
Fri 08 Jan 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…
Manganergy Workshop – Discover and Connect
Workshop starts at Thu 07 Jan 2016
Life Art
Floor 2, 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
The verbal language is the most common and widespread means of communication all over the world. It’s a tool to make strangers become friends, to help people get closer and understand each other better.
But that’s not all.
Have you ever tried to use other tools of communication? Have you ever been curious about the shapes of connections between you and a friend? Have you ever experienced a variety of feelings with strangers – becoming friends – without having to say a word? Have you ever communicated with yourself – watched, touched, and felt?
These mysteries will be revealed in a series of workshops “Discovery and Connection”. Designed with enriching experiences, diversified colors of expressions, the tools being used in the workshops are truly simple and popular – pens and paper. Manganergy – “Discovery and Connection” will not just be a place to connect your heartbeats, but also a chance for you to understand yourself better, discover and connect with your hidden potentials.
Who should join?
Anyone who wants to discover your creative capability. Who wants to touch and feel through drawing. 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.
Workshop details:
– Maximum number of participants: 15
– Start date: 18:30 – 20:30, every Thursday, starts at 7 Jan 2016
– Venue: Life Art, Level 2, No. 56, Nguyen Khuyen, Dong Da dist, Hanoi
– Fee: 720.000 VND for 4 session
Payment should be made before 16:00, 6 Jan 2016 by:
– Bank transfer to: 0491000061588, Vietcombank, owner: Tran Nguyen Binh Minh
– Direct payment in cash at 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 Hồng Anh 01674 500 301
Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” Recital
Fri 08 Jan 2016, 7.30 pm
The small concert hall
Vietnam National Academy of Music
“Winterreise” is a song cycle composed by Franz Schubert on poems by Wihelm Müller before Shubert’s death at 31. “Winterreise” portrayed a travel of a young man after the betrayal of his lover. However, beyond the story of infidelity, his travel continues upon the constant psychological movements: regret, loneliness, despair then hope, determination and the coming-back of the soul. 24 songs are 24 perspectives and stages of human emotion that whoever has overcome challenges in life would be able to relate to. As mentioned above, Schubert composed this song cycle before his premature death in 1828. Therefore, “Winterreise” contains many thoughts and wisdom of a young ambitious man but over haunted by a dark color of death and desolation. Indeed, because of this unique characteristic, “Winterreise” is always one of the most celebrated compositions in the world of German classical vocal music.
This song cycle will be performed by Tenor Hieu Nguyen, and pianist Tran Ha Mi at 19:30 on January 8th, 2016.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Hieu Nguyen is a passionate, dedicated and talented Vietnamese Tenor. His talent was first discovered by a choir conductor and music professors at Bates College, Maine, U.S.A., where he was a student of political psychology and concentration in sound with full scholarship from 2009 to 2014. Hieu won the 2nd prize in the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition in 2014 against all professional singers in the region. During his college career, he performed many solo parts for the college choirs including Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, and Beethoven’s symphony No.,9, as well as recitals: Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Schubert’s art songs. He also performed a recital in Germany in 2015. Currently, Hieu is a voice student of Richard Staab in Darmstadt and Joachim Keuper in Mainz, Germany.
Pianist Trần Hà Mi started playing piano when she was 5 years old. The passionate young pianist honed her skill at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. She received full scholarship to attend the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Russia with professor Olga Mikhailovna Zhukova. She graduated in 2009. Since then Mi worked at the Vietnam National Academy of Music as a piano teacher and accompanist. Mi is also the co-director of Hoang Cung Music Center, a top-notch center in Hanoi, providing music education services. The center has received very positive acclaim for the purpose of bringing classical music closer to the public. Besides her daily jobs at the academy and Hoang Cung, Mi is also a regular soloist and accompanist on both domestic and international stages.
Ticket
Ticket price: 100.000 VND
Purchase at:
1) Hoang Cung music center: No. 3, Alley 95/4, Hoang Cau, Hanoi
2) Sumit Education Services: 2nd floor, 101 Lang Ha, Ha Noi.
3) Hall A, Vietnam national music academy, 77 Hao Nam, Hanoi
Or online here
Question at: winterreisehanoi2016@gmail.com
Hotline: 01682767809
Hue – Film Screening “Hippocrate”
Fri 08 Jan 2016, 7.15 pm
Institut français de Huế
01 Le Hong Phong, Hue
You are invited to the film screening “Hippocrate” (France, 2014, 101 mins).
Director: Thomas Lilti
Cast: Vincent Lacoste, Reda Kateb, Jacques Gamblin, Marianne Denicourt, Felix Moati
“This bittersweet comedy takes us into the hospital environment with a taste for contrasting atmospheres between laughter and moments of emotion.” – aVoir-aLire.
Language: Original language with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Free entrance.
Photo Exhibition “Imagine France” by Maia Flore
Exhibition: 08 – 31 Jan 2016
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the photo exhibition “Imagine France” by Maia Flore, in partnership with Atout France and L’Institut français.
Fantastic Voyage, An offbeat look at France
In this series of 25 photographs, Maia Flore has created a character who appropriates in each place, to make it surprising and poetic. Sometimes be actor, sometimes be spectator, this recurring character animates and renews the 25 cultural sites (castles, museums, monuments…) that the artist visited during a tour of France for 66 days between July and September 2013.
Maia Flore
Maia Flore (born in 1988), photographer of Vu’, is one part of this new photography trend, 100% digital where the image is manufactured as far as it takes and where imagination is released a little more, offering, in this case, an original and offbeat look at the French estate or real coincides with the fantasy of the artist.
Free entry.
Film Screening “Yves Saint Laurent”
Fri 08 Jan 2016, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Yves Saint Laurent” (France, 2014, 106 mins).
Director: Jalil Lespert
Cast: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon
Unsuitable for persons under 16 years old.
An insight into the brightest stage of his career but the most vicissitudinous one in his private life and love. The film reveals the hidden corners of the homosexual fashion genius.
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.
Contemporary Dance Performance Company Derashinera “Another Story”
09 and 10 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents contemporary dance performance “Another Story” by Company Derashinera, directed by Mr. ONODERA Shuji.
Company Derashinera was founded on 2006 and has performed not only in Japan but also abroad. They had just finished performance in New York on this November successfully. This time, they will perform two pieces and this is the first time to perform in Vietnam.
Their performance is based on technics of mime. The performance is much more like theatrical work than dance. The mime movement of their dance makes something invisible to visible. They attract audience by all their own style.
Mr. Onodera Shuji, had directed and choreographed for all performances of the company “Water and Oil” before he formed Company Derashinera on 2006. After forming the Company as a director, he keeps directing and choreographing not only the performance for his company but also for the project of other theater’s works, like SPAC (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center), KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theater).
He has been appointed as a “Japan Cultural Envoy” by the Agency of Cultural Affairs of the government of Japan in fiscal year 2015. As a cultural envoy, he will stay in Vietnam and Thailand for one and half month to hold workshops. In Vietnam, workshop will be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for dancers and dance students.
PROGRAM
1.”Another Story” (23 min.)
This is a road movie of two men and one woman. They visit a bowling alley and a restaurant during a journey. Through the whole journey, they have no words.
Director：ONODERA Shuji
Performer：FUJITA Momoko, OSHITA Takashi, OBA Yusuke
2.”An Occurrence of a Night” (45 min.)
This is a dream. This is the dream of one night. It is a proof of being. It is said to be existence. It maintains that non-existence exists. It doubts even the existence. This is a portrait of the non-existence world.
Director：ONODERA Shuji
Performer: OSHITA Takashi, OBA Yusuke, SAKIYAMA Rina, FUJITA Momoko, ONODERA Shuji
STAFF
Stage Manager: MORISHITA Norihiko
Lighting design: YOSHIMOTO Yukiko, YOSHIDA Kazuya
Sound:IKEDA Nobu
FREE TICKET DISTRIBUTION
* Please refrain from taking children under 6 years old.
[From 12:00 on 25 December onward]
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
[Opening hours] 09:30 – 18:00 (Sundays closed)
HCMC – Concert “Out of the World”
Thu 07 Jan 2016, 7.30 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music
112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC
To greet the New Year, Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music proudly presents concert “OUT OF THE WORLD” with the guest artists from Indiana State University, USA.
Program:
“Out of this World” for Alto Saxophone, Violoncello, & Piano – David Maslanka (b. 1943)
“Cutting Contest” (2015) for Alto Saxophone and Violoncello – Frank Felice (b. 1961)
“Lullaby” (1916) – Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
arr. Steven Thomas
“Dviraag” for Soprano Saxophone and Violoncello – Asha Srinivasan (b. 1980)
Andante from Concerto for Mandolin and Strings in G major – A. Vivaldi (1678–1741)
arranged by Paul Bro
“Bid Call” for alto saxophone and cello (2002) – Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Rapidfire
Traige
Rapidfire with Bodran
[ENCORE] Links II for Alto Saxophone and Cello – Daniel Powers (b. 1960)
III. The Opposite of Orange
Paul Bro (saxophone) has performed throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan. He is a member of the Chicago Saxophone Quartet, the Bro-Street Duo, and the Philharmonie à Vent. Bro is a co-founder with William Street and Jean-Marie Londeix of the saxophone research website called SaxAmE.org (The Saxophone in America and Europe).
Kurt Fowler (cello) has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout the United States and in Europe. In addition to serving as principal cellist for several orchestras, he has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony, and at musical festivals (including Aspen and Sarasota). Fowler received his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Invitations are released at the Foreign Affairs office.
Or contact Hotline: 0903.034.112
Email: giaohuongsaigon@gmail.com to register for the invitations.
Subscription Concert Vol 87
06 and 07 Jan 2016, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to subscription concert Vol 87 with the performance of:
Conductor: Honna Tetsuji
Violin Soloist: Do Phuong Nhi
and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
PROGRAM
Bedrich Smetana Vltava from “My Fatherland”
Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Interval
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 from “The New World”
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.
Film Screening “Gus Petit Oiseau, Grand Voyage”
Sun 03 Jan 2016, 4 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Gus Petit Oiseau, Grand Voyage” (France, 2015, 91 mins).
Director: Christian De Vita
Cast: Arthur Dupont, Sara Forestier, Bruno Salomone
The animation telling the migrant of little orphaned birds that gives a meaningful lesson.
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.
Sad & Beautiful World – Documentary Screening “The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed”
Tue 05 Jan 2016, 7 pm
Nha San Collective
The Onion Cellar presents in collaboration with Nhà Sàn Collective:
A screening of the documentary “THE END OF THE SPECIAL TIME WE WERE ALLOWED” (Japan, 2013) plus a post-screening Q&A with the film’s director Shingo Ota
THE END OF THE SPECIAL TIME WE WERE ALLOWED:
Dir – Shingo Ota
Japan / 119 min / 2013
Languages: Japanese, with subtitles in English & Vietnamese
Video for the track 僕らはシークレット by Sota Masuda:
“Do you have a talent for suicide?”
Director’s Statement [excerpt]:
“27-year-old Sota is the main character of this documentary. ‘There’s nothing more for me to learn in school,’ he says about his choice to drop out from high school. He came to Tokyo and grabbed his chance to debut with his music on a major label.
The filming begins just when his clinical manic-depression takes a bad turn, his debut is cancelled, and he is returning home to his parents’ house. We see him hanging out in his hometown with his friends – Kurando, who adores Sota and claims to want to be a musician, but never practices; Sota’s ex-girlfriend Yukino, who, unlike the other ‘freeters’, works diligently in a stable job as a cook and continues music on the side, and others.
Although Sota was a lowly ‘freeter’ returning home after his dreams were shattered, I felt there were many shining moments of laughter and happiness in those days in his hometown. But one day Sota suddenly kills himself and dies at the age of 27. His dream to make a comeback with his music never comes true.
“The facts are simple, but in fact I was overcome by a sense of guilt about Sota’s death. Would he still be alive had I not filmed him? My days became mired deep in depression. Could it be that Sota’s performative personality made him choose death in a final desperate longing, to maintain his special existence on camera?
‘You have to finish the film, promote my music and paintings after my death, like Yamada Kamachi’ (a “genius” artist who died young) – he wrote in the letter he left before his suicide.”
– Shingo Ota
DONATION [on the door]:
50,000 VND
30,000 VND (with valid student ID)
Donations will go towards the film’s director Shingo Ota
Event #2 as part of The Onion Cellar’s new Sad & Beautiful World edition [http://ow.ly/Vo0jT]
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
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