New Year Evening Party
Thu 31 Dec 2015, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
DJs:
> VIVE LA FETE [French electro-pop]
+ DJ DEATHBUNNY b2b ANALOGELIZA [eclectic-pop]
Vive La Fete —
From the banks of Paris’ Siene to the shores of Hanoi’s red river, 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, Stereolab
DJ Deathbunny b2b Analogeliza —
DIRYY DISCO – NU-WAVE – FUNKPUNK – KRAUTROCK – PSYCH
Hue – Exhibition “Anatomic Ceramic” by Veks Van Hillik
Opening: Thu 31 Dec 2015, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 31 Dec 2015 – 15 Jan 2016
New Space Arts Foundation, Hue
2nd Floor, 15 Le Loi Street, Hue City
You are invited to the art exhibition “Anatomic Ceramic” by French artist Veks Van Hillik.
Youth Melody Program – Art Dance “The Waiting Woman”
Tue 29 Dec 2015, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
In the Youth Melody program this month, you are invited to the art dance performance “The waiting woman” choreographed by Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung, inspired by the statue of woman waiting for her husband then petrified. The premier performance was in July 2015 and received much appreciation.
Performers: Tran Hoang Yen, Nguyen Thu Trang, Dinh Thi Thuy Trang, Ho Phi Diep, Dam Duc Nhuan, Sung A Lung
Scenario and Choreography: Nguyen Phuc Hai, Nguyen Phuc Hung
Performers: HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO)
Free tickets are being distributed at:
– Student Support Center HCMC, 33 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC, Tel: 08 3827 4709
– Ticket Office at Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), 7 Lam Son Square, District 1, HCMC, Viet Nam, Tel: 08 3823 7419
Video and Photography Party “tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak!”
Sat 26 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Queer Forever! and Nhà Sàn Collective are pleased to invite you to our next event in the framework of the queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015:
“tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak!” – video and photography party by artist Việt Lê
This event features the Asian premiere of “eclipse”, a video for spirited lovers, spirits and the spiritual. “eclipse” was filmed in Hà Nội in a ghostly guesthouse and Nhà sàn Đức (a traditional Vietnamese “house on stilts” and pioneering experimental artist-run space). The soundtrack is by controversial, legendary music pioneers Đại Lâm Linh.
The “heARTbreak!” sexperimental music video/ photographic trilogy consists of three related installations wrestling with the traumas of history, love and modernity: “lovebang!” (2014), “eclipse” (2015) and “heART/break!” (2016). Filmed in Hà Nội, Los Angeles, Phnom Penh, and Bangkok, the three overlapping projects trace a transnational, time traveling, trilingual trans love triangle.
“Lovebang!” is an art music video for an original trilingual hip pop song (Vietnamese, Khmer and English). “Hip pop” is a fictitious cross between pop and hip hop.
A photographic installation of the “heART/break!” video project reimagines refugees — from seventies Southeast Asia and today’s “European refugee crisis” — seeking shelter in a boy bar disco inferno.
Upon the fortieth anniversary of the military engagements in Southeast Asia, haunted lovers lost and found embody choreographies, cartographies of loss and desire.
* Nhà Sàn Collective will host Việt Lê’s artworks until 3 Jan 2016.
* The queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015 is organized by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hà nội Queer, CAMA ATK and has received generous supports from Hanoi Creative City, Chula, SINE store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings and Hanoi Grapevine
Round-table discussion series on queer culture in Vietnam
26, 27 Dec 2015 and 03 Jan 2016
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
You are invite you to the next program of Queer Art Festival Queer Forever! 2015 – 4 discussions on queer culture in Vietnam with Dinh Thi Nhung, Hoang Tung Lam, Duong Manh Hung, Lieu Anh Vu, Vu Duc Viet, Nguyen Anh Dung.
Language: Vietnamese, for more details please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Acoustic Night with Wildwood Jack
Sat 26 Dec 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Melodic songs with guitar and ukulele fingerstyle sophistication drawing influences from folk, country and world music.
Wildwood Jack are the acoustic duo Adam Piggott and Jayne Freeman, brought together by a love of music when they first met in 1991 at Hull University and travelling on musical journeys ever since.
Their sound is a harmonious blend of fingerstyle guitar and ukulele and has been described as a mix of Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Nanci Griffith and Ry Cooder. Memorable live shows can feature anything from traditional songs and tunes to a reworked punk classic or even Pink Floyds’ “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”.
They released their first album ‘Anytime Now’ in 2011 on the Big Village Records Label under their own names. R2 Magazine described it as “quality songwriting, engaging, uplifting and filled with memorable melodies” as well as “a perfect summer soundtrack”. Their second album “The Firefly and the Half Diamond” followed a year later, FATEA Showcase said: “This is an album full of great songs”, Shire Folk said: “Melodic and Sophisticated”, and Netrythms described it as “genuinely uplifting” with “intensely adept acoustic guitar stylings”.
Adam says: “Everything we do is about maximising the sound and capabilities of the acoustic guitar and ukulele together when we play live. Our style has evolved from playing and experimenting over the years with a lot of influence from folk, country, blues and jazz”.
Tickets: 100,000 VND at the door
Film Screening “While You Were Sleeping” and “The Holiday”
Film screening of “While You Were Sleeping”: Fri 25 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm
Film screening “The Holiday”: Sat 26 Dec 2015, 2 pm
TPD
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
In this Xmas, you are invited to the screening of 2 romance films “While You Were Sleeping” and “The Holiday”. Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
One movie of Rom – Com trend which was popular in 90s and another is a blockbuster in the end of 2006.
About the films:
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow.
It stars Sandra Bullock as Lucy, a Chicago Transit Authority token collector, and Bill Pullman as Jack, the brother of a man whose life she saves, along with Peter Gallagher as Peter, the man who is saved, and Peter Boyle, Glynis Johns, and Jack Warden as members of Peter’s family. [Wikipedia]
THE HOLIDAY is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers, distributed by Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, filmed in both California and England, and starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the holiday season. Jude Law and Jack Black are the movie’s leading men, with Eli Wallach, Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell playing key supporting roles. [Wikipedia]
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
Artist Exhibition and Exchange – Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand
Event Listings
Opening: Sat 26 Dec 2015, 4.30 pm
Exhibition: 27 Dec 2015 – 02 Jan 2016, 9 am – 5 pm
Exhibition House
29 Hang Bai, Hanoi
You are invited to the artist exhibition and exchange Vietnam – Malaysia – Thailand.
The exhibition features 36 artworks by 9 representative contemporary artists from 3 countries with different styles and multiple perspectives on life, people, and distinct landscapes of each country.
Exhibition “24.12.15”
Opening: Thu 24 Dec 2015, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 24 – 31 Dec 2015
lAcA Cafe
2nd floor, 24 – 26 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi
Art carries religion to everyone, leads people to religion. All religions, including Catholicism, have always been the subject and inspiration of the art, including painting. You are invited to the group exhibition “24.12.15” – contributed to Christmas 2015.
Participating artists: Tao Linh, Do Dung, Nguyen Nghia Cuong, Tran Nhat Thang, Tran Gia Tung, Pham Tran Quan, Nguyen Quoc Thang, Ngo Thi Binh Nhi, Doan Hoang Lam, Lam Duc Manh, Nguyen Phan Bach, Phuong Binh, Bui Thanh Thuy, Le Thiet Cuong and poet Nguyen Quang Thieu.
The exhibition will feature 27 paintings by all materials: oil paint, arcylic on canvas, wood carving, lacquer.
In additions, Pham Quang Tran Minh will be forming some classical songs, guitarist Pham Ky Nam playing some Christmas ones and poet Nguyen Quang Thieu reading some poetry in the event.
Street Photography Exhibition “On the Tracks”
Opening: Sat 26 Dec 2015, 10 am – 10 pm
Exhibition: 26 Dec 2015 – 26 Jan 2016
Vietnam in Focus
46 Hang Vai Str, Hanoi
From the organizer:
Come to enjoy street photography exhibition “On The Tracks”. The show features amazing pictures by photographers on our extremely popular tour exploring the residential area along Hanoi’s railway tracks.
At the opening, you can enjoy a complementary glass of mulled wine while taking in the best images from 3 years of this unique tour.
Free entry.
Sàn Art Laboratory Opens Beyond Visual Art Residency Program
Sàn Art Laboratory now opens beyond visual art to literature/ design/ sound/ performance/ architecture/ fashion
Applications close: February 5th, 2016
San Art Laboratory Session 9 is open to artists under 35 years of age who are from and based in South East Asia: namely Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Malaysia. Artists need to hold nationality of these countries and be based (living) in this region. In each session, at least 2 artists will be chosen from Vietnam.
What remains central to the program is its commitment to artistic experimentation, open discussion, personal development and network building.
Successful applicants would become full-time residents of ‘San Art Laboratory’ from June 1, 2016 until November 29, 2016 with provided accommodation, studio, production funds of USD1,000 and a small living allowance.
Further more, the artist-in-residence will not only benefit from the program’s unique inclusion of ‘Talking Partners’, artist’s talks and open studio but also from an even more comprehensive and structured framework of arts education and dialogue under the ‘Conscious Realities’ initiative.
The residency would be concluded with a presentation of final works.
For more information on the program, its application criteria and the required documents, please visit here or contact hello@san-art.org.
Roundtable Discussion: A meeting with Goncourt 2013 winner Pierre Lemaitre
Wed 23 Dec 2015, 6 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the round-table discussion on French Literature Series 4: A meeting with Goncourt 2013 winner Pierre Lemaitre on the occasion of publishing his books “Goodbye Up There” in Vietnamese with the participation of translator and researcher Pham Xuan Nguyen, Nguyen Duy Binh.
Before obtaining the Prix Goncourt 2013 with “Goodbye Up There”, Pierre Lemaitre was regarded in France as one of the best writers of crime fiction and the novel “Alex” was translated and published in Vietnamese. What makes him so successful in two different literary genres? Let’s read “Alex” and “Goodbye Up There” with Pham Xuan Nguyen and Nguyen Duy Binh to answer this question and get to know more about this French contemporary author.
Language: Vietnamese
Free entry.
Merry Xmas Concert
Wed 23 Dec 2015, 8.30 pm
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi
To welcome Xmas 2015, you are invited to the special concert titled “Merry Xmas Concert” with Flashback band:
– The famous country, pop rock, rock & roll, pop ballad song of 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
– The classic Xmas and New Year songs
– The jazz, Latin symphony
– The famous Vietnamese songs
Participating artists:
1. Nguyen Vinh – Lead guitar&Vocal
2. Van Truong – Bass Guitar
3. Richard Kanu – Drum
4. Anh Toan – Keyboard&Vocal
5. Ha Anh – Lead Vocal
To enjoy the concert with your family and friends, you will buy set menu as below:
– 01 siting mat
– 01 basket of snacks and drinks including wine, bread, cold cuts, fruits, candies, chocolates.
(There are 02 choices: 600 000 VND or 1 000 000 VND)
Contact for booking tables:
– Hotline: 090.2826.769
– Mr Tấn Tạ: 097.9026.472
Exhibition “YU YU Vietnam BLUE” by Mark Cooper
Opening: Mon 28 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Exhibition: 28 Dec 2015 – 09 Jan 2016
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Str, Hanoi
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Press meeting: Fri 25 Dec 2015, 10 am
2nd floor, Ca Phe Trung Nguyen
3A Ngo Quyen, Hanoi
Organiser ACCAviet proudly presents art exhibition “YU YU Vietnam BLUE” by US artist MARK COOPER in collaboration with Vietnamese artists.
Mark Cooper is an installation painter and a sculptor. His works have often been made from composite materials (FRP – fiberglass reinforced plastic), Dó paper, paints, prints, photos and different textures from different countries and nations, by using various techniques. Mark Cooper is known by the community-oriented works, featured by a combination and interaction with children, patients, students and anyone who wants to take part in working with him. These works were exhibited in famous locations. Examples are Harvard University (2015), The Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2013), Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (2013) etc.
The program was initiated in early 2015 by Mark Cooper during his visit to Vietnam, along with David Thomas, artist and director of the artistic exchange program of the Indochina Arts Partnership and Nguyen Anh Tuan, independent curator in Hanoi. In June 2015, Mark Cooper had the first meeting with the artists who were invited to the program. Invited artists are from multi-disciplines of creation, including Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Fashion design, Graphic design, Craft, Ceramic. At the same time, Mark also started activities with artist Vu Duc Hieu, Trinh Vu Hieu in making pottery, sculptor Luong Van Viet in wooden sculpture, family of artist Dang Xuan Hoa in painting, artisan Nguyen The Du & Nguyen Thi Liu in making rugs (Du Liu embroidering house, Dong Cuu, Thuong Tin, Hanoi), craftsman Nguyen Van Nam & Nguyen Van Hai (Dai Nam casting company, Lam town, Y Yen, Nam Dinh), kite artisan Nguyen Dang Hoang (Hue city) and craftsmen at Bat Trang and Hoi An ceramic villages.
Exhibition “Yu Yu Vietnam Blue” is result of the cooperation for over six months of work. This event is an official part off the 20th anniversary celebrations of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. After its closing date, part of the artists’ works will move to be showed at the artistic events in United States.
Artists in the exhibition:
Mark COOPER
Nguyen KIM DUY
Lai DIEU HA
Chu QUYNH
Tran Thi THU
Le THUY
Vu THAO
Nguyen THUY TRANG
[Sponsor] The US Embassy in Vietnam
[Cooperation] Indochina Arts Partnership
For inquiries and interviews with the artist, please contact at:
Email: accaviet@gmail.com
DOCLAB Short Films Screening at L’Espace
Sun 27 Dec 2015, 6 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Feelings, memories, sounds and stories – that’s life
The series of four short films from DocLab aims to provide viewers emotions and feelings related to the lives of people around us and share the authors’ emotions and thoughts. Our lives contain so many memories and stories. So how do these stories influence our feelings? That is what the authors want to discover:
1. Khi tôi nằm chết (When I die) – Director Nguyen Phuong Anh, 2014, 13 mins – the author’s autobiography.
Forget sound, forget the memory, forget life. Abandonment is not negligible in this absurd life. When someone dies, any place for him/her to return?
2. Chung sống (Living Together) – (Director Dang Duc Loc, 2011, 10 mins) – Residents of the apartment.
People’s lives in ancient apartments are often a sentimental link because they share common living areas. But behind the door of every family, there are still private stories.
3. Chuyện mọi nhà (The history of all families) – (Director Pham Ngoc Lan, 2011, 9 mins) – Several characters.
This film is like a room full of stories saved directly to the radio. Although these are personal stories, as time passes, they eventually become “stories of all families” and are largely integrated.
4. Ông Nội ((My grandfather)
– (Director Dong Phuong Thao, 2012, 10 mins) – The author’s grandfather.
The language and gesture maintain relations but to be together, we need to listen. In this way, the son accompanied his father in the past, lives with him in the present and dreams for the future.
Language: With Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40,000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Queer Art Festival Queer Forever! 2015
20 Dec 2015, 10 am – 7 pm
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
You are invited to DATE, GO SHOPPING, BE CREATIVE at QUEER ART FESTIVAL QUEER FOREVER! 2015
40m2 wall to hang photos, free paintings, contribution to people.
15+ stalls display crafts, dolls, clothes, books, souvenirs, furniture, old toys, sundries
Rent: individual/ group: 120K / small stalls – 240k/ large stall; organization: 500 K/ large stall
Queer Forever! encourages people to design particular products in the form of queer, as a way to build a culture of queer in Vietnam.
Contact:
Tung Lam: 0168 804 4501
Email: queerforeverfestival@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/Qforeverfestival
Hanoi Queer: hanoiqueer@gmail.com
*small stalls: about 0.6m width, large stalls 1.2m width
*#chợqueerhn founded by Queer Forever!, Nha San Collective, Tung Lam and Hanoi Queer, supported by Hanoi Creative City, is under the framework of Art Festival #queerforever2015
Queer Art Festival Queer Forever! 2015 will take place in Hanoi from 12 Sep 2015 – 03 Jan 2016 featuring artworks, queer disco, workshops and community exchange about queer culture.
Art festival “QUEER FOREVER! 2015” is host by Queer Forever!, Nha San Collective, Goethe Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hanoi Queer, CAMA ATK, and supported by Hanoi Creative City, Chula, Sine store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings and Hanoi Grapevine
Dance/Movement Therapy Workshop
Thu 24 Dec 2015, 9.30 – 11.30 am
Life Art
2nd floor, 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Dance is a spiritual activity to connect to God or the Creator. Dance is an essential element in every culture and allows you to connect to yourself, others, and the community. Dance to express your unique self and impress others. Dance to connect to inner peace, joy, happiness, and freedom in your own creative world. Dance to heal and be whole: Body-Mind-Emotion-Spirit.
For me, Dance is revealed in each Breath. Everyone who has a body can dance.
What does dance truly mean to you? Let’s come to experience and find your own answer in this workshop.
Who shoud involve?
Art-based facilitators, process-oriented facilitators, art therapists, community artists and psychology students.
FACILITATOR Minh Tuyet Bui graduated from a M.S in Dance/Movement Therapy at Sarah Lawrence College in New York (with 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…
Language: Vietnamese – English
Registration (required) via this link . The workshop is limited to 16 participants so please register early.
Fee: 180.000VND (students: 130.000VND)
Transfer: Dinh Hanh Trang, Account number: 0021001026809, Vietcombank, or
Pay directly at 2nd floor, 56 Nguyen Khuyen before 4.30pm 22 Dec.
Please put your name and workshop name when transfer, for example: Le Thanh X_Visual art.
Hotline: 0943 48 78 98 or 0975 46 1984
Xmasful at Hanoi Creative City
Thu 24 Dec 2015, 5 pm
Creative square
Hanoi Creative City
1 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Let’s celebrate a special Xmasful with exciting films and music at Hanoi Creative City.
5-7 pm: Free Outdoor screening
For young people with fascinating romantic movies themed on love and Christmas.
7.30 – 10.30 pm: Outdoor music party with unique Christmas songs made by the guest as singers, music bands and DJs.
Workshop “Diary, Circles, and Silkscreen” with Kenny Nguyễn
Tue 22 Dec 2015, 7 – 10 pm
Six Space
6th floor, 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
As human beings, keeping a journal has been one of the most essential activity that we all enjoy in different forms. The most common format has always been writing, since it is personal and reflective to almost everyone. Nonetheless, the physicality of paper cutout and printmaking combined in this workshop will introduce you to a new realm of keeping personal memories that maybe even yourself have yet to discovered.
Workshop: Diary, Circles, and Silkscreen is a three-hours session of image making through silkscreen stencil technique. By joining in the workshop, participants will have a chance to play around with paper cut out in order to create different abstract or non-abstract shapes with printmaking as the finished medium.
All you need are:
+ 3 hours to come and join in the fun
+ Some lovely prints that you can either frame up for decoration or simply giveaway to friends and family members / or pretty much just to save them to yourself.
Number of participants: 12-15 maximum
Fee: 500,000VND/person
How to Apply: Please fill in the form via the link right below by 18h00 17/12/2015
Instructor Kenny Nguyễn
Kenny Nguyễn is a bookmaker/printmaker/illustrator from Hanoi, Vietnam.
Born and raise in a juxtaposed country with so many layers of history have navigated Nguyen towards the path of making fantasy illustrations. While living and studying in the States, Nguyen has been strongly captivated by the physicality of printmaking combined with bookbinding. Together, these two techniques have soon become Nguyen’s greatest tools of the trade.
While busy with projects, Kenny is always open to discuss freelance opportunities as well as gallery commissions. He has been assisting Master Printer Rhoda Rosenberg with large intaglio printing process as well as staying under her wings as an apprentice. Kenny’ works have been collected by The Boston Printmakers, The Boston Public Library Print Department, and The Southern Graphics Council International.
*** This workshop is part of the upcoming exhibition “Dịch/dời: Narratives of Displacement”.
Improvisation Drama Workshop and Class
Workshop: Fri 18 Dec 2015, 7.30 – 9.30 pm
Class starts on 05 Jan 2016
Life Art
2nd floor, 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
This practical drama class aims to enhance aesthetics, develop acumen, openness and knowledge through playing, sharing and creating art.
Finding your individual performance style and role playing will allow you to control your emotion by showing them through the prism of a role. It is also a good way to assert yourself and improve confidence.
Improvisation drama is a discovery of a subject including both art and exercises. This practice is a combination of all the benefits of drama lessons, develop instant creativity, free expression through a variety of regulations, the ability to adapt and make every situation improvised.
You can learn:
– Heating
– Games for waking up body and mind, and make the group comfortable with each other
– Start to play in front of the audience
– Practice improvisation, improve our play on stage
– Practice different kind of improvisation
– Learn the different kind of improvisation and discover the rules
– See what is exactly the improvisation sport
Quentin Delorme is a French director, an actor as well as a performer in general and improvisation performer in particular.
Growing from the most recognized drama school in Paris – France, Cours Florent, Quentin has accrued to his early experience throughout the stages of France and Italy in many different roles as stage director, screenwriters, actor. Also, in the first 15 years pursuing performing arts, he had gathered students of Cours Florent and create a troupe of young actors who share the same passion.
After having many successful plays in his career, Quentin wanted to fulfill a much bigger dream, which is to bring theater arts to everyone. With the love for Vietnam in particular and Southeast Asian countries in general, him and his partner decided to come to Hanoi to make their dream come true.
1. DRAMA WORKSHOP
– Time: 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm, 18 Dec 2015
– Fee (Supported): 50.000VND
– Registration via this link
– Language: French – Vietnamese
2. DRAMA CLASS
– Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm, Tue and Fri, starts at 7.30 pm 5 Jan 2016
– Fee: 1.440.000VND/8 sessions
– Registration via this link
– Language: French – Vietnamese
Event “ABC LGBTQ and ME”
Fri 18 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Nha San Collective
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
We are delighted to invite you to “ABC LGBTQ and ME” – another exciting event of Queer Forever festival on 18 Dec 2015, 6PM at Nha San Collective.
In this event, we hope to create an intimate talk to discuss about queer language and literature, how queerness is being translated from one culture to another, how queer words and terms are being constantly re-invented, twisted to express emotions, create meanings but also for fun.
We are so happy to welcome professor Robert Ostertag who is also a legendary experimental music composer, performer, music instrument builder, journalist, activist, and kayak instructor. Our very special guest is Stevie Ann DePaola (Aka Stv Anntonym), is a Chinese medicine doctor from San Francisco and the “Lesbian in Chief” and founder of The Lesbian Lexicon Project.
In this event, Queer Forever!, Nha San Collective & The Lesbian Lexicon Project is excited to present Tuyền Từ Quêêr – a collection of words and terms used by queers in Vietnam to express love, desire, sex, and gender with wit and playfulness. This slim bilingual Vietnamese/ English dictionary of the words comes with amazing illustrations by Nguyễn Đức Huy, Quý Hiền, and Dan Ni.
* The Lesbian Lexicon document’s words invented to describe previously unnamed queer phenomenon, words already used in popular queer vernacular, and a few gay words of antiquity. The third edition of The Lesbian Lexicon, published in 2015, compiled over 200 words into a beautiful and filthy little dictionary.
* Tuyền Từ Quêêr is inspired by The Lesbian Lexicon. It is initialized and carried out by Gabby Miller in Viet Nam in collaboration with Đinh Thị Nhung, Hoàng Tùng Lâm, Hà Thanh, Dương Mạnh Hùng, Nguyễn Lý Hiền Nga, Nguyễn Quốc Thành.
* Queer art festival Queer Forever! 2015 is organized by Queer Forever!, Nhà Sàn Collective, Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Nicole Martine Lewis, Hà nội Queer, CAMA ATK and has received generous supports from Hanoi Creative City, Chula, SINE store. Communication partners: &ofotherthings và Hanoi Grapevine.
Exhibition “Dịch / Dời: Narratives of Displacement”
Opening: Fri 18 Dec 2015, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 18 – 25 Dec 2015
Six Space
6th floor, 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Come to exhibition “Narratives of Displacement and Translation” – a group exhibition curated by Do Tuong Linh with the participation of:
Giang Hoàng Nguyễn
Kenny Nguyễn
Chi Nguyễn
Cát Nguyên
Linh Trịnh
This exhibition marks the debut of most of the artists in Vietnam’s art world after a period of self-negotiation and readapting after being abroad. Against the stereotypes of being artist who live in between two cultures and could be subjected to ‘Westernization’ of their art making, each of them has tried to negotiate themselves between cultures to find their distinct voices in many different ways. Nonetheless they all share the interest in drawing and illustration – a very intimate and flexible medium as a way to record this personal transition.
As Trinh T Minh Ha said “If it’s hard to be a stranger, it is even more so to stop being one” in her amazing essay “Other than myself / My other self” and as Julia Kristeva noted “A person of the twentieth century can exist honestly only as a foreigner”. In this constantly changing time, it’s easy to find ourselves always moving from one culture to another even right inside our homeland. That means we will always being stranger wherever we go, or even if we don’t go anywhere. Rootlessness and nomadicity is an integral part of young people living in our time regardless of their nationality and origins. Hence the artists have turned to drawing a very intimate and flexible medium as a remedy for their own.
Come and enjoy the opening reception of “Dịch / Dời: Narratives of Displacement” this Friday as well as the series of events after such as artists’ talk and workshops. This is part of the first show in an upcoming art project questioning and challenging different perspectives of fine arts discipline spanning from 2015 to 2016.
Film Screening “Masaan” by Neeraj Ghaywan
Sat 19 Dec 2015, 7 pm
Room Marie Curie – 6F
Hoa Sen University
8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist 1, HCMC
Come to film screening “Masaan” by Neeraj Ghaywan.
‘Masaan’ is director Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut feature set in contemporary Banaras, India’s best known ancient religious city located on the banks of the river Ganges. The film narrates the parallel stories of two different sets of characters, their encounters with love, sexual desire, taboo, tradition, and class hierarchy. Cell phones, cameras and social media play a significant role in the lives of all the characters. Devi is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman who has incriminating images of her on his cell phone. Devi’s father, Vidyadhar Pathak struggles to put together the money for the cop. The distant and somewhat hostile relationship between the father and daughter evolves into something else as they fight to preserve their dignity. Deepak, a boy from a low caste family falls in love with an upper caste woman. Their courtship unfolds over social media. A tragedy strikes and Deepak’s life catapults into abject grief. Yet through these tales of life, death and sorrow, Masaan struggles to search for hope, meaning and change.
The movie is subtitled in English and Vietnamese. After the screening, Professor Ranjani Mazumdar, cinema scholar, will introduce and discuss Indian cinema through history and urban culture.
* Entrance requires registration with Art House Cine. Click here for more information.
Hue – Film Screening “Suzanne”
Fri 18 Dec 2015, 7.15 pm
Institut français de Huế
01 Le Hong Phong, Hue
You are invited to the film screening “Suzanne”.
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Cast: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel
“Katell Quillévéré managed to make light sadness and speaks with infinite tenderness about the love of a father and a daughter, the difficulty of growing up without a mother and becoming a mother herself, passion that grows to sacrifice everything.”
Language: Original language with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please refer to Vietnamese version of this post.
Free entrance.
“Encounter” Presents Lectures by Ravi Sundaram
Culture, infrastructure and the Digital: Thu 17 Dec 2015, 6.30 pm
Memory, Circulation and the Digital Archive: Fri 18 Dec 2015, 6.30 pm
Room Marie Curie, 6th floor
Hoa Sen University
8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist 1, HCMC
‘Encounter’ presents Ravi Sundaram with two lectures, 6:30PM Thursday, 17th and Friday 18th December 2015.
Culture, infrastructure and the Digital
This lecture will explore infrastructures as material forms that connect populations, regions, and economies. Infrastructures of transport and communication for instance are crucial for the circulation of both economies and cultures. Infrastructures are at the center of media circulation by way of entangling people, objects, ideas and technologies. Digital infrastructures are dynamic environments; they break down, collapse and suddenly multiply in new ways through circulation and collaboration. In non-Western environments like Asia, infrastructures have a distinct ‘poetics’, with aesthetic and radical possibilities. This poetics is a significant part of Asia’s move to the digital, with emerging cultural practices, and new cultural institutions.
Memory, Circulation and the Digital Archive
This lecture will discuss how more images, sounds, and videos are being produced in contemporary Asia than ever in the past. People with smart phones and low cost gadgets take millions of images, sounds and videos and share them with friends on networks. Our memories seem expanded exponentially, as we are now aided by digital storage on our media devices. New, digitally enabled archives of the past have burst into prominence, giving them a new life, and opening access to many.
What are the consequences of enhancing our memories with artificial, digital aids? Is memory more enhanced or fragile, a fading glow as we rush to capture everything that exists with digital cameras?
Entrance is free. Translation will be provided.
Ravi Sundaram is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. In 2000 he founded the Sarai programme along with Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Vasudevan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Sundaram has co-edited the Sarai Reader series, The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life(2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media(2004), and Frontiers (2007). He is the author of Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (Routledge, London 2009) and the edited collection No Limits: Media Studies fromIndia (Oxford University Press, 2013). His writings have been translated into many languages. Sundaram’s current work is on contemporary fear after media modernity.
Live Music Event “The Music Emporium” with The Children
Thu 17 Dec 2015, 8.30 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
Xom Nhac is a weekly live music event on Tuesday night at 8:30 at the Hanoi Social Club. As usual in the evening we will get the warm seats together on our gypsy garden on the third floor to get our souls cuddled by amazing music from local artists all around in the city. You can see and hear the artists and their music in a hyggely way, surrounded by candles and lamp shades, have some mulled wine in the winter season and enjoy the stories told by guitar and saxophone, or harmonica.
There will be no boundaries between an artists and the audience, we are all people and friends sharing the warm and cozy vibes in the night. In this wicked world, there’s nothing real like live music. Come and join us every Thursday.
4 young men in a band playing alternative will be Xom Nhac’s special guest on Thursday this week on Dec 17th. That’s right, alternative rock but they will play acoustic. It’s gonna be low-down the whole way.
Come to Xom Nhac live music event on 17th Dec.
Work on Display “The Vacant Chair”
Exhibition: 18 Dec 2015 – 17 Jan 2016
Dia Project Dong Khoi
103 Dong Khoi, HCMC
Come to enjoy the work to be on display: “The Vacant Chair” by artist Bang Nhat Linh.
The work on display is version 2/2, will continue to be on display in HCMC after exhibiting at Nha San Collective (Hanoi) in September, 2015 (curated by Le Thuan Uyen). The version 1/2 was presented in “Mien Meo Mieng” exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (curated by Tran Luong).
About the artist: Bang Nhat Linh was born in 1983 in Hanoi. Linh is amongst the most talented and active artists of his generation. He was featured as an artist having “an unique artistic identity, different from other colleagues of his generation…”
In “Art and Talent” – a book published in 2014 that examines the Vietnamese art scene and the 9 typical artists born in 1980s.
From Africa to Musbaba with Photo Exhibition
Sat 19 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Chez Xuan
41, lane 76 An Duong, Tay Ho, Hanoi
You are invited to a night of African beats with the very talented Musbaba Traore and his musicians. A well-known drummer from Bamako (Mali) playing with traditional instruments – he will perform on Saturday December 19th on his Asia Tour.
Screening of Fela Kuti documentary: Finding Fela, starting from 6pm.
You can also enjoy photography exhibition of Africa by Kaalvoet Ranger at the event.
Tickets
Pre-sale ticket on sales soon
100,000 VND with a drink
Release Technique workshop with Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo
Thu 17 Dec 2015, 6 – 8 pm
Kinergie Studio
7th Floor, 101A Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Come to join a workshop in Release Technique with talented Chilean-American contemporary dancer Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo.
Based on somatic practices and movement analysis, release technique encourages self-awareness of the natural possibilities that the physical body has. The workshop focuses on stretch, strength, alignment and across the floor exercises and emphasizes the breath as a means to recognize inner connections of the body in order to achieve efficient, full-body movement.
Dancing at the age of 12, Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo has since received several awards and distinctions, including Chile’s Best Dancer Inter-American Circle of Dance Professionals Award. He holds a BFA Degree in Dance, an MA in dance education with honors from the University of Chile, and an MFA in Dance degree from The George Washington University Department of Theater and Dance. In Washington DC, his works have been presented at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Dance Place, among others. Currently, Mr. Oyarzun Moltedo is a guest choreographer and faculty member for Joy of Motion’s Youth Dance Ensemble program and a dancer of Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company where he also serves as technical coordinator.
Participants: Artists, dancers, students and everyone who are interested in creative movements and contemporary dance.
Fee (after concession): 200,000 VND (150,000 VND for current students of Kinergie Studio)
Language: Vietnamese + English
Registration with Ms Thu Hien:
Mobile: 0912081950
Email: kinergie.studio@gmail.com
Graduate Fashion Exhibition 2015 “Polygon”
Sun 20 Dec 2015, 3 pm
Melia Hotel
44 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hanoi
You are invited to Graduate Fashion Exhibition 2015 “Polygon” this Sunday. By joining the exhibition, you will have a chance to:
– Featuring collections from students in the Higher National Diploma: Fashion & Textiles
– Investigate British fashion education technology, from concept to production
– Meet directly with members of the LCDF staff, students and representatives from the UK to find out about courses experience, the application process, work placement and internship opportunities in Vietnam and the UK, study transfer to the UK and much more
– Find out about the first project works by Graphic Design students after 3 months of study following British design education
– Visit the Style Zone to get personal style consultancy advice towards improving your look, as provided by our students
– Participate in community activities “NEW CLOTHES FOR A NEW ACADEMIC YEAR” to help raise funds to produce new clothes for disadvantaged children living in poverty.
– Register to see the Graduate Fashion Show 2015 featuring the final creations of the students in Fashion & Textiles Programme at 19:30 Sunday, Dec, 20th, 2015
RSVP to Ms. Bich Ngoc or Ms. Hong Minh:
Tel: (04) 3719 9706
Email: info@designstudies.vn
Indian Film Festival 2015 in Vietnam
Hanoi: 18 – 20 Dec 2015
National Cinema Center
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HCMC: 22 and 23 Dec2015
BHD Star Cineplex ICON 68
You are invited to the Indian film festival with 8 Bollywood movies in 3 big cities: Hanoi, HCMC and Da Nang.
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles.
Schedule in Hanoi and HCMC:
Hanoi: National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, Hanoi
– Fri 18 Dec 2015
+ 14h00 – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
+ 19h00 – Dil Chahta Hai
– Sat 19 Dec 2015
+ 14h00 – Paheli
+ 19h00 – Wake up Sid
– Sun 20 Dec 2015
+ 14h00 – Jodha Akbar
HCMC: BHD Star Cineplex ICON 68, Floor 3, Bitexco Tower, 2 Hai Trieu, Ben Nghe Ward, HCMC
– Tue 22 Dec 2015
+ 15h00 – Taare Zameen Par
+ 19h00 – Dil Chahta Hai
+ 19h00 – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
– Wed 23 Dec 2015
+ 15h00 – Oh My God!
+ 19h00 – 3 Idiots
+ 19h00 – Jodhaa Akbar
Da Nang: 12 and 13 Dec 2015.
Free entry. Tickets are distributed at cinemas.
In Hanoi:
– 15h00 Wed 16 Dec 2015: tickets for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Dil Chahta Hai and Paheli.
– 15h00 Thu 17 Dec 2015: tickets for Wake up Sid and Jodhaa Akbar.
Place: Địa điểm: 1st floor, National Cinema Centre, 87 Lang Ha, Ba Dinh, Hanoi.
Tickets are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis.
National Cinema Center
87 Lang Ha, Hanoi
BHD Star Cineplex ICON 68
Floor 3, Bitexco Tower, 2 Hai Trieu, Ben Nghe Ward, HCMC
Art Stage Singapore 2016
21 – 24 Jan 2016
Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Art Stage Singapore, Southeast Asia’s flagship art fair, will return on 21 through 24 January 2016 (Vernissage on 20 January) with a bold new vision for contemporary art from the region. In today’s dramatically changing art world, the Fair’s sixth edition continues to be innovative in market development by matchmaking segmented regional markets and encouraging dialogues about contemporary art. Through its latest programme, Art Stage Singapore references the Roman forum or the agora of ancient Greece, thus positioning the Fair as an intersection that facilitates not merely the exchange of art, but also of ideas.
In its 2016 edition, Art Stage Singapore will introduce the Southeast Asia Forum, a thematic programme that draws attention to contemporary art’s significant place in the blueprint of modern society and the central role the artist plays in the context of Southeast Asia.
Art Stage Singapore will present a diverse range of carefully selected galleries from across Asia and the world, featuring 143 galleries from 32 countries and 30 global cities. In line with Art Stage Singapore’s strong Asian identity, there will be a strong showing of 75 percent Asia-based galleries at Art Stage Singapore 2016.
Tickets
Film Screening “Jack et la Mécanique du Coeur”
Sun 20 Dec 2015, 4 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the animation screening “Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart” (France, 2011, 89 mins).
Director: Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla
Voices: Rossy de Palma, Olivia Ruiz, Arthur H, Jean Rochefort
“Mathias Malzeu eventually transforms his book and album into an animated film of love. Not to be missed.” – 20 minutes
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.
Special Concert – Beethoven No. 9
Sat 19 Dec 2015, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
From the organizer:
Come to a special concert with famous work Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral” by L. V. Beethoven.
Conductor: Honna Tetsuji
Soprano: Ha Pham Thang Long
Alto: Nguyen Thu Quynh
Tenor: Nguyen Anh Vu
Bass: Fukushima Akiya (Special Guest)
Chorus from Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, Hanoi International Choir, Hanoi Freude Choir
Program
L. V. Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral”
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.
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Program “Memories of Hanoi”
30 Dec 2015 – 04 Jan 2016, 8 am – 10 pm
Imperial Citadel of Thang Long
You are invited to the program “Memories of Hanoi”.
– An attractive cultural-touristic event to welcome the New year 2016
– A place for the elder generations to reminisce about Hanoi
– A place for the youth to learn and experience an ancient Hanoi with great milestones
– Feel the essence of Hanoi and people here
– Enjoy the transition moment when an old year ends and a new year starts in Hanoi
– A destination for local and international tourists
Free entry.
Christmas Program at 44 Chau Long Str.
Christmas at 44 Chau Long
Sun 20 Dec 2015, 9 am
Come to celebrate Christmas at 44 Chau Long with Bookworm and the Hanoi Cooking Centre.
Program
2pm TILL 4pm………………… LIVE JAZZY BAND and CHRISTMAS MUSIC
FREE BALLOONS from THE BALLOON BENDER
ALL AFTERNOON……………… FREE HOT MULLED WINE and COLD SANGRIA
FREE GINGERBREAD and CHRISTMAS TREATS
ALL DAY………….. 9 till 7:
BOOKWORM OFFERS
25% off all used books
15% off all new books and children’s books
10% off all other stock except a few commission items
25% off all Bao cap chair
25% off ALL of KIEN’S SPECIAL SUBSIDY ERA BOWLS
HCC OFFERS
10% discount of our Gift Vouchers for Vietnamese Cooking Classes and Street Eats Tours.
Conference “Creativity beyond the limit”
Sat 19 Dec 2015, 9 am
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the conference “Creativity beyond the limit” with the participation of:
Speaker: Dr. Phan Tat Thu – Chairman of the Board of Directors of KNV Group, Vice President of Vietnam Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club (VCE Club), Empretec of UNCTAD in Vietnam.
Creativity has a strong impact on the transformation of the world. What are the positive aspects of creativity and how to encourage young people to develop their own ideas?
Language: Vietnamese
Free entry.
Saigon Wind Ensemble “Season’s Greetings”
Fri 18 Dec 2015, 7.30 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music
112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC
Besides the remarkable wind ensemble repertoire, our special guest Dr. Gerald Berthiaume will perform the solo piano part in “Rhapsody in Blue” of George Gershwin, with the Saigon Wind Ensemble under the baton of conductor – Dr. Danh Pham. This was one of the America’s most prominent works for piano & orchestra which mixed the jazz material in classical music and has also captivated music lovers’ heart all over the world.
Program:
1. Consort for Ten Winds – Robert Spittal
I. Jeux
II. Aubade
III. Sautereau
2. Preludio – Jean Sibelius/edited by Eugene Corporon
3. A Touch of Tuba – Art Dedrick
Tuba: Dr. Chris Dickey
4. Suite from The Danseyre – Tielman Susato/arranged by Patrick Dunnigan
I. La Morisque
II. Bergerette (2:09)
III. Les Quartre Branles (4:36)
V. Den Hoboecken Dans (8:14)
VI. Ronde & Salterelle (10:14)
VII. Ronde & Aliud (11:53)
VIII. Basse Danse: Mon Desir (13:43)
IX. Pavane: La Battaille (15:54)
5. Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Piano: Dr. Gerald Berthiaume
Dr. Danh Pham is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Washington State University. He conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and serves as the Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education within the University’s School of Music. This season, he will be conducting the University of South Carolina Band Clinic and Symphonic Band, the Central District Band Festival Honor Band (Honolulu, Hawaii) and serve as conductor-in-residence with the University of Hawaii Symphonic Band.
Dr. Gerald Berthiaume is Professor of Music at Washington State University and served as Director of the School of Music from 2003 to 2011. Berthiaume has performed throughout the United States, in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Ukraine. In 1993, he was a winner in the USIA “Artistic Ambassador Competition” at Stanford University.
Tickets:
Tickets are now available at the Foreign Affairs office – 112 Nguyen Du Street, District 1.
Ticket prices: 200,000 VND – 300,000 VND
*Customers who buy the 18-12 tickets are in priority of getting the 19-12 invitations.
Film Screening “Suzanne”
Fri 18 Dec 2015, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Suzanne”.
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Cast: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel
“Katell Quillévéré managed to make light sadness and speaks with infinite tenderness about the love of a father and a daughter, the difficulty of growing up without a mother and becoming a mother herself, passion that grows to sacrifice everything.”
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.
National Fine Art Exhibition 2015
Exhibition: 8 am – 5 pm, 09 – 23 Dec 2015
Vietnam Exhibition Centre for Culture and Arts (Van Ho Exhibition Center)
2 Hoa Lu Str., Hanoi
Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the participation of 421 authors over all the country in which 67 work in Sculpture, Installation art, and other 354 counterparts work in painting, graphics, and video art areas. Details about authors can be found here.
Mini Lecture with Magician Rockstar ALEX and Documentary Screening “Make Believe”
Thu 17 Dec 2015, 6 pm
Nha San COLLECTIVE
15th floor, Hanoi Creative City Building, 01 Luong Yen, Hanoi
Come to join mini lecture with Magician Rockstar ALEX and documentary screening “Make Believe”.
Program:
18h – 19h30: Mini Lecture with Rockstar ALEX
20h – 21h30: Documentary “Make Believe” (with sub)
“Make Believe” is a documentary for people who love magic and want to know more about this art. The movie suitable for all ages.
In “Make Believe”, director J. Clay Tweel follows six adolescent outsiders who all share an extraordinary passion: the art of magic.
Armed with great skillS and a dazzling array of illusions, these teenagers embark from the varied hometowns of Malibu, California; Chicago, Illinois; Capetown, South Africa; Littleton, Colorado; and Kitayama, Japan to attend the annual World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, where they each hope to be named Teen World Champion by master magician Lance Burton.
The film’s six subjects are remarkably assured and dedicated entertainers. Offstage, however, they face the diverse obstacles of adolescence: loneliness, high parental expectations, the pressures of impending stardom, abject poverty, and the deep desire to fit in.
With great humor, honesty, and heart, “Make Believe” is an enduring world that audiences know little about while it also explores a time of life no one ever forgets.
Tickets:
Mini Lecture with Rockstar ALEX. Fee: 70.000 VND
Documentary “Make Believe” (with sub). A donation of 50.000 VND is suggested
*** If you join both Mini lecture and Documentary, the fee will be 100.000 VND
For tickets you can contact hotline 0162 934 62 25 or buy directly at Dai Vernon Coffee & Lounge (No. 3 lane 52 Giang Vo).
Painting Exhibition “Thiền” by Vu Tuyen
Opening: Wed 16 Dec 2015, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 23 Dec 2015
Exhibition house, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi
Following the success of many exhibitions on Lotus: Solo exhibitions as “Nhân Duyên”, “Vô thường”, “Buông”, “Kệ”… and group exhibition as “Giao mùa”, “Cảm – Mơ”, “Trở Tâm”, Vu Tuyen has opened the year-end solo exhibition titled “Thiền” (Meditation).
“In the past, Meditation is often associated with the practice of the monks or ascetics but now it has become more popular and open to everyone. It helps people get rid of stress and raise their vibration. For me, I choose painting as a kind of meditation.” – Vu Tuyen
Austrian Film Week 2015
14 – 18 Dec 2015
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
From documentaries, to thought provoking features and a comedic cult classic, the following is a selection of some of the most outstanding talents and films of contemporary Austrian cinema.
SCHEDULE
Mon 14 Dec 2015
19:00 PARADISE LOVE
Language: German, Swahili and English with English Subtitles
21:00 VIENNA’S DAUGHTER
Language: German and English with English Subtitles
Tue 15 Dec 2015
19:00 VIENNA’S DAUGHTER
Language: German and English with English Subtitles
21:00 PARADISE LOVE
Language: German, Swahili and English with English Subtitles
Wed 16 Dec 2015
19:00 LITTLE ALIEN
Language: German with English Subtitles
21:00 INDIEN
Language: German with English Subtitles
Thu 17 Dec 2015
19:00 WHORES’ GLORY
Language: Bengali, Spanish, Thai, German, French and Japanese with English Subtitles
21:00 AMOUR
Fri 18 Dec 2015
19:00 AMOUR
21:00 WHORES’ GLORY
Language: Bengali, Spanish, Thai, German, French and Japanese with English Subtitles
For reservations, phone Hanoi Cinematheque at (04) 3936 2648, daily from 14:30–21:00.
Concert “Unfinished Symphony”
Fri 19 Dec 2015, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
The “Unfinished Symphony” by Austrian composer Franz Schubert will be performed in HBSO’s concert on 19 December 2015 at 8pm at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House by the HBSO Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Tran Vuong Thach.
Included in the program is another notable Romantic work, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano concerto No. 2 in C minor. This concerto is considered to be one of the few greatest romances, a work that any accomplished pianist would have performed. The solo piano and the orchestra take turn to caress the moving melodies that are distinctively Russian. The concerto will be performed by Korean pianist Joo Eun Young with the HBSO Symphony Orchestra.
The program will also feature the stupendous soprano Cho Hae Ryong in Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria and Luigi Arditi’s Il Bacio. Masterpieces and world-class artists, this is sure to be an impressive evening of Romance.
Program
Conductor: Mer. A. Trần Vương Thạch
Piano: Joo Eun Young (Eva)
Soprano: Cho Hae Ryong
HBSO Symphony Orchestra
PART I:
Franz Schubert Rosamunde
Franz Schubert Ave Maria
Luigi Arditi Il Bacio
Soprano: Cho Hae Ryong
Franz Schubert Symphony No.8 in B Minor, D.759 (“Unfinished”)
PART II:
Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, op.18
Piano: Joo Eun Young (Eva)
Tickets
Ticket price: 550,000 – 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)
Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Huong: 0989874517, Ms. Huong Ly: 0908057972
At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square
Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn
Film Screening “An Education”
Fri 18 Dec 2015, 8 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
In the last week of female directors’ film month, you are invited to the film screening “An Education” directed by Lone Scherfig.
AN EDUCATION is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film, based on a memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming con man who seduces her.
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards in 2010: Best Picture and Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for Nick Hornby, and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan.
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
Club Tropicana *bad santa* 80s Throwback Party!
Sat 19 Dec 2015, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Club Tropicana is back and it won’t let you go…
That’s right, time again for the 80s nostalgia one night party. Dust off your pink wigs and don your double-denims, kick back and relax with your favourite 80s tunes going all night long.
This time is our 2nd year anniversary, so get your hats out and don your worst Santas! We’ll have a special photobooth so you can document your naughtiness and other Xmas treats!
Rockin’ 80s jams and vinyl featuring DJ La Pham Nikita, DJ Cooper Trooper, DJ AC/DSteve, and DJ D2.
Free Entry!
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