Improvisational Concert with Cao Thanh Lan and Gregor Siedl

Fri 28 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Concert Hall – Hanoi College of Art

7 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

DomDom has the honour of inviting you to the concert Say Hello to Spring 2014! Duo Cao Thanh Lan (piano, Vietnam) and Gregor Siedl (saxophone, Austria) will bring us to a strange experience of the combination between academic music and experimental Jazz.

In this improvisational concert, we can meet DomDom students on stage once again. Let’s see what is the difference in their performance after the 3-day workshop with the talented duo.

Cao Thanh Lan – Piano

Lan is a versatile pianist encompassing a wide range of stylistic influences, with repertoire from classical to contemporary music and interdisciplinary works. After earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of classical music with Distinction at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, she went on studying Master of New Piano Music at the Musikhochschule Koeln (Cologne Conservatory) with the world leading pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She has performed in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Romania, the Netherlands as soloist and in chamber music ensembles during festivals namely Klangspuren, Manifest@Ircam, Impuls, Kamermuziek Festival Schiermonnikoog.

After several years playing and experimenting in the Free Improvisation Ensemble under the guidance of Kris Defoort (Brussels) and under Paulo Alvares (Cologne), she engages more and more in conceptual and free Improvisation, notably with project Osmosis at Strom Festival Cologne 2013. She is a founding member of ensemble Moment! and ensemble Parallel Asteroid.

Gregor Siedl – Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute

Gregor Siedl, currently based in Cologne, Germany, is a saxophonist with a background in jazz and improvised music. He studied classical and jazz music in his hometown Vienna, Austria and later on moved to Brussels, Belgium where he graduated with a Masters Degree in jazz music in the class of John Ruocco.

His immersion in the music scenes of several different European countries helped him absorb different viewpoints and approaches to improvised music and ensemble playing. (European Saxophone Ensemble, Dubtapes, Chroniques de l’Inutile, Parallel Asteroid, Osmosis, Notdurft, Unrevealed Society).

He is actively involved in diverse artistic projects. Some in context of performance-art, with dancers, actors as well as visual artists, others in ensembles rooted in the tradition of jazz and large ensembles crossing the boundaries between classical and improvised music.

He has developed a rather eclectic musical language which draws its influences from jazz, avant-garde, eclectronic- and contemporary music and provides him with the versatility to contribute to very different musical situations. In his playing he strives for expression, alertness and interaction with his musical partners.

Free entrance.

Skank The Tank Meets The Reggae Rajahs from India

Fri 28 Feb 2014, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De

Skank The Tank welcome to the floor Indian’s Number One and very first Indian Sound System, the Reggae Rajahs, on their South East Asian tour. Known for their incredible live performances as well as for spreading the sounds of reggae music across India, they will be bringing their love to Hanoi for a special night of skanking.

Last year the Reggae Rajahs were chosen to open for Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion) in New Delhi. They have also performed with a host of top reggae acts from across the globe, including Tippa Irie, Dub Inc, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Subatomic Sound and more.

In 2012, alongside world-renowned acts Toots & The Maytals and Mighty Diamonds, they were nominated for the Best International Group award at the British Reggae Industry Awards.

Hosting the night is Vietnam’s finest reggae soundsystem, Skank The Tank: selectors Slo-Lo and Selecta Elpee. Come down and see for yourself what all the fuss is about, put on your skanking shoes and come innadi dance with a clean heart and a peaceful mind!

Tickets: 100k at door

Exhibition “Khai Bút 2014″

An exhibited painting by Vu Dinh Tuan

Opening: Thu 27 Feb 2014, 5 pm

Exhibition: 27 Feb – 11 Mar, 8.30 am – 11.30 am and 1.30 pm – 5 pm

Viet Nam University of Fine Arts

42 Yết Kiêu, Hà Nội

You are invited to the art exhibition titled “Khai Bút 2014″ (meaning to create a piece of writing or a drawing to celebrate the new year) to welcome the Year of the Horse by Vietnam University of Fine Arts. 42 works of different genres such as paintings, sculptures, reliefs and photos by 39 artists will be featured in this exhibition.

The exhibition “Khai Bút 2014″ expresses our great tradition and brings the wish for a successful year.

HCMC – Exhibition “Unconditional Belief”

Opening: Thu 27 Feb 2014, 6 pm

Exhibition: 27 Feb – 25 Apr 2014, 10.30 am – 6.30 pm

Sàn Art

3 Mê Linh Street, Dist. Bình Thạnh, HCMC

Belief has been one of the broadest and most debatable topics of the study of humanity. Belief as a philosophical enquiry or a psychiatric study often employs the empirical sciences as a way to prove that belief’s validity or impact. Belief is also a manipulative vehicle often utilized for political propaganda or in particular contexts seen as a threat to authority. ‘Unconditional Belief’ is an exhibition by collective ‘Art Labor’ (Truong Cong Tung, Phan Thao Nguyen and Arlette Quynh Anh Tran), who imaginatively explores the concept of ‘belief’ in Vietnam by examining particular site and historical account. The exhibition surveys different layers of belief – from human dependence on spiritual power or sacred object in healing sickness, to the usage of education to disseminate religious ideas.

Truong Cong Tung studies Vietnamese people’s belief in suffering, fate and ideas of the supernatural. Like an anthropologist, he carried out field trips and research in ‘Magic Garden’ in Long An Province (a private garden open to the public believed to have healing powers), where he looked into people’s spiritual beliefs and rituals, practices yet to be verified by science as a cure. In his research, he discovered belief, or rather delusion is like dream and used as an effective tool to treat patients by psychiatrists. Cong Tung also expands his research to rituals of worshipping sacred objects believed to grant people wishes. His half-fictional, half-documentary artworks reveal layers of belief resulting from collective suffering or individual misery.

Phan Thao Nguyen uses religious belief as a starting point to trace the history of modern Vietnamese script, a Romanized alphabet system supposedly first introduced in the 17th century by Alexandre de Rhodes – a French Jesuit missionary – as an alterative writing system to the traditional pictographic character. Thao Nguyen creates her own imagined school named after de Rhodes, of which the curriculum is a place to experiment the belief: in the un-seeable, the poetic and the beautiful. In this obscure school, where everyone is blindfolded, she showcases blindness and illiteracy as the real obstacles of learning for pupil and teacher. She asks what justifies belief when there is no literacy and knowledge, but only poetry and beauty?

Selecting each project’s theme, curator Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran invites scientists from interdisciplinary fields to be collaborators and consultants for Art Labor. Their research process takes place like a laboratory of knowledge and artistic experiments. Besides organizing and designing art exhibitions, the collective curator helps conducting educational workshops between the artists, and scientists with different kinds of public, from academic students to hospital patients and bringing art projects to unconventional spaces such as hospitals or universities.

Consequently, in that curatorial and research approach, Unconditional Belief is not simply an artwork display; it also experiments with the possibility of reading an exhibition as an artistic research book. Entering this book / exhibition, the viewers can walk in, touch, see and read; they will encounter turning points of the artists’ investigations, traces of their references from academic sciences, hints to decode the artworks and even the collective’s plan for future projects. Art Labor’s artistic productions for Unconditional Belief include artworks, texts, objects appearing in the exhibition, such as research materials and architectural, visual and audio sensations. Each of those elements contributes to the core concept of Unconditional Belief: the tension between belief, knowledge and delusion.   

Experimental Music and Art Event “Experimen.TET”

Thu 27 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Experimen.TET is an annual experimental music and art event..

/ This year lineup

:: DomDom students

:: Mathias Rossignol

:: Dee.F

:: Nguyễn Đỗ Minh Quân

:: Duy01

:: Cao Thanh Lan

:: Gregor Siedl

:: The Mukang Fields

/ Visual

:: Zilo

:: The Onion Cellar

Free entry.

Special Concert with Pianist Andrea Bonatta

Thu 27 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Ho Chi Minh Conservatory of Music

112 Nguyen Du Street, Ward 1, HCMC

You are invited to a special concert with pianist Andrea Bonatta.

The famous Italian pianist – Andrea Bonatta – has performed as soloist all over the world: Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Shanghai, Beijing and Paris. He teamed up for immortal duets with well-known pianists such as Paul Badura – Skoda and Valentin Gheorghiu or violinist Domenico Nordio and Sergei Krylov. He also worked as master lecturer in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, London, Prag, Utrecht, Melbourne, Montepulciano, Seoul, Fort Worth, Hannover, Cologne.

This special concert will feature works by worldwide renowned composers namely Franz List, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert.

Andrea Bonatta also performs in Hanoi on 25 Feb.

HCMC – ‘Encounter’ Presents Professor Prasenjit Duara

Wed 26 Feb 2014, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Room C103

HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities

10 – 12 Dinh Tien Hoang, Dist 1, TP HCM

‘ENCOUNTER’ talk series welcomes Professor Prasenjit Duara, Director of Asia Research Institute; Director of Research in Humanities & Social Sciences, NUS, Singapore with a public lecture on Wednesday 26 February 2014.

Asia as Network: Future of the Past

Historically this region known as Asia had no strict boundaries, it was densely interconnected by trade and religion, evidenced in cultural practice (their rituals, arts and crafts). These informal networks had profound implications on the relationship between culture and society across this region. Today, there is an emerging consensus that continuing our pursuit of existing modes of production, consumption and the political economic arrangements that underpin them will endanger planetary sustainability sooner than we realize. Professor Duara will demonstrate how the intersection of differing cultural ideas can provide an alternate framework to rethinking the future of this regions’ cultural cosmopolitanism.

The event is free of charge; English and Vietnamese translation will be provided

Seats inside the auditorium are limited. Please arrange to come early for the best available position.

Prof. Prasenjit Duara is the Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute as well as Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at National University of Singapore. He is a historian of China and more broadly of Asia in the twentieth century. Duara also writes on historical thought and historiography. Previously he was Professor and Chair of the Department of History and of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago. In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford University Press), which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Duara has spoken as a keynote lecturer or distinguished speaker at over 75 institutions around the world since 1996.

The Contemporary Art Exhibition Thailand – Vietnam 2014

Opening: Fri 21 Feb, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 22 – 27 Feb 2014

Exhibition Hall, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi

The Contemporary Art Exhibition Thailand – Vietnam 2014 with the participation of 45 Thai artists and 10 Vietnamese artists is bringing a new aspect of contemporary art of Thailand and Vietnam to the public.

This is also the pioneer activity for art exchange between Thailand and ASEAN countries, led by the Thai government. These art works, mostly new, are exploring artists’ point of view to occurring social issues.

30 out of 45 Thai artists who participate in this exhibition are coming to Hanoi for the exhibition opening ceremony, as well as going on a trip to discover Vietnam’s beauty such as Sapa, Ninh Binh, Ha Long bay… This is a good chance for culture and art exchange, to build friendship as well as to introduce Vietnamese culture to our Thai artist friends.

Exhibition “Disrupted Choreographies” by Vietnamese Artists in France

Exhibition: 21 Feb – 27 Apr 2014

Carré d’Art, Nimes, France

Disrupted Choreographies’ weaves eight contemporary voices from Vietnam who propose alternate narratives between colonial histories, collective behavior, systems of class and the crumbling of ideological thought. This exhibition challenges the relationship between Vietnam and the ‘global’ stage, illustrating an artistic community critical of the historical consciousness that often stands in for its name (ie. the guilt of war; the tourist getaway; the nostalgic colonial).

Artists: Lena Bui; Tiffany Chung; Dinh Q Le; Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba; Nguyen Huy An; Nguyen Thai Tuan; Nguyen Trinh Thi and ‘The Propeller Group’

‘Disrupted Choreographies’ is co-curated by Zoe Butt (Executive Director and Curator, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City) and Jean-Marc Prevost (Director, Carré d’Art, Nimes).

Event organized in the France-Vietnam Year, Nam Viet Nam Phap 2013-2014.

Fairy Tale Weekend at the Goethe Institute

Saturday, the day 02/22/2014

* 15h – 16h: Ms. Snow Princess

* 16h30 – 17h30: Note Puss and Boots

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Sunday, 23/02/2014

* 15h – 16h: Frog Prince

* 16h30 – 17h30: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday 7 days 22.2 days 02.23.2014, Goethe Institute will screen four films based on the fairy tales of the same name four of the Grimms brothers in the framework of the German Film Week. Goethe Institute invited viewers to participate and enter the magical world of princesses and the prince of the fairies and wizards, and magical beasts and the people he brave heroes. Audiences can choose to watch movies or original German film dubbed in Vietnamese.

On the afternoon of the 7th, the story “Mrs. Snow Princess” will open for fairy series. She came hard Marie wonderland and soon many people love you for always willing to help people. Before returning home, she received the deserved reward. But things happen with his sister Marie’s next in the world of snow princess she is quite the opposite.

Next is the story of “Uncle Puss and Boots”. After he died flour miller, son of Hans inheritance not received anything other than an old man’s cat. While he was considering whether to make a cat fur gloves or not, the cat Minkus words and starts to prove himself as a professional assistant for Hans and his brother.

On Sunday afternoon, the movie “Frog Prince” will continue to be introduced. While playing, Princess Sophie accidentally dropped into the well a Golden Globe, a toy she loves most. A frog has suggested that if she agreed to bring attention to the castle, I’ll dive down to bring up the orb. Sophie agreed, but after having a toy in her hand, she forgot the promise that frogs are not satisfied.

And finally, the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will close the weekend of the fairy tale. Princess Snow White to flee into the woods to escape her stepmother, she found shelter at the home of the Seven Dwarfs. But even where it can not protect her safe from the evil queen.

Kim Dong Publishing House will introduce and sell a book in two days last week at the airport fairy movie Goethe. If you are interested want to read fairy tales in film, parents can buy their children books by Vietnamese Grimms tales.

Notice

Watch the original German fairy (no subtitles)

Venue: Gallery, Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Movies Vietnamese fairy cage

Venue: Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc

Admission is free. Please arrive on time as seating is limited.

Mess+Noise at Hanoi Rock City

Sat 22 Feb 2014, 8 pm – 3 am

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

C3 Vietnam and GingerWork host a truly international lineup, bringing you an evening of live electronica, shadows and smoke. Chillout or tripout in the White Room with improvised soundscapes from Lark Minkous and Blip Blop mixing electronic and live instruments. Then get upstairs and jump around to the crazed live-electro-dance of Tri Minh. Get sexy to Australia’s This Mess or lose your shit with Dee.F and Projectionist. And if you haven’t had enough, Blip Blop will head upstairs later to take care of all your dance needs and send you onwards with sore feet and big smiles.

Want more than music? Nikolaj Svennevig, O, Gingerwork and Mac Meo have put their collective genius to creating interactive installations. Come down early and sit in our specially created ambient cocoon, make some new friends or catch up with old ones.

Door fee is 100k and all proceeds go to paying our talented and starving artists and helping us plan a few future projects (which we will announce VERY soon).

We look forward to seeing you there.

Mark and Jeremy and the Mess and Noise crew. x

Spread your ears.

Bathe in light and sound.

Bounce around.Repeat.

Tickets: 100k at door, 50k for students

New Year Event: PETITE AND SMOOTH

Sat 22 Feb 2014, 6 – 9 pm

Nha San Studio

Tổ 50 cụm 5 Vĩnh Phúc, Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to Nhà Sàn Studio’s New Year event: PETITE AND SMOOTH with artist Võ Trân Châu and other sound artists Sơn X, Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, Lương Huệ Trinh with video screening by Nguyễn Trần Nam.

The event will start from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Saturday 22 Feb 2014 at Nhà Sàn Studio.

Võ Trân Châu graduated from the Fine Art University in Ho Chi Minh city. She has participated in exhibitions and workshops at San Art, such as Born from the Land and My Eldest Sister… This is the first time Trân Châu share her work in Hanoi. For this presentation, Trân Châu cut and transformed her 3 wedding dresses into petite and fine objects.

Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng and Nguyễn Xuân Sơn (Sơn X) has played experimental music and sound together for more than 10 years at various event and festival at Nhà Sàn Studio, Huế festival and Đom Đóm, etc… Hung shares his interest in noise with his solo guitar while Sơn X innovate and experiment with traditional music and instrument. Lương Huệ Trinh graduated from Vietnam National Academy of Music. She is fond of electric sound and music. These 3 composers will share a stage of improvisation with video screening by Nguyễn Trần Nam.

Free entrance.

HCMC – The People’s Party – Melting Pot Art Festival’s After Party

The People's Party

Sat 22 Feb 2014, 10 pm

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC

After all you beautiful people are done enjoying the best daytime event Saigon has to offer, come to The People’s Party.

This is a night dedicated to YOU, the PEOPLE. Expect the epic line up of DJs to provide y’all with a proper environment of positive vibes with their sexy smooth tunes to keep you groovin’ through the night.

We got that Old School House and Techno all night long.

>> JOEY T

>> SAAFE

>> NIC FORD

>> DAN LO

>> STARCHILD

>> HIBIYA LINE

Entrance 50k / FREE for ‘GOING’ list on Facebook event.

‘CHIẾU BÓNG’ – The CREMASTER Cycle by Matthew Barney

Sun 23 Feb 2014, from 10 am till late

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi is delighted to continue our new series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for cinema), in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab, TPD & YxineFF.

This Feb we are bringing you The CREMASTER Cycle by Matthew Barney – a series of five visually extravagant films which took eight years to finish (1994-2002) and will take you almost eight hours to view all. Dare to join us?

Described by The Guardian as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema”, the title of the films refers to the muscle that raises and lowers the testicles according to temperature, external stimulation, or fear. Here, Barney drew parallels between the period of development of the human embryo – when its sex is not yet determined, and the process of artistic creation – from the moment in which ideas are conceived until the moment before the finalization of the work. The films themselves are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology – an intensely private universe in which symbols and images are densely layered and interconnected.

Free entry – come & leave anytime you feel like.

Please pre-register at [email protected] before 2PM Sat 22 Feb 2014.

Screening of “Crash” and “In a Better World”

Screening of “Crash”: Sat 22 Feb 2014, 2 pm

Screening of “In a Better World”: Sat 22 Feb 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

In the 2nd week of Oscar film month, you are invited to the screening of 2 other masterpieces: Crash (USA, 2004) and In a Better World (Denmark, 2010).

Original language with Vietnamese subtitles. The screening is for educational purpose and supportive to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

About films

1. In a Better World (2010)

IN A BETTER WORLD (Danish: Hævnen, “the revenge”) is a 2010 Danish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.

The film is about the breaking up of a family trying to cope with the father’s job as a doctor in an African refugee camp and the 10-year old son being bullied at school. When a new kid joins his class, a friendship develops and the family tales are entwined.

IN A BETTER WORLD is told from both a local and a worldwide perspective. It tells the story of sorrow and evil, but also about love and friendship. It is about picking the battles you want to engage in, and make the best of life.

A Danish majority production with co-producers in Sweden, IN A BETTER WORLD won the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.

2. Crash (2004)

CRASH is a 2004 crime drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles,California. A self-described “passion piece” for Haggis, CRASH was inspired by a real-life incident in which his Porsche was carjacked outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard in 1991.

Several characters’ stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles: a black detective estranged from his mother; his criminal younger brother and gang associate; the white district attorney and his irritated, pampered wife; a racist white police officer who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner; an African American Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the officer; a Iranian-immigrant father who is wary of others; and a hard-working Hispanic family man, a locksmith. The film differs from many other films about racism in its rather impartial approach to the issue. Rather than separating the characters into victims and offenders, victims of racism are often shown to be racist themselves in different contexts and situations. Also, racist remarks and actions are often shown to stem from ignorance and misconception rather than a malicious personality.

CRASH stars a large ensemble cast including Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate and Michael Peña. In 2006, the film received six Academy Award nominations and won three for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the 78th Academy Awards.

The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

Book Launch and Expert Talk “Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam’s MEGA City”

Sun 23 Feb 2014, 10 am

Salon Van Hoa Cà Phé Thu Bay

Lau 1, Trung Nguyen Café

19b Pham Ngoc Thach, Dist 3, HCMC

Ho Chi Minh City, the economic hub and biggest urban agglomeration of Vietnam has recently emerged as the country’s first mega city. The vibrant metropolis is rapidly changing against the backdrop of globalization, but has preserved an almost rural character in many of its small alleys. For many people, the mega city is a place of hope for a better future. Can these dreams be fulfilled if the number of inhabitants continues to rise by millions and climate change is flooding entire city districts?

Michael Waibel is a senior researcher and project leader in urbanism at the Department for Geography of the University of Hamburg, Henning Hilbert is a scientific coordinator at the Vietnamese-German University of HCMC. Their book invites the reader on a fascinating journey through the familiar and lesser-known aspects of this bustling city to witness its vibrancy and dynamism from a comprehensive perspective.

The large-sized publication with an attractive format contains over 600 photos targeting a wide audience. It is based on many years of academic work among other funded by the German National Ministry of Education and Research within the initiative “Research for Sustainable Megacities of Tomorrow”. Further, a series of conferences in cooperation with the Goethe Institute have been organized in the recent past, which dealt with sustainable urban development, green housing or green growth.

During the launching event the editors Michael Waibel and Henning Hilbert will highlight the rationale behind their photo book. A more academic input will be provided by the Dean of the Faculty of Urban Planning of Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture, Dr. Hung Do Phu, who will give a talk about challenges of sustainable urban development in Vietnam. The photo book can be purchased after the talk, and there will be three complimentary copies disbursed to the lucky winners of a draw. A series of select photos illustrating the recent urban development of Vietnam’s first mega city will be exhibited.

Event Schedule

• Short Movie briefly introducing about the photo book

• Introduction & Greeting

Sebastian Kraft, Director of the Goethe Institute HCMC

• T.P. Ho Chi Minh: Challenges of sustainable urban development of Vietnam’s mega city, Talk by

Dr. Hung Do Phu, Dean of the Faculty of Urban Planning, Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture

• The Rationale behind the photo book, the editors

Dr. Michael Waibel, Department of Geography, Hamburg University Henning Hilbert, Vietnamese-German University

• Lottery drawing of three complimentary copies of the photo book, Mr. Nguyen Trung Hien (Premium Sponsor AUDI)

• Photo exhibition “TP. Ho Chi Minh MEGA City”

Total duration: about 90 minutes

Languages: English / Vietnamese

Free admission.

Contact: Goethe-Institut HCMC, Department of culture,

[email protected]

Tel.:+ 84 8 38326716

The book is also launched in Hanoi on Wed 19 Feb.       

Alton Miller Performs in Hanoi

Thu 20 Feb 2014, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Come to a music night with one of house music’s founding fathers direct from Detroit, USA: Alton Miller. This is guaranteed to be a seriously magical night of deep record digging, soulful house loving and explosive dancing.

On Thursday 20 February we get the chance to hear what made Alton become so famous as a DJ… Prepare to be physically and emotionally moved by one of house music’s all time gurus!

Alton Miller also performs in HCMC on 21 Feb.

Free entrance.   

Acoustic Music with David Christopher

Tue 18 Feb 2014, 7.30 pm

Tadioto

24B Tong Dan, Hanoi

Come to a performance by David Christopher: songs of losses and morning hopes, of empty apartments and urban displacement – a final concert after a week of visiting Hanoi.

Free entrance.

David Christopher played at The Hanoi Social Club on 14 Feb.

HCMC – Trinh Cong Son Music Night “After the Afternoon”

Fri 28 Feb 2014, 8 pm

IDECAF

28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC

Trinh Cong Son music night titled “After the afternoon”, a new music adventure of Giang Trang after “Floating memories” and “Third quarter moon”.

Giang Trang also performs at L’Espace on 27 Feb.

Following “Third quarter moon”, this new performance maintains a similar environment, with some innovations in the arrangements, but more peaceful. This adventure brings soul from the last night, new day and after the afternoon. Love is faded, but the afternoon continues in our lives, sometimes very short, sometimes infinitely long.

In sum, “After the afternoon” is not like a break between Floating Memories and Third Quarter moon, but an extension of the latter, in the same space, at the same time, but another soul.

Trần Đức Minh: arrangement, guitar

Giang Trang: Singer

Ngô Hồng Quang: Kalimba, instrument

Tickets

Entrance: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)

Tickets on sale at the IDECAF (Tel : 38 23 99 68)   

HCMC – Melting Pot 4: Art and Music Festival

22 and 23 Feb 2014, 1 – 10 pm

Saigon Outcast

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

Welcome to Saigon Outcast’s One Year Anniversary of The Melting Pot Art Festival! A weekend where creators of art, dance and music come together under one umbrella for a good cause. This festival will raise money to buy music instruments for local orphanages.

Media sponsors: MTV Vietnam and Hanoi Grapevine

“Creation is a drug I can’t do without.” -Cecil B. DeMille

ENTRANCE FEE: 50K

*ACTIVITIES:

BAD PORTRAITS BY GRA AND GARETH, HENNA ARTIST, FACE/STONE PAINTING AND CRAFT TABLE

*ART EXHIBITION ALL WEEKEND FEATURING:

ILLUSTRATIONS: Kris Kotcher, LouLou Toulouse, Maggie Appleton and Mika Tennekoon

PHOTOGRAPHY: David Dredge, Andrea Towne (H2H) and Trictography

WOODCUT PRINTS: Kane Nugent and Jack Clayton

THE ART OF FOLIAGE: Green Youth Collective

HANDMADE SPECIALTIES: Sammy Eastwood, Amy Pons, Joe Thompson, Vy Hoang, Pinups and Needles, Tusks and Dust, Huynh Tat Phat Foundation, Quynh Dao, Arris, AnUKa and Soul Flower Saigon

CLOTHING: Bong Vintage, Cheekie Nguyen and Little Bangkok

FOOD: Saigon Outcast BBQ and The Hungry Pig

*SATURDAY ENTERTAINMENT*

1:30-3:00 PM: CAT PYLON

3:00-4:30 PM: PE DRO FEATURING SAIGON OUTCAST SHREDDERS

4:30-6:00 PM: HOT TZIGANI PROJECT

6:00-7:00 PM: PERFORMANCES FEATURING:

HENRY (Poetry)

KATORI VIETNAM (Kenjutsu)

ANH AND AGNOTTI (Contemporary)

UDG DANCE (Jazz)

EMILY NAVARRA (Modern)

7:00-8:30 PM: THE LOST ART

8:30-10:00 PM: SPACE PANTHER

Emily-Navarra

*SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT*

1:30-3:00 PM: SAHIVA

3:00-4:30 PM: SOLID MACHINE FEATURING SAIGON OUTCAST SHREDDERS

4:30-6:00 PM: VAN THANH TRUNG BAND

6:00-7:00 PM: Capitán FEATURING ALL THE WAY LIVE VIETNAM ART BATTLE AND LIVE AUCTION

7:00-8:30 PM:THE 67′S

8:30-10:00 PM: THE RAD LIFE

Exhibition “Sunshine”

Opening: Thu 20 Feb, 5 pm

Exhibition: 20 Feb – 01 Mar 2014

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi

Sunshine is Pham Luan’s forth exhibition in Hanoi. After seventeen years exhibiting abroad, Pham Luan comes back to his hometown with a collection that represents his familiar motifs through a fresh perspective and a matured style.

Pham Luan’s portrayal of Hanoi reflects the fascinating co-existence of the old and the new in many parts of the Old Quarter. Contemporary Hanoi streets came alive on his canvases with his bold brushstrokes and vibrant palettes.

Figure paintings are featured dominantly in this exhibition. He’s interested in portraying people in their daily surroundings. His confident brushworks capture the energy and the emotions that the he felt from observing those subjects – whether they are in Vietnam or in a city abroad.

Light is an important part in Pham Luan’s works. Fascinated by the changeable quality of light, he observed and studied how light can transform scenery. Natural and artificial lights are thoughtfully depicted to enhance his canvases and invite the viewers to engage with the world of his paintings.

Featuring 20 paintings and 2 sets of folding screen, “Sunshine” is on view at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum from 20 February to 1 March 2014. A new book entitled “Pham Luan – Volume II” is published to accompany this exhibition.

HCMC – Music Night with Alton Miller Part 2

Fri 21 Feb 2014, 10 pm

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC

Believe it or not, he’s coming back – last month’s gig was such a head-spinner that catching Alton on his return journey proved to be simply irresistible.

For those who were at that first performance, you know exactly what kind of high-calibre music to expect. For those who missed it the first time around – this is your chance to make up for it!

>> ALTON MILLER (Detroit, USA)

>> ELIA & HIBIYA LINE (The Observatory)

Inspired by Stevie Wonder, Santana, Parliament, Funkadelic and the Philadelphia sound, ALTON MILLER has produced over 120 tracks over the years on legendary labels such as Planet E, King Street/Nitegrooves, Trackmode Records, Seasons, Octave Lab and Defected to name a few. He has played alongside DJs such as Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan and Timmy Regisford since he first started spinning at the legendary Detroit Music Institute in the late 80s. The Music Institute was one of the epicenters of the underground house movement where Alton and Chez Damier shared a Saturday night residency helping to create the musical volcano that erupted worldwide in 1988. Never afraid of mixing the old with the new, Alton’s DJ sets are simply magical and a real treat for all you Saigon house lovers!

Tickets: 150000 VND

HCMC – Exhibition “Red”

Red paintings: 15 Feb – 11 Mar 2014, 12 am – 8 pm

Red project: 15 Mar – 15 Apr 2014, 12 am – 8 pm

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC

Come to the next exhibition “Red”, a monochrome exhibition in two parts.

Part 1 : RED PAINTINGS

15 February > 11 March

opening 6PM

Part 2 : RED PROJECT

15 March > 15 April

opening 6PM

Opening time : 12AM > 8PM

Artists: Henry Codax, Vương Tử Lâm, Le Brothers and Olivier Mosset

Monochrome painting has a long history, crossing continents and generations. This practice first appeared at the beginning of last century in the USSR (with artists like Kasimir Malevitch and Alexander Rodchenko), then moving to Europe (Yves Klein) and later to America (Alan Charlton, Marcia Hafif, Robert Ryman, Olivier Mosset etc.). The monochrome, always re-interpreted, is still one of the main subjects in abstraction and is a form that continues today, in a world of images, to resist.

In 1986, New York saw an important monochrome experience with “RED”, a collective show curated by critic/curator Bob Nickas, which had no theme or subject. It mixed radical paintings and sculptures with the taste of its author. When applied to the group show, the monochrome became the main driving force behind the gathering of pieces.

Almost thirty years after, the exhibition “Màu Đỏ” (vietnamese translation of the word “RED”) takes place in Ho Chi Minh City. While monochrome does not have a rooted presence or history in Vietnam as an artistic tradition, the red color has a specific impact and a real importance here in the context of the country and its culture. On the one hand, it is the color of the national flag, symbolic of communism and therefore used as a visual aid to communicate governmental information. On the other, it symbolizes many ideas for the people. For example, red could be the color of luck, enthusiasm and happiness but also death and sorrow. In each case this color is integrated into the daily life of Vietnam.

The first part of this exhibition is an introduction to the most radical type of abstraction: the monochrome painting. For the artists, the canvas is a way to isolate the color and to return it to a state of autonomy and neutrality. Here the color does not belong to any identity or any speech. The paintings are made to be seen just for what they are: form, shape, intensity and pure materiality. They are representations of fundamental colors that transcend gallery walls and borders.

In contrast to part one, the second part of the show (an installation mixing video and sculptures) is a reflection on the color red in Vietnam – a kind of experimental documentary in which artists, poets and writers are invited to express their points of view and share their feelings and memories.

Valentine Market at Hanoi Social Club

Sun 16 Feb 2014, 10 am – 6 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

Let’s celebrate Valentine’s Day for the whole weekend! We have an in-store market to satisfy your lover (we know what you’re thinking – no! Decorum please).

Come and buy a gift for The One (or yourself) – We’ve been scouring Hanoi for the most interesting vendors. There will be a variety of choices for you and even stuff for men!!! Don’t forget to get some delicious bites of chocolate, or a cup of hot chocolate or mulled wine (all homemade!).

FREE ENTRANCE

Group Exhibition “The Beginning”

Opening: Sat 15 Feb 2014, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 15 – 22 Feb 2014

Gallrey Blue

28 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the group exhibition titled “The Beginning” by 6 artists: Le Thi Minh Tam, Le Bao Ngoc, Quach Bac, Nguyen Pham Dinh Tuan, Tran Duc Quyen, Doan Xuan Tung.

In the flashing eyes of young artists, the paintings tell different stories.

The first steps of career are still long, challenging when friends are living and silently drawing with desire and despair in contemporary context of Vietnam.

Therefore, the blues inside smiling eyes of Le Thi Minh Tam, Le Bao Ngoc, Quach Bac, Nguyen Pham Dinh Tuan, Tran Duc Quyen, Doan Xuan Tung are obsessions in the harmony of shape and color.

Screening of “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Secret in their Eyes”

Screening of “A Beautiful Mind”: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 7.30 pm

Screening of “The Secret in their Eyes”: Sat 15 Feb 2014, 2 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

For the needs of “We Are Filmmakers” trainees and movie lovers as well as welcoming the 2014 Oscar award, in February, TPD center will hold the film week which includes two categories: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture. In the first week, 2 films “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Secret in Their Eyes” will be presented.

About films

A BEAUTIFUL MIND is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles.

The story begins in the early years of a young prodigy named John Nash. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

The film opened in the United States cinemas on December 21, 2001. It went to gross over $313 million worldwide and to win four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.

It was well received by critics, but has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of Nash’s life, especially his other family and a son born out of wedlock. However, the filmmakers have stated that the film was not meant to be a literal representation.

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Spanish: El secreto de sus ojos) is a 2009 Argentine crime thriller film directed, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella and written by Eduardo Sacheri and Campanella, based on Sacheri’s novel “La pregunta de sus ojos” (The Question in Their Eyes). The film, a joint production of Argentine and Spanish companies, stars Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil.

The story unearths the buried romance between a retired judiciary employee and a judge who worked together a quarter century ago. They recount their efforts on a still-unsolved 1974 rape and murder that manages to cast a spell – not only on them, but on the victim’s husband and the killer. The double setting frames the period of Argentina’s Dirty War (1976 – 1983), a violent time when criminality often went unpunished.

In 2009, it was the recipient of awards in both Hollywood and Spain. The picture won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, and, with 1985′s The Official Story, made Argentina the first country in Latin America to win it twice. Three weeks before, it had received the Spanish equivalent with the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. As of 2010, it is only surpassed at the Argentine box office by Leonardo Favio’s 1975 classic Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Nazareno Cruz y el lobo).

The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

Valentine Garden with Kim Slade

Fri 14 Feb 2014, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Kim Slade is a refreshingly honest singer/songwriter with eclectic influences from The Jam to The Streets. His infectious original songs are born from very real situations and delivered with pure conviction.

The Brighton (UK) based soloist has shared the stage with first class artists including The Jam’s Bruce Foxton,Turin Breaks and Starsailor touring at some of the UK’s most notorious venues, including Glasgow’s Barrowlands, DeMontfort Hall in Leicester and numerous O2 Academies.

Kim has earned UK radio play, including from BBC introducing where since, Kim was asked back to perform some of his new tracks live in session.

The first EP, “Bognor Vegas” is out now on iTunes Spotify and Amazon.

With support from the local talents:

:: Mecha Sasquatch

:: Stern Ferns

Free entry.

Kim Slade live in Central Park, New York City

Photo Contest “Intercultural Encounters”

Deadline: 28 Feb 2014

The photo contest – entitled “Intercultural Encounters” aims to capture impressions, encounters, and experiences in the field of dialogue in form of pictures.

Award

Among all received photos, the most impressive and meaningful ones will be selected for the award by our jury. The best photos will become part of an exhibition that will travel through our Austrian Cultural Fora abroad and thus further promote the concept of intercultural and interreligious dialogue through your demonstrations. The three winners will be awarded with a camera by Lomo.

Criteria

- Between the ages 18 und 35;

- The photo must be taken by you:

- Please provide the following Information in addition to your photo: title, place and date of recording, short description – max. 500 characters (incl. blanks)

Contact

Please submit your picture no later than February 28th, 2014, including your full coordinates (Name, Address, Date of Birth, and Phone Number) to [email protected].

David Christopher at The Hanoi Social Club

Fri 14 Feb 2014, 8pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

Take the sparse, heartrending acoustic confessionals of The Swell Season and Bruce Springsteen. Blend them with the image-laden pop sensibilities of James Blunt and Neil Finn and you’ll arrive at the emotive landscapes showcased in David Christopher’s upcoming gig at The Hanoi Social Club.

From playing in London’s singer/songwriter scene and Hamburg’s famous Reeperbahn strip, David Christopher will be playing songs from his most recent album, ‘Apartment’, which is the culmination of a solo career that began in Germany. A single show at The Hanoi Social Club. See you there! Have a listen here: http://www.reverbnation.com/davidchristopher

Tickets: 100k at door

Rome (Jerome Reuter): Live in Saigon

Sat 15 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Yoko Bar

22a Nguyen Thi Dieu, Dist 3, HCMC

Jerome Reuter is a unique musical personality, his only performance in the country (also the first in Asia) will take place on 15 Feb in HCMC.

Not designed to be another musical event in town, we look at expanding the audiences’ engagement into a unique listening experience of the musical subgenre of dark folk through this. Bearing the basics of folk music such as acoustic guitar and a strong emphasis on lyricism, the music presented by Rome, one of dark folk’s finest out there, is bred upon a particular aesthetic viewpoint about the world as well as other avantgarde musical acts from the 80’s & more.

Luxembourgish singer-songwriter Jerome Reuter founded ROME (the name is derived from his first name) in 2005 and has since recorded and released groundbreaking albums in the underground folk and post-industrial music world at a breathtaking pace. ROME’s musical and lyrical world is genuinely unique, blending traditional songwriting craftsmanship, unusual arrangements and fine poetry into one monstrous and intimate musical output that combines chanson, dark ambient, apocalyptic folk, pop, acoustic rock, martial industrial, cold wave — all rolled into one impressive avantgarde package.

For more detail please contact: [email protected] and [email protected]

Tickets

Concession for students (with valid id) : 100.000vnd

Presale : 100.000vnd

Concession and presale can be bought with Ticketbox, no delivery.

Door ticket: 150.000vnd   

Book Launch and Expert Talk of “Ho Chi Minh City: Vietnam’s MEGA City”

Wed 19 Feb 2014, 6 pm

Goethe Institut

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Ho Chi Minh City, the economic hub and biggest urban agglomeration of Vietnam has recently emerged as the country’s first mega city. The vibrant metropolis is rapidly changing against the backdrop of globalization, but has preserved an almost rural character in many of its small alleys. For many people, the mega city is a place of hope for a better future. Can these dreams be fulfilled if the number of inhabitants continues to rise by millions and climate change is flooding entire city districts?

Michael Waibel is a senior researcher and project leader in urbanism at the Department for Geography of the University of Hamburg, Henning Hilbert is a scientific coordinator at the Vietnamese-German University of HCMC. Their book invites the reader on a fascinating journey through the familiar and lesser-known aspects of this bustling city to witness its vibrancy and dynamism from a comprehensive perspective.

The large-sized publication with an attractive format contains over 600 photos targeting a wide audience. It is based on many years of academic work among other funded by the German National Ministry of Education and Research within the initiative “Research for Sustainable Megacities of Tomorrow” . Further, a series of conferences in cooperation with the Goethe Institute have been organized in the recent past, which dealt with sustainable urban development, green housing or green growth.

During the launching event the editors Michael Waibel and Henning Hilbert will highlight the rationale behind their photo book. A more academic input will be provided by the Dean of the Faculty of Urban Planning of Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture, Dr. Hung Do Phu, who will give a talk about challenges of sustainable urban development in Vietnam. The photo book can be purchased after the talk, and there will be three complimentary copies disbursed to the lucky winners of a draw. A series of select photos illustrating the recent urban development of Vietnam’s first mega city will be exhibited.

Event Schedule

- Short Movie briefly introducing about the photo book

- Introduction & Greeting Dr. Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch, Director of the Goethe Institute Vietnam

- T.P. Ho Chi Minh: Challenges of sustainable urban development of Vietnam’s mega city

Talk by Dr. Hung Do Phu, Dean of the Faculty of Urban Planning, Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture

- The Rationale behind the photo book

The editors Dr. Michael Waibel, Department of Geography, Hamburg University

Henning Hilbert, Vietnamese-German University

- Lottery drawing of three complimentary copies of the photo book Dr. Almuth Meyer-Zollitsch

- Photo exhibition “TP. Ho Chi Minh MEGA City” and Reception

Total duration: about 90 minutes

Languages: English / Vietnamese

Free admission.

Screening of “Les Gamins”

Fri 28 Feb 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening titled “Les Gamins” ( France, 2013, 95 mins) directed by Anthony Marciano. “Two men, two kids’ dreams. Two prices to pay for regaining their teenage dreams? … A real burst of French laughter.”

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Trinh Cong Son Music Night “After the Afternoon”

Thu 27 Feb 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to Trinh Cong Son music night titled “After the afternoon”, a new music adventure of Giang Trang after Floating memories and Third quarter moon.

Following “Third quarter moon”, this new performance maintains a similar environment, with some innovations in the arrangements, but more peaceful. This adventure brings soul from the last night, new day and after the afternoon. Love is faded, but the afternoon continues in our lives, sometimes very short, sometimes infinitely long.

In sum, “After the afternoon” is not like a break between Floating Memories and Third Quarter moon, but an extension of the latter, in the same space, at the same time, but another soul.

Nguyen Van Tuan: arrangement, guitar, acoustic bass

Giang Trang: Singer

Minh Duc: Contrebass

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Pianist Andrea Bonatta in Concert

Tue 25 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to a concert with pianist Andrea Bonatta. Andrea Bonatta is one of the most outstanding Italian pianists and a successful conductor. He recorded the complete piano work by Brahms as well as many other CD by Liszt and Schubert getting top critical reviews.

Program

Franz LISZT Invocation – Hymne de l’Enfant à son réveil – Miserere d’après Palestrina (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173)

Robert SCHUMANN Arabesque op. 18

Johannes BRAHMS Scherzo op. 4

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Franz SCHUBERT

Sonata in A Major D 959

Allegro – Andantino – Scherzo, Allegro vivace – Rondo, Allegretto

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over [email protected]

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

VNSO TET Jazz Concert

26 and 27 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to VNSO TET Jazz Concert with the participation of VNSO Trong Com Band, saxophones: Quyen Van Minh, Quyen Thien Dac, Nguyen Bao Long, conductor Tetsuji Honna, piano soloist Yamashita Yosuke and artists of Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.

PROGRAM

Leroy Anderson Sleigh Rice

George Gershwin Rapsody in Blue

Duke Ellington Take the A train

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200 000, 350 000, 500 000, 700 000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over [email protected]

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Cabaret Night in February

Sat 22 Feb 2014, 8.30 – 9.30 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Cabaret Night at L’Espace – the stage for new music talents. From 8.30 pm to 9.3o, listen to “Puzzle” band with the performance of French, Vietnamese and English songs by French and Vietnamese singers/song writers.

If you want to share this musical adventure, contact Cédric Drouard : [email protected].

Free admission.

Screening of “Declaration of War”

Fri 21 Feb 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening titled “Declaration of War” (France, 2011, 100 mins) directed by Valérie Donzelli. The film received 6 nominations in Caesars Award 2012 including the award for Best French Film.

The great revelation of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

German Film Week 2014

21 Feb – 01 Mar 2014

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

This year again, the Goethe-Institut invites to a German Film Week from 21st February to 1st of March 2014. A colorful mixture of successful German movies will be shown, including some films, which were already presented on the German Film Festival 2013 and were especially popular with the Vietnamese audience.

Oh Boy! will be shown at the opening, portraying twenty-something Niko strolling around in the streets of Berlin and trying to figure out life. The following day, Hell will captivate the audience. The apocalyptic thriller has already been a great success at the German Film Festival 2013. So has Hans Christian Schmid’s drama Home for the Weekend, a strong family drama told quietly and subtly, and yet gripping from the beginning to the end.

The Dreileben Trilogy is a very special work. Three directors take on the same event from three different perspectives: The story of a convicted sex offender escaping from police detention near the town of Dreileben.

Forget me not is is a documentary about the mother of director David Sieveking, who is loosing her memory due to Alzheimer. The film shows how the illness changes her, but at the same time brings the family closer together.

A burning issue is touched by Color of the Ocean. More and more refugees try, to cross Europe’s borders to start an allegedly better life. Only few make it. The film tells the story of some of these immigrants, trying to get from Africa to the EU.

Furthermore, the young audience can look forward to the most beautiful fairy tale classics: Four fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers in the latest film adaption, which will be presented on the first film weekend.

Free entrance.

Free entry.

Concert “Mozart Cycle IV”

18 and 19 Feb 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the concert “Mozart Cycle IV” – the fourth collaboration between The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) and L’Espace. This time Tetsuji Honna will highlight the diversity of Mozart’s work with the performance of his opera, symphony and concerto.

Three worlds are exploited respectively, from hot air and full flavor of opera, to the grandeur of symphony, don’t forget the deeply quiet nature of concerto that soloist Nguyen Ly Huong will bring to us.

Conductor : Honna Tetsuji

Flute : Nguyen Ly Huong

Program

The opening of Cosi fan tutte, D Major k.588

Concerto for flute No.2, G Major k.313

Symphony No.36 “Linz”, D Major k.425

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace from 18 Jan 2014.

Spring Gala Opera and Ballet

Wed 19 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to Spring Gala Opera and Ballet with conductor Nguyen Thieu Hoa and artists of Vietnam National Ballet Company.

Program

Part I

1. Rossini: overture to la gazza ladra

2.Rossini: kavatina of rossina – Soprano: Thăng Long

3.Mendelssohn: symphony No. 4, (movement 3: Spring)

4.G.Bizet: Habanera – Sopran: Vanh Khuyên

5.Rossini: kavatina of don basilio – Baritone: Manh Dung

6.Strauss: emperor waltzes

7.W.A. Mozart: gloria from coronation mass

Soloists and the Choir.

8.W.A. Mozart: “the Magic Flute” Final Chorus

Interval

the Contemporary Ballet “Secret garden”

Music: Sebastian Plano &Olafur Arnalds

Choroegrapher: Sasha Evtimova (Macedonia)

Video animation: Predrag Milochevich

and Others Dancers of Vietnam National Ballet Company

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over [email protected]

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.   

Rome (Jerome Reuter): Live in Saigon

Sat 15 Feb 2014, 8 pm

Yoko Bar

22a Nguyen Thi Dieu, Dist 3, HCMC

Jerome Reuter is a unique musical personality, his only performance in the country (also the first in Asia) will take place on 15 Feb in HCMC.

Not designed to be another musical event in town, we look at expanding the audiences’ engagement into a unique listening experience of the musical subgenre of dark folk through this. Bearing the basics of folk music such as acoustic guitar and a strong emphasis on lyricism, the music presented by Rome, one of dark folk’s finest out there, is bred upon a particular aesthetic viewpoint about the world as well as other avantgarde musical acts from the 80’s & more.

Luxembourgish singer-songwriter Jerome Reuter founded ROME (the name is derived from his first name) in 2005 and has since recorded and released groundbreaking albums in the underground folk and post-industrial music world at a breathtaking pace. ROME’s musical and lyrical world is genuinely unique, blending traditional songwriting craftsmanship, unusual arrangements and fine poetry into one monstrous and intimate musical output that combines chanson, dark ambient, apocalyptic folk, pop, acoustic rock, martial industrial, cold wave — all rolled into one impressive avantgarde package.

For more detail please contact: [email protected] and [email protected]

Tickets

Concession for students (with valid id) : 100.000vnd

Presale : 100.000vnd

Concession and presale can be bought with Ticketbox, no delivery.

Door ticket: 150.000vnd

Sam Thi and Friends: A Special Reunion Concert

Mon 17 Feb 2014, 7.30 pm

Vietnam National Academy of Music Concert Hall

77 Hào Nam,Ô Chợ Dừa, Đống Đa, Hà Nội

After nearly 30 years living in Europe, Sam Thi is coming back to Hanoi to play in a special chamber music program with some of her best friends from the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

The program will included some of the best compositions by J.S Bach, J. Haydn, W.A.Mozart, D.Milhaud and Piazzolla.

Sam Thi was born in a well known musical family in Hanoi. Her father Nguyen Khac Van, her uncles Khac Hue, Khac Hoan, and her aunt Tuyet Trang….are all distinguished violinist in their own right. Sam Thi herself was an active performer in the 1970s as a child star. She has appeared regularly on Vietnamese National television and radio stations as a solo violinist.

The concert is by invitation only; if you wish to receive the invitation, please email your name and address to [email protected]. The concert is in aid for the charity VietDreams.

Screening of “Vive la France”

Fri 14 Feb 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

You are invited to the film screening “Vive la France” (France, 2013, 95 mins) directed by Michael Youn. NO children under 12 should be allowed to see it. “They do not know where they put their feet on! A success of humor, good ideas and excellent replicas”.

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

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 40 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Sebastien Gesell’s Farewell Party

Sat 01 Feb 2014, 8.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De

Regular readers of these pages should be familiar with Sebastien’s name, either as a contributing photographer or as one of the most versatile DJs in Hanoi… After two years bringing new sounds and ideas to our musical scene, he’s leaving for faraway shores. For the occasion, ATK will exceptionally be open and host what will probably be the only party in town on this 2nd day of Tet. Come share a drink and send Sebastien on his way in style!

Confirmed lineup so far:

- DJ Cybersnack

- Dee.F

- Tri Minh

- DJ Kulture

- The Onion Cellar ensemble (!) in what might well be their one and only performance ever

Free entry.