Spacebass Festival Hanoi

Sat 19 Jul 2014, 6 pm – 11.45 pm

Van Ho Exhibition Center

02 Hoa Lu Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the music fashion festival entitled Space Bass Festival this weekend.

The event promises to rock this hot summer with the performance of party-hook celebraties as DJ Bnuts, DJ JangLoa, MC MR.A and 2 special guests LIL KNIGHT and MLEE.

Spacebass Festival not only offers a giant outdoor dance floor, but also immerses the youth in fashion trends around the world, brings the wonderful exclusive shoes through Sneaker N Style fair, a.k.a SneakerStep, a fashion platform where promotes your identity, shares fashion knowledge and passion for Sneakers.

Line up:

- SpaceSpeaker Teams

- DJ Bnuts

- DJ JangLoa

- Special guests: MLEE, LIL’KNIGHT

Ticket

- Early Bird: 69.000 VND/ticket, on sale only on 8,9,10 Jul 2014

- Standard: 99.000 VND/ticket

Exhibition “Young Sculptors 2014″

Opening: Wed 16 Jul 2014, 5 pm

Artist Talk: Tue 22 Jul 2014, 9 am

Exhibition: 16 – 22 Jul 2014

Exhibition Hall

16 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition “Young Sculptors 2014″.

The exhibition series “Young Sculptors” by Young Artists’ Club was started by young sculptor Thai Nhat Minh in 2012 under the auspices of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association. After two successful events in 2012 and 2013 the exhibition series has affirmed its reputation as the cradle for young and promising sculptors, many of whom have created their voice at the exhibition 10 years of Vietnamese sculptures (2003-2013) such as Thai Nhat Minh, Tran An, Ku Kai Khao, Ha Manh Chien, Pham Thai Binh, Hoang Mai Thiep, Luong Duc Hung, etc.

A new feature of the exhibition this year is the emergence of sculptors born in the 1990s and young painters who also make sculptures besides the familiar sculptors’ names. This will contribute to the atmosphere of sculpture scene in general and young sculpture in particular. The ambition of this exhibition series is to create stepping stones for young people to start sculpting and then be able to walk firmly on their journeys.

Music Night “Luminous Flux”

Fri 18 Jul 2014, 9 pm

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu Str, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

Come on a journey of art, light, music and creation.

Surrender yourself to our sonic conductors, each curating a totally different sound.

Gypsy Doodle Jam Collective will be represented by some of Hanoi’s most talented artists, creating inspiring works of art before your very eyes.

Installation lighting and ambience in the main room creating a warm atmosphere for you to get loose in. .

Sonic Conductors (DJ’s…. ;)

Incognergro (SoundGarden)- Funky soul beats

GhosTV (Quest Highlight)- Afro Carribean Garage

Mark Harris – Melodic and Vocal Tech Twinged house.

Vaughan – Wildcard

Gypsy Doodle Jam Artists

Heather Chan

Max Cooper

Dana Peterson

Entry 60,000 VND – Support local artists and musicians.   

 ” + – x : ” A Night of Experimental Music and Visual Art

Thu 17 Jul 2014, 6 – 11 pm

Nha San Studio

462 Duong Buoi Str, Hanoi

Domdom Hanoi and Nha San Collective mark their first time of collaboration through the upcoming night of experimental music and visual art: 6 pm, Thu 17 Jul 2014 at Nha San Studio.

Content: What would happen if experimental music is combined with contemporary art? The artists of Domdom Hanoi and Nha San Collective will do the first test of this innovation in the music party this Thursday.

DomDom’s musicians:

Nguyen Chi Linh – Guitare

Nguyen Thanh Huyen – Tranh (16 strings- zither)

Nguyen Thu Thuy – Tỳ Bà (Pipa)

Nguyen Thuy Chi – Bầu (Monochord)

Chu Minh – Trumpet

Nguyen Viet – Akkordeon

Pham Thanh Tam – Objects

Huong Nguyen – Objects

Nguyen Huu Hai Duy – Drum

Nguyen Do Minh Quan – Electronic

Visual artists:

Nguyen Thuy Tien (Performance art)

Nguyen Quoc Thanh (Performance art)

Nguyen Ban Ga (Video art)

Tran Duc be (Video art)

Free entry.

Facts and Fictions in Vietnamese History

Sun 20 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” (Mark Twain)

Continuing manzi’s talk series about history and culture, this month, manzi will bring you a controversial topic ‘Fact and Fictions in Vietnamese history’. The talk will be led by culture researcher Trần Quang Đức – author of ‘Ngan nam ao mu’, a study of Vietnamese costumes from 1009-1945 and researcher Trần Trọng Dương from the Han Nom institution.

Please note that the talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.

Entrance fee: 50,000 VND. All money goes towards supporting the organizing of events at manzi

Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at [email protected] before 8PM Friday, 18 July 2014.

Reggae Garden Round 2

Fri 18 Jul 2014, 8.30 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

The return of Reggae Garden with your host George Axon Aston.

DJs

Axon

One NayTon

Porgus Minimus

FREE ENTRY.   

Screening and Introduction to Short Film Festival Tropfest

Fri 18 Jul 2014, 6 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Hanoi DOCLAB cordially invites you to the screening and introduction to “Tropfest South East Asia, Tropfest the largest short film festival in the world”. Tropfest will screen some of their award-winning short films from Australia, New York, Arabia and South East Asia. They will also be inviting young and emerging filmmakers to join Tropfest South East Asia 2015.

Tropfest is the largest film festival in the world. It started 20 years ago in Sydney, Australia and it is continuously growing bigger. Aside from Australia, the festival is now running at different countries like United States of America, Arabia and New Zealand. It is also starting to install territories in Japan, Paris, India and China, among others.

Tropfest recently had its South East Asian (SEA) arm. The first Tropfest SEA happened in January 2014 at Penang, Malaysia.

Duration: 120 minutes

Language: The presentation will be in English.

Free Entrance. The screening is non-profit and aims for research and studies only.

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

Screening of Film “Pan’s Labyrinth”

Sun 20 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

THBC Spanish Tapas Bar

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the film screening Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto Del Fauno, 2006, 118 mins).

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil’s Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom. Her mother, Carmen, recently remarried to sadistic army captain Vidal and soon to bear the cruel military man’s child, shy young Ofelia is forced to entertain herself as her recently-formed family settles into their new home nestled deep in the Spanish countryside. As Ofelia’s bed-ridden mother lies immobilized in anticipation of her forthcoming child and her high-ranking stepfather remains determined to fulfill the orders of General Francisco Franco to crush a nearby guerilla uprising, the young girl soon ventures into an elaborate stone labyrinth presided over by the mythical faun Pan. Convinced by Pan that she is the lost princess of legend and that in order to return to her underground home she must complete a trio of life-threatening tasks, Ofelia sets out to reclaim her kingdom and return to her grieving father as Vidal’s housekeeper Mercedes and doctor plot secretly on the surface to keep the revolution alive.

Free entrance.

Language: Spanish and English sub

Contact: 043 718 8246 (English – Vietnamese speaking)

Display “Faithfully Flat” by Ly Hoang Ly

Display: 15 – 20 Jul 2014

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

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Talk about the project: Mon 21 Jul 2014, 7 pm

Exhibition: 21 Jul – 06 Aug 2014

Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

The 7th Floor, Ta Quang Buu Library

01 Dai Co Viet, Hanoi

From 15 to 20 July, at manzi, visual artist Ly Hoang Ly will introduce her project ‘Faithfully Flat’ via a selection of 23 artists’ books from the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, SAIC, Chicago.

Through the display of artists’ books, Ly would like to bring her project which is dealing with the conceptual and visual forms of language to the local art community of Hanoi.

After the display at manzi, ‘Faithfully Flat’ will be officially on shown at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, the 7th Floor, Ta Quang Buu Library, no. 01 Dai Co Viet) from 21 July to 6 August 2014.

At 7.00 p.m. 21 July, Ly will hold a talk about the project at the Institute.

Ly Hoang Ly (real name: HOANG, LY) is a Vietnam visual artist, poet, and editor, born in Hanoi, Vietnam. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 with Fulbright fellowship and Dean Grant, and received her BFA from The Ho Chi Minh City Fine-Arts University in 1999. Ly got national prestigious awards for her poetry. Her poems have been translated into English and French and published in Poetry Anthologies and Magazines in America and France. She also writes articles about contemporary arts in her native languages. Since 2000, Ly have been exploring interdisciplinary arts including installation, video art, performance art and poetry performance. She is the first women visual artist in Vietnam doing performance art and poetry performance.

Basic Graphics workshop at DOCLAB

Deadline: 20 Jul 2014

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Basic Graphics workshop with the artist Nguyen Huy An at DOCLAB. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

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

Showcase “Fading Dream, Disintegrating Realities”

Opening: 10 am – 5 pm, Fri 18 Jul 2014

Showcase: 18 Jul – 04 Aug 2014

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi is delighted to present Ha Manh Thang’s latest creations as a preview for his solo show at Thavibu Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand this September.

Shifting away from portraying urban landscapes with iconic architectures and housings typical of contemporary Vietnam, in his new series of paintings, Thang is exploring with such themes as memories, history and cultural heritages.

“…Sometimes I question myself: At the end, to where does art lead us? We work with great effort to make our art newer and fresher, but is that important or is art like a journey that leads back to nature – we go away and then come back to the beginning where we started? All turbulences and changes are part of impermanence. It seems that in both art and life there still exists something like those temples and ruined costumes… The best selection is that by nature – where there are things that we humans can’t control.”

Ha Manh Thang

Free entry.

Windy Day 10: “Hầu Đồng” – Deity realm, human realm

Sat 12 Jul 2014, 6.30 pm

An Tho Temple

15 Thanh Nien Street, Tay Ho District, Hanoi

Len dong – hat van is an indispensable part of the Holy Mother Worship (Dao Mau) in Vietnam. Hau dong, the moment when Deity realm and human realm integrate, elicits the hope of a comfortable, peaceful and wealthy life under the protection of Deities.

The “Windy Day 10: Hau dong – Deity realm, human realm” program is held by Toixedich, with the presence of Professor Ngo Duc Thinh –former Director of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. He is one of the most knowledgeable experts in researching Vietnamese Holy Mother Worship.

In this event, participants have a chance to join the talk with Professor Ngo Duc Thinh who will provide the vivid history and the rituals of Dao Mau as well as hau dong in particular. In addition, there will also be experiential stories shared by the insiders – dong cot.

Besides, audiences can enjoy the harmonious combination of folk songs, musical accompaniment and the lissom dance of dong cot in their colorful costumes, which creates excellent displays of hau dong. It is, therefore, the opportunity to witness joyful, familiar but sacred and solemn moments of hau dong for those who have never experienced it before.

For the people who have prejudice against hau dong, let’s for once open your heart and perceive the holy feelings in hau dong, then realize the recurrent aspiration of peaceful life deep inside you. For those who consider hau dong as something confusing or vague, let’s join “Windy Day 10: Hau dong – Deity realm, human realm” to feel the permanent, accustomed and affectionate national spirit.

This event is entrance free. Please confirm your attendance at http://windyday10.sukien.io/ or http://bit.ly/wd10-haudong.

Language: Vietnamese

Small Grants Program for Community Projects in Vietnam

Deadline: 31 Jul 2014

From the open call:

This competitive program offers grants of up to $10,000 to Vietnamese non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals to conduct programs and activities in Vietnam’s provinces to be completed in 2015 to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations. Proposals (in English) are due by July 31, 2014. Final selections are expected to be announced by August 31, 2014.

Application guidelines:

Proposals can be submitted for up to $10,000 (or more in exceptional cases) and must be completed in 2015. Priority will be given to projects in Vietnam’s outlying and underserved provinces, to be completed during 2015.

Grants may be made to non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit organizations based in Vietnam, and individuals who demonstrate long-term commitment to helping Vietnam reach its fullest potential. Third-country individuals and organizations are not eligible.

With key target audiences being underserved groups, priority will be given to program activities that (not in any particular order) advance good governance, transparency, human rights and rule of law; develop civil society and promote capacity building among civil society groups; foster the exchange of information and building of a professional media, including new media; protect the environment and natural resources; support sustainable urban planning for expanding communities; encourage responsible and transparent conflict resolution; promote understanding of the United States, promote access and opportunities for disadvantaged groups; and advocate for the rights for ethnic minorities, women, and girls. Special consideration will be given to projects to be conducted in outlying, underserved provinces.

Concert in HCM City

Sat 19 Jul 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

You are invited to the performance of excerpts from famous Broadway musicals: “Notre Dame de Paris”, “Romeo et Juillette”, ”Cats”, ”Phantom of the opera”, “My Fair Lady”, “Les Miserables” … by famous singers: Duc Tuan, Nam Khanh, Vo Ha Tram, Hong Vy, Tran Duy Linh, Cho Hea Ryoung … and HBSO Choir & Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets

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

Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Hương 0989874517, Mr.Luân: 0903041959

At HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son square, HCMC

Screening of “Radio Star”

Fri 18 Jul 2014, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the film screening “Radio Stars” (French, 2012, 100 mins) directed by Romain Levy. It won 3 prizes at Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival 2012.

“An unprecedented radio trip in history. An original and punchy comedy.”

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.

Asia Tour 2014 with Pacific Boychoir Academy (USA)

Wed 16 Jul 2014, 8 pm

Worker Theater

42 Trang Tien, Hanoi

You are invited to concert with Pacific Boychoir Academy (USA) in Hanoi on the occasion of their Asia Tour 2014.

Program

Kevin Fox – Music Director

Brandon Adams – Accompanist

- Laudate Pueri by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

- Ave Maria by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

- Hail, Gladdening Light by Charles Wood (1866-1926)

- Gloria (from Heiligmesse) by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

- Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

- Hallelujah Chorus by G.F Handel (1685-1759)

- Here Comes the Sun by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Deke Sharon

- The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, arr. Calvin Achorn

- Sweet Dreams by Annie Lennox, arr. Deke Sharon

- I Got Rhythm by George Gershwin, arr. Mark Hayes

- Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw

- Ol’ Time Religion/When the Saints Go Marching In, arr. Keith McKutchen and Everett McCorvey

- All You Need is Love by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Beatles), arr. K Fox

Guest SolArt Choir:

- Acapella: Raining

- Ballet: Đèn lồng

- Vietnamese Folk Song: Gà gáy le te

The combination between Pacifice Boychoir and Solart Choir:

- Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw

- Vietnamese Folk song: Bắc Kim Thang

The Pacific Boychoir Academy (PBA) was founded in 1998 with six boys and today comprises over 170 boys and young men age 4-18 in seven choirs. The PBA has become known for its rich sound, musicianship, phrasing, and talented soloists. The New York Times said the PBA goes “beyond the reach of most youth choirs” and the Los Angeles Times described the PBA quality of sound and musicianship as “astonishing.”

Image from Pacific Boychoir Academy’s website.

Tickets

Ticket prices: 250,000; 400,000; 600,000 VND. All Tickets available at Worker Theater – 42 Trang Tien or can book over [email protected]

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Conference “Hà Nội sau những hàng mi thép”

Fri 18 Jul 2014, 9 am

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the conference “Hà Nội sau những hàng mi thép” (Hanoi – Behind the ironworks) on the occasion of publishing the book “Song xưa phố cũ” (The old ironworks) by Tran Hau Yen The.

This book focuses on the ironwork of buildings in Hanoi in the first half of the 20th century. It offers a systematic study of ironwork heritage in the city. Resulted from cultural exchange between Eastern and Western, ornamental motifs on the wrought iron railings, balconies, gates and windows give Hanoi a truly elegant beauty.

Speaker : Tran Hau Yen The, professor at Vietnam University of Fine Arts, author of the book

With the participation of the historian Le Van Lan and architect Pho Duc Tung

Free entrance.

Language: Vietnamese

The Return of Contact Improvisation with Emily Navarra

17 – 20 Jul 2014

The Black Box

56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi

Following the successful program last April, American Choreographer/Performer Emily Navarra will return with workshops on Contact Improvisation, focusing on techniques of Reaction/Response from 17-20 July. This is part of her multidisciplinary performance tour in Vietnam for 2014.

Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation is practiced as both a concert and social dance form. It is an improvised dance form practiced by two or more people who attempt to keep a physical point of contact between their bodies while moving freely without music. The dancing may be slow or fast and often involves rolling and weight-sharing; it is practiced barefoot with loose fitting clothing. Contact Improvisation is one of the best-known and most characteristic forms of postmodern dance.

Workshop Content

Emily will introduce some improvisational movement and dancing techniques of Reaction/Response for Beginner (investigating the ‘basics’ of partnering and group structures through floor-work, improvisation and choreography) and Intermediate (with focus on each dancer’s physical response to various stimuli, presented in the moment).

1. Reaction/Response (Beginner)

Time: 18: 30 – 21:30 pm, 17-18 July 2014 (2 sessions)

Participation Fee: VND300,000

2. Reaction/Response (Intermediate)

Time: 10:00 – 12.00 am & 14:00 – 16:00 pm, 19-20 July 2014 (4 sessions)

Participation Fee: VND300,000

Participants: over 16 years old who love dance, movements and creativity

Registration: Ms. Thu Hiền at [email protected]; Tel: 04-62757088 – Mobile: 0912081950 by 12.00 AM 16 July 2014.

“Your Oblivion” by Ngo Bao Chau

Wed 16 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Prof. Ngo Bao Chau is not only known as one of the most famous mathematicians in the world, but also as one of the most influential bloggers in Vietnam. This time at manzi, Chau will host a reading of excerpts from his articles on his blog.

A special guest speaker, visual artist/poet Ly Hoang Ly will also join the talk together with two young musicians of Hanoi.

Please note that the talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.

Free entry.

Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at [email protected] before 12 pm (noon) Thu 10 Jul  5PM Mon 14 Jul.   

Meeting with writer Phan Viet and Professor Ngo Bao Chau

Tue 15 Jul 2014, 6 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the meeting with writer Phan Viet and Professor Ngo Bao Chau on the occasion of publishing Phan Viet’s book “Xuyên Mỹ” (Crossing United States).

Phan Viet is well-known for numerous works such as “Futility”, “Human voice”, “United States”, and “Alone in Europe”, one of 2013 best sellers. “Xuyên Mỹ” is the second book in her series “Misfortune is a fortune”, following the first one “Alone in Europe”. The 2-year journey from Europe to East Coast of the US raises a lot of questions about difficulties in life.

Speaker: writer Phan Viet

Guest speaker: Professor Ngo Bao Chau, co-founders of the books series “The doors wide open”.

Moderator: Nguyen Truong Quy

Free admission.

Language: Vietnamese

Screening of “La Meurtrissure – Painful Loss” and Meeting with the Author

Fri 11 Jul 2014, 2 – 4.30 pm

Hall on 3rd floor, Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA)

53 Nguyen Du, Hanoi

You are invited to the screening of “Hoàng Sa – Việt Nam: nỗi đau mất mát” (“Vietnam Hoang Sa – La Meurtrissure” in French and “La Meurtrissure – Painful Loss” in French-English) (59 mins) and the meeting with the film author: André Menras – Hồ Cương Quyết.

Synopsis: The films depicts Vietnamese fishermen as heroes who cling to the sea and help defend our country’s sovereignty.  The women even sacrifices much more when their husband and brother struggle with the sea. The spiritual life is featured through the wind tomb and festivals to remind about Hoang Sa team found in 17th century.

André Menras – Hồ Cương Quyết is a dual citizen of France and Vietnam.

Language: Vietnamese only.

Free admission.

A short Monology of Baricco “Novecento”

Sun 13 Jul 2014, 9.30 am

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer who’s familiar with Vietnamese readers with two of the famous novel “Silk” and “Ocean sea”.

This time, we will introduce to you a short monology of Baricco titled “Novecento” with a completely different style. You will listen to some excerpts from this monology with Ennio Morricone’s music in the background.

Languages: Italian and Vietnamese

Free entry.

Screening of Film “El Secreto de sus Ojos”

Sun 13 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

THBC Spanish Tapas Bar

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the film screening ”El Secreto de sus Ojos” (The secret in their eyes).

Benjamin Esposito has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. Recently retired, and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. He does not decide to make up a story. There is no need to. He can draw on his own past as a civil servant for a true, moving and tragic story in which he was once very directly involved. In 1974 his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman.

Free entrance.

Language: Espanol and English sub

Contact: Phone: 043 718 8246

The Lives of Others

Sun 13 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

“In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.”

This July, manzi is delighted to continue our series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for ‘cinema’) with the award winning German film ‘The Lives of Others’ by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

PLEASE NOTE: The film will be screened with Vietnamese voice-over.

Ticket at door: 70,000VND | 50,000VND (for student)

Including 01 free drink

All money goes towards supporting the organizing of events at manzi. Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at [email protected] before 5PM Fri 11 July.

Screening of “Chùng” – Short Videos by International Artists

Sat 12 Jul 2014, 6 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

http://www.hanoidoclab.org

Hanoi Doclab, Nối Projects, and Video Data Bank present short video by international artists from the collection of the Video Data Bank:

• Light house by Chi Jang Yin, 2009, 16’15, US

• Track one by eTeam, 2011, 1’45, Taiwan

• Time passes by Nelson Henricks, 1998, 6’34, Canada

• Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang, 2006, 13’27, US

• Annie Lloyd by Cecilia Condit, 2008, 18’15, US

‘Chùng’ is an adjective in Vietnamese language that refers to a deceleration, and also to moments of contemplation to think deeply. In our daily life, everything seems to pass by so quickly that we hardly find a moment to reflect and contemplate about something deeply. These rare moments of contemplation are revealed in video works of the series through the view of the artists.

After screening there will have a Q&A session with Nhung from Nối project.

Duration : 56 minutes

Language : English

Light house by Chi Jang Yin, 2009, 16’15

Lighthouse is about the labor system and the factory town in Southern China and how individualism is influenced by the social and political infrastructure. Guangdong District is the largest Metropolitan area in one of China’s wealthiest provinces, and one of its cities, Guangzhou, attracts farmers from the countryside looking for factory work. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the poetic and the sublime images. It opens borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.

Chinese-born media artist Chi Jang Yin is known for her conceptual, documentary work, which comments upon the state of Chinese culture, past and present. She often imbues her work with elements from her background in photography and performance art. She received her BA and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Her videos were recently awarded Honorable Mention at the In-Out Festival, Poland; Best Film on Architecture at the Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy; and Second Grand Prize at the Athens International Film Festival, Ohio. Her work has screened at the 2008 Asian Art Biennial at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

Track one by eTeam, 2011, 1’45, Taiwan

The time is now! The present can be replaced in real time. Not quite yet by the future, but very easily by the past? eteam’s video Track One is a replay of such time disjuncture. As they keep following the memory of a yellow cab that keeps driving through the now deserted streets of Taipei, their pastime augments itself with a mesmerizing sense of reality.

About e-Team: Since 2001 Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger have been collaborating under the name eteam. Most of their projects are based on random pieces of land they buy on ebay or in Second Life. eteam’s projects have been featured at many venues, including Art in General, P.S.1, and Eyebeam in New York, MUMOK in Vienna, Neues Museum Weimar in Germany, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain. eteam’s videos have been screened at the Transmediale in Berlin, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival in Taipei, the New York Video Festival, and the 11th Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva. Moderegger and Lamprecht have received funding for their work from Art in General, NYSCA, Rhizome, the Experimental Television Center, the Henry Moore Foundation, and an Emerging Artist Fellowship Grant from Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. They have been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Smack Mellon, Eyebeam, Harvestworks and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Most recently they have been awarded a Creative Capital Grant for their project open source Grabeland.

Winners of the Videoförderkunstpreis Bremen, 2008/09.

Time pass by Nelson Henricks, 1998, 6’34

Using a Super-8 camera, Henricks employs time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, Time Passes uses writing as a metaphor for notions of temporality and impermanence.

Nelson Henricks was born in 1963 in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art. He moved to Montréal in 1991 and received a BFA from Concordia University, where he now teaches. Henricks has also taught at the Université de Québec à Montréal and McGill University. A musician, writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his videowork was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Video Viewpoints series. His writings have been published in Fuse, Public and Coil magazines, and in the anthologies So, To Speak (Editions Artexte, 1999) and Lux (YYZ Press, 2000). Henricks co-edited an anthology of artists’ video scripts entitled By the Skin of Their Tongues (YYZ Press, 1997) with Steve Reinke.

Recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art, 2002

Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang, 2006, 13’27

How can we make visible the invisible? How can we “see” our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tran T. Kim Trang looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwriting of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the ultrasound photos of her newborn baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran invites us to reflect about life and death in this moving video essay about motherhood and mourning. EPILOGUE is the eight and final installment of Tran’s THE BLINDNESS SERIES.

“When Derrida died in 2004, EPILOGUE shifted focus from his work on mourning to ruminate on 1) the visible and invisible traces one leaves behind: a font made from Derrida’s infamous handwriting, my mother’s dying words, etc.; 2) the cycle of life and death: my son’s birth on the same day, date, and time as my mother’s death six years prior; and 3) imaging technologies that allowed one to see an unborn child, leading to fantasies about what technologies it would take to ‘image’ an incorporeal mother, and discovering that ancient medicine can bring a daughter closer to her dead mother.” —TRAN T. Kim-Trang

About Tran, T. Kim-Trang: Tran was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1999 Tran presented her Blindness Series in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of her videos were included in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Blindness Series was featured at the 46th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, both in 2000. Her video project, an eight-video series investigating blindness and its metaphors was completed in 2006. Tran has been nominated for a Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2001 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow. The fellowship has enabled her to develop an experimental narrative feature titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother.

Tran also collaborates with Karl Mihail on a project known as Gene Genies Worldwide© (genegenies.com). Their conceptual and public artworks on genetic engineering have exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, Exit Art, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, and elsewhere in the U.S. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College.

Annie Lloyd by Cecilia Condit, 2008, 18’15

Annie Lloyd is a daughter’s poetic documentation of the last few years of her mother’s life and an intimate portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.

Annie Lloyd is a vivid and powerful old woman who collects leaves and revels in the wonders of the world. She also happens to be the filmmaker’s mother — making this an intimate tale of a mother and daughter celebrating life, love, and creativity in the very jaws of the dying process. This short film, by the award-winning experimental filmmaker Cecelia Condit, explores issues of aging, mortality, mother-daughter relationships, and late-life love and creativity.

Born 1947 – Philadelphia, PA. Cecelia Condit studied sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, received a B.F.A. in sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art, and a M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and the Polaroid Corporation. In the past 30 years, she has received numerous awards including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mary L. Nohl Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board. She is currently professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Since the early 1980s Cecelia Condit’s narrative tapes have explored the not-so-average experiences of the “average woman” in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and misogynist aggression. Her dark-humored works conflate fairy tale morals with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines, incorporating live action, appropriated television images, and original music into frequently operatic narratives. Condit is a Professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

“My work centers around the theme of how bizarre events disrupt mundane lives. By contrasting the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, I address a reality that is both surprisingly believable yet strange enough to belong only to the realm of fiction.”

–Cecelia Condit

Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, 2005

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Talkshow: Hanoi is Hanoi

Sat 12 Jul 2014, 6.30 pm

Chula

43 Nhat Chieu Street (near West Lake), Hanoi

You are invited to the talk show titled “Hanoi is Hanoi” to listen, see and share ordinary stories in a “Hanoi” way, and we hope that you can find a special, close and beloved Hanoi deep inside your heart.

Register through this link.

Deadline: Thu 10 Jul 2014, 11:59pm

Ticket: 20,000VND

The exhibition “Windows Life” will open to public until 15 Jul 2014.

The Offensive and Numbfoot! Live

Sat 12 Jul 2014, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

Come to a music night with The Offensive and Numbfoot!

The Offensive

Hanoi’s longest running, if not only, hardcore punk band, playing their brand of music that offends as much as it inspires. No holds barred, no quarter given. Fast, loud, in your face Rock and Roll.

Numbfoot! – Psychedelic Blues

“Brooklyn original Brett Zweiman teams up with Hanoi favourites Dave Payne (Ngu Cung, Zamina, Gibbon Suburbia, etc.) and Ha Dinh Huy (basically everyone, ever) to bring you Hanoi’s newest trio and rad musical concontion: Numbfoot! They’ll be bringing groove laden psychedelic jams from around the globe!”

Entry 50,000 VND at the door.   

Performance of Excerpts from Famous Broadway Musicals

Italian and Culture Summer Course

Course: 12 Jul – 12 Aug 2014

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi

Opening hours: 9 am – 9 pm all days

Phone (via Uni – Italia): 043 824 0579    

Are you a fan of Italy, a beautiful and fascinating country with richness of culture and language?

And you’re curious about a lot of things, not only about language but also the Italian culture in each of its aspect such as gastronomy, tourism, history, art, cinema, people….

Why don’t you come to us to join an Italian course with various subjects including the language itself. You will have a chance to study with native speakers and if you still wonder because you know nothing about Italian, don’t worry, we have Vietnamese assistants and our teachers speak English also.

We will have 3 lessons per week and one lesson at weekend just to see some movies together or discussing Italian culture.

Screening of “Jean de la Lune”

Fri 11 Jul 2014, 8 pm

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of the French animation “Moon Man” (“Jean de la Lune”) (2013, 95 mins) directed by Stephan Schesch.

Based on the much loved best-selling children’s book by Tomi Ungerer, “Moon Man” invented a small astral hero who descends on the earth to save human from a dictator.

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.

Screening of Film “Mother’s Soul”

Fri 11 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

At 7.30p.m. on Friday 11 July 2013, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Mother’s Soul (director Pham Nhue Giang).

Different from other non-profit screenings on Saturday afternoon, the program Friday with Vietnam Cinema is a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future.

Mother’s soul

Year: 2011

Director: Giang Pham Nhue

Cast: Hong Anh, Hoai Linh

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 95 min

Language: Vietnamese, no English subtitles

Synopsis: When her mother falls in love with a driver, a young girl suffers from the lack of maternal attention. As her mother become more and more obsessed with her lover, the neglect increases. and the daughter takes on a maternal role herself to the orphan next door. Through these tender human relationships, Mother’s Soul looks at the effect of capitalism on a former communist economy.

Entry: 20k (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)