Contemporary Dance “Touching the Past”

Mon 29 Jul 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

In the monthly concert “Giai Dieu Tre” (Young Melodies), Choreographers Nguyen Phuc Hai and Nguyen Phuc Hung will present to you ‘Touching the past’ which presents the latest contemporary dance.

“Touching the past”

Music: Vu Viet Anh, Nguyen Manh Duy Linh, Henryk Górecki

Script & Choreography: Phuc Hai, Phuc Hung

“Touching the Past” refers to:

“Hectic lives swept us away until one day when we accidentally come across old pictures, have you ever asked yourselves: What is life?”

“Life and views on the past, the future of young generation born after the war”

“Modern life has taken relaxation and usual peace away”

“The best thing we can do now is to live without regrets when looking back”

Free tickets to be collected at:

Student Assistance Center (SAC)

33 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, D1, HCMC

Tel: 08.38277981- 1900 68 36 – 0169 68 69 169

Ticket Counter, HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC.

Tel: 08 3823 7419; Ms.Huong: 0989874517

Email: [email protected]   

HYPNOSIS – A Zentangle Workshop and Performance

Workshop and Experimental performance: Sat 27 Jul, 2 pm

Works display: 27 Jul – 10 Aug 2013

Madake

81 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Zentangle workshop “HYPNOSIS” is organized for the first time in Hanoi with the guiding of young henna & Zentangle artist Phuong – Mad Meo. This is a chance for young people to learn about a new form of drawing using simple shapes, patterns to create paintings with attractive motifs, fancy, emotional and creative.

✓ Workshop, from 2pm to 5pm. For registered members only

✓ Experimental performance: From 8pm to 10pm. Zentangle drawing combines with poetry reading, body movement and fashion designs with the participant of young contemporary dancers, poet, fashion designer (free entry).

✓ Free henna painting and Zentangle tattoo design

✓ Lucky draw with coupon

After the workshop, the works will be presented at Madake Hanoi from 27/7/2013 until 10/08/2013.

For more information, please contact: Vuong Bich Ngoc: [email protected].

Photo Contest “Polyhedron”

21 Jul – 19 Aug 2013

You are invited to participate in the photo contest with the theme “Polyhedron” from 21 Jul to 19 Aug.

We usually only look at objects from one angle, which may lead to misconception. That is why we organize the photo contest with the theme “Polyhedron”. The organizers hope this contest will create an interesting playground for attendants who love to explore the world and spread the new way of looking at objects.

How to attend:

Step 1: Take photos of one object from multiple angles, then choose 2 – 3 photos with different meanings, rearrange them, post on your Facebook wall and tag ‪#‎TEDxHoankiem‬, ‪#‎đa_diện‬.

Step 2: Send the original, high quality photos to:[email protected] with your name, mobile number and ID number.

Time of contest: 21 Jul – 19 Aug 2013.

Prizes:

+ 1 prize by art council: 1 000 000 VND + 1 ticket to the program held by TEDxHoankiem 2013 : The eyes.

+ 1 prize by community’s favorite: 500 000 VND + 1 ticket to the program held by TEDxHoankiem 2013 : The eyes.

+ 8 Consolation prizes: 1 ticket to the program held by TEDxHoankiem 2013 : The eyes.

Notes:

+ Attendants must participate in the program held by TEDxHoankiem 2013: The eyes (on 24 Aug 2013).

+ The photos are not on magazines or in other contests.

+ TEDxHoankiem have the full right to use the photo for their events. For other cases, they need to ask for author’s permission.

Green Drinks Saigon “Antartica and 350.org”

Tue 30 Jul 2013, 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Zest Cafe

5 Ton Duc Thang, Dist 1, HCMC

Join the Green Drinks for a lively discussion with Ms Hong Hoang, covering her two experiences exploring Antarctica as well as her efforts in inspiring and engaging the young generation to take actions to protect the environment and fight climate change in Vietnam with 350.org.

It’s our 20th Green Drinks and one not to be missed. Come armed with your business cards, questions and opinion’s and be ready to meet green-minded businesspersons, students, architects and scientists from Vietnam and around the world.

Hong Hoang is Southeast Asia Co-Coordinator and Vietnam Coordinator of the global climate change movement 350.org.

350 Vietnam has become the largest grassroots climate change movement in the country, involving and benefiting hundreds of thousands of people in both urban and rural areas.

Beyond her work with 350.org, Hong is a high-profile environmental figure in Vietnam, being the first Vietnamese person ever to set foot in Antarctica in 1997, in an international expedition which aimed to get the world’s attention to the global environmental issues then. She became a Special Junior Envoy of the UNESCO, and received a Citation of Merit from the Prime Minister in the same year for her achievements.

Note: Presentations begin at 19:00 and will last for 50mins, followed by networking.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

Entrance is free and no invitation is needed.    

Nguyen Manh Hung Talks about “One Planet”

Sun 28 Jul 2013, 7 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi and Hanoi Grapevine proudly present a very special talk with visual artist Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng on the occasion of his solo show ‘One Planet‘ at manzi this month.

“In a society constituted by morality, norms and unwritten regulations, humor from the anomaly like his becomes humor of freedom, especially when laughter can triumph over another’s aggression, or at least it happens in a surrealistic world.” (quoted from Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran’s review)

Information about the show and the artist can be found in Hanoi Grapevine’s previous post.

The talk will be conducted in Vietnamese with English translation. Due to limited capacity, please register at [email protected] before 11.00 a.m. Saturday, 27 July 2013.

The event is organised by manzi and Hanoi Grapevine with supports from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development and Galerie Quynh.

Art Talk and Performance by Carlos Llavata

Sat 27 Jul 2013, 7 pm

Nha San Collective

3rd Floor, Block A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi

Nha San Collective is inviting you to an art talk and performance by Carlos Llavata.

Carlos Llavata Gascon is a visual and performance independent artist who works in Madrid, Spain and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). A graduate of Fine Arts University in Valencia, Spain and later, The Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam. He took part in around 90 collectives events, mostly performances, and had 6 solo shows. He has been working with galleries around the world in various projects, such as Mirta Demare (ARCO 2010, Rotterdam); Art Amsterdam 2011 (Artkitchen Gallery), “Splattered” Golden Threat Gallery (Belfast); Sign Gallery (Groningen); Zé dos Bois (Lisbon); La Pieza, Pensart (Madrid); Artpotheek (Brussels); Lost Generation Space (Kuala Lumpur). Since 2006 he has been a regular guest teacher at Multimedia University CyberJaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Photos from Earth Landing Series, by Carlos Llavata.

Communication partner: Hanoi Grapevine

Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advices, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focus on.

Exhibition “Beautiful Sunny Day”

Exhibition: 25 Jul – 10 Aug 2013

Korean Cultural Centre

49 Nguyễn Du, Hà Nội

You are invited to the exhibition “Beautiful sunny day” which includes 36 artworks by artist Nguyen Van Cuong on multiple materials namely oil paintings, carved wood and Papyrus. The collection expresses artist’s mixed feelings for the Northern countryside of Vietnam from his nostalgia.

Artist Nguyen Van Cuong says his works catch shades of a beautiful countryside with villages, water buffalo, bamboo, crop season… It is the homeland of his heart and hopefully will be homeland of the audience.

Nguyen Van Cuong is an outstanding artist who is devoted to capturing the Vietnamese countryside in his paintings. His works focus on cattle, children, brick kilns, fields, rural river, and bamboo range. These romantic and dreamy scenes bring back childhood memories and express his desire to get away from the city life bound by narrow streets.

Echoing Nostalgia-Collecting Countermemory

Exhibition: 26 Jul – 05 Sep 2013

Artist Talk with Nguyen Trinh Thi: Sat 27 Jul, 4 – 5.30 pm

Sàn Art

3 Mê Linh

District Bình Thạnh, HCMC

Taken from the short poem BT Shaw wrote in response to visual artist Nguyen Trinh Thi’s work ‘Song to the front’, these lines could be read as a prelude to ‘Echoing Nostalgia’. Collecting Countermemory’.

‘Nostalgia’ is an official scientific term of psychological studies, refering to the prevailing psychological condition of humanity and its contemplation of their roots or reflections upon their past. Diagnosis of nostalgia in the field of social psychology has undergone substantial developments since the 19th Century from being perceived as neurological disorder and depression to being employed as a therapeutic treatment . To social scientists, including anthropologists, historians and artists, when it comes to research and creative activity, nostalgia remains a term that is both debatable and inspirational. Nostalgia occurs as a result of dissatisfaction with the present, described as highly personal – dramatic – romantic – full of disguise. Such character is a subconscious approach to history that clouds the truth. When a community consists of individuals each suffering this nostalgia there is a collective attitude that seeks to escape what is in front of them, subsequently denying the possibilities of a future. Nostalgia becomes one of the symptoms of ‘crowd pyschology’, stereotypically considered innocuous, like a sentimental novel. However, as a side-effect, nostalgia is being commercialized where cultural practice of the past is idolized, evident in such things as faux antiques; while on the other hand it is a lifestyle choice, such as the transformation of colonial villas for chic cafes selling photographs of a bygone era.

‘Echoing Nostalgia. Collecting Countermemory’ is a unique exhibition that immerses the audience in a space where the line between the past and the present is blurred. Artists Pham Ngoc Lan, John Monteith and Nguyen Trinh Thi each participate with a video artwork, the visual experiences of which are interwoven with BT Shaw’s counter-responses in poetry and translation work by Ho Lieu. In this exhibition, the chronological progression from past to present is no longer completely linear. The common perspective on past values, classic beauty and historical forms of ‘unconditional’ belief will be challenged by the ‘countermemories’ of each individual: the visual artist, the poet and the spectator. In terms of format, all three artists explore the synergy between picture and sound in video works. In terms of idea, they all reflect the similarities and the differences in historical values at various points in time.

Pham Ngoc Lan, born 1986, is a visual artist based in Hanoi. Graduated from Hanoi Architecture University with a degree in Urban Planning, Lan possesses a historical and social perspective on the relations between the collective and the individual. In ‘The Story of Ones’ 2011, images of Hanoi in transition from the past to the future, from classic tranquility to modern chaos, is projected with the sounds of Vietnam’s national radio.

Canadian visual artist John Monteith, born 1973, is currently based between Berlin, New York and Toronto. In his video ‘Pyongyang, North Korea, 5 June 101 (2012) 5:00 – 5:06:48am’ (2012), filmed in North Korea, the work takes the audience to a serene and peaceful dawn in Pyongyang. As the morning ripens and the fog disperses, the humanless city evokes ideas of abandonment and devestation. The echo of a song can be heard celebrating the power of the Korean masses and its former leaders.

Nguyen Trinh Thi, a documentary filmmaker and visual artist, born 1973, is based in Hanoi. She revisits the past with ‘Song to the front’ (2011). This work refers to the 1973 classic motion picture with the same name; overlayed with the scores from the classic ballet ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Stravinsky.In this work, Trinh Thi transforms romantic and melodious movie scenes to intense and overwhelming musical acts, thereby altering the present from its past.

BT Shaw, is a poet who wrote a series of poems in response to the three aforementioned video artworks, is from the USA and currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City. Her publication ‘This Dirty Little Heart’ won the ‘Blue Lynx Poetry Prize’ in 2007. The poems written by BT Shaw for this exhibition were translated by Ho Lieu – a young interpreter with specialised interest in feminism.

The exhibition opens Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pm.

Discussion with Nguyen Trinh Thi ‘The past in words and images’

Artist – filmmaker Nguyễn Trinh Thi will discuss the similarities and differences between written text and visual art (video art, film, photography) in the re-reading of the past and her experimentation with chronicled and historical material to form new creative artworks.

Nguyễn Trinh Thi is one of the most active documentary filmmakers and contemporary video artists from Vietnam. She founded Doclab – the hub for experimental filmmaking and video art in Hanoi.

Exhibition “Paeonia Dream”

Exhibition: 24 Jul – 05 Oct 2013

Phương My Flagship Store

81 Le Thanh Ton, Dist. 1, HCMC

‘PAEONIA DREAM: LE HOANG BICH PHUONG’ is the inaugural exhibition launching ‘San Art Productions x Phuong My’ in Ho Chi Minh City – connecting the local cultural community through fashion and contemporary art.

In Hanoi, during the 1920s, innovation of Vietnamese silk painting technique took place, thanks to the efforts of Victor Tardieu, the principal of the first Ecole des Beaux-Arts de ‘Indochine’ in Vietnam, together with one of his first students, painter Nguyen Phan Chanh. Their collaborations paved the way for this traditional art form to be of major inspiration to modern painters of the day.

Vietnamese traditional silk painting technique differed from that of China or Japan for the colors would gradually emerge after applying hundreds of dyeing strokes on wet silk, as opposed to dry. Le Hoang Bich Phuong (b. 1984, Ho Chi Minh City) is one of the few visual artists to continue this tradition, though with her own innovative style, encouraging the watercolors to be more transparent, while also expanding the range of topics conventionally depicted in this medium. Where once landscapes and conventional figures abound, Bich Phuong weaves larger abstractions of myth and imagination into her work.

‘Paeonia Dream’, Le Hoang Bich Phuong’s second solo exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City, is inspired by the peony, the elegant flower of spring, a royal symbol of classic East Asia determining richness and honor. In Bich Phuong’s two-layered paintings, light shines through ethereal surfaces of silk depicting the flower, within carefully constructed wooden frames. This peony is loomed in the portrait of a demure yet mysterious doe-alike figure and her human feet. The half-deer half-human creature resembles Artemis – the Goddess of Hunting (in some versions refered as ‘Diana’), who is celebrated as a hero, who protects with chastity and is often depicted as a deer. These animals were sacred to Artemis, indeed in one version of the myth she turns herself into a deer in order to let the violent twin sons of Poseidon – the God of the Sea – kill themselves. The portrait’s quietness recalls Artemis’ tragic loss of her lover Orion – her brother Apollo dared her hunting skills that she could not shoot that far – but she did and thus killed her target and her lover. The scratch in Artemis’ heart is also revealed abstractly in Bich Phuong’s silk installations.

‘Paeonia Dream’ is viewable by the public at Phuong My Flagship Store in Ho Chi Minh City. This is the inaugural show launching ‘San Art Productions x Phuong My’. ‘San Art Productions’ is a program of San Art, supporting young emerging artists in Vietnam by collaborating with non-visual art organizations / businesses in the development of new artwork. San Art is an independent, non-profit, artist-initiated organization based in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to the exchange and cultivation of contemporary art in Vietnam.

Phuong My, a prominent fashion designer who was trained in San Francisco, was featured on catwalks in Tokyo, New York and Elle Fashion Show in Vietnam. Her new established brand Phuong My has launched its flagship store on May 17. She is now a pioneer in Vietnam’s creative circle for being the inaugural partner of ‘San Art Productions’.

Every three months, a young artist will be chosen to create artworks for a solo show at Phuong My Flagship Store as part of ‘San Art Productions x Phuong My’. This series of exhibitions will thematically respond to Phuong My’s fashion lines for Spring- Summer and Autumn – Winter. Her recent series, ‘A Transformative Disguise’ is currently touring through four prominent art museums in Japan, including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Le Hoang Bich Phuong, the first artist of this program, was born in 1984, graduated from Fine Art University and is living and working in Ho Chi Minh City. Her recent series, ‘A Transformative Disguise’ is currently touring through four prominent art museums in Japan, including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

This initiative is one of the first such collaborations in Vietnam celebrating the rich talent and mutual interests between fashion and contemporary art, endeavoring to bring both creative communities together to broaden local cultural awareness and encourage young creative producers.

Golden Lotus Bud Short-films Awards Ceremony of TPD

Sun 28 Jul 2013, 6 pm

Workers’ Theatre

42 Trang Tien, Hanoi

On Sunday 28 Jul, The Center For Assistance And Development Of Movie Talents (TPD) presents The 4th Golden Lotus Bud Short-films Awards Ceremony.

The Golden Lotus Bud Awards is an annual short-films awards of TPD center, features the best short films in two categories: short documentary and fiction short-film, all made by the participants of The We Are Filmmakers Project within the year.

“My youth – My experience” is the overall theme of this year Golden Lotus Bud Awards. The Jury members included People’s Artist Le Khanh, Actor Johnny Tri Nguyen, Director Phan Huyen Thu, Director Phan Dang Di, Editor Julie Béziau, Producer Ha Thuc Van, Journalist Ta Bich Loan.

Language: Vietnamese.

Agenda

• 6.00pm – 7.00pm: Reception & Refreshment

• 7.00pm – 8.30pm: Film Screenings

• 8.30pm – 10.00pm: Awards Ceremony

Art Talk with British Photographer John Ramsden

Fri 26 Jul 2013, 6 pm

DOCLAB

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

Hanoi Doclab cordially invites you to the talk of John Ramsden, a British photographer.

John is a diplomat with a life-long interest in photography and the visual arts. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1975 and worked in Senegal (West Africa) and at the East-West disarmament talks in Vienna. He was sent to Hanoi in 1980 as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy and stayed in Vietnam until 1983. At that time, the country was isolated and very poor, after decades of war. Given only a few months’ notice of the move to Hanoi, John had little time to study the language and culture before setting off. The photographs record John’s growing fascination with what he found as he settled into the country. Taking these photographs was a way for John to explore and get a feel for the way of life. He went for long walks around Hanoi, bicycled out to the surrounding villages and made car trips at the week-ends, always with a camera. John never went back to Vietnam but retains a strong affection for his time there and enjoys reading about Vietnam, especially through the work of its remarkable novelists. In 2010 he had a small exhibition of his photographs at the Museum of East Asian Arts in Bath, to coincide with the 1000 year anniversary of the foundation of Hanoi.

John will project some images he made in the 1980s in and around Hanoi, give a short talk and have a Q&A.

Painting Exhibition “Windows”

Exhibition: 17 Jul – 21 Sep 2013

Vietnam Women’s Museum

36 Lý Thường Kiệt, Hà Nội

On the occasion of the opening of Center for Contemporary Art at Vietnam Women’s Museum, a painting exhibition “Windows” of female artist Dương Thúy Liễu, one of four female artists which is introduced in turn by the centre in 2013-2014, was presented.

“Windows” and door knobs in Dương Thúy Liễu’s paintings are not only her own view about the Inner world and outer world, but also the first exhibition shows how art changes our lives and as our lives change with art.

On July 17th 2013, Center for Contemporary Art was opened at Vietnam Women’s Museum. It is the result of the cooperation between Menifique Art Museum and Vietnam Women’s Museum in oder to enrich the museum’s displays, and meet the visitors’ expectation.

It’s the beginning of a long-term project to connect the contemporary art of Vietnam with the international art world.

Berlinale Shorts in Hanoi

27 and 28 Jul 2013, 7 pm

Goethe-Institut Hanoi

56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học

Ba Đình, Hà Nội

In the series “Berlinale Shorts Goes Exterior” short films of the International Film Festival of Berlin go on a journey. Specially for the Goethe-Institute Hanoi, Maike Mia Höhne, curator of the Berlinale Shorts, composed 2 programs of 11 films of the previous Berlinale years, which will be presented on the 27th and 28th of July 2013 at 7pm.

“The Berlinale Shorts are a forum for the short form in the festival. A place for uncompromising films, which take a undisguised look on the present. Filmmakers are artists, who are aware of the formal possibilities and furthermore have the whole picture of cinematography in sight. Berlinale Shorts are films, which go beyond the event and contribute to the understanding. At once around the globe and back. The beginning is everywhere and here and now. Maike Mia Höhne invites the hanoian audience: “Please come and see by yourself!”

She gives us an insight into both of the programs beforehand:

“The first program is a tell about the others, who are coming back. The others, who live isolated. At the end of the day people carry the Maria up and an ocean of colours bursts out. Reflected in the previous film are those colours. These films are mirrors and complete the dialogue about the relation to the image. When the soldier sings about his big love and she is joining him at the end, there is forgiveness, unlike the thoughts West Europe could ever have, and remains quiet.

Programm II is a look on farewell, on farewell and its handling. If clichés are avoided, emotions are made possible. Deep emotions, which enable farewells. And at the end there is the goodbye and life goes on. Just like that, with the knowledge about the consolation, along. Simple.”

The International Film Festival of Berlin, also well-known as Berlinale, is the major film festival in Germany as well as the major audience festival worldwide. Films of all kinds of genre, length and format find a place in the several sections of the Berlinale.

Free entry to the Screening.

Berlinale Shorts Hanoi Programm I

Filmscreening | 27.07.2013, 7pm

LICURI SURF by Guile Martins (2011, Brasil, 15′):”An Adventure on the waves”

SUDSANAN (TERRIBLY HAPPY) by Pimpaka Towira (2010, Thailand, 30′): “Forgiveness must come from inside”

PANCHABHUTA (THE FIVE ELEMENTS) by Mohan Kumar Valasala (2011, India, 15′): “Earth, water, fire, air and ether: the five elements, life and space”

DIE RUHE BLEIBT (QUIET REMAINS) by Stefan Kriekhaus (2013, Germany, 14′): “One intern, one shot”

GIARDINI DI LUCE (GARDEN OF LIGHT) by Lucia and Davide Pepe (2009, Italy, 12′): “The celebration of the holy Tryphon in the garden of lights”

ECHO by Merlin Flügel (2012, Germany, 5′): “governed by an echo”

Berlinale Shorts Hanoi Programm II

Filmscreening | 28.07.2013, 7pm

COLIVIA (THE CAGE) by Adrian Sitaru (2009, Rumania/Netherlands, 17′): “Relation: Dove, Father, Mother”

KARRABING. LOW TIDE TURNING by Liza Johnson and Elizabeth A. Povinelli (2012, Australia, 14′) “Out of the flat into the bush”

HAVET (THE SEA) by Jöns Jönsson (2008, Germany, 23′): “Pelle and Agneta: dance with 60″

SWITEZ (THE LOST TOWN OF SWITEZ) by Kamil Polak (2010, Poalnd/Switzerland/France/ Canada/Denmark, 21′): “From a poem to an animation in three acts”

MISTERIO (Mystery) by Chema García Ibarra (2013, Spain, 12′): “If you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin speak.”

RAO YI SHENG (DOKTOR RAO) by Alexej Tchernyi and Wu Zhi (2011, Germnay, 7′): “Doctor Rao died”

EIN MÄDCHEN NAMENS YSSABEAU (A WOMAN CALLED YSSABEAU) by Rosana Cuellar (2011, Germany/Mexico, 18′): “The journey of a young Woman”

Skank the Tank in July

Sat 27 Jul 2013, 8.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

The Skank the Tank Sound System is back for another night of the finest reggae selections from the early 60′s to the future dub sounds of tomorrow.

This month, the usual skankers Slo-Lo and Selecta Elpee will be joined by a special Bristol based guest, and a fearsome array of kicks ass rum heavy cocktails.

Put on your skanking shoes and come inna di dance with a peaceful mind!

Free entry.

French Movies in Mega Star

Every Sat from 20 Jul – 27 Sep 2013, 8 pm

MegaStar Parkson Paragon

No 3 Nguyen Luong Bang, District 7, HCMC

You are invited to the program “French Movies in Mega Star” in HCMC. MegaStar would like to bring more artistic movies to Vietnamese audience with a desire to contribute to the development of Vietnamese movie industry as well as cultural exchanges between two nations through cinematic language. Every movie will have one session only in a specific day in every Sat.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Special price: 40.000 VND.

List of film to be screened in “French Movies in Mega Star” program

1. A perfect plan (Un Plan Parfait) – Screening on 20 Jul

2. Little Nicholas (Le Petit Nicolas) – Screening on 26 Jul

3. A Cat in Paris (Une Vie De Chat) – Screening on 2 Aug

4. 1+1 (Intouchables) – Screening on 9 Aug

5. The Artist – Screening on 16 Aug

6. The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) – Screening on 23 Aug

7. Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi) – Screening on 30 Aug

8. The Painting (Le Tableau) – Screening on 6 Sep

9. Beautiful Lies (De Vrais Mensonges) – Screening on 13 Sep

10. Liberty (Liberté) – Screening on 20 Sep

11. The Rabbi’s Cat (Chat Du Rabbin) – Screening on 27 Sep

Music Night “Techno Soul”

Sat 20 Jul 2013, 8 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

DJ Incognito joins forces with guitar virtuoso Jez Hartley and percussionist Bill Badger.

Free entry.

Ex-Book-Change 2013

Sun 28 Jul 2013, 9 am – 4 pm

Ha Noi Youth Culture and Sports Palace

No 1 Tang Bat Ho Str, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Hanoi

Circle of Friends Youth Volunteer Organization cordially announces the Ex-Book-Change Day will be held on July 28th, 2013 at Ha Noi Youth Culture and Sports Palace, No 1 Tang Bat Ho Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi.

Ex-Book-Change has officially become an important event  of Book Festival Day project since 2012, which is carried out by Circle of Friends (CoF) with the annual supports of Thang Long March Fund (Quy Thang Ba Thang Long),  which aims at raising inspiration to widen knowledge and nourish the soul of over 8,000 children at the 08 poorest communes, Ba Vi District, Ha Noi.

To continue the success of Ex-Book-Change Day 2012 and Book Festival Day 2012 at TienPhongPrimary School, Ex-Book-Change Day 2013 (EBC 2013) will be extended. Besides creating the good place for those who love reading in Ha Noi, EBC 2013 is the precondition to raise fund for Book Festival Day in August, 2013. All the money will be donated to buy books and build class bookshelves in Book Festival Day.

EBC 2013 is going to be from 9am to 4pm in Sunday morning. Besides books exchanging activities during the day, the key point in the morning is Talk show “Reading with children”. The participants of experienced speakers with games between parents & children in the Talk show will interest the participants, share raising-children experiences to parents and encourage children to read books actively. In the afternoon, Music show for raising fund “Each book, one love” will be taken place with sections of student music bands, dancing bands in Ha Noi.

Furthermore, fund raising and exhibition area in Ex-Book-Change 2013 are the following events in the afternoon. While the fund raising area brings so many activities such as “Books to build libraries for children” and writing calligraphy, fast drawing, telling from Tarot card, etc, the exhibition area will make people impressive and moved on Photovoice corner – where shows photos of children in Ba Vi with deep feelings of volunteers through some times doing surveys.

For book changing activity, books are going to be collected starting from July 10th to July 24th, 2013.

Music Night to Celebrate Cuban Revolution

Fri 26 Jul 2013, 8.30 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

60 years to the day since Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement began their overthrow of the Batista government, seems like as good a time as any to bring a little Latin flavour.

We’ll be inviting down some the city’s best and most enthusiastic Salsa dancers (that’s means you!) for a salsa session from 8.30-9.30 with JC (Hanoi Sessions) providing the beats. From 9.30 DJ Cache will be taking control with all types of Cuban rhythms from mambo, to rumba to other afro-Latin styles that make girls dance.

Free entry.

Live Lounge in July

Fri 19 Jul 2013, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

Live Lounge is back this month to showcase and support ongoing, growing live bands in the capital.

This month The Strangers, Phuong Dang, Divine Monkey Empire and Hi-Jinks make up the four corners of this punchy, catchy pop, rock, funk fun box.

Tickets: 50,000 VND at door, FREE entry before 9:00 pm

Music Night “Rock N’ Roll Never Dies”

Sun 21 Jul 2013, 8.30 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

A Rock N’ Roll night at Hanoi Rock City with 4 bands: Invoice, Motorbugs, The 84 and Dai Bang Trang (White Eagle). All about Rock N’ Roll/Classic Rock. It’ll be a good chance to meet friends, drink beer and enjoy the odd-one-out Rock space.

Invoice will cover some songs of an important band in England – Led Zeppelin. A great opportunity for Led Zeppelin fans to enjoy the great covers of this band.

Motorbugs – a young band with endless passion for Rock ‘n’ Roll. Unlike Invoice, Motorbugs will play RnR songs of the band from the US such as ZZ Top, Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Dai Bang Trang (White Eagle) is an important band in Hanoi with already well-known members to Rock fans such as Tan “gu”, Vinh Xien or Cuong bong. The audience will enjoy a different atmosphere, more adventurous, more explosive with instrumental covers of Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani.

Last but not least, The 84 will take the audience to a profound and emotional music space with compositions from an English band – Pink Floyd. It will be a completely different and exciting experience to attendants.

Ticket: 80.000 VND (one drink included).

Art Event “Fake Frontiers”

Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 7 pm

Exhibition: 20 – 30 Jul 2013

Tadioto

2nd Floor, Building A, 9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi

Tadioto invites you to join us in revisiting these below events with a bit of grief and “dark” humour.

- July 26, 1928, New York: birth of Stanley Kubrick, who will become one of the most outstanding directors of the 20th century with such films as “2001 Space Odyssey,” “Clockwork Orange,” “The Shining,” and “Full Metal Jacket.”

- July 20, 1954, Geneva: representatives from numerous countries sign an agreement to divide Viet Nam into two countries, using the 17th parallel as the frontier between North and South.

- July 20, 1969, Moon: Astronauts from Apollo 11 land on the moon. (Two months later, the Beatles would release the instant classic album Abbey Road.)

Is there any relations between these events? A date? Frontiers created on earth and in space?

Tadioto is an exhibition space for art, home decor, fashion, and includes a bar.

Registration for Cuca Classical Music Course

Registration deadline: 01 Aug 2013

You are invited to register for Cuca Classical Music Course, designed and instructed by pianist Trang Trinh in Aug 2013.

Course language: Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Future Shorts Film Festival in July

Sun 28 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm

Snap Cafe

32 Tran Ngoc Dien, Thao Dien Ward, Dist 2, HCMC

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Wed 31 Jul 2013, 8 pm

Decibel Lounge

79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, Da Kao Ward, Dist 1, HCMC

90 Countries, 325 Cities, 6 Continents, 1,700 screenings – FUTURE SHORTS is the world’s largest short film festival. This season’s short films explore the grief; the joy, and the memory of living and breaking with the familiar.

Returning to Ho Chi Minh City, FUTURE SHORTS showcases electrifying short films from filmmakers around the world. On Sunday, July 28th, FUTURE SHORTS will screen at SNAP CAFE following the monthly art showcase, CREATIVE SHAKE.

On Wednesday, July 31st, an encore screening will be held at DECIBEL, raising money for TEAM UP, which is an organization that empowers teen girls in the Mekong Delta to gain confidence and leadership skills through language learning, sports training and fun.

Highlights include: Grainger David’s SXSW Jury Award-winning “The Chair” (USA, 2012), an insight into small-town life with a short-lived but unstoppable enemy; Kangmin Kim’s animation short on the relationship of father and son, “38-39°C” (USA/South Korea, 2011); Frida Kempff’s “Micky Bader” (Sweden/Denmark; 2009), Winner of the Cannes Festival Jury Prize for Short Films – the account of centenarian Micky’s daily swimming sessions at the local bathhouse.

Tickets

60,000 VND

30,000 VND – students (w/ID)

FREE for filmmakers (must bring copy of work)

Sculpture Exhibition “Seven”

Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 6 pm

Exhibition: 20 – 26 Jul 2013

Nguyen Art Gallery

No 31 Van Mieu road, Hanoi

Come to the “Seven” sculpture exhibition by the group of 7 sculptors: Phạm Bảo Sơn, Đoàn Hữu Ngà, Trần An, Hoàng Mai Thiệp, Phạm Văn Tuấn, Lương Trịnh, Phan Văn Hưởng.

Critic Vu Lam commented about the artists and exhibition: “…They were well trained in the professional art environment, have reached the mature in their ages as well as their job. They have learned from practice and worked many years. Their confident & desire in art meeting in the full exhibition called “Seven”. A short name which sounds rough like the sculptors’ personalities, they have passion in creating artworks with their burning heart, intellective, open minded.

They are, back with the sculptures of small and medium and return to the “spirit cover size” of the Vietnamese people from the old age. But to put in modern architecture, it makes sense that would have make shocked by the artwork themselves…”

ASEAN Music Festival 2013

Sat 20 Jul 2013, 6 pm

Darts Darts Darts

224 Pasteur, Q3, TP HCM

You are invited to the music night with 18 bands from 6 Asian countries in HCMC. Free entrance.

18 bands performing at the show include the following names:

*SS240Z (from Saigon) – [Melodic Hard Core]

*GOLDEN PUMPERS (from Saigon) – [Good Japanese Songs]

*SPIKE’S (from Saigon) – [Blues]

*Vietcorn (from Hanoi) – [Unicorn]

*STEEL SAIGON (from Saigon) – [Heavy Metal]

*L.C.L (from Saigon) – [Japanese Visual-Kei Rock]

*HEIMER’S (from Hanoi) – [J-Blues]

*MILO (from Siem Reap) – [Siem Reap attractive Band]

*南城秀樹”NJP” (from Phnom Penh) – [Japanese Comic Song]

*Boomerang Fried Rice (from Saigon) – [Post Rock]

*鯔背＊いなせ”Inase”（from Bangkok) – [Char]

*黒いK”Black K” (from Hanoi) – [Black J-Pop]

*負け犬”Make Inu” (from Saigon) – [Green Day, Queen, Bon Jovi]

*遠距離バンド”Asean Special Unit” (from Cambodia, Saigon, Hanoi and Bangkok) – [Special Unit]

*やまやまだ”YamaYamada” (from Jakarta and Saigon) – [Hard Rock]

*Awaken Dog***RED ALART (from Bangkok) – [Hard Rock]

*UNIT HIRO (from Saigon) – [Famous Saigon Music Performer]

*TIPS LIPS

Screening of “La Princesse de Montpensier”

Fri 19 Jul 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

From L’Espace:

You are invited to the film screening “The Montpensier Princess” (France, 2010, 2h19 min) of director Bertrand Tavernier. The film touches upon the topic “when infatuation messes up an arranged marriage”.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

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

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Screening of “Pièce Montée”

Fri 26 Jul 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the screening of “Pièce montée” (France, 2010, 99 mins) directed by Denys Granier-Deferre, starred by: Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier, Jean-Pierre Marielle. According to La Croix newspaper, this is “An attractive comedy with impeccable distribution”.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.

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

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

A Physical Theatre “Mahabharata” by Hiroshi Koike

Tue 16 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm

Youth Theatre

11 Ngo Thi Nham Str, Hanoi

In celebration of 40th Year of ASEAN – Japan Friendship and Cooperation as well as the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project, Cambodia’s Amrita Performing Arts and the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, sponsored by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, proudly present a physical theatre “Mahabharata” on Tuesday 16 July 2013 in Hanoi.

Mahabharata is an ancient Indian epic originally written in Sanskrit and has been regarded as the Hindu Bible, the resource of Indian philosophy, moral, politics and law. It is the story of a dynastic struggle that provides a social, moral and cosmological background to the climactic battle and covers all categories of storytelling, as the famous phrase in Mahabharata says:

What is found herein may also be found in other sources,

What is not found herein does not matter.

This gigantic epic is, thus, a treasure house of ancient wisdom and can be an excellent reference to think about human nature, which motivated Hiroshi Koike, a highly revered Japanese director, to bring on stage.

The characters in the story will be performed mainly by Cambodian actors/actresses equipped with traditional dance, backed up by a Japanese Bali dancer, a Japanese Ballet dancer and a Malaysian Butoh dancer. Each performer will play several roles by changing wearing masks. The story will be delivered mainly through physical movements topped with some music and summary of the story on screen.

We do hope that Hiroshi Koike’s ambitious attempt will inspire you not only in purely artistic sense but also to re-think about what is human nature.

This stage performance is free admission but you are required to get free advanced tickets which will be distributed from 2pm on Friday 28 June at the Japan Foundation (27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi/TEL 04-3944-7419) .

Music Night with Japanese, British and Vietnamese Bands

Sat 27 Jul 2013, 7.30 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

The Onion Cellar presents to you: ZENI GEVA (Japan), KK NULL (Japan), RUINS ALONE (Japan), AUGUSTORY (Vietnam), GENTLE OHM (UK).

ZENI GEVA (JAPAN)

Before it became hip and trendy to like bands from Japan there were a handful of artists from this country pushing the sonic envelope, de-constructing and then re-building ‘music’ and were, in general, part of a new vanguard of noise makers. One such pioneering group of innovators is ZENI GEVA (roughly translated as ‘someone who would do anything to get money’), whose current line-up includes Kazuyuki Kishino (guitars, vocals, Kaoss-pad) – one of Japan’s most well-known ‘noise terrorists’ alongside Merzbow and Keiji Haino; and Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, Kaoss-pad) – ‘master drummer of the Japanese underground’.

One of Japan’s more eccentric and intriguing extreme music exports ever since the late ’80s and the ’90s, self-professed progressive hardcore duo ZENI GEVA fuses elements of death metal, hardcore, industrial music, noise rock, progressive rock and avant-garde music, gaining no small underground recognition in the process while getting described as ‘Motorhead meets King Crimson’ and recording/collaborating with the legendary studio engineer Steve Albini (who has been producing records for all sorts of luminaries of alternative music: Nirvana, Pixies, MONO, Neurosis, Slint, Shannon Wright, Melt-Banana, etc).

Their popularity in the West enabled them to be one of the first Japanese ‘underground’ bands to tour the States on various occasions with bands like The Pain Teens, Melvins, Crash Worship, Ed Hall and Shellac, and to play at a number of cult music festivals the names of which should by now, perhaps, be familiar with readers of Onion Cellar’s press releases: All Tomorrow’s Parties, Supersonic Festival, and an upcoming appearance at this month’s Poland’s Unsound Festival (at a stage curated by Sunn O’s Stephen O’Malley).

In 2009, second original drummer Tatsuya Yoshida (who was part of ZENI GEVA in 1989/1990 and contributed to their debut album “Maximum Money Monster” came back and brought with him even more complexity and hyper energy. As they continue to create and innovate, ZENI GEVA remains in the forefront of this still-emerging global scene of underground outfits.

KK NULL (JAPAN)

KK NULL (real name : Kazuyuki Kishino) is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80′s.

In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer Min Tanaka’s ‘Mai-Juku’ workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs of Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with Merzbow for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Masashi Kitamura, chief editer of Fool’s Mate magazine and Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and various other projects of the underground scene.

In the early 90′s he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore band ZENI GEVA.

After playing the guitar as his main instrument for nearly thirty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. He has concentrated his efforts on exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythms, scattered pitch sculptures (for installations), droning isolationist material which could be described as ‘cosmic noise maximal/minimalism’.

RUINS ALONE (JAPAN)

A one-man performance that has to be seen to be believed.

Without a doubt, Tatsuya Yoshida has been one of the most important drummers of the Japanese music scene since the final decades of the 20th century, having spearheaded at least a half dozen of that country’s most important groups. Perhaps best-known among these would be RUINS: this group’s unique basic instrumentation of drums and bass was no less than a palace revolt against the established role of the rhythm section.

RUINS plays a unique form of manic and twisted progressive rock. Bandleader/drummer/singer Yoshida credits such diverse influences as progressive rock stalwarts Magma, Pink Floyd, Gong, King Crimson, Yes, classical composers like Chopin, and traditional throat singing from Tuva. Though these influences often come through in the RUINS sound, there is no mistaking RUINS for anyone else. Many RUINS compositions employ odd time signatures, sudden tempo changes, and passages of heavily processed noise. Vocals are meant to be nonsensical (and that’s how they sound) and are usually improvised, as are portions of the songs. The overall sound is chaotic yet precise, noisy yet harmonious, catchy yet repelling, frenetic yet disciplined.

After the departure of fourth bassist Hisashi Sasaki, Tatsuya Yoshida forged on with RUINS as a solo act, performing live as RUINS ALONE and releasing the album Alone in 2011. RUINS ALONE has no bassist – Yoshida samples and synthesises sounds to accompany his ballistic drumming and singing, using elements of everything from sheer noise to disco and pop.

AUGUSTORY (VIETNAM)

Music for the breezy midsummer nights of adolescence.

Consisting of 5 young musicians that have been playing important roles in the success of CUỘC SỐNGS, NURANIUM and other Hanoian projects in recent years, alternative rock band AUGUSTORY brings in some much-needed freshness to the Vietnamese rock scene. With a melodic yet powerful approach that recalls, at the same time, the minimalism of Interpol and early-U2 (when that band used to be ok) as well as the edgy riffs of hardcore groups, with lyrics inspired by their own youth and seemingly the youth of a whole nation, the band immediately garners a considerable fanbase through performances at Battle of the Bands 2013. Meanwhile, singer Nông Tiến Bắc appears on the Vietnam edition of The Voice as a contestant (this might be one of the only times ‘Onion Cellar’ and ‘The Voice’ appear in the same paragraph).

At Onion Cellar, we dig young passionate talented people who dare to think and dream. Very pleased to have 5 such people at this show, where AUGUSTORY will be premiering a whole set of new unreleased songs. COME SUPPORT THEM.

GENTLE OHM (UK)

Taking its name after a unit of electrical resistance which took its name after the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm, GENTLE OHM is and is not quite what it says on the tin. A new project from Hanoi-based noise enthusiast Josh Kopecek, GENTLE OHM could easily be amongst the British composer’s (who, in the past, has been writing contemporary classical suites, playing Brazilian music with his band Xeomistas, or bending out of homemade circuit boards) most electronic, adventurous and elaborate offerings to date.

But are they ‘gentle’? Of course not. What we encounter is an ominously cavernous blanket of noise, interwoven with hauntological samples from bygone eras of traditional Vietnamese music, dipped in modern industrial colors, then manically live-processed in between dub-like beats into elaborate streams of consciousness. The resulting maelstrom is a canopy of dappled light over and through the sound with which he works.

Listen to their soundcloud.

TICKETS

EARLY BIRD: 50K VND

(please register for early bird tickets – DEADLINE: 23:59 ON JULY 18)

CONCESSION for holders of valid Vietnamese student IDs: 100K VND (available at doors)

Everyone else: 150K VND

Film-making Workshop with HARUN FAROCKI

Workshop with HARUN FAROCKI: 19 – 30 Aug 2013

Deadline to register: 31 Jul 2013

In Aug 2013, at Hanoi DOCLAB, Harun Farocki, one of the most important documentary filmmakers in German and all over the world, will conduct his project and hold a film-making workshop called “Labor in a Single Shot.”

The program is designed exclusively to Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.

Contemporary Ca Tru Perfomance

Wed 17 Jul 2013, 9 pm

ATK

73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi

The latest project from the mercurial Nguyễn Thùy Dung is a reworking of Ca Trù. Considered one of Vietnam’s finest musical art forms and registered as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Vietnam by UNESCO, Ca Trù is about to get torn up and stuck back together again by one of its brightest traditional young stars.

Using traditinal Ca Trù as their jumping off point, the group have promised to “phá hết” – destroy everything – before the evening is over.

Dung doesn’t mind reinventing tradition. Since graduating from the Hanoi Conservatory of Music in 2012, she’s taken her đàn Tranh to places it’s never been before. From electronic chill outs with Vũ Nhật Tan, to pounding Mali rhythms, to an indie collaboration with the Guillemots, to astral adventures with Tone Ripples and even experimental improvised electronica with Lương Huệ Trinh, Dung has done almost everything she can to drag Vietnamese music in to the 21st Century.

Completing the Ca Trù trio are sisters Nguyễn Thu Thủy on đàn Đáy (a long necked 3-stringed lute) and Nguyễn Thùy Chi who sings and keeps the groups rhythm on Phách. For over six years the sisters have been studying and practicing Ca Trù in an effort to preserve the ancient art form.

Entry VND 50,000. Concert from 9pm

Exhibition “Obsession from Daily Day”

Opening: Mon 15 Jul, 5.30 pm

Exhibition: 15 – 30 Jul 2013

Art Tunnel Gallery

6 Hang Trong Str, Hanoi

Tel: 84-4-39382303

Opening hours: 9 am – 8 pm or by appointment

Come to the exhibition “Obsession from Daily Day” by artist Nguyen Duc Loi. His daily work is an obsession. The artist does not like to be managed; he wants the free thinking spirit. That the daily order just as children need nutrition and tuition; wives need supplies; elders need health care; and artists by themselves need to be free to create is really conflict demanding obsession.

These simple emotionless commands, like square box keys, when we go through it, take risks and live with injustice, have flashed a new spirit of respect – Nguyen Duc Loi’s.

The feeling that comes from a straight line across the horizon, the surreal perspective of heaven and earth, and all things that inspire poetry. In contrast with these thoughts, the Italian poet, Aeronwy Thomas, used painting to illustrate his message.

We believe you will appreciate his work. The spontaneous soul and passion flourish through his exhibitions. His art work should be presented at Art Tunnel gallery, No.6 Hang Trong St., Hanoi from 15 to 30 July 2013. Your presentation on the open day at 5.30 pm 15 July 2013 should be highly appreciated!

Art Tunnel gallery specializes in collecting Vietnamese paintings for introduction to art lovers at home and abroad. Vietnamese art is highly appreciated by international friends with senior generation of painters trained at the France based school Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de L’Indochine in the early twentieth century. The Masters have applied the essence of European fine art and to Vietnamese aesthetic that really has become the cultural bridge bringing Vietnam to the world and vice versa.

Located in Hang Trong, an ancient street in the center of Hanoi, Art Tunnel is proud to mount exciting exhibitions to the foreigners visiting Vietnam. The name of the street also refers to the stable of traditional painting established 400 years old – “Tranh Hang Trong”.

Chase Hanoi 2013 – The Dreams I Chase

Opening: Fri 19 Jul, 9 am

Exhibition: 19 – 21 Jul 2013, 9 – 12 am and 2 – 5 pm

Work Room Four

Building E, Floor 4

9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi

Following our success in 2011 and 2012 events, Chase Hanoi is pleased to bring to visitors and participants this year’s Chase Hanoi art gallery under the the theme “The Dreams I Chase”, inspired by the short story of the same name by author Nguyen Ngoc Thuan.

Assembling together 69 art pieces by over 50 contributors, Chase Hanoi wishes to create a platform for communication, exchange, and exploration for young art enthusiasts. Each flickering of light, each second captured on screen tells a story about the artist, and about our own selves.

Chase Hanoi 2013 1

Chase Hanoi art gallery brought together many creative works from very distinct perspectives, each offering multiple interpretations of the individual passions and desires. Behind every selected photo is a reflection of a meaningful life, when the individual, in pursuit towards the realization of their own dreams, confront obstacles and limitations.

Chase Hanoi is also pleased to offer many merchandises, hand-made by our very own organizing team, for sale. All profits gathered will be sent to Chase Hanoi charity fund.

Our event motto: WOLO: We Only Live Once!

Email: [email protected]

Exhibition Dó10

Opening: Sat 20 Jul, 6 pm

Exhibition: 20 – 25 Jul 2013

HCMC Fine Arts Museum

97A Pho Duc Chinh, D1, HCMC

Dó10 is a retrospective exhibition featuring selected paintings and installation works created by Le Hien Minh over the last decade, all of which utilize traditional Vietnamese handmade Do paper as the central medium. Dó10 illustrates the progression of Le Hien Minh’s creativity from her early 2D experiments with Do paper, to her large scale sculptures of today.

Do paper is a material traditionally used in the creation of Dong Ho paintings, a type of folk woodcut painting which originates in Dong Ho village in Bac Ninh Provence, Northern Vietnam. It is a natural paper created by the bark of the Do tree (Rhamnoneuron balansae).

Although the Do paper is the central medium in Le Hien Minh’s work, her overall body of work appears to have been created using a diversity of materials.For example, the material of “Birds” 2009 appears to be stone and “Home” 2004 appears to be rusty metal. This diversity of appearance is a natural outcome of Minh’s art making process, which engages natural elements such as rain, humidity, sun,etc., to generate unpredictable outcomes.

Le Hien Minh, through her use of Do Paper, offers a new perspective on a traditional Vietnamese material. In Le Hien Minh’s work, the material acts as a bridge between contemporary Vietnamese/Global culture, and Vietnamese art history and traditional culture.

About the artsit

Le Hien Minh is a female artist who was born after 1975 in Ha Noi and grew up in Sai Gon. She studied traditional lacquer painting at the HCMC Fine Art University, then transferredto, and graduated from, the Art Academy of Cincinnati in the United States majoring in Fine Art. Today, Le Hien Minh lives and works between Ho Chi Minh City and New York City.