One more Night of Songs for the Summer with Le Cat Trong Ly

31 Jul, 01 and 02 Aug 2014, 8.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

To express our gratitude for all your unconditional love for Le Cat Trong Ly, we have decided to host the amazing singer for one more night, one more SONGS FOR THE SUMMER (time 8.30 PM Sat 02 Aug at Manzi 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi).

Hurry up! Book your seats via the Hotline: 0947935042 or email: [email protected] (with the title “Booking 02 Aug 2014″)

Showcase “Collection of Vietnamese Contemporary Paintings”

Exhibition: 29 Jul – 04 Oct 2014

Art Tunnel Gallery

6 Hang Trong Str, Hanoi

You are invited to a collection of Vietnamese contemporary paintings.

The arts of painting, if excluded the ideas and contents, are basically divided into two categories: realism and non-realism (abstraction). This always makes art lovers wonder about the abstract meanings of artworks. However, these non-realistic meanings are the factor contributing to the characteristic and the variety of artworks as well as making art lovers be attracted to the arts of painting.

To help art lovers find the answer for their questions, the organizer concretized the semi-abstraction and abstraction of artworks by selecting and organizing our paintings. Artworks in the collection are painted by Vietnamese artists in a range of media from traditional materials like lacquer, silk and dó paper to modern materials.

Exhibition “Firmly Defending our Nation’s Sea and Islands”

Opening: Tue 22 Jul 2014, 9:30 am

Exhibition: 22 – 29 Jul 2014

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St. Hanoi

You are invited to the exhibition “Firmly Defending our Nation’s Sea and Islands” which raises a strong voice in protesting against China’s aggression in the East Sea.

The exhibition includes 55 paintings, graphics and sculptures by artists from different generations – from the first generation graduating from the Fine Arts College of Indochina to present; using various materials such as: lacquer (10 artworks), oils (14), silk (2), pastels (3), watercolor (16), ink (5), wood carving (1), bronze (1), wood (1), plaster (1).

With the sacred and deep feelings for nation’s sea and islands, the painter/sculptor has enabled the audience to better understand and love the tender beauty of our East Sea, the peaceful lives of hardworking fishermen who cling to it, as well as the navy soldiers who have overcome a lot of difficulties to ensure the sacred national sovereignty and maintain the beauty of our sea.

Free entrance.

Summer Festival “Kirakira Night”

26 and 27 Jul 2014, 9 am – 8 pm

Thanh Xuan District Cultural House

Le Van Luong Str, Thanh Xuan Dist, Hanoi

You are invited to the Japanese summer festival “Kirakira Night”.

Inspired by Japanese culture, this summer festival becomes a meeting place for all young people who share the same interest in Japanese culture.

The event includes 3 main parts:

*Japanese experience corner: display Fukuoka prefecture illustrations, traditional toys, origami, writing conventions, Japanese calligraphy,  travel and study information …

*Stage performances: Yosakoi, Japanese Martial Arts, Traditional instruments, Vocaloid Dance, Hip Hop Dance, Cosplay Catwalk, Karaoke contests – Final Round, Cosplay, Miss YUKATA…

*The food stands, toys, Manga, attractive Japanese fashion…

Free admission.

Le Cat Trong Ly and “Songs for the Summer”

31 Jul and 01 Aug 2014, 8.30 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

Two super cool concerts featuring the most beloved singer Le Cat Trong Ly will take place at manzi this month. With her captivating voice, Ly will bring the audience to a summer of light blue, of light turquoise and of lots of green.

Book seats via Hotline: 0947935042 or email: [email protected].

Artist Talk by Chou Chien Pang

Sat 26 Jul 2014, 5 pm

San Art Lab STUDIO

48/7 Pham Viet Chanh, Binh Thanh Dist, HCMC

“I used to draw while commuting when I was still a salary man. I am very comfortable with the fact that I could do some graffiti whenever and wherever I am. With the purpose of sharing the joy of creating and to enjoy the fun and peaceful atmosphere, I established a drawing group on Facebook and started to teach young children drawing, to paint on the walls of my rooms, to give people the artworks that I made for them freely as a gift. I am a newbie in the realm of art. Nonetheless I truly love creating and sharing, not to mention art itself. I have been questioning for my own way of making art by means of applying for art residence, getting myself involved in artist’s project, wandering galleries and making gallery maps. Sometimes, I empty all my emotions and just draw the totems carved upon my heart.”

San Art Laboratory welcomes Chou Chien-Pang, exchange residency artist from Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan. Master of laws and now artist by practice, Chou Chien Pang brings to Vietnam his “Project Connection”, a visual dialogue, an interactive documentation realized by means of drawing, lettering, interview, photographs and digital communication with the local community he visits. Nicknamed ‘A Pang’, he will be with us for one month – Come share your stories, and perhaps become part of the narrative!

Chou Chien Pang was born in 1979, currently lives and works in Taiwan. He got his Law degree from National Chengchi University, took a nine-to-five job, immersed in politics years before turning his joy of sharing, his drawings, his wandering around galleries into strenuous art practice. The now-MA artist has participated in the 2013 Young Art Taipei at Taipei Sheraton Hotel in May 2013, the 12th Artist Fair at Shihlin Paper factory and Tainan Cultural and Creative Industry Park, Taipei and Tainan in October 2013, and most recently has a solo show at Lei Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan early July 2014.   

Screening of Film “Moonrise Kingdom”

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents

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

On Saturday July 25th 2014, TPD Centre will host next session of Two Thumbs Up Movie programme. We will screen Moonrise Kingdom (2001), directed by Wes Anderson.

About Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola. Described as an “eccentric pubescent love story”, it features newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward in the film’s main roles and an ensemble cast.

Filming took place in Rhode Island from April until June 29, 2011. Worldwide rights to the independently-produced film were acquired by Focus Features. The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

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

Exhibition “Greek Mythology” and “Typography” Wearable Art Pieces at Lucy’s Dream

Exhibition: 24 Jul – 14 Aug 2014, 10 am – 10 pm

Lucy’s Dream

31 Hang Giay, Hanoi

The idea behind Lucy’s Dream is turning art created by Vietnamese Young Artists into wearable clothing pieces. For the second time since the first exhibition in June 2014, we have cooperated with local artists on the 2 subjects of “Greek Mythology” and “Typography”. The results are comfortable and eye-catching ready-to-wear silk clothes, printed with unique designs hand-drawn and digitally manipulated by our artist partners.

The design and manufacturing processes at Lucy’s Dream usually take from 3-5 weeks, from the first sketches by artists, to digital designs, to fabric sourcing, fabric pre-treatment, printing, post-printing treatment, cutting and sewing processes. Each wearable art piece at Lucy’s Dream is made with extreme care and love.

This is the story of how Lucy’s Dream came to life.

I was just another girl working full-time for a corporation when suddenly it dawned on me that my purpose in life was to create truly original made-in-Vietnam East-meets-West style wearable art.

By Mid-2012, I had gathered a great team, composed of young Vietnamese artists who wanted to make a difference in the fashion & lifestyle scene of Vietnam. Lucy’s Dream was born in December 2012.

We hand-paint, digitally trace and print our own designs on fabrics, and manufacture unique and whimsical lifestyle products out of these self-designed fabrics.

For 2 years of constant effort, we have grown Lucy’s Dream from an online platform at www.lucysdream.net to two (02) brick-and-mortar stores in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Please support Lucy’s Dream & support Vietnam’s manufacturing industry!

Exhibition Visual Party “Quẫy”

Opening: Sun 27 Jul 2014, 4 pm

Exhibition: 27 – 30 Jul 2014

Then Cafe

63 Le Trung Dinh, Hue

Then Cafe would like to introduce an exhibition of 15 artists with various art forms such as installation, video, objects, performance mentioning the current issue in the East Sea with their own language.

Participating artists:

1. Nguyễn Hoàng Việt

2. Trần Hữu Nhật

3. Tôn Thất Minh Nhật

4. Nguyễn Đức Phương

5. Trần Tiến

6. Phan Duy Đăng

7. Trương Thế Linh

8. Nguyễn Văn Hè

9. Nguyễn Văn Duy

10. Trầm Thị Trạch Oanh

11. Nguyễn Hà My

12. Trần Công Dũng

13. Hồ Đăng Chính

14. Nguyễn Hóa

15. Hoàng Thanh Phong

Exhibition “World Heritages in Japan”

Exhibition: 26 Jul – 09 Aug 2014, 9 am – 6 pm (everyday, except Sunday)

Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội

The exhibition includes photo collection of Kazuyoshi Miyoshi that shows to the world outstanding natural and cultural heritages in Japan added to the UNESCO’s world heritage list, such as “Shirakami-Sanchi Mountain Range”, “Yaku-shima Island”, “Himeji-jo Castle” and the “Buddhist monuments of the Horyu-ji Temple Area” (1993); “Genbaku Dome”, “Itsukushima-jinja Shrine”, the “Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara”, the “Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto City, Uji City and Otsu City)”, the “Gassho-zukuri Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama” and the “Shrines and Temples of Nikko” (1994 – 1999); “Gusuku site and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu” that include Shuri-jo Castle (late 2000); “Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range and the Cultural Landscapes that Surroud Them” (2004); “Shiretoko” (2005); ” Iwami- Ginzan Silver Mine” (7/2008); “Ogasawara Islands” was added to the list of Natural Property and “Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaelogical Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land” (2011).

Free admission.

About Photographer Kazuyoshi Miyoshi

Born in 1958 in Tokushima Prefecture.

Graduated from Tokai University in 1981 (School of Letters, Department of Mass Communications).

Founded Rakuen Co., Ltd. in 1981.

Received the Kimura Ihei award for his book of photographs, Rakuen (Paradise), in 1985. At twenty-seven-years old, this made him the youngest awardee ever.

Beginning with a visit to Okinawa at the age of thirteen, he traveled extensively to photograph regions all over the world, including the Maldives, Tahiti, Africa, India, and in recent years, the Himalayas and Antarctic Pole. He applies the theme “Rakuen,” or paradise, to his collection of photographs from his travels.

His works are included in the permanent collection of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in the USA.

Miyoshi’s book of photographs, The World Heritage in Japan, was published in 1998.

Since 1999, The Japan Foundation has purchased 63 photos (as of March 2009) from World Heritage Sites in Japan in order to promote Japanese culture. Since then, each time a new site is added to the world heritage list, new photographs are added to the collection, and exhibitions are held in many locations throughout the world.

Since 2007, he has been photographing images of Buddha, which are national treasures in Kyoto and Nara.

From 2008, he started taking pictures of Kyoto-Gosho Imperial Palace and Katsura-rikyu Detached Palace.

Graduation Party for Knowmads Hanoi Team 2

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 8.30 pm

Hầm Hành

170 Doi Can Str, Hanoi

Come to join the Graduation Party for Knowmads Hanoi Team 2!

We hope to welcome you to celebrate the final evening of Knowmads Hanoi Team 2 and to (re) connect with Team 1, our trainers and other friends of Knowmads Hanoi.

Feel free to bring you friends and we hope to see you.

Screening of Film “Gordos”

Sun 27 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm

THBC Spanish Tapas Bar

44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi

Come to the film screening “Gordos” (Fat People) (2009, 110 mins).

Six people who use food as a way of dealing with their anxieties work through them together in this comedy-drama from writer and director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo. Abel (Roberto Enriquez) is a therapist who regularly meets with a handful of clients struggling to deal with the physical and emotional problems of being overweight. Enrique (Antonio de la Torre) is an actor best known as the spokesman for weight loss product who is soon to be out of a job now that he’s started putting on the pounds; he also wrestling with his sexuality when he begins dating Pilar (Pilar Castro), the wife of his late business partner, after identifying as gay most of his life. Sofia (Leticia Herrero) is married to Alex (Raul Arevalo), a committed Christian who ignores her sexual needs. While Sofia is able to reawaken her husband’s libido, when she begins losing weight she finds he’s most attracted to heavy women. Leonor (Maria Morales) is a business executive who has turned to food for comfort while her boyfriend is elsewhere. And Andres (Fernando Albizu) is a scientist married to Beatriz (Tete Delgado); they’re overweight, their teenage children Luis (Adam Jezierski) and Nuria (Marta Martin) are not, and their issues with food are adding to an increasingly combative relationship with the kids. And as slender Abel tries to guide his clients to healthier and happier lives, he’s forced to confront his own issues with fat people when his wife Paula (Veronica Sanchez) balloons out during pregnancy.

Free entrance.

Language: Spanish and English sub

Contact: 043 718 8246 (English – Vietnamese speaking), email: [email protected]

Screening of Documentary “Berg und Tal”

Thu 24 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 of the “Berg und Tal” (2014) by Philip Widmann and Karsten Krause. There will be a discussion with the directors after the screening.

“Berg und Tal” is the exploration of a society’s mindset through found personal documents, statistics, popular literature and architecture. The society is West Germany, the setting is historical, yet the associations that the film evokes might hold true for the here-and-now as well.

Philip Widmann, born in 1980 in West Berlin, studied Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, and American Studies at the University of Hamburg and attended the Documentary Film Class at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Widmann has been a member of the independent film collective LaborBerlin e.V. since 2009.

Karsten Krause was born in 1980 in Freiburg, and earned a degree in Visual Communication at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 2010. He lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin.

Language: The film is in German with English subtitle.

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

Artist Talk with Patricia Nguyen

Thu 24 Jul 2014, 7.30 – 9.30 pm

Nha San Studio

462 Duong Buoi Str, Hanoi

You are invited to the artist talk with Patricia Nguyen! She will be presenting about her experience and knowledge in performance art.

Artist Statement

Patricia Nguyen’s work explores the precarious tension between life and death in the journey of migration, conjuring story through ritual and experimentation with natural and manufactured objects.

Meditating on the precarity of life and death over the oceanic, salt | water weaves ritual and poetry as practices of conjuring memory. Through collection, extraction, filtering, and dispersion of salt water, I explore the tension between overwhelming abundance and scarcity. Juxtaposing the process of evaporating seawater to extract salt and cleansing rituals- my body becomes a site of where these tensions converge as the audience bears witness to divergent performances of oversaturation and extraction.

Past Performances

Titles and Brief Descriptions

• “Temporal Entanglements” is an experimental performance on memory and time. (This piece is piece is captured in photos 2-15).

• “Tro Ve | Return” (solo performance) explores storytelling and oral histories through embodied movement, voice, and water to conjure stories of remembering and places of possibilities. (This piece is captured in photos 16-23).

• “Tro Ve Nuoc: Between Home and Memory” investigates the poetics of water through the eyes of two Vietnamese American women in search of home in the diaspora. (performance collaboration) (This piece is captured in photos 26-36).

Language: English and Vietnamese

Free entrance.

Kidstallation: Having Fun with Balloons

Sat 19 Jul 26 Jul 2014, 2.30 – 5 pm (date changed due to typhoon)

Booth 208, Level 2

Indochina Plaza Hanoi

241 Xuan Thuy Str, Ha Noi

Play and have fun with installation art. Come to have fun with balloons and arrange them into unique shapes and welcome kids’ parents to join with us!

All the artwork will be exhibited here from 20 – 26 Jul 2014.

Ticket: 100,000 VND/child ( 5 – 10 years old) (to cover organization fee)

Open to only 100 first registrations. Register to buy the ticket via this link, the organizer will contact you soon to receive tickets.

Contact information:

Tel: (0)4 3775 4230 ext. 301/ 0976098291 (Ms.Trang)

Email: [email protected]

Special Concert “Hope Symphony – Autumn’s Tango” in Hanoi and HCMC

Tue 29 Jul 2014, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Fri 01 Aug 2014, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

… A special art progamme! Combination of classical style with modern one.

… A programme brings profound human culture.

With the aim of being grateful to all our valuable kind-hearted sponsors, who have been supporting and accompanying the “Light Your Hope” Scholarship Foundation in recent years, the Executive Committee of the Fund cooperates with Conductor Le Phi Phi to hold a special programme by the name “Hope Symphony”. This charity concert is also the event for raising fund to support and help the studious students, who have very difficult living circumstance.

This is a special symphony with the performance of two artists (violist &accordionist) coming from Macedonia & Serbia; and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO), Very famous Tango melodies with emotional dance will surely bring deep impression and overflowing emotions to all audience. Bandmaster Le Phi Phi will conduct to show the immortal writings such as La Cumparsita, Verrano, Adios Nonino, Preparansa, Milonga Del Angel, Invierno, Por Una Cabeza, Oblivion, Valsecito Viejo, Balkango, Balkan Milonga Loca, Libertango, Corralera – Blue Tango.

Tickets

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

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Cabaret Night in July at L’Espace

Sat 26 Jul 2014, 8.30 – 9.30 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Cabaret Night at L’Espace – the stage for new music talents. From 8.30 pm to 9.3o, “Puzzle” band with Vietnamese and French members will be playing French, Vietnamese and English songs.

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

Free admission.

Performance “Guitar Never Like Before”

Sat 26 Jul 2014, 8 pm

Heritage Space

Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi

You are invited to the guitar performance titled “Guitar … Never like before” to enjoy delicate, emotional and humanistic fingerstyle pieces by guitarist Khoa Le (just came back from US), one of the most typical representative for Vietnam in this latest line of guitar.

Performance artist: Guitarist Khoa Le

Guests:

- Violist Nguyen Thien Minh

- Guitarist Duy Phong

- Guitarist Dang Tran Tung

- Singer Trang Tooc

Ticket : 200.000 VND

- Ticket on sale at:

. Heritage Space – Dolphin Plaza, No. 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Hanoi

. Paris Deli: 6 Phan Chu Trinh, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

. Pari Deli: 13 Nha Tho, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi

- Booking via bank transfer: Hotline 090 282 6769

Summer Shines – A Classical Concert by The Hanoian Trio

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 8 pm

Manzi Art Space

14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

manzi is delighted to bring you a vivid night of classical concert by the newly-established Hanoian Trio featuring cellist Ha Mien, and pianist Luu  

Hoang and oboist Do Kien Cuong. This intimate night will include pieces from Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, William Henry Squire, Do  

Kien Cuong & Tran Luu Hoang.

Ticket: 200,000 VND. All money goes towards supporting the artists and the organizing of events at manzi.

Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at [email protected] before 5PM Tue 22 Jul.

Positive Mass in July

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 8 pm

St Joseph Cathedral

“Positive Mass”, and event inspired on an international event called Critical Mass. It is just a bicycle ride to promote cycling for all its positive reasons. Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world. The ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco. The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.

In Hanoi, Positive Mass (PM) is called “Đạp cho sướng”, literally meaning cycling for pleasure. Bikers meet on the last Friday of every month at  

St. Joseph Cathedral (Nhà thờ lớn) and travel around Hanoi following a prepared route with the ending point at the Cathedral. The first PM in  

Hanoi started in Oct 2012. Since Oct 2013 PM has been hold in HCMC, Thai Nguyen and Son La.

Introduction to Italian Body Language

Sun 20 Jul 2014, 9.30 am

Casa Italia

18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi

Opening hours: 9 am – 9 pm all days

Phone (via Uni – Italia): 043 824 0579

Body language is a very important part in every language, especially in Italian. Italian people tend to use a lot of hand gestures when having  

conversation. Come to our presentation of Italian gestures this Sunday to understand the meaning and having fun with Italian friends.

Free entry.