EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 10-20 (daily updated) Creative Documentaries at Hanoi DOCLAB 2015 (K7) Deadline: 20 Apr 2015 DOCLAB Goethe-Institut Hanoi 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học Ba Đình, Hà Nội DOCLAB is currently looking for interested participants to take part in Creative Documentaries 2015 (K7) course. The course will be conducted in Vietnamese. For more information, please refer to 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 hanoidoclab@gmail.com to subscribe to DOCLAB news. Gala ”Melody of the Motherland” Sun 19 Apr 2015, 8 pm HCMC Opera House No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC You are invited to the gala ”Melody of the Motherland” with three kinds of artistic performances: Contemporary dance, symphony and vocal themed on the love dedicated for the motherland, the country and people of Vietnam. Some of the work have been created recently by contemporary musicians, choreographers who contribution remarkably to the art of Vietnam. Program Conductor: Trần Nhật Minh PART I: Hồ Bắc “Ca ngợi Tổ quốc” Đặng Hữu Phúc Vocal Solo “Trăng chiều” Performing: Phạm Duyên Huyền Huy Du, poet by Ngọc Sơn, Duet “Tình em” Performing: Phạm Khánh Ngọc & Đoàn Thanh Minh Vũ Việt Anh Symphony “Trường Sơn” Performing: HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) Mer. A. Trần Vương Thạch Vocal Solo “Lá bàng” Performing: Trần Duy Linh and Female vocalists Trần Mạnh Hùng Vocal Solo “Gió lộng bốn phương” Performing: Mer. A. Trần Hồng Vy Thái Văn Hóa “Đất nước trên bờ sóng” Performing: Tốp ca Trần Tiến ”Giai điệu Tổ quốc” Performing: Choir HBSO Choir & Symphony Orchestra PART II: Contemporary dance ”Touching the Past” Choreography: Nguyễn Phúc Hải, Nguyễn Phúc Hùng Music: Vũ Việt Anh, Nguyễn Mạnh Duy Linh, Philip Glass, Max Richter, Michael Nyman Performing: HBSO Ballet Tickets Ticket price: 550,000 – 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only) Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Hương 0989874517, Ms.Hương Ly: 0908057972 At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC Online Booking at ticketbox.vn Femme Beat DJ School by Embassy of Sweden 18 and 19 Apr 2015 Hanoi Rock City 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho Are you interested in music? Would you like learn the art of DJ-ing and be part of building a network of female music professionals in Hanoi? Some years ago Lina Thomsgård started a DJ-course in Stockholm, Sweden. The reason was the lack of female DJ’s at clubs in Sweden and the idea among club owners in Stockholm that there were no good female DJ’s. The project was a huge success and became the start of a now more than 60 000 women strong network for female professionals – Equalisters. Now we are taking this idea to Hanoi. Would you like to be a part of our exclusive group of eight women for a two day DJ-course and networking? The program in short: 18 April (10:00 – 18:00): Swedish Female DJ’s will give classes in DJ-ing Practice your DJ-ing skills and participate in a round table meeting with leading women in culture on how to build a network of professionals. 19 April (10:00 – 24:00): Lectures, practising and live performance at HRC. You will have the opportunity to DJ along with established DJ’s before a live audience. For whom: Vietnamese women interested in music and in building a network of female professionals in Hanoi. We don’t require any prior knowledge of DJ-ing, what we want is that you are driven to learn and to help building the network. You have to be over 20 years old to participate. What to bring: We want you to bring minimum 20 songs or beats you like as something we can work with and we will provide the rest! When: 18-19 April at Hanoi Rock City, 27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho Cost: Free Apply to: Send your application to camilla.bjelkas@gov.se before 10 April. Write: ‘Application to DJ- course’ in the subject line. Eight participants will be picked from the applications. In your application please answer (in English) the following questions: – Whats your name and how old are you? – Why do you want to take part in the course? – What previous experience do you have of DJ-ing? – What aspects of DJ-ing are you interested in? – What expectations do you have for the course? – What kind of music do you want to play as a DJ? Select at least three songs as examples. – Can you take part in the course on both days? (This is compulsory.) – Can you imagine being responsible for a network (for instance on Facebook or in another suitable Internet-based forum) with participants from the course after the course is over and maintain this? Organisers: Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Swedish Equalisters, Swedish Institute, Hanoi Rock City “Flex” Art Exhibition by Heather McClellan Opening: Fri 17 Apr 2015, 7 pm Exhibition: 18 – 26 Apr 2015 Nguyen Art Gallery 31A Van Mieu Heather McClellan received her formal training in graphics and illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art, one of the leading art and design schools in the United States. A lover of materials and methods, Heather’s work continually leads her to explore new techniques and continual learning at the feet of masters of new crafts. She works fluently in traditional media (ink, pencil, pastels, oils, and acrylics), but is also practiced in a diversity of methods (scratchboard, lithographs, ceramics, silk screens, lacquer, large murals, and mixed media). She regularly represents women as her subjects and draws her inspiration from a wide variety of cultures. Artist statement: Early in my career, my greatest struggle was in creating. I found that my passion for the human form and my God-given talents made it easy to illustrate, to show things “as they are”, but to me, this was disappointingly insufficient; art is so much more. It should evoke and stir others to passion. It should showcase imperfections and limitations. But most of all, it should be creative, meaning that it generates something new: an idea, a sentiment, a desire. I have found great satisfaction in experimenting across multiple techniques, perhaps because of the newness and my desire to explore, but more likely because of the imperfections they allow. Pencil and chalk are so precise that they leave little space for the beautiful accidents which manifest themselves in other media. As I force my technical skills into new and imperfect formats, I find it jarring, disrupting, exciting—and this excitement comes precisely because I don’t know what to expect. To me, this is creation. Contact Heather: Email: artworx@heathermcclellan.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/heathersartworx Phone: (+84) 0 1238 718 719 The exhibition is free entry. Conference “War Reporters: Cross Viewpoints” at L’Espace Thu 16 Apr 2015, 6 pm L’Espace 24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội Alongside the exhibition of Vietnamese photographers who covered the Vietnam War, the conference titled “War Reporters: Cross Viewpoints” will be organized at L’Espace to discuss the working condition, the assigned missions, the objectives, criteria to select for published photographs, and beyond, to take a look at the evolution of photojournalism in wartime, how current conflicts are covered today, the desired goals have been evolved – do they need to create shock? Speakers: Chu Chi Thanh, photographer, President of Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists. Patrick Chauvel, photographer Moderator: Dao Thanh Huyen, freelance journalist Language: Simultaneous interpreting in French and Vietnamese Free admission. Jazz Music with The Drops Sat 18 Apr 2015, 8 pm L’Espace From L’Espace: You are invited to the Jazz music performance with The Drops. The Drops is a young trio of three rising stars from France. Their first album “Falling from the sky” has created their name and unique style. After two years of touring around the world, Europe and Asia, the Drops have gained more popularity and also more experience. Their music is becoming more complex and deeper. The new album “Spray” promises an interesting mix between delicate melodies and dynamic energy. Christophe Panzani saxophone Federico Casagrande guitar Gautier Garrigue drums Tickets Ticket price: 160 000 VND Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 80 000 VND Tickets are available at L’Espace. Film Screening “Jack et la Mécanique du Coeur” at L’Espace Fri 17 Apr 2015, 8 pm L’Espace 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi You are invited to the animation screening “Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart” (France, 2011, 89 mins) directed by Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla. “Mathias Malzeu eventually transforms his book and album into an animated film of love. Not to be missed” – 20 minutes For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post. Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle. Tickets Ticket price: 40 000 VND Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND Tickets are available at L’Espace. Norway Concert 2015 at Hanoi Opera House 17 and 18 Apr 2015, 8 pm Hanoi Opera House 1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội You are invited to Norway Concert 2015 with the performance of: Thomas Rimul – Conductor Nguyen Thien Minh – Violin Dao To Loan – Soprano Halvor F. Melien – Baritone Program Sergej Prokofiev Symphony no 1 – “Classical symphony” Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor Edvard Grieg Songs for voice and orchestra Tickets Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn. For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996. Live Performance of French Jazz Trio The Drops Fri 17 Apr 2015, 9 pm Saigon Ranger 5/7 Nguyen Sieu, Dist 1, HCMC The French Institute of Ho Chi Minh City proudly presents the live performance of French jazz trio The Drops, their very first in Vietnam and second in the region of Southeast Asia. The program is the next offering of The Institute in presenting the finest of young talents coming out of the Francophone communities across the world, whose music defines and defies borders, to the audiences of Vietnam. The Drops began at the end of 2008 in Paris by two musical friends and professional partners Panzani and Casagrande who want to further their energies into a new and different musical project. Gaining their influences from rock and pop, the two incorporate them, with ease, to their jazz language accentuated by their acclaimed debut album “Falling from the sky” recorded in New York in September 2009 and released the following year by Paris-based Hyenas Records. In November of 2010, they did a release tour in France and Italy and recorded their 2nd album Spray on the road (released in 2013). Since 2011, the duo was officially joined force by the French prodigious drummer Gautier Garrigue and the trio, never looking back, have since graced the soils of Italy, France, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, China and Taiwan. In January 2015, they released their first live album LIVE IN PARIS. In French tradition, The Drops romantically employs a metaphor by their name, considering each human being of individuality and being part of a single cosmic flux, like “a drop of water loses its own boundaries once it is in the sea but it stills exists”. The Drops also plays at L’Espace Hanoi on 18 Apr. Tickets Ticket price: 160.000 VND (50% discount for students) Tickets on sale at ticketbox.vn.    Nha San Collective: NIPAF – IN:ACT 2015 Fri 17 April 2015, 3pm – 9pm Nha San Collective 2nd floor, 24 Ly Quoc Su, Hanoi Nha San Collective is pleased to invite you to NIPAF – IN:ACT 2015 – an annual international performance art festival taking place in many cities   in Japan, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagano and Nagoya; and many South East Asian countries. The program: 15h00-17h00: Artist’s talk and discussion with Seiji Shimoda – a Japanese artist, founder and director of NIPAF 18h00-21h00: Workshop on experimental performance, with participation of Nha San Collective artists. NIPAF’s director – Seiji Shimoda has been to Hanoi many times, where he gave lectures and organized workshops. He also invited many   Vietnamese artists, among them, Nguyen Manh Hung, Nguyen Phuong Linh, Pham Ngoc Duong, Lai Thi Dieu Ha, Nguyen Huy An, Vu Duc Toan,   Phan Thao Nguyen, Ly Hoang Ly, Bui Cong Khanh, Nguyen Quang Huy to take part in NIPAF in Japan. Free admission Bookworm Too Becomes The Weekend Bookworm Bookworm Too Lane 1/28, Nghi Tam Village, Hanoi In mid April (17 Apr), BOOKWORM TOO in Nghi Tam village will become the WEEKEND BOOKWORM at the same address and will only open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 6pm. The WEEKEND BOOKWORM will be a specialist bookshop and will only sell children’s books and books with a Vietnamese theme. Note books and art and craft object d’art will also be on offer. The WEEKEND BOOKWORM will also be an outlet for restored Bao Cấp (Subsidy Era) furniture that Bookworm staff has collected from north and central Vietnam. BOOKWORM in Chau Long will continue to operate as usual 7 days a week, 9am to 7pm. The Electric Yard Dogs in April 10, 16, 24 and 26 Apr 2015 Hanoi In various incarnations The Electric Yard Dogs have been performing in Hanoi for over five years. Original members Jez Hartley and Simon ‘Otis’ Redington, who hail from the ‘70s London Punk Rock era, have now been joined by two rockers from Le Havre Ricardo Canu on drums and Claude Van Damm on bass in a new revitalised Rockabilly, Rock’n’Roll Band. The Band is also regularly graced with the presence of Louisiana wildcat Scott ‘Bulldog’ Reynolds on Blues harp. The music is a highly danceable mix of fast rock, rhythm and swing, a style reminiscent of Dr Feelgood, the Texas Bar Room Blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds with a touch of Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed thrown in for the hell of it! The band can always be found playing in local music venues around town in Hanoi. They also tour regularly down south to Danang, Saigon and Phnom Penh where they have an increasing reputation for doing what they do best, Electric Blues with Soul & Style! Schedule Friday 10th Apr 8pm – O’Learys Bar and Restaurant – 38 Ba Trieu St. Hanoi Thursday 16th Apr 9pm – Hanoi Rock Store – 61 Ma May, Hanoi Friday 24th Apr 8pm – O’Learys Bar and Restaurant – 38 Ba Trieu St. Hanoi Sunday 26th Apr 9pm – The Doors Cafe – 11 Hang Chinh, Hanoi Screening of “Hard Rails across a Gentle River” Documentaries Thu 16 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm Hanoi Cinematheque 22A Hai Ba Trung This month, FVH proudly introduce to you “Hard rails across a gentle river” from Hanoi Doclab. “Hard Rails Across A Gentle River” (2010) is probably the best 45 minute cultural tour of this city you’ll ever have. It brings together four short-documentaries on the iconic Long Bien bridge area by different Vietnamese film-makers from Hanoi DOCLAB. We chat with vendors, laugh a little at tourists, get our kit off with the “special swimmers” (wanna find some familiar European nude beach? We have it here). In the evening, we spy on kissing couples – from a safe distance. We talk with the people of this city and see what makes them tick. And in doing so, the city – or at least one important part of it – starts to make sense. A precious gift for all us “người nước ngoài”. Four directors will tell you stories about life and sure they will bring you from joy to tear. We don’t say this lightly, but for long-term Hanoi residents, this is a must-see. The films total time 45 minutes. There will be a question and answer session afterwards with our Director from Doclab. Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles Tickets: 150,000 VND Limit: 90 participants. To reserve seats contact Hang: nguyenvu_nganhang@yahoo.com Your reservation is not confirmed until you receive our email. Please pick up and pay for your tickets on the evening of the event at the cinema (7:00 to 7:15 pm). As a courtesy to those on the waiting list please cancel if you can’t come (phone 090 602 0960). Reserved seating tickets are allocated on a first come – first served basis. We don’t pre-book seating but if you come early you can pick your favorite seats. Film Screening “Rohmer in Paris” Tue 14 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm Goethe-Institut Hanoi 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học Ba Đình, Hà Nội The Onion Cellar presents in collaboration with Hanoi DocLab: A screening of ROHMER IN PARIS Plus Q&A session with Richard Misek after the screening, led by Hanoi DocLab Chapter III of The City Limits – a series of city films curated by The Onion Cellar FREE ENTRY [we kindly suggest a donation for the filmmaker] ROHMER IN PARIS A film by Richard Misek – using footage from the films of Eric Rohmer 2014, 66 minutes English, with subtitles in Vietnamese So you are a dreamy young‘un, a college student, or perhaps (un)lucky enough to have a 9-5 somewhere. You travel through the city everyday, passing crossroads and streetlamps and buildings, for work, for silly gatherings with friends. The same route everyday, there and back. The familiar strangers’ faces, the familiar friendly faces. On surface, the days repeat themselves, more or less, and yet the possibilities are endless. Little rendezvous of odds-and-ends conversations, fleeting encounters with other young‘uns of the city that make hearts skip… You are like them all. You don’t exactly have any great ideas about life, you don’t rescue anyone. Would a director ever care to make films about you and your little universe? Here comes Eric Rohmer. Rohmer’s Nouvelle Vague films – more often than not set in Paris – are charming in their own unassuming ways, with their light tender stories, with a little romance, a little humour – just like real life. Life imitating art: like in many classic Rohmer films, it all began with a chance encounter. And before he knew it Richard Misek became so infatuated with Eric Rohmer and his films that he went on to watch all of them, not once, not twice… But simply watching them proved not enough: he went on to analyse every glance the characters exchange, every route they follow, all the crushes happening on the pavements, all the coincidences, all the tricks life plays; he cataloged doors, stairways, cafés, metro stations, benches, tree-lined boulevards, of Paris. This process eventually manifested into ROHMER IN PARIS, an uncategoriseable piece of moving-image painstakingly assembled using clips from various Rohmer films set in Paris, guiding audiences through this maze of a city – the beautiful Paris of a lost golden age. And perhaps, ROHMER IN PARIS will take you to the heart of the Nouvelle Vague that changed cinema forever. H1503 | Filmmaking Course at TPD Class H1503 | start from 19 April 2015 | classes on Sunday afternoons TPD Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi Are you a film lover full of curiosity about how films are made? Is your mind full of ideas but unsure in which language it should be spoken? Are you seeking a destination for creative and enthusiastic film lovers? Enter our filmmaking course, part of We Are Filmmakers project by TPD Centre! We are open for admission for class H1503. Join us to learn the process of short film production, develop your own script and be your film’s   director. You will be guided by professional, acclaimed screenwriters, directors, cinematographers. You will be equipped with cutting-edge   filmmaking technology in your study. The programme: • 5 lessons | Screenplay (Developing and structuring your scripts) • 3 classes | Production and direction (Producing, directing, acting, mise-en-scene) • 2 classes | Technology (Cinematography, Sound, Lighting) • 2 classes | extracurricular activities Instructors • Bui Thac Chuyen | Director (Living in Fear, Adrift, Blood Curse) • Le Minh Duc | Director, graduated from New York Academy and Columbia College Hollywood • DO Quoc Trung | Director, graduated from Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema (On Duty with Shu Qi, Mother Never Cries) Open for: young people with enthusiasts in filmmaking and cinema, currently living in Hanoi Number of applicants | 20~25 students / class • Time | 01 class / week (09:00~12:00 or 14:00~17:00, on Saturday or Sunday) • Class H1503 | start from 19 April 2015 | classes on Sunday afternoons Tuition fee     For students having completed TPD’s Documentary Filmmaking course: VND 1,500,000 Introduced by TPD’s students: VND 1,700,000 Submitting tuition fee before 12 April 2015: VND 1,700,000 Submitting tuition fee after 12 April 2015: VND 2,000,000 How to apply • Online application form: http://goo.gl/forms/DsVeMgIKh9 • Once your application has been successful and your tuition fee has been submitted, you can start on your course Application forms and other inquiries please contact: Project We Are Filmmakers The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) Cinema Development Join Stock Company (CDJ) Add | 51 Tran Hung Dao St., Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi Tel | 043 936 6559 Hotline | 098 357 8695 (Ms. Hà) Website | www.tpdmovie.com.vn Facebook | www.fb.me/tpdmovie Email | chungtalamphim@tpd.vn An Evening with Riddhi Jha and India’s Daughter Wed 15 Apr 2015, 7 pm Manzi Art Space 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi You are invited to an open discussion about the heart wrenching and recently released documentary, India’s Daughter, followed by Q&A with one of the film’s producers, Riddhi Jha. India’s Daughter features unprecedented interviews with those convicted of the rape and murder of Jyoti in December 2012. It is a thought-provoking and eye-opening documentary and an incredibly powerful tool for change. On the occasion that Riddhi Jha traveled to Vietnam to promote the film and campaign, we would like to invite local filmmakers, producers, artists, journalists… to come together for a cozy conversation and tea at Manzi Art Space. The event will be moderated by local filmmaker Pham Thi Hao. Riddhi is a UK Producer/Writer, educated at Royal Holloway, University of London. She started her career working in post-production and later began developing programmes for major UK television channels. Her debut in production was on a Channel 4 documentary ‘Why Don’t You Speak English?’ which followed the lives of those who had settled in the UK for the first time. Riddhi has since worked on the popular BBC television series ‘The Great British Bake Off’, has cast contributors and worked as Researcher for several productions for the BBC and Discovery and has scripted several commercials. Pham Thi Hao is a Hanoi-based independent documentary filmmaker. Graduated from Ho Chi Minh University of Theatre and Cinema majored in directing, Hao has received various scholarships like Varan scholarship in Hanoi, scholarship from La Femis university in France studying documentary filmmaking…Her works have been screened in Vietnam and France. She also has experience teaching filmmaking as well as editing independent films and auteur films of the new wave of cinema in Vietnam. Riddhi is going to share her valuable experiences about the film production with young filmmakers and producers. For more info, please visit this website. To join the event, please register with us through email nga.phan@britishcouncil.org.vn before 17:00 14 April 2015. Language: The event is in Vietnamese and English Tran Luong’s Award-Winning Art Open to Hanoi’s Public Exhibition: 13 – 17 Apr 2015, 4.30 – 6.30 pm EU Delegation, 24th floor, West wing Lotte Center, 54 Lieu Giai, Hanoi Performance artist Tran Luong, winner of a prestigious Dutch Prince Claus Award, exhibits some of his famous works in the EU delegation’s Skygarden. Lập Lòe (roughly, “blink” or “flicker”) is inspired by the sight of Luong’s son returning from school wearing a red scarf. The symbolism in this video installation partly explains Luong’s central place in Vietnam’s critical contemporary art scene. Vietnamese media have on several occasions reported on Luong’s work, highlighting his commitment to international dialogue, community enrichment and nurturing younger generations. After the opening on 10 April, this special exhibition will be open to the public during weekdays from 13 till 17 April, between 16:30 and 18:30 hrs. Berlin Club Night in HCMC Sun 12 Apr 2015, 8 pm The Observatory Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC In recent years, Berlin Club Nights have happened in India, Poland, Egypt and Brazil, a successful co-production between the Berlin club scene, the Goethe Institutes, visitberlin and German embassies. This year Berlin Club Night, at the invitation of the Goethe Institut, will come to Vietnam: first as an act at the festival Hanoi Sound Stuff 2015 and afterwards in The Observatory in Ho Chi Minh City. Chi Thanh is a German-Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, drums, bass, saxophone, etc.), music producer and DJ from Berlin. His name translates as energy (Chi) and pure sound (Thanh). With this clear energetic mix in his music, he is also very successful, producing for such famous artists as Madonna, P. Diddy and Usher, and has released remixes of bands like Booka Shade and the top number 1 hit “Brutal Hearts”. Under the names Chopstick & Johnjon, the German-Vietnamese artist Chi-Tien Nguyen and John B. Muder have successfully produced Techno, House, Electro and Hip Hop music for 10 years. They have now found their artistic home in the scene with the Soul Label and have created remixes for major artists such as LL Cool J, Xzibit, Deep Dish, Miss Kittin, Sister Sledge and many others. Chi-Tien Nguyen was born into a Vietnamese family of artists, who settled in southern Germany. He now lives and works in Berlin. Lutz Leichsenring is a music manager and the press officer and board member of the Clubcommission Berlin. Lutz also happens to be a member of Berlin’s Chamber of Commerce and Musicboard, where he frequently votes on city development issues that serve to protect club areas affected by gentrification. Free entrance. Photography Exhibition “War Reporters” Opening: Tue 14 Apr 2015, 6 pm Exhibition: 14 Apr – 10 May 2015 L’Espace 24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội Doan Cong Tinh, Chu Chi Thanh, Mai Nam and Hua Kiem are the Vietnamese photographers who covered the Vietnam War in the Northern part of the country. Their images are relatively unknown to the West where people only see the war through the photos of Western photographers such as Larry Burrows, Don McCullin, Griffiths, Chauvel or Caron. Organized 40 years after the war ended, this exhibition offers the rare opportunity to see the photos by the 4 Vietnamese photographers. This is also a remarkable event during The International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan founded by Patrick Chauvel. The exhibition will undoubtedly offer the audience new insights to the Vietnam war. Free admission. Exhibition “The way of the Mind” at Dong Phong Art Gallery Exhibition: 12 Apr – 12 May 2015 Dong Phong Art Gallery 03 Ly Dao Thanh Street Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi “The way of the mind is a muse that shapes the emotions of our everyday life. To me, the abstract is something very specific that can be rearranged on the canvas and “filled” with colours. Each of viewer makes his or her own choice. Everyone must find their own path and put their heart into the experience!” – Ta Dinh Khiem, April 2015. Dong Phong Art Gallery is delighted to present the newest works by artist Ta Dinh Khiem in the mini Show “The way of the Mind”. The exhibition is open from 12 April to 12 May 2015. Basic Ballet Class for Adults Class starts on 16 Apr 2015, every Tue and Thu, 5.30 – 7 pm The Black Box 56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi Welcome all of you to the Basic Ballet Class for Adults. Please register for class by filling this form. Tuition fee: VND7,000,000 DIVIDED by the actual number of students. Class is limited to 16 students so first come, first served! Contact for more details: Mr. Tu (+84-904-872-511) Our ballet instructor is DO HOANG THI NGOC. Having graduated from Vietnam Dance College, he performed as a principal at Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNOB) and collaborated with the renowned choreographer Reginé Chopinot and her company, Ballet Alantique. Ngoc is currently teaching Contemporary Dance at Black Box Studio and Military University of Culture and Arts. Lacquer Exhibition “Endless Journey” by Tran Quang Hai Opening: Sat 11 Apr 2015, 5.30 pm Exhibition: 11 – 30 Apr 2015 Heritage Space Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi You are invited to the exhibition “Hành trình bất tận” (Endless Journey) by artist Tran Quang Hai. Separating lacquer from its traditional frame, the artist shows a new look, view and instinct through the cracks, the traditional colors of red, crimson and gold, but still expresses his own personality. He focuses on simple but deep figures, grinding away the outer layers of shape. “Encounter” Presents Ntone Edjabe: Lecture and Music Lecture “Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic”: Thu 09 Apr 2015, 6.30 pm Hoa Sen University 8 Nguyen Van Trang, Dist 1, HCMC — Music “The beats of Africa”: Fri 11 Apr 2015, 11.30 pm The Observatory Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, Dist.1, HCMC Lecture “Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic” ‘Encounter’ lecture series welcomes Ntone Edjabe, writer, journalist and musician of Cameroon origin, now based in Cape Town, South Africa. He will give a lecture about his role in establishing and directing the print and online pan-African platform called ‘Chimurenga’, which showcases art, society and culture. His presentation will focus on Chimurenga’s latest editorial project, The Chimurenga Chronic, which began as the once-off edition of a fictional newspaper published in October 2011, but back-dated to the week of 18-24 May 2008. The once-off edition of the Chronic was a social sculpture that embraced the newspaper as a popular medium that raises the perennial question of news and newness, of how we define both the now and history. It invited its editors, writers, artists and readers to take it seriously as a time machine; to re-consider the past as a territory to explore, and the present as a precarious and elusive entry-point through which, hopefully, a radically different future might make its appearance. This fictional newspaper has since become a reality, as a quarterly publication which is distributed across the continent’s main cities and further afield, and while continually exploring the possibilities of this old technology – the newspaper as art object, as curriculum, as cartography, and more. * Entrance is free. Translation will be provided. Ntone Edjabe also brings along a set of pan-African music gig, which will be featured in one of the most chic clubs in the city, The Observatory. Come to enjoy the music that you might not come across as often any time soon! * Limited tickets for the music gig, including a discount on one first drink, can be acquired after the lecture night ‘Diagnosing the Chimurenga Chronic’ on 9 April, 2015 @ 6:30 pm, Hoa Sen University (8 Nguyen Van Trang, District 1). Please contact San Art staff on site for more information. Vietnam – Korea Culture Day in Hanoi Sat 11 Apr 2015, 10 am – 9 pm Quan Ngua Stadium, Van Cao street, Ba Dinh, Hanoi You are invited to the “Vietnam – Korea Culture Day” in Hanoi. The program: + Part 1: opening performance, singing contest for Korean, K-pop dance performance, etc. + Part 2: opening, Pop – Opera performance, performances of Tuấn Hưng, Park Sang Min, Switch, NOM, Oh Hee Jung, Kim Ho Joong – Other activities: FREE to experience traditional Korean activities: traditional games; Korean cuisine: kim chi, sauce, soup and traditional Vietnamese cuisine; Lucky draw: motorcycles, electric bicycles, televisions, mobile phones, notebook, etc. Entrance fee (sponsored): 20,000 VND     Workshop “The Art of Remixing” at Goethe Institut Sat 11 Apr 2015, 2 – 4 pm Goethe Institut 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi Within the “Berlin Clubnight c/o Hanoi Sound Stuff festival 2015” there will be the workshop “Art of remixing” on the 11th of April. Chi Thanh, a German-Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ from Berlin, will show the secrets of a creative DJ-work. He’s specialized to the question, how self-produced music can be a part of classical DJ sets. To realize the artistic ambition, Chi Thanh is using a TRAKTOR soft- and hard-ware produced by the well-known technology enterprise Native Instruments (Berlin). During the performance he will also give some intern advices for using the TRAKTOR system. Language: English Registration until 10th April by: Pham Thi Kim Chung Tel.: +84 4 37342251/2/3 – 36 Emailkimchung.pham@hanoi.goethe.org The 1st International Watercolor Exhibition in Vietnam 11 – 16 Apr 2015 Hang Da Galleria 1 Hang Da street, Hanoi You are invited to the 1st International Watercolor Exhibition in Vietnam, with more than 90 artworks by over 40 artists from UK, USA, France, Italy, Turkey, Canada, China, Poland, Hungary, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Russia, Vietnam, Uruguay, etc. Some typical artists in this exhibition: Bui Duy Khanh (Vietnam), Liu Yi (China), Stan Miller (USA), Atanur (Canada – IWS founder), Direk Kingnok (Thailand), Jia Li (China), Chien Chung-Wei (China), Alvaro Castanet (Uruguay), Keiko Hoshino (Japan), WoonLam Ng (Singapore), Thomas Schaller (USA). Vietnam – Japan Charity Choir and Concert – Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Sat 11 Apr 2015, 4 – 7 pm Hanoi Opera House 1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội Since 1995, the Japanese began to hold a series of charity choirs and concerts “Symphony No. 9”, firstly at Carnegie Hall in New York, then at Wiener Musikverein in Autria, at Prague Municipal House Hall in Czech Republic, and in other European countries. Since the first overseas performance, It has been 20 years till now. Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is chosen as the first destination in Asia. Since Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was firstly performed in Japan in 1918, It has been nearly 100 years till now. Japanese consider choir and concert performance of the Symphony No. 9 as part of their culture. Program: Choir and Concert Performance of Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 With the performance of: Conductor: Kitahara Yukio Orchestra: Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO) Soloists: Sano Masahito (Baritone), Uehara Masatoshi (Tenor), Phuong Nga (Soprano), Phuong Uyen (Alto) Chorus: Japan and Vietnam Leader of Japanese chorus: Ms. Nakanishi Kumeko Tickets Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House or can book online at vnso.org.vn. For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996. The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (also known as “the Choral”), is Ludwig van Beethoven’s final complete symphony. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works in classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered Beethoven’s greatest work, and many consider it one of the greatest pieces of western music. (Wikipedia) French Artist Thylacine at Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015 Sat 11 Apr 2015, 8 pm Van Ho Exhibition Center 2 Hoa Lu, Hanoi Winner of the 2015 FAIR, Thylacine is the French band performing at Hanoi Sound Stuff 2015. Thylacine is the name of the wolf of Tasmania, an extirpated animal species. It is also the name William Rezé gave to his band. He tries to tame the animal represented by electro music and creates soft, catchy and addictive music. Before getting focused on jazz and on the art of improvising, William Rezé started to play music at the age of 6, learning saxophone at the Angers Music Conservatory. As a lonely saxophonist, William plays as much as possible, improvises and never hesitates to get his alto sax out to overcome the machines. On stage, the graphic screenings of Laetitia Bely recall the dark reflections of the famous painter Soulages and blur the line between the dancefloor and fantasy. Event “Low down in the High Desert” at Tadioto Wed 08 Apr 2015, 9 pm Tadioto 24B Tong Dan, Hanoi Chad Parks presents excerpts from the writing produced during a 6-month residency in an artist compound in the California desert. Chad was living in Vietnam before having to return to the US to tend to family and personal matters. He has now returned to Hanoi and for this initial performance, he will be showing his own as well as a time-lapse art video by Jeff Frost. Chad will be joined by Dan Henneberry with his extraordinary brand of music. Nguyen Qui Duc will read excepts from a poem about exile and home. In between, Dj Mojave Djin will delight you with selected musical seasoning. Sakura Festival 2015 11 and 12 Apr 2015, 9 am – 10 pm Thang Long Citadel, Hanoi You are invited to Sakura Festival 2015 which takes place at the ancient Thang Long Citadel in Hanoi. There will be J-Pop performance, Sakura flower display, Yosakoi, Sumo, food stalls and information booths from Japanese enterprises and schools, etc. Japanese artists coming over to perform at the festival include Maika Yosakoi Team, BLU-SWING, 6-BIT Generator, RUNKEN MONSTER, Yushi Tsuchimatusu. Free entry. VNN