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Concert with Conductor Jan Stulen

Sun 09 Jun 2013, 8 pm

HCMC Opera House

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

In this wonderful concert, conductor Jan Stulen and many artists from HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra (HBSO) will introduce Symphony No. 1 of German composer Johannes Brahms and some famous arias from operas of F.Lehar, W.A.Mozart, V.Bellini… The performance also involves Korean artists For Hae Ryong as vocalist. For more information about the program, you can see below:

Program

Part I:

Hendrik Andriessen “Variations and fugue on the theme of Kuhnau” for Strings

Đàm Thanh Bird bringing good news

Vincenzo Bellini ”Eccomi in lieta vesta” from the Opera ”I Capuleti e I Montecchi”

Franz Lehar ”Meine lippen sie kussen so heiss” from the operetta ”Giuditta”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ”Parto ma tu ben mio” from the opera “La Clemenza di Tito”

Part II:

Johannes Brahms Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68

About Conductor Jan Stulen

Jan Stulen was born in 1942 in Amsterdam, where he studied conducting and piano and violin at the Music Academy. In 1970 Jan Stulen became chief conductor of the “Nederlands Ballet Orkest” in Amsterdam, and the “Nederlands Dans Theater“.

From 1976 till 1992 he was permanent conductor of Radio Hilversum. During this period he made radio productions of over 1000 compositions. With the orchestra’s and choirs he gave many public performances with all kinds of repertoire, ranging from Bach to contemporary and jazz.

From 1992 till 2002 Jan Stulen was principal conductor of the Deutsches Kammer Orchester Frankfurt am Main. From 1998 till 2003 he was chief conductor of the “Nederlands Promenade Orkest”. As guest conductor he works with the State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in Cluj (Rumania), the Symphonie Orkest van Vlaanderen (Bruges) and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Stulen has also extensively worked in the operatic field, conducting opera’s from Gluck till Menotti.

From 2006 till 2008 he was chief conductor of the Amsterdam RAI Opera Company. As a guest conductor Stulen has appeared with all Dutch orchestra’s as well as orchestra’s in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Egypt, Greece , Korea, Turkey, Denmark, Hungary and Rumania.

As a teacher he is active at the Conservatories of Maastricht and Rotterdam. Jan Stulen did many TV-appearances in long running series like “Una Voce Particolare”. Jan Stulen has made many CD’s and DVD with a wide variety of compositions.

Tickets

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

All tickets are available at:

Ticket Counter, HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC, Tel: 08. 38237419

Screening of “J’aime Regarder les Filles”

Fri 14 June 2013, 8pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Welcome to the screening of “J’aime Regarder les Filles” (French, 2011 , 92’) by Frédéric Louf. Paris Match newspaper comments on the movie: “Hilarious, this movie stopped impracticable dreams by a strong catalyst!”.

Kindly see the synopsis (in French).

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.

Tickets:

Ticket price: 20 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Concert with Charles Pasi

Tue 11 Jun 2013, 8 pm

IDECAF

28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC

You are invited to a jazz-rock concert with a singer and harmonicist Charles Pasi. Parisian Charles Pasi’s interest in music started at age 17 in a gospel choir. Singer, guitarist and harmonicist, he has a passion for blues, jazz, rock and world music.

The concert is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.

After his education at the Saint Louis Jazz School, he continues at Jazz School CIM and Atla School for contemporary music in Paris. Engaged on the tour of Carla Bruni and invited to various jazz and blues festivals, Charles Pasi quickly made a name for himself.

Writing his own music, he attracts attention of the professional musicians and film maker who entrust him for the music of the movie “Actrices” by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and “Cineman” by Yann Moix. His first album “Mainly Blue” was unanimously welcomed in the musical community and made it to the final of the Memphis International Blues Challenge on February 2007.

Also on the scene in France, with his EP record “Uncaged” on October 2010, the singer Charles Pasi distils with talent his wide influences and invites in the passage the legendary Archie Shepp’s saxophone for two titles, among which “Better With Butter”. Theses songs are replayed in his album “Uncaged » on March 2011.

Program

1. Up to us

2. Better with butter

3. Farewell my love

4. Old lady Paris

5. Lost generation

6.Things have changed

7. While you’re dancing

8. Remember the day

9. Wild it up

10. Une berceuse

11. Dream a little dream of me

Tickets

Entrance: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)

Tickets on sale at the IDECAF. Tel : (08) 38 23 99 68

Charles Pasi will also play at L’Espace Hanoi on Thu 13 Jun.

Jazz Rock Concert with Charles Pasi

Thu 13 June 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to a Jazz Rock Concert with Charles Pasi. Having a voice like a black American singer, astonishingly charming, and refined managing Jazz , Blues and Rock’ tunes, a great harmonica player, all of those things make Charles Pasi become a phenomenal artist of new French music.

With sad lyrics on a music theme which is like Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Bob Dylan’ music, he tells us about an era that people under 30 may like to know …

Tickets:

Ticket price: 120 000 VND

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

Tickets are available at L’Espace.

Performance “Tiger Tiger Burning Bright”

Fri 07 Jun 2013, 8 pm

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien, Ha Noi

You are invited to the performance of the dance group Kubilai Khan. Six dancers, the music is mixed from various material, the show will bring the audience a polyphonic dance, emphasize on the body shape and elegance.

The concert is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.

In this varying era, the Tiger Tiger Burning Bright shows a vision of urban life and the works there. Speed is a main factor, escaping speed, communication speed, maximum speed or minimum speed, a shocking speed or surprising speed, as well as the cracking speed. The art work raises questions about the location of our body, our mind and our desire in this society and urban’ structure.

Managing, choreography: Frank Micheletti

Dancers: Viktoria Andersson, Idio Chichava, Péter Juhasz, Ikue Nakagawa, Sara Tan, Csaba Varga

Music: Frank Micheletti

Light: Ivan Mathis

Costumes: Alexandra Bertaut

Ticket price: 120.000/100.000 VND

Price for members of L’Espace and students: 60.000/50.000 VND

Tickets are available at L’Espace from 7 May.

Meet the Winner of Audi Star Creation 2013

Thu 06 Jun 2013, 4.30 pm

London College for Fashion Studies (Hanoi)

No. 48 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho, Hanoi

You are welcome to “Thirsty Thursday” no. 6 to meet and talk with young designer Vu Ta Linh, a graduate from LCFS Ha Noi.

His works are inspired by Vietnam cultural heritage combined with exquisite ethnic fabrics in a modern way. These factors made his collection stand out at the Vietnam Fashion Week 2013 and especially, he was also the first ever Vietnamese designer to have won the Star Creation Award in Singapore.

Language: Vietnamese and English.

Register with hang@fashionstudies.com.vn. Deadline: 03 Jun.

Program of FVH in June

According to the Vietnamese calendar, summer is here – and the weather is proving it! I guess I could use the cliché that FVH is bringing you a hot program to match the hot summer!

– We start off with a walk around that gem of Hanoi history, culture, and lore: Hoàn Kiếm Lake.

– The following week, bright and early, we take you out to the Tam Đảo Bear Rescue Center – both the bears and the center now rescued from extinction. They are cute, furry, cuddly, playful, and endlessly fun to watch! And, it’s really important we support the center with our presence.

– 2 films by young and emerging Vietnamese cinematographers put you in the cool of Cinematheque while giving you a fresh new perspective on some old

– And, to round out our year, the Japanese section will take those of us who can speak Japanese to the 2nd floor of the Museum of History to bring you up-to-date from the Cham through the Nguyen.

This is our final program for the 2012-2013 season. We hope you join us – sign up early as space is always limited – and get your summer off to a good start! Look for us again in September.

For details please download this file: June 2013 Program

Summer Gala Concert and Ballet

Thu 06 Jun 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

You are invited to the Summer Gala Concert and Ballet with conductor Graham Sutcliffe and Orchestra and Choir of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, the Hanoi International Choir. You will have a chance to enjoy famous works by G.Verdi, R.Wagner, P.Mascagni and the Ballet “Rite of Spring”.

Part I:

G.Verdi Nabucco – Overture

G.Verdi Nabucco – Gli Arredi Festivi

G.Verdi Nabucco – Va pensiero

R.Wagner Der Fliegene Hollaender – Sailor’s Chorus

R.Wagner Lohengrin – Treulich gefuehrt ziehet dahin

R.Wagner TristanIsolde – Prelude

G.Verdi La Traviata – Gypsies Chorus

G.Verdi La Traviata – Matador’s Chorus

G.Verdi I Lombardi – O Signore dal netto Natio

P.Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana – Easter Hymn

Performed by Orchestra and Choir of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet, the Hanoi International Choir,

Interval

Part II

The Ballet “Rite of Spring”

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Choreographer: Pham Minh

Perfomed by Thuy Hang, Phan Luong, Viet An, Han Giang – Dancers of Vietnam National Orchestra Ballet.

Tickets

Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 450000, 600000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

Special Concert with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées

Sat 15 Jun 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées is devoted to the performance of music written from the mid XVIII to the early XX centuries (Haydn-Mahler) played on the instruments that existed during the composer’s lifetime.

This program is to celebrate 40 year of diplomatic relation between France and Vietnam.

For several years, the Orchestra has been in residence at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, performed in almost all the major concert halls such as the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Barbican Centre (London), Alter Oper (Frankfurt), the Philharmonic Halls in Berlin and Munich, the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), the Lincoln Center (New York), Parco della Musica (Rome) and the Auditoriums of Dijon and Lucerne. The orchestra also toured Japan, Corea, China and Australia and South America.

Philippe Herreweghe is the artistic director and principal conductor, but the orchestra played under several guest conductors, among them Daniel Harding, Christian Zacharias, Louis Langrée, Christophe Coin, and René Jacobs.

The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées feels passionately about offering an innovative approach to music and therefore, at each one of its concerts it offers the possibility of public rehearsals, conferences, or meetings and workshops with classes of school children.

The Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, partner of the TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, is funded by the French Ministry of Culture and the government of the Poitou-Charentes region.

Conductor: MOCCIA Alessandro

Main actor/actress: Clarinette Solo: BOUD Nicola

Program

H. J. RIGEL Symphony n°10 in D minor op.21 n°2 – 15’

W.A. MOZART Concerto for Clarinette and Orchestra in A major M K.622 – 31’

W.A. MOZART Symphony n°40 in G minor K. 550 – 30’

Tickets

Ticket prices: 350,000; 450,000; 600,000; 800,000 VND.

Special tickets: 150,000 VND.

All tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

5th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival

Hanoi: 05 – 14 Jun 2013

National Studio for Documentary and Scientific Film

465 Hoang Hoa Tham, Hanoi    

HCMC: 10 – 29 Jun 2013

Hoa Sen University

93 Cao Thang Str, Ward 3, Dist 3, HCMC

Following the success of the preceding festivals, the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival celebrates its 5th anniversary. Besides this year’s focus on Belgian films, seven further European countries (Germany, Sweden, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and UK) in association with the National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio of Vietnam will present the 5th International Documentary Film Festival in Vietnam, from 5th-14th June in Hanoi and from 10th-29th June in Ho Chi Minh City.

The German film “The Goalgetter’s Ship” examines the connection of a former professional football player to a child labour scandal in West Africa. In a subtile way director Heidi Specogna

Within the framework of the 5th European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival the Goethe Institut and DocNet present the “ChopShots Southeast Asia Travelling Festival” in Hanoi. “ChopShots” is an international festival for documentary films focusing on the area Southeast Asia that is annually taking place in Jakarta. On 9th June selected films from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia and the Philippines will be screened in Hanoi. For this occasion several of the filmmakers will present.

Film schedule in Hanoi

Screening | 09.06.2013, 4pm.

ChopShots Travelling Festival

    The Hills Are Alive

    The Stage

    The Social Game

    The Rights Of The Dead

    Two Girls Against The Rain

Screening | 09.06.2013, 7pm.

ChopShots Travelling Festival

    Child, We Apologize To You

    Denok Gareng

Screening | 14.06.2013, 7pm.

The Goalgetter’s Ship

Free entrance to all screenings.

Exhibition “Cargo”

Opening: Thu 06 Jun, 7 pm

Exhibition: 06 Jun – 10 Jul 2013

DeciBel Lounge

79/2/5 Phan Ke Binh, D1, HCMC

Come to an art exhibition “Cargo” by Barbara Pellizzari Anchisi. Since Barbara came to Saigon, she has been fascinated by the positive energy released by the city with its mix of sounds and colours and its melting pot of religions. All this combined with the placid calm of the boats that ply the infinite variety of paths flowing through and around the city, are the theme of her latest works, expressed by using a combination of printmaking and tempera technique on Chinese paper.

Born in Turin, Barbara has a Diploma in Fashion and Theatre Design and a Diploma in Painting Conservation. She started and consolidated her career as a painting restorer by working on many masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance under the guidance of prominent restorer Edo Masini, Head of the Restoration Department at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence. Later she worked in the field of Art Restoration at Institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kunst Akademie in Linz, Austria, the Karachi Art Museum in Pakistan and the Italian Embassy of Beijing. While cultivating her passion for painting, she taught Art for four years at SCIS in Shanghai. In 2007 she joined Dulwich College Beijing, where she taught Art in Junior and Senior school until 2012.

Since her arrival in China in 1996, she has exhibited her work in two solo exhibitions at Enterdit Creation, Shanghai. A third exhibition, titled“ Da Levante a Levante”, took place in Italy and has been the starting point for her exploration of working with pebbles and Chinese ink, which found its conclusion with the exhibition “Pebbles in my pocket” in Yishu8, Beijing in 2011.

In September 2012 Barbara and her family moved to Vietnam. She is currently running art projects at Pho Cap School for street children in the Binh Thanh district.    

A Night of Contemporary Ballet

Tue 04 Jun 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Opera House

1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội

Come to an evening of contemporary dance, featuring a full-length original version of “Rite of Spring” choreographed by Cao Duc Toan and Ha Thai Son. Also on the program will be another original piece, “Nina Simone Suite” (six songs of Nina Simone) choreographed by Marisa Hayes and danced by Cao Chi Thanh and guest soloist, American dancer Cassidy Isaacson.

Cassidy Isaacson is a dancer with the Grand Rapids Ballet (Michigan, USA) under the artistic direction of Patricia Barker. She studied ballet for fourteen years in her hometown of Redmond, Washington. Cassidy has performed soloist and pas de deux roles in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire, Company B, The Envelope, Con Amore, in Rachael Riley’s Dreams, in Olivier Wevers’ The Sofa and Four Little Swans in Mario Radacovsky’s contemporary version ofSwan Lake. Cassidy has also studied with Deborah Hadley at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Long Beach Ballet in China and on scholarship at the Julliard School in New York. Cassidy is delighted to be dancing Natural Phenomena: Nina Simone Suite again after performing in its Paris premiere last summer.

Marisa C. Hayes is an award winning choreographer and dance filmmaker based in France. Her choreography has been commissioned throughout Europe, North America and Asia for diverse venues including recent performances at Paris’ Grand Palais during the International Contemporary Art Fair, the Centre National de la Danse, and at the American Dance Festival. She was recently named choreographer in residence at Dussedorf’s state theatre for dance (Germany) where she created a new version of The Rite of Spring featuring dancers of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Marisa’s recent honors include the Susan Braun Award from the New York Dance Films Association (shared with Franck Boulègue, her husband and collaborator), CEC Arts Link New York Fellow, New York Theatre Communications Group Fellow, and being named Cultural Ambassador to Hong Kong by the Regional Government of Burgundy (France). Marisa has also contributed to five books on dance history and dance films, in addition to co-directring the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy and Body Cinéma Dance Theatre.

Program

1. Natural Phenomena-Nina Simone Suite

Choreography by Marisa Hayes

Soundscape by Frank Boulegue

Music: Nina Simone

2. An Impovisation

Choreography by Le Vu Long

Percussion by Ha Dinh Huy

3. Echoes

Choreography by Cao Duc Toan

Music: Bui Anh Dung

Interval

4. Rite of Spring

Choreography by Ha Thai Son and Cao Duc Toan

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Tickets

Ticket prices: 250.000, 350.000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.

Contemporary Art Exhibition from Japan: WINTER GARDEN

HANOI: Opening: Fri 07 Jun, 6 pm

Exhibition: 08 – 23 Jun 2013, 8.30 am – 4.45 pm

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

HCMC: Opening: Sat 06 Jul, 10 am

Exhibition: 06 – 21 Jul 2013, 9 am – 7 pm

Ho Chi Minh City Labor Culture Palace

55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, District 1, HCMC

In celebration of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam and Consulate-General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan in Vietnam, proudly present the cutting-edge contemporary art exhibition “Winter Garden” from Saturday 8 June to Sunday 21 July 2013 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Curated by art critic Midori Matsui, the exhibition “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” features 35 works – drawings, paintings, and video works – by 14 young Japanese artists active from the latter half of the 1990s throughout the first decade of the 21st century.

The artists presenting their distinctive views of the world through the combination of fragments and imbuing the obsolete or the commonplace with new functions or meanings, share the similar style of expression, which Ms. Matsui calls “Micropop.”

It is noteworthy that this exhibition includes three video works by Koki Tanaka, who has been selected as the representative artist for the Japan pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in Italy (The biennale runs from 1 June to 28 November 2013).

How do Japan’s artists, living in an increasingly globalized world and in a time when shared values are hard to establish, see our contemporary world? We hope that visitors to “Winter Garden” will nurture the understanding of empathy with the insights and perspectives of the artists through the exhibited works.

Curated by: Midori Matsui

Introduced artists in the exhibition:

Ryoko Aoki / Masaya Chiba / Chim ↑ Pom / Masanori Handa / Taro Izumi / Makiko Kudo / Mahomi Kunikata / Tam Ochiai / Hiroe Saeki / Hiroshi Sugito / Aya Takano / Koki Tanaka / Keisuke Yamamoto / Lyota Yagi

Cub Scouts Live from Brisbane

Sat 01 Jun 2013, 9 pm

Hanoi Rock City

27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho

Australia’s latest indie pop sensation aim to steal hearts like Cupid by bringing their catchy set to Hanoi Rock City.

Debut single Evie saw them enjoy heavy rotation on Australia’s premier indie radio station Triple J, and catapulted them on a tour which took in the whole of their native country and beyond. Most recently the youthful 5-piece stood out at Sounds Australia’s The Great Escape showcase in Brighton. Sporting backwards caps that leave you wondering if they really did meet at cub scouts, the group won over the crowd with saccharine chorus’s sweeter than Brisbane honey.

Looks like Hanoi’s got a night of dreamy summer pop, just in time for summer.

“sweet, seductive indie pop that feels like a shot of honey in your earhole” – Radar Music

Tickets: 100,000 VND at door.

Ecomia Fashion Show

Wed 05 Jun 2013, 6 pm

Sum Villa

10 Dang Thai Mai, Tay Ho Dist, Hanoi

ECOMIA FASHION SHOW will put you into beautiful world of natural materials. The Hanoi young designers diversify their collections through different shades. The show partly erases the thought of these materials being barriers to creativity.

In addition, you will have chance to talk to Professor Hoang Thi Linh, who invented dying technique from leaves, to understand its unique and great value as well as the effort of her during decades.

ECOMIA FASHION SHOW is more than a fashion show. Undoubtedly, Ecomia fashion will become the future trend that shapes the new fashion industry which will be modern, environment-friendly and safe for all users.

The English for Artists Workshop

An experimental English teaching course specialized in Art: 09 – 16 Jun 2013

Deadline to register: 08 Jun 2013

Come to an experimental English teaching course specialized in Art. These courses will be for artists, or for someone who need to use English to do research on contemporary art (journalists, for example)

These courses are in a project named “Seven Days in English for Art”, a project we collaborate with artist Nguyen Tran Uu Dam, who will be the main teacher for the course.

This course is focus on skill of communication, understanding terminilogies, self-presentation/promotion in English

Artist and curator Nguyen Nhu Huy from ZeroStation will be responsible in explaining/interpreting English aesthetics/artistic/cultural terminologies that have been often used in international contemporary art forum, while artist Nguyen Tran Uu Dam will be responsible in helping participants to speak/listen correctly in terms of grammar/pronunciation in English, etc.

Particularly speaking, this is the English course that does not try to provide ALL English skills as in a normal course. On the contrary, this course only tries to find way to furnish necessary and practical skills for ARTIST in order to help him/her in practical art world situations. For this reason, the course only focus in SOME areas of vocabulary and specialised skill.

The tentative time for the first course will be 09th -16th June 2013. Each day we will study for three hours (after 90 minutes we will have a 15 minutes break) from 7:00pm-10:00pm at ZeroStation (quarter 288 Nam Ki Khoi Nghia, ward 8, district 3, HCMC)

For the whole course, each participant must pay 70 USD. And if being selected to the course, all payments must pay in advance one time on the first meeting day.

For best result, we regret to limit the number of participants to 8 persons. We will select participants by application. Anyone who would like to attend this course must send application to us by email at: huybeo@gmail.com or zerostationvietnam@gmail.com (the best way is you should try to send to both these email add)

THE CONTENT OF APPLICATION

Application must be written in English. Applicants should let us know where have you studied English before and which level you are at right now? (1- reading and communicating fluently, 2- communicating is ok, reading OK, 3-can only read with a dictionary and need to write to communicate). We also need to know why you would like to participate in the course? You also must let us know your postal mail address, your phone number so that we could contact to you.

We will give priority to young artists, cultural journalists, or the one who are working/studying in creative industry or literature field. The one who are selected in the course will be contacted directly by phone and email. The one who missed this time will not be contacted, but we will keep and prioritize your applications for the future course.

Photo Exhibition “BB Forever – Brigitte Bardot, la Légende”

Exhibition: 10 May – 10 Jul 2013

Lobby, Boudoir, Floor 2

Sofitel Saigon Plaza

17 Le Duan Str, Dist 1, HCMC

Come to the unique photo exhibition, BB Forever – Brigitte Bardot, la légende, which is presented across its eight properties in Asia this year. Conceived in collaboration with journalist and writer Henry-Jean Servat, the exhibition traces the life of the famous French actress.

BB Forever – Brigitte Bardot, la légende features an exclusive collection of close to 30 photos that trace her career, when becoming one of the leading figures of 20th Century cinema and being described as a “locomotive of women’s history”. Through never-before-seen snapshots, visitors can admire the different facets of the actress, who throughout her career distinguished herself through her beauty, spontaneity and carefree spirit, and whose personality led her to be regarded not only as a legend and sex symbol, but also as the embodiment of women’s liberation.

The Learning Project Asia Summer Programme Updates

Duration: Mon to Fri from 17 Jun to 26 Jul, 8.30 am – 4 pm

Concordia International School Hanoi

CMC Building, Duy Tan Street, Cau Giay District

what's on 

Participants in both the Digital Storytelling and Summer Project Programme for 8 – 11 year olds can now get 20% off the registration fee if they (i) Sign up as a group of 3 or more (ii) Sign up for three weeks or more.

And remember to participate in a short documentary film and earn a free place for a week in a Digital Storytelling Workshop. Deadline: 05 Jun 2013.

The Learning Project Asia is making a short film about young people in Hanoi between the ages of 15 and 18. We are looking for  volunteers that are willing to be filmed talking about their ambitions, interests and ideas for the future.

We are especially interested in people with a hobby or pastime that they would enjoy talking about, such as film, fashion, photography, music or a community project they are engaged in. Please email Alex (alex.h.leonard@gmail.com) if you are interested in being part of the film by the 5th of June.

Seconds Sale of Mekong QuiltsMekong Creations

01 and 02 Jun 2013, 10 am – 8 pm

Mekong QuiltsMekong Creations

13 Hang Bac and 58 Hang Trong Str, Hanoi

This “once-in-a-year” event is a chance for Mekong QuiltsMekong Creations to show our appreciation to all customers, who have supported the projects wholeheartedly year after year. This is the chance for our customers to buy high quality, hand-crafted bed covers, accessories and gift wares at incredibly low prices.

On the occasion of International Children day, there will be lovely gifts for your little kids as well.   

Trio Ze Champagne Unicorns at Hanoi Social Club

Sat 01 Jun 2013, 8 pm

Hanoi Social Club

6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi

We like different things here at The Hanoi Social Club. We like worlds colliding. We like collaboration. We like Ze Champagne Unicorns.

Often referred to as “the world’s finest Franco-Scots-Canadian ukecellosax band”, this trio will certainly be strutting their stuff at HSC. Their unique blend of cultures and musical instruments will put a smile on your face if nothing else. With Liz on cello, Antoine on flute and sax amongst other things, and the inimitable Zippy on uke this is going to be an awesomely fun gig.

Tickets: 100,000 VND

ChicCheap Flea Market 5: Beach Please!

Sat 01 Jun 2013, 11 am – 9 pm

Hang Day Staditum

Trinh Hoai Duc St, Dong Da Dist., Hanoi

ChicCheap Flea Market 5 expands into more dynamic space, features 100 stalls of vintage fashions, handmade products and some services like portrait drawing, spray tattoo, tarot reading…Furthermore, a chance to win a Fujifillm Instax camera worth $125.00 when joining the gameshow.

10% of ticket revenue will be donated to Phuc Tue Centre where is homes to a hundred of autism, down syndrome kids.

Tickets: 20.000 VND. Ticket comes with 01 coke and 01 fruits pudding, open air cinema from 7 pm.

Hotline ticket: 094-360-0070.

By vivian