Concert in HCM City
Sat 19 Jul 2014, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
You are invited to the performance of excerpts from famous Broadway musicals: “Notre Dame de Paris”, “Romeo et Juillette”, ”Cats”, ”Phantom of the opera”, “My Fair Lady”, “Les Miserables” … by famous singers: Duc Tuan, Nam Khanh, Vo Ha Tram, Hong Vy, Tran Duy Linh, Cho Hea Ryoung … and HBSO Choir Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets
Ticket price: 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)
Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Hương 0989874517, Mr.Luân: 0903041959
At HCMC Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, 7 Lam Son square, HCMC
Screening of “Radio Star”
Fri 18 Jul 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Radio Stars” (French, 2012, 100 mins) directed by Romain Levy. It won 3 prizes at Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival 2012.
“An unprecedented radio trip in history. An original and punchy comedy.”
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Asia Tour 2014 with Pacific Boychoir Academy (USA)
Wed 16 Jul 2014, 8 pm
Worker Theater
42 Trang Tien, Hanoi
You are invited to concert with Pacific Boychoir Academy (USA) in Hanoi on the occasion of their Asia Tour 2014.
Program
Kevin Fox – Music Director
Brandon Adams – Accompanist
– Laudate Pueri by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
– Ave Maria by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
– Hail, Gladdening Light by Charles Wood (1866-1926)
– Gloria (from Heiligmesse) by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
– Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
– Hallelujah Chorus by G.F Handel (1685-1759)
– Here Comes the Sun by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Deke Sharon
– The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie, arr. Calvin Achorn
– Sweet Dreams by Annie Lennox, arr. Deke Sharon
– I Got Rhythm by George Gershwin, arr. Mark Hayes
– Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw
– Ol’ Time Religion/When the Saints Go Marching In, arr. Keith McKutchen and Everett McCorvey
– All You Need is Love by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Beatles), arr. K Fox
Guest SolArt Choir:
– Acapella: Raining
– Ballet: Đèn lồng
– Vietnamese Folk Song: Gà gáy le te
The combination between Pacifice Boychoir and Solart Choir:
– Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw
– Vietnamese Folk song: Bắc Kim Thang
The Pacific Boychoir Academy (PBA) was founded in 1998 with six boys and today comprises over 170 boys and young men age 4-18 in seven choirs. The PBA has become known for its rich sound, musicianship, phrasing, and talented soloists. The New York Times said the PBA goes “beyond the reach of most youth choirs” and the Los Angeles Times described the PBA quality of sound and musicianship as “astonishing.”
Image from Pacific Boychoir Academy’s website.
Tickets
Ticket prices: 250,000; 400,000; 600,000 VND. All Tickets available at Worker Theater – 42 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Conference “Hà Nội sau những hàng mi thép”
Fri 18 Jul 2014, 9 am
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the conference “Hà Nội sau những hàng mi thép” (Hanoi – Behind the ironworks) on the occasion of publishing the book “Song xưa phố cũ” (The old ironworks) by Tran Hau Yen The.
This book focuses on the ironwork of buildings in Hanoi in the first half of the 20th century. It offers a systematic study of ironwork heritage in the city. Resulted from cultural exchange between Eastern and Western, ornamental motifs on the wrought iron railings, balconies, gates and windows give Hanoi a truly elegant beauty.
Speaker : Tran Hau Yen The, professor at Vietnam University of Fine Arts, author of the book
With the participation of the historian Le Van Lan and architect Pho Duc Tung
Free entrance.
Language: Vietnamese
The Return of Contact Improvisation with Emily Navarra
17 – 20 Jul 2014
The Black Box
56 Nguyen Khuyen, Hanoi
Following the successful program last April, American Choreographer/Performer Emily Navarra will return with workshops on Contact Improvisation, focusing on techniques of Reaction/Response from 17-20 July. This is part of her multidisciplinary performance tour in Vietnam for 2014.
Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation is practiced as both a concert and social dance form. It is an improvised dance form practiced by two or more people who attempt to keep a physical point of contact between their bodies while moving freely without music. The dancing may be slow or fast and often involves rolling and weight-sharing; it is practiced barefoot with loose fitting clothing. Contact Improvisation is one of the best-known and most characteristic forms of postmodern dance.
Workshop Content
Emily will introduce some improvisational movement and dancing techniques of Reaction/Response for Beginner (investigating the ‘basics’ of partnering and group structures through floor-work, improvisation and choreography) and Intermediate (with focus on each dancer’s physical response to various stimuli, presented in the moment).
1. Reaction/Response (Beginner)
Time: 18: 30 – 21:30 pm, 17-18 July 2014 (2 sessions)
Participation Fee: VND300,000
2. Reaction/Response (Intermediate)
Time: 10:00 – 12.00 am 14:00 – 16:00 pm, 19-20 July 2014 (4 sessions)
Participation Fee: VND300,000
Participants: over 16 years old who love dance, movements and creativity
Registration: Ms. Thu Hiền at life.art.vietnam@gmail.com; Tel: 04-62757088 – Mobile: 0912081950 by 12.00 AM 16 July 2014.
“Your Oblivion” by Ngo Bao Chau
Wed 16 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Prof. Ngo Bao Chau is not only known as one of the most famous mathematicians in the world, but also as one of the most influential bloggers in Vietnam. This time at manzi, Chau will host a reading of excerpts from his articles on his blog.
A special guest speaker, visual artist/poet Ly Hoang Ly will also join the talk together with two young musicians of Hanoi.
Please note that the talk will be conducted in Vietnamese only.
Free entry.
Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 12 pm (noon) Thu 10 Jul 5PM Mon 14 Jul.
Meeting with writer Phan Viet and Professor Ngo Bao Chau
Tue 15 Jul 2014, 6 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the meeting with writer Phan Viet and Professor Ngo Bao Chau on the occasion of publishing Phan Viet’s book “Xuyên Mỹ” (Crossing United States).
Phan Viet is well-known for numerous works such as “Futility”, “Human voice”, “United States”, and “Alone in Europe”, one of 2013 best sellers. “Xuyên Mỹ” is the second book in her series “Misfortune is a fortune”, following the first one “Alone in Europe”. The 2-year journey from Europe to East Coast of the US raises a lot of questions about difficulties in life.
Speaker: writer Phan Viet
Guest speaker: Professor Ngo Bao Chau, co-founders of the books series “The doors wide open”.
Moderator: Nguyen Truong Quy
Free admission.
Language: Vietnamese
Screening of “La Meurtrissure – Painful Loss” and Meeting with the Author
Fri 11 Jul 2014, 2 – 4.30 pm
Hall on 3rd floor, Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA)
53 Nguyen Du, Hanoi
You are invited to the screening of “Hoàng Sa – Việt Nam: nỗi đau mất mát” (“Vietnam Hoang Sa – La Meurtrissure” in French and “La Meurtrissure – Painful Loss” in French-English) (59 mins) and the meeting with the film author: André Menras – Hồ Cương Quyết.
Synopsis: The films depicts Vietnamese fishermen as heroes who cling to the sea and help defend our country’s sovereignty. The women even sacrifices much more when their husband and brother struggle with the sea. The spiritual life is featured through the wind tomb and festivals to remind about Hoang Sa team found in 17th century.
André Menras – Hồ Cương Quyết is a dual citizen of France and Vietnam.
Language: Vietnamese only.
Free admission.
A short Monology of Baricco “Novecento”
Sun 13 Jul 2014, 9.30 am
Casa Italia
18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer who’s familiar with Vietnamese readers with two of the famous novel “Silk” and “Ocean sea”.
This time, we will introduce to you a short monology of Baricco titled “Novecento” with a completely different style. You will listen to some excerpts from this monology with Ennio Morricone’s music in the background.
Languages: Italian and Vietnamese
Free entry.
Screening of Film “El Secreto de sus Ojos”
Sun 13 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm
THBC Spanish Tapas Bar
44, lane 31 Xuan Dieu Str, Hanoi
Come to the film screening ”El Secreto de sus Ojos” (The secret in their eyes).
Benjamin Esposito has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. Recently retired, and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. He does not decide to make up a story. There is no need to. He can draw on his own past as a civil servant for a true, moving and tragic story in which he was once very directly involved. In 1974 his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman.
Free entrance.
Language: Espanol and English sub
Contact: Phone: 043 718 8246
The Lives of Others
Sun 13 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
“In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.”
This July, manzi is delighted to continue our series of experimental movie and video art screenings entitled CHIẾU BÓNG (Vietnamese for ‘cinema’) with the award winning German film ‘The Lives of Others’ by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
PLEASE NOTE: The film will be screened with Vietnamese voice-over.
Ticket at door: 70,000VND | 50,000VND (for student)
Including 01 free drink
All money goes towards supporting the organizing of events at manzi. Due to limited capacity, please pre-register at manzihanoi@gmail.com before 5PM Fri 11 July.
Screening of “Chùng” – Short Videos by International Artists
Sat 12 Jul 2014, 6 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
http://www.hanoidoclab.org
Hanoi Doclab, Nối Projects, and Video Data Bank present short video by international artists from the collection of the Video Data Bank:
• Light house by Chi Jang Yin, 2009, 16’15, US
• Track one by eTeam, 2011, 1’45, Taiwan
• Time passes by Nelson Henricks, 1998, 6’34, Canada
• Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang, 2006, 13’27, US
• Annie Lloyd by Cecilia Condit, 2008, 18’15, US
‘Chùng’ is an adjective in Vietnamese language that refers to a deceleration, and also to moments of contemplation to think deeply. In our daily life, everything seems to pass by so quickly that we hardly find a moment to reflect and contemplate about something deeply. These rare moments of contemplation are revealed in video works of the series through the view of the artists.
After screening there will have a QA session with Nhung from Nối project.
Duration : 56 minutes
Language : English
Light house by Chi Jang Yin, 2009, 16’15
Lighthouse is about the labor system and the factory town in Southern China and how individualism is influenced by the social and political infrastructure. Guangdong District is the largest Metropolitan area in one of China’s wealthiest provinces, and one of its cities, Guangzhou, attracts farmers from the countryside looking for factory work. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the poetic and the sublime images. It opens borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.
Chinese-born media artist Chi Jang Yin is known for her conceptual, documentary work, which comments upon the state of Chinese culture, past and present. She often imbues her work with elements from her background in photography and performance art. She received her BA and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Her videos were recently awarded Honorable Mention at the In-Out Festival, Poland; Best Film on Architecture at the Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy; and Second Grand Prize at the Athens International Film Festival, Ohio. Her work has screened at the 2008 Asian Art Biennial at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
Track one by eTeam, 2011, 1’45, Taiwan
The time is now! The present can be replaced in real time. Not quite yet by the future, but very easily by the past? eteam’s video Track One is a replay of such time disjuncture. As they keep following the memory of a yellow cab that keeps driving through the now deserted streets of Taipei, their pastime augments itself with a mesmerizing sense of reality.
About e-Team: Since 2001 Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger have been collaborating under the name eteam. Most of their projects are based on random pieces of land they buy on ebay or in Second Life. eteam’s projects have been featured at many venues, including Art in General, P.S.1, and Eyebeam in New York, MUMOK in Vienna, Neues Museum Weimar in Germany, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Spain. eteam’s videos have been screened at the Transmediale in Berlin, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival in Taipei, the New York Video Festival, and the 11th Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva. Moderegger and Lamprecht have received funding for their work from Art in General, NYSCA, Rhizome, the Experimental Television Center, the Henry Moore Foundation, and an Emerging Artist Fellowship Grant from Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. They have been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Smack Mellon, Eyebeam, Harvestworks and the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Most recently they have been awarded a Creative Capital Grant for their project open source Grabeland.
Winners of the Videoförderkunstpreis Bremen, 2008/09.
Time pass by Nelson Henricks, 1998, 6’34
Using a Super-8 camera, Henricks employs time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, Time Passes uses writing as a metaphor for notions of temporality and impermanence.
Nelson Henricks was born in 1963 in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art. He moved to Montréal in 1991 and received a BFA from Concordia University, where he now teaches. Henricks has also taught at the Université de Québec à Montréal and McGill University. A musician, writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his videowork was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Video Viewpoints series. His writings have been published in Fuse, Public and Coil magazines, and in the anthologies So, To Speak (Editions Artexte, 1999) and Lux (YYZ Press, 2000). Henricks co-edited an anthology of artists’ video scripts entitled By the Skin of Their Tongues (YYZ Press, 1997) with Steve Reinke.
Recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art, 2002
Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang, 2006, 13’27
How can we make visible the invisible? How can we “see” our lost loved ones? In EPILOGUE, Vietnamese-American filmmaker Tran T. Kim Trang looks for answers to these questions in the audio recordings of her dead mother, the handwriting of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the ultrasound photos of her newborn baby. Finding no ready-made answers, Tran invites us to reflect about life and death in this moving video essay about motherhood and mourning. EPILOGUE is the eight and final installment of Tran’s THE BLINDNESS SERIES.
“When Derrida died in 2004, EPILOGUE shifted focus from his work on mourning to ruminate on 1) the visible and invisible traces one leaves behind: a font made from Derrida’s infamous handwriting, my mother’s dying words, etc.; 2) the cycle of life and death: my son’s birth on the same day, date, and time as my mother’s death six years prior; and 3) imaging technologies that allowed one to see an unborn child, leading to fantasies about what technologies it would take to ‘image’ an incorporeal mother, and discovering that ancient medicine can bring a daughter closer to her dead mother.” —TRAN T. Kim-Trang
About Tran, T. Kim-Trang: Tran was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1999 Tran presented her Blindness Series in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of her videos were included in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Blindness Series was featured at the 46th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, both in 2000. Her video project, an eight-video series investigating blindness and its metaphors was completed in 2006. Tran has been nominated for a Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2001 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow. The fellowship has enabled her to develop an experimental narrative feature titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother.
Tran also collaborates with Karl Mihail on a project known as Gene Genies Worldwide© (genegenies.com). Their conceptual and public artworks on genetic engineering have exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, Exit Art, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, and elsewhere in the U.S. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College.
Annie Lloyd by Cecilia Condit, 2008, 18’15
Annie Lloyd is a daughter’s poetic documentation of the last few years of her mother’s life and an intimate portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.
Annie Lloyd is a vivid and powerful old woman who collects leaves and revels in the wonders of the world. She also happens to be the filmmaker’s mother — making this an intimate tale of a mother and daughter celebrating life, love, and creativity in the very jaws of the dying process. This short film, by the award-winning experimental filmmaker Cecelia Condit, explores issues of aging, mortality, mother-daughter relationships, and late-life love and creativity.
Born 1947 – Philadelphia, PA. Cecelia Condit studied sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, received a B.F.A. in sculpture at the Philadelphia College of Art, and a M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and the Polaroid Corporation. In the past 30 years, she has received numerous awards including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mary L. Nohl Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board. She is currently professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Since the early 1980s Cecelia Condit’s narrative tapes have explored the not-so-average experiences of the “average woman” in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and misogynist aggression. Her dark-humored works conflate fairy tale morals with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines, incorporating live action, appropriated television images, and original music into frequently operatic narratives. Condit is a Professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“My work centers around the theme of how bizarre events disrupt mundane lives. By contrasting the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, I address a reality that is both surprisingly believable yet strange enough to belong only to the realm of fiction.”
–Cecelia Condit
Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, 2005
About Video Data Bank: Founded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement, the Video Data Bank (VDB) is a leading resource in the United States for video by and about contemporary artists. The VDB Collection includes the work of more than 550 artists and 5,500 video art titles, 2,500+ in active distribution. The VDB makes its Collection available to museums, galleries, educational institutions, libraries, cultural institutions and exhibitors through a national and international distribution service, and works to foster a deeper understanding of video art, and to broaden access and exposure to media art histories through its programs and activities. These include preservation of historically important works of video art, the perpetuation of analog and digital archives, publishing of curated programs and artists’ monographs, the commissioning of essays and texts that contextualize artists’ work, and an extensive range of public programs. Operating under SAIC’s not-for-profit status, the VDB is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Talkshow: Hanoi is Hanoi
Sat 12 Jul 2014, 6.30 pm
Chula
43 Nhat Chieu Street (near West Lake), Hanoi
You are invited to the talk show titled “Hanoi is Hanoi” to listen, see and share ordinary stories in a “Hanoi” way, and we hope that you can find a special, close and beloved Hanoi deep inside your heart.
Register through this link.
Deadline: Thu 10 Jul 2014, 11:59pm
Ticket: 20,000VND
The exhibition “Windows Life” will open to public until 15 Jul 2014.
The Offensive and Numbfoot! Live
Sat 12 Jul 2014, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Come to a music night with The Offensive and Numbfoot!
The Offensive
Hanoi’s longest running, if not only, hardcore punk band, playing their brand of music that offends as much as it inspires. No holds barred, no quarter given. Fast, loud, in your face Rock and Roll.
Numbfoot! – Psychedelic Blues
“Brooklyn original Brett Zweiman teams up with Hanoi favourites Dave Payne (Ngu Cung, Zamina, Gibbon Suburbia, etc.) and Ha Dinh Huy (basically everyone, ever) to bring you Hanoi’s newest trio and rad musical concontion: Numbfoot! They’ll be bringing groove laden psychedelic jams from around the globe!”
Entry 50,000 VND at the door.
Performance of Excerpts from Famous Broadway Musicals
Italian and Culture Summer Course
Course: 12 Jul – 12 Aug 2014
Casa Italia
18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi
Opening hours: 9 am – 9 pm all days
Phone (via Uni – Italia): 043 824 0579
Are you a fan of Italy, a beautiful and fascinating country with richness of culture and language?
And you’re curious about a lot of things, not only about language but also the Italian culture in each of its aspect such as gastronomy, tourism, history, art, cinema, people….
Why don’t you come to us to join an Italian course with various subjects including the language itself. You will have a chance to study with native speakers and if you still wonder because you know nothing about Italian, don’t worry, we have Vietnamese assistants and our teachers speak English also.
We will have 3 lessons per week and one lesson at weekend just to see some movies together or discussing Italian culture.
Screening of “Jean de la Lune”
Fri 11 Jul 2014, 8 pm
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of the French animation “Moon Man” (“Jean de la Lune”) (2013, 95 mins) directed by Stephan Schesch.
Based on the much loved best-selling children’s book by Tomi Ungerer, “Moon Man” invented a small astral hero who descends on the earth to save human from a dictator.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening of Film “Mother’s Soul”
Fri 11 Jul 2014, 7.30 pm
Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents
51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi
At 7.30p.m. on Friday 11 July 2013, TPD Center will organize a program on ‘Friday Night with Vietnam Cinema’ with the screening of the film Mother’s Soul (director Pham Nhue Giang).
Different from other non-profit screenings on Saturday afternoon, the program Friday with Vietnam Cinema is a fundraising event. In this program, we are calling out for audiences’ contribution to continue the operation of TPD Center in the future.
Mother’s soul
Year: 2011
Director: Giang Pham Nhue
Cast: Hong Anh, Hoai Linh
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 95 min
Language: Vietnamese, no English subtitles
Synopsis: When her mother falls in love with a driver, a young girl suffers from the lack of maternal attention. As her mother become more and more obsessed with her lover, the neglect increases. and the daughter takes on a maternal role herself to the orphan next door. Through these tender human relationships, Mother’s Soul looks at the effect of capitalism on a former communist economy.
Entry: 20k (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)