Screening of “L’exercice de l’Etat”
Fri 28 Jun 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the screening of “L’exercice de l’Etat” (The Minister) (France, 2011, 112 minutes) by director Pierre Scheoeller, starring: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman. The film premiered in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Award.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Dance Performance “Rite of Spring”
Sat 29 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
Welcome to the dance performance conducted by choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, which is bustling and high energetic. The concert is within the framework of celebrating 40 years of diplomatic relation between France and Vietnam.
When recomposing the 100-year-ago ballet in Paris, Gallotta remains original music theme composed and recorded by Stravinsky. However, the character “Blessed” will be played by 7 female dancers respectively.
Two short chapters will lead the next epic one. Three of them were written to honor the great composer Igor Stravinsky: Tumulte – listen to the peace of dance, Dear Igor – show respect to the composer and Rite of Spring – enjoy the bustling and energetic rite.
Ticket price: 120 000/ 100 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000/ 50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace from 29 May.
Screening of “38 Témoins”
Fri 21 Jun 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Welcome to the screening of “38 Témoins” (38 Witnesses) (French, 2012, 104’) by director Lucas Belvaux. The film was nominated César Award 2013. This is not suitable for children under 12 years old.
You can see the synopsis in French, or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
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.
Digital Storytelling Summer Program 2013
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
From The Learning Project Asia:
This summer The Learning Project Asia is hosting at Concordia International School Hanoi a program of activities and workshops based around Digital Storytelling. Students from ages 12-18 can join for between one and six weeks to develop research, communication, collaboration and problem solving skills through short photo and film projects. Learners are guided by experienced educators and will be encouraged to bring their own interests to the projects they develop. Each week will also involve hands-on workshops and field trips led by experienced creative industry professionals to help the participants build the skills involved in making engaging digital stories. Students develop an online portfolio of their projects that can be used to support and showcase their learning.
Language of the courses/workshops: English
More details about the this program and information on how to register can be found here, and registration form.
You can see the prices and register for the workshops here. For more information please call Gareth 090-422-8629 or Tâm (Vietnamese) 01698-803-581or email Colin ccampbell@thelearningproject.asia
New Circus “Here, Now and There”
Thu 22 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Youth Theater
Welcome to the new circus ICI, MAINTENANT ET LÀ (“Here, now and there”) by the Chabatz d’Entrar. The performance is a part of “French Year in Vietnam” to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relation between France and Vietnam.
An experiment of various visual art forms where the body language and motion are the starting point for the journey to explore this interesting contemporary performance act. The program includes object manipulation, acrobatics and live music – a creative product of French and Indonesian artists in Bandung residency.
Ticket price: 120,000 VND/ 100,000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND/50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace, 24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội from 22 May.
Concert of Lo’Jo
Wed 26 Jun 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Come to our world music concert with Lo’Jo. Lo’Jo is a community of global citizens playing a special music of their own: mixed and unique! that brought their own image: origin and unique quartet.
The concert is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
In the past thirty years Lo’Jo find inspiration in friendship. Lo’jo music is not quite punk, not really singing, java, rasta, a bit of jazz or rock, Lo’Jo – the community of global citizens – creates their music reflecting their own characteristics of being “global” and “unique”. Is that Jazz-rock? Or remix? Or world music? The band will take us onto a journey around the world. 2012 was the year of “Cinéma El Mundo”, the band’s 13th album.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Subscription Concert Vol.62 “Homage to Vienna”
24 and 25 Jun 2013,8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Come to the Subscription Concert Vol.62 “Homage to Vienna” with conductor Andrea Pestalozza, piano soloist Trang Trinh and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information, see below:
Program
F. Schubert Symphony no.7 B minor “Unfinished”
W. A. Mozart Piano Concerto no.27 B major K 595
Interval
M. Ravel La Valse
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200.000, 350.000, 500.000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
World Music with Lo’Jo
Tue 25 Jun 2013, 8 pm
IDECAF
28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC
You are invited to the world music concert by music band Lo’jo from France.
In 2012, Lo’jo celebrates their 30th anniversary with 13th album. Their unique music is perfectly expressed through this work. Album «Cinema el Mundo» is a combination among French, Asia, Caucasus and North Africa songs.
The concert is within the framework of 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France – Vietnam.
Their music is considered harmony between performing arts such as dance, video, street theater, installation art and movies. They mix all of these together to create their own diverse, freestyle and artistic music. Each of their performances is a journey in the world of world music.
The band members:
Denis Péan: vocal, keyboard.
Richard Bourreau: violin, imzad, kora.
Nadia Nid El Mourid: vocal, percussion.
Yamina Nid El Mourid: vocal, kamel n’goni, saxophone, percussion.
Kham Meslien: guitar bass, contrebass.
Baptiste Brondy: Hand drum heads and cymbals.
The program
1. Fragile
2. The Marseille in Creole
3. Two sticks
4. Attractive
5. As time goes by
6. Star
7. Alger
8. Lila
9. Cabo Blanco Bay
10. Vientiane
11. The beginning
Tickets
Entrance: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets on sale at the IDECAF. Tel : (08) 38 23 99 68
The band also plays at L’Espace Hanoi on Wed 26 Jun.
New Circus “Here, Now and There”
Thu 20 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Ben Thanh Theatre
6 Mac Dinh Chi, Dist.1, HCMC
The French Institute in Vietnam presents the circus show “Here, now and there” by the Chabatz d’Entrar Company at Ben Thanh theatre. The performance is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
An experiment of various visual art forms, where the body language and motion are the starting a point for the journey to explore this interesting contemporary performance act .The program includes object manipulation, acrobatics and live music – a creative product of French and Indonesian artists after their Bandung residency.
“Here, now and there!” is the work that has been prepared for 6 months in Bandung. This performance keeps showing the characteristic of Chabats d’Entrar; the usage of simple items, stilts and bamboo to create an effect of fragile balance. They will go on tour to several cities in Indonesia, and then will finally perform in East Timor and Vietnam in June 2013 and France in June 2014.
Founded in 1997 in the Limousin, the company settled in rural Saint-Junien, where she set up a factory and place of artistic practice: « RUE DU CIRQUE ». The company has always experimented with visual art forms where the body and movement are the starting point of the search for contemporary performing arts. Object manipulation and tricks in the service of works that intend to entertain in the political sense: away, take a step back, deflect the trajectories of thinking.
Tickets
Entrance: 120,000 VND/100,000 VND/80,000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets on sale at the IDECAF. Tel : (08) 38 23 99 68.
The program is also performed at Youth Theatre in Hanoi on Sat 22 Jun.
Concert by Vietnamese Musicians of the Youth Chamber Orchestra SEAYCO
Sun 16 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
In August 2012 South East Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra SEAYCO was founded on mutual initiative of the Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia and prestigious Mahidol College of Music in Salaya (Thailand). After numerous castings, 25 musical talents from six different countries were chosen: Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia. After three weeks of intensive rehearsal work in October in Salaya under the direction of Nicolás Pasquet, professor at the Liszt School of Music Weimar (Germany), SEAYCO played its first concerts in Thailand and Myanmar.
This year, following another rehearsal period in Salaya, the orchestra will give a concert in Hanoi. As a foretaste the Goethe-Institut wants to present the Vietnamese members of SEAYCO to the Hanoian audience – almost all of them are students of the Vietnam National Academy of Music, one of them comes from HCMC: La Diem My (Violin), Hoang Ho Khanh Van (Violin), Tran Hong Nhung (Cello), Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang (Flute), Pham Khanh Toan (Oboe) und Nguyen Tuan Long (French Horn).
The young musicians have compiled a program rich in variety, ranging from Baroque to pop, from Vivaldi to Secret Garden.
Program
Alessandro Marcello | Concert D-Moll for Oboe and Piano: Andante e spiccato
Oboist: Pham Khanh Toan
Pianist: Ngo Phuong Vi
Pierre Octave Ferroud | Solo-Flute: Bergere Captive; Jade
Flutist: Nguyen Huyen Trang
Antonio Vivaldi | Concert for Flute, Oboe and Basso continuo: Largo; Allegro
Flutist: Nguyen Huyen Trang
Oboist: Pham Khanh Toan
Cellist: Tran Hong Nhung
Pianist: Ngo Phuong Vi
Rodion Shchedrin | In the Style of Albenitz
Vilonist: La Diem My
Pianist: Doan Le Phan Anh
Alexander Egorovich Varlamov | The Red Sarafan
Rolf Lovland | You raise me up
Hornist: Nguyen Tuan Long
Pianist: Nguyen Tuan Anh
Antonio Leopold Dvojak | Rondo for Cello
Cellist: Tran Hong Nhung
Pianist: Pham Nguyen Hoai Trang
Ludwig van Beethoven | Three Duos for Violin and Cello: Nr.1 – Allegro comodo
Violinist: La Diem My
Cellist: Tran Hong Nhung
Johannes Brahms | Scherzo in c-Moll for Violin and Piano
Violinist: Hoang Ho Khanh Van
Pianist: Hoang Ho Thu
Nguyen Thi Nhung | Chieu que huong
Violinist: Hoang Ho Khanh Van
Pianist: Hoang Ho Thu
Free tickets are available from 2pm, 11th June 2013 at Goethe-Institut Hanoi.
Concert for adult and teenagers from 10 years up – Child care with kid movies in our library.
Concert of Lo’jo
Tue 25 Jun 2013, 8 pm
IDECAF
28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC
Come to a world music concert with the group LO’JO. Lo’Jo are a group of France-based musicians, performing and recording a blend of world music with strong North African as well as French folk elements.
The concert is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
The band was founded in 1982 in Angers by singer/keyboardist Denis Péan and Richard Bourreau (violin/kora). These two have remained central to Lo’Jo throughout their history. For several years, with a rotating cast of members, they played events locally, working with acrobats, street theatre, mime, dancers and film as part of their overall presentation. They have subsequently maintained a communal lifestyle, based in Angers.
By the end of the 1980s, they were playing throughout Europe and had appeared in New York as part of an artists’ collective. Including Nicholas ‘Kham’ Meslien (bass) and Matthieu Rousseau (drums) (later replaced by Franck Vaillant), they consolidated their line-up, and their first album, Fils de Zamal, was released in 1993. In 1995 the group added Berber singer/saxophonist Yamina Nid El Mourid and her sister, Nadia, who brought a strong North African influence to the music. In 1996, the new lineup recorded Sin Acabar, and 1997 saw them complete Mojo Radio, both with English producer Justin Adams. Upon the latter’s release they found more acclaim in the world music community, getting them on the WOMAD circuit.
In 1999, they journeyed to Bamako, Mali, to begin work on Bohème de Cristal. While in Mali, they became involved in the organization of the Desert Music Festival held in January 2001. They have also collaborated with a wide variety of musicians, including Tinariwen.
In 2002 they released the acclaimed Au Cabaret Sauvage (originally issued in France as L’une des Siens). This was followed by a live album Ce Soir Là (2003), and a new studio album Bazar Savant (2006). In 2009 they released the album Cosmophono, and toured in the UK.
2012 is Lo’Jo’s thirtieth year of existence, and Cinema el Mundo is their thirteenth album. Lo’Jo brings sounds, instruments, experiences and friends back to the blank canvas of their native land.
Denis Péan: vocals, indian harmonium, piano, sampler.
Richard Bourreau: violin, imzad, kora.
Nadia Nid El Mourid: vocals, percussions.
Yamina Nid El Mourid: vocals, kamel n’goni, soprano saxophone, percussion.
Kham Meslien: bass guitar, double bass.
Baptiste Brondy: hand drums and cymbals.
Program
1. Tout est Fragile
2. La Marseillaise En Créole
3. Deux Batons
4. Magnétik
5. Au temps qui passé
6. Zetwal
7. Alger
8. Lila
9. El Cabo Blanco
10. Vientiane
11. Au début
Tickets
Entrance: 100.000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets on sale at the IDECAF. Tel : (08) 38 23 99 68
Lo’jo also performs at L’Espace Hanoi on 26 Jun.
Seattle’s Shabazz Palaces in Hanoi
Sat 22 Jun 2013, 6 pm
American Club
19 – 21 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi
Enjoy an evening of outdoor entertainment with live music from Seattle’s Shabazz Palaces, new Hanoi group Tone Ripples as well as DJ Vaughan and a reggae take over from the Skank the Tank Sound System. With delicious Vietnamese food courtesy, refreshing ice-cream and great drinks, you’re in for another great summer night of music and fun.
Schedule
6pm doors open
6.30pm DJ Vaughan
7.30pm Tone Ripples (band)
8pm DJ Vaughan
9pm Skank the Tank (Sub Elements)
10pm Shabazz Palaces
One of the most widely celebrated acts of the last few years are bringing modern hip hop to Hanoi.
When Shabazz Palaces dropped Black up in 2011, they made one hell of a splash. Universally hailed as one of the albums of the year, the record took hip hop to new levels of deep bass exploration. Bass like treacle, broken disorienting beats and fragmented, woozy raps make up one of music’s most innovative albums in recent memory.
Undoubtedly, Shabazz Palaces are one of the finest groups ever to come to the capital.
NME “Innovative, bold and brilliantly fresh” 8/10
Pitchfork – “magic” 8.8/10
Under the Radar – “Black Up is black gold: it is rich, divisive and elusive” 8.3/10
#36 – Mojo‘s “Top 50 albums of 2011.”
#30 – Popmatters – PopMatters’ 75 Best Albums of 2011
#14 – Pitchfork Media – Best Albums of 2011
#10 – Hip Hop Is Read – Top 25 Hip Hop Albums of 2011
#4 – Epitonic – Epitonic’s Top 40 Albums of 2011
#1 – Gorilla vs. Bear – Albums of 2011
#1 – Prefixmag – Prefix’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011
#1 – The Seattle Times – Best pop music 2011
#1 – Potholes in my blog – Top 15 Albums of 2011
#1 – Cokemachineglow – Top 50 Albums of 2011
Tone Ripples
Support on the night will come from Tone Ripples, a contemporary take on tradition that are Hanoi’s latest sonic experiment.
Made up of talented musicians from a host of countries, The Tone Ripples look set to sound like something only Hanoi could produce. Dan Henneberry’s experimental guitar sounds are responsible for keeping things astral, while American Bill Badger’s percussion drives the sound. Arnaud Grignard’s French jazz background supplies intricate bass-lines to pull everything together, and – having played everything from French films to Mali rhythms on her once-traditional instrument – Nguyen Thuy Dung provides the rhythmic melodies that push the dan tranh far into the next century. The result is one of the most unique sounds ever heard in Hanoi – or beyond.
Skank The Tank (Sub Elements)
The Skank the Tank Sound System are Hanoi’s finest Reggae collective, spreading positive vibes and the finest reggae selections from the early 60’s to the future dub sounds of tomorrow. The crew’s regular Hanoi Skanking nights have done more than any other to promote reggae, dub and dancehall in Vietnam’s capital, so put on you skanking shoes and come inna di dance with a peaceful mind!
Tickets: 150,000 VND
Concert with Pianist Krystian Tkaczewski
Thu 20 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Concert Hall
Vietnam National Academy of Music Concert Hall
77 Hào Nam,Ô Chợ Dừa, Đống Đa, Hà Nội
You are welcome to the concert of Polish pianist Krystian Tkaczewski, one of today’s most popular Polish musicians. Krystian Tkaczewski has performed all over the world, and been invited to judge many international piano contests in Europe and America at a very young age.
Hailed as “Polish Virtuoso” Krystian Tkaczewski is pursuing his splendid career in USA, Asia and Europe. He had his triumphant Carnegie Hall Debut in April 2007. Anthony Aibel (critic of New York Concert Review) wrote: “Tkaczewski was elegant, showed in-depth knowledge, played with passion, showed power-house technique. Reading of Rachmaninov and of Prokofiev was excellent. Szymanowski was exquisitely shaped, showing lovely shadings and contrasts of dynamics. He showed devotion and natural affinity for music of his homeland.”
Krystian Tkaczewski will lead a master class at the Music Academy from 19 to 22 June.
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200.000 VND and 150.000 VND
All ticket available at A1 Building, Vietnam National Academy of Music or can book over number: 0913306786
Fete de la Musique at Metropole
Fri 21 Jun 2013, 6 pm
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi
“Le Cat Trong Ly is my favorite Vietnamese musician. She plays original contemporary folk music that nobody else is doing in Vietnam”, said an Australian expat in Hanoi. Obviously, this young talented Vietnamese singer/musician/songwriter has fascinated not only Vietnamese audience but also most of the foreigners who have had a chance to see her perform.
Born in Da Nang, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Ly is now exclusively invited to play in the capital by Metropole to cool down a hot summer night. Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi presents to you La Fête de la Musique with the participation of Le Cat Trong Ly:
As the mercury rises and the nights get longer, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi will welcome the season of sun with a very special music festival guaranteed to evoke the sounds of summer. Tuning up on June 21, French-infused La Fête de la Musique offers a celebration of all musical genres in a very special setting. Join us for an unforgettable evening and enjoy the fabulous vocals of Jazz Diva Diane Witherspoon at Hanoi’s hottest nightspot Le Club at 6 pm, followed by live poolside music from famed Vietnamese singer Le Cat Trong Ly at 7pm.
Tickets information to be updated.
Exhibition “Light of Kindness”
Opening: Tue 18 Jun, 4 pm
Exhibition: 18 – 23 Jun 2013
Vietnam Women’s Museum
36 Lý Thường Kiệt, Hà Nội
On the occasion of Vietnamese Journalism Day, a photo exhibition will be organized by a group of journalists and photographers in Hanoi to raise funds for the poor pediatric patients at National Hospital of Paediatrics. The exhibition will show more than 70 photos by 6 photographers including Mr. Nguyen Quang Tuan (Vietnamese Association of Photographic Artists), Ms. Chu Thu Hao (Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition), Ms. Nguyen Phuong Hoa (Vietnam News Agency), Mr. Nguyen Hong Vinh, Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha (Tien Phong Daily), Mr. Dam Duc Vu.
The photos displayed in the exhibition are diverse in genre, ranging from landscape, portrait, still-life to real life. Among those, some photos won prizes in Vietnam as well as abroad. The exhibition aims to demonstrate the artworks that viewers can easily feel and understand. Money earned from selling photos and raising funds during the exhibition will be donated to the patients suffering from severe financial difficulty at National Hospital of Paediatrics via the hospital’s Department of Social Work as well as the volunteers in Kindness Group.
Light of Kindness will bring to the viewers the beautiful and unique photos. These artworks are not only suitable for interior decorations but also enable purchasers, organizers and photographers to bring new hope about a better life for the pediatric patients suffering from severe difficulty.
Photographers participating in the exhibition:
NGUYEN QUANG TUAN
– Year of birth: 1962.
– Member of Vietnamese Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA).
– Member of International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP)
– Member of Hanoi Photographers Association.
– Personal exhibitions: Echo of the rock – Ha Giang, July 2010
– Participated in charity photo exhibitions: For the poor children in mountainous areas – Ha Giang 2010; Light up the belief – Ho Chi Minh City 2011.
– Domestic awards: Runner-up in Excellent Photographs in 2011 and 2012; Silver Medals, Bronze Medals, Consolation Prizes in other national and regional contests.
– International awards: Gold Medal in International Federation of Photographic Art, Vietnam 2011; Gold Medal in Asashi – Japan 2012; Honorary Degrees and exhibited in the UK, France, the US, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Ukraine, Turkey, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, India, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Thailand.
– Email: quangtuanbeatles@yahoo.com
NGUYEN PHUONG HOA
– Year of birth: 1983
– Bachelor of Journalism, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Bachelor of Photography, Hanoi University of Movie and Stage.
– Reporter at Photo Editorial Department, Vietnam News Agency.
– Awards: highest rank in National Jounalism Awards 2010; A Prize – Young Journalist Vietnam News Agency 2009, 2010; 3rd Prize Golden Moment Contest 2009; Promising Young Journalist 2009.
– Email: hoavnp@gmail.com
NGUYEN HONG VINH
– Year of birth: 1973
– Bachelor of Journalism, photo editor at Tien Phong Daily.
– Awards: First Prize – Hanoi Photograph Festival 1992; First Prize – Smile Vietnam sponsored by Vietnamese Association of Photographic Artists 1997; 2nd Prize National Press Photograph 2004…
– Email: hongvinhtp@gmail.com
CHU THU HAO
– Year of birth: 1972
– Master of Journalism, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
– Deputy of Photography Division – Department of Fine Art, Photography and Exhibition.
– Member of Vietnam Journalist Association, Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists (VAPA), International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), Hanoi Photographers Association.
– Book published: A Perspective on Photography in 2008, and several photo exhibitions at domestic and international contests and exhibitions…
– Awards: Bronze Cup Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists 2008, Consolation Prize Vietnam Country and People Contest and Exhibition 2009, 3rd Prize Trade Union, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism 2010.
– Email: chuthuhao@yahoo.com
DAM DUC VU
– Year of birth: 1976
– Currently working as a freelance
– Exhibitions: Blending in- British Council 2004, Spice of life – Metropole Hotel 2006,
Coup de pouce- L’Espace 2007, Oasis of Silence- Art Vietnam Gallery 2008, Mapping invisible cities- Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi 2009.
– Awards: Prix du Publique – Coup de pouce 2007.
– Email: dv.artvietnam@gmail.com
NGUYEN MANH HA
– Year of birth: 1976
– Master of Journalism, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
– Currently working at Culture and Art Division, Tien Phong Daily.
– Participated in the mutual exhibition organized by Hoa hoc tro Photography Club and Journalism Faculty, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities
– Email: nmh2k2@yahoo.com
Dance Performance of “Rite of Spring”
Thu 27 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Ben Thanh Theatre
6 Mac Dinh Chi, Dist.1, HCMC
Come to a performance “The Rite of Spring” by the choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta at Ben Thanh Theatre. The performance is a part of the 40 year celebration of diplomatic relation of France – Vietnam.
Each choreographer has a Sacre within him. Jean-Claude Gallotta’s comes from his childhood as a schoolboy when he hears Igor Stravinsky’s work for the first time. With thirteen dancers as carnal and explosive as the music, a whole scene devoted to the daring experimental composer, Jean-Claude Gallotta takes us to seraphic figures, sensual shadows, tormented bodies, forbidden awakenings, unexplained agitation, disturbing palpitations.
Le Sacre was preceded by two short works:
I – Tumulte, in which the choreographer invites you to take notice of the primitive silence of the dance that precedes the musical explosion.
II – Pour Igor, a solo performed by Cécile Renard in homage to the composer, who is heckled and addressed familiarly like a God being thanked endlessly for having “picked music’s nose” and, a century later, to have remained the “wild young man” of 1913.
The Grenoble National Choreographic Centre has worked constantly to extend the scope of dance through the creative and choreographic work that it has performed in France and worldwide for over 30 years. The NCC’s functions have broadened over time: hosting companies, cultural action, regular dance training courses, amateur workshops, work on images, and production of short video films.
Tickets
Entrance: 120,000 VND/100,000 VND/80,000 VND (50% discount for students)
Tickets on sale at the IDECAF. Tel : (08) 38 23 99 68.
The program is also performed at Youth Theatre in Hanoi on Sat 29 Jun.
Exhibition “The Facebook of Le Quang Ha”
Opening: Sat 15 Jun, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 16 – 30 Jun 2013
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Manzi art space is proud to present the ‘Facebook of Le Quang Ha’ featuring a series of current sketches by this Hanoi based artist.
Known as one of the leading Vietnamese contemporary visual artists, for more than two decades, Le Quang Ha has quietly produced one of the most coherent and nuanced bodies of artwork in Vietnam. In his art, there is always an unexpected link between his assertion of emotional statements and the figurative.
In the series of drawings on show this time Ha has captured the emotional essence of his subjects and interpret it with a deeply felt understanding of humour and grace.
About Le Quang Ha
Born in Hanoi in 1963 and graduated from the Hanoi Industrial College of Fine Arts in 1992, Le Quang Ha avoids traditional, academic subjects in his art, and instead chooses to address issues that many artists prefer to overlook or even ignore in their work. There is much vitality, meaning, and social critique in the brutal honesty of his art. The works present a sophisticated discourse on the clashes between tradition and the modern values of contemporary Vietnam. Apart from exhibitions in Vietnam, Ha has also taken part in shows in Germany, China, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, USA, and Great Britain. His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan and the Singapore Art Museum.
Screening of German Documentary “Carte blanche”
Wed 19 Jun 2013, 7 pm
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
“Film teams never go on mission…” is the hard and fast rule of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. There is one exception: Heidi Specogna. The journalist and documentary filmmaker received the permission to accompany the investigators of the International Criminal Court in the case against the Congolese rebel commander Jean-Pierre Bemba.
In 2002 he issued the “Carte Blanche” – a charter to pillage, kill and rape – to his subordinates which provoked a wave of violence in the Central African Republic. The resulted documentary film by Heidi Specogna entitled “Carte Blanche” was screened in 2011 at the International Film Festival in Locarno.
She already attended the Festival in Locarno in 2010 with her previous film “The Goalgetter’s Ship”, which examines the connection of a former professional football player to a child labor scandal in West Africa.
Now both films will be shown by the Goethe-Institut: “The Goalgetter’s Ship” is the German contribution for the European-Vietnamese Documentary Film Festival and “Carte Blanche” will be screened a week later at the Goethe-Institut. Specogna will be present for the screenings for QAs with the audience.
Free entrance.