Featuring the participation of more than 20 different artists and bands: such as The La Belle et la Bête’s – Bloodshed – Bongwakers – Đieu Uc – Empty Spaces – GAI – Hanoi Dub Collective – HUB – Kaarnaak – LinhHafornow – Loopernatural – Mi Nombre Es Dolores – MNED – Mukang Fields – MXM – Project 420 – Rebel Monk – Sirens of Ha Long – The Tay Traus – Tomes – WINDRUNNER – Zamina.

Hanoi- Circus performance for children

Vietnam Circus Federation, 67 Tran Nhan Tong Street

Entitled ‘A Forest of Fairies’, the story is about a princess with miraculous hair. A witch wants to harm the princess and take her hair. Animals in the forest protect the princess and defeat the witch.

Featuring acrobats, a magic show and circus tricks performed by actors dressed as dogs, pigs, ostrich, panda and monkeys.

Ticket prices will range from 150,000 VND (12 USD) - 250,000 VND (20 USD).

Hanoi-LoudSound Concert “The Unknown”

An open space where you have space to stand or sit, be it on a chair, a bench, or on the floor, near the stage or from afar, choose your own music experience.

HCMC-A O Show by Lune Production

6:00 pm daily, except Wednesday and Sunday

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1

Featuring optical illusions and impressive acrobatics, paired with traditional music performances by a troupe of talented local artists.

Known as the Cirque du Soleil of Vietnam (minus the flashy outfits), this live show depicts the transition of rural Vietnam into today’s modern landscape, using props such as giant woven baskets, scaffolding, bamboo canes, and ropes.

Price range: VND630,000 - VND1,470,000

EXHIBITION

Hanoi- Exhibition “The Smurfs”

Until June 4, 8 am – 5 pm (Tue – Sun)
N14 Exhibition Hall, Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long, 9 Hoang Dieu Street

An exhibition about the fictional blue creatures created by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo.

The exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Smurfs. Debuted in 1958, the comic series “The Smurfs” by Peyo tells a fictional story about a colony of blue, human-like creatures. Thirty-five million copies of the thirty-four books in the series have been published in 90 countries.

Free entry

Hanoi- Exhibition “T.O.A.N”

Introducing 35 newest paintings which have yet to be shown to public before that mark the stage of artistic creation and companionship through many years of the six artists.

Hanoi-Exhibition “The Northwest Land”

VICAS Art Studio, 32 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da District

An exhibition by artists Le Kinh Tai, Nguyen Quang Vinh, Le Minh Duc, Chu Van, and Bui Van Tuat.

Displaying 24 artworks on the nature and people of Northwest Vietnam, which were created during an art workshop organised and funded by the VICAS ART STUDIO in 2018.

Free entry

Hanoi- Exhibition “Ephemera” by Marianne Smolska

The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2

A solo exhibition by artist Phạm Tran Vietnam, curated by Tran Luong.

Tickets:

For adults: VND 35,000

For students: VND 25,000 (with appropriate student ID)

For children under 16: free (with appropriate ID)

HCMC-Exhibition “Between Fragmentation and Wholeness”

Galerie Quynh, 118 Nguyen Van Thu Street, Dakao ward, District 1

An exhibition of new work by Truong Cong Tung. Curated by Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, this is Truong’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and the first comprehensive show of his work in almost a decade.

The exhibition invites viewers to enter Truong Cong Tung’s multidimensional reality through three main axes in the gallery space: vertically – with the ruptures in urban planning and propagated doctrine; horizontally – with mystical human-altered landscapes in agrarian territories; and diagonally – with a mirage of blazing images extracted from the virtual domain.