Hanoi-Hanoi Dub Collective’s Jam Session
Sidewalk Hanoi, 231 Au Co street, Tay Ho district
Featuring musicians from all walks of life – rappers, drummers, guitarists, keys players, singers, bassists, brass blowers, string fiddlers, electronic musicians… anything goes!
With a focus on bass driven music we invite artists, poets, MCs, dancers and audience members to come and share the space.
Free entry
Hanoi-Classical Music with Stéphane Tran Ngoc and Thai Linh
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district
Violinist Stéphane Tran Ngoc together with pianist Tran Thai Linh will grace the stage of L’Espace with stirring duets with exceptional skills through music pieces written by Debussy, Ravel, Franck and Saint-Saëns.
Regular price: VND 210,000 - VND130,000 for L’Espace members – VND 100,000 for students
Hanoi-‘Lang Toi’ (My Village) by Lune Production
Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district
A delicate merge of tradition and innovation, where the poetic beauty of Northern Vietnam’s village life is presented through a new cirque approach.
Farming, the building activities, traditional games, and lifestyle of the Northern villagers are recreated by ancestral bamboo props, breath-taking cirque and acrobatics performances, and rhythmic dance, to distinct folk music from more than 20 musical instruments.
HCMC-Concert “Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo”
August 29, 8pm
HCMC Opera House, No. 7 Lam Son Square, District 1
A concert featuring a famous guitar concerto, a strikingly original French mass, and a ground-breaking piece of French orchestral music.
The event will star French-Vietnamese guitar soloist and musician Nguyen Thanh Hang. She studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Dans de Paris (‘Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance’), and now teaches and performs in France and elsewhere.
The concert will be conducted by Claude Brendel, director of the Rouen Conservatory of Music.
Tickets: VND 650,000 – VND 500,000 – VND 400,000 – VND 300,000 – VND 200,000 – VND 80,000 VND (for students, limited offer)
HCMC-A O Show by Lune Production
6:00 pm, August 27, 28, 30 and 31
Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, 7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1
The A O Show features 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
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Hanoi-Exhibition “Forever” by Bui Hoang Duong
Until Sep 2, 9 am – 12 pm and 1.30 – 5 pm
VICAS Art Studio, 32 Hao Nam street,
Bui Hoang Duong, a young man of Muong ethnic group, who used to study landscape paintings in China and worked in Australia for years, returned home to for business, then was back with painting.
In terms of art, he painted as he was entertaining and for his own satisfaction; his strokes went freely and transformative; creating shapes and colors intertwined and flicked. That made his paintings quite a bit haunting but fascinating.
Free Entry
Hanoi- Exhibition “Summer”
Lotte Center Hanoi, 54 Lieu Giai Street, Ba Dinh District
An exhibition by Bui Trong Du – the artist behind many impressive oil-on-canvas works of delicate simplicity with a strong identity of Vietnamese folk art.
With the theme of “Summer”, the exhibition will shape a unique experience for each visitor through the artist’s passion for lotus flowers.
Free entry
Hanoi-Exhibition “Fragments” by Hiraki Sawa
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA)
B1 – R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City
72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi
The Vincom Center for Contemporary Arts (VCCA) proudly presents “Fragments”, an exhibition showcasing surreal art pieces by one of the top artists in Japan, Hikari Sawa. Through this exhibition, the VCCA hopes to bring video art closer to the public.
HCMC-Exhibition “Gang of Five Chancing Modern”
The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre,15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2
Curated by Le thuan Uyen, the exhibition surveys over three decades of artistic practices by five of the most important figures in the art scene of North Vietnam; Hong Viet Dung, Ha Tri Hieu, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh.
Featuring nearly forty paintings and numerous original historical materials (including reviews and interviews, archival images, exhibition guest books, two short film documentaries, and a timeline tracking the conception, development, and reunion of the Gang of Five, this is one of the few retrospective exhibitions staged in Vietnam that thoroughly documents the lives and preoccupations of local artists (and/or artist groups) of the 20th century.
Tickets:
For adults: VND 35,000
For students: VND 25,000 (with appropriate student ID)
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CINEMA
Hanoi - Cinema Space: “Cruel and Beautiful World” movie month
Until Sep 7, every Friday night at 7 or 7.30 pm
TPD, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str, Hanoi
From TPD:
Cinema reflects life. Pain, sorrow, lost, anger, or joy, peace, beauty are all conveyed in a realistic manner. Cinema reflects real experiences, whether the experience is by choice or not. That is also the message behind.
In the next 1 month, TPD will introduce you to these very special movies, all with the theme of pain, of complicated relationships between people in a world that is cruel and beautiful at the same time.
FILM SCHEDULE:
Fri 31 Aug, 7 pm – DANCER IN THE DARK • Denmark • 2000
R | 140′ | Crime • Drama • Musical
Original language: English
Director: Lars Von Trier
Fri 07 Sep, 7 pm – BIUTIFUL • Mexico/Spain • 2010
R | 148′ | Drama • Romance
Original language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Language: Original languages with Vietnamese subtitles
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