HANOI
PERFORMANCE
Electronic and Traditional Music Event: World of Sounds – What you don’t know yet
8pm on April 23
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van street,
The programme features the unexpected sounds from electronic music and ‘dan bau’ – a traditional Vietnamese musical instrument played in an experimental style. The special program features leading experimental musicians in Hanoi including Vu Nhat Tan, Dee.F, Nguyen Do Minh Quan, and Pham Thanh Tam.
Tickets: VND80,000 (at the door) and VND50,000 (early-bird ticket)
The Electric Yard Dogs in April
8pm, April 24 - 38 Ba Trieu street,
8pm, April 26 - 11 Hang Chinh street,
The Electric Yard Dogs from London will perform with Jez Hartley and Simon ‘Otis’ Redington, who hail from the ‘70s London Punk Rock era, along with Ricardo Canu (drum), Claude Van Damm (bass).
EXHIBITION
Printmaking Dialogue Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles) – Vietnam Exhibition 2015
Vietnam Fine Arts Museum
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc street,
This exhibition is a dialogue between five Vietnamese artists and seven Belgian artists sharing common art values while interpreting various printing mediums and subjects — a dialogue between traditional technique and contemporary art.
Exhibition ‘Smile! Temporary Art’ with Plonk & Replonk at Manzi
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich street,
The weird and wonderful world of Plonk & Replonk with the exhibition entitled ‘Smile! Temporary Art’. Well-known as Plonk & Replonk in both their place of birth Switzerland and neighboring France, the artist duo/brothers Hubert Froidevaux and Jacques Froidevaux explore the endless possible uses of humour in various art forms including object, sculpture, installation, light box, postcard and graphic print.
Free entry
‘Flex’ Art Exhibition by Heather McClellan
Nguyen Art Gallery
31A Van Mieu street,
Artist Heather McClellan from the United States requests your presence at ‘Flex’, her Vietnamese-inspired lacquer exhibition.
Free entry
Photography Exhibition ‘War Reporters’
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien street,
The exhibition features the photos by the four Vietnamese photographers ─ Doan Cong Tinh, Chu Chi Thanh, Mai Nam and Hua Kiem ─ who covered the Vietnam War in the Northern part of the country. Their images are relatively unknown to the West where people only see the war through the photos of Western photographers such as Larry Burrows, Don McCullin, Griffiths, Chauvel or Caron.
HO CHI MINH CITY
PERFORMANCE
Live music performance by duo Sitti and Jasson
Caravelle Saigon
19 Lam Son square, District 1
5-10 pm, Tuesday to Saturday
DJ night
9:00 pm until 1:00 am, every Friday
Cobalt Rooftop Bar, 31st Floor – Pullman Saigon Centre
148 Tran Hung Dao Boulevard, District 1
Resident DJ will be spinning unique & energetic sounds of his “Cobalt Residency” on the 31st Floor.
EXHIBITION
Exhibition ‘In Situ’ by Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini
Galerie Quynh
65 De Tham street, District 1
The exhibition, by Ho Chi Minh City-based architectural duo Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini of HTA + pizzini, features photos and text-based works along with installations that not only highlight the concepts driving their architectural practice, but also reveal the pair’s own creative responses to the city they inhabit.
Installation Exhibition ‘The Warriors’ by Nguyen Thuy Hang
Saigon Domaine
1057 Bình Quới street, Binh Thanh district
The exhibition, sponsored by Denmark Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, and the Post Vidai Contemporary Art Collection, features sculptures and space-adaptable installations by Nguyen Thuy Hang.
Exhibition “Happiness Lies Beyond The Clouds” by Tran Minh Duc
San Art
48/7 Me Linh Street, Binh Thanh district,
The exhibition narrates a story which relies on the similarities of Sasebo City and Ho Chi Minh City, in a realistic, yet dreamy way, with the color pink.
