March 18-24: Music night with Chaton in Hanoi

A selection of noteworthy artistic and cultural events to take place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

 March 18-24: Music night with Chaton in Hanoi

HANOI

PERFORMANCE

Music Night with Chaton

8pm on March 23

L’Espace

24 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District,

Known as Chaton or Siméo, Simon Rochon Cohen is a talented French singer-songwriter and music producer. Returning to Hanoi for the second time after 9 years, Chaton will tell the audience his life story, his dreams, illusions and the loneliness he feels in the most honest way imaginable.

Ticket: VND210,000 – VND130,000 (members) – VND100,000 (student)

EXHIBITION

Exhibition “Particles” by Nguyen Xuan Luc

Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District,

This is the first solo exhibition by painter Nguyen Xuan Luc, displaying 34 square-sized and rectangular works and 16 round paintings.

Exhibition “Reflective Impressions: van Gogh & his works”

Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art (VCCA)

B1 – R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City

72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District,

The exhibition” “Reflective Impressions: van Gogh & his works”, using applied technology, introduces to the public more than 35 artworks of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most excellent post-impressionist artists.

HO CHI MINH CITY

PERFORMANCE

Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture

6pm, March 11 and 14

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House

7 Cong Truong Lam Son, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1

‘Teh Dar: Vietnamese Tribal Culture’ features a vibrant display of circus arts, aerial acrobatics, and tribal music within an hour-long performance.

The show highlights the lives of tribal families from the southwest highlands of Vietnam, using UNESCO-listed percussion instruments, such as Vietnamese gongs and buffalo horns, as well as vibrant costumes, and a stunning bamboo cirque depicting various landscapes and creatures from tribal folklores.

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

EXHIBITION

Exhibition “Machine is Nature”

The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre

15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien, District 2

The exhibition features 15 artists from Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, China and the UK, curated by The Factory and Inlen Photo Gallery.

This exhibition seeks to engage the behaviour and consequence of thinking that machines have become the ‘Nature’ we study and prioritise. It examines the current times in which we live, sharing the work of artists who are both in awe, and critical, of the patterns, substance, psychological relations and historical fictions between assumptions of Nature and the Machine.