August 19-25: Arts Festival “Autumn Melodies 2019″ in Ho Chi Minh City

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

August 19-25: Arts Festival “Autumn Melodies 2019″ in Ho Chi Minh City

HANOI

PERFORMANCE

‘Lang Toi’ (My Village) by Lune Production

6pm, August 19, 20, 21, 24

Vietnam Tuong Theatre

51A Duong Thanh Street, Hoan Kiem district

Lang Toi (My Village) is 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, building activities, traditional games, and the lifestyle of the Northern villagers are recreated through ancestral bamboo props, breath-taking cirque and acrobatics performances, and rhythmic dance, to distinct folk music from more than 20 musical instruments.

Ticket prices: VND700,000- VND1,050,000

Water puppet shows

2:15pm, 3:30pm, 5pm, 6:30pm, 8pm, and 9:15pm

Thang Long water puppet theatre

57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street,

Tickets: VND100,000 – VND60,000

EXHIBITION

Exhibition “Street Story”

Centre of Art-Photography Exhibition

29 Hang Bai Str, Hoan Kiem Dist, Hanoi

The exhibition titled “Chuyen pho” (Street Story) features the works of a group of 5 artists – Vu Bich Thuy, Tran Luu My, Doan Hoang Lam, Tao Linh and Nguyen Minh. With approximately 40 brand new artworks, the artists want to bring street stories that are closed to their hearts to the public during the week long exhibition.

HO CHI MINH CITY

PERFORMANCE

Arts Festival “Autumn Melodies 2019″

August 19-25

Ho Chi Minh City Opera House

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

Arts Festival Autumn Melodies, a large-scale academic arts Festival in Ho Chi Minh City, is held every 2 years by the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera with the support of HCMC Department of Culture and Sports. This year, the Festival will take place from Saturday August 17 to Sunday August 25, 2019, with a total of eight concerts over nine days.

The three fields of ballet, opera, and symphonic music performed in this Festival all have breakthroughs in the program content.

EXHIBITION

Exhibition “Phenomenon ÷ (Time x Space)”

Vin Gallery

6 Le Van Mien, Thao Dien, District 2, HCMC

Yohei Yama returns to Vin Gallery with his second solo project with the gallery, four years after “The Power of Semiosis” (2015). Yama derives his works from nature, spinning the waves of the cosmos and webbing together the rhythm of natural forces. His oeuvre is distinguishable by its repetition and layering of lines, colours, patterns and more often than not creating optical effects that swell and vibrate.

“Phenomenon ÷ (Time x Space)” envisions the universe and it’s life-cycles where the future becomes the present and the present becomes the past.