HANOI
PERFORMANCE
Percussion Concert “Sound Travellers in the Night”
8pm on January 29
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich Street, Ba Dinh District
‘Sound Travellers in the Night’ is an unmissable percussion concert featuring latest experimentations by Hanoi sound travellers – the Go Group.
The Go Group is regarded as a pioneer in Vietnam; the group performs percussion concerts using only daily objects such as trash bins, hammers, pots and pans as instruments.
Tickets: VND200,000
Electronic Music with La Fine Equipe
8pm on January 30
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District,
Composed of four beatmakers from Paris and Marseille: Blanka, Chomsk ‘, Mr Gib and Oogo, La Fine Equipe “offers original and malignant productions on stage”.
Tickets: VND80,000
EXHIBITION
Exhibition “Himalaya” by Photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh
Toong Co-working Space
8 Trang Thi Street, Hoan Kiem District
Exhibition “Himalaya” displays 25 works by photographer Nguyen Quynh Anh during her trips to the lands surrounding the Himalayas in North India over the past three years.
Nguyen Quynh Anh was born in Hanoi and grew up in Russia. She graduated with an architecture major in Moscow, but has pursued photography and travelling as the greatest passions in her life after her trip to North India in 2012.
Tết Art 2016 – Vietnam’s Leading Contemporary Art Fair
Hanoi Creative City
1 Luong Yen Street, Hai Ba Trung District
TET ART 2016 unites and showcases more than 200 curated original artworks by more than 80 leading Vietnamese and international modern and contemporary artists.
Lomography Exhibition “No to Sorrow” by Maika Elan
Goethe-Institute Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District
Lomography is a style of analog photography, which works with the unpredictable image qualities of cheap cameras, like colour changes and negative effects.
On display will be a range of different photographs, from the areas of portrait, fashion and documentary photography. Maika Elan’s pictures play around with colours, shades, focus and perspective.
They show both the trivial and exceptional scenes from the photographer’s life, and always reflect her optimism and happiness.
HO CHI MINH CITY
PERFORMANCE
Live music with Private Affair Band
Saigon Saigon Bar
19 - 23 Lam Son Square, District 1
Nightly from 9pm except Mondays
Private Affair was founded in 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine. The band conducted large numbers of live performances in the top clubs in the Ukraine.
The band members all have a range of experiences in co-operation with session musicians, popular Ukrainian artists and performances on the big stage.
EXHIBITION
Lacquer Painting Exhibition “One Happy World” by Nguyen Thi Mai
97A Pho Duc Chinh street, District 1
Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum
“One Happy World” is Mai’s first solo exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City, including some of her best works as well as featuring some of her latest works since her last solo exhibition in Hanoi in 2014.
On a visual level, Mai uses a lot of neutral colors: grey, brown, dark green, bronze, etc… Coupled with the faded color of unpolished lacquer, these colors give Mai’s work a very rustic and rough look.
Exhibition “Passers By” by Ho Hung
VinGallery
6 Le Van Mien, Thao Dien, District 2
Come to ‘Passers By’ a solo exhibition of new watercolour paintings by Vietnamese artist Ho Hung.
Ho Hung’s watercolours capture the ephemerality and the subtle sensuousness of the everyday. Dappled light, warm colours and empty spaces characterize his style and his view of the landscapes of his homeland in Southern Vietnam.
