HANOI
PERFORMANCE
Concert “Beethoven Cycle 2015″ with VNSO
8pm, June 24 - 25
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District
The Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra will return to the L’Espace stage with a new series devoted to Beethoven.
Ticket price: VND160,000
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: VND80,000
Live Music Event ‘The Music Emporium’
8.30pm, June 25
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Street, Hoan Kiem District
‘The Music Emporium’ – a new intimate live music event
Tickets: VND50,000 at the door
EXHIBITION
Photo Exhibition ‘Vietnam: The Real War’
The Exhibition Hall
45 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District
The exhibition features 50 images taken from the Associated Press’s group of extraordinary photojournalists.
From Malcolm Browne’s evocative photograph of an elderly Buddhist monk, who voluntarily set ablaze to himself in a protest against the South Vietnamese government, to Nick Ut’s famous picture of a 9-year-old girl running away scorched and naked from a napalm attack, the selected images capture the drama and tragedy of people caught in war.
Works from other AP photographers displayed in the exhibit include Horst Faas and Henri Huet.
Exhibition ‘Concept Context Contestation Hanoi’: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia
Goethe Institute
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District
The exhibition features the works of 14 Southeast Asian artists, among them are five artists from Vietnam.
The exhibits, including performances, interactive installations, paintings, photographs and sound installations – portray the complex artistic development of the region over the last four decades, focusing on the connection between conceptual tactics and social ideologies.
Exhibition ‘Amazing, Such a Harmony’ by Eric Toebosch
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 28 Tran Binh Street, My Dinh
This is the first time a famous Dutch painter has introduced his latest works in Vietnam. The exhibition will feature 30 paintings on synthetic materials and more than ten pottery works created recently in Bat Trang pottery village.
HO CHI MINH CITY
PERFORMANCE
Film Screening ‘Harana’ by Benito Bautista
8pm, June 22
Hoa Sen University
8 Dinh Van Trang Street, District 1
Film screening of ‘Harana’ - the search for the lost art of Philippine serenade
Jazz music daily
6 – 10:30 pm
Level 23 Nightspot, Sheraton Saigon Hotel and Towers
EXHIBITION
Exhibition ‘Carne Vale’ by Nadège David and Sandrine Llouquet
Galerie Quynh
Level 2, 151/3 Dong Khoi, District 1
The exhibition features new works by Nadège David and Sandrine Llouquet.
The show comprises of drawings, sculptures and installations that reveal a poetic dimension to our human condition, through disconcerting yet strangely familiar imagery.
Exhibition ‘Sole Imprint of a Wood Flux’
Phuong My Flagship Store
81 Le Thanh Ton, District 1
Inspired by Ukiyo-e woodblock and the textile patterns of Phuong My’s Spring Summer 2015 collection, artist Nguyễn Hữu Trâm Kha showcases various iterations of ‘Wood-flux’.
Exhibition ‘Choose to Move’
Saigon Domaine
1057 Binh Quoi Street, Ward 28, Binh Thanh District
You are invited to come and enjoy the works of resident artists Tran Tuan, Orawan Arunrak, and Ta Minh Duc. The exhibition is an investigation into self-reflection set against distinctive social and historical contexts in Vietnam.