HANOI
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PERFORMANCE
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district
8 pm, August 2 – 3: Toyota Concert Tour 2013
The concert offers music lovers various delicate melodies from Japan, Vietnam and around the world, with two works by the great Russian romantic, Tchaikovsky, and an orchestral arrangement of the folk song “Xe chi luon kim” (Love duets of Bac Ninh) written by composer Tran Manh Hung.
Ticket price: VND200,000 - VND 350,000 - VND 500, 000
Chuong Vang (Golden Bell) Theatre
71 Hang Bac street, Hoan Kiem district
8pm – 9pm every Saturday
Golden Bell show features a collection of traditional Vietnamese art forms that gives audiences a closer look into daily life in Vietnam.
Ticket: VND130,000
Star Club
87 Lang Ha street, Ba Dinh district
9 – 10.30 pm every Friday until August 16
‘Lang Du Friday Night’, a series of Friday music nights with performances by Lang Du band. Each night features a specific Flamenco theme performed by the band, in co-operation with two other artists and guests.
Ticket: VND 100,000
EXHIBITION
Korean Cultural Centre
49 Nguyen Du street, Hai Ba Trung district
Exhibition “Beautiful Sunny Day” by artist Nguyen Van Cuong
36 artworks in diverse media—namely oil paintings, carved wood and Papyrus—which express the artist’s nostalgic feelings for the Northern countryside of Vietnam.
Free entry
L’Espace
24 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district
Art exhibition, ‘Table’, which introduces the art of designing tableware and the traditional skills of France
Free entry
Vietnam Women’s Museum
36 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Hoan Kiem district
Painting exhibition, “Windows”, by female artist Duong Thuy Lieu
“Windows” reflects the artist’s view about the inner world and outer world, as well as how the arts change our lives and vice versa.
Free entry
PERFORMANCE
HCMC Opera House
7 Lam Son square, district 1
Toyota Concert Tour 2013
8 pm, July 30
Reflections Restaurant - Caravelle Hotel
19 Lam Son square, district 1
7 pm, Monday - Saturday
Live jazz and acoustic performances by Filipino duo Soul and Sound.
Lobby Lounge – Sheraton Saigon Hotel
89 Dong Khoi street, district 1
Vietnamese traditional music from 4 – 6 pm, daily.
Jazz music from 6 – 10:30 pm, daily
EXHIBITION
HCMC Fine Arts Museum
97A Pho Duc Chinh street, district 1
‘Sketches by Nguyen Gia Tri’, exhibition
Works on display include 73 stretches by master painter Nguyen Gia Tri, who dominated the field of lacquer painting in Vietnam before 1945.
San Art
3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh district
Exhibition, "Echoing Nostalgia. Collecting Countermemory", by Vietnamese artists Pham Ngoc Lan and Nguyen Trinh Thi, and Canadian visual artist John Monteith
Through the synergy between picture and sound in video works, the exhibition immerses the audience in a space where the line between the past and the present is blurred.
Free entry
Phuong My Flagship Store
81 Le Thanh Ton street, district 1
Exhibition, "Paeonia Dream", by Le Hoang Bich Phuong
Phuong exhibits two-layered paintings spotlighting the peony - the elegant flower of spring, and a royal symbol of classic East Asia denoting wealth and honor.
Free entry
