Sunday Family Concert

Posted: 17 May 2012

sunday family concert

Sun 10 Jun 2012, 10 am and 2 pm
Worker Theater

From ticketvn.com:

You are invited to a Sunday Family Concert with conductor Honna Tetsuji, MC & Narrator Dao Mai Anh and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. For more information, see below:
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Girl-from-Maxims

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After doing a sold-out run of shows for December production Winter Shorts, the HITS crew got a brief break for Christmas and Tet. We’re now hard at work putting together a really big, ambitious comedy show The Girl from Maxim’s.

Read here about what it takes to pull together a production like this, the off-stage dramas (“ahem, hopefully not too many!” – Producer) and find out about the world of Maxim’s.

More info on the upcoming show The Girl from Maxim’s, click here.

Reminder: A Chula Morning

Posted: 17 May 2012

Chula Morning Bookworm

Sat 19 May 2012, 10 am
Chula

From Bookworm:

Don’t forget A CHULA MORNING at the fashion house of  CHULA on the lake this Saturday.

Complimentary coffee, tea, pastries, cookies and CHULA sangria. Champagne and orange juice cocktails …50 000VND

Entry: 50 000VND……bookings essential… bookworm@fpt.vn ….. 04 37153711

Performance of The Yard Dogs

Posted: 17 May 2012

YARD-DOGS 18 May

Fri 18 May 2012, 9 pm
21N Club, Lang Yen Phu, Hanoi

Fri 18 May 2012, 7 pm
La 4uatrieme
4th floor, 95 Giang Văn Minh, Hanoi

From Arno Baude:
You are invited to an exhibition Banh My Hawaii Tasting Arno Baude Retrospection 2005-2012. Art installation, happening …and the most important…INTERACTION!

Taste a Hawaiian toast in Vietnamese style. Dress code: Hawaiian shirt. Wear an hawaiian shirt (or similar)/ get one Piña Colada for free.

(If you’ve always wanted to buy a Hawaiian shirt in Hanoi and did not know where: shop around 17 Trần Phú, Ba Dinh District. Price: 180.000vnd)

success

Tue 29 May 2012, 8 pm
IDECAF

From IDECAF:

You are invited to the rock-electro music night at IDEACAF on 29th May 2012 at 8 pm/ After 3 years of establishment with a history of hundreds of performances, the performing style of Success which was discovered in their performance in Transmusicales, Rennes in 2009 mixing rock’n’roll and electro music has left great impression on the audiences in France and European countries.

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Creative Encounters 2012 Call for Proposals
Deadline: 30 Jun 2012

From the organizer:
Creative Encounters: Cultural Partnerships between Asia and Europe is an initiative that aims to support collaborative artistic and networking projects in the framework of the Asia-Europe dialogue. Art and culture organisations and networks of Asia and Europe are invited to apply.

Initial project proposal MUST be submitted in English through ANA website by 30 June 2012. (6pm Singapore time)

For more information, visit ANA website.

Performance by Black Voices

Posted: 16 May 2012

Black Voices 1

HCMC: Sun 20 May 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House

HANOI: Mon 21 May 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House

From British Council:

Don’t forget performance by Black Voices. Over their 24 years, Black Voices has steadily built up a reputation for delivering stunning performances through a soulful and inspirational harmonic blend.  Their ever-growing repertoire includes spiritual, traditional African,Caribbeanand English folk songs as well as jazz, gospel, pop and reggae.

Ticket

HANOI Ticket prices: 150000, 250000, 350000, 500000 VND (100 000 VND for students). All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over  www.ticketvn.comticketvn@gmail.com

For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.

HCMC Tickets can be purchased at the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet, Symphony and Orchestra Office.

Fri 18 May 2012, 6 pm
DOCLAB

From DOCLAB:

Doclab cordially invites you to the screening of  “Chronicle of a Summer - Chronique d’un été” by two French filmmakers, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and pre-independence Congo seethes with violence, ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin send two women out into the streets of the city to interview passersby.

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Bookworm Festival of Ideas and WritingDon’t miss what promises to be a fascinating talk tonight by George Burchett.

FROM HANOI TO HANOI – THE LONG JOURNEY HOME

George Burchet was born in Hanoi in 1955 and lived here until 1957 when his family moved to Moscow and some years later to France.

George traces his journey back to Hanoi using photographs of colonial Indochina taken by his Australian father Wilfred Burchett (‘Public Enemy Number One’). George discusses his new project documenting those countries and their first two years free of colonial domination.

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BOOKING ESSENTIAL: BOOKWORM@FPT.VN; 04 37153711
Fee: 50,000 VND; VIETNAMESE STUDENTS FREE, 01 COMPLIMENTARY WINE OR BEER ON ARRIVAL