16 – 24 Mar, 09 am – 09 pm daily
PI-CHANNEL shop, upstairs
31B Le Thanh Ton
District 1, HCM City

Photography is the next medium to be featured in albb Open Studio with an experimental portrait studio by Saigon-based artist Freek Drent in collaboration with Vincent Westgeest.

For the past year or so, Freek Drent and Vincent Westgeest have been photographing in HCM City. Out on the streets, they often meet certain types of people, certain “characters” whom they find interesting. For albb Open Studio Program, they will set up the room as a portrait studio and will invite some of these characters to come and be photographed. Their project will be open and experimental, using different kinds of lighting, or backgrounds like billboards or commercials that are all over HCM City.

If you visit the open studio, you may also be invited to become a subject for one of their studio portraits.

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UdK Award for Interdisciplinary Art and Science: Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: 31 May

Art and science are moving towards one another, discovering common issues and working methods. The creative, imaginative processes in the arts and sciences are similar, whereas the concrete realisation of their results tends to differ. Repeatedly, this difference is the source of productive tension and areas of friction. In all disciplines of the arts and sciences, further developments over recent decades have been characterised by mutual influences and efforts at differentiation. Today, traditional dividing lines between the spheres can no longer be maintained; they are being newly defined and presented in their permeability.

The Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) is hosting this competition in order to give the impetus and opportunity to artists (fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc.) and scientists to work between the priorities of the arts or between the arts and science.

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Singapore International Photography Festival: Call for submissions
Submission Deadline: 31 Mar 2010

As we move into the third week of March, we would like to remind you that the worldwide open call for submission for the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) 2010 will close on 31 Mar.

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Fri 19 Mar, 10 am
Ho Chi Minh City Book Fair
Conference Room No. 2, Le Van Tam Park
Hai Ba Trung St., Dis. 1, HCMC

Tue 23 Mar, 3 pm
Creative Cafe (Hội quán Sáng tạo)
36 Dien Bien Phu St., Hanoi

The Embassy of Italy proudly presents popular Italian writer, director and performer Alessandro Baricco. Best known for his novels ‘Ocean Sea’ and ‘Silk, Baricco is coming to HCMC and Hanoi this Mar to give talks.

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Question: When and why was the causeway built across West Lake?
Answer: Built by the 2nd dynasty Lê kings in the 1600s.

Trúc Bạch Lake was separated from the West Lake by the construction of a narrow dike (Cổ Ngư, “reinforcement”) in the 17th century to allow the king and his military to access the Red River without having to cross through the city or go down the Tô Lịch River or cross West Lake, and to create a shallow lake for raising fish.

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23 Mar – 09 Apr
Hanoi, Hue, HCMC

The Embassy of Canada cordially invites you to the screenings of two wonderful Canadian films, Seducing Doctor Lewis and Sticky Fingers, during the Francophone Film Festival celebrating the International Day of Francophonie 2010 in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Hue.

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Young Artists Club: Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: 15 Jun

The Young Artists Club is curating an exhibition on the theme “Suburban Life” and currently looking for paintings (lacquer, oil, acrylic, etc.), installations, sculptures and video works to be featured in the show.

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Opening: Fri 19 Mar, 6 pm
Exhibition: 19 – 26 Mar
Exhibition Hall
45 Trang Tien, Hanoi

In January 2010, Vietnamese social NGO, CSAGA brought together 24 members of their support clubs for women who have experienced domestic violence to do a creative project using mask making, storytelling, drawing, singing, theatre games and photography. The aim was to help the women explore their lives, past and present, and then to share the outcomes with a wider audience.

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Theprintspace gallery Photography exhibition: Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: 31 Mar

Theprintspace gallery is looking for a diverse selection of images to participate in the final exhibition this September in Shoreditch, London, UK. We want to see the best you have to offer – whatever the subject, context or style. The show will feature photography selected exclusively from the images submitted to our page on Flickr.

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Location: Due west of Hanoi near Sài Sơn. Turn left at the Daewoo Hotel and proceed straight past Big C out of Hanoi on the Láng – Hòa Lạc Highway, currently under construction. When you see the first karst formation on the right, turn right at the Đáy river into the village. Or, take bus #216.

Not so far from Hanoi, away from the road under construction, across the rice field, is a smallish lake. On the far side of the lake lies a village and behind it rises a karst mountain covered with vegetation. In the lake, as if floating on the water, is the pagoda-style water puppet theater. Upon the peninsula on the right shore of the lake, within garden landscaped grounds sits a pagoda. Each building of the pagoda is higher than the one before it, each roof swooping in a gentle curve.

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