Tickets are now on sale and going fast.
Be sure to get yours at one of these locations:

Tonkin Travel 164 Xuan Dieu
The Oasis Deli, 24 Xuan Dieu
Green Mango, 18 Hang Quat

For more info about HITS and ‘Blood Brothers’ check this post.

Hanoi International Theatre Society (HITS)
http://hanoi-hits.info
secretary@hanoi-hits.info
hits.hanoi@gmail.com

Well-known Hanoi chef Didier Corlou has released a new book dedicated to food and Vietnam.

Wed 03 Dec, 2.30pm
Cooking classes, by Didier Corlou
Fri 05 Dec, 10am
Culinary Forum, Unique spices and rare Vietnamese products

28 Nov-02 Dec 2008
Exhibition House, 29 Hang Bai, Hanoi

A continuation of photographic stories of people living with HIV first presented three years ago.
Click on the image to download a .pdf file with complete information.

Exhibition House
29 Hang Bai
Hanoi

Sat 17 Jan 2009

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, the annual Hanoi Burns Supper will be held in the Melia Hotel.

11 & 12 Dec 2008, 8pm

Opening: Fri 28 Nov, 7pm
Exhibition: 28 Nov-12 Dec 2008
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Photo exhibition by Danish photographer Catherine Dolleris at this newly opened art cafe.

Opening: Mon 01 Dec, 6pm
Exhibition: 02-12 Dec 2008 (open daily: 9am–6pm)
Goethe Institute presents an interactive exhibition about youth in Germany. More info (in German) below:

Opening: Sun 30 Nov, 8pm
Venue: Room no.2, National Cinema Centre
The Vietnamese Danish Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) would like to invite you to the premier of a series of short documentaries about Long Bien Bridge. The premier features 2 Vietnamese and one Danish documentary with the wish to revitalize Long Bien’s bridge image in [...]

Việt Lê, artist, creative writer, and independent curator, spent several months recently in Vietnam researching the contemporary art scene.
He has posted an article with some of his reflections on the Asia Art Archive website. It makes interesting reading.
(photo of Việt Lê courtesy Nguyễn Quốc Thành)