15 Apr, Fine arts Museum – exhibition opening, Spanish artist ALBERTO CORAZÓN

Great news – Salon Natasha is re-opening! Inaugural exhibition this Wednesday.

18 March 2009, 20:00 – 23:00 Pranzo Tattile – Food for the Sense of Touch presented by the Italian Embassy HANOI – Cultural season at Goethe-Institut Hanoi

Opening: Fri 13 Mar, 6pm Exhibition: 13-23 March 2009 Goethe Institut Hanoi Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi. The German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski combined his personal photographic journey of discovery through the major south-east Asian megalopolises with workshops for young talents at each stop.

Opening: Wed 25 Feb, 6pm at Goethe Institut Exhibition: 26 Feb-06 02 Mar 2009 Photographs from Thanh Hoa, Vietnam A unique community initiative empowering sixteen people with disabilities from Thanh Hoa province to tell their own stories using digital photography.

20-30 Dec (except 21 and 24) OWL AND THE SPARROW We are pleased to be the only cinema in Vietnam to present the recent Vietnamese feature film, OWL AND THE SPARROW. This lovely movie, written and directed by Vietnamese-American Stephane Gauger, has until now been playing and winning awards at a number of major international [...]

Blood Brothers LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR TICKETS This weekend, 5th-7th December, the Hanoi International Theatre Society (HITS) is staging the musical play, Blood Brothers, straight out of London’s West End. Come and support local theatre and see superb performances like never before in Hanoi. All profits from the show will be donated to local [...]

3 Days – 3 Artists Opening: Tue 28 Oct, 6pm Exhibition: 28-31 Oct 2008 Discussion: Wed 29 Oct, 5pm Vũ Kim Thư, Lê Quốc Việt, Trần Trọng Dương

Mon 20 Oct, 6.30pm LÝ THÁI TỔ SQUARE (near Hoan Kiem Lake) Readings by the Writer MARCO MANCASSOLA accompanied by DJ Tri Minh

Hanoi Grapevine uploaded its very first post on 11 Oct 2007, so last weekend we celebrated our first birthday! Goethe Institut Hanoi, which has encouraged the Grapevine since the beginning, generously hosted a press conference – and even baked a cake! The first press report is here. The Grapevine is now proudly bilingual, and has [...]