Vietnamese Artists in SEA ArtsFest 2015 in London
26 Oct – 13 Dec 2015
Various locations in London
SEA ArtsFest is the first Southeast Asian arts festival in the UK, championing and developing the work of the artists of Southeast Asia and those inspired by Southeast Asia. SEA ArtsFest brings together artists, practitioners, makers and thinkers to increase awareness of SEA Arts and its audience base, and is supported by Arts Council England.
Vietnamese representatives in SEA ArtsFest this year include Saigon’s Sàn Art as the featured gallery from Vietnam in Fulcrum Digital project series; Hanoi’s experimental music group The Six Tones; and Mr. Thanh Vu, founder of the An Viet Foundation, based in London.
On Thu 19 Nov, Mr. Thanh Vu will be giving a talk at An Viet Foundation, 12-14 Englefield Rd, London N1 4LS, titled “Stories of Migration – Memories from Vietnam” about his memories and experience as a refugee from Vietnam after the Vietnam war in 1975. The talk will be illustrated by photographs from Kieran Jones. Read about Mr. Thanh Vu here.
On Sat 21 Nov, at 3 pm and 7 pm, The Six Tones will be presenting an installation and performance for three choreographed musicians titled Inside/Outside at Studio 1 in the Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way London SE14 6NW. Read more about the performance here.
On Tue 24 Nov, at 3 pm, there will be a panel discussion with The Six Tones (Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Ngô Trà My, and Stefan Östersjö) and Barley Norton and Roger Redgate of Goldsmiths University to explore notions of traditional Vietnamese culture versus a globalized, multi-cultural society and the politics of music making. The panel dicussion takes place at Room 314, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London.
For detailed program of SEA ArtsFest 2015 please refer to their website.
A video of Inside/Outside performance at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden, in Dec 2014:
[youtube width=”700″ height=”393″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8iP1Swumg[/youtube]
