Green Zoom – Art-Talk 2

Sat 08 Nov, 9am
Venue: Drama Room – United Nations International School – Phu Thuong, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Vietnamese with English translation

Community Arts is something fairly new in Vietnam. As one of few Vietnamest artists pioneering in this field during the last few years, Phan Y Ly will give a talk in the programme Art Talk No 2 coordinated by GreenZoom in collaboration with United Nations International School in Hanoi with the topic:
“Community Art-Talk with Phan Y Ly”.

This is the chance for Vietnamese and international young people to know more about Community Arts, Arts in Development in Vietnam , Phan Y Ly also shares her own experience and stories when implementing her fantastic community-art projects. The programme also features two short films “Green Meadow” (30’) from “My life, my views” project carried out by Phan Y Ly and a group of children from Middle Bank on the Red River , and “Hitkhoi” (5’) a product from GreenZoom’s “My Message” project. The interesting thing is that both of these projects have been awarded during Vietnam Innovation Day 2006, 2007 under the sponsorship of the World Bank in Vietnam .

The programme is free and open for everyone. A bus will be arranged to transport participants from GreenZoom Open Space 47 Thai Thinh 1 to UNIS
To reserve a seat, please contact:
Ms. Nguyen Thu Thuy- Art-talk Executive
Mobile: 0979 872 105
Email: [email protected], Website: www.greenzoom.org

Further information:
– Introduction about ART TALK
Art-talk is a new initiative of GreenZoom in a serie of group educational activities, aims to bring artistic knowledge and experience to participants and enhance their spiritual values.
Art-talk theme is broad, ranging from traditional art, contemporary art, to community art,…. Talks are organized in form of open discussions such as friendly conversations focusing on reciprocating, sharing and bringing experience for the participants and reflecting GreenZoom spirit of “Sharing & Creating”.
Details of Art-Talk series can be seen at GreenZoom website: www.greenzoom.org or Blog: http://360.yahoo.com/greenzoom_hn

– Introduction about Phan Y Ly:

Born in 1981, Phan Y Ly is the first Vietnamese woman to study MA Theatre for Development in the UK as a Chevening scholar. She has 4 years of experience in development work and community theatre with UNDP, international organisations in Vietnam and abroads. Ly is now a freelance consultant on using arts for individual and social transformation in Vietnam and a co-moderator of the Art for Development Vietnam e-list.

In Vietnam , she is well-known for the project “My life, my view”. In this project, a group of young children aged 10-14 from the floating village in the Middle Bank of Red River has been given a camera to express their thoughts and feelings and communicate about their life to wider society. Their community film titled “Green Meadow” was then widely introduced to public.