Grapevine has a new home!

14.05.2008

Hanoi Grapevine snuck out late last night and didn’t come back.

It now lives at its new home.

Please drop by for a visit, and change your bookmarks and RSS feed readers as appropriate.

This will, I hope, be welcome news, especially for those who had difficulties accessing the original site. This move should take care of that. (Let me know please!)


L’Espace - drama

12.05.2008

L’Espace - CCF

Sat 17 May, 4 & 8 pm

Bodies and pain
Des corps et des mau

If you like theater , you can come and watch the show from the drama class from the French school, it is very contemporary way of doing drama.

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HCMC - new work by Tammy Nguyen

12.05.2008

HCMC Fine Arts University

Đồ Đạc Đi Đôi (Things That Come in Two)
new work by Tammy Nguyen

16-30 May
Opening - Fri, 16 May, 4 pm

In this show I look to the ways that the Western and Eastern worlds deal with the concept “two”. Read the rest of this entry »


L’Espace - Thursday Cinema - 15 May

11.05.2008

The first two Thursdays of each month, at 8 pm - one French film and one Asian film each month.

In May films will be screened the second and third Thursdays.
In June, during “Printemps français”, “Ciné Thursdays” will be the last two Thursdays.

Free admission subject to availability of space.

The films are shown in their original version with subtitles in French or Vietnamese.

Thurs, 15 May, 8 pm
Vũ khúc con cò
Chant des cigognes

The press release (in French and Vietnamese) is below:

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VAC - Calm Space, photography exhibition

10.05.2008

Viet Art Centre

Que Huong Photograph Group
Calm Space

Opening - Mon, 12 May, 6 pm

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Singapore Celebrates Vietnam

09.05.2008

In addition to the ‘Post Doi Moi’ symposium in Singapore which starts next week, it turns out there is a whole ‘Vietnam Festival’ running there from April to July, with a great range of events celebrating Vietnamese culture.

Click on the image above to go to the Vietnam Festival website and take a look.

Thanks to Thomas at Studio Tho for sending the link.


Klezmer in Hanoi!

09.05.2008

Melia Hotel, Latino Bar - Mon, 12 May, about 8 pm.
Youth Theater - Tues, 13 May, 8 pm

[ U P D A T E ]
Apparently tickets are free. So try just showing up at the youth Theater and maybe you’ll get in. Well worth the effort!

Oy Division

Klezmer band plays Hanoi

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Eta Bar - Photo Exhibition, Live Music

08.05.2008

Eta Bar

Exhibition opens Sat, 10 May, 3 pm
Music starts 8.30 pm

Boris Zuliani - photo exhibition
Polemika Pravda - Hanoian garage ska band

An obviously objective correspondent passed this announcement to the Grapevine:

A combined event of the opening of a photo exhibition by Boris Zuliani followed by a scintillating performance by renowned Hanoian garage ska band Polemika Pravda in the new Ete performance space on the top floor…

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VAC - Sparkling Lacquer

08.05.2008

Viet Art Centre

2-Day event focusing on the tradition of lacquer painting in Vietnam.
Day 1: Sat, 10 May, 2.30 pm
Day 2: Sat, 24 May, 2.30 pm

Dang Manh Ha
Dang Xuan Hanh

Sparkling Lacquer - Exhibition and Workshop

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The Spring of Passion for Women – Literature

08.05.2008

HANOI CINEMATHEQUE

“The Spring of Passion for Women – Literature”

Young Italian Writers – Pietro Grossi

Introduction by Beatrice Giudice

Thurs, 15 May, 6.30 pm

The Spring of Passion for Women, organised by the Embassy of Italy in Hanoi, presents another famous young Italian artist. On May 15th 2008, Pietro Grossi will discuss at Hanoi Cinematheque about literature conceived in a new, modern and the roles played by feminine characters in his books.

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