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 EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 15-30 (daily updated)

TEDxCity2.0 in Hanoi
Sat 21 Sep 2013, 2 pm
National Library
31 Trang Thi, Hanoi
You are invited to the event “TEDxCity2.0” which is organized by TEDxBadinh – an independent organization patronized by TEDxEvent, TED Global. It is an initial time that this event is established in Vietnam, and is held the second time in the world. About the event, the purpose is to share particular ideas in different fields (art, architecture, literature, travel etc.) and contribute those ideas to change Hanoi becomes a better city (about people, views or perception). Six crucial representatives, who have in-deep knowledge about Hanoi and are willing to share their passion, are invited to become our esteemed guest speakers.
About registration
TEDxBadinh is trying to help audience conveniently purchase tickets. We provide two options to buy ticket with two ranges of registration fee:
• Option 1: Purchase directly at 81 Lang Ha. Registration fee: 60, 000 VND.
• Option 2: Book online ticket with TEDxBadinh and we will ship it to your address. Fee: 75, 000 VND.
Registration link (from 01/09 to 18/09)
We will start to check-in at 1:30 PM and ends at 2 PM, so please arrive on time.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any concern, we are glad to answer as soon as possible.
For further information, please visit our Facebook, our website.
Email: tedxbadinh@gmail.com
Hotline: 0982 709 000 (Mr. Tien)
Screening of “Little Nicolas”
Fri 20 Sep 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “Little Nicolas” (France, 2010, 90 mins) directed by Laurent Tirard. The film was nominated for the César Award 2010 and the Best screenplay for  Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron. “The film brings audience back to touching childhood memories through satire.” (VnExpress).
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening of “Qu’un Seul Tienne et les Autres Suivront”
Fri 27 Sep 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening “The silent voices” (France, 2010, 115 mins) directed by Léa Fehner. The La Croix Magazine has rated this movie “The first masterful work. A beautiful movie whose feelings touch the audience’s heart”.
For more information about synopsis, please see L’Espace website (in French) or refer to the Vietnamese version of this post.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitle.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 40 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 20 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Cabaret Night in September
Sat 28 Sep 2013, 8.30 – 9.30 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
Cabaret Night at L’Espace is the stage for new music talents. Come here to enjoy great drinks and listen to fabulous French, English and Vietnamese songs.
If you are a song-writer, singer or you can sing in French, Vietnamese or English, contact Cédric Drouard to participate in the Cabaret Music Night at L’Espace: cedminimum@hotmail.fr.
Free admission.
Symphony Concert with German Conductor Bernhard Epstein
Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
For the second time this year, renowned conductor Bernhard Epstein, Music Academy of Stuttgart visits Hanoi, responding to the invitation of the DAAD and the Goethe-Institut and in cooperation with the Vietnam National Academy of Music. After the successful performance of pieces such as Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” in March, together with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hanoi he will present works of Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven at the Opera House of Hanoi.
Program
1. Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Concerto No 1 in D-Minor, Op. 15
I. Maestoso (D-Minor)
II. Adagio (D-Major)
III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo (D-Minor/ D-Major)
2. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sinfonie in Es-Dur, Op. 55
I. Allegro con brio
II. Marcia funebre
III. Scherzo
IV. Allegro molto – Poco Andante -Presto
Tickets
Ticket prices: 350 000, 500 000 VND.
Tickets are available from Monday, 9.9.2013 at:
+ Goethe-Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi
+ NationalAcademy of Music, 77 Hao Nam, Hanoi
+ Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Conductor Prof. Bernhard Epstein
Studying piano, ensemble conducting and conducting at the music academies in Stuttgart, Hannover and Berlin Bernhard Epstein graduated with honors. From 2001 to 2002 he was solo repetiteur and appointed conductor at the theatre of Koblenz, followed by a commission as conductor at the State Opera Hannover and from 2006-2009 also as conductor at the State Opera Stuttgart. Since 2009 Bernhard Epstein has been working as the Artistic Director of the OperaSchool, he is also professor of correpetition since 2007 at the college of music in Stuttgart. As a pianist and conductor, he was awarded with several prizes and scholarships. Besides an extensive range of opera repertoires Bernhard Epstein has also conducted numerous contemporary musical theatre productions and premieres.
Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra – VietnamNationalAcademy of Music
The Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra has already made a name for itself internationally. The ensemble does not only plays several concerts every year in different provinces and cities of Vietnam, the ensemble’s last great trip abroad was in to Japan, but it also played in Thailand, Lao and Russia. The Orchestra comprises of professors, lecturers and good students of Vietnam National Academy of Music, of which many also graduated from well-known international music conservatories. Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra performs annually with foreign guest conductors.
Festival of Contemporary Dance 2013 “Europe Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance”
Pre-Opening: Wed 25 Sep, 8 pm
L’Espace
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Festival: 26 – 29 Sep 2013, 8 pm
Youth Theater
“Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance” – The Dance Festival is taking place for the third time and is already a major event in the cultural calendar of Hanoi. Received by both media and the public with enthusiasm and applause, this festival has successfully contributed to a growing awareness of contemporary dance in Hanoi since 2011. “Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance” is an initiative of EUNIC, the Network of European cultural institutes and embassies in Hanoi, in cooperation with the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet (VNBO) and this year will be coordinated by the Goethe Institute.
Larger and more diverse than in the past two years, this year’s festival includes dance pieces from five countries: Belgium (Wallonie-Bruxelles), France, Great Britain, Israel and Japan. In addition, there will be one German-Vietnamese and one French-Vietnamese co-production. On five evenings the audience will experience a broad spectrum of contemporary dance to soundtracks ranging from hip-hop through electronic to classical music.
In the “pre-opening” at the Institut Francais – L’Espace, a French-Vietnamese group presents the piece Underground. Based on the historical reality of the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam, choreographers John Bateman and Nguyen Anh Duc offer a tribute to the resilience of human life. Like a living mass, a continuous stream, the dancers crisscross and intertwine.
At the invitation of the Wallonia-Brussels Delegation, Compagnied’Ici P. presents the solo piece Sillon of FréWerbrouck, danced by Sara Sampelayo Fernandez. Accompanied by a fragment of melody, the piece attempts to grasp sounds that capture the identity of a gesture, interrupted by moments of tense emptiness. A journey into weightlessness, alternating between rhythmic and a-rhythmic images.
For the first time a Japanese dancer joins the festival, at the invitation of the Japan Foundation. Mikiko Kawamura, making a clean sweep of New Artist Prizes in Japan, shows a delicate yet powerful solo piece named Alphard, made with her inspiration from the same name’s lonely bright star, standing alone in the position of the snake’s heart in the constellation Hydra. With light installations, the young choreographer divides the stage into nine squares, each with a different musical theme. It is like “stepping on the perceptions”, according to the artist’s statement.
Also for the first time, Israel is a guest of the dance festival. Mushroom Z, a work for three dancers portrays a group of people, all different, and their dealing with an urban society, where life is full of temptations, climaxes, ecstasy, routine and downfall, pleasures, hallucinations and more. Choreographer Nadav Zelner has enjoyed national and international success.
Lighting is the title and also the theme of the German-Vietnamese co-production. Igniting a movement in a group of people begins with a small gesture which becomes a great movement – like a fire starting from a tiny spark and burning ever higher. German choreographer Anna Konjetzky, at the invitation of the Goethe Institute, co-founder of the festival, has developed this piece for five European and five Vietnamese dancers. The four-week rehearsal and the premiere of this unusual piece take place in Munich, thus providing the young dancers of VNOB an extraordinary opportunity to present themselves internationally.
The British Candoco Dance Company, at the invitation of the British Council, present In Translation accompanied by a piano piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Duets, trios or solos by the dancers arise and unfold from a single motion sequence. This piece conveys dance with a new meaning: one of the artists is a wheelchair user. CandoCo has become internationally known as a professional dance company that integrates disabled and non-disabled dancers.
The finale of the festival “Europe meets Asia in Contemporary Dance” is on Sunday the 29th September, with the French production petiteshistoires.com. The choreographer Kader Attou and his Compagnie Accrorap play with elements of hip-hop. With humor and acrobatics they build a bridge between the French street art of multicultural French cities and the stage of the dance theater.
Program
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien: Wednesday, 25th September, 8pm
Pre-Opening Underground
Youth Theatre Hanoi, 11 Ngo Thi Nham:
Thursday, 26th September, 8 pm
Grand Opening with all artists
Sillon
Alphard
Mushroom z
Friday, 27th September, 8pm
Alphard
Sillon
Lighting
Saturday, 28th September, 8pm
In Translation
Mushroom z
Lighting
Sunday, 29th September, 8pm
petiteshistoires.com
FREE TICKETS are available from 19 September at 2 pm at:
Goethe-Institut, 56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học, Hanoi
L’Espace, 24 Tràng Tiền, Hanoi
Japan Foundation, 27 Quang Trung, Hanoi
British Council, 20 Thụy Khuê, Hanoi
Institut Français de Hanoi – L’Espace
24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Screening of Bill Morrison’s Films
DECASIA / LIGHT IS CALLING / THE FILM OF HER: 21 and 25 Sep 2013, 8 pm
THE MINERS’ HYMNS / PORCH / RELEASE / JUST ANCIENT LOOPS: 22 and 26 Sep 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Cinematheque
22A Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
THE ONION CELLAR proudly presents the official Vietnam premieres of a program of found-footage films by the renowned experimental filmmaker BILL MORRISON.
Main attractions are BILL MORRISON’s two (arguably) most well-known works: DECASIA and THE MINERS’ HYMNS, each accompanied by a number of short films
Each of these films will be screened twice on different dates.
Over the past fifteen years, BILL MORRISON has created a remarkable series of found-footage films that highlight the ravages of time and decay on the filmed image. These are as much celebrations of the sometimes-frightening beauty of decomposing film as laments for vanishing relics of cinema’s origin.
Although not drawing exclusively from early cinema, Morrison specialises in this originary epoch of movie history. On the material level, he appreciates the paradoxical fact that nitrate simultaneously offers what he considers the most perfect film image and is also notoriously unstable. Beyond this, he sees the invention of film as the only precisely locatable birth of an art form, one whose inception is not lost in the mists of time but is more or less contemporary with the emergence of modern man. From the decaying body of film, he extrapolates an analogy for the fate of the human mind and body.
As an introduction to his films, BILL MORRISON explains:
“The frame pauses briefly before the projector’s lamp, and then moves on. Our lives are accumulations of ephemeral images and moments that our consciousness constructs into a reality. No sooner have we grasped the present, it is relegated to the past, where it only exists in the subjective history of each individual. The images can be thought of as desires or memories: actions that take place in the mind. The film stock can be thought of as the body, that which enables these events to be seen. Like our own bodies, this celluloid is a fragile and ephemeral medium that can deteriorate in countless ways.”
DECASIA (2002)
DECASIA: THE STATE OF DECAY, BILL MORRISON’s moving avant-garde visual symphony, was edited entirely from found film footage left in archives that had decayed over time. The severe emulsion deterioration reveals the film stock in its basic chemical form and the images are stripped to their most primitive emotional state. The film was shaped to MICHAEL GORDON’s moving symphony performed by the 55-piece basel sinfonietta. The soundtrack is decaying itself: Gordon took the orchestra to musical extremes by detuning the instruments and using prepared pianos (in which various objects (pingpong balls, cutlery, etc) are placed on different parts of the pianos (strings, hammers, etc) to create different new sounds and tones) to further emphasize the powerful hallucinatory visual experience.
“Bill Morrison’s DECASIA is that rare thing: a movie with avant-garde and universal appeal… the film is a fierce dance of destruction.” – J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Compelling and disturbing! Swimming symphonies of baroque beauty emerge from corrosive nitrate disintegration as rockets of annihilation demolish cathedrals of reality.” – Kenneth Anger
THE MINERS’ HYMNS (2010)
Filmmaker and artist BILL MORRISON pries open the past, patching together a hypnotic collage of archival footage to reconstruct England’s vanishing mining communities. Northeast England was once dotted with coal mines, with entire communities living off the black gold pulled from the earth. That all ended after the 1984 miners’ strikes, with a brutal wave of police suppression and mine closures.
Morrison’s mesmerising film unearths vivid images of the coal towns’ heyday, piecing together a lost way of life rich with community and celebration, and marked by intolerably hard and dangerous work.
Even without having previous knowledge of the film, a viewer of Morrison’s careful selection will come away understanding the strong and cohesive narrative.
These specific miners are from the Durham coalfield area in the Northeast UK. At the beginning and near the end of the film are two aerial segments that contrast the past and present Durham area. What was once the pride of Durham has now become parking lots, malls and football stadiums. Where towns had once supported miners with parades for unions with power (“Miners fights your Battles” read one sign) the history is displaced. Even the protests and conflict which erupted in the ‘80s as the miners’ unions faced collapse and braced themselves against Thatcher’s free market agenda.
THE MINERS’ HYMNS is conceived as a collaborative project between Morrison and composer JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON, whose brass-heavy, electronic score is meant to recall the music of the colliery brass bands that are occasionally glimpsed in some of the film’s archival footage (especially during the glorious ending). Jóhannsson’s work, with its rousing crescendos, frequently lends a heroic air to the material, particularly during footage of the miners at work hacking out coal nuggets with their pickaxes or during a union procession that wends into a local cathedral, an impression aided by the gravitas-accentuating use of slow motion.
(Slant Magazine)
TICKETS: VND 50,000 (each screening) – available at doors   
Contemporary Dance “Underground”
Wed 25 Sep 2013, 8 pm
L’Espace
You are invited to contemporary dance performance called “Underground” of French dance group CHIROPTERA JOHN BATEMAN, choreographed by John Bateman. This is the pre-opening performance of Festival of Contemporary Dance 2013 “Europe Meets Asia in Contemporary Dance”
Inspired by historical reality of the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam, John Bateman and Nguyen Anh Duc reflect on the idea of Underground Life.
In honor of Vietnamese endurance, the performance assembles together dancers from both Europe and Vietnam in a reunion to develop an emotional program. Similar to non-stop underground journey of ants, or plying bees with their dance, the artists meet each other, breathe together, crisscross and intertwine, tirelessly, just take a short breath, like a living mass, a continuous stream…
FREE TICKETS are available from 19 September at 2 pm at:
Goethe-Institut, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi
L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Japan Foundation, 27 Quang Trung, Hanoi
British Council, 20 Thuy Khue, Hanoi
Seminar “Kafka – For a Minor Literature”
Wed 18 Sep 2013, 6 pm
IDECAF
28 Le Thanh Ton, Distr 1, HCMC
You are invited to the seminar on the occasion of launching the Vietnamese version of ”Kafka – For a minor literature” authored Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, with the participation of the translator, professor Nguyen Thi Tu Huy.
Language of the seminar: Vietnamese
Free entrance.
Concert with Australian Duo Agostino
Thu 26 Sep 2013, 7.45 pm
VOV Theatre
58 Quan Su, Hanoi
Renowned Australia guitarists Janet and Raffaele Agostino – Duo Agostino – will perform at a special one-off concert at the Voice of Vietnam theatre in Hanoi on 26 September. The concert, organised by the Australian Embassy, will showcase pieces from their Under the Southern Skies album and as well as a Vietnamese piece called Di Cay.
The concert is a part of the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Australia.
Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Hugh Borrowman, said, “We have chosen Duo Agostino to perform for the Vietnamese audience because not only do they play the guitar beautifully, but they have also been successful in the development of the guitar as an ensemble instrument. This makes them very special.”
Duo Agostino are taking time out from a private visit to Vietnam to put on this special performance. They will also spend time on 27 September working with students at the National University of Art Education (NUEA). Janet commented, “Vietnamese appreciation of fine music is well known, so we are really looking forward to performing for a Vietnamese audience and working with Vietnamese students”.
This concert is among a series of activities that the Australian Embassy has organised to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Vietnam. Throughout 2013, the Australian Government is presenting an extensive program of cultural and educational events showcasing Australia as a creative and innovative partner and an inclusive multicultural society.
Already this year, Vietnamese audiences have enjoyed performances by Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s leading Indigenous dance theatre group and Australian jazz trio Elixir, been inspired by the travelling science exhibition from Australia’s National Science & Technology Centre – Questacon – and watched young Vietnamese chefs in the, Aust-Viet Junior Chef Challenge.
About Duo Agostino
Raffaele and Janet share a strong interest in the development of the guitar as an ensemble instrument. They have both been active in organising and tutoring at the annual Sydney Guitar Summer School over the last 18 years. Together with fellow guitarist and composer Richard Charlton they form the “Sydney Guitar Trio”. This ensemble has performed extensively around Australia, as well as an overseas tour of Argentina, UK and Italy in 2001. The Trio has released a CD “One Hour To Madness and Joy”, an album of Australian compositions specially written for the group.
Raffaele and Janet have been regular performers at the Darwin International Guitar Festival, giving them the opportunity to perform new works for guitar with various other instruments. In July 2006 Duo Agostino appeared as featured artists at the Winchester Guitar Festival and whilst in the UK they recorded for their CD “Under the Same Sky”. Both Raffaele and Janet have been awarded Life membership by the Classical Guitar Society, Sydney, for their significant and sustained contribution.
FREE TICKETS to Duo Agostino concert are available from 16 September 2013 on a first come first served basis at:
- VOV office (58 Quan Su, Hanoi)
- The Australian Embassy (8 Dao Tan, Ba Dinh, Hanoi)
Mid-Autumn Festival
Wed 18 Sep 2013, 6 – 9 pm
Casa Italia
18 Le Phung Hieu, Hanoi
The Mid-Autumn Festival is among the most important ones in the Lunar Calendar, only second to the Lunar New Year. We celebrate the Festival on the 15th day of the 8th Lunar month, when the moon is biggest and brightest. Traditionally, the Festival is for children, but nowadays it has become an occasion to stay together, making and giving moon cakes and watching the spectacular traditional dance of the Lion.
On occasion of this Mid-Autumn Festival, come to a party for all the children and everyone who wants to revive the old traditions of the Festival with the following program:
- 18.00 – 18.30: Videoclip and presentation about the traditional festival
- 18.30 – 20.00: Lion-head painting, moon cakes preparing and baking
- 20.00 – 20.30: Lion dance with local traditional artists
- 20.30 – 21.00: Baking done, everyone goes party!
Tickets: 200.000VND/child (materials for lion-head painting and moon cakes baking included; free for parents).
THERE WILL BE PRIZE FOR THE BEST MADE LION-HEAD AND MOON CAKE!!!
Please register for tickets before 14th September 2013 sending an email to: info@uni-italia.vn or calling to 043 824 0579.
Mid-autumn Festival CUPID FESTIVAL 2013
Sun 15 Sep 2013, 8 am – 10 pm
Zone 9
9 Tran Thanh Tong, Hanoi
CUPID FESTIVAL 2013 is a wonderful opportunity for you to experience a lively and colorful mid-autumn festival. All the money will be donated to children suffering from severe financial difficulty and life-threatening illnesses.
Activities of the festival:
- Book fair with interesting activities.
- Handmade fair, fancy space to take photos
- Music and street dance with flashmob “Bring it all back”
All the money will be donated to pediatrics of poor families in National Hospital of Pediatrics.
Free entrance.

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