April 6-12: Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2015

4 – 7 pm, April 11

Hanoi Opera House

1 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district

Program: Choir and Concert Performance of Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

With the performance of:

Conductor: Kitahara Yukio

Orchestra: Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (VNSO)

Soloists: Sano Masahito (Baritone), Uehara Masatoshi (Tenor), Phuong Nga (Soprano), Phuong Uyen (Alto)

Chorus: Japan and Vietnam

Leader of Japanese chorus: Ms. Nakanishi Kumeko

Tickets: VND200,000 – VND 350,000 – VND500,000

Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival

Various venues in Hanoi:

Day 1:2 – 11 pm, April 9

Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich street, Hoan Kiem district

Day 2: 2 – 11 pm, April 10

Hanoi Creative City, 01 Luong Yen street, Hai Ba Trung district

Day 3: 7 – 10.30 pm, April 11

Van Ho Exhibition Center, 02 Hoa Lu street, Hai Ba Trung district

The festival will bring to Vietnam numerous talented sound artists and DJs from across the globe and several international artists of Vietnamese origin including Chi Thanh (Germany), Chi Thien – Chopstick (Germany) and Vannessa Van-Anh Vo (US).

Summer Concert at L’Espace

8 pm, April 9

L’Espace French Cultural Centre in Hanoi

24 Trang Tien street, Hoan Kiem district

The concert features viola player Nguyet Thu, violinist Tran Quang Duy and instrumentalists from the Hanoi Chamber Orchestra. Under the baton of conductor Nguyen Khac Thanh, the artists will perform Symphony Concertante for Viola, Violin and Orchestra and the Symphony No.25 in G minor by W. Mozart

Ticket price: VND250,000

EXHIBITION ‘Vietnam – 25 Years Documenting a Changing Country’ by US photographer Catherine Karnow

The exhibition is presented as the photographer’s diary since the first days she came to this country, gradually discovering its twists and turns while immersing herself in the land and its people.

Works on display are grouped into different topics, presenting Vietnam in the early 1990s, the country’s ‘Doi Moi’ (Renewal) process, Agent Orange victims, Amerasians, and images of Vietnam today.

Solo Exhibition “The Land of Energy” of Ngoc Nau

CUC Gallery

5th floor, Vietnam Women’s Museum

36 Ly Thuong Kiet, Hoan Kiem district

Nau’s artworks in this series introduce a new art practice of many emerging contemporary artists now to portray concepts of the past, present and future: very curious and experimental, research based and intuitive.

Exhibition “Predestination” by Vu Tuyen

Exhibition House

16 Ngo Quyen street, Hoan Kiem district

You are invited to the exhibition “Predestination” by Vu Tuyen which expresses multiple emotional tones about Lotus through 50 artworks.

HO CHI MINH CITYPERFORMANCEBerlin Club Night

8 pm, April 12

The Observatory

Corner of Le Lai and Ton That Tung, District 1

Enjoy music by German-Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist and DJ, Chi Thanh; Chi-Tien Nguyen and John B. Muder. who produce techno, house, electro and hip hop.

Free entrance.

Live music performance by duo Sitti and Jasson

Caravelle Saigon 19 Lam Son square, District 1 5-10 pm, Tuesday to Saturday

EXHIBITIONExhibition “Happiness Lies Beyond The Clouds” by Tran Minh Duc

San Art 48/7 Me Linh Street, Binh Thanh district Works on display narrate a story which relies on connections of similarities between Sasebo City and Ho Chi Minh City, in a realistic yet dreamy way in pink.

Exhibition “Day by Day” by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai

Sao La

1 Le Thi Hong Gam St., District 1

“Day by Day” presents a set of circumstances that are highly specific to the case of Vietnamese in Cambodia, yet also of broader relevance, intersecting with universal questions of citizenship and migration.

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