A new live performance entitled The Gossip will be presented by the experimental music centre Phu Sa Lab starting on Friday, October 26.

The Wicked Halloween party will be held from 7.30pm to 10pm on October 31 atthe  AB Tower on 76A Lê Lai Street in HCM City’s District 1.

The Star Live Halloween and Indie Rock event will be held from 7pm to 10pm on October 31 at the Star Academy of Art on 16A Lê Hồng Phong Street in HCM City’s District 10.

The Winter Melodies Classical Music Concert will be held from 6:30pm to 8pm on October 27 at Salon Saigon on 6d Ngô Thời Nhiệm St in HCM City’s District 3.

Before moving to Việt Nam five years ago, Jovana Benoit – wife of the current Haitian Ambassador to Việt Nam Jean Lesly Benoit, surfed the internet to learn about the country. However, not everything she read was positive.

As the only foreigner in the 17-strong graduating class of Hà Nội’s London College for Design & Fashion, Pak Su Yon stands out as a North Korean and creative designer. 

As part of the ‘Black-in-White Movie Month’, the Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will present a movie by director Ana Lily Amirpour tomorrow night.

The Wee Play event for parents and children will be held from 3:30 pm to 5 pm every Tuesday from October 9 to December 11 at Kids Club Saigon on 27/3 Hà Huy Tập St in Phú Mỹ Hưng in HCM City’s District 7.

The Saigon International Guitar Festival will be held from 7pm to 9:30pm on October 31 to November 4 at HCM City Conservatory of Music on 112 Nguyễn Du Street in HCM City’s District 1.

The Halloween Scary Run 2018 will be held from 8pm to 10pm on October 27 at HCM City University of Sport in Linh Trung Ward in the city’s Thủ Đức District.

A  Chamber Music Concert featuring works from composers of the Romantic era and the 20th century will be held from 8pm to 10:30pm on October 9 at the Opera House in HCM City.

A public art project entitled Into Thin Air 2 will be launched at Manzi Art Space on October 7, at 3.30pm.

The symphonic suite Scheherazade, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s most popular work, will be featured at a concert at the Opera House in HCM City from 8pm to 10:30pm at 7 Lam Sơn Square in District 1 on October 19.

The Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will organise two city walks on October 8 and 12.

The Die Fledermaus operetta composed by Johann Strauss II will be staged on October 28 at the Opera House at 7 Lam Sơn Square in HCM City.

The "Việt Nam:: 25 Years of Documenting a Changing Country" photography exhibition and talk will be held at 5.30pm on October 3 at The American Center on 34 Lê Duẩn Street in HCM City’s District 1.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them, the American author Ernest Hemingway once said.