Việt Nam News

Rocketeer Duo will be playing a mix of pop jazz, RNB and blues covers from 8:45pm until late on the third floor of The Old Compass Café at 63/11 Pasteur St., HCM City’s District 1 on January 26.

The Australian General Consulate will be holding its second Australia Day community event in HCM City on January 28.

 On Sunday, Bookworm bookstore together with the Hanoi Cooking Centre will put on an afternoon of jazz music, traditional bánh chưng (sticky rice cake) making and tò he (toy figurine) sculpting as part of their annual celebrations in the run-up to Tết.

Claudia Capocci, an artist from Bristol, England, will host a workshop on sculpture on Saturday at Lạc Tạm Antique.

Tomorrow night Chula Fashion House will debut its 1st edition of Chulala Music Night – a monthly event hosted by Chula on the last Friday of every month.

From its roots in the traditional music of West Africa, to the golden era of the electric Chicago sound and beyond, blues has been a fixture of the world’s music scene for more than a century. Come to enjoy a night filled with those beautiful tunes at Cool Cats Jazz Club – JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi on Saturday.

The Friends of Vietnam Heritage will host a film night on January 25, presenting the movie Của Rơi (Lost and Found) by director Vương Đức.

An exhibition honouring the most well-known Vietnamese children’s book Dế Mèn Phiêu Lưu Ký (Adventures of a Cricket) by late writer Tô Hoài (1920-2014) will open to the public from Saturday evening.

Aiming to bring traditional art closer to art lovers, IAcA Café will host an exhibition and talk show Folk Paintings through the Eyes of Young Artists on Sunday.

As part of the non-profit project Gia Đình Nào Cũng Tuyệt! (Any Family is Amazing!), a group of five young women will give a talk about their one-month journey to meet and talk with more than 1,000 children ages  9 to 11 in seven provinces last month.

Manzi Art Space will host Air/Sound – a solo flute concert by artist Laura Chislett from Australia, on January 12.

Vietnamese-American pianist child prodigy Evan Lê will perform in a concert called “Spring Buds” in HCM City on January 7.

The Saigon Classical Music Group will present a concert titled “Four Seasons in Music” at the HCM City Conservatory of Music on  January 7.

Musician Ngô Hồng Quang, who sings and plays traditional Vietnamese instruments, will introduce his new songs at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre on January 11 in District 2.

Goethe Institut will host the exhibition Vestige of a Land which will present part of a collaborated project during six months between artist Lê Giang, Sino-Nom researcher Nguyễn Đình Hưng, architect Phạm Thanh Thủy, and environmental consultant Nguyễn Thùy Dương on communal houses in Northern Việt Nam and alongside the Red River’s water flow.

In these days when selfies are de rigueur, cameras and video gears have become normal travelling companions. For French couple Pascal Schram and Anne Laure, this equipment has an added purpose beyond photographs of destinations to serve as later personal memoirs.