Autumn sunlight colours busy Phùng Hưng street in downtown Hà Nội, but the street also seems brighter these days as murals appear on boring stone vaulting.
Manzi tomorrow will host an experimental concert featuring Canadian artists, Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen, with special guest artist Ngô Trà My.
Art lovers have been fllocking to an art show in downtown Hà Nội. Many of them have been stunned at the dozens of paintings inspired by the glorious mountains and karst plateau of northern Hà Giang Province.
Hà Nội-based artist Nguyễn Đức Phương (aka Phương Giò) will unveil his art at an exhibition at Manzi Art Space on Friday.
Heritage Space continues its music series Hidden Beat with Bésame Mucho – a jazzy night on Saturday featuring the duo SamRaz Music.
As part of a month dedicated to Hong Kong’s cinema industry, the Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will present a screening of the 1995 movie Fallen Angels tomorrow.
The Friends of Vietnam Heritage’s cultural series will continue on Sunday with a presentation by Hồ Trọng Minh, a banknote designer, who was only 29 when he created the widely used VNĐ500,000 note. He was also the first to document and consolidate information on Vietnamese paper money.
Stand-up Hanoi will present an evening with female comediennes tonight ast the Standing Bar.
An exhibition entitled Vùng Không Tưởng – Utopia Land, featuring artworks by artists from seven different countries, will open at Heritage Space on Sunday.
An art exhibition featuring artworks by the ‘Gang of Five’ – a group of five Vietnamese artists, will open to the public from Saturday at the Việt Nam Film Studio in Hà Nội.
More than 200 watercolour paintings by 216 artists from 45 different countries will be on display at the Hà Nội Museum from next Monday, October 23, during the second International Watercolour Biennale.
Elke Schwierz first arrived at the EPRC in 2002 and stayed for five years with support from the Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (ZGAP). Elke has enjoyed every moment at Cúc Phương National Park in northern Ninh Bình Province with her family - long-tailed gibbons, langurs and wide-eyed lorises - for the past 15 years.
Push Climbing will host its first climbing competition for both amateurs and professionals at the outdoor bar Saigon Outcast on October 21-22.
Heart Beat Saigon will present Birth of Frequency, aka Simon Coupe, a techno DJ and producer from Paris, at The Lighthouse on October 27.
Saigon Players, an English-language theatre group, will present its annual Halloween party at The Hive Saigon Outcast on October 27 and 28.
Manzi Art Space will present an experimental concert featuring Kryshe, Sound Awakener and zither artist Nguyễn Thùy Dung on October 20.
The multi-talented artist Stanford Reid from Brooklyn, New York is back to Hà Nội after touring Việt Nam and will have a live music night in Heritage Space on Sunday.
A concert celebrating the tenth birthday of Hanoi Grapevine, a popular website providing arts and culture, will be held on Saturday.