Việt Nam News

Vince Grimm and Will Kratz of Cape May County, New Jersey in the United States, visited Việt Nam as tourists in 2000, and ended up making friends with their tour guide. The connection led to an educational foundation supporting fatherless and poor children. 

The Dragonfly Theatre Company will stage Tony Award-wining comedy Lend Me Tenor by Ken Ludwig at the Soul Convention Complex next week.

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.