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.