Lectures and demonstrations about ninjas will be held by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam in collaboration with Japanese National University, Mie University on November 16 and 17.

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. 

Heritage Space, in co-operation with The Hub for Experimental Music and Art DomDom, will begin a series of experimental music called ‘Beyond the Sound’ by a performance featuring drummer/percussionist Will Guthrie on Saturday.

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.