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.

Saigon Classical Music Group will perform a free concert on December 16 featuring traditional carols like Nebo I Zemlya (Heaven and Earth), Angels We Have Heard on High, and O Holy Night and compositions by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt.

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.

German techno DJ Heiko Laux will perform at the fifth anniversary of Heart Beat, a Sài Gòn-based underground music community, on December 15.

District 2 outdoor bar Saigon Outcast will host a Christmas Market on December 16-17 that will sell artworks, accessories, clothes, ornaments, home-baked food and snacks, and drinks.

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Get in the holiday spirit at Hà Nội’s first German Christmas Market open from 2pm today at Cửa Bắc Church.

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) will present a screening of Oscar-winning film The Reader. The screening, part of the ‘Literature on Screen’ movie month, will start at 7.30pm tomorrow night.

A gastronomy festival showcasing the diversity of Vietnamese and international cuisines will be held on Sunday at the Vạn Phúc Diplomatic Compound.

Manzi Art Space, in collaboration with Art Vietnam Gallery will present Không & Nghĩa/ No & Meaning, a solo exhibition by visual artist Nguyễn Minh Thành, one of the most important artists of contemporary art in Việt Nam today.