Cargo Bar to host Ibiza beach party

Cargo Bar to host Ibiza beach party

Saigon System Crew will host an Ibiza beach party at Cargo Bar on August 28.

The party, decorated with sand and coconut trees, will feature Matt Caseli who has worked for 14 years as a DJ of Pacha, one of the most famous and beautiful clubs in Ibiza, Spain.

It will also feature HCM City resident DJs Ajam, Max Cleo and Nina.

The event will open at 9pm at 7 Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in District 4. Entrance fee is VND200,000.

Korean music weekly at Up Station bar

Koreanholic, a special event seeking to create a community for young Korean and Vietnamese people through great music, will be held at Up Station every Thursday.

The event will feature K-pop songs remixed to your EDM-taste by DJ Aaron from South Korea, and two local DJs Abu and Jake.

The show will begin at 8pm at 2B Thi Sach Street in District 1. Tickets are VND99,000, including one drink.

Flea market to feature arts and crafts

ZeroStation’s flea market introducing art and craft works will open at the studio on August 30.

The market will include handmade artwork and workshops offering various craft skills, exhibitions, live music, film screenings, food and drinks.

The event will take place from 10am to 8pm. ZeroStation is located at No12, Alley 43, Lam Van Ben Street in District 7.

More information can be found at ga0.fleamarket@gmail.com. 

Senegalese art critic N’Gone Fall to speak at Hoa Sen University

N’Gone Fall, an independent curator, art critic, and consultant in cultural engineering from Senegal will speak about the culture and contemporary art of Africa at two lectures at Hoa Sen University in HCM City later this month.

Her first talk, scheduled for August 27, will focus on Pan African Dreams, the “dream of an integrated continent – a site of negotiation for various, complex cultures”, according to a press release.

Fall will present artists who have used Pan Africanism as a concept as well as some of the art projects that she and her colleagues have realised in Dakar to look at the countries and the continent through the prism of history, geography and politics.

In the second lecture on August 28, Fall will present a series of interesting examples by African artists that reflect the past, present and future of the continent through visual art.

“Their projects are not confined within the boundaries of modernism but live, move and breath with contemporaneity,” the press release said.

Admission to the lectures is free. English-Vietnamese translations will be provided.

A graduate of the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, Fall was the editorial director of the Paris-based contemporary African art magazine Revue Noire from 1994 to 2001. She has also been an editor of numerous books on contemporary visual arts and photography in Africa.

Le Cat Trong Ly to perform at Manzi

Next week, for two nights on August 27 and 28, acclaimed Da Nang-born singer and songwriter Le Cat Trong Ly will perform her latest creations as well as some of her beloved songs.

Her mini concerts, Haiku for the Fall, will also feature three talented Vietnamese musicians: cellist Nguyen Thanh Tu, oboist Nguyen Hoang Tung, and pianist Vu Dang Quoc Viet.

You can contact them by phone: 01664697690 or by email to lyconcert@gmail.com to reserve seats.

Manzi Art Space is located at 14 Phan Huy Ich Street.

Black Mong group to sell products in capital

Members of the Black Mong ethnic group from Lao Chai Village in Sa Pa will showcase and sell handmade products such as brocades, silver jewellery and other handicrafts at the Highland Night Market at the Hanoi Metropole Hotel’s courtyard on August 24 and 25.

The event is the result of a collaboration between the hotel and Community Based Tourism (CBT), which will being 11 entrepreneurs from the Black Mong community to experience the Highland Market. The programme helps to facilitate their understanding of inbound tourism and improve their sales skills, event planning and delivery capacity, hotel management and sustainable business development.

The CBT training programme, funded by PATA and run by Canada’s Capilano University, is a programme that focuses on building and strengthening the capacity of local ethnic minorities, particularly female business owners, along with village governments and communities.

At the Highland Night Market, visitors will have the chance to interact with these female entrepreneurs and purchase a variety of handmade items. All proceeds will go to their village.

The market opens from 5-9pm.

Contemporary dance workshop to be held

Saigon Artbook in collaboration with Unicorn Dance Studio will host a contemporary dance workshop at the Erato Music and Performing Arts School on Saturday.

The all-day workshop will be divided into two classes, including contemporary jazz dance class by Thai dancer Aditep Buanoi, and contemporary and neo-classical class by Vietnamese dancer Do Hai Anh.

An exhibition showcasing original paintings by Hai Anh will also open during the event.

The workshop will be held from 9am- 3.30pm at 107 Ton Dat Tien Street in District 7. Admission is VND200,000 a class, and VND350,000 for two classes.

Inside the Light: blind life in photos

A photo exhibition in downtown Ha Noi features the lives of visually impaired people in Ha Noi, offering insight into their unique worldview.

Chieu Sau Anh Sang (Inside the Light) is a unique exhibition of 30 coloured and black-and-white photos of the daily activities of visual-impaired people at Nguyen Dinh Chieu junior secondary school and at the Centre for Training and Rehabilitation for the Blind.

A group of high school students in Ha Noi hoped to do something meaningful for the community during their summer holiday, so they decided to organise the exhibition.

“We want to do activities that are meaningful, new and are not usually done during our summer holiday. I was a student at Nguyen Dinh Chieu secondary school where I studied with visual-impaired students. Their life, difficulties, pressures and optimistic spirits inspired me to make this exhibition,” said Le Vu Ha Chi, a 12th-grade student at Ha Noi-Amsterdam High School.

“It took us about two months to take these pictures. We needed to spend time talking to the blind to understand them more, so that we could have photos that reflected their daily life more truthfully and deeply,” said Kieu Khoi Nguyen, from the same school. “We wanted to convey blind people’s difficulties and optimistic spirits to visitors.”

For visual-impaired visitors, the exhibition offers a tactile experience by providing 3D models of world wonders. Instead of reading about these wonders from books or print media, they can touch them to help them imagine the physical world.

Apart from the photos on display, visitors can experience blind people’s daily activities in interactive sections where they are blindfolded and asked to paint, do puzzles, write and read Braille.

“After seeing pictures here and engaging in some of the activities, I feel very sympathetic with the blind. I can do these activities easily in my life, but when I was blindfolded, I couldn’t. I think this is a meaningful opportunity and thank the organisers for giving me such an interesting experience,” said Luong My Linh, 26.

The visitors can buy souvenirs such as notebooks and postcards at the exhibition to raise funds for the very same people photographed at the exhibition.

The exhibition was funded by the Summit English Centre and Soha News, and is located at 16 Ngo Quyen Street. 

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