Showing posts with label November. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A month of German art talks in Vietnam

The Goethe Institute will hold a major series of activities as part of German year in Vietnam with its project ‘Open Academy’.

Activities including workshops, screenings, performances, concerts, actions, lectures and discussions will be held in Hanoi, Hue and HCMC.

Ten artists and musicians from Berlin working in collaboration with Vietnamese artists and musicians will devise works with an emphasis on new media, performance art, conceptual art and design.

The events will bolster the cultural exchange between the two countries. All events are supported by the Goethe Institute Hanoi and the Senat Berlin – Cultural Affairs.

The internationally sought-after performance artist Nezaket Ekici will hold a performance art workshop at Goethe Institute in Hanoi, 56-58 Trang Tien Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from November 16 to 19, at HCMC University of Fine Arts, 5 Phan Dang Luu Street, HCMC’s Binh Thanh District from November 22 to 25 and a present a talk at San Art at 5 p.m. on November 21.

Visual artist, Juliane Heise, will give a workshop of mapping in art at the Hue University of Fine Arts from November 16 to 19 and at HCMC University of Fine Art from November 24 and 25.

Fuasi Khaliq is a performing artist who since the early 90’s worked in Los Angeles with a jazz project called Horace Tapscott´s Pan African People´s Arkestra. Khaliq was an assistant conductor, arranger, composer, and player of saxophone, clarinet and flute. He will hold a workshop on jazz improvisation at HTX/La Cooperative, 46 An Duong Street in Hanoi on November 22-24 and give a jazz concert at 9 p.m. on November 24, a workshop in Hue on November 26-27, concert at 4 p.m. on November 27 and a workshop at Himiko Cake, 324bis Dien Bien Phu Street, HCMC’s District 10 on November 30 and a jazz concert at the café at 9 p.m. on December 3.

Artist Stephan Kurr will give workshop on tourism and travel in HCMC University of Fine Arts from November 15 to 19.

Veronika Radulovic, who has participated in numerous international symposiums and projects, among others in Hungary, Norway, Poland, Japan and the Netherlands and studied Vietnamese lacquer painting techniques and worked as the first German DAAD guest lecturer at the Universities of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Hue and HCMC, will give a workshop called Das Private in Hue from November 17 to 19 and in HCMC from November 19 to December 1.

While Andreas Schmid will give a workshop ‘Dealing with Space’ in HCMC from November 17 to 20. Maria Vedder will screen her video art in HCMC University of Fine Arts at 3 p.m. on November 18, 19 and at San Art at 7 p.m. November 20.

Machael Vorfeld will give a concert at ZERO Station, 91A Dinh Tien Hoang Street, HCMC’s Binh Thanh District on November 19; Danh Vo will take a city tour with students in Hanoi from November 30 to December 4. Veronika Witte will give workshop on videoart and scenic sculptures at University of Fine Arts Hue on November 22 to 25.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Four new films at Idécaf in HCMC

The Institute for Cultural Exchange with France (Idécaf) will screen four French movies in November. Tickets are VND15,000. Idecaf is at 31 Thai Van Lung Street, HCMC’s District 1.

The girl on the train starring Emilie Dequence, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc and directed by André Téchiné will be shown at 3.p.m on November 6. The girl on the train is based on the true story of a young girl who stunned France when she falsely claimed to be the target of an Anti-Semitic attack.

Just anybody is a story of Camille, a 20-something dissatisfied with her life, who craves the opportunity to give her love to the person who needs it the most. She finds this opportunity in the form of Costa, a homeless ne’er do well, deadbeat dad, and rejected son. Even as their relationship begins to take its toll on them both, Camille finds happiness in her efforts to rescue him from his own self-destruction. The film will be screened at 3 p.m. on November 20.

Jean de la Fontaine- Le défi follows the confrontation between Jean de La Fontaine, writer of the world renowned Fables, and Colbert, financial administrator for Louis XIV’s Kingdom of France. In 1661, Colbert gets his rival Fouquet arrested, a powerful advisor of the young king. While all the other artists support the decision and rush to the Court, poet de La Fontaine confirms his support for Fouquet. Colbert vows to make the rebel admit the truth, but La Fontaine, even when penniless, stands by his convictions. Without money, he resists, observes and writes the Fables, which protest against a despotic government in the height of its decline. The movie was directed by Daniel Vigne and starring by Lorànt Deutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestier. Jean de la Fontaine- Le défi will be screened at 3 p.m. on November 27.

Her third by Egon Günther will show at 7.30 p.m. on November 9. Her Third is a humorous and touching story of an independent woman’s willingness to break with social conventions in order to find happiness. Twice-married and romantically involved with a woman, she decides to seduce a male colleague in order to find a father for her children.

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60 Years of German Cinema in Hanoi

The Goethe Institute in Hanoi will organize a German Film Week in Hanoi from from now until November 7 to celebrate 60 years of German Cinema (1999-2009).

The Film Week will focus on the new millennium, the reunification of East and West Germany with all its problems, the new German filmmaking era, “Berliner Schule”, with its realism, and internationally successful German films.

Every two months, the Goethe Institute in Hanoi will feature a decade in cinema history, presenting films that define their times, films which were talked about, which shocked and impressed and which led the way for German cinema in both East and West Germany.

Seven films will screen during the week, including Policewoman, 2000, directed by Andreas Dresen on November 01, 7:30 p.m., Goodbye Lenin!, 2003, directed by Wolfgang Becker on November 02, 7:30 p.m., Head-On, 2004, directed by Fatih Akin on November 03, 7:30 p.m., Go for Zucker!, 2005, directed by Dani Levy on  November 4, 7:30 p.m., Longing, 2006, directed by Valeska Grisebach on November 5, 7:30 p.m., The Lives of Others, 2006, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on November 6, 7:30 p.m., Jerichow, 2008, directed by Christian Petzold on November 7, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are free and available at the Hanoi Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Hanoi from October 26. For more information, call 04 37342251/52/53 (ext. 9).

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