German Christmas Market Hanoi
The German Embassy and the Goethe Institut Hanoi and ACM wish you a Merry Christmas!
We warmly invite visitors of all ages to Hanoi’s very first German Christmas Market. Get in the holiday spirit at the Cua Bac Church. Escape the big city stress, relax, and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, savor Christmas scents, sample typical Christmas Market treats and beverages, buy hand-made items, and spend memorable moments with friends and family over a cup of hot wine.
As is customary in Germany, the Christmas Market will be located near a beautiful church – in front of Hanoi’s Cua Bac Church. With its clock tower and picturesque windows, it provides the perfect festive backdrop for the Christmas Market, whose sights, sounds and scents will allow visitors to experience Christmas with all their senses. As you stroll across the market, you can admire and purchase many special items for you and your loved ones, from typical ‘Stollen’ pastry to hand-crafted Vietnamese products.
To get you in the right mood, the Christmas Market will kick off with a highlight: a Christmas Concert performed by the Suc Song Moi Bamboo Ensemble, featuring classical music and international Christmas favorites to sing along to. The concert will be held at the market on December 14, 2017 at 6 pm.
14 – 16 Dec 2017, 2 – 9 pm
Cua Bac Church
56 Phan Dinh Phung, Hanoi
Exhibition “Poetic Amnesia” by Phan Thao Nguyen
Nha San Collective warmly invites you to the first solo exhibition by Phan Thao Nguyen in Hanoi. This will be the last show of Nha San Collective at Hanoi Creative City building before we move on to new journeys.
“Poetic Amnesia” is an experimentation in creating a half-real and half-fictitious visual experience, in which the viewer embodies the role of Từ Thức[1]. Upon entering the exhibition, they would journey through the sphere of the artwork, where boundaries between real time and fictional time, real space and fantastical space become distorted.
“Poetic Amnesia” is a venture into a figment of Vietnamese history, one that deals with the history of our chu quoc ngu (Vietnam’s romanized script), and both the fantasies and the hard facts entailed. As Phan feels about for the remaining traces of chu quoc ngu’s celebrated father (the French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes), fate brought her to Rome where she was able to read Bento Thien’s handwritten letter to Giovanni Filippo de Marini. In the letter, he recounted Annam’s history through a series of myths, including the Mỵ Châu and Trọng Thuỷ romance tale, as a metaphor for the love-hate relationship spanning thousands of generations between Vietnam and China. Inspired by these historical sources, Phan allow herself to lift feet off the ground, to tweak, to affix information and feelings in order to express perception of the multifacetedness of the processes of archiving, altering, erasing, revising and reconstructing human’s memory and their symbolic consciousness.
Opening: Wed 13 Dec 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 24 Dec 2017, 3 – 7 pm (from Wed to Sun)
Nha San Collective
Concert with Nathalie Marin & Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
Nathalie Marin is one of the few female French conductors that has reached certain achievements not only in France and Europe but also in Latin America. She was invited to conduct the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016, and worked as the artistic director of many orchestras and incredible music festivals such as Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra, Isère Orchestra, Pestacles music festival in Paris, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba,…
She is currently music director of Mersin State Opera and Ballet in Turkey. She will conduct Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in a special concert held at the Hanoi Opera House.
Fri 15 Dec 2017, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Film Screening “Telle mère, telle fille”
You are invited to a screening of the film “Telle mère, telle fille” (Baby Bumps) (France, 2017, 94’).
Inseparable, April and his mother Mado cannot, however, be more different. April, 30, is married, salaried and organized, which is in contrast to her mother – an eternal carefree teenager who lives off her daughter since her divorce. But when the two women find themselves pregnant at the same time and under the same roof, the clash is inevitable. Because if Mado, in the midst of a “youth” crisis, is not ready to be a grandmother, Avril, meanwhile, has a hard time imagining her mother… as a mother!
Fri 15 Dec 2017, 8 pm
L’Espace
Exhibition “Vestige of a Land”
Vestige of a Land” is a collaborated project throughout 6 months between Lê Giang and Sino-Nom researcher Nguyễn Đình Hưng, vernacular architect Phạm Thanh Thủy and environmental consultant Nguyễn Thùy Dương on communal houses in Northern Vietnam and the Red River’s water flow.
The body of work mirrored the fluctuation of the Red River and its role upon spiritual monuments’ relocations and modifications. Throughout the research process, the importance of these sites have been reinvestigated. Due to historical social changes and educational reforms, the liaison between modern society and the past has been heavily disrupted. These alternations drastically transformed social activities that once took place within the monuments. Much of the surviving structures are falling into decay and slowly losing their architectural identities.
Regarding these spiritual relics’ disappearances, the exhibition boasts a question in connection with the ability of traversing oneself within the present while visualising about the future. While there have yet a definite answer for such a task, the quest of unearthing these artefacts shall be carried onwards tactfully.
Opening: Fri 15 Dec 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: 16 Dec 2017 – 12 Jan 2018
Public Talk: Wed 20 Dec 2017, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
German Christmas Market Hanoi.
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We warmly invite visitors of all ages to Hanoi’s very first German Christmas Market. Get in the holiday spirit at the Cua Bac Church. Escape the big city stress, relax, and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, savor Christmas scents, sample typical Christmas Market treats and beverages, buy hand-made items, and spend memorable moments with friends and family over a cup of hot wine.
As is customary in Germany, the Christmas Market will be located near a beautiful church – in front of Hanoi’s Cua Bac Church. With its clock tower and picturesque windows, it provides the perfect festive backdrop for the Christmas Market, whose sights, sounds and scents will allow visitors to experience Christmas with all their senses. As you stroll across the market, you can admire and purchase many special items for you and your loved ones, from typical ‘Stollen’ pastry to hand-crafted Vietnamese products.
To get you in the right mood, the Christmas Market will kick off with a highlight: a Christmas Concert performed by the Suc Song Moi Bamboo Ensemble, featuring classical music and international Christmas favorites to sing along to. The concert will be held at the market on December 14, 2017 at 6 pm.
14 – 16 Dec 2017, 2 – 9 pm
Cua Bac Church
56 Phan Dinh Phung, Hanoi
Exhibition “Poetic Amnesia” by Phan Thao Nguyen
Exhibition “Poetic Amnesia” by Phan Thao Nguyen.
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“Poetic Amnesia” is an experimentation in creating a half-real and half-fictitious visual experience, in which the viewer embodies the role of Từ Thức[1]. Upon entering the exhibition, they would journey through the sphere of the artwork, where boundaries between real time and fictional time, real space and fantastical space become distorted.
“Poetic Amnesia” is a venture into a figment of Vietnamese history, one that deals with the history of our chu quoc ngu (Vietnam’s romanized script), and both the fantasies and the hard facts entailed. As Phan feels about for the remaining traces of chu quoc ngu’s celebrated father (the French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes), fate brought her to Rome where she was able to read Bento Thien’s handwritten letter to Giovanni Filippo de Marini. In the letter, he recounted Annam’s history through a series of myths, including the Mỵ Châu and Trọng Thuỷ romance tale, as a metaphor for the love-hate relationship spanning thousands of generations between Vietnam and China. Inspired by these historical sources, Phan allow herself to lift feet off the ground, to tweak, to affix information and feelings in order to express perception of the multifacetedness of the processes of archiving, altering, erasing, revising and reconstructing human’s memory and their symbolic consciousness.
Opening: Wed 13 Dec 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 – 24 Dec 2017, 3 – 7 pm (from Wed to Sun)
Nha San Collective
Concert with Nathalie Marin & Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra
Concert with Nathalie Marin & Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.
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She is currently music director of Mersin State Opera and Ballet in Turkey. She will conduct Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in a special concert held at the Hanoi Opera House.
Fri 15 Dec 2017, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Trang Tien, Hanoi
Film Screening “Telle mère, telle fille”
Film Screening “Telle mère, telle fille”.
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Inseparable, April and his mother Mado cannot, however, be more different. April, 30, is married, salaried and organized, which is in contrast to her mother – an eternal carefree teenager who lives off her daughter since her divorce. But when the two women find themselves pregnant at the same time and under the same roof, the clash is inevitable. Because if Mado, in the midst of a “youth” crisis, is not ready to be a grandmother, Avril, meanwhile, has a hard time imagining her mother… as a mother!
Fri 15 Dec 2017, 8 pm
L’Espace
Exhibition “Vestige of a Land”
Exhibition “Vestige of a Land”.
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The body of work mirrored the fluctuation of the Red River and its role upon spiritual monuments’ relocations and modifications. Throughout the research process, the importance of these sites have been reinvestigated. Due to historical social changes and educational reforms, the liaison between modern society and the past has been heavily disrupted. These alternations drastically transformed social activities that once took place within the monuments. Much of the surviving structures are falling into decay and slowly losing their architectural identities.
Regarding these spiritual relics’ disappearances, the exhibition boasts a question in connection with the ability of traversing oneself within the present while visualising about the future. While there have yet a definite answer for such a task, the quest of unearthing these artefacts shall be carried onwards tactfully.
Opening: Fri 15 Dec 2017, 6 pm
Exhibition: 16 Dec 2017 – 12 Jan 2018
Public Talk: Wed 20 Dec 2017, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
