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Time to unwind your imagination with Literature Discussion with Japanese Writer Ono Masatsugu, “Bésame Mucho” – A Jazzy Night by SamRaz…
Literature Discussion with Japanese Writer Ono Masatsugu
You are invited to the literature talk “Viet khong dau ve noi dau” (translation: Write painlessly about pains) with the participation of Japanese writer Ono Masatsugu, PhD. in Literature Tran Ngoc Hieu, Moderator: Editor Dang Thanh Giang
Not only in “A Prayer Nine Years Ago” but also in his other works, including “The Ship Piggybacked by Jolly Bay” and “The Song of Mermaid” published in Vietnam, Ono Masatsugu has always been interested in and mentioned ordinary people with their very personal yet humane pains. Each story is like a sad painting, yet gentle and poetic, as if pain is a part of life. This makes the readers wonder, so how should we perceive, talk and write about pains?
In Hanoi, at the end of October 2017, Japan Foundation in Hanoi and Nha Nam Publishing House will co-organize the meet-up and discussion with Japanese writer Ono Masatsugu on his works with the topic of “Write painlessly about pains”.
Ono Masatsugu was born in 1970 in Oita, Kyushu Island in the southwest of Japan. He studied Education at University of Tokyo, then went on to pursuit a PhD. at University of Paris VIII. In 2001, he was awarded the Asahi New Writers’ Award for his first novel Mizu ni Umoreru Haka (Graves Buried in Water) and in 2002, the Mishima Yukio Prize for second novel Nigiyaka na Wan ni Seowareta Fune (The Ship Piggybacked by the Jolly Bay). His other significant works include At the Outskirts of the Woods (2006), Micro Bus (2008). He is currently the associate professor in Literature department of Rikkyo University.
Tue 31 Oct 2017, 10 am
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
“Bésame Mucho” – A Jazzy Night by SamRaz
Continuing the success of previous sessions, in this November, “Hidden Beat” is back with the stimulating yet deep, moving jazzy melodies from SamRaz, their music is an unique mixture of two cultures’ spirit, a dedicated combination of saxophone and guitar.
Samuel Caballero was born in Colombia and studied music there in the conservatory (conservatorio del Tolima). His main instruments is guitar and voice, he had performed with some bands around Colombia and South America before coming to Vietnam.
Raz Carmel was born in Israel and he started with studying and playing wind instruments, with focus in saxophone soprano, Raz played in a lot of places around the country and performed different kind of music like jazz and alternative in the spirit of Latin music.
Sam and Raz met in may of 2015 in Israel, after many performances in Israel and Egypt, they decided to be a band and continue to share the music around the world.
Sat 04 Nov 2017, 8 – 10 pm
Heritage Space
Toyota Classics 2017
The one-night-only concert “Toyota Classics 2017” will take place at 20:00, Nov 04th 2017 at the Hanoi Opera House.
Toyota Classics 2017 sees the participation of Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (RPCO) – one of famous with long history from England, under the baton of conductor Anthony Weeden and violinist David Juritz. Especially, Toyota Classics 2017 will also has the return of young pianist Luu Hong Quang – who achieved many awards in Piano in Australia, with performing experience with famous orchestras such as Queensland, Metropolitan (Sydney), Wuhan (China),… currently he is teacher at the Australia Music Performing Institute (AMPA).
With the talent and creativity of young pianist Luu Hong Quang in combination with the professional Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the program will bring emotional music melodies to audiences. Through its organization of the annual concert Toyota Classics, Toyota Motor Vietnam shows efforts in enhancing the quality of the spiritual life of community and in the development of culture in Vietnam.
With the main theme “Truly Classics”, this year program of music bristles with drama and romance, with pieces that were written for the Opera House, some as incidental music for the theatre and others for dramatic occasions such as “Handel’s Water Music”, written at the bequest of King George I, for a concert to be performed on a barge as it floated down the River Thames, and Elgar’s “Salut d’Amour”, an engagement present to his fiancé.
Sat 04 Nov 2017, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
Hanoi DocFest 2017
Hanoi DocLab and Goethe-Institut Hanoi are extremely proud to present our 5th edition of Hanoi DocFest – Vietnam’s only annual festival dedicated to independent creative documentaries, experimental and hybrid films.
At Hanoi DocFest, we believe in a cinema of individual voices, and each year we bring to the audience independent works from Vietnam, as well as ones from around the globe – works in which we see powerful potential of creativity and of a vast and generous cinema.
This year’s festival has an important structural change: the program will last for a week and happen in many places in the city, to give the audience a broader perspective of what’s happening in the independent film scene. At DocFest 2017, you will find films that contemplate the many aspects of the social and the personal, manifested not only in informational route but also in unique formal approaches.
We are honored to be jointly organizing a 2-day symposium dedicated to cinema of the region, titled “Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema”, with the Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network, with speakers including Philippa Lovatt, Gaik Khoo, Jasmine Trice, Mariam Lam, Hitomi Hasegawa, Sow-Yee Au, Davide Cazzaro, Merv Espina, Thaiddhi; on the Vietnamese side, we welcome Siu Pham, Trương Minh Quy, Tran Ngoc Hieu, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Tran Duy Hung, Tran Trung Hieu.
We will also have the pleasure to welcome Birgit Glombitza, the art director of Hamburg International Short Film Festival, who will introduce us to the contemporary aesthetics and current trends of the short films in different international festivals through three screening programs and presentations. Furthermore, our schedule includes an intensive 3-day field recording and sound design workshop at our festival, led by Ernst Karel, a sound engineering specialist from Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL).
During the weekend, we have two main screening programs: “Then and Now” and “Portrait”. Here, the audience will travel through the different landscapes of Vietnam, the Gia Lai region with Drowing Dew – a collaborative project between Art Labor Collective and Truong Que Chi and Do Van Hoang, the Mekong area with “Flat Sunlight” by Lena Bui, the street of Khâm Thiên in “March 23” by Pham Thi Hao… to meet an ex-freelance interpreter at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the mid-1960s, a man who came home after spending 18 years in prison, families from the North, the South, and Middle Vietnam who live together in an apartment near the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital, and many more. They are the stories that we believe, to a certain extent, will tell a story of a Vietnam in which we are living and witnessing its many changes.
In closing, we hope to see you at Hanoi DocFest 2017, to talk and share with the filmmakers your vision of the world, and participating in this meaningful moment of Vietnamese independent cinema.
05 – 12 Nov 2017
Goethe Institut
Literature Discussion with Japanese Writer Ono Masatsugu.
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Not only in “A Prayer Nine Years Ago” but also in his other works, including “The Ship Piggybacked by Jolly Bay” and “The Song of Mermaid” published in Vietnam, Ono Masatsugu has always been interested in and mentioned ordinary people with their very personal yet humane pains. Each story is like a sad painting, yet gentle and poetic, as if pain is a part of life. This makes the readers wonder, so how should we perceive, talk and write about pains?
In Hanoi, at the end of October 2017, Japan Foundation in Hanoi and Nha Nam Publishing House will co-organize the meet-up and discussion with Japanese writer Ono Masatsugu on his works with the topic of “Write painlessly about pains”.
Ono Masatsugu was born in 1970 in Oita, Kyushu Island in the southwest of Japan. He studied Education at University of Tokyo, then went on to pursuit a PhD. at University of Paris VIII. In 2001, he was awarded the Asahi New Writers’ Award for his first novel Mizu ni Umoreru Haka (Graves Buried in Water) and in 2002, the Mishima Yukio Prize for second novel Nigiyaka na Wan ni Seowareta Fune (The Ship Piggybacked by the Jolly Bay). His other significant works include At the Outskirts of the Woods (2006), Micro Bus (2008). He is currently the associate professor in Literature department of Rikkyo University.
Tue 31 Oct 2017, 10 am
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
“Bésame Mucho” – A Jazzy Night by SamRaz
“Bésame Mucho” – A Jazzy Night by SamRaz.
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Samuel Caballero was born in Colombia and studied music there in the conservatory (conservatorio del Tolima). His main instruments is guitar and voice, he had performed with some bands around Colombia and South America before coming to Vietnam.
Raz Carmel was born in Israel and he started with studying and playing wind instruments, with focus in saxophone soprano, Raz played in a lot of places around the country and performed different kind of music like jazz and alternative in the spirit of Latin music.
Sam and Raz met in may of 2015 in Israel, after many performances in Israel and Egypt, they decided to be a band and continue to share the music around the world.
Sat 04 Nov 2017, 8 – 10 pm
Heritage Space
Toyota Classics 2017
Toyota Classics 2017.
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Toyota Classics 2017 sees the participation of Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (RPCO) – one of famous with long history from England, under the baton of conductor Anthony Weeden and violinist David Juritz. Especially, Toyota Classics 2017 will also has the return of young pianist Luu Hong Quang – who achieved many awards in Piano in Australia, with performing experience with famous orchestras such as Queensland, Metropolitan (Sydney), Wuhan (China),… currently he is teacher at the Australia Music Performing Institute (AMPA).
With the talent and creativity of young pianist Luu Hong Quang in combination with the professional Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the program will bring emotional music melodies to audiences. Through its organization of the annual concert Toyota Classics, Toyota Motor Vietnam shows efforts in enhancing the quality of the spiritual life of community and in the development of culture in Vietnam.
With the main theme “Truly Classics”, this year program of music bristles with drama and romance, with pieces that were written for the Opera House, some as incidental music for the theatre and others for dramatic occasions such as “Handel’s Water Music”, written at the bequest of King George I, for a concert to be performed on a barge as it floated down the River Thames, and Elgar’s “Salut d’Amour”, an engagement present to his fiancé.
Sat 04 Nov 2017, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
Hanoi DocFest 2017
Hanoi DocFest 2017.
|
At Hanoi DocFest, we believe in a cinema of individual voices, and each year we bring to the audience independent works from Vietnam, as well as ones from around the globe – works in which we see powerful potential of creativity and of a vast and generous cinema.
This year’s festival has an important structural change: the program will last for a week and happen in many places in the city, to give the audience a broader perspective of what’s happening in the independent film scene. At DocFest 2017, you will find films that contemplate the many aspects of the social and the personal, manifested not only in informational route but also in unique formal approaches.
We are honored to be jointly organizing a 2-day symposium dedicated to cinema of the region, titled “Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema”, with the Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network, with speakers including Philippa Lovatt, Gaik Khoo, Jasmine Trice, Mariam Lam, Hitomi Hasegawa, Sow-Yee Au, Davide Cazzaro, Merv Espina, Thaiddhi; on the Vietnamese side, we welcome Siu Pham, Trương Minh Quy, Tran Ngoc Hieu, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Tran Duy Hung, Tran Trung Hieu.
We will also have the pleasure to welcome Birgit Glombitza, the art director of Hamburg International Short Film Festival, who will introduce us to the contemporary aesthetics and current trends of the short films in different international festivals through three screening programs and presentations. Furthermore, our schedule includes an intensive 3-day field recording and sound design workshop at our festival, led by Ernst Karel, a sound engineering specialist from Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL).
During the weekend, we have two main screening programs: “Then and Now” and “Portrait”. Here, the audience will travel through the different landscapes of Vietnam, the Gia Lai region with Drowing Dew – a collaborative project between Art Labor Collective and Truong Que Chi and Do Van Hoang, the Mekong area with “Flat Sunlight” by Lena Bui, the street of Khâm Thiên in “March 23” by Pham Thi Hao… to meet an ex-freelance interpreter at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the mid-1960s, a man who came home after spending 18 years in prison, families from the North, the South, and Middle Vietnam who live together in an apartment near the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital, and many more. They are the stories that we believe, to a certain extent, will tell a story of a Vietnam in which we are living and witnessing its many changes.
In closing, we hope to see you at Hanoi DocFest 2017, to talk and share with the filmmakers your vision of the world, and participating in this meaningful moment of Vietnamese independent cinema.
05 – 12 Nov 2017
Goethe Institut
