Welcome to the website for Tadioto – an alternative space for the arts at 113 Trieu Viet Vuong, Ha Noi. Bạn đã vào trang mạng của Tadioto, một địa điểm triển lãm tại 113 Triệu ViệtVương, Hà Nội.

Visit this website to read about our activities, our comments, our blogs, etc.  Hãy vào đây để biết thông tin về các sinh họat nghệ thuật tại Tadioto, đọc blog, v.v..

Visit Tadioto in Ha Noi: view our exhibitions, check out the bar, have a cup of coffee with friends, and meet interesting people. Nếu đang ở Hà Nội, mời các bạn đến Tadioto xem triển lãm, ghé quán bar, uống một cốc cà phê với bạn bè, và có các cuộc gặp gỡ thích thú.

Chúng tôi cũng mong các bạn đến Tadioto dự những buổi thảo luận, trao đổi, biễu diễn, hoặc tổ chức các buổi tiệc và sinh hoạt đặc biệt.  You and your friends are also encouraged to participate in our talks, workshops and performances, or you can let us help you organize a reception or special event.

Visit us, give us your comments & suggestions, and enjoy Tadioto.

Hãy đến chơi, cho chúng tôi biết ý kiến, và hy vọng bạn sẽ thích thú với Tadioto.

“Lửa tự cháy”  – “Spontaneous Combustion”

Nhạc ngẫu hứng với đàn ghita và đàn bầu, với MOJOBIKE WARRIORS (Scott Ezell & Paul Sorrentino).

8h tối Chủ Nhật -7 tháng 2, 2010  -  Sunday, 7 February, 2010,  at 8pm -

Improvised music performance with guitars and đàn bầu – acoustic and electrified, naked and looped. Mojobike Warriors is Scott Ezell and Paul Sorrentino.

*This show is a preview of MJBW’s March performances in Shanghai and Beijing.* Suggested entry: 50,000 VND

Hãy ghé qua Tadioto.  Tham gia với những người viết văn tiếng Anh ở Hà Nội.  Thêm thông tin ở đây.

Come to Tadioto and join other writers.  Check them out here.

Date:
Sunday, February 7

Time:
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Place
Tadioto

Organizer
Hanoi Writers’ Collective

Description:
Anyone who wants to bring something to share, can. Though several people are working on novels at the moment, it’s certainly not the only focus of the group. You are welcome and encouraged to share poems, travelogues, personal essays, short stories, nonfiction articles, or anything in between. Even if you don’t know what it is, but you wrote it and want to share it, bring it along! Also, if you’re newer to writing and don’t feel comfortable sharing anything yet, that’s okay, as long as you participate in feedback and contribute in other ways to the group.

“Other fun in Hanoi: last night I went to a great event at Tadioto, a nice bar-gallery-cafe in the south end of Hanoi. Lots of poetry and music by expats, Vietnamese, and some traveling artists. Great guitar music and a lovely poetry-violin husband-and-wife duo (she’s originally from Sri Lanka, he’s from Ireland).

photo by Ben Minot

And some fantastically intense electronic noise-sing-scream-trance stuff from some talented Vietnamese artists, too. A great night, and it’s fantastic to discover the vibrant creative community here in Hanoi among young Vietnamese artists and expats.”

Xin cảm ơn.  Tadioto’s grateful for these words, from Andy Engelson, a Seattle transplant to Ha Noi, whose blog is a lot of fun.

From Pireeni Sundaralingam

My Country is a White Blindness

My country is a white blindness,
an absence of newsprint,
a vacuum of words,
the falling snow of radio static.

But where is there left for me
to pour out my secrets?

I will dig graves deep in the earth for them.
I will tear holes in the white silence of the page
and bury the words of witness
deep in the dark tomb of the text.

Let them bear fruit there.
Let the sprouting grasses shout out their secrets.
Let the blade-cut reeds blare out their names.

Come hear more of her extraordinary poems at Tadioto, Sunday 17th of January, 7:30pm.  Music and performances by Colm O’Riain, Đoàn Minh Trí, Thanh Lâm, Linh Dung, Scott Ezell, Matt Steinglass, Josh Lee, Vũ Nhật Tân, Đào Anh Khánh, etc.

Appearing at Tadioto, 7:30pm,  Sunday, 17th January, 2010, with violinist Colm O’Riain – and music performances by Vũ Nhật Tân, Đào Anh Khánh, Linh Dung, Thanh Lâm, Đòan Minh Trí, Scott Ezell, Matt Steinglass, & more.  More info here

We stood,
as women before us have stood,

looking back at our burning cities,
watching the smoke
rise from our empty homes.

Such death. The smell
of justice, drifting
on the burnt wind.

It was quiet then. And cold.

We heard their cries, the caged birds
clawing at their perches, our daughters
naked in the hungry mob.

We saw it all,
saw the fire fall like rain,

saw our tears
leave stiff, white veins
down our bodies,

saw the brine crawl
through salt-cracked skin.

Now, turning in the restless night,
we dream we stand there still,
alone on the hill’s black belly.

We, the forgotten,
whose names
were swallowed by God.

Congratulations to Josh Lee, Scott Ezell and their Project Live Music.

The group has been performing around town to big crowds.   Here’s a video of a performance at Tadioto, end of December.

Xin mời các bạn đến dự buổi trình diễn đặc biệt tại Tadioto với nhà thơ  Sri Lanka/Anh quốc Pireeni Sundaralingam và nhạc sĩ vĩ cầm Colm O’Riain.

Chủ Nhật 17 tháng 1, 2010 – 19:30 tại Tadioto, 113 TriệuViệt Vương, Hà Nội.

Please join us for an evening with Sri Lankan/British poet Pireeni Sundaralingam & violinist Colm O’Riain

Sunday 17 January, 2010 – 7:30pm at Tadioto.

cùng các nghệ sĩ Đào Ánh Khánh

Vũ Nhật Tân, Đòan Trí Minh, Thanh Lâm và Linh Dung

với sự cộng tác của Scott Ezell và Matt Steinglass.

The evening will also include performances with composers Vũ Nhật Tân

& Đòan Trí Minh, singers Linh Dung & Thanh Lâm and the artist Đào Anh Khánh.  In collaboration and with contributions from Scott Ezell & Matt Steinglass.

Đòan Trí Minh and Vũ Nhật Tân studied at musical institutions but have also in recent years been collaborating with fillmmakers, video artists and others to explore experimental styles of expressions. They are now considered to be at the forefront of new music in Việt Nam. http://www.hanoisoundstuff.com/

Thanh Lâm and Linh Dung are founding members of the contemporary music group Đại Lâm Linh, weaving modern poetry with traditional sounds and experimental vocals to create a new direction in Vietnamese music. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723780164&ref=name#/pages/Dai-Lam-Linh/208697055301?ref=ts

Đào Anh Khánh’s extraordinary performances have sometimes been described as spontaneous, on-the-spot improvisations, but have remained a rare window into the psyche of contemporary artists seeking new means of expression in Việt Nam.

Based in San Francisco, Pireeni Sudaralingam & Colm O’Riain have been weaving music and cutting-edge poetry together to rave reviews.http://www.wordandviolin.com

Pireeni is a PEN USA Rosenthal Fellow and editor of Writing the Lines of Our Hands, the first anthology of South Asian American poetry.  Her poetry has appeared in both literary and political journals (such as World Literature Today, Ploughshares and The Progressive) as well as national newspapers such as The Guardian (UK), university teaching texts including Three Genres (Prentice-Hall, 8th Edition, 2006), and anthologies such as Masala (Macmillan, 2005) and Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (Norton, 2008).

Violinist and composer Colm O’Riain is a former leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, he is also a well-known fiddler on the Irish music scene, finding a unique voice between Irish music and Jazz, Brazilian, Cuban, Indian, Gypsy and other musical genres.

From Phong Cách Việt (Vietnamese Style Magazine) – Fall – Winter 2009

HANOI, VIETNAM

Why in 2010: Vietnam’s leafy, atmospheric capital, Hanoi, celebrates its 1,000th birthday in 2010—that’s right, it’s a millennial bash—and the city is throwing a huge, yearlong coming-out party. A deep roster of cultural festivities, including flower festivals and art exhibitions (more info at vietnamtourism.com), is set for 2010, while local tour operators like Exotissimo Travel debut English-language tours that explore Hanoi’s days of colonial rulers and Communist heroes (exotissimo.com, from $45). At the same time, the city is burnishing its reputation as one of Asia’s coolest, fastest growing metropolises (its population has doubled since 1990 to reach nearly 6.5 million) with the opening of über-hip places like the year-old, artist-run café Tadioto (tadioto.com) and the three-story Tan My Design (tanmydesign.com), which showcases Hanoi’s top homegrown fashion.

Tại Tadioto, họ uống rồi hát rồi là ca nhạc.  Có người còn đọc cả thơ nữa.

Cuối năm, đầu năm mà.  It was new year’s eve.  Then the new year came.

At Tadioto, people drank and sang and played music. Some read poetry.

Many thanks to all who were there. Cảm ơn các bạn đã đến chơi.