TADIOTO

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Thank you. Cảm ơn.
From this site:
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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.

in the new year. 2010.