TADIOTO

ontinuing its 2010 Literary Series – following appearances by Pireeni Sundaralingam, Andrew Lam, Ben Tran, and poems by Miguel Hernandez, Tadioto is pleased to welcome poet, performer and novelist lê thị diễm thúy, author of The Gangster We Are All Looking For (Knopf, 2001).  (see more bel0w)
April 26th, 8pm @ Tadioto, 113 Triệu Việt  Vương, [...]

note from writer Andrew Engelson:
http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/program.html#0415
Speaker Program: “I Am Large, I Embrace Multitudes:” Exploring American Poetry
April 15, 3:00-5:00
Venue: 1st Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi Speaker: Andrew Engelson, a writer and editor
In celebration of National Poetry Month, writer and editor Andrew Engelson will give a talk exploring the work of several American poets.
Poetry [...]

wo from abroad: reading at 19:30, March 28, 2010 at 113 Triệu Việt Vương
Following a successful event with the poetry of Miguel Hernandez, Tadioto continues its literary series with a reading by two outstanding Vietnamese American writers:
Ben Tran is a fiction writer and literary critic. He has published a numerous works, from literary reviews and [...]

ùng với Viện Cervantes, Tadioto xin mời bạn đến dự buổi diễn thơ của Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942) – nhà thơ, nhà viết kịch nổi tiếng của Văn học Tây Ban Nha thế kỉ XX. Sau khi tướng Francisco Franco tuyên bố kết thúc cuộc nội chiến, Đảng Cộng Hòa mà nhà thơ tham [...]

Cảm ơn các bạn về mọi điều hay đẹp trong năm qua.  Vui vẻ, tốt đẹp, an bình trong năm mới.

hanks for all the wonderful things last year.  Lots of joy, all the best, and peace in the new year.

“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 [...]

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 [...]

“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).
And some fantastically [...]

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 [...]