TADIOTO

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 translations to academic and creative works, in International Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review, positions, Pacific Time Public Radio, among others. His fiction looks at the disorienting world of Vietnamese emigres, while his research focuses on the literary and cultural history of Vietnam’s colonial period. He currently lives in Nashville and teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Andrew Lam is a syndicated writer and an editor with New America Media and a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. He co-founded New California Media, an association of 400 ethnic media organizations in California. His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chicago Tribune. He has also written essays for magazines such as Mother Jones, The Nation, San Francisco Focus, Proult Journal, and Earth Island Journal. His book, Perfume Dreams: Reflections On The Vietnamese Diaspora (Heyday Books), recently won the Pen American “Beyond the Margins” Award. His short stories are anthologized in several literary journals, publish his short stories, including: Manoa Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod International, Zyzzyva, and Transfer Magazine. Lam’s awards include the Society of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious award (1994), The World Affairs Council’s Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship at UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalists Association National Award (1993 and 1995). Lam was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1975 when he was 11 years old. He has a master’s degree from San Francisco State University and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley.

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 gia đấu tranh thất bại. Sau khi nội chiến kết thúc, nhà thơ bị cầm tù, năm 31 tuổi ông mất vì viêm phổi. Với sự diễn xuất của Pep Cruz – mặc dù theo học ngành kỹ sư nhưng sân khấu mới là niềm đam mê và Pep Cruz là thiên tài trong nhiều lĩnh vực. Trong suốt quãng thời gian 16 năm kể từ khi đầu tiên bước vào ngành này với vai trò là đạo diễn của TEI San Marçal, ông đã thực hiện 33 vở kịch và 20 vở rối. Chương trình gồm ba thứ tiếng Tây Ban Nha, Anh và Việt ngữ, sẽ diễn ra vào  lúc 19h30 ngày25 tháng 3, 2010 tại 113 Triệu Việt Vương, Hà Nội.

n collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Tadioto presents the poems of Miguel Hernandez – renown poet and playwright, imprisoned under Francisco Franco until his death in 1942. With performances by Pep Cruz–an engineer turned actor, director, producer. With translations into English and Vietnamese. Music!  The program will begin at 19:30 on the 25th of March, 2010 at 113 Triệu Việt Vương, Hà Nội.

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 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.