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.

in the new year. 2010.

Mời bạn đến chơi – please join us:

31 December – 2009 at 8pm

Tadioto @ 113 Triệu Việt Vương, Hà Nội

Nhóm Ca Trù Thái Hà – Five musicians and singers on traditional form of Ca Trù…
Experimental and improvisational music…
Nhạc ngẫu hứng, thử  nghiệm…
Poetry – thơ…

Tadioto cảm tạ món quà cuối năm.  Tadioto is grateful for the end-of year gifts below.

From Travel + Leisure – Southeast Asia, December 2009:

“…Hanoi’s young intellectuals and creatives…”

That doesn’t include the old man himself.  Già rồi.

Trên báo The Word, Hanoi, December/2009:

Và chắc chắn: cảm ơn – thanks to Linh Dung, Ross West, Timothy Leahy, Trọng Tùng, Hugo Barberis, Muna Khan, Nora Taylor, Justin Mott, Dũng, Linh, JC Smith, Đào Hạnh Trâm, John Head, Akiko Takai, Ngọc, Reiko, Thái Thu Hằng, Dũng, Dũng, Na Sơn, Hiếu, Hạnh Ly, Laure Patuano, Uyên Ly, Helen Clark, Dạ Thảo Phương, Seth Mydans, Tini Tran, Frank Zeller, Raul Ramirez, Tom Lockard, Dutch, Han Nguyen, Linh, Cesare Bellier, Matt Olson, Albert Wen, Nicole Pham, Viet Nguyen, TT Như, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Tom Layton, Ben Stocking, Matt Steinglass, Nina Thorsen, Giáp, Nguyễn Thúy Hằng, Thái Bùi, Đỗ Hòang Tường, Tom Miller, Paul Toulmin, Slip, Nghi Nguyen, Peter Levelink, Nguyen Minh Phước, David Stout, Đinh Công Đạt, Lisa, Sitka Rose, Quynh Pham, Scott Ezell, Finn Maccool, Beppe Severgnini, Chi Mai, Ainars Erglis, Anne Claire Guichard, Paul von Zielbauer, Helène Boussi, Josh Lee, Nathalie Miller, Léa Bigot, Nybbler, Jacqueline Hugill, Granteralus, Aurnaud Soulier, Brian Ring, Phạm Ngọc Lương,  Nguyễn Văn Cường, John Ruwitch, Phong, Dai Kurokawa,  Ben Minot, Aude Genet, Võ Thị Hảo, Eve Claudel, Oanh Phi Phi Nguyen, Bùi Thạc Chuyên, Mathieu Ripka, Boris Zuliani, Gregor Maas, Aaron Joel Santos, Sandrine Llouquet, Lolo Lazar, Wafaa Fardani, Vân Nguyễn, Alex, Caitlin Worsham, Marco, April Pham, Ta Sumrit, Thao Nguyen, Betty Nguyen, Jenni Trang Lê, Peter Bumke, Wayne Karlin, Roger Garcia, Hòang Anh, Daniela Shrudde, David Payne, Hà Phạm, Trần quốc Trung, Ruth Mortimer, Đỗ Tường Linh, Maika Giselle, Elliot Price, Deanna Horton, Quỳnh Trang, Kim Ninh, Raphael Olivier, Brian Webb, Bailey Seybolt, Lena Keravec, Lê Vân Anh, Sylvain Bournigault, many many more…. and… ALL OF YOU…  for helping to make it a truly worthwhile year.  That’s a lot of beer, wine, coffee, whisky, gin, fruit juices and art.  It simply takes a lot of young intellectuals and creatives to make a happy place.  All the best for 2010.

Tadioto chân thành cảm ơn các bạn đã ủng hộ và đến chơi với chúng tôi đêm 20 tháng 12 vừa qua, khai mạc trưng bày ảnh của Boris Zuliani, và đánh dấu một năm sinh họat ở Hà Nội.  Xem ảnh ở đây.

Tadioto would like to thank all of you for your support, and for joining us on the 20 of December for the opening the photo show by Boris Zuliani marking our first anniversary.  Pictures here.

Tadioto’s 1st Anniversary Celebration.

December 20th – 8pm.

113 Trieu Viet Vuong, Ha Noi.

Not so long ago… and it’s been very good for me.  Hope it has been good for you too.   Please come and help welcome back the original tribe:   Frank Zeller and Da Thao Phuong, Dutch, Thang & Dung at the bar, Linh Dung, Scott Ezell, Jake…  Night after cold night, we gathered and talked, and we drank and laughed.   We’ll do it all over again.

We’ll go to the gallery upstairs to check out the amazing images of Morocco by Boris Zuliani.

On the third floor, we’ll have video projections: images of hands, birds, buildings and people in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Saigon, etc.

We’ll have music by Thanh Lam, Nguyen Van Cuong, Scott Ezell, Linh Dung & more.

Belly dance performance.  Ali on drums.

Food by Hugo Barberis.

And YOU.  Nice clothes.

DREAMING OF PEACE
Vietnamese Filmmakers Move from War to Reconciliation

Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2 to 6:45 p.m.

Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall – Admission is free.

Don’t Burn!, by Vietnam’s acclaimed filmmaker Dang Nhat Minh, is based on the Vietnamese best-seller Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, written by a young female doctor from North Vietnam who was killed during the war.

Oh, Saigon is an award-winning documentary by Doan Hoang about a Vietnamese family who fled Saigon in 1975. After 30 years in the United States, the family returns to visit relatives and to make amends with one daughter left behind.

Join us for a screening of both films and a discussion featuring the filmmakers.

Schedule of Events:
2 p.m.: Screening of Don’t Burn!
4 p.m.: Panel Discussion with Dang Nhat Minh & and Doan Hoang
4:45 p.m.: Reception
5:15 p.m.: Screening of Oh, Saigon
6:15 p.m.: Q&A with Doan Hoang

Organized by Janet Hoskins (Anthropology) and Viet Nguyen (English and American Studies and Ethnicity). Co-sponsored by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Asian American Studies, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Center for Trans-Pacific Studies.

For more information, please visit our website or contact us at
visionsandvoices@usc.edu.
www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices
University of Southern California

March – May 2010
HCM City / Saigon, Vietnam
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A window until the rains come: albb Open Studio Program

albb’s Open Studio Program will turn an existing café into a creative space where art meets the public in Ho Chi Minh City. Over a period of 10 weeks, selected local and overseas artists will take over a downtown space to use as their studio from 6 – 12 days each.
Located on the floor above Pi-Channel – a stationery and design shop in a fashionable area of downtown Saigon – the 36m2 space features beautiful natural light through a large window that looks down onto the colonial period trees in Le Thanh Ton street. The area is bustling with restaurants, bars, boutiques and shops, busy all through the day and into the night.

A window until the rains come aims to create a flexible, re¬laxed and spontaneous space of interaction between artists and everyday people. Artists are free to work in this open studio setting as they please.

From time to time, members of the general public will stop by – to observe, chat, ask questions, perhaps even assist the artist with their work. Some may make repeated visits, forming friendships or unexpected communities. The project thereby creates a discussion and interaction zone that dissolves the isolated environment of artists’ studios and the mystique of art practice, and creates a two-way interaction flow between artists and everyday people.
The project will span the period between Tet (Lunar New Year) and the start of the monsoon season. One never knows exactly when the rains will come. Looking out of the front window at Pi-Channel, one of the last artists in the program will watch with excitement as the first storm for 2010 breaks over Saigon.

Artists & media
This project is open to both international and Vietnam-based artists. Artists of any age group or style can apply and most media are welcome (please see below).
Other creative practitioners are also encouraged to apply — photographers, designers, architects, fashion designers, illustrators, etc. who produce physical work that can be on view in the space for visitors to look at. Musicians or performing artists are also welcome to use the space as a practice studio.
This project is not open to:
- Painters working predominantly in oil paint
- Artists whose work is heavily computer-based, such as video or 3D artists
- Curators
- Writers or poets
- Students enrolled in undergraduate degrees

The Application Process
Artists will be selected through an application process. Your proposal should detail what you intend to do in the space for the period of your application. Accepted projects must be non-offensive to the government or common social sensibilities.
Artists can apply as individuals or groups working together on a common project.
Artists who have part-time professional commitments can also opt to apply as a pair who share the space, using it at different times during the day. As long as either of the pair is in the studio for at least 75% of the time, such an application is acceptable. Artists do not need to be working in the same media or field in order to put in an application as a pair.
Further details
Artists are encouraged to occupy the space quite fully, producing work that is highly visual or highly material.
Artist are expected to actively produce artwork during the time they occupy the space. They are not required to complete works during the time of this proj¬ect, simply to work or experiment as they normally would in their own studios. The space is open from 9am – 9pm daily. Artists are not able to stay in the space overnight.
As the project’s aim is to promote interaction, artists are expected to welcome visitors and make them feel comfortable, answering any questions, engag¬ing in dialogue or perhaps sitting down together to enjoy a coffee and extended chat. In order to maximize interaction with the general public, artists are required to be in the space for at least 75% (9 hours each day) of the time that Pi-Channel is open (9am – 9pm daily). As this project is a space of social interaction, artists are encouraged to invite their own friends and contacts to the space at any time. They are welcome to hold social gatherings in the space, as they might in their own studios.
albb’s interaction with the artists will be minimal, and artists are expected to work quite independently. albb staff will assist artists in settling into and moving out of the space. albb and Pi-Channel staff will visit briefly every few days in order to touch base with the artists and to document the project.
Artists are to cover their own costs for their materials, living costs, transportation and so forth. No artists’ fees or per diems will be paid as a part of this project.
There will be no exhibition at the conclusion of the program. The program is purely about a space for production and casual interaction with the general public. After the conclusion of the project, a project presentation event may be organized by albb and Pi-Channel to show documentation of the project.
A catalogue will be produced by albb and Pi-Channel at the conclusion of the program, and artists will receive a minimum of 20 copies each. albb and Pi-Channel will also produce printed promotional materials / invitations, and online documentation and promotion of the project (albb weblog, Facebook etc.).
Concept & direction: Sue Hajdu, albb artistic director
Program Manager: Luong Tu Dung
For any inquiries about this program, please kindly contact Sue or Dung in Vietnamese or English, via email
albb.openstudio@gmail.com