What not to miss this weekend in Hanoi

Ha Phuong 14:52, 2018/12/21

If you’re trying to find something to enjoy this weekend, here is the what’s on guide of Hanoitimes to help you select.

The Sound of Christmas

The Sound of Christmas

Come to “The Sound of Christmas” to immerse yourself in an exciting warm Christmas with the hearing impaired.
Have a slice of cake, enjoy award-winning artworks from the contest “What colors sound like”. Learn sign language through songs and games and receive awesome prizes. And especially, make friends with many lovely friends. What are you waiting for? Come join “The Sound of Christmas” to share, listen and enjoy the season of love with a world so familiar yet so strange.
Time: Saturday December 22 from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Kim Dong Cinema, 19 Hang Bai, Hanoi
Music from the Ancient Time

Music from the Ancient Time

The Old Quarter’s Musical Story returns to the Cultural Exchange Center of the Old Quarter at No. 50 Dao Duy Tu street. Artists and artisans from Dong Kinh Co Nhac The Ancient Music Group of Tonkin will continue to bring Vietnamese traditional sounds to audiences, introducing them to the precious heritage of Vietnamese traditional music culture.
This is a special musical program dedicated to the “Music from the Ancient Time”. The unique music of Vietnamese Spiritual Culture such as Chanting Tone, Zen Poetry Singing of the Worship of Mother Goddesses in Vietnam will be performed with other genres of Vietnamese traditional music in a small theater space.
They hope that the flow of the ancient sound takes the audience today on a journey back to thousand years ago, and help them understand and ‘feel’ the traditional music culture of Vietnam.
Time: Saturday, December 22 at 8:00 pm
Venue: Cultural Exchange Center of the Old Quarter, 50 Dao Duy Tu str, Hoan Kiem dist, Hanoi
Art Talk ”Second Opinion”

Art Talk ”Second Opinion”

Manzi Art Space and Hanoi DocLab will hold a talk by artists of the ‘Second Opinion’ exhibition which is on show at Manzi Art Space until 07 Jan 2019.
The talk is in Vietnamese with English translation.
Time: Sunday December 23 at 7:30 pm
Venue: Manzi Art Space, 14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi

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