Hanoi Public Art Design Contest 2022
Deadline for application: Wed 12 Oct 2022, 04 pm
To realise the Implementation plan of initiatives to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network by 2025, Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, the Architecture Magazine – Vietnam Association of Architects, and UN-Habitat jointly hold the launch event for Hanoi Public Art Design Contest 2022. This event is part of the Creative Design Festival 2022, which is expected to take place in November 2022 in different locations across the Hanoi Old Quarter. The entire programme is executed under the direction of the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Vietnam Association of Architects.
Hanoi Public Art Design Contest 2022 aims to encourage young people (especially university students) to explore the cultural and historical values in Hanoi Old Quarter, and propose design ideas for public art spaces (indoor and outdoor) in order to initiate creative design solutions with new technology as well as educational and aesthetic values, which help bring arts and creativity closer to the general public. Young people joining the contest will get to attend seminars, workshops, and training to perfect their ideas and improve their professional skills.
The contest is organised with the support from the Hoan Kiem District People’s Committee and expertise coordination from Hanoi University of Civil Engineering; Hanoi Architectural University; University of Industrial Fine Arts; Vietnam National University – Hanoi; and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.
The organisers will present five prizes valued at 15 to 30 million VND each for the most excellent ideas. The award ceremony of the Hanoi Public Art Design Contest 2022 will be held on the same day as the opening ceremony of the Creative Design Festival 2022, which is set for November 11, 2022.
Contest participants must submit their entries before 16:00 on October 12, 2022, both in person and online at:
+ In-person: the office of Architecture Magazine – Vietnam Association of Architects at No. 40 Tang Bat Ho, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi.
+ Online: Email cuocthi@tckt.vn with the mail subject as “Submission for Hanoi Public Art Design Contest 2022”.
Vietnam-RoK lantern festival
Until Sept 11,
Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square, Hanoi
From 7 pm on September 9 Cheongsa Chorong lanterns from the RoK and Vietnamese Hoi An lanterns will be lit up to send a message of peace and happiness to everyone.
Visitors will be given the chance to try on the traditional Korean costume Hanbok, sample Korean foods, learn more about tourism products in the RoK, and play folk games from the two countries.
A lantern lighting ceremony will be held on September 10 – 11 alongside a performance by a choir made up of 30 Vietnamese and 30 Korean children.
Exhibition features dialogue between calligraphy, graffiti
Until Sep 30,
The Temple of Literature, Hanoi
An exhibition named “Calligraphy – Graffiti Dialogue” featuring 39 works of calligraphy and graffiti by Vietnamese calligraphers and graffiti artists across the country.
The works are arranged like a story about two people with different personalities and the dialogue which brings them together to empathise and share with each other.
Len Lỏi Exhibition
Until Sep 23, 8am-5pm
Gallery 1, Building 2, Level 1, Saigon South campus, RMIT University Vietnam, 702 Nguyen Van Linh Street, HCMC
Len Lỏi Exhibition is a speculative spatial design project which intentionally challenges one’s perception and understanding of hẻm (alley) in District 4, Ho Chi Minh city. Drawing from students’ multiple research approaches, engagement with locals and place experiences, a series of multifunctional adaptive reuse commercial spaces designed by students in Interior Stream – Design Studies at RMIT University is finally ready to be showcased.
Exhibition “Future Perfect”
30 June – 05 Sep 2022, 10 am – 09 pm
Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA)
B1 – R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City
72A Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi
From June 30, 2022, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA) introduces artist Le Giang’s solo exhibition – “Future Perfect”, displaying more than 20 works including gem paintings, sculptures and video installations, as the result of Le Giang’s research and composition over the past year.
Exhibition: Illuminated Curiosities
Until Dec 2022
EMASI Nam Long
147 Street No.8, Nam Long Residential area, District 7,
EMASI Van Phuc
2 Street No.5, Van Phuc Residential City, Thu Duc District, HCMC
Vietnamese short films to be screened in Hanoi and HCM City
Sept 7-9, CGV Su Van Hanh, District 10 in HCM City.
Sept 12-13 CGV Vincom Nguyen Chi Thanh, Dong Da District, Hanoi
Featuring ten works of different genres on various topics by talented young filmmakers who have won top prizes at international film festivals and the CJ Short Film Making Project, a prominent national contest in the genre from 2018.
Highlighted works will include Điềm Báo (Fortune-telling) by Hồ Thanh Thảo, Cá Mặt Trăng (Moonfish) by Trần Thị Hà Trang, Con Dại Cái Mang (Mother’s Love) by Đào Thu Uyên, Những Con Voi Bên Vệ Đường (Elephants on the Streets) by Đào Quang Trung, and Hương Kỳ Trong Trăng (Dreaming a Dream) by Lê Can Trường.
Free entry.
Le Ha (Hanoigrapevines)