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September 2025
Craft workshop (a.m): fabric fruit from ethnic minority textiles
In 2023 we started running some workshops with Huyen of Textile Linker fame who teamed up with Thuy who founded Chie Dù Pù Dù Pà in Hang Trong street to run craft workshops. Always looking for a new item for a workshop, this month we will make 3 frabric fruit. The bodies (the fruit are a fairly large size so will need a lot of cotton suffing) are pre-sewn, and we fill them with cotton wool stuffing and hand sew…
Find out more »People of the Old Quarter – personal war stories from a mooncake artisan – FUL
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. PLEASE SIGN UP VIA THE EMAIL BELOW FOR THE WAITING LIST. THANKS We have met a wonderful 90 year old war veteran - Phương Soát - and now mooncake making artisan who we are including in our People of the Old Quarter series. In this section we meet people who were born, and living and working in the very heart of the Old Quarter so they can share their unique and personal life stories. While we…
Find out more »Art and craft workshop (a.m): Dó paper lanterns for mid-autumn festival – 2 soaces
AS OF 15 SEPT MAX 2 SPACES AVAILABLE. LANTERNS FOR MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL (morning/afternoon workshops) Each year on the 15th day of the 8th month (this year in the solar calendar its 6 October) Vietnam celebrates the mid-autumn festival – Tết Trung Thu; hence, in preparation, some of our September events have a mid-autumn festival theme and flavour. This is 1 of 2 lantern workshops we will do this month (the 2nd one is part of an excursion and is very traditional).…
Find out more »October 2025
Craft workshop (a.m): Chie fabric pumpkins (for halloween)
Pumpkins for Halloween In 2023 we started to run some workshops with Huyen of Textile Linker fame. She teamed up with Thuy who founded Chie Dù Pù Dù Pà in Hang Trong street to run craft workshops. Huyen is busy with many of her own projects at the moment but we are starting to run workshops again with Chie. As Halloween is approaching the workshop this month is to make a textile pumpkin using ethnic minority fabric/brocade. The pumpkin shell…
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