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May 2024
Hanoi City walk (English) – silver & coffee: Hàng Bạc to Nguyễn Hữu Huân – nearly full
AS OF 9 MAY MORNING MAX. 2 SPACES AVAILABLE. AFTER WHICH WE WILL HAVE A WAITNG LIST. THANKS ‘SILVER, COFFEE, REVOLUTION AND ICE CREAM’ A short distance as the crow flies. But we take the long way round zig zagging up and down the streets in this familiar area of the Old Quarter to discover the unfamiliar – from Đinh Liệt and Hang Bac to Cầu Gỗ and Nguyễn Hữu Huân streets. We touch on many subjects from the birth…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (ENG): the art of Old Quarter communal houses – FULL
THIS TOUR IS NOW FULL. PLEASE RSVP TO VAN FOR THE WAITING LIST A very special new walking tour. Nguyễn Thế Sơn (public art artist, researcher, former art lecturer at the Fine Arts university) has curated a fascinating exhibition based on the art heritage of a number of communal houses in the Old Quarter. On display in 6 communal houses (Đình) are works of art that reflect the story and heritage of the chosen communal houses. This is done through a…
Find out more »People of the Old Quarter series 4: with Phạm Mạnh Việt
Welcome to our 4th People of the Old Quarter . This is when we meet those who were born and have lived (and worked) all their lives in the heart of the Old Quarter. Each meeting has a different format, from show and tell, taking part in a workshop, to eating and drinking, or just listening to the person’s life stories. We gather in their homes, place of work or a nearby cafe to hear about their family history, their trade,…
Find out more »National Archives Centre 1 – Trade Fairs and Expos of French Indochina – FULL
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST. THANKS A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. During the late 19th century and early 20th centuries they focused on the technological, industrial, and cultural achievements of nations around the world, sometimes displaying cultural superiority over colonized nations. In French Indochina in 1902 – the Governor General at the time, Paul Doumer,…
Find out more »Cultural Series – Hồ Chí Minh Thought
134 years ago on 19 May 1890 Hồ Chí Minh was born (and he died on 2 September 1969). Given that May 2024 is the 70th anniversary of the Diên Biên Phu victory and the fact this year 19 May falls on a Sunday which is a great day for a lecture this month we are looking at his legacy, the man himself and his ideology. To quote Britannica - ‘As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three…
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