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April 2023
FVH Book Club: Season 5 – A Time Far Past by Lê Lựu
This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service during the American War and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi. Through two failed marriages, Giang Minh Sai struggles to come to terms…
Find out more »Hanoi city walk (English) – Bạch Mã temple and Old Quarter charm – FULL
THIS WALK IS FULL. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST AND WE CAN ARRANGE A REPEAT WALK. THANKS Welcome to an aftenoon stroll around some of Hanoi’s Old Quarter and the ’36 Streets’. This is the Bạch Mã temple walk where we discover why a white horse was instrumental in the building of the Thang Long citadel over 1,000 yrs ago, how today’s trade of Hàng Buồm street with its alcohol shops and bars is a far cry from its original activity, we…
Find out more »Craft workshop – Dó paper notebooks
AS OF TUES 4 APRIL 4 SPACES AVAILABLE A relaxing creative Sunday morning making some small dó paper notebooks. We partner with Hong Ky who helps support the paper-making communities in Hoa Binh creating job opportunities and stable incomes for the paper making ethnic minority families in the province . This type of paper first appeared in the 18th century in Vietnam and has been used widely in Vietnamese folk art, especially in Dong Ho paintings. What is dó paper and how…
Find out more »Cultural Series – The story of the Nôm script with Dr Lâm
How many times on excursions and visiting places of worship you been told something is written in Hán or Nôm but you have no idea what it says or what the differences are between the characters? Now is your chance to learn about these 2 fascinating scripts and their importance in Vietnam. Why did Vietnam have a dual script? It was because the Chinese characters did not satisfy the vocabulary and grammar of the Vietnamese language. They did not sound…
Find out more »People of the Old Quarter series: Meet Đức in ‘bamboo land’ + a bamboo workshop)
AS OF 1PM 7 APRIL MAX 3 SPACES AVAILABLE The 2nd in our series of people of Hanoi's Old Quarter. For this next meet the people of the Old Quarter ‘at home’ chat we visit 45 year old Đức who was brought up in his family house in Hàng Vảii street which he has now turned into a café built onto and adapted in various stages. Đức is a lover of coffee, he is an artist but he also works…
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