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October 2022
Hanoi City Walk (English) – west of Hoan Kiem Lake
We are excited to offer a brand new walk – the first for this walk (which makes it our 18th walk in English!!). It is eclectic with miscellaneous content, it’s a little bit of everything. We start outside at Shinhan Bank by Hoan Kiem Lake and end near Lương Văn Can walking the long way round. Sign up and come along with Alvaro to discover the route and the stories of the streets west of Hoan Kiem Lake. Max 10…
Find out more »Cultural series: Ngọc Linh – Vietnamese film making from the 1960s
Stil with an extraordinary amount of energy and a passion for art, life, writing and sharing stories..... join us for a morning with artist and former movie art director Ngọc Linh as he goes back in time revealing the secrets of how he and his colleagues made some of the first Vietnamese films in North Vietnam going back to the 1960s. We plan this as a warm cosy chat with a specific focus on the techniques for filming making at…
Find out more »Music – Afternoon music recital – songs from around the world
The Hope Choir are back the 'blind centre' at 21b Lac Trung for another afternoon of songs from around the world uniting in friendhip and peace and we are warmly welcome to attend. THE HOPE CHOIR. If you have not met The Hope Choir before you will be amazed by their singing. If you already know them then they need no introduction. FVH has supported them ever since they were formed, they are like our extended family. And we do…
Find out more »November 2022
Bookclub – “EATING VIETNAM by Graham Hollyday”
A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Graham didn’t want to be a tourist in an alien land. He was determined to live it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food. In Eating Viet Nam, he chronicles his odyssey in this strange, enticing…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (English): Lãn Ông Street (Old Quarter) – FULL
THIS WALK IS FULL FVH is taking part in the Vietnam Festival of Creativity & Design (VFCD): Hanoi 2022 Hanoi: “Culture and Creativity” and change Activity: city walk – and this is the 4th VFCD and FVH's 4th year of participation and events we hold as part of VFCD are open to all the community who are interested in the festival In this walk around part of the Old Quarter we discover Lãn Ông Street – the street well-known for herbal medicine…
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