Event Details

"La Vita e La Morte"

A Charity Event upholding Visual & Performing Arts

This will be a 3-day arts event that will showcase visual and performing artists from Ho Chi Minh City. Participants will include professional and student artists (painters, sculptors & photographers) who will be contributing art pieces depicting the theme, La Vita e la Morte (Life and Death) Live performances by theater actors, dance artists and musicians will also be featured. Proceeds from this festival will go to charity.

Date: January 13, 14, & 15 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)

Venue: Boomarang Bistro Saigon

January 13:

4 PM -6 PM Art Exhibit (free)

6 PM- Opening Ceremony

Performing Arts Show (entry by suggested generous donation of at least 250,000 VND)

7 PM No Exit by the Saigon Players

8 PM- Dance , Music, Poetry Reading

January 14:

4 PM -6 PM Art Exhibit (free)

Performing Arts Show (entry by suggested generous donation of at least 250,000 VND)

7 PM No Exit by the Saigon Players

8 PM- Dance , Music, Poetry Reading

January 15:

8 AM -5 PM Art Exhibit (free)

Performing Arts Show (entry by suggested generous donation of at least 250,000 VND)

5 PM- No Exit by the Saigon Players

6 PM- Dance , Music, Poetry Reading

7 PM- Closing Ceremony

*For every donation and art work sold, you will be helping children who are HIV-positive or who had parents who died of AIDS

Thank you very much for supporting the charity and the arts!!!

Visual Artists:

Loic Bertrand-Chichester ● Peter Hoyles ● Suzyn Hutton Kelley ● Sepi Johnson ● Helene Kling ● Helena Sharon Malinis ● Jama Mangalindan-Ramos ● Adam Martin ● Alex McMillan ● Jensen Moreno ● Glen Nicholson ● Jose Mari Ramos ● Erwin Bryan Utchanah ● Ruby Do ● Truong Mai ● Yen Khe Nguyen

Performing Artists:

● Street Theatre on Life and Death: Emily Huckson, Stephen Thomas, Brendan Thomas, Thu Nguyen, Tri Dang, Thoa Nguyen

● Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit performed by the Saigon Players; directed by Jennifer Dizon

Cast:

Garcin: Patrick Hughes (Australia)

Inez: Imogen Dobbs (UK)

Estelle: Frederique Bouilheres (France)

Valet: Robert Cotgrove (Australia)

● La Vita e La Morte featuring the Arcade Fire song, Rebellion, danced by Nguyen Ha Tu Trinh & Nguyen Thi Thanh Hang

● Song Medley by Aaron Wilson , teachers and students from The Performing Arts Academy of Ho Chi Minh City

● Song Medley by Charles Barnes & Brett Newski

● Life Defined By a Moment, A dance-drama featuring the songs New Born by Muse, Settle Down by Kimbra & Fix You by Coldplay

Performers: Kevin Nguyen, Tony Nguyen, Nikki Nguyen, Tracy Khuong, Mina Tran, Madison Nguyen, Hugo Bui, Jesy Pham, Rasul Buisan & Alice Borman from The American School of Vietnam

● Song Medley by Matt Vend and the Tender 10

● Canto V, Inferno, Excerpts from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: read by Tomaso Andreatta

● Tanto Gentile e Tanto Onesta Pare by Dante Alighieri & Il Sabato del Villaggio by Giacomo Leopardi read by Mattia Miani

● One and The Same performed by Minh Do

● Viva La Vida featuring the Coldplay song, Viva La Vida performed by Helen Sarah Cowie, Andrea Flores & Ina Stewart from The Helen O' Grady Drama Academy