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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 »Art and craft workshop (p.m): Dó paper lanterns for mid-autumn festival – FULL
THE AFTERNOON SESSION IS NOW FULL, SPACES AVAILABLE ON THE MORNING WORKSHOP. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST. THANKS 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…
Find out more »Hanoi City walk (English a.m) – silver & coffee: Hàng Bạc to Nguyễn Hữu Huân
‘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 of silver making in Hanoi, how Hong Kong cinema came to share space with Cải Lương folk opera, and the…
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