Art & Entertainment News 17/4 Daytime Disco at Saigon Outcast Daytime Disco, an all-day event of music and games, will be held at Saigon Outcast on Saturday. There will be house music performed by DJs Jack Barry from South Africa, Joey T from the UK and Noches from Spain. Splash pools, water toys, and drink specials will also be on offer. Participants can bring their own stuff to blow bubbles, juggle balls, hoops to hula and water guns to spray. The event will be from 1pm to 11pm at 188/1 Nguyen Van Huong Street, District 2. Entrance costs VND80,000. Product fair to promote green living The first Saigon Green Fair promoting environmentally friendly products and services and a healthy lifestyle will be held at the Cafe d'Anver on Saturday and Sunday. The fair will showcase organic foods and beverages, organic body care and home care products, accessories, and arts and crafts. It will feature green travel, a creative corner for children, lucky gifts and a community corner. The event will take place from 9am to 7pm at 96B Le Thanh Ton Street in District 1. Vietnamese stars to perform at EDM concert Space Speakers, a community of Vietnamese producers and artists, will host its annual electronic dance music (EDM) concert Space Jam 3rd featuring Viet Nam's leading EDM artists at the Cargo Bar tonight. There will be performances by DJ-music producer Hoang Touliver, a composer of electronic songs that are popular among youngsters, and Ha Noi-based producer Slim V, who spent eight years learning the piano and composing at the Viet Nam National Music Academy. The concert, to start at 8pm, will also present artists Onionn, Lil Knight, Tien Tien, and Mr A. The bar is at 7 Nguyen Tat Thanh Street in District 4. Tickets cost VND180,000 including one drink. Cinematheque to screen two verismo operas Cinematheque will screen the verismo operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci on Sunday. In the late 1800s, more operas were composed based on principles of French naturalism, called verismo in the Italian tradition. They usually centre on everyday problems. Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci are short, one-act operas usually performed together as Cav/Pag. Composeds in the 1890s, both tell tales of jilted lovers who seek revenge on their faithless significant others. The operas will be screened in the original Italian with English subtitles at 3pm and 7pm. Hanoi Cinematheque is located at 22A Hai Ba Trung Street, at the end of the alley leading to Artist's Hotel. A donation of VND60,000 is suggested. Autraliana dancing, food event to be a ball Ha Noi's resident Aussies – and non-Aussies – are invited to the Autraliana Ball for a night of Australian food and festivities. Organised by AussieOi, a group of Australians living in Ha Noi, the ball will feature an Australian-themed three-course dinner, imported Australian wines and a night of dancing. The Autraliana Ball will take place at the InterContinental Hotel Westlake, 1A Nghi Tam Street, Tay Ho Dist, on Saturday, April 18. Tickets cost VND2 million per person and can be purchased by emailing autralianaballhanoi@gmail.com. Dinner, music at AmCham Rock ‘n' Soul Gala The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Ha Noi will host the AmCham Gala on Saturday. The event will feature a stylish dinner with top-shelf liquor and rock ‘n' soul entertainment. There will be a host of prizes, a silent auction and live music acts performed by artists from Memphis, Tennessee in the US. The gala will be held at JW Marriott Hanoi, 8 Do Duc Duc Street, Tu Liem. Tickets are available for VND2.9 million per seat at amchamhanoi.com. Cultural and trade activities to be held in Can Tho Activities to boost tourism and investment opportunities will be organised in the end of April in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, announced Head of the municipal Office Nguyen Quang Nghi on April 15. Accordingly, more than 150 kinds of traditional cakes and foods will be exhibited in 100 booths at the Southern Folk Cake Festival 2015, which is slated to be held from April 27 to May 1. Meanwhile, the Mekong Expo 2015 trade fair will take place at the Can Tho International Exhibition Fair Centre from April 27 to May 2. On display at the event will be machinery and equipment serving agricultural and industrial production, wooden products and handicrafts for export. The city will also organise the Mekong Delta Green Tourism Week from June 18-24, expected to contribute to thestrong development of Mekong Delta tourism looking forward. Exhibition spotlights national reunification As many as 10,000 books and documents featuring the national struggle against the US and the 1975 Spring Offensive will be on display at the General Science Library of Ho Chi Minh City from April 27 to May 1. The exhibition, held as part of activities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of the Southern Region and National Reunification (April 30, 1975- 2015), will be arranged into two categories, the war against the US and Vietnam’s development and integration process. A number of discussions and talks with historic witnesses who took part in the Ho Chi Minh campaign and modern authors will be included in the exhibition. The exhibition intends to create a deeper understanding about the significant sacrifice of the country in order to pave the way for national independence and reunification in 1975. Exhibition marks 150 years of Vietnamese press An exhibition introducing important publications in Vietnamese printed between 1865 and 1954 will take place in Hanoi from April 18-21 to celebrate the 150 years of the Vietnamese-language press. The event will provide insights into the development of the Vietnamese media over the last 15 decades since the publication of Gia Dinh , the first Vietnamese-language newspaper, in Sai Gon on April 15, 1865. That publication helped introduce the country’s positive elements to the Western world, while promoting the national language. The celebratory exhibition will be hosted by the online forum sachxua.net, the Dong Tay Culture and Language Centre and the Hanoi Library, among others. Documentary shines light on historic Paris Agreement talks The reunification of Vietnam following the liberation of the South on April 30, 1975, has been recounted to European audiences after a documentary film was shown on Belgian Arte media on April 14. The film “Vietnam, Dirty War” begins with the secret negotiation in Paris, France on February 21 st , 1970 between special envoys from Vietnam and the US. It was these talks which culminated in the signing of the Paris agreement in January 1973 and brought national reunification two years later. Through access to rare documents and archive footage, film-maker Daniel Roussel has brought these historic moments alive, highlighting the strained but gentle atmosphere surrounding the crucial discussions. The documentary aims to create a deeper understanding about the diplomatic policy of Henry Kissinger, a national security adviser to US President Richard Nixon, and Le Duc Tho, a key leader of Vietnamese revolution. The documentary film won award in the Pessac Historical Film Festival. VNA/VNS/VOV/SGT/SGGP/Dantri