KHO KHÔNG KHÓ OPEN REGISTRATION FOR 2 PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

The secret has been revealed! Although the number of participants of Kho Khong Kho is limited, the organizers decided to open 2 presentations and seminars for everyone to register and attend.

The reason is that not only bringing knowledge and perspectives from experts, the 2 presentations and seminars are expected to become more abundant and rich in information if there are discussions and contributions from all those who are interested and making efforts in the field of developing a methodological framework for documentation and digital archive of music and performing arts.

Both presentations and seminars take place in Hanoi, the specific location will be sent to your email after registration. Please read the detailed information below:

1. Presentation and discussion “Locating music, sound and storage in a wider context” – A series of presentations from Vietnamese experts, ending with a discussion and dialogue session between speakers (10 AM on March 27th 2024)

Specifically, attending this presentation and discussion, you will listen to 4 presentations on specific topics from 4 speakers in Vietnam:

DOCUMENTATION AND DATA STORAGE ISSUES AT THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Speaker: Dr. Pham Minh Huong, Director of Institute of Music, Vietnam National Academy of Music

DOCUMENTING MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN VIETNAM: SHARING SOME EXPERIENCES Speaker: Dr. Kieu Trung Son, Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

ARCHIVING/SOUVENIR: THE ROLE OF DOCUMENTING AND ARCHIVING MUSIC WITH ARTISTS

Speaker: Artist Nguyen Xuan Son, Songwriter and multimedia writer

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF HERITAGE, CULTURE AND ARTS IN VIETNAM: CURRENT CONTEXT AND ISSUES

Speaker: Dr. Lu Thi Thanh Le, Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at Hanoi National University

2. Lessons learnt, Challenges and Actions – review discussion using the ‘Long Table’ approach (10AM on March 29th 2024)

The final session of this 3-day experience will bring all participants, speakers, facilitators together to review and discuss what they have experienced and their thoughts on the topics or ideas raised. The approach is based on the ‘Long Table’ developed by Lois Weaver in 2003 (Split Britches, n.d.). The topic of the session is ‘Lessons learnt, Challenges and Actions’ but in keeping with Weaver’s method, the session will not try to ‘wrap up’ the programme or come up with actions.

‘Long Table’ is one of a number of methodological techniques alongside Forum Theatre (Involve, n.d.) or Open Space Technologies (Herman, n.d.) that can be used for both research and community discussion and is intentionally non-hierarchical. This allows for unexpected dialogues to emerge and for conversations to go in different and new directions. A ‘Long Table’ works with a simple etiquette (much like a dinner table): talk is the only course; people sitting at the table are guests and anyone can join (and join again); no one moderates the discussion but there is a host. In keeping with its creators, the discussion is also a durational performance.