Deja vu - a cozy home for coffee lovers
Tucked in a small valley on Dien Bien Phu Street, near the intersection of the street with Nguyen Thuong Hien Street, Deja vu cafe boasts a cozy, quiet space.
A photo and video exhibition on Japanese Cosplayers will open at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Hanoi September 11-23.
The work follows YuRiE, a collaborative cosplay team formed by two young Japanese cosplayers - YuRi and RiE.
The group won the cosplay championships at the World Cosplay Summit 2009. Their cosplay and performance as Sanada Hiroyuki and Date Masamune, the characters from the computer game Sengoku Basara, were highly acclaimed by both the juries and the audience at the annual Summit in Nagoya, Japan.
Cosplayers dress up as characters from animations, manga and games. It is the art of making two dimensional images three dimensional.
Besides the exhibition, YuRiE will participate in Acctive Expo 2010 in Hanoi where a lot of pop culture activities are packed in one day event held at Hanoi Children’s Palace (36 Ly Thai To) September 12. YuRiE will be the judges of “Cos’Night” in which five selected groups of Vietnamese cosplayers will compete, followed by a performance from YuRiE.
The center is at 27 Quang Trung Street, Hoan Kiem District.
