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Art
March 29 at ITC Sonar Bangla Art Gallery; 6.30 pm: Inauguration of an exhibition of paintings by Phalguni Dasgupta. The show will be on view from March 30 to April 1 between 2 pm and 8 pm.
March 29 - April 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Indian Society of Oriental Art presents its annual exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures.
Till March 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road (near Taaja restaurant); 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Realism and Surrealism ? an exhibition of paintings and drawings.
Till April 2 at CIMA Gallery; 2 pm - 7 pm: Tradition in Modernity featuring works of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Jyoti Bhatt, Haku Shah, Lalu Prosad Shaw and T. Vaikuntam.
Till April 3 at Anant Art Gallery, 18A Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Colour Fields ? an exhibition of paintings by John Tun Sein.
Till March 30 at Gandhara Art Gallery, Palm Spring, Flat 5A, 1B Gurusaday Road; 4 pm - 8 pm: Recent landscape paintings by Samindranath Majumdar.
Till March 31 at Calcutta Information Centre; 2 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Ahmed Ali.
Till April 1 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Changing Images ? recent works of the members of Rabindra Bharati University?s visual arts faculty.
DRAMA
March 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Aneek presents Samparka. Direction: Malay Biswas.
March 29 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: PLT presents Utpal Dutt?s Bibighar. Direction: Mrinal Ghosh.
March 29 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents its latest Hindi play, Nawabnama.
March 30 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Kalyani Kalamandalam presents Romeo Janet. Dir: Shantanu Das.
performing artS
March 29 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6 pm: A cultural event, organised by Nriti Kala Kendra in aid of tsunami victims. Participants include Bratati Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Sen Barat, Sraboni Sen, and artistes of Calcutta Choir, Shinjan, Music 2000 and Indra Sabha Ballet Troupe. Also, musical play Chitrangada.
March 30 at Kala Kunj; 5.30 pm: Sadhana presents Tagore songs by Sushmita Bhattacharya and Sreekanta Acharya, and Haimanti Shukla in Raagsangeet O Rabindrasangeet Samanwaye.
March 31 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Spandan and Nrityalok present Jugal Bandi ? a Bharata Natyam duet by Sutapa Awon Pradhan and Umesh Bheemanna Madesh. Choreography by Shanta and V.P. Dhananjayan.
ANNIVERSARY
March 29 at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, 3 Regent Park; 6 pm: A programme on the occasion of The Mother?s First Arrival in Pondicherry. Dr Pratap Chandra Chunder and Dr Shankar Sen will grace the programme. Some Institute publications will also be released.
TALK
March 29 - 31 at Presidency College, Derozio Hall; 4.30 pm: The Harendralal Basak Lecture Series in English Literature 2004 to be delivered by Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri on Text and Supertext. Today?s topic: The Bounds of the Text.
March 29 at CMA Auditorium, 1 Shakespeare Sarani, 1st floor (rear side); 5.45 pm: A CMA-Patton Tuesday Talkshoppe: Samir Kumar Datta, corporate consultant, to speak on Globalization & Indian Industry.
March 29 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Atmajnanananda will speak in English on Swami Vivekananda on Spiritual Values and Education.
March 29 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 6.45 pm: Discourse on Life and teachings of Swami Yoganandaji Maharaj by Swami Snehamayananda.
March 29 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha.
FILM SHOW
March 29 - 31 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6 pm: A film retrospective on Karl Valentin, film pioneer and media craftsman. Today: The Jolly Vagabonds (1913, 4 min.), The New Desk (1914, 8 min.), Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt at the Oktoberfest (1922, 24 min.), The Mysteries of a Haidresser?s Shop (1923, 10 min.) and The Eccentric (1929, 90 min.).
BOOK LAUNCH
March 29 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 5 pm: A book on Two Decades of Service and a film made by BBC representative Mike Donkin and Piyashi Roy Choudhury will be released. Also, an exhibition of craft itrems made by the beneficiaries (children and destitute women) along with an interactive session with the children.
April 1 at British Council, 16 Camac Street; 7 pm: Tarun Tejpal will be in conversatioin with Moon Moon Sen at the launch of Alchemy of Desire (Harper Collins).
BOOKS
Till March 31 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street: The Great Oxford Sale of titles on fiction, non-fiction, cookery, hobbies and lifestyle, photography, art and architecture, and children?s books.
EXHIBITION
Till March 30 at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace (1st floor), off Gokhale Road; 10 am - 7.30 pm: Crafts Council of West Bengal presents Kesh Shringar ? an exposition of rare hair ornaments from the collection of Veena Shroff, who demonstrates traditional hair styles from ancient sculptures and paintings.
Till March 30 at Design, 108 Raja Basanta Roy Road: Paramita Viswanathan?s annual summer exhibition of handloom prints, resist prints, Mangalgiri sarees, crepes, chiffons, silk, tassarprints and Hyderabad sarees.
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