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One of the most vibrant and dynamic of movements, the women’s movement in India has produced hundreds of images that bear messages supporting causes like violence against women, dowry, rape, gender-sensitive laws, political participation and so on. Unfortunately, most of them have not been preserved well; in fact, many have been lost or destroyed. Zubaan, a New Delhi-based feminist publishing house, attempts to retrieve this valuable archive and in showcasing it, to present a selection of posters that demonstrates an alternative aesthetics and politics, besides throwing light on the movement. Poster Women, featuring a collection of over 1200 posters, traces the history of activism, highlighting crucial women’s issues and problems that remain sadly relevant to this day. To be inaugurated this evening at 6 by Vidya Munshi. Special guest: Maitreyee Chatterjee. Hosted by Swayam and Zubaan.
Event: An exhibition of posters from the women’s movement in India When: March 1 - 10; 2 pm - 8 pm Where: Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road
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art
Till March 1 at Chemould Art Gallery, Queen’s Mansion, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Biplab Sarkar and Sasanka Ghosh present their latest series of paintings, titled Ecstasy.
Till March 1 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #24604245; 11 am - 7 pm: Paintings by Satish Gupta.
Till March 2 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace; 11 am - 7 pm: A New Fulfilment, an exhibition of paintings by Dhiraj Chowdhury.
Till March 2 at Samokal Art Gallery, 23 Gariahat Road, 1st floor, Gol Park, #98362 76110; 4 pm - 8 pm: Art of Neo-Bengal School Today, dedicated to Abanindranath Tagore. Participating artists: Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Amal Nath Chakladar, Arpita Basu, Chandra Sekhar Basu Majumder, Dhirendranath Brahma, Krishna Banerjee, Narendra Chandra De Sarkar, Nemai Basu Majumder, Nilima Dutta, Rajarshi Adhikary, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Ratan Acharya, Sankar Nath Aich, Saumya Kanti Mukhopadhyay, Shanti Ranjan Mukherjee and Sukti Subhra Pradhan. Curated by Prasanta Daw.
Till March 4 (except Mondays) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Art Spectrum, an exhibition of the works by Sunil Kumar Pal, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Krishna Banerjee, Janak Jhankar Narzari, Biswarup Dutta, Nandadulal Mukherjee, Dr Manas Roy, Pinaki Barua, Falguni Mukherjee, Ketaki Roy Choudhury, Pankaj Panwar and Sunil Chandra Pal.
Till March 4 at 1/42 Shahid Nagar, Dhakuria; 1 pm - 8 pm: Latest creations by Aloke Paul.
Till March 6 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South-B; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sekhar Biswas. Inauguration today at 4 pm to be followed by a seminar on The importance of art in our life.
Till March 6 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings, sculptures and graphics by First Stape. Participating artists: Anjana Mukherjee, Kanchan Dutta, Hirack Chand, Ram Krishna Halder, Abhijit Paul, Dipankar Ghosh, Anjana Kirtania, Bappa Maji and Tapan Sardar.
Till March 9 (except Mondays) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor AC gallery; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Amit Banerjee.
Till March 9 (except Mondays) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: A group exhibition of paintings by Sumita Maity, Pradip Kr. Sau, Anjan Coomar and Arpita Chandra
Till March 9 (except Mondays) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Kinkar Ghosh presents his recent works.
Till March 9 (except Mondays) at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #22893027; 3 pm - 7 pm: Four Generations of Contemporary Sculpture — an exhibition of sculptures by Uma Siddhanta, Sankar Ghosh, Pandeya Surendra, Manik Talukdar, Asim Basu, Sunil Kumar Das, Bimal Kundu, Sandip Chakraborty, Sujit Kumar Karan, Subrata Biswas, Tapas Biswas, Chandan Bhandari, Ketan N. Amin, Nantu Behari Das, Tarun Maity and Arya Oraw.
Till March 15 (except Sundays) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, 2nd floor, Shivam Chambers, #30523243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Colors of Hyderabad — an exhibition of paintings by Bairu Raghuram, Chippa Sudhakar, DVS Krishna, G Anjaneyulu, Kavita Deuskar, K Srinivasa Chari, K Sukumar, Laxman Aelay, L Narendranath, Manguirish S Rajadhyax, Ramesh Gorjala, S Bharath Yadav, Sachin Jaltare, Sajid Bin Amar, Sanjay Ashtaputre, Sreekanth Kurva, Swati Rajadhyax and T Vaikuntam.
Till March 15 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of new works on paper by Ritesh Meshram and Vijay Bandar.
Till March 20 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Colors of Spring, an exhibition of recent paintings by Bhagat Singh, Hemant Rao, Sukanta Das, Arpan Bhowmick, Subrata Das, Kallol Bose, Nitya Kundu, Bablu Basak, Nankumar J, Dharmendra Rathore, Dewashish Das, Panesar B, Shyamal Mukherjee, Dhananjay Mukherjee, Nikhil Biswas and Gautam Mukherjee.
DRAMA
March 1 at Labon Hrad Mancha, BD Auditorium, Salt Lake; 5.30 pm: Parash (Salt Lake) presents Tagore’s Ghare Baire, a production of Marubehag in collaboration with Padatik. Script, sets, lights & direction: Jolly Guha Roy.
March 1 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sundaram presents Galpo Hekim Saheb. Drama, direction & acting: Manoj Mitra.
March 1 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bhagaban Ja Karen Ta — Theatre Workshop’s latest production. Drama & direction: Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
March 1 & 2 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 6.30 pm: Padatik presents its latest production, Lahron Ke Rajhans (Hindi) by Mohan Rakesh. Direction: Shyamanand Jalan.
March 1 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents Helmet. Direction: Anish Ghosh.
March 1 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Dream Theatre presents its new production, Swikarokti (Direction & mono acting: Gautam). Also, Swapnasandhani will stage its latest play, Andho Beraler Galpo, directed by Koushik Sen.
March 2 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Lok-Krishti’s Krishna Gahwar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.
March 2 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik will stage Fakka, directed by Chandan Das.
March 2 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Deepdanda.
March 2 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Sandarbha presents Gahwar. Drama & direction: Soumitra Basu.
TALK
March 1 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Tyagarupananda will speak on Gitar Vani.
March 1 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Manovijnan O Atmatattwa.
PERFORMING ARTS
March 1 & 2 at Nazrul Mancha; 5 pm: 9X and Friends 91.9 FM present a music festival. Today, 5 pm onwards: Bangla Adhunik Gaan by Nachiketa, Lopamudra Mitra, Srikanto Acharya, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Subhamita, Manomay and Rupankar; 11 pm onwards: Hindustani classical featuring Kaushiki Desikan with Samar Saha (tabla) and Rupasree Bhattacharya (harmonium), Tejendra Narayan Majumdar with Anindo Chatterjee (tabla), Ustad Rashid Khan with Subhankar Banerjee (tabla) and Jyoti Goho (harmonium). Tomorrow, 5 pm onwards: Bangla Band/Fusion. Participants: Fossils, Chandrabindoo, Eldorado, Phoenix and Bickram Ghosh’s Rhythmscape with S. Sekhar, Sanjoy Das, Pulak Sarkar, Chiro, V. Suresh and Supratik.
March 2 at the Pala, ITC The Sonar Kolkata; 7 pm onwards: The Sonar Kolkata, in association with The Calcutta School of Music, presents March Masterpieces, a musical evening with the Calcutta Chamber Orchestra along with a presentation of select Art.
LAUNCH
March 1 at Rotary Sadan; 5 pm: The Pankaj Mullick Music and Art Foundation will launch the Pankaj Mullick Academy of Music and Art. Chief guest: Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya. The inauguration will be followed by the rendition of Pankaj Mullick’s songs and compositions by his grand daughter-in-law Jhinuk Gupta.
READING
March 2 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Karna defeating Yudhisthira, Arjuna defeating Asvatthaman, the Kauravas' flight, and Asvatthaman releasing the Bhargava missile on the Panchalas at Duryodhana's urging, in the 414th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till March 8 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia Kolkata, Stephen’s Court, 18 Park Street; #4001 0148; 11 am - 7 pm: Gauri Gill - The Americans.
ROADSHOW
March 2 at The Park; 10 am - 6 pm: Thomas Cook and TCI present 100 Per Cent Holiday Carnival, a travel and tourism roadshow.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244
All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less
than a week ahead to:
Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244
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