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A restless, effusive and prolific artist in search of an indefinite goal, Eleena Banik appears to wear her heart and art on her sleeves. Life and human beings are the main source of inspiration for her art. Sometimes painting with the unbridled joy of a child or, with the gentle and loving instincts of a mother and still, at other times, with the harshness and violence of wild beasts, she spontaneously portrays the agonies and esctasies of her own life. While her early works were of a more symbolic nature and invested with multiple layers of meaning, her recent compositions, on show at the ongoing exhibition, are more colourful, direct and representational. Free of the confines of contemporary urban issues that dominated her earlier themes, they transport the viewer to a world of beauty, dreams and imagination. Warm and sensuous in appeal, her portrayal of flowers, birds and still life are endowed with a raw, earthy power that reminds us of our roots.
lEvent: An exhibition of paintings by Eleena Banik lWhen: Till March 15 (except Sunday); 2 pm - 7 pm lWhere: Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park
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Till March 9 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 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 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Kinkar Ghosh’s recent works.
Till March 9 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 11 at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Road, Flat 5A (Palm Springs), #2280 1790; 12 noon - 7 pm: Gandhara Art Gallery presents Gaze Within - Gaze Without — artworks by eminent contemporary artists. Participants: Bose Krishnamachari, Chandra Bhattacharya, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Chhatrapati Dutta, Debraj Goswami, Jaya Ganguly, Rajarshi Biswas, Riyas Komu and Sajal Sarkar.
Till March 12 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2440 8937; 11 am - 7 pm: Quest for Life — an exhibition of paintings by six young artists of Bangaldesh. Participating artists: Azmal Uddin, Sadek Ahmed, Bishwajit Goswami, Najmun Nahar Keya, Sahid Kazi and Mohammad Razaul Sadat.
Till March 15 (except Sunday) 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 Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Exhibition of new works on paper by Ritesh Meshram and Vijay Bandar.
Till March 19 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Smile of the Hearth, featuring works by mother-daughter pair Paris-based artists Maite Delteil and Maya Burman. Their compositions in watercolours, oil, pen and ink are inspired by the beauty of life and nature.
DRAMA
March 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nat-Ranga presents the comedy, Gulbaaj, the Man of the Match. Direction: Sohan Bandyopadhyay.
March 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nabamayukh Natta Sangstha presents Gopichand. Direction: Rishi Mukhopadhyay.
March 8 & 9 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 8 & 9 at the Far Pavilion, Tollygunge Club; 7 pm: The members of Tollygunge Club will stage Black Comedy, a farce by Peter Shaffer. Direction: C.S. Mukherji.
March 9 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Greenpark Avijan presents Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (in Bengali). Direction: Prof. (Dr) Prashanta Kr Ghosh.
March 9 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Blind Opera presents Brishti Brishti. Direction: Ashok Pramanik.
March 9 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Lok-Krishti presents Krishna Gahwar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.
March 8 at Girish Manch & March 9 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Fakka. Dir: Chandan Das.
March 9 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Sayak presents Dildar. Dir: Meghnad Bhattacharya.
PERFORMING ARTS
March 8 at Kala Mandir; 6 pm: Sangit Kala Mandir presents a devotional music programme, Sagun - Nirgun. Singers: Ashwini Bhide Deshpande and Shekhar Sen. Dr Pushpa Bharati will host the programme.
TALK
March 8 at Calcutta Book Fair, UBI Auditorium; 4 pm: Dr Pronab Sen, chief statistician of India and secretary to the Government of India, ministry of statistics & programme implementation, will speak on Statistics and IT: Challenges of the Information Age.
March 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama.
March 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Tattwasarananda will speak on Gauranga Mahaprabhu.
March 8 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Parimal Kanti Das will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna O Sadhakbrinda.
INTernationaL WOMEN’S DAY
March 8 at Rotary Sadan; 6 pm: Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City celebrates International Women’s Day through a programme titled Swayam Siddha. The highlight of the evening will be the bestowing of excellence awards to ladies of substance. A cultural programme with Avik Mukherjee on the sitar, Sujoy Prosad Chattopadhyay reciting and Shomi Banerjee painting the evolving emotions live on canvas will bring the curtains down this evening.
conversation
March 8 at Natya Bhavan, EE-8, Phase II, Bidhan Nagar, #2321 7667; 5 pm: Natya Shodh Sansthan hosts an evening with young actor-director Suman Mukhopadhyay who has been involved with theatre, film and television for over 15 years. Shiladitya Sen will be talking to him about his life and work with special reference to the designing and sceneography of his productions.
PHOTOGRAPHS
March 8 - 16 (except Monday) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of photographs by Birla Academy of Art & Culture’s founder-trustee Basant Kumar Birla. Inauguration by Partish Sen this evening at 5.30.
Till March 30 (except Mondays) at Gallery Rasa, 828/1 Block P, New Alipore, #2400 7348; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of photographs by Jyoti Bhatt.
EXHIBITION
Till March 10 at Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Poster Women, an exhibition of posters from the women’s movement in India. Hosted by Zubaan and Swayam.
Till March 11 at 85 Lansdowne, 85-B Sarat Bose Road; 11 am - 7.30 pm: 85 Lansdowne’s annual exhibition of designer wear and accessories by a host of resident designers.
Till March 14 at Darbari, P 249 Purna Das Road (#24644027) and CB 68 Salt Lake Sector I (#40043486): Drabari presents Basanta Bahar - The Colours of Spring, showcasing a spring-summer collection of saris, fabrics, kurtas, skirts, kaftans, men’s shirts and kurta-pyjamas.
Till March 15 (except Sunday) at 3 Royd Street, #2227 2219; 11 am - 6.30 pm (Mon - Fri), 11 am - 4 pm (Sat): Azura celebrates its first anniversary with an exhibition showcasing the creations of Toronto-based fashion designer Farhana Chowdhury, from glamorous dresses, kurtees, crosets, tunics, jackets and an exquisite range of stylish skirts and blousons.
Till March 20 at The Address, Ganga Jamuna, 1st floor, 28/1 Shakespeare Sarani; 11 am - 7 pm: Narayan’s World, featuring paintings, sculptures and handmade jewellery by Narayan Sinha.
READING
March 9 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Krishna and Arjuna going to Yudhisthira, leaving Bhima to battle the Kauravas, and Arjuna seeking Yudhisthira's permission to kill Karna, after confessing his inability to match Karna's war skills, in the 415th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.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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than a week ahead to:
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