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Current socio-political uncertainties and an enquiry into one’s identity and the positioning of the self in such circumstances pique the interest of artist Uma Ray. Her drawings reflect a self-introspective nature, portraying her personal complexities and her own endeavour to overcome them. By the artist’s own admission, the ongoing exhibition is about an inward-looking journey through a path resting between myth and reality which, she feels, every person has to undertake at some point in life. Her works deal with innumerable questions about truth, life, its end and through all this, arrive at a conclusion about her own role in the celestial design. Mostly an outcome of her immediate experiences, they are related to religion, philosophy, cultural heritage, or in effect, the various conflicts and confrontations Ray has encountered in her life. Shot in the geographical and psychological space between Cape Town and India, her video Native, betrays her enquiry into the real, the unreal and what lies in between.
Event: An exhibition of drawings and video by Uma Ray
When: Till May 2; 3 pm - 7.30 pm
Where: Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road
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April 28 - 30 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Kabi Birendra Chattopadhyay Smaran Committee and Akar Prakar present Afuranto Jibaner Michhil (unending procession of life), an exhibition of paintings by eminent artists inspired by the poetry of Birendra Chattopadhyay.
Till April 28 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2283 5394; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays - 2 pm - 7 pm: Shifting the Logic Drawings (1977-2007), an exhibition of paintings by Dilip Ranade.
April 28 - May 15 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Endless Resonances — an exhibition of recent paintings by Ajay De, Amit Bhar, Ashish Gupta, Asit Kumar Patnaik, Arpan Bhowmick, Arunabha Karmakar, Bhagat Singh, Bratin Khan, Dewashish Mukherjee, Dhananjay Mukherjee, Dipankar Chanda, Gautam Mukherjee, Gosto Kumar, Hari Sadhan Dey, Harish Kumar, Jyotirmoy Ash, Jiban Biswas, K. Salve, Nitya Kundu, Nishit Dey, Priyanka Gupta, Prithvi Soni, Pulak Ghosh, Rajesh R, Saptarshi Naskar, Sanatan Dinda, Sangita Pathak, Shyamal Mukherjee, Shubhamita Dinda, Sekhar Roy, Subhendu Kumar Porel, Sukanta Das, Subrata Das, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sudip Roy and T. Vaikuntham.
Till April 30 at Akashdeep Apartment, 5 Little Rawdon Street, 2nd floor; 11 am - 6 pm: Beyond Borders, an exhibition featuring works of well-known artists from India and Pakistan. Participating artists: Sunil Das, Shipra Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim Das and Shuvaprasanna from India, and Khalid Mohammad, Arif Khan and Asad Farudi from Pakistan. Organised by Mystic Inspiration.
Till April 30 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road, #24636731/32; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by S. Pranam Singh, Sudhangsu Bandyopadhyay and V. Nagdas.
Till April 30 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Juxtaposed — an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Abesh Bivore Mitra, Atanu Bhattacharya and Partha Dasgupta.
Till May 2 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: On cloud nine as it is: An exhibition of drawings and video by Uma Roy.
Till May 3 at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, #3052 3243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Staring Inscriptions, featuring art works by Jayanta Naskar, Lina Ghosh, Maneswar Brahma, Paula Sengupta, Pinaki Barua, Rajen Mondal, Romendra Nath Kasthya, Sabita Pegu, Samita Nag, Siddhartha Ghosh, Som Sankar Roy and Srikant Paul.
Till May 3 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #24604246; 11 am - 7 pm: Visual Rhapsody, an exhibition of paintings by contemporary Bengal artists. Showcasing the works of Paritosh Sen, Suhas Roy, Jogen Chowdhury, Parthapratim Deb, Ashok Bhowmik, Tapas Konar, Samir Aich, Manoj Dutta, Prabhat Basu, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Atanu Bhattacharya, Chhatrapati Dutta, Abheshbivore Mitra, Atin Basak, Prabal Roy, Prasun Ghosh, Suman Roy, Partha Dasgupta, Debasish Manna, Tanup Nath, Sk. Sahajahan, Debashish Barui, Rejesh Deb, Sandip Roy and others.
Till May 5 (except Sunday) at Mon Art Gallery, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency, 3rd floor, #22895438; 11.30 am - 7 pm: Shizen, an exhibition of recent paintings by Prabir Sen, Krishnendu Chaki and Nilanjan Banerjee.
Till May 5 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road: Black and White Lines, an exhibition of paintings by Nabyendu Chatterjee.
Till May 9 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Figurative Expressions, an exhibition of the works by Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda, Subrata Pal, Shyamal Mukherjee, Prakash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday Chaudhuri, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay.
Till May 10 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: The Street, an exhibition of paintings by Yusuf Arrakel.
Till May 17 (weekdays) at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Stretch of Imagination: A show of exclusive artworks by 30 well-known artists.
Till May 25 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of the works by Somnath Hore.
DRAMA
April 28 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Charbak presents Apsara Theater-er Mamla, based on Satyajit Ray’s story. Drama & music: Arindam Ganguly. Direction & in Feluda’s role: Sabyasachi Chakraborty.
April 29 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents Gardish, a play in Hindi, directed by Avinash Gupta.
Till May 4 at Purbashree, EZCC, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Dishari Natyotsav 2008, hosted by Disahri in collaboration with EZCC. Today: Astaraag, produced by Sanglap Kolkata and directed by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay.
May 4 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Kasba Uttaran will stage Bhalo Thaka, directed by Sujit Ghosh.
PERFORMING ARTS
April 28 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Meitei Jagoi celebrates its 37th annual day with an evening of Manipuri dance. Featuring Basante Basanti, Govinda Vandana (by Rinki Mahato), Gostho Nartan, Mapop Jagoi (by Debadrita, Ananya and Madhumita), Sajani Sambad, Geet Govinda (by Sayantani Chowdhury. Mohini Sengupta and Rinki Mahato), Pung Cholom (by Premjit Singh) and Gauranga Roop Varnan (by Dr Sumit Basu). Also, felicitation to Prof. Karuna Sindhu Das, vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University, and Arati Srimal, chairperson, Nehru Children’s Museum. Choreography and direction: Devjani Chaliha.
April 29 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: Sanved presents Dance in Outreach, focussing on the role of of dance in changing the lives of the disadvantaged strata of society.
TALK
April 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Kritarthananda will speak on Swamijir Vani.
April 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Vishnudevananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna-Punthi.
April 28 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Prof. Amalendu Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga.
April 28 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Bijan Lodh will speak on Sri Sri Mayer Katha.
FILM SHOW
April 28 & 29 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club presents Asian Film World: Fame In - Fade Out. Today: Yeh Pakistan, Woh Hindusthan (Dir: Mohd Ehteshamuddin) and Two in One (Dir: K. Linh).
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till April 30 (except Monday) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: The 20th Tokyo International Photographic Group Exhibition.
Till April 30 at The Palladian Lounge, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industries, 6 N.S. Road; 10 am - 6 pm: An exhibition of photographs taken by Rashi Goenka. Theme: Alternative Process.
Till May 3 at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 2nd floor; 2 pm - 7 pm (Today: 3 pm - 7 pm): An exhibition of photographs, Calcutta: Chitpur Road and Neighbourhoods. Results of the Kolkata Heritage Photo Project executed in November 2006 by Peter Bialobrzeski and 21 of his photography students from University of Arts Bremen. Hosted by Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan and Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA).
WORLD DANCE DAY
April 29 at Rabindra Sadan premises: At 10 am: Screening of short films, Remembering Sachin Shankar and Remembering Narendra Sharma, and choreographic presentations by well-known groups. At 4 pm: Folk dances by Santhal performing troupe and Purulia Chhau dance troupe. At 6 pm: Presentation by workshop members (choreographer: Leng Poh Gee of Malaysia) and performnaces by several eminent groups. Organised by Paschimbanga Rajya Sangeet Academy, ICCR and West Bengal Dance Group Federation.
April 29 at Janhabi Centre for Performing Arts, A7 New Gari Housing Cooperative Society, near Garia railway station; 5 pm - 7 pm: Janhabi Centre for Performing Arts celebrates International Dance Day with performances by Prarthana, Sariful and Madhuboni Chatterjee with her students of Janhabi and Prayasam, a civil society organisation working with underprivileged children.
SEMINAR
May 1 at British Council; 5.30 pm - 8 pm: Management seminar on Craft your CV. The seminar is for students and young corporate executives. Through interactive discussions, participants will focus on understanding how to present their skills and strengths through their CVs and helping them to approach the job market. For registrations, call 4007-4329 or write to manish.gupta@in.britishcouncil.orgAll 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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