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Theatre is an ancient art form that has been used as a medium of expression, communication and reflection on social problems. Nandikar’s theatre festival has already carved out a niche for itself ever since its inception in the city. Now the group unveils another of its pet projects: a four-day children’s theatre festival, beginning today, where two short plays, Tomaar Naam (performance: Sohini Sengupta; music & direction: Swatilekha Sengupta) and Upendrakishore Roychowdhury’s Ghnyaghasur (direction: Biswajit Ghosh Majumdar) will be premiered. Tomaar Naam centres around a little shy girl and her vast world of imagination. It is, in fact, the world of any child, who transcends the barriers of time and space to build her own world. Ghnyaghasur revolves around the honest rustic boy Manik and his journey to subvert the apparently powerful triumvirate (the King, his doctor and the minister) in a royal court. Manik defeats the evil ogre during his final combat and strips the giant of his plumes. With the destruction of evil, peace and justice are once again restored. The other plays included in the fest are Satyi Rajputra and Pil-Pil-Pil (Nandikar’s Children Ensemble Production), Three Little Piglets and The Frog Prince (Tyst Theatre, Sweden) and SMS-e-Eshu (A Guidance Academy Production).
Event: Nandikar’s Children-Friendly Theatre Festival When: Today at 6.30 pm Where: Academy of Fine Arts (today), Girish Mancha
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art
Till May 23 at Gallery Rasa, 828/1 Block-P, New Alipore; 4 pm - 8 pm: A set of 12 etchings by Suhas Roy.
Till May 24 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street, #2229 8641; 2 pm - 7 pm: The Fragmented Traditions — recent paintings by Aloke Kumar Paul.
Till May 24 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 4 pm - 8 pm: Different Strokes, an exhibition of sculptures by Tarun Purkait.
Till May 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: The 4th annual exhibition of paintings by Manjushree Art & Music School.
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 works by Somnath Hore.
Till May 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: The 23rd group exhibition of painting and sculpture by Debasish Ghosh, Babua Das, Purnendu Dey, Dipnarayan Paul, Shyamali Haldar, Ranjan Paul, Shalini Chanda, Krishnendu Dey and Sukla Bhattacharyya.
Till May 25 at The Promenade lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: The Doorways — a solo exhibition of recent works by Subuddha Ghosh. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till May 25 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road; #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Loknath Yadav.
Till May 25 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 7 pm: Construction of Images, an exhibition of paintings by Albert Ashok and his students.
Till May 26 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Kolkata Canvas. Participants: Aloke Sardar, Biswarup Halder, Ranjan Mitra, Malay Chandan Saha and Anirban Seth.
Till May 30 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #24604245; 6 pm: Inner Vision, an exhibition of terracotta sculptures by Durgadas, a visually impaired sculptor.
Till May 31 (except Monday) at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 61, #30222040; 3 pm - 7 pm: Bengal Contemporary Art — An exhibition of exclusive artworks by 20 promising artists of Bengal.
Till June 7 (except Sundays) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays (2 pm - 7 pm): Sculptures by Meera Mukherjee.
Till June 8 (except Tuesdays) at The Halo Heritage Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, Maddox Square; 2 pm - 8 pm: Inner Eye, an exhibition of paintings on canvas by Jonaki Pal.
Till June 17 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886; 2 pm - 7 pm: Showcasing a host of latest works by contemporary, radical artists.
Till July 5 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ganesh Pyne, Malay Saha, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shambhavi, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare and others.
Till July 31 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Installation Photographs Vido Art. Participating artists: Jayashree Chakravarty, Aditya Basak, Chhatrapati Dutta, Paula Sengupta, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Debnath Basu, Tapati Chowdhury and Adip Dutta. Curated by Jayashree Chakravarty.
DRAMA
May 22 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Purba Paschim presents Tagore’s Chaturanga. Dramatised by Sekhar Samaddar. Edited and directed by Bratya Basu.
THEATRE FEST
May 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; May 23 - 25 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents a children-friendly festival of six plays. May 22: Ghnyaghasur (a Nandikar production; Story: Upendrakishore Roychowdhury; Dir: Biswajit Ghosh Majumdar) and Tomaar Naam (a Nandikar production; Performance: Sohini Sengupta; Drama & Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta). May 23: Ghnyaghasur and Tomaar Naam. May 24: Satyi Rajputra (Produced by Nandikar’s Children Ensemble; Story: Sunil Ganguly; Music & Drama: Swatilekha Sengupta; Dir: Sohini Sengupta); Three Little Piglets (Produced by Tyst Theatre, Sweden; Performance: Gunilla) and The Frog Prince (Performnace: Ipek). May 25: Pil-Pil-Pil (Nandikar’s Children Ensemble production; Story: Satyajit Ray; Drama & direction: Susanta Mandal) and SMS-e-Eshu (a Guidance Academy production; Story: Rajesh Basu; Drama & direction: Anirban Roychowdhury).
PERFORMING ARTS
May 22 - 24 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: West Bengal Dance Group Federation presents Stars of Tomorrow, featuring young talents in the field of dance. Today: Rituparna Giri (Bharata Natyam); Kaushik Roy, Mousam Nandi and Rintu Das (Manipuri); Sreya Bose and Angira Chakraborty (Odissi); and Sudeshna Mukherjee (Kathak).
May 23 at Sree Thyagaraja Hall, P530 Raja Basanta Roy Road; 6.15 pm: Rasika Ranjana Sabha presents Kala Shrishti (centre for classical dances) in the natya performance, Kavi Sangam (Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi and Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore) Rasana Bhava. Artistic director: Sujatha Ramalingam.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till May 26 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of photographs by the members of Association of Freelance Photographers and Art Pictorialists.
n Till May 28 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 7 pm: A set of 20 photographs, by Bivas Bhattacharjee, son of renowned contemporary painter Bikash Bhattacharjee.
Till May 30 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Portraits of a Director — an exhibition of photographs on Satyajit Ray by Asit Poddar.
Till May 31 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia Kolkata, Stephens Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: Bose Pacia Kolkata Gallery, the Embassy of France in India and Alliance Française du Bengale host India by Magnum: Plural Perspectives, a projected exhibition by 14 photographers from Magnum Photos.
FILM FESTIVAL
Till May 25 at Purbashree, EZCC, Salt Lake: Cine Central, Calcutta, in collaboration with Nandan, EZCC, UNICEF and in associtaion with Rishra Municipality and Beleghata Education Aid Centre, presents 8th International Children’s Film Festival. Today: Six Go Round the World (Germany) at 2 pm; Kabuliwala (India) at 4 pm; and Father Frost (Russia) at 6 pm. Today at Labour Welfare Centre, Kankurgachi: Bonkers (Netherlands) at 2 pm; Emil and the Detectives (Germany) at 4 pm; and Little Mermaid (USA) at 6 pm. Today at Rishra Rabindra Bhavan: Meena Stories, Part I at 2 pm; The Prog Prophecy (France) at 4 pm; and The Little Magic Flute (Germany) at 6 pm.
May 22 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Screening of Shilpi (Dir: Nabyendu Chattopadhyay), presented as part of Manik Bandyopadhyay birth centenary celebration.
TALK
May 22 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Sitanath Goswami will speak in Sanskrit on Bhagavad-Gita.
May 22 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Sri Ma Sarada Punthi by Swami Snehamayananda.
WORKSHOP
May 24 - 29 at Mayur Lalit, Naktala, 12-D/4/1; 9 am - 1 pm: Odissi dance workshop by Debamitra Sengupta on exquisite compositions of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra along with yoga, dance-related makeup and stagecraft. Details at #24711246.
May 25 - 27 at Calcutta School of Music, 6B Sunny Park; 10 am - 1 pm: Makhla Shinjini hosts a workshop on dance (based on classical style). Details at #26637417, 9831029506.
EXHIBITION
Till May 31 at Cottage Emporium, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road: Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd, popularly known as Cottage, hosts Summer Cool, an indoor exhibition of cotton sarees, produced from masterweavers from different regions of our country.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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