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The development and growth of theatre and cinema in Bengal are inextricably linked with their music, particularly songs. Projecting the music ventures in Bengali theatre since the late 18th century as well as of Bengali cinema since the beginning of the 20th century, Theatre O Cinemar Gaan: Ekal Sekal, attempts to capture snatches of a glorious musical past and discover fundamental links with the tunes of the present. Portraying the parallel trend of the composition of songs of Bengali theatre and cinema during various decades of the 20th century, it will also document the way in which Bengali theatre, with its spectacular scenes, panorama and melodrama, led the way to pioneering work in cinematic practice. From the play Alibaba (1901) by Hiralal Sen to Satyajit Ray’s film Agantuk (1991), it draws upon research in recordings, notations, prompt books and clippings to offer an exciting and original view of artistic translation between media. Featuring a retrospective of songs of different genres, the programme will trace the parallel evolution of vision and craft in theatre and cinema. Presenting a melodious, spellbinding evocation of the past, it also provides an important historical archive of the songs of a bygone era. Participants: Riddhi Bandyopadhyay and Devajit Bandyopadhyay (in songs) and Soumitra Chattopadhyay (in narration).
Event: An evening of old Bengali theatre and film songs When: Today at 6.30 pm Where: Madhusudan Mancha
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art
Till June 14 at Asutosh Birth Centenary Hall, Indian Museum; 12 noon - 8 pm: Personalities, an exhibition of paintings, chiefly portraits in oil on board, by Samir Ghosh.
Till June 14 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of graphic works by Samita Nag.
Till June 14 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 11 am - 7 pm: Tibetan Sacred Art, an exhibition of Tibetan Thangkas and sculptures. Curated by Prabhash Kejriwal.
Till June 14 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor, Duckback House, #2287 3377; 11 am - 7 pm: Exhibition of works on paper by Prakash Karmakar and Kartick Chandra Pyne, and sculptures by K.S. Radhakrishnan.
June 14 - July 6 (except Mondays) at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 61, #30222040; 3 pm - 7 pm: Monsoon Collections — paintings by Ashok Mondal, Asimava Dutta, Chandidas Bhattacharya, Dhiren Sasmal, Pramathes Chandra, Ratan Acharya, Shilpi Acharya, Subrata Das and others.
Till June 15 at Gaganendra Pradarshasala; 2 pm - 8 pm: A solo exhibition of paintings by Jayanta Bera.
Till June 15 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Amar Dey, Dr Debasis Bhattacharya, Paritosh Das, Syamal Ganguly, Uma Almol, Premangshu Mitra, Sanjib Narayan Dutta, Tapan Bhattacherjee, Sudatta Basu Roy Chowdhury and Samir Karmakar. Hosted by Behala Fine Arts Society.
Till June 15 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of Subrata Ghosh’s recent work. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till June 15 at Gallery Arti Visual, 1/1W Gariahat Road (South), Jodhpur Park: Inner Space, in association with World Art Society, presents its fifth exhibition by a group of contemporary painters Ashis Kabasi, Kuntal Dutta, Prakash Maji, Shekhar Biswas, Debasish Kabasi, Debasish Podder, Sujata Chakraborty, Rashmi Sikand Yadav, Pranab Roy Choudhury and Mousumy Bhattacharya.
Till June 15 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Achin Potua presents its annual exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures. Participants: Asish Gupta, Raktim Mukherjee, Gopal Das, Indrajit Narayan, Arunesh Choudhury, Sandip Mukherjee, Swapan Kumar Ghosh, Mohammad Fokhrul Islam and Sabyasachi Sengupta.
Till June 16 at Academy of Fine Arts (South B); 3 pm - 8 pm: A solo show of paintings and drawings by Debnath Biswas.
Till June 16 at Academy of Fine Arts (New South Gallery - A); 3 pm - 8 pm: Horizon presents its third exhibition of paintings by Apurba Debnath, Nirmal Kanti Chakraborty, Pradip Bhowmick, Ashis Mondal, Jiban Biswas and Sakti Karmakar.
Till June 16 at The Halo Heritage Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, Maddox Square, 98300 50568; 2 pm - 8 pm: Inner Eye, an exhibition of paintings on canvas by Jonaki Pal.
Till June 17 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of recent work by Susmit Biswas.
Till June 17 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sibaji Bhattacharjee, Dibakar Chakraborty, Piyali Hom Choudhuri and Sahanaj Parvin.
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 June 21 (except Sundays & holidays) at the Museum & Art Gallery of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park; 10.30 am - 1 pm & 2.30 pm - 6 pm: Exploring the Unexplored — Artists of 20th Century Bengal, an exhibition of the works of those artists who had made substantial contribution to the development of art in India but had not received due recognition.
Till June 26 at Samokal Art Gallery, Gol Park; #98362 76110; 4 pm - 8 pm: The 36th group exhibition of Painters ’80. Participating artists: Alik Das, Amit Chakrabarti, Amitava Dhar, Bhabatosh Sutar, Dipankar Dutta, Debasish Chakraborty, Pradosh Paul, Tarun Dey and Tanmoy Biswas.
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.
DRAMA
June 14 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.15 pm: Rang Roop will stage Byaram Biram. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay.
June 14 & 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Children’s Theatre Fest, hosted by Indian Mime Theatre. Today: Participating groups are Kamal Girls School, Saraswati Balika Vidyalaya and Ankur, Batanagar. Tomorrow: Participating groups are Prompter Natya Gosthi, Hooghly, Hriday Aakash, Tangra, and Shishu Natya Bibhag, Indian Mime Theatre.
June 14 & 15 at Padatik Little Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7 pm: Padatik and Rikh present Ho Sakta Hai Do Aadmi Do Kursiyaan, a play in Hindi, written and directed by Vinay Sharma.
June 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Hattamela presents its latest play for children, Hetamgare Hoi Choi. Direction: Gurudas Bandyopadhyay.
June 15 at Purbashree, EZCC, Salt Lake; 6 pm: Adventure Karey Koy, Aneek’s latest production. Drama: Amalesh Chakraborty. Direction: Moloy Biswas.
June 15 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan will stage its latest production, Helmet, a comedy written by Rajat Ghosh and directed by Anish Ghosh.
TALK
June 14 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 5.30 pm: V. Jayaraman will speak on Foundations of Space Science and Technology.
June 14 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak on Kathopanishad.
June 14 at Ramakrishnan Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma.
PERFORMING ARTS
June 14 at Sisir Mancha; 6.15 pm: Prayas presents Aki Gabhir Bani, an evening of Tagore songs interspersed with reading from his work. Participants: Mahua Chattopadhyay. Jhumur Dasgupta, Chaiti Majumdar, Mitra Dutta and Tamal Som in songs, and Soumitra Mitra and Susmita Guha Roy in reading.
June 15 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 5.30 pm: Chhandak presents Aamra Dujane, an evening of poetry-reading and audio-play in duets.
PHOTOGRAPHS
June 14 -28 (except Mondays) at Bose-Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: Minutes to Midnight, an exhibition of photographs by Trent Parke.
EXHIBITION
June 13 - 15 at Rangmahal Theatre hall; 3 pm - 9 pm: Gargi, a philanthropic organisation, hosts Kala Mela, a fair by performing artistes, groups, institutions (in the field of dance, music, theatre, puppet, mime), make-up artistes, light designers and manufacturers of other accessories for the stage.
READING
June 15 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Krishna lecturing Karna, guilty of adharma himself, for invoking dharma to escape Arjuna's fatal arrow, and Arjuna killing chariot-wheel-bogged Karna, in the 429th 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
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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