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Literary buffs in the city are in for a double treat this weekend. To mark the opening of Penguin’s Classics Collection, a month-long exhibition of some of the best books ever written (from Greek and Roman literature to Victorian and modern classics), Starmark hosts The Evening Show, featuring the performance of three short plays. Sure Thing (written by David Ives) is an experimental comedy about a couple talking in a restaurant. Whenever they say anything wrong, a bell rings to signal their slip-up, as if to allow them to put it right. In this way, a series of ringings enables the couple to converse agreeably with each other until they bond happily in the end. The Philadelphia (also written by David Ives) is about a man in a situation in which everything happens exactly opposite the way he wants or expects it to happen. Based on a short story by Kaushik Baruah, The Road to High Holborn (written by Dhruv Mookerji) tells the story of a young couple who meet in a London underground train and strike up a conversation over a book. It offers a touching exploration of the interaction between two virtual strangers over a short period of time. All three plays are directed by Dhruv Mookerji.
Event: Three short plays in English, presented by Theatrecian When: Today at 7 pm Where: Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road
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art
Till June 28 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street, #22298641; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Anirban Banerjee.
Till June 28 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Summer Workshop: Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen.
Till June 29 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings, sculptures and graphics by Arjun De, Asish Maji, Dipankar Ghosh, Madhurima Ganguly, Senjuti Ray, Sudeb Das and Tusar Kanti Pradhan.
Till June 30 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park; 2 pm - 7 pm: Faces of Feminine Expressions from Bangladesh — an exhibition of paintings by artists from Bangladesh. Participants: Nazlee Laila Mansur, Farida Zaman, Nasreen Begum, Rokeya Sultana, Dilara Begum Jolly, Murshida Arzu Alpana, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Tayeba Begum Lipi, Atia Islam Anne and Shulekha Choudhury.
Till June 30 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of Dip Narayan Paul’s recent paintings.
Till June 30 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Annual Art Exhibition 2008 by the students of College of Visual Arts.
Till June 30 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32A Judges Court Road, #24792004; 1 pm - 8 pm: Vision of Variegated Life, a duet painting show of Sumana Ghosh and Suman Dey.
Till June 30 at Gallery 79, 79 Raja Basanta Roy Road, 1st floor: Transparent watercolour specialist Shyamal Sen and upcoming artist Chhanda Singh unveil their latest creations in an exhibition, titled Different Strokes.
Till July 3 (weekdays only) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chamber, 2nd floor, #98318 21507; 3 pm - 7 pm: Colorscapes — magical brushstrokes by Sanjib Roy.
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 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 July 7 (except Sundays & holidays) at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #24651444; 11 am - 7 pm: Art and Industry, an exhibition of works by artists from West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand.
Till July 11 (except Sundays) at Emami Tower, ECA, EM Bypass, 687 Anandapur; 11 am - 7 pm: Emami Chisel Art presents the art expo, Art Now-a-Glimpse, featuring works by contemporary artists of Bengal.
Till July 26 at Gallery Exposure, 54B Mahanirban Road; 3 pm to 8 pm: Art Mela, an exhibition of affordable art featuring the works of about 50 artists from Calcutta and Santiniketan.
Till July 30 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka's , 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 11 am - 8 pm: Confronting Masters – an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Paritosh Sen, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, Amit Ambalal, Ganesh Pyne, Kartick Pyne Ganesh Haloi, Rabin Mandal and Shyamal Datta Ray.
Till July 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 11 am - 7 pm: In the Realms of Fantasy, — works by Sanatan Dinda, Prokash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday, Samir Paul, Subrata Pal, Gouran-go Beshai, Bratin Khan, Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay and others.
DRAMA
June 28 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents its latest production, Helmet, a comedy by Rajat Ghosh. Direction: Anish Ghosh.
June 28 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rangapat presents Aurangzeb. Direction: Harimadhab Mukhopadhyay.
June 28 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Anya Bhuban, directed by Pankaj Munshi.
June 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 2.30 pm: Nandikar presents poet Jasimuddin’s Sojon Badiyar Ghat. Music & direction: Goutam Halder.
June 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Ghnyashasur (Story: Upendrakishor Roychowdhury; Dir: Biswajit Ghosh Majumder) and Tomar Naam (Performance: Sohini Sengupta; Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta).
June 29 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Nat-Ranga presents Gulbaaj, the Man of the Match. Direction: Sohan Bandopadhyay.
PERFORMING ARTS
June 28 at Uttam Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ki Raagini Bajaaley — An Interface: Ragas to Rabindrasangeet. Participants: Sounak Chattopadhyay (classical vocal) and Rohini Roychoudhury (Rabindrasangeet). Srikanto Acharya will narrate the verses and present the show.
June 28 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Srabosti School of Music presents Nrityanjali 2008, an evening of Kathak dance numbers, Dharohar and Pratibimb. Concept & choreography: Sanjay Bhattacharya (picture left).
June 29 at Science City auditorium; 4.30 pm: A jugalbandi (duet) featuring Shivkumar Sharma (santoor) and Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute) with Swapan Choudhury on the tabla. Also, participating Purbayan Chattopadhyay, Anindya Chattopadhyay and Anubrata Chattopadhyay.
June 29 at Bharati Tamil Sangham, 93-A Rashbehari Avenue; 5 pm: Tamil Manram celebrates Poets Day to mark the completion of 75 years of Tamil silver screen. Also, light music by Ludhiana Krishnamurthy.
TALK
June 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 4.45 pm: Nazrul Galpa Asar by the members of Vivekananda Study Circle (Junior).
June 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Tattwasarananda will speak on Soroshi Puja.
June 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama.
June 28 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma.
June 28 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Vivek Chudamani by Swami Chaitanyanandaji Maharaj.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till June 28 at Bose-Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: Minutes to Midnight, an exhibition of photographs by Trent Parke.
Till July 19 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; #2290 2274: Mark Him (Second Half) — a project on Indian football by Riyas Komu.
EXHIBITION
Till June 29 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: Pushpabitan Friendship Society and Kushumika School of Floral Arts present an exhibition of Indian Floral Art & Elegant Indian Arts in wedding.
Till July 6 at Shoppers Stop, Elgin Road, City Centre & South City Mall: Rims & Dials — the sunglasses and watches fest.
WORKSHOP
June 29 at South City Mall; 10 am – 12 noon: In association with South City Mall, Starmark will hold a workshop on painting for children. To be conducted by young city artists Utpal Dutta and Sudipta Dutta. For details and registration, call 99039 85097.
READING
June 29 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Arjuna's pathos-inspiring killing of Karna, Yudhisthira's grateful acknowledgement of Krishna's help, and the punya-merits accruing to listeners of the Karna Parva, in the 431st 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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