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With its origins in African-American communities of the United States, blues music emerged out of work songs, chants and rhymed simple narrative ballads. It influenced later American and Western popular music, becoming the roots of jazz and rhythm and blues. Lovers of blues and jazz music in the city have reason to celebrate with Anjum (picture right) and Los Amigos presenting Offbeat - Volume One, an evening of songs by celebrated singers like Billie Holiday (Stormy Blues, My Man, Strange Fruit), Karrin Allyson (I Found My Turnaround, Yeh Yeh, This Is Your Life), Diane Schuur (Funny That I Still Love You), Cassandra Wilson and Diana Krall, among others. Offbeat in both treatment, style and choice of material, the idea behind the performance is to create an intimate music situation for the audience. Featuring tracks rarely heard in city music concerts, it seeks to generate a dynamic and vibrant music ambience, in which performers and listeners bond in a unique relationship. Participants: Anjum (vocals), Monojit Datta (percussion), Willy Walters (bass), Pradyumna Manot (keyboards) and Surajit Mitra (violin).
Event: An evening of blues and jazz music presented by Anjum and Los Amigos When: Today at 6.30 pm Where: Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place
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art
July 26 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 6 pm: Inauguration of Svikriti, an exhibition of the works by six awardees in the Academy’s Annual Exhibition 2008. The show continues till August 17 (except Mondays and August 15), 3 pm to 8 pm.
Till July 26 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; #2440 8937; 11 am - 8 pm: Kolkata Smiles 08, an exhibition celebrating the cartoon heritage of Calcutta, displaying both rare vintage and contemporary cartoons. Exhibition curated by Chandi Lahiri.
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 27 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: 4th Space presents its maiden show in Calcutta. Featuring works by Abhijit Pathak (Varanasi), Ajay Kumar Sharma (Delhi), Ankita Gopal (Delhi), Dipankar Ghosh (Calcutta), Durga Charan Das (Varanasi), Ganesh Urala (Baroda), Mahar Salim (Delhi), Prakash Kishor (Santiniketan), Rajendra Prasad (Varanasi), Rajnish Chhanesh (Delhi), Sakhi (Delhi) and Satendra Kumar (Varanasi).
Till July 28 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 8 pm: Flame presents its first ceramics exhibition featuring works by Chittaranjan Saha, Sanjoy Samanta, Shibram Das, Somnath Raha, Subra Das, Swarup Nandi and Tanmoy Kundu.
Till July 28 at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur E.M. Bypass, #4011 3182/3183: Whispered Legacy, a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Abani Sen. Curated by Ina Puri
Till July 28 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue, #2283 3176; 2 pm - 7 pm: Small format works featuring canvases and sculptures by well-known artists from Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda and Hyderabad.
Till July 29 at ArtFolio, 29 Lansdowne Place; 3 pm - 8 pm (Saturday to Tuesday): An exhibition with different participating artists every week, including old Bengal, contemporary Masters etc. Call 9831088469 for details. Other days by appointment.
Till July 30 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kanishka's , 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 11 am - 8 pm: Confronting Masters – an exhibition of paintings by Paritosh Sen, F. N. Souza, Ram Kumar, Amit Ambalal, Ganesh Pyne, Kartick Pyne Ganesh Haloi, Rabin Mandal and Shyamal Datta Ray.
Till August 9 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays (3 pm - 7 pm), Tuesdays - Saturdays (2 pm - 7 pm): Untiled and more recent works by Shakila.
Till August 9 (except Sundays) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Gallery Sanskriti and Apparao Galleries present The Wandering Alchemist — paintings and sculptures by Alexis Kersey, George K, and Manish Nai.
DRAMA
July 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Sayak presents Daibaddha. Direction & acting: Meghnad Bhattacharya.
July 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Anya Theatre presents Aachhe Aachhe Sthaan. Direction: Ramaprasad Banik.
July 26 at Madhusudan Sadan; 6.30 pm: Durgadas Smriti Sangha presents Khelaghar. Direction: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay.
July 26 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Niva Arts and Lok-Krishti present Krishna Gahwar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.
July 26 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Nabankur will stage the children’s play, Blue Bite, directed by Shantanu Chakraborty.
July 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Sudrak will stage Purbo Nirdharito.
July 27 at Madhusudan Sadan; 6.30 pm: Purba-Paschim presents Tagore’s Chaturanga. Direction: Bratya Basu.
July 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Kalyani Natyacharcha Kendra presents its latest production, Meyeti, based on Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. Bengali translation: Kaberi Basu. The cast includes Goutam Halder, Bindia Ghosh and Kishore Sengupta, who also directs.
July 27 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi and Niva Arts present Atmakatha. Drama: Mahesh Elkunchwar. Bengali adaptation & direction: Soumitra Chattopadhyay.
July 27 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nabamayukh Natya Sangstha presents Gopichand. Direction: Rishi Mukhopadhyay.
July 27 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.45 pm: Rang Roop presents its latest production, Byaram Biram, directed by Seema Mukhopadhyay.
PERFORMING ARTS
July 26 at Star Theatre Lobby; 6.45 pm: Dramatised reading of excerpts from Tagore’s Raktakarabi. Bijoylakshmi Burman reads the character of Nandini, originally essayed by Tripti Mitra. Also, dramatised reading of the last scene of Raja Oedipus by Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee (originally performed by legendary thespian Sombhu Mitra).
July 27 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Bhavna Records and Cassettes presents an evening of Tagore songs by Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Mrinmoy Roy, Anuradha Biswas, Manoj Murali Nair and Manisha Murali Nair. Also, chorus by the artistes of Madhuri. Compere: Debashis Basu.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till August 12 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park, #65406499, 98303 31556; 3 pm - 8 pm: Bouquet of Photographs, featuring images taken by Atanu Paul and members of Third Eye.
SEMINAR
July 26 at Sisir Mancha; 1 pm: Nandikar hosts a seminar on Whether not not Theatre-in-Education should be a part of School Curriculum.
July 27 at Bangla Akademi; 5 pm: Nandikar hosts a seminar on Discovery of Apna Theatre: Theatre for the underprivileged child submerged in the ‘culture of silence’.
TALK
July 26 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Tattwajnanananda will speak on Kenopanishad.
July 26 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama.
July 26 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma.
July 26 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake, #2334 9265; 7 pm: Prof. Dipak Gupta will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.
July 26 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Vivek Chudamani by Swami Chaitanyanandaji Maharaj.
FILM SHOW
Till July 26 at Nandan-I: Shilpi Sansad presents Uttam Chalachitra Utsav. Today: Abak Prithibi (at 3 pm) and Harano Sur (at 6 pm).
Till July 26 at Gorky Sadan: Eisenstein Cine Club and Bengali Film Lovers Society host Nakshi Kantha, a festival of films from Bangladesh. Today at 3 pm: Rupkathar Galpo (Dir: Tauquir Ahmed); at 6.30 pm: Noy Nombor Bipad Sanket (Dir: Humayun Ahmed).
EXHIBITION
Till July 27 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 2 pm - 7 pm: Nandikar hosts an exhibition on children’s theatre.
Till July 31 at AND, Mani Square Mall, 2nd floor, Store #208; 11 am - 9 pm: The Great Monsoon Fashion Fiesta, hosted by AND brand, offers simple yet stylish clothes by well-known fashion designer Anita Dongre.
Till July 31 at Cottage Emporium, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road: Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd hosts a jewellery exhibition.
Till August 3 at Shoppers Stop, Elgin Road, City Centre & South City Mall: Monsoon Makeovers fest.
Till August 14 (except Sundays) at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace, #2223 9422; 11 am - 7 pm: Display of kantha embroidery sarees and dupattas.
Till August 15 at Starmark (3 Lord Sinha Road, G-202 City Centre, and South City); 10.30 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Penguin Classics Collection covering Greek and Roman works, and Victorian literature and modern classics.
READING
July 27 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya’s report of the rout of the Kaurava survivors on the battle’s last day, in the 435th 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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