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Born and brought up in a modern Indian city, it was natural for Balaka Bhattacharjee to spontaneously construct a narrative on the lives of the people who live in the same city and also call it their home. Daughter of Bikash Bhattacharjee, she follows her father’s footsteps and juxtaposes Western realistic style with surrealistic tradition. Specifically speaking, ... sidesteps, her current series, is a narrative that creates a third state of reality from the intertwining of personal and external influences and experiences. It is a project that originated from her personal reflections. In it, the artist as observer is not an objective presence; rather she is a combination of the persevering ideas, ideals and desires of the present and a product of a compromise of a situational survival of the fittest. It is this composite that has led to the construction of the city in its form, where the personal is aspiring against the external and the external is being eroded by the force of the aspiring. Depicting the emotional state of the city, her works personify it as a living, breathing system, bred out of the hopes and longings of those who inhabit its space. Her works are partly photographed and partly painted; the photographic part is practical and real, and the painted, the surreal and hyper-real.
Event: A solo exhibition of paintings by Balaka Bhattacharjee When: Till January 22 (except Sundays); 11 am - 8 pm Where: Gallery Sanskriti, 8C Alipore Park Road
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Till January 24 (except Sundays & holidays) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays): Review, an exhibition of artworks that aspires to redefine our perception and understanding of art of the 20th century. Participating artists: Abir Karmakar, Alok Bal, Debraj Goswami, Farhad Hussain, Jogen Chowdhury, Kingshuk Sarkar, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Mithu Sen, Paresh Maity, Partha Pratim Deb, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Samit Das, Santosh More, Sumitro Basak and Swarna Chitrakar.
Till January 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery South ‘A’; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Chandrashekhar Das.
Till January 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Beyond the Surface, a solo exhibition of paintings by Joydeep Chatterjee
Till January 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: A group exhibition of paintings. Organised by College Street Pentagon.
Till January 15 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #22893027: Bengal 2009, an exhibition of art works by the city’s eminent artists.
Till January 17 at the Abanindranath Tagore Gallery, ICCR: Calcutta Painters hosts a solo exhibition of paintings by Rabin Mondal.
Till January 17 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia, Stephen’s Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: Recent works of Bari Kumar: Foreign Bodies.
Till January 18 at Starmark, South City Mall; 10 am - 8.30 pm: Paintings by Santanu Ray.
DRAMA
January 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Ajnatobass — Nandikar’s latest production, directed by Sumanta Gangopadhyay. Story: Sukanta Gangopadhyay. The cast includes Sohini Sengupta, Sumana Mukherjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Sumanta Gangopadhyay, Swajan Srijan Mukherjee and Rudraprasad Sengupta. Directorial adviser: Rudraprasad Sengupta.
January 10 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Abhaash will stage Bhalobasha Bharatbarsho. Direction: Sekhar Samaddar.
January 10 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan presents Hawa Badal. Drama & direction: Kunal Mukhopadhyay.
January 10 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Spandan IPTA presents Anticlock, written and directed by Sangram Guha.
January 10 at the Bengal Club; 7.30 pm: Stagecraft presents Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest. Direction: Rohit Pombra.
January 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Birja Sulka, written by Amit Moitra and directed by Tulika Das.
January 11 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Aneek presents Adventure Karey Koy. Dir: Moloy Biswas.
January 11 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Fakka, directed by Chandan Das.
PERFORMING ARTS
Till January 12 at Rabindra Sadan: West Bengal State Music Academy, in association with EZCC, hosts Classical Music Conference 2009. Today at 1 pm: Prasenjit Bhabak (vocal), Sudip Chattopadhyay (flute), Anal Chattopadhyay (vocal), Mita Nag (sitar), Nandini Chakraborty (vocal), Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod) and Arun Bhaduri (vocal). Tomorrow at 10 am: Debanjan Bhattacharya (sarod), Purnima Sen (vocal), Supratik Sengupta (sitar), Sandipan Samajpati (vocal), Bandish Baichitra (dir: Buddhadeb Dasgupta), Swapan Choudhury (tabla lahara) Mashqoor Ali Khan (vocal) and Imrat Khan (sitar).
Till January 11 at Barisha High School ground, Behala Chourasta: Behala Milanotsav 2009, organised by Barisha Behala Sarsuna Thakurpukur Krira Sanskritik Kendra. Today at Mohitlal Majumdar Mancha, 6 pm: Recitation by Partha Ghosh, Gouri Ghosh, Bratati Bandyopadhyay and Soumitra Chattopadhyay; Tagore songs by Manoj Murali Nair, Manisha Murali Nair and Gopa Roy. Tomorrow at 5 pm: Songs by Kazi Kamal Naser, Saikat Mitra, Rupankar, Parimal Bhattacharya, Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay and Raghab Chattopadhyay; recitation by Sonali Chowdhury, Karabi Das Sharma, Biswajit Bhowmick and Joy Bhattacharya.
DISCOURSE
Till January 11 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Discourse in English by Sunandaji on Bhagavad Gita, Chapter IX - The Yoga of Royal Knowledge and Royal Secret. Organised by Vedanta Cultural Foundation.
January 10 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 6 pm: Discourse on the Life and Teachings of Srimat Swami Turianandaji by Swami Satprabhanandaji Maharaj.
TALK
January 10 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramaranjan Mukherji will speak in Bengali on Bharatiya Nandantattva.
January 10 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma.
DEBATE
January 10 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 3 pm: British Council and Institute of Ideas, UK host the regional finals of Debating Matters where six schools from east India — St Xavier’s Collegiate School, Bhavans Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir, Don Bosco school Liluah, Modern High School for Girls, Loreto Day School Sealdah and Ashok Hall Girls Senior Secondary High School — compete for a place in the national finals.
January 10 at Star Theatre; 7.30 pm: To mark the release of the Bengali film Kaalbela, Priya Entertainments holds a debate on the topic, Bangla Chhobi Keno Dekhbo? With well known film, stage and media personalities taking part.
EXHIBITION
January 10 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 6.30 pm: Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta and New Theatres, Saregama present Yesterday Once More, an exhibition of select films and music memorabilia to be inaugurated by Buddhadev Dasgupta and a music album, Remembering Bimal Roy, to be released by Dilip Kumar Sircar.
Till January 10 at Kanishka's, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 10.30 am - 8 pm: Tussar Utsav — an exhibition of hand woven tussar sarees and fabrics from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal.
Till January 12 at 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Soumya’s Creation presents Collection 2009 — specially designed and woven chanderis with extra silk for party wear, unstitched salwar suits in a variety of colours and surface ornamentation techniques, jewellery (costume and in silver with semiprecious stones), durries in stripes, checks and florals.
Till January 11 at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road (near Rashbehari crossing), #24556942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: Confetti Exports presents Hand That Feed, an exhibition of ceramics sculptures, studio pottery, terracotta and high-temperature earthenware by Suchismito Ghosh and traditional potters of Birbhum.
Till January 11 at Finesse Gallery, 11/1B New Road, Alipore: Sujata Sarawgi showcases The Queen of Textiles - silk sensuous in any form. Featuring mulbury, munga and tussar; the show stealers are Matka Ghicha saree, Eri Ghicha saree and Dupione/katiya saree.
READING
January 11 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Yudhisthira inciting Duryodhana, hiding in Lake Dvaipayana, to a mace combat, in the 456th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.
QUIZ
January 11 at IIM Calcutta campus; 12.30 pm: Quizzical, being held as part of Intaglio 2008-09 and organized by IIM Calcutta. To be hosted by quizmaster Joy Bhattacharjya, CEO, Kolkata Knight Riders, it is an open general quiz. Maximum team size of three. Details with C.Ram Shankar (#97486-66807).
January 11 at Ballygunge Bayam Samity, 36/B Bondel Road, Ballygunge Phari; 2 pm onwards: An open-to-all sports quiz for three-member teams Quizmaster: Jayanta Chakraborty. Details with Anup Dasgupta (9432211807).
BIRDWATCH
January 10 & 11 at the Santragachi Jhill: Prakriti Samsad (#2499 2612) organises migratory birdwatch at the wetland to have a look at the numerous waterfowls that visit this area. Its team of experts will help to identify and learn about the different birds and make people aware about the importance of wetland conservation.
HEALTH
January 10 & 11 at Medica ENT Institute, P-12 Nirala Cooperative, Mukundapur, #2426 4901/02; 9 am onwards: Free paediatric ENT camp for citizens of Calcutta.
January 11 at Chattodal Bhavan and Chattodal Ground of North Baksara, Faridpur Block (near Santragachi Pakhiralay), Howrah; 9 am onwards: Disha is organising a free medical checkup.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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