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British Council, Scottish Screen and Nandan host Scotland-Kolkata Cuts, a selection of Scottish films by Brian Cox beginning today. Cox, an award-winning actor of the stage, screen and television, will be present on the occasion. A veteran of more than 50 feature films, he appeared in films Red and The Escapist — both official selections at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and released worldwide this year. Today, he will speak at the inaugural ceremony of the festival (at Nandan IV; 5 pm), before the screening of Rob Roy (at Nandan I; 7 pm), a film in which the actor has starred alongside Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange. Cox will address the press on the films he has chosen for the festival. The press conference will also be addressed by Nilanjan Chatterjee, Sujata Sen and Somnath Mukherjee. Besides his appearances at this festival, Cox will also give lecture-demonstrations at Roopkala Kendra and Chalachitra Shatabarsha Bhawan to students of film studies. He is also scheduled to do a drama workshop with students of Jadavpur University’s English department.
Event: Festival of Scottish films When: February 1 - 3 Where: Nandan film complex
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ART
Till February 6 at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Asutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Monday: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesday - Saturday: 2 pm - 7 pm: Nomadic Detours — recent works by Samir Aich.
Till February 12 (except Sundays & public holidays) at Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, #2486 6735; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 11 am - 7 pm: The Other Vision — works by Sambaran Das, Goutam Khamaru and Anup Mondal.
Till February 1 at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, The Harrington Mansions, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, #2282 9220/9221; 2 pm - 8 pm: The inaugural show of the gallery, titled Essential, Eclectic, ...Ephemereal, features works of modern masters: Paintings by Antonio E’Costa, Ganesh Haloi, Jogen Chowdhury, Krishen Khanna, Paritosh Sen, Prabhakar Kolte and Vasant Wankhede; and sculpture by Pandu Rangiah Daroz, Himmat Shah and Laxma Goud.
February 1 - 7 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings and drawings by Abhijit Guha.
February 1 - 10 at Art Walk, South City Mall; 12 noon - 8 pm: Paintings by Mohini Biswas and Dipankar Biswas.
February 1 - 13 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274: Search Within — an exhibition of the works of Benitha Perciyal K., Dimpy Menon, Parvathi Nayar, Prasannakumar N. and Siva M. Presented by Sanjay Tulsyan and Galerie 88. Inauguration today at 6 pm.
Till February 7 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia, Stephen’s Court, 18 Park Street, #4001 0148; 11 am - 7 pm: Pretty Ugly, an exhibition of the works by Nidhi Agarwal, Sutanu Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Samit Das, Jaya Ganguly, Shridhar Iyer, Rabin Mondal and Samir Roy. Curated by Romain Maitra.
Till February 27 (Sundays by appointment) at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: The Rapture of Form —an exhibition of paintings by Suhas Roy, Prakash Karmakar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Aditya Basak, Bratin Khan, Gourango Beshai, Sibsaday Chaudhuri, Subrata Pal, Subrata Das, Samir Paul, Sukanta Das and others.
DRAMA
February 1 at Academy of Fine Arts & February 6 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rupdarshan presents its latest production, Aboroh. Drama & direction: Moloy Sengupta.
February 2 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Paikpara Akhor presents Jaan-e-Kalkatta. Direction: Bhadra Basu.
February 2 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Rangapat presents Aurangzeb, with Debshankar Haldar in the title role.
February 3 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bratyajan presents Ruddha Sangeet. Drama & direction: Bratya Basu.
February 4 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Durgadas Smrity Sangha will stage its new production, Amla-Madhur. Direction: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay.
February 5 at Academy of Fine Arts & february 7 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Gandhar will stage Kachher Manush, with Debshankar Haldar and Bejoylakshmi Barman in the lead. Direction: Gautam Haldar, filmmaker.
February 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nandipat will stage its latest production, Srinwantu Comrades. Dir: Bibhas Chakraborty.
February 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents its recent production, Jnan Briksher Fall, based on Tolstoy’s Fruits of Culture. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacharya.
PERFORMING ARTS
February 1 at Madhusudan Mancha; 5.30 pm: Shruti Britto presents Raage Onurage, an evening of classical music. Featuring Shuvodeep Chakraborty (a poetry collage based on ragas), Anirban Bhattacharyya (vocal) and Subhankar Banerjee (tabla solo).
February 1 at Satyajit Ray Auditorium, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 6.30 pm: Parampara, New Delhi presents a unique Geet Katha, Krishna Ranga Raachi, by Sonal Mansingh.
February 2 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake City; 6 pm: EZCC will hold Prativa Utsav – music and dance performances featuring young, talented performing artistes who are Government of India scholarship holders: Mary Roy (Rabindrasangeet), Shayomita Dasgupta (Odissi dance) and Sourav Roy (Kathak dance).
February 2 at Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road); 6.30 pm: Netaji Research Bureau presents a concert of songs of Rabindranath Tagore, Salil Chowdhury and Himangshu Dutta by ‘Byatikrami’ on Sisir Kumar Bose’s 90th birth anniversary.
February 3 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 5.30 pm: An evening of Hindustani classical music with artistes from Australia and India
February 4 & 5 (6.30 pm till midnight), February 6 (10 pm, night-long) & February 7 (6.30 pm, night-long) at Kala Mandir: Indo Occidental Symbiosis and Academy of Indian Culture present Spirit of the Spring, a festival of classical music and dance. Participants, Feb. 4: Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain (shehnai), Malabika Mitra (Kathak) and Kishori Amonkar (vocal); Feb. 5: Bharati Amonkar (Odissi), Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar), and Pandit Rajan Misra and Pandit Sajan Misra (vocal); Feb 6: Malabika Sen (Bharata Natyam), Ritesh and Rajnish Misra (vocal), Tejendra Narayan Majumdar (sarod), Madhumita Roy and Santosh Kumar (Kathak duet), and Ustad Rashid Khan and Shankar Mahadevan (vocal duet); Feb 7: Suresh Talwalkar and Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla duet), Vyjayantimala Bali (Bharata Natyam), Girija Devi (vocal), Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan (sarod duet), Moulik Shah and Ishira Parikh (Kathak duet), Ustad Shahid Parvez and Sakir Parvez (sitar duet), and Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty (vocal).
PHOTOGRAPHY
Till February 2 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Photography exhibition on animal dwellings by Dr Dheera Palit.
Till February 3 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Edge of Faith, an exhibition of photographs by Prabuddha Dasgupta. Hosted by Tasveer and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts.
TALK
February 1 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramaranjan Mukherji will speak in Bengali on Bharatiya Nandantattva.
February 1 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra; 6.30 pm: Gorachand Mukherjee will speak on Mahabharat Katha.
READING
February 1 at the 34th Calcutta Book Fair; 5.30 pm: Reading of a German fairytale.
EQUESTRIAN
February 1 - 6 at Pat Williamson Grounds (centre of Race Course, Maidan); 8 am - 5 pm (lunch break: 12 noon - 2 pm): Fort William Riding & Polo Club (on behalf of Eastern Command), in association with Tollygunge Club, hosts an equestrian extravaganza — the National Equestrian Championship and 58th Calcutta Horse Show.
QUIZ
February 6 at Starmark terrace, 3 Lord Sinha Road: Starmark Film Quiz. Registration from 4 pm. Prelims: 4.45 pm. Finals: 6 pm. Three-member teams. Open to all. No entry fee.
EXHIBITION
February 1 - 5 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 12 noon - 5 pm: An exhibition of children’s casual clothes.
Till February 6 at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, Ballygunge Place; 10 am - 6.30 pm: Southern Splendour — an exhibition of Kanjeevarams, Uppadas, Venkatgiris, tribal sarees from the temple towns of south India.
Till February 7 at British Council Pavilion, Calcutta Book Fair: Darwin Now — exhibiting the life and works of Charles Darwin to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book, On the Origin of Species.
Till February 7 at Halo Heritage (ground floor), 26 Ritchie Road; 11.30 am - 8.30 pm: Soumya’s Creation presents an exhibition of evening bags and ear rings.
Till February 15 at Pumpkin Patch, South City Mall, Shop # S-210 (2nd floor); 11 am - 8 pm: A wide range of fashionable children’s wear.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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