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Indian Council for Cultural Relations, in collaboration with department of information and cultural affairs, Government of West Bengal, presents Leela, a mini theatre festival on women’s issues, participated by South Asian countries. Besides troupes from the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan, two renowned theatre groups of the city, Rangroop and Nandikar will participate in this festival. To be inaugurated today at 6 pm, today’s performance features Behular Bhasan by Syed Jamil Ahmed (Bangladesh). It narrates the story of Behula’s desperate attempt to revive her dead husband. In each episode of the play, Behula meets a different male prototype. When Behula meets Saksmundar’s uncle, his revelation about her husband’s past comes as a shock to her. She begins to question the validity of her journey and acknowledges the futility of reviving Laksminder back to life.The play ends with Behula still afloat in her raft in the rain, being blessed by the clouds so that her wishes are fulfilled. The clouds also bless the seven male prototypes she has met on her journey at the seven bends of River of Life, so that they can redeem themselves.
• Event: South Asian mini theatre festival • When: March 11 - 15; 6.30 pm • Where: Minerva Theatre, 6 & 6/1 Beadon Street
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ART
Till April 3 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, #2485 8717; Monday: 3 pm - 7 pm; Tuesday - Saturday: 2 pm - 7 pm: Symbols & Metaphors — an exhibition of the works of Samir Aich, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Alok Bal, A. Balasubramaniam, Sumitro Basak, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Partha Pratim Deb, Atul Dodiya, Jaya Ganguly, Gopal Ghosh, M.F. Husain, Farhad Hussain, Jitish Kallat, Paresh Maity, Veer Munshi, Baiju Parthan, Ganesh Pyne, Kingshuk Sarkar, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Arpita Singh, Sanjeev Sonpimpare, Ram Singh Urveti and others.
March 11 at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur, E.M. Bypass, #4011 3182/3183; 6 pm: Preview of Logged, an exhibition of drawings by contemporary artists of India. The show continues till March 31, except Sundays, 11 am to 7 pm.
March 11 - 17 at Academy of Fine Arts (Central Gallery); 3 pm - 8 pm: Sreejan presents the 2nd group show of paintings and sculptures by its members. Inauguration today at 6 pm.
March 11 - 17 at Academy of Fine Arts (New South ‘A’ Gallery); 3 pm - 8 pm: Exhibition of paintings by Spread. Participating artists: Tanmoy Roychowdhury, Prabal Roy, Arun Mondal and Purnendu Das.
Till March 11 at Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshashala; 2 pm - 8 pm: The sixth solo exhibition of drawings, paintings and lyrics by Tarak Nath Mondal.
Till March 11 at Nandalal Bose Hall, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 12 noon - 7.30 pm: Beyond Objecthood, an exhibition of the works of Adip Dutta, Akhilesh, Anjum Singh, Anupam Chakraborty, Arindam Chatterjee, Bose Krishnamachari, Harsha Swaminathan, Jayashree Chakravarty, John Tun Sein, Manjari Chakravarti, Manisha Parekh, Nantu Behari Das, Saba Hasan, Samir Aich, Samindranath Majumder, Seema Ghurayya, Tanmoy Samanta and Tapati Chowdhury.
Till March 11 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 10 am - 7 pm: Mythology in Monochrome by Nandan Purkayastha.
March 12 at The Art Gallery, The ITC Sonar; 7.15 pm: City police chief Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti will inaugurate an exhibition of paintings by well-known artists of Calcutta. Curated by Keshav Roy. The works will be on display till March 14, 11 am to 6 pm.
Till March 12 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Rotary International Dist 3291, Rotary Club of New Ballygunge presents an exhibition of paintings by Prakash Karmakar, Bijon Chowdhury, Wasim Kapur, Isha Mohammad, Dhiraj Chowdhury, Anita Roy Choudhury, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Dipali Bhattacharya, Jaya Ganguly, Chandra Bhattacharya, Anup Karar, Shefali Mukherjee, Suvankar Maitra, Tapan Mitra, Shyamal Mukherjee, Anup Giri, Aloke Bhattacharya and Amitabha Sengupta.
Till March 13 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: The Complete Collection, limited edition serigraphs by Sakti Burman.
Till March 13 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 1st floor, Orbit Enclave, 12/3A Hungerford Street; #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Lightness of being Anxious, paintings by Ashoke Mullick.
Till March 14 at Victoria Memorial Hall; 10 am - 5 pm: Award-winning and selected artworks of the faculty of visual arts, Rabindra Bharati University.
Till March 14 at Bose Pacia, 18 Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: Kunwarji’s Ground — new works by Dileep Sharma.
Till March 14 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Contemporary Nines presents an exhibition of recent artworks by Subrata Saha, Dipankar Sinha, Ranadip Das, Madhubanti Banerjee, Parthapratim Saha, Swati Mukherjee, Dip Banerjee, Bibek Paul, Pratima Seal, Piyush Kanti Gayen, Ghanshyam Gupta, Ananya Banerjee and Ratan Saha.
Till March 20 at Jamini Roy Gallery (3rd floor), Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 12 noon - 8 pm: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR Calcutta, in association with Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, presents an exhibition of paintings by Bangladeshi painter Dr Farida Zaman.
Till March 20 (except Sundays & national holidays) at The Harrington Street Art Centre, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, #2282 9220; 12 noon - 8 pm: Stains on my Chintz — featuring works by Archana Hande, Lavanya Mani, Paula Sengupta, Joscelyn Gardner, Michele Elliot and Teresa Cole. Curated by Dr Paula Sengupta.
Till March 22 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Beyond Desire — Fourteen works of erotic sculpture by painter Sunil Das.
Till March 31 (except Sundays) at Ahuja Museum for the Arts, 26 Lee Road, #4003 4974; 12 noon - 7 pm: Colombian Art by Antonio Zapata.
Till March 31 (except Mondays) at Gallery Rasa, 828/1 Block-P New Alipore, #24007348; 3 pm - 8 pm: The graphic world of M.F. Husain.
Till March 31 at Gallery Indian Images, 60/128 Haripada Dutta Lane, Golf Gardens, #98746 71820: First Leaf of Spring — the inaugural exhibition of the gallery features paintings, sculptures and photographs.
PERFORMING ARTS
March 11 at Sisir Mancha; 6 pm: Prayas presents an evening of Tagore songs and audio-play.
March 11 at Marble Palace; 7.30 pm: The Consul General of France in Calcutta, Rotary Club of Calcutta Magnum RID 3291, Alliance Française du Bengale, and Family Credit present Opera or The Undoing of Women, an ‘opera-play’
FILM SHOW
Till March 14 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #24556942/43; 6.30 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Image Music Text, a series of contemporary German films on the arts. Today: The Sound of Words (2008, Documentary / German with English subtitles / 74 minutes), directed by Gerard Schick.
DRAMA
March 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bratyajan presents Ruddha Sangeet. Drama & direction: Bratya Basu.
March 11 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Matlobi Paasha. Direction: Chandan Das.
March 11 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Blind Opera presents Kamalasagar. Direction: Ashok Pramanik.
Till March 12: Kathakriti Natya Samaroh 2010, a festival of plays hosted by Kathakriti to mark its 22nd foundation day. Today at Tapan Theatre, 6.30 pm: Nandikar will stage Ajnatobass. Direction: Sumanta Gangopadhyay.
Till March 12 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Narir Mancha — Nandipat’s theatre fest. Today: Jalchhabi by Rang Roop. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay.
March 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nandikar will stage its latest production, Madhabi. Drama: Bhisham Sahni. Adaptation & direction: Swatilekha Sengupta. The cast includes Rudraprasad Sengupta, Debshankar Haldar, Partha Pratim Deb, Sumanta Ganguly and Sohini Sengupta.
TALK
March 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 5.30 pm: Sitanath Goswami will speak in Bengali on Panchadashi.
March 11 at Vivekananda Hall, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street; 6.30 pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak on Kenopanishad.
March 11 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7 pm: Swami Samshuddhananda will speak in Bengali on Mundaka Upanishad.
SEMINAR
March 11 at Vidyasagar Haal of The Asiatic Society; 10.30 am: Professor Karuna Sindhu Das, vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University, will inaugurate a two-day national seminar on Editing the Unpublished Indian Texts: An Experience of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit.
QUIZ
March 11 at Ananta Dutta Smriti Bhavan (Nagerbazar Town Hall); 12 noon: Grand finale of the quiz on environmental awareness, organised by Friends in Need Everywhere. Participated by 11 schools from south and north Dum Dum and Rajarhat Gopalpur Municipality.
EXHIBITION
March 11 - 13 at the premises of Victoria Institution, 78B APC Road; 11 am - 5 pm: The alumni association of Victoria Institution (College) is organising Basanta-Mela.
Till March 12 at 16/2 Gariahat Road, #98300 54718; 11 am - 8.30 pm: Joyita’s Selection presents Spring-Summer Fete featuring designer sarees, dress material, ladies & gents kurtas and kurtis, home linen, tupperware, Lucknow chikan, constume jewellery and gift items.
Till March 18 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Dimensions of the Plane — Communication Design in Germany, an exhibition of contemporary communication design in Germany.
SPORT
Till March 13 at Aditya Academy school campus, Barasat; 10 am & 1.45 pm: Aditya Academy Sr Sec., Barasat hosts Cagers, an inter-school basketball tournament. Final on March 13 , 2 pm onwards. 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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