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ART
Till August 27 (except public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717, 2485 8509; Mondays: 3pm - 7pm; Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2pm - 7pm: Kingshuk: Through the world darkly — An exhibition of the works of Kingshuk Sarkar.
DRAMA
August 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 10.30am: Aneek presents Tagore’s Tapati. Direction: Malay Biswas.
August 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3pm & 6.30pm: On its 54th anniversary, Sundaram presents Munni O Saat Chowkidar (at 3pm) and its latest play, Ja Nei Bharatey (at 6.30pm). Direction & performance: Manoj Mitra.
August 15 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30pm: Shouvanik presents Matlobi Pasha. Direction: Chandan Sen.
aurobindo jayanti
August 15 at Mahajati Sadan; 9.30am: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir celebrates Aurobindo Jayanti with reading from Savitri and devotional songs.
August 15 at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, 3 Regent Park; 10.30am: Swapan Gupta presents Tagore songs to mark Sri Aurobindo’s 139th birth anniversary and India’s Independence.
August 15 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 10.30am onwards: Sri Aurobindo Jayanti Function. Hoisting of National Flag; homage at the shrine by Governor M.K. Narayanan. Jayanti Function at 6pm: Talk by Prof. Supriyo Bhattacharjee; reading & recitation by Gopa Bose and Subir Bandyopadhyay; and song by Sukanya Nath.
August 15 at Sahara Sadan; 3pm: Salutation to Mother India: Performance of Nrityabahar by Dhiman Sankar & troupe.
ALBUM LAUNCH
August 16 at Oxford Bookstore; 6pm: Launch of the DVD, I Believe: Universal Values for a Global Society with Dr Karan Singh. A film by Raja Choudhury.
MEMORIAL LECTURE
August 15 at Asha-Jyoti Conference Hall, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir, Belur Math, Howrah; 2pm: Swami Balabhadranandaji Maharaj, secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Asansol, will deliver the Rani Rasmoni Memorial Lecture on Bhagini Nivedita O Sri Sri Ma.
August 16 at Vivekananda Hall, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture; 6.30pm: The Sixth Dilip Kumar Roy Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Dr Karan Singh. Title: Vedanta Today.
exhibition
August 16 - 18 at Bengal Home Industries, 11 Camac Street; 10am - 6pm: Weaves of Gold, featuring exclusive saris and accessories from Kerala.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Till August 22 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C SP Mukherjee Road; 11am - 6pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts & Tasveer, supported by Zuari Cements, present Photos for Rato by Nicholas Vreeland.
August 16 at The Bengal Art Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 6.30pm: Inauguration of A Date with Central Asia, a photographic exhibition by Dilip Banerjee and the Quest on Wings team. The show continues till August 26, 12noon - 8pm.
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