For the new year

Join the celebrations for Poila Baisakh with Shoppers’ Stop Sananda Shubha Nava Varsha at Forum, 3 pm, and City Centre, 5 pm. Enjoy a musical evening, Poila Baisakh 1414, with performances by Indranil Sen, Shama Rahman, Saptak and Basudev Das Baul, at the Palladian Lounge, the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 6.30 pm.

Book

Be there at the release of Khaki, the Bengali translation of Franck Pavloff’s Matin Brun, at the Academy of Fine Arts, 6.30 pm.

Quiz

Enrol yourself for the Calcutta edition of the Canada-UK-USA-India quiz, presented by International Quiz Association, at International School of Business and Media, Sector III, Salt Lake, 5.30 pm.

Drama

Listen to Rudraprasad Chakraborty’s Yajnaseni-Agnikanya, a play-reading session, at Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar, 6.30 pm.

Seminar

Take part in Ashoketaru-Sandhya, an evening of seminar and demonstration on Rabindrasangeet, at Sisir Mancha, 6 pm.

Art watch

Browse through selected works of Somnath Hore at Galerie 88, 3 pm to 7 pm. Check out Contextual Vocabulary, paintings by various artists, at Gallery Kanishka’s, 11 am to 8 pm. In Zero Hour, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by various artists, at Academy of Fine Arts, 3 pm to 8 pm.