ART

Till January 8 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; 11am - 7pm; Mondays, 2pm - 7pm: Looking In, paintings by Lalu Prasad Shaw. Till January 10 (except Sunday) at Gallery Nakshatra, 2/1 Outram Street; 11.30am - 7.30pm: A Linguistic Continuity — paintings by eminent artists. Till January 12 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road; 11am - 7pm: Alice in Wonderland, drawings, paintings and sculptures by Mrinal Dey. Till January 16 (except Sundays and holidays) at Mon Art Gallerie, 6 Hungerford Street, 22895438; 11am - 7.30pm: Mythical Paradigms — recent paintings by Jagannath Paul. Till January 17 (except Sundays) at Gandhara Art Gallery; 2pm - 7pm: Existence, an exhibition of the works of Dhrupadi Wahshat Ghosh, Sambaran Das, Sujay Mukherjee and Saikat Surai. Till January 21 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kolkata, Duckback House, 2nd floor, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2287 3377/88; 11am - 7pm: Indian Impressions in modern & contemporary art: An exhibition of paintings, sculptures & photographs. Featuring artists: KG Subramanian, Jogen Chowdhury, Manu Parekh, T. Vaikuntam, KS Radhakrishnan, Niranjan Pradhan, Suhas Roy, Prakash Karmakar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Bijan Choudhury, Dipak Banerjee, Rini Dhumal, Ashoke Mullick, Atin Basak, Bratin Khan, Pampa Panwar, Debabrata De, Sanatan Saha, Vivek Sharma and Abhishek Dasgupta.

DRAMA

January 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Natyaranga presents Shree Sombhu Mitra. Direction: Swapan Sengupta. January 3 at Minerva Theatre; 6.30pm: Silhouette Dream presents Gechho Baba, based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore. Direction: Narayan Mukhopadhyay. January 3 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30pm: Mangalik presents Malla Bhoomi. Direction: Samir Biswas. January 4 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30pm: Sansriti presents Surjya-pora Chhai. Drama & direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay. January 5 at Gyan Manch, 6.30pm & January 6 at ICCR Tagore Centre, 6.30pm: JUDE presents Tagore’s Arup Ratan, a trilingual musical directed by Ananda Lal. January 6 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6pm: Sandarbha presents Murkir Handi. Drama, direction & performance: Soumitra Basu. January 5 at Minerva Theatre; 6.30pm: Belghoria Ethic presents Kothay Pabo Tarey. Drama & direction: Debashis Sengupta. January 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Naye Natya presents Jaal, based on a story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. Direction & performance: Goutam Halder. January 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3pm: Kasba Arghya presents Journey to... Dakghar. Concept & direction: Manish Mitra. January 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Hatey-Khori’s latest production, Itsi-Bitsi. Direction: Debashis Ghosh Dastidar. January 7 at Girish Mancha; 6.30pm: Pancham Vaidic presents its latest production, ...Ebong Debjani, based on a story from The Mahabharat. Drama & direction: Arpita Ghosh. January 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 10.30am: Purba-Paschim presents Bratya Basu’s Ashaleen. Direction: Biplab Bandyopadhyay. January 8 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30pm: Chokh presents Anaagato. Drama & direction: Abhijit Kargupta.

DRAMA FESTIVAL

January 3 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30pm: As part of Aneek’s 14th Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsav, Natasena presents Gorur Garir Headlight. Direction: Saroj Roy. January 3 at Krishnagar Rabindra Bhavan; 6pm: As part of Krishnagar Parampara’s 10th Nataker Mela, Prachya presents Supari Killer. Drama: Bratya Basu. Direction: Biplab Chattopadhyay.

talk

January 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 5.30pm: Dr Sitanath Goswami will speak on Vivekachudamani. January 3 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6pm: Prof. Amarendra Das will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. January 3 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7pm: Prof. Samir Kumar Basu will speak on Mon O Manush. January 3 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 6.30pm: As part of Sanglap Natyotsav 2012, Sanglap Kolkata hosts Sekhar Ganguly Memorial Lecture and felicitation. Awardee: Bela Sarkar. Speaker: Ashok Mukhopadhyay.

seminar

January 3 at Paschimbanga Bangla Academy Sabhaghar; 5.30pm: West Bengal Dance Group Federation presents a seminar on Nritte Paramanu Tattwa. Speaker: Kalamandalam Piyal.

photographs

January 3 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 2pm - 8pm: East Calcutta Photographic Association presents its 51st national salon.

MEET

January 3 at Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, IB-201 Salt Lake; 11am onwards: The SREI Foundation hosts World Confluence of Humanity, Power & Spirituality. For details, call 9007010047.

performing arts

January 3 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani: Calcutta International Classical Guitar Festival 2011, presented by Bickram Ghosh and Siddha. At 6pm: Amyt Jiver Duro: Amyt Datta (guitar) and Jivraj Singh (percussion). At 8pm: Bertie da Silva in Concert: Bertie da Silva (voice, guitar), and Amyt Datta (guitar). January 3 at Asutosh Memorial Hall, Asutosh College; 6pm: Classic presents its 14th annual festival of Indian classical music. Featuring Saswari Bagchi (vocal), Maharaj Banerjee (harmonium recital), and Bholanath Mishra (vocal). January 4 at Gyan Manch; 6.30pm: Tagore Beyond Irish Melodies — an evening of Celtic songs and Tagore’s compositions presented by Anna Tanvir & Yann(harpist, vocalist and guitarist from UK) with the father-daughter duo of Rabindrasangeet, Debashish Raychaudhuri and Rohini Raychaudhuri, and Rishi Banerjee (vocalist, UK). Recitation by Sujoy Prosad Chattopadhyay. Concept, script & direction: Debashish Raychaudhuri. January 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.30pm: To mark the completion of 50 years of the music career of Sangeetacharya Niharranjan Bandyopadhyay, Satyakinkar Smriti Samsad will present an evening of classical music featuring a vocal recital by Sangeetacharya Niharranjan Bandyopadhyay, with Pandit Sohanlal Sharma (harmonium) and Sujit Saha (tabla).

exhibition

Till January 31 at The Box, The Park; 11am - 8pm: Temple of Joy, India’s urban design store, celebrates the season for sharing.

QUIZ

January 8 at Usha Martin Academy, PS Srijan Tech Park (5th floor), Sector-V, Salt Lake; 10am: Mindsweep, the international written individual quiz presented by the Karnataka Quiz Association, Bangalore. Registration from 9.30am. No entry fee for schools. Rs100 for rest. School students need to carry age/class proof. Call Rudradeep (9836344694) for more details. Registration link: http://kqaquizzes.org/mindsweep/

foundation day

January 3 at Modern High School for Girls, 78 Syed Amir Ali Avenue; 9.30am: Foundation Day and the final leg of Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Modern High School. The Post-Master General will release a special cover commemorating the event. The chairperson of the school, Nirmala Birla, will deliver the closing speech. A philatelic display of First-Day and Special Covers on some important personalities, events and buildings and flora and fauna of India will be put up in the school hall to mark the occasion.

anniversary

January 3 at Triguna Sen Auditorium, Jadavpur University; 5pm: International Vedanta Society (IVS) celebrates the 70th birth anniversary of His Holiness Bhagava, the founder and core of IVS.

workshop

January 8, 15, 22 & 29 at Bijon Theatre; 2pm - 4pm: Children’s drama workshop organised by Sayak. For details, call 9836475759 / 9434345241. January 3 at Mama Mia, 59 Ballygunge Circular Road; 3pm - 5.30pm: An interactive dessert-making workshop. Call 9830708456 to register. January 6 onwards at Camlin Arts, Elgin Road: Workshop on fine arts (oil/watercolour paintings, pastels, charcoal, sketching & shading), calligraphy, and fancy writing. Also, certificate courses in French, Spanish and spoken English. For details, call 9830647476, 9804791446. January 6 - 8 at Haldiram Food City, Banquet Suite, 24 Ballygunge Park: Learn the art of latest make-up, hair-stying and saree drape. Call 9831841125, 9330415443. January 9 & 10 at Allenby Road: Workshop on authentic cake-making. Learn mixed fruit gateaux, rich truffle cake, Barbie doll cake, pineapple pudding, muffins and more. For registration, call 9332051426.

kalpataru utsav

January 3 at Ramakrishna Math, Cossipore Udyanbati, 90 Cossipore Road; 1.30pm onwards: The concluding day of Kalpataru Utsav 2012. Devotional songs by Goutam Ghosh, Kuntal Gangopadhyay and Bholanath Mukhopadhyay; religious discourses on Life and Teachings of Swamiji by Swami Jayananda Maharaj and Swami Shastrajnanananda Maharaj; dance-drama, Vireswar Vivekananda by Manas Dance Centre; and Yoga-natika Sree Ramakrishna Udvasita Manabpremik Vivekananda by Indian Epic Culture Centre.

lecture

January 5 at Netaji Bhavan, 38/2 Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani; 6pm: Netaji Research Bureau presents a special lecture on Humanities in Higher Education by Professor Diana Sorensen, Dean of the Arts & Humanities, Harvard University. Professor Malabika Sarkar will be in conversation with Professor Sorensen. Professor Sugata Bose will be in the Chair.

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