Ready to rock Live music always rocks. Happening across eight cities all over the country, the ongoing Pubrock Festival already has the music-loving youth in its thrall. As part of the festival, Delhi-based rock bands Them Clones and The Superfuzz are slated to perform in the city on two consecutive nights, promising to send the audience to dizzy heights of ecstasy with their unique brand of rock ’n’ roll. Featuring tonight is The Superfuzz, a garage-rock trio which burst on the scene last year. Full of raw energy and zest, the trio’s original compositions are based on meaningful themes that are put into sharp perspective through extremely catchy notes. Performing tomorrow are Them Clones (picture along), a band known for their alternative rock tracks. Playing a mixed set of originals and covers, their music is influenced by grunge and metal to electronica, techno, international pop and Indi-pop. lEvent: Performance by Delhi-based rock bands lWhen: Today and tomorrow; 9 pm onwards lWhere: The Park, Someplace Else

art

Till August 3 at Pachishe Baishakh Art Gallery, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road, 2nd floor: Art from Life — an exhibition of paintings by Sujata Chakraborty, Somnath Chakraborty, Pradip Sur, Nirmal Kumar Mallick, Mohi Pal, Joydeep Chatterjee, Dipankar Mukherjee and Bikash Mukherjee. Till August 5 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 1st floor; 3 pm - 8 pm: Svikriti, an exhibition of the works of six awardees in Academy’s 40th Annual Exhibition 2007. Participating artists: Animesh Dutta, Pappu Bardhan, Shuvrakanti Mitra, Koushik Coomar, Subhas Chandra Nath and Gourab Malakar. Till August 5 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 1st floor, Orbit Enclave, 12/3A Picasso Bithi (Hungerford Street); 3 pm - 7 pm: Birth centenary show of Gobardhan Ash (1907- 2007). Till August 5 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Personalities, paintings by Samir Ghosh. Till August 6 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery ‘A’; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Bikas Mukherjee. Till August 6 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: The third solo exhibition of watercolours by Ekta Singha. Till August 6 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: A group show by Bengal contemporary artists. Till August 6 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, Lansdowne Terrace, #2465-1444; 11 am - 7 pm: Power of Three, showcasing paintings by Amal Ghosh of London, Dr Nabanita Javed of Calcutta and Kashmiri Khosa of Delhi. Till August 11 (except Sunday) at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of sculptures from a dokra workshop, some tapestries and ceramics. Till August 11 (except Sunday) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chamber, 2nd floor; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Sanjib Roy. Till August 12 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Aranya, an exhibition of paintings by eminent artists, inspired by a visit to the Sunderbans. Participants: Biswapathy Maiti, Geeta Maiti, Sekhar Roy, Sekhar Kar, Ramlal Dhar, Sohini Dhar, Amitabha Sengupta, Dewashsh Das, Ashoke Mullick, Biswajit Mondol and Diptish Ghosh Dastidar. Till August 25 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Born Free, an exhibition of paintings by Ajay De, Asit Kumar Patnaik, Avijit Dutta, Bratin Khan, Bikash Poddar, Bhaghat Singh, Gautum Mukherjee, Nitya Kundu, Partha Bhattacharjee, Pradip Maitra, Prithvi Soni, Rameshwar Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Sukanta Das, Suman Roy, Sanatan Dinda, S. Harshvardhan, Shyamal Mukherjee, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Siddharth, S.K. Shahjahan, Saptarishi Naskar and Wasim Kapoor.

drama

August 3 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natyaranga’s latest production, Sarat Chandra’s Dena Paona, directed by Swapan Sengupta. August 3 at Girish Mancha; 6.45 pm: Sansriti, in association with Swapnasuchona, presents its new production, Surjo-Pora Chhai. Direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay. August 3 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7 pm: Little Thespian presents Katha Collage-2, a collection of plays comprising four short stories by four writers of Calcutta: Sayeed Premi’s Rihaee (Urdu), Shailendra Srivastava’s Sapne Ki Baat (Hindi), Madhu Kankria’s File (Hindi) and Anis Rafi’s Polythene Ki Deewar (Urdu). Design and direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala. August 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Abhash presents Apurba Golap. Drama & direction: Shekhar Samaddar. August 4 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Purba-Paschim presents Girish Karnad’s Agnijal. Translated and directed by Bibhas Chakraborty. August 4 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Nana Ranger Din (Drama: Anton Chekov/Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay; Performance: Parthapratim Deb and Rudraprasad Sengupta; Dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta) and Pakhi (Story: Leela Mazumder; Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta). August 4 at Madhusudan Mancha; 7 pm: Rangakarmee presents Court Martial, designed and directed by Usha Ganguli. August 5 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Samskar Bharati presents Jakhan Eka, based on Arnold Wesker’s The Roots. Direction: Asit Basu.

PERFORMING ARTS

August 3 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.45 pm: This Is Not Fusion, a journey through Jazz, the Blues and Rock into the Raga, conceptualised by Amit Chaudhuri. Participants: Amit Chaudhuri (vocals), Prasenjit Ghosal (guitar), Indrajit Dey (keyboard), Mainak Nag Choudhury (bass) and Ashok Mukherjee (tabla). Guest appearance: Jazz pianist Madhav Chari. Presented by Hutch in association with Open Doors.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till August 3 at Gaganendra Pradarshasala; 3 pm - 7 pm: A group exhibition of photographic art by Debashis Gayen, Himadri Sekhar Dutta, Partha Sarathi Sarkar, Samitesh Bhattacharyay and Shib Nath Basak to mark the golden jubilee celebration of Photographic Association of Dum Dum. Till August 12 at Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: The sixth and final exhibition from Tasveer Season 1 — Memories of India and An Indian from India: Phorographs by Annu Palakunnathu Mathew.

talk

August 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak in English on Kena Upanishad. August 3 at Calcutta School of Music; 6.30 pm: Kishore Chatterjee starts a three-part lecture series with music on The Bible and Music. August 3 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Dr Sasanka Bhusan Bandyopadhyay will speak on Chandogya Upanishad. August 3 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Parimal Kanti Das will discourse on The Life and Teachings of Sri Ma, the author of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.

WORKSHOP

August 3 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 6 pm: To celebrate Friendship Day, Oxford Junior and Chitresh Das Dance Company, San Francisco present Building Bridges, a Kathak dance workshop (for children 6 years and above), with a solo performance by Charlotte Moraga.

exhibition

August 3 - 6 at Belong, 99A Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of kurtas, suits, tunics and saris.

FESTIVAL

August 5 at Sri Ganesh & Sri Murugan Temples, 58/14/3&6 Prince Anwar Shah Road: Shani Peyarchi (Saturn) is on Aug. 5. It moves from Kataka Rasi to Simha Rasi at 12 noon. Homam (9.30 am), Maha Abhisekam (11 am), Deeparadhana (12 noon), Prasada Viniyogam (12.15 pm). Pariharams can be done for Makham, Pooram, Uthiram, Hastham, Chitra Aayilyam, Punarpoosam.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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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