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Art
Till December 5 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Time’s Whirlwind — Art of Satish Gujral. Till December 5 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Nihar Dey, Sanjoy Banerjee, Shibnath Mondal and Sambhu Nath Jana. Till December 6 at Taj Bengal Promenade Lounge: Celebrating Love — paintings by Dhiren Sasmal, based on the love theme found in ancient classics of Bengali literature. Till December 6 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Dreamer Group presents an exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures by Bidyut Basak, Jagannath Sarkar, Kiran Kumar Sen, Lalit Maity, Manash Biswas, Purnandu Dey, Pradip Pradhan, Pradip Maity, Ranu Misra Banerjee, Rajib Deyashi, Saktipada Jana, Swapan Jana, Tapan Kar and Tarun Kumar Pal.DRAMA
December 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Ganakrishti presents Taskar Brittanto, directed by Amitava Dutta. December 4 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: As part of its 36th anniversary celebrations, Sayak presents Dildar. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacharya. December 4 - 6 at Minerva: Natadha celebrates its 35th anniversary with a festival its productions. Today at 6 pm: Inauguration, followed by the plays, Reality and Karno Ekhon. December 4 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Spandan and Anamika Kala Sangam present the Rangakarmee production, Sri Ganesh Mahima, a powerful play in Hindi directed by Partha Bandyapadhyay. Story: Mahasveta Devi. Concept: Usha Ganguli.TALK
December 4 at Hymayun Kabir Hall of the Asiatic Society; 4 pm: Dr Tinni Dutta, lecturer, dept of psychology, Asutosh College, will speak on Tagore’s Romantic Poems (A study from Freudian perspective). December 4 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Discourse on Ema Kalve by Pradip Kr. De. December 4 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Jushtananda will speak in Bengali on Bhagavat Katha. December 4 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Prof. Samir Kumar Basu will speak in Bengali on Swami Abhedanander SamajChinta.PERFORMING ARTS
Till December 6 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Seagram’s 100 Pipers Pure Music presents One Man’s Musical Genius Celebrated by 17 — A Tribute to Ustad Karamatullah Khan. Participating artistes: Today: Rashid Khan (vocal) and Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute); December 5: Mashkoor Ali Khan & Mubarak Ali Khan (vocal), and Chitresh Das & Jason Samuel Smith (dance jugalbandi), and Nishat Khan (sitar); December 6: Raza Ali Khan & Shahid Parvez (vocal & sitar jugalbandi), and Fusion Finale featuring Gino Banks (drums), Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (mohan veena), Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam), Sabir Khan (tabla) and Pradhumanya Singh Manot (keyboard). Organised by Showhouse. December 4 at St Paul’s Cathedral, 5.45 pm; December 5 at Tollygunge Club lawns, 6 pm; December 6 at RCTC Race Course grounds, 7 pm: Rising Stars, the music group from Dr Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong, will present concerts in association with The Telegraph. Entry cards for the concert at RCTC are available at Birkmyre Hostel, 4 Middleton Row; the concert at St Paul’s Cathedral has free seating; the Tollygunge Club concert is open for members and their guests. December 5 at the Sandre Hall of Calcutta School of Music; 7 pm: Calcutta School of Music and ITC Sangeet Research Academy present a solo violin recital by Saket Sahu with Indranil Bhaduri (tabla). All are welcome. December 6 at Tollygunge Club; 6.30 pm: Banyan Tree Events presents Ruhaniyat — the 3rd All India Sufi & Mystic Music Festival 2009-10. Featuring Baul songs by Parvathy Baul (Bengal); Sufi Kalam by Kachra Khan and group (deserts of western Rajasthan); Arabic Sufiana Mausiqi and Mystic Songs by Naglaa Fathy - Mona Fathy with Mohamad Farghaly and troupe (Egypt); Sufiana Kalam and Mystic Songs by Barkat Sidhu (Punjab); and Sufi Qawwali by Sarfaraz Chishti & Brothers (Muradabad).TAGORE FESTIVAL
December 4 - 6 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR: ICCR presents Tagore Beyond Frontiers featuring academic sessions, seminars, exhibitions, cultural performances, sartorial display of Tagore fashion, etc. Today: At Satyajit Ray Auditorium, 10.20 am: Inauguration by Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi. At Maulana Azad Conference Centre (4th floor), 12 noon: Seimar I: Tagore in World Literature (Parts: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Dr William Radice, Dr Martin Kempchen and Prof. Ananda Lal); at 3 pm: Readings from Tagore in translation (Parts: Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta, Dr Supriya Chaudhuri, Sukhendu Ray and Dr William Radice, who will recite while Rohini and Debashis Raychaudhuri will sing from album/book The Dust and the Sunlight. At Satyajit Ray Auditorium, 5 pm: Music beyond Frontiers - Songs of Tagore - A Miscellany (Parts: Parmita Mullick and Sasha Aniruddha Ghoshal); at 6.30 pm: The Child (choreography: Tanusree Shankar; recitation: Victor Banerjee).FILM FESTIVAL
Till December 4 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 5.30 pm: German Youth Film Festival Einer für alle - alle für Einen (One for All - All for One). Today: Emil und die Detektive (Emil and the Detectives); dir: Franziska Buch, Germany 2001.CONFERENCE
December 4 - 6 at Hyatt Regency; 10.30 am: Alzheimer’s & Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter presents the XVth national conference of country’s national dementia platform.BOOK exhibition
Till December 13 at Crossword, Elgin Road: Crossword-Penguin Fest (in association with t2). Attractive offers on Penguin Books for the entire period across five Crossword stores. Till December 15 at Starmark (Lord Sinha Road, South City Mall, Mani Square and City Centre); 11 am - 8 pm: Children’s book exhibition offers a wide range of titles.CHESS TOURNAMENT
Till December 8 at Gorky Sadan: 21st The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship, sponsored by Himani Sona Chandi Chyawanprash of the Emami Group. A total of 380 students from more than 160 schools are participating. Prize distribution ceremony on December 8 at 4 pm.EDUCATION FAIR
Till December 6 at BITM auditorium, 19A Gurusaday Road; 10 am - 6 pm: Harekarakamba, an education fair for children and adults. Jointly organised by Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Development Research Communication and Services Centre, and Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai.WORKSHOP
December 4 - 6 at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar: A poetry workshop organised by Pratibhas and Kabita Pratimasey. Inauguration today at 5.30 pm by Joy Goswami.FESTIVAL
December 5 & 6 at Shiv Kali Mandir, Fakirpara Road, near Behala Blind School; 4 am - 9 pm: Sri Dharmasaastha Bhajana Samithy hosts the 13th Mandala Puja celebrations.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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