Art
April 5 - May 15 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Hues of an Indian Summer — Works of Sukanto Das, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Chanchal Mukherjee, Prasenjit Sengupta, Soumitra Kar, Sameer Paul, Biplab Dalai, Prokash Karmakar and others. April 5 - 9 at Gaganendra Pradarshasala; 2 pm - 8 pm: Portraits of a Screen Legend — Anit Mukherjea’s first solo exhibition of paintings to mark Suchitra Sen’s birthday (April 6). Inauguration today at 5.30 pm. April 5 - 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Water colour paintings by Sambhu Das. Till April 5 at Metropolitan Art Salon; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by the masters of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Till April 10 at Chemould, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Sajal Kanti Mitra.DRAMA
April 5 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Ganakrishti presents Virus M. Direction: Bratya Basu. April 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Kushilab presents Chokher Bali, Dir: Runu Chowdhury. April 6 at Madhusudan Mancha and April 7 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Srijak presents its latest production, Bechara Pechara. Dir: Debashis Basu. April 6 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Little Thespian presents Shuturmurgh, a play in Hindi directed by S.M. Azhar Alam. April 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Gandhar presents Jaaraa Brishtite Bhijechhilo. Direction: Goutam Halder. April 9 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents its latest play in Hindi, Umeed. Direction: Aloke Chakravorty.PERFORMING ARTS
April 5 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Tagore Foundation, Nehru Children’s Museum presents ‘Surey Surey Taley Taley’ — an evening of Tagore songs, other Bengali songs, dance, dance-drama Janani Janmabhoomi, and solo recitation by Bratati Bandyopadhyay. n April 5 at Sandre Hall, Calcutta School of Music, 6B Sunny Park; 6.30 pm: Twenty-five young singers, all winners of the musical contest, Gaan Shudhu Gaan, telecast on Doordarshan, will perform with full orchestra. Presented by Calcutta School of Music, Pandit Ravi Kichlu Foundation and Trom Videotex. April 6 at Science City Auditorium; 7 pm: The Royal Thai Consulate-General in Calcutta and Anamika Kala Sangam present the exotic Thai classical dances from Lopburi Dramatic Arts College, Lopburi, Thailand. April 7 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: The Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan Calcutta presents the reputed Jan Pusch Repertory from Germany in a contemporary dance performance. April 9 at Birla Academy; 6.30 pm: ICCR and Birla Academy of Art & Culture present Anagha Bharat in a Bharata Natyam recital.WORKSHOP
April 6 - 11 at Singhi Park, Ballygunge; 6 pm - 8.30 pm: Art of Living organises a personality development workshop for those between 16 and 20 years. Details at #9830136896 Till April 14 at School of Art $ Craft, 7/1A Asgar Mistri Lane; #23293896: Ballater Geddes Project 2004, Scotland and School of Art & Craft, Calcutta present a workshop on boat painting (till April 14; 8 am-11 am); and a workshop on boat-making and drawing (till April 7; 6 pm - 8 pm). Conducted by Scottish sculptor and painter Kenny Munro.PHOTOGRAPHS
Till April 7 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 10 am - 9 pm: A Life of its Own — an exhibition of visuals by Leena Kejriwal. Till April 30 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, in association with Pro Helvetia - Arts Council of Switzerland, presents Borders and Beyond — an international exhibition of photographs.Participating photographers: Manuel Bauer, Jodi Bieber, Julian Cardona, Thomas Kern, Joachim Ladefoged, Don McCullin, Valeri Nistratov, Meinrad Schade, Randa Shaath and Roger Wehrli.FESTIVAL
Till April 9 at Sri Ganesh & Sri Murugan Temples, 58/14/3&6 Prince Anwar Shah Road: The Panguni Uttaram Festival and Kumb Abhishekam Day will be celebrated with homams, abhishekams, special archanas, shodasopacharam and other aradhanas along with discourse (on Sri Murugan Avatharam; at 7 pm) by Nehru Narayanan. Till April 14 at Sri Thyagaraja Hall: Sri Ramanavami celebrations organised by Ved Bhavan Samaj. with Ganapathy Homam (at 4.30 am) and Upanyasam by Brahmasri B. Sundarkumar on Srimad Ramayanam (at 6.45 pm).TALK / PANEL DISCUSSION
April 5 at Prudential Hall, 18H Park Street; 5 pm: A panel discussion on Do schools need change? Panelists include Fr P.C. Mathew, Sr Cyril Mooney, Laslie D’Gama, Mita Chakravarty, Prabha Khaitan and Advay Jhunjhunwala. Moderator: Uttam Sengupta. Organised by Calcutta Chamber of Commerce in association with Vikramshila. April 5 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 5.30 pm: Swami Rasajnananda will speak in English on Life and Teachings of Holy Mother Sri Sri Sarada Devi. April 5 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Balabhadrananda will speak in Bengali on Yuganayak Vivekananda. April 5 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7 pm: Amalendu Chakraborty will speak on Swami Abhedananda O Bharatiya Sanskriti. April 6 at Taj Bengal; 9.30 am: A symposium on Women & Health organised by Bhagirathi Neotia Woman & Child Care. Guest speakers: Dr N. Laud, Dr Sultan Pradhan and Dr HB Chandalia from Mumbai. Entry by invitation. Details at #22815000. April 6 at CMA Auditorium, 1 Shakespeare Sarani; 5.45 pm: The CMA-Patton Tuesday Talkshoppe: Mr P.M. John, general secretary, Antara, to speak on Managing on Faith.EXHIBITION
April 5 & 6 at Identity Gallery, 22 Ballygunge Park Road; 10 am - 7.30 pm: Sujata Sarawgi showcases sarees, dupattas, and yardage from the traditional weavers, dyers and printers. On display are Maheshwaris, Baghs, Chanderi Tissue, Zari Kota, Ikats, Kosa, Dabbu prints, Pashmina cotton, Banana fibre fabric, Printed organza, Japanese prints and Natural fibre bags/Batuas. April 5 - 7 at C521 Lake Gardens, near Nava Nalanda School; 11 am - 8 pm: Four Seasons’ anniversary exhibtion of designer sarees and bags. April 5 - 9 at 255 Jodhpur Park; 11 am - 7.30 pm: Nupur’s Boutique presents its summer collections of Madhubani printed sarees, salwar suits, Applique bedcovers and other items. Till April 5 at Shuma’s, 359 Jodhpur Park; 10 am - 8 pm: Summer display of designer saris. April 6 - 8 at 3 Palm Place, Calcutta 19; 11 am - 6 pm: Nari Seva Sangha’s exhibtion cum summer sale of cotton printed and batik sarees, children’s and ladies garments, woven goods, preserves and snacks. Till April 13 at The Gold Factory, 171/1C Rashbehari Avenue; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition-cum-sale of gold and diamond jewellery. Till April 15 at Sampa’s Boutique, 42 Circus Avenue; 10 am - 8 pm: Wonder weaves from Assam silk and muga sarees and Mekhla chaddars.FOOD FESTIVAL
Till April 14 at the Poolside Cafe, The MBD Airport Hotel, 7 pm onwards: An international array of Italian culinary fare, The Italian Food Festival. April 1 onwards at Trincas; 12 noon - 4 pm: Set lunches — Indian or Chinese, vegetarian and non-vegetarian — with new menus daily.
