A rebel with a cause The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neo-realism. Although never a formally organised movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm. Many were also engaged with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm. Along with Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge, Jacques Rivette’s first feature, Paris Nous Appartient (Paris Belongs to Us) kindled the flame that became known as the French New Wave. The film’s production began in the early summer of 1958 with money borrowed from the magazine Rivette worked for, Cahiers du Cinema. Technicians, actors, and lab fees were all on credit, with no money exchanged until the film's release in 1960. Without so much as a car, Rivette and his entourage of film enthusiasts worked whenever they could, spending Sundays trying to raise enough money to begin filming again on Mondays. Featuring Chabrol as a mysterious figure in a café who disseminates cryptic narrative information and flirts ineptly with a pretty girl, the film deals with a group of displaced bohemians searching for the meaning of life and hiding from a mysterious, never- explained menace. With the help of Chabrol and Truffaut, whose first films were already receiving acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, Paris was finally released — a stepping stone towards French cinema's rebirth. Hosted by The French Association. Event: Screening of French film Paris Nous Appartient When: Today at 6 pm Where: The French Association Library

art

Till June 5 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings and drawings by Swapan K Ghosh. Till June 6 at Oxford Bookstore; 10.30 am - 7 pm: A Handful of Dignity — digital vectored art by Debarshi Roy. Till June 7 at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, 2nd floor; 3 pm - 7 pm: Figurative works by contemporary artists and upcoming Bengal artists. Participants include Manoj Dutta, Prokash Karmakar, Partho Pratim Deb, Avijit Dutta, Abhijit Mitra, Subroto Pal and Chhatrapati Dutta. Till June 10 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Art works by Abani Sen, Anita Roychowdhuri, Arpan Bhowmik, Atul Bose, Chinmoy Ash, Deborshi Ash, Dinakar Kaushik, Gobardhan Ash, Gopal Sanyal, Indra Dugar, Jyotirmoy Ash, Mahuya Pan, Monoj Dutta, Pradip Ghosh, Prokash Karmakar, Puspen Roy, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, Ramendranath Chakraborty, Ranajit Adhikary and Subrata Modak. June 5 - 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Swapna Niye, an exhibition of paintings by Dinonath Saha. Till June 12 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Khela — new works on paper, canvas and enamel by Arunima Choudhury. Till June 15 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot presents Summer Vacation Study of Bengal Art (paintings, drawings and graphics). Till June 17 at Samokal Art Gallery, 23 Gariahat Road, 1st floor, Golpark; 4 pm - 8 pm: Visual World of Women Artists — an exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Till July 28 (except Sundays and public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring about 50 artworks from across India.

drama

June 5 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Aneek presents Punorujjiban. Direction: Amalesh Chakraborty. June 5 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Arghya presents Chandrabati. Direction: Manish Mitra. June 6 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Abhinay presents Aisa Bhi Hota Hai, a Hindi adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Boor. Dir: Sudhir Nigam. June 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents its latest production, Dildar. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacharya. June 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Jaha Chai.... Source: Cervantes-Shakespeare-Tagore. Drama: Sukanta Chaudhuri. Direction: Rudraprasad Sengupta and Goutam Halder. June 7 at Sarala Memorial Hall; 6.30 pm: Total Theatre presents its latest production, Ranjan Sen. Drama & direction: Shantanu Bandyopadhyay. June 7 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Gobardanga Naksha presents two plays, Kon Grihabadhu and Mahanagar. Concept & direction: Ashis Das. June 8 at Purbashree, Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Salt Lake Theatre presents Pratyagaman, based on Frederich Durenmurt’s The Visit. Direction: Pannalal Maitra. June 10 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Abalilakrome. Drama & direction: Bimal Bandopadhayay.

PERFORMING ARTS

June 5 at Sisir Mancha; 5.30 pm: Shabda-Shilpi presents an evening of recitation. June 7 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6 pm: Mayur Lalit presents an evening of Odissi dance recital and ballet Chitrangada. Choreography: Debamitra Sengupta. June 7 at Kala Mandir (B); 6.15 pm: Antara Sangit Vidyalaya presents an evening of classical music and dance featuring Kalyan Bandopadhyay (vocal), Sanskriti Chatterjee (Kuchipudi), Swarnali Moulik (Kathak), Rudrayana Ganguly (Manipuri) and Soumyajit Pal (sitar). June 8 at Aikatan, EZCC, Salt Lake; 5.30 pm: To mark the 97th birth aniiversary of thumri maestro Nutu Mukhopadhyay, Friends_In_Need presents a classical music concert featuring Arpan Kanjilal (tabla lahara), Sharmila Dutta (sitar) and Mitali Sengupta (vocal). June 9 at Girish Mancha; 5.15 pm: Nrityangayan’ annual programme features Tagore songs by Sushanta Mukhopadhyay and Subir Nandy, a dance number, Swarnanjali, and Tagore’s dance-drama Shyama, with Kaushik Chakraborty and Jayeeta Biswas in dance and Suchhanda Ghosh and Debarati Shome in songs. June 9 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture and Jalsaghar present Dasharathi Roy’s Panchali, pala gaan Sri Ramchandrer Akaal Bodhan composed by the greatest panchali composer of the 18th century. To be performed by Sunil Bhattacharya and Kanai Bhattacharya. June 9 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Anirban Foundation presents Anirban Sangeet Sammelan, the 14th annual classical music concert. Participants: Arnab Chatterji (vocal) with Gopal Misra (tabla) and Rupashree Bhattacharya (harmonium), and Buddhadev Dasgupta (sarod) with Samar Saha (tabla).

talk

June 5 at The Asiatic Society, Humayun Kabir Hall; 4 pm: Tushar Kanjilal, secretary, Tagore Society for Rural Development, will deliver Ava Maiti Memorial Lecture on Rural development in India: An overview on the basis of an experiment at a micro level. June 5 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 5.30 pm: SItanath Goswami will speak in Bengali on Panchadashi. June 5 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha. June 5 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Dr (Prof.) Shibaranjan Chatterjee will speak on Swamiji and Modern India.

WORKSHOP

June 5 - 13 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 11 am - 5 pm: EZCC holds a workshop on Kuchipudi dance by Srimayi Vempati and Vempati Ravi Shankar of Kuchipudi Art Academy, Chennai. Details at #23356796. June 9 at Calcutta Club; 9 am - 5 pm: Personal leadership workshop on success, motivation, communication skills, time management, relationships-creative exercises for 18 years and above. Details at #9831229700. June 10 at gandhi Colony Boys School, Ranikuthi; 8 am - 8 pm: A tabla workshop by Sujit Saha.

SUMMER CAMP

Till June 7 at Science City; 10 am - 12.30 pm: Mad Science Kolkata hosts Academy of Future Space Explorers Summer Camp developed in cooperation with NASA. The camp takes children (6 years to 12 years) on a voyage of discovery that provides excitement and wonder of space.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till June 13 (except Sunday) at Boi-Chitra, top floor, College Street Coffee House; 3 pm - 8 pm: The Times: Then and Now (Samay Takhan, Samay Ekhan): Tebhaga Aar Nandigram — depicting the grim brutality of the state on the one hand and the indomitable spirit of the peasants on the other. The Tebhaga photographs taken by late Ananda Pal, one of the first staff photographers of Swadhinata, the organ of the undivided CPI, are a major attraction of the exhibition.

FILM SHOW

June 5 - 7 at Gorky Sadan: Eisenstein Cine Club abd Media Solidarity present a festival of short films on the occasion of World Environment Day. June 5: Bhangan (dir: Sourav Sarangi) at 5 pm and Thirst (dir: Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufmann) at 8 pm. Also, release of the book Living Shadows at 6.30 pm and a discussion on Development and Discontent - Environment at 7 pm.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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