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ART
Till May 6 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 11am - 8pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents the exhibition, Somnath Hore: Prints, Drawings, Posters. Till May 7 at Gallery Image Kraft, 56E Block D, New Alipore; 11am - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings by young Bengal painters. Till May 7 at Mon Art Gallerie, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency Building, 3rd floor, 22895438; 11am - 7.30pm: Sublime Contours, an exhibition of recent paintings by some of the senior and well as upcoming artists of Andhra Pradesh. Till May 10 (except Sunday) at The Palladian Lounge, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 6 N.S. Road, Third Level; 10am - 9pm: Life in Motion, an exhibition of exquisite bronze sculptures by Bimal Roy. Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculpture featuring works by Kaushik Raha, Rajib Deyashi, Manojit Bera, Subhankar Roy and Durbananda. Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3pm - 8pm: Reborn — an exhibition of paintings by Samir Chanda. Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings by Samiran Sarkar and Panchanan Das. Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery New South-B; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings by Avijit Dey, Manju Bera and Rina Roy. Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: A group exhibition of paintings by Ichapore Artist Circle. Participants: Amarendra Sanyal, Biswajit Mandal, Chandan Ray, Chandranath Das, Nanigopal Biswas, Kishore Chakraborty, Ujjal Chakraborty, Moti Lal Chakraborty, Sanjoy Ghosh, Sunil Haldar, Samaresh Bhattacharya and Sujit Das. Till May 15 (except Mondays) at Kusum Apartments, 11 Gurusaday Road, Flat no. 61, 9903235566; 3pm - 7pm: Shree Art Gallery presents Baishakhi, paintings by B.R. Panesar, Bappa Halder, Pramathesh Chandra, Debabrata Chakrabarty, Dipti Chakraborty, Debendra Laha, Arun Kr Samaddar, Nitya Kundu, Milanendu Mondal, Prabal Roy, Ranjan Sarkar, Ranadip Das, Subrata Das, Samir Paul, Sambhu Saha and others. Till May 16 at ECA Art Walk, South City Mall; 12noon - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings by Supam Adhikary. Till May 20 (except Saturdays & Sundays) at Emami Chisel Art, Emami Tower, 687 Anandapur, EM Bypass, 40113182/83; 2pm - 7pm: Uttar-Purab, an exhibition of contemporary art. Curated by Dr Archana Roy. Till June 9 (except Sundays) at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 24630465, 40012289; 11 am - 7pm: The Young Man Was... (a few chapter): Naeem Mohaiemen.DRAMA
May 6 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Rang Roop presents Maayer Moto. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. May 6 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30pm: Nandimukh presents its latest production, Heyro No. 1, directed by Ashoke Chattopadhay. May 6 at Girish Mancha; 6.30pm: Purba Paschim presents Tagore’s Raktokarabi, with Chaiti Ghoshal, Subhrajit Dutta and Soumitra Mitra comprising the main cast. Direction: Gautam Haldar, filmmaker. May 6 at Gyan Manch; 7pm: Spotlight presents Cactus Flower, a rib-tickling comedy. Tickets at hall, Gupta Brothers, Ballygunge, Blue Poppy, Middleton Road, and Rolls and Kebabs, Park Street. May 7 & 8 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7pm: Padatik & Oglam present Beyond Freud, a play in English. Seed idea / poems: Rijita Chatterjee. Text, design & direction: Janardan Ghosh.pERFORMING ARTS
Till May 6 at Indumati Sabhagriha; 5pm: Rabindra Jayanti Utsav presented by Sandhani. Featuring dance, Tagore songs, recitation and audio-drama by both upcoming and established artistes. May 6 at Triguna Sen Mancha, Jadavpur University campus; 6pm: On the occasion of Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, Brotee presents Swarabitaner Pata Khnuje. Concept & direction: Apala Basu (Sen). May 6 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30pm: Taar Aakash Bhora Koley — a representation of Santiniketan of the Fifties and Sixties through song, dance, acting, pictures and stories. Presented by Pramita Mallick and the students of Baikalee. Produced by Bhowanipore Baikalee Association. May 6 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7pm: Padatik Dance Centre presents Tumi Robey Momo Chittey, an evening of poetry and dance based on Tagore’s work. Performers: Sandip Mallick (Bhavna), Souvik Chakraborty (Moner Katha) and the final item, Prem Esechhilo, by Susmita Chatterjee, Luna Poddar and Paromita Moitra. May 8 at Rabindra Sadan; 9.30am: On the occasion of Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, Bhavna Records and Cassettes presents Kabi Pranam-1418, a programme of Tagore songs and readings from his work. Cards at hall (11am - 6pm).pHOTOGRAPHS
Till May 8 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, 24752275; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of photographs by Ayan. Till May 14 (except Sunday) at Boi-Chitra Gallery, Coffee House Building, 2nd floor, Bankim Chatterjee Street; 3.30pm - 7.30pm: Jorasanko: An exhibition of photographs by Salil Biswas. Till May 30 (except Mondays) in the Portrait Gallery, Victoria Memorial Hall; 10am - 5pm: Hoppé’s Santiniketan — an exhibition of photographs from 1929 by Emil Otto Hoppé.taLK
May 6 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6pm: Swami Jushtananda will speak in Bengali on Bhagavat Katha. May 6 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Abhedananda Memorial Hall; 7pm: Prof. Samir Kumar Basu will speak on Amar Jiban Katha.EXHIBITION
Till May 8 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4pm - 8pm: A painting and photography exhibition of the works of Shiladitya Ganguly. Till May 6 at 16/2 Gariahat Road, Ekdalia crossing banquet hall, 9830054718; 11am - 9pm: Joyita’s Selection presents Summer Carnival, including hand-block and hand-embroidered designer saris, dress material, ladies & gents kurtas and kurtis, Lucknow chikan, costume jewellery and gift items. Till May 7 at 836 New Alipore, 9836090947, 9331059555; 11am - 4.30pm: Exhibition of bedsheets, towels, doormats and napkins.SCREENING
Till May 6 at Aikatan, EZCC, Salt Lake; 6.30pm: EZCC, in association with Tapan Sinha Foundation, presents a festival of Tagore films. Today: Tagore: Ode to Nature (English; Direction: Ranabir Roy) and Kadambini (Hindi; Direction: Tapan Sinha).LITERARY MEET
May 6 at Rammohun Library and Free Reading Room, 267 APC Road, 23502811; 6pm: Jana Gana Mana Gaaner Shatabarsha: Suchana O Alochana. Shyamali Basu will speak on the song, Jana Gana Mana, with rendition by Pratyusha. Also, recitation, song and poetry-reading by members of the Library.FOUNDATION DAY
May 7 at Madhusudan Mancha; 7pm: Children’s Little Theatre (CLT) celebrates its foundation day.CELEBRATION
Till May 8 at Sankara Hall, 93 Southern Avenue: Celebration of the advent of Adi Sankara. Today (Maharudra Yagna 3rd day - Akshaya Trithiya), 6am: Upanishad Parayanam, Mahanyasa Japa Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam; at 3pm: Achidraswamedham - Recitation; at 5.30pm: Evening puja, stotra recitation by Sarada Mandali; and at 6.30pm: Musical discourse on Sarvam Subrahmanyam by Madhura Vakvilasini, Kausalya Sivakumar & party.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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