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Till February 8 at The Artshopp’e Gallery, 1050/1 Survey Park; #24188321; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Apurba Mazumder. Till February 9 at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925; 11.30 am - 8 pm: Journey into the world of artist Lalu Prasad Shaw — a retrospective show. Till February 9 at Gallery Chemould, 12F Park Street, #22298641; 2 pm - 7 pm, Saturday (10 am - 3 pm): Untitled, an exhibition of sculptures by Banasri Khan. Till February 10 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: The fourth solo exhibition of paintings by Dibakar Chakraborty. Till February 10 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Atish Mukherjee, Binit Sinha, Dipankar Chanda, Dewashish Das, Madhuchanda Majumder, Pradip Chanda and Ramprasad De. Till February 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Debjani Datta. Till February 12 (except Sunday) at Gallery Yapan Chitra, 12/1A, 3rd floor, Lift no. 2, Stephen Court, 18A Park Street; 3 pm - 7 pm: Srishti Art presents Images — a solo exhibition of paintings by Sekhar Kar. Till February 12 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor, Duckback House; 11 am - 7 pm: Young Contemporary India, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by established young artists. Till February 15 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32A Judges Court Road, #24792004; 1 pm - 8 pm: Fragments of Life, an exhibition of paintings by Munindra Rajbongshi, Debasish Ghosh, Biswanath Roy, Biswajit Saha and Rupa Rajbongshi. Till February 15 at Gallery with Difference, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road, #24646927; 3 pm - 8 pm: On Paper — Paper works by 13 artists. Till February 16 at CIMA Gallery (except Sundays & public holidays); Mondays: 2 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Freedom: Sixty years after Indian Independence. An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by renowned artists. Till February 16 (except Sundays) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chambers, 2nd floor; #30523243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Figure in the Mind, the art works of Aloke Sardar, Chayan Roy, Habibur Rahman, Prabhat Basu, Sandhyakar Kayal, Tapan Bhattacharyya and Tarun Ghosh. Till February 20 at Ganges Art Gallery; 11 am - 7 pm: Retour en Inde (Return to India), a solo show of Paris-based artist Shahabuddin Ahmed. Till February 29 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Realism and Surrealism — an exhibition of the works by Tapas Sardar, Sanatan Dinda, Sukanta Das, Kartick Chandra Pyne, Prokash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Atin Basak, Sibsaday, Bratin Khan and others.DRAMA
February 7 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: PLT presents two plays by Utpal Dutt: Itihaser Kathgoray (dir: Diptesh Bandyopadhyay) and Louha Manab (dir: Utpal Dutt). February 7 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Chokh presents its latest production, Atah Kim Mahajuddha. Direction: Abhijit Kar Gupta. February 7 at CC&FC; 7.15 pm: Seagram 100 Pipers, Kingfisher Airlines and Fame and Open Doors present Wilde at Heart by de Musset & Co (London). A dramatic celebration of the life, loves and times of Oscar Wilde by popular stage, screen and television actors Patrick Marley and Genevieve Allenbury.PERFORMING ARTS
February 7 & 9 at Kala Mandir: In aid of Academy of Indian Culture’s building fund, Indo Occidental Symbiosis presents Spirit of the Spring, a festival of classical music. Today, 8 pm onwards (night-long): Ajoy Chakraborty (vocal) with Kumar Bose (tabla), Anindo Chatterjee (solo tabla) with Ramesh Mishra (sarangi), Suranjana Bose (vocal) with Samar Saha (tabla) and Sohanlal Sharma (harmonium), Rimpa Shiv (solo tabla) with Sanatan Goswami (harmonium), Aniruddha Bhattacharya (vocal) with Subrata Dandapat (tabla) and Pradip Palit (harmonium), Sugata Nag (sitar) with Ujjwal Bharati (tabla), and Ranajit Sengupta (sarod) with Biplab Bhattacharya (tabla). February 7 at the Princeton Club; 9 pm: This is Not Fusion, a project by Amit Chaudhuri featuring well-known jazz percussionist Brian Melvin. February 8 at Inox City Centre; 6 pm - 8 pm: Performance by Krosswindz at Inox Unplugged. February 8 at Calcutta School of Music; 7 pm: Calcutta School of Music presents the concert of the Galatea String Quartet. Organised under the auspices of the One Ocean series and is part of the celebrations of 60 years of the Indo-Swiss Friendship Treaty.PHOTOGRAPHS
Till February 9 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of photographs, titled Banglar Mukh Aami Dekhiyachhi. Organised by Calcutta Information Centre, information and cultural affairs of the state government and Third Eye. Till February 9 at Bose Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: Ladies of Calcutta— an exhibition of photographs by Dayanita Singh. Till February 12 at Alliance Française du Bengale Gallery, 217 AJC Bose Road, #22815538; 10 am - 5.30 pm: Eurography, a photo exhibit by Rono.SEMINAR
February 7 & 8 at Rabindra Sadan; 4 pm: Bharata Natyam: Then and Now 2007/08, a seminar and lecture-demonstration hosted by Nrittakshetra. Speakers: Chitra Visweswaran on The evolution of Bharata Natyam technique, and P.V. Narasimachari and Vasanthalakshmi on Tala - the musical time and the role of nattuvanar.TALK
February 7 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Sitanath Goswami will speak in Sanskrit on Bhagavad-Gita. February 7 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Reading from Swamijir Bani O Rachana by Kamalesh Prasanna Sarkar. February 7 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Samshuddhananda will speak in Bengali on Srimad-Bhagavat.LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION
February 7 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #24604245; 5.30 pm: The Tao of Drumming — Brian Melvin, internationally known percussionist, a drummer who has played with some of the big names in contemporary jazz, will play and speak about drums from different traditions, and discuss different philosophies of percussion, examining jazz, cross rhythms, African poly rhythms and Indian laya.EXHIBITION
Till February 9 at British Council, L&T Chambers, 16 Camac Street: British Council presents an exhibition of new British books, music CDs and DVD movies. Till February 10 at Science City ground; 11 am - 8 pm: India International Mega Trade Fair, organised by Bharat Chamber of Commerce in association with G.S. Marketing Associates. Till February 16 at Soumya’s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Spring Cool, an exhibition of saris, apparel, jewellery, home linens and accessories.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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