Tryst with friendship Remember the golden years of the past? Hours and hours of adda with friends? Playing word upon word, song upon song? With non-stop music playing those evergreen, all-time favourite Hindi and Bengali numbers, Friends 91.9 FM brings alive fond memories of the days gone by. This evening’s concert, celebrating the launch of this FM channel, features live performances by popular contemporary artistes Lopamudra Mitra, Nachiketa and Srikanta Acharya. Living legend Manna Dey will sing a few of his immortal hits including Coffee houser shei addata ..., interspersed with an informal chat session with Suparnakanti Ghosh, recalling the good old times as they go down memory lane.The evening ends with felicitation to veteran singers Manna Dey, Suchitra Mitra and Arati Mukhopadhyay. lEvent: Launch concert of Friends 91.9 FM lWhen: Today; 6.30 pm - 8 pm lWhere: Science City auditorium

art

Till March 9 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Exploring Darkness, paintings and drawings by Sumana Ghosh. Till March 9 at Artspace India, 7 Deodar Street; 12 noon - 7 pm: Paintings and sculptures by Danville Chadbourne. Till March 10 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; 3 pm - 7 pm: Galerie 88 presents B / W (drawings, paintings, photographs and book) by Samit Das. Till March 10 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Black & White — an exhibition of the works by Akbar Padamsee, Ganesh Haloi, Gurcharan Singh, K.R. Subbanna, Paritosh Sen, Partha Pratim Deb, Rabin Mondal, Ramananda Bandhyopadhyay, Senaka Senanayake, Shuvaprasanna and Wasim Kapoor. Till March 10 at Domus Art Gallery, 28/B Shakespeare Sarani; 11 am - 6 pm: An exhibition of Indian contemporary art. Till March 10 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 C.R. Avenue, 1st floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: Kriya, paintings by Joy Bhaduri. Till March10 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Maati, the first solo show of watercolours by Sandip Roy. Till March 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Beauty and the Void: A Sculptor and Four Painters. Featuring works of sculptor Asim Basu and painters Chandra Sekhar Acharya, Goutam Sarma, Prangopal Ghosh and Ratan Banerjee. Till March 11 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Pradip Pradhan and Runu Misra Banerjee. Till March 13 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P238 Hindustan Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: Art in Itself — works of K.M. Adimoolam, P. Gopinath, Achuthan Kudallur, V. Viswanadhan, R.M. Palaniappan and Akkitham Narayanan. Till March 13 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Bidhu Bhusan Chowdhury. Till 14 at Samokal Art Gallery, Gol Park; 4 pm - 8 pm: Lines & Strokes: Contemporary Bengal. Works of Partha Pratim Deb, Suchibrata Deb, Shakti Chakraborty, Barnali Das, Debabrata Hazra and others. Till March 17 (except Sunday) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Monday) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesday - Saturday): Charged Figures — the art of Jatin Das.

drama

March 8 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Srijak presents Bratya Basu’s Mrityu.. Ishwar.. Jounata. Dir: Debashis Basu. March 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 7 pm: Rangakarmee presents Manto Aur Manto. Design & direction: Usha Ganguli. March 9 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Samstab presents its latest production, Eai Ghum. Direction: Dwijen Bandopadhyay. March 10 at Rabindra Sadan-Nandan premises; 3 pm: Theatre Spandan presents Shial Ponditer Goppo. March 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.15 pm: Gandhar presents Satyaasatya, directed by Shyamal Chakraborty. March 10 & 11 at Max Mueller Bhavan auditorium; 6.30 pm: Agunmukho, the Bengali adaptation of Marius von Mayenburg’s contemporary German play Feuergesicht (Fireface) by Bratya Basu will be performed by Tritiyo Sutra and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. March 10 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Natyaranga presents Chhotku. Direction: Swapan Sengupta. March 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Kathakriti presents Chandraloke Agnikanda. Direction: Sanjib Ray. March 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3.15 pm: Scud Theatre presents Kuhu Jamini. March 11 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents its latest play, Dildar. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacharya. March 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents Pati-Paksha. Direction: Tarapada Mukherjee. March 11 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Jaha Chai.... Dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta & Goutam Halder

PERFORMING ARTS

March 8 at Bharatiyam, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Chua Chandan — a jatra performance by Anandamoyee Samiti of Birbhum. March 8 & 9 at Rangmanch, EZCC, Salt Lake; 5 pm: Rabichhaya presents Ananda Basanta Samagame, a programme of tagore songs, recitation and dance. Participants include Rajeshwar Bhattacharya, Swapan Gupta, Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay, Debarati Shom, Sraboni Sen, Pubali Debnath, Anushila Basu, Chandrabali Rudra Dutta, Sanatan Das Baul, Malabika Sur, Jayati Ghosh, Suchhanda Ghosh, Irabati Basu, Esha Mitra, Sudeshna Sanyal and others in songs; Soumitra Mitra, Jagannath Basu, Chitra Lahiri, Chhaya Chatterjee, Ishita Das Adhikary in reading; and Polly Guha, Poushali Chatterjee and Prasun Banerjee in dance. Choral songs by artistes of Kalabhrit and Ananda Dhara. March 9 at Gyan Manch; 6.45 pm: Samskritiki Shreyaskar presents an evening of Kathak by Sohini Debnath, senior disciple of Rani Karnaa.

talk

March 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Sarvabhutananda will speak in Hindi on Sri Sri Narada Pancharatram. March 8 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 6.30 pm: Swami Japapriyananda will discourse on The Life and Teachings of Srimat Swami YoganandajiMaharaj, the apostle of Sri Ramakrishna. March 8 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Samshuddhananda will speak in Bengali on Mundaka Upanishad.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

March 8 at Hotel Hindusthan International; 6.15 pm - 8.30 pm: On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Thoughtshop Foundation, SAATHI, Swikriti and Spandan present Leading A Bold Life, an open-mike story-sharing and play-reading session that aims to empower marginalised communities. Anchor: Mira Kakkar. Play-reading: Renu Roy and Sohini Sengupta Halder, along with members of marginalised communities. March 8 at Rotary Sadan; 6.30 pm: RI District 3290 & Rotary Club of Calcutta Metro City present Swayam Siddha 3, a programme to celebrate International Women’s Day. On this occasion, seven women achievers will be felicitated. Also, a percussion ensemble by Tarang featuring tabla maestro Abhijit Banerjee.

FILM SHOW

March 8 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6 pm: Kalpanirjhar Foundation organises the screening of Le Brahmane du Komintern (direction: Vladimir Leon), a biographical documentary on M.N. Roy based on recently unearthed archival material and interviews in Mexico, Russia and India.

EXHIBITION

Till March 11 at Bidhannagar Sports Complex, opp. Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake; 11 am - 8 pm: North East Crafts Fair, a collection of handicrafts, handloom products, hand-printed household textiles, sarees, Assam cane furniture and bamboo basketry items. Till March 14 at Sasha shop, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 10 am - 7 pm; Sunday (10 am - 1 pm): Rhythm n Blues, an exhibition of contemporary and traditional blue pottery, utility and decorative studio pottery, silk handbags and lacquer ware from Vietnam, colourful stuffed cotton hangings and beaded jewellery from Gujarat and scarves and stoles from Sasha groups.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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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