ART
Till July 16 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717, 2485 8509; Mondays: 3pm - 7pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2pm - 7pm: Summer Show 2011. Participants: Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Sumitro Basak, Jyoti Bhatt, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Rini Dhumal, Farhad Hussain, Abir Karmakar, Surendran P. Karthyayan, Goutam Khamaru, Bimal Kundu, Paresh Maity, Martin O.C., Shyamal Roy, Shakila, Paramjit Singh, Thota Tharrani, Babu Xavier and others from across India. Till June 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3pm - 8pm: The Language of Silence — the fifth solo exhibition of the works by Najma Akhter. Till June 8 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: Summer Show — a group exhibition of recent works by Amal Das, Ashok Mondal, Anindya Mukherjee, Atin Mitra, Bhaskar Lahiri, Nikhil Biswas, Ram Prasad De, Subrata Paul and Shekhar Das. Till June 8 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: The third solo exhibition of paintings by Sriya Datta. Till June 8 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: Chitri-O-Bhaskar Gosthi presents an exhibition of paintings and sculpture. Till June 9 at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 24630465, 40012289; 11 am - 7pm: The Young Man Was... (a few chapter): Naeem Mohaiemen.DRAMA
June 8 at Sisir Mancha; 6.10pm: Unmesh Kalikapur presents two short plays, Jhangmu and Mandodarir Dim. Written and directed by Raju Debnath. June 8 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30pm: Gobardanga Shilpayan presents its latest production, Bhoot Puran. Drama & direction: Ashis Chattopadhyay. June 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Rangapat presents Aurangzeb, directed by Harimadhab Mukhopadhyay.PERFORMING ARTS
June 8 at Birla Academy; 5pm: Rag-Rangam presents an evening of songs and recitation of Tagore and Nazrul. Participants: Alo Mukhopadhyay, Dr Sreekumar Chatterjee, Debarati Som, Swapan Som, Anushila Basu, Suchhanda Ghosh, Uma Mukhopadhyay, Ishita Das Adhikary and others. June 8 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.15pm: The 21st annual function of Meghdoot Ballet Troupe features classical dance, dance accompanied by Tagore songs, and creative dance. Direction: Subhasis Dutta. June 8 at Mahadevi Birla Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Assembly Hall; 6.30pm: Children of British Council Teaching Centre’s Summer School 2011 batch will present songs, poems and skits based on their course theme, The World. Chief guest: Jayashree Mohta. Gaaner Oparey actors Mimi Chakraborty and Arjun Chakraborty will give away prizes to the children at the end of the performance.taLK
June 8 at Institute of Historical Studies, 8/1 Loudon Street; 3.30pm: Dr S.P. Sen Memorial Lecture 2011 will be delivered by Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, chairman, Indian Council of Historical reserach, New Delhi. Topic: Colonial Historiography in the late 18th & 19th Century. June 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15pm: Swami Sarvabhutananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. June 8 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Abhedananda Memorial Lecture Hall; 7pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. June 8 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7pm: Swami Satprabhananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.FILM SHOW
June 8 at Madhusudan Mancha basement; 3pm: Shinjan Nrityalaya will screen a film on Bandha Nritya. Script, research & direction: Aloka Kanungo. Produced by Centre for Cultural Resources & Training, New Delhi.ALBUM LAUNCH
June 8 at Calcutta Press Club, Maidan Tent; 4pm: Launch of santoor maestro Tarun Bhattacharya’s latest classical offering, Mystic Strings. To be released by Madan Mitra, state minister for sports & youth affairs. The release function will be followed by a couple of small pieces from the album.CHILDREN’S CORNER
June 8 at Starmark, Mani Square mall, 164/1 Maniktala Main Road; 5.30pm: Starmark in association with Scholastic, will host Geronimo Stilton, the detective mouse with a series of “whisker-licking good” adventure stories, with storytelling, puzzles, contests, book signing and photo opportunities for children. For more details, call 99039 85097.TALKATHON
June 8 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 6.45pm: Travelling Flavours — the saga of Chef Sanchayita Bhattacharjee Alam (Chef Sunshine) whose love story with food moves like a caravan of gypsies across borders and boundaries. Concept: Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee.pHOTOGRAPHS
Till June 11 at Aranya, F-56, 1st floor, Dakshinapan; 11am - 8pm: Aranya presents Kolkata Imprints, an exhibition of photo bric-a-brac by Wriju. Till June 18 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 22873377/88; 11am - 7pm: Metamorphosis — an exhibition of photographs by Mohan L. Mazumder. Till June 30 (except Mondays and national holidays) in the Portrait Gallery, Victoria Memorial Hall; 10am - 5pm: Hoppé’s Santiniketan — an exhibition of photographs from 1929 by Emil Otto Hoppé.EXHIBITION
Till June 9 at Nandalal Bose Gallery & Jamini Roy Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11am - 7pm: An exhibition series on Tagore: (1) Tagore in Advertisements; (2) Of Tagore and Cinema; (3) Tagore in Philately; (4) Rabindranath Tagore: Pilgrimages to the East, a photographic exhibition on the Poet’s tour of South-East Asia and China; and (5) Tagore and Kantha. Till June 21 (except Sundays) at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, 24408926/27; 9.30am - 6.30pm: A fresh summer collection of saris, sets, tunics, dupattas and stoles. Till July 3 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 11am - 8pm: Thieving Magpie — Digital collages by Sunandini Banerjee.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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