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August 8 - 13 at Boi-Chitra, College Street Coffee House building, 2nd floor; 3.30pm - 7.30pm: Expressions — an exhibition of drawing and painting by Swapan Singha. Till August 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: Anubhabe Rabindranath, a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Till August 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by members of Contemporary Nines. Participants: Bibek Paul, Dip Banerjee, Dipankar Sinha, Madhubanti Banerjee, Parthapratim Saha, Pijush Kanti Gayen, Pratima Seal, Ranadip Das, Suasmita Ghosh and Swati Mukherjee. Till August 10 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Umesh Chandra Bera and Dipanjali Bera. Till August 13 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, 22902274; 11am - 7pm; Monday: 2pm - 7pm: Works of paper. Participating artists: Mahesh Baliga, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Anupam Chakraborty, Jayashree Chakraborty, Jogen Chowdhury, Kanchan Dasgupta, Adip Dutta, K. Laxma Goud, Chandana Hore, Somnath Hore, M.F. Husain, Valsan Koorma Kolleri, Prabhakar Kolte, Akbar Padamsee, Sudhir Patwardhan, Ganesh Pyne, Dilip Ranade, Krishna Reddy, Amritah Sen, Mithu Sen, Paritosh Sen, Lalu Prasad Shaw and F.N. Souza. Till August 18 (except August 14 & 15) at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Road, Flat 5A (Palm Springs), 22811255; 3pm - 8.30pm: Tilt — an exhibition of the works by Chhatrapati Dutta, Mrinmoy Debbarma, Nantu Behari Das, Prasun Ghosh, Probir Gupta, Reji Arakkal and Sudipta Das. Till August 24 (except Sundays & national holidays) at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani, 2nd floor, Flat no. 5 & 25B, 22829220/ 9221; 12noon - 7pm: Melange — an exhibition of the works by Achuthan Kudallur, Akhilesh, Amitava Das, Anupam Sud, Babu Xavier, Baiju Parthan, Charan Sharma, Dhiraj Choudhury, Farhad Hussain, Gargi Raina, G.R. Iranna, Laxman Aelay, Manish Pushkale, Manjunath Kamath, Mathew Battu, Pradip Rakhit, Pooja Iranna, Rokeya Sultan, R.S. Shakya, Samir Mondal, Sanjay Kumar, Seema Kohli, Sidharth, Subhash Awchat and Veer Munshi. Till August 31 at Ahuja Museum for Arts, 26 Lee Road, 40034974; 10.30am - 7pm: A group show of paintings and sculptures. Till September 10 at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road, 24630465 / 40012289: Experimenter Contemporary Art presents I Have a Face, but a Face of What I am Not — an exhibition of the works by Adip Dutta.BAISHEY SHRAVAN
August 8 at Jorasanko Thakurbari; 9am: Rabindra Bharati Museum presents Probashi Pakhi featuring Dr Sudeshna Basu, who will share her experience of spreading Tagore’s music across the world along with vocal rendition. August 8 at Academy of Fine Arts, in front of Tagore’s statue; 10am: Members of Academy Achhi Parishad presents songs by Indrani Bhattacharya, Shyamasree Bandyopadhyay, Manjusree Bandyopadhyay and Suma Saha. Also a seminar with Rudraprasad Sengupta, Dheeraj Choudhury, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Jogen Chowdhury, Bibhas Chakraborty, Shuvaprasanna, Meghnad Bhattacharya, Shankarlal Bhattacharya and Saoli Mitra. August 8 at Rathindra Mancha, Jorasanko Thakurbari; 6pm: Rabindra Bharati Society’s tribute to Tagore with songs by Ashis Bhattacharjee, Manomoy Bhattacharya, Mriganka Sarkar and Rachayita Roy; and recitation & reading by Pradip Ghosh, Parichoy Basu and Suchismita Gupta. August 8 at Purbashree auditorium, IB 201, Sector 3, Salt Lake; 6.30pm: EZCC presents Kabi Pranam featuring songs by Jayashree Dasgupta, Prabuddha Raha, Aniruddha Singha, Sanghamitra Gupta, Shinjini Acharya Majumdar, Pramita Mallick, Tripti Sen, Satyakam Sen, Sudeshna Chakraborty and Purabi Mukhopadhyay; and readings by Ashis Ghosh, Natasha Dasgupta, Antara Das, Moly Debnath, Basudev Bhattacharya and Debashis Roy. August 8 at Max Mueller Bhavan, 7pm: Aamaar Jaabar Byalatey, an audio feature tracing the final days of Tagore, produced by Sravasti. Concept, script and direction by Chaitali Dasgupta. Readings by Agnimitra Ghosh and Chaitali Dasgupta. Songs by Debashish Raychaudhuri, Aniruddha Singha, Ranjini Mukherjee and Rohini Raychaudhuri. Music direction by Debashish Raychaudhuri.DRAMA
August 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3pm: Natasena presents Gorur Garir Headlight. Direction: Saroj Roy. August 8 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Aabhash presents Gora, based on a novel by Tagore. Drama, direction & acting: Sekhar Samaddar. August 9 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Charbak will stage Apsara Theaterer Mamla, based on a story by Satyajit Ray. August 10 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30pm: Nandikar will stage Ajnatobaas. Direction: Sumanta Gangopadhyay.SCREENING
August 8 & 9 at Nandan-III; 6pm onwards: Films Division, Government of India & Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre jointly present Bouquet of Tagore’s on his 70th death anniversary. Today: Veer Purush (dir: Phani Majumdar; 6pm), Shantiniketan (dir: A.P. Sinha & K.M. Samarth; 6.10pm), Brahmin (dir: Debaki Bose; 6.22pm) and Ichchhapuran (dir: Mrinal Sen; 6.44pm).taLK
August 8 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak on Kathopanishad. August 8 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7pm: Nripendra Nath Dutta will read from Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.exhibition
Till August 8 at Ice Skating Rink; 10.30 am - 8pm: Kids Fair 2011 features toys, games, books, puzzles, baby products and Rakhi fair. Organised by Walia Trade International. Till August 8 at Et-cetra exhibition hall, City Centre-2, New Town, Rajarhat; 11am - 8.30pm: Tilottama (23352092, 9831672247), on the occasion of Rakhi & Puja, presents a fashion and lifestyle fair. Thirty boutiques are participating with saris, salwar suits, jewellery and home products. Till August 9 at Genesis Gallery, 8-B Middleton Street; 10am - 7pm: Shrujan Creations of Kutch, Gujarat, presents its exclusive hand-embroidery products. Till August 11 at The Conclave, 216 AJC Bose Road; 12noon - 7pm: Conversation in Clay — an exhibition of crockery and ceramics created by potters of Bengal. Till August 11 at Senbati, 3A Mandeville Gardens, 24237028; 10.30am - 8pm: Poompuhar (Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation) presents an exhibition-cum-sale of Thanjavur paintings and garlands, sandalwood, hanging lamps & small lamps in brass, panels & figures in woodcarvings, handloom saris, bedsheets, kurtis and shirts. Till August 13 at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, 24408926/27; 9.30am - 6.30pm: Khadi...walk to freedom, an exhibition of wearable textiles inspired by the historical freedom movement of India. Till August 15 at 20B Gariahat Road South, Dhakuria; 11am - 8pm: Exquisite Puja collection of designer saris & kurtis of Ananya boutique and costume, silver jewellery of Salankana. Till August 15 at 49/1 Hindustan Park, 9830398147: Mita Mukherjee presents an exhibition of exquisite cotton, silk and tussar saris in Gujarati, Kantha, Parsi and Kashmiri stitches.ENTERTAINMENT
August 8 at Someplace Else, The Park; 9pm onwards: Open Mind with Indian Blues, which aims to bring out the kaleidoscopic colours of music.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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