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December 8 at Birla Academy of Art and Culture; 6 pm: Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta will inaugurate the exhibition to mark the golden jubilee celebration of Society of Contemporary Artists. Chief guest: Dr Saryu Doshi. Guest of honour: Harshavardhan Neotia. The exhibition will continue till December 27 (except Monday and December 25), 3 pm to 8 pm. Till December 11 at Taj Bengal, The Poolside; 10 am - 5 pm: An art camp featuring 14 contemporary painters from India and Bangladesh. Till December 8 at The Halo Heritage Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, Maddox Square; 3 pm - 8 pm: Painting and Sculpture on Landscape & Ganesha by Neha Bedekar. Till December 9 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘B’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Sumantra Mukherjee’s first solo exhibition of paintings, Cloud 9. Till December 12 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Joydeb Bose, Karim Ali, Koushik Gupta, Mou Das, Prabir Chatterjee and Subir Kumar Banerjee. Till December 19 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, Duckback House, #2287 3377/88; 11 am - 7 pm: Mother and Child — an exhibition of paintings and sculptures conceptualised by Sunil Das. Participating artists: Anjali Ela Menon, Suhas Roy, Jogen Chowdhury, Prakash Karmakar, Sunil Das, Shuvaprasanna, Vasundhara Tewari Broota, Partha Pratim Deb, Sunil Kumar Das, Prasanta Sahu, Debabrata De, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Arunangshu Choudhury, Pratul Das, Murli Cheeroth, T.M. Aziz, Pradip L. Mishra, Debraj Goswami, Samir Aich, Mahjabin I Majumdar, Babu Ishwar Prasad, Ranjan Krishnan and C.F. John. Till December 20 at Sanskriti Art Gallery, 5C Alipore Park Road: An exhibition of sculptures by Debabrata De. Till December 26 (except Sunday) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #22902274; 11 am - 7 pm, Mon - 2 pm to 7 pm: Modern Continuous — Works by Bikash Bhattacharjee, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, Dipak Banerjee, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Meera Mukherjee, Paritosh Sen and Somnath Hore. Till December 26 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: A Study in Abstraction — an exhibition featuring works of Manjari Chakravarti, Shridhar Iyer, Prabhakar Kolte, Manish Pushkale, Deepak Rajvar, Partha Shaw, S. Harsha Vardhana, Deepak Tandon and Neha Chandria. Till December 28 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 8 pm: Paintings by Nina Das. Till January 2 (Sundays by appointment) at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Portals of Perception — an exhibition of paintings by Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Chandrima Ray, Aditya Basak, Sanatan Dinda, Sukanta Das, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Subrata Das, Suhas Roy, Samir Paul, Gourango Beshai, Sibsaday Chaudhuri and others. Till January 3 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia, Stephens Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: B-Swarga — new works by Jayanta Roy.BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
December 8 at Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math; 4.40 am onwards: The 157th birth celebration of Holy Mother beginnig with Mangalarati, followed by vedic chanting, devotional songs, special puja, homa; Matri sangeet (8 am), reading from Sri Sri Mayer Katha (9.05 am), bhajan (9.45 am), Sarada Sangeet (10.35 am), padabali kirtan (11.30 am), Leela geeti (12.50 pm), Shyamasangeet (2.10 pm) and public meeting (3 pm) on Life and teachings of the Holy Mother. Special launch services every half-an-hour between Bagbazar and Belur Math both ways. December 8 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 5 am onwards: Birth anniversary celebration of Sri Sri Ma Sarada Devi with mangalarati, special puja, devotional song, Kali Kirtan, sandhyarati, religious discussion and Geetialekhya. December 8 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 5 am onwards: The 157th birth anniversary of Sri Sri Ma Sarada Devi will be celebrated with Mangalarati, Puja (7.30 am), Chandipaath (9 am), Sarada Geeti (11 am), Sandhyarati (5.30 pm) and discourses (6 pm) on Vedanter Aaloke Sri Sri Ma Sarada. December 8 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Raj Krishna Street; 7 pm: A discourse to mark Sri Sri Maa Sarada’s 157th birth anniversary.PERFORMING ARTS
December 8 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6 pm: 15 th Annual Concert of Mentaid, with performances by its mentally challenged children.EXHIBITION
Till December 8 at P-26 Shanti Neer (ground floor), Gariahat Road South, Dhakuria, #9333510008; 10 am - 6 pm: Sonali Adhikary’s authentic kantha and batik works along with an exclusive collection of cotton and silk. Till December 11 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 10 am - 8 pm: Elevated: From Garment to Ornament — a new collection of textile-based jewellery by designer Eina Ahluwalia. Till December 12 at 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, Ballygunge Place; 10 am - 7 pm: Weavers Studio, on its 16th anniversary celebration, presents Continuity..., a wide variety of textiles, shawls and classy jewellery. Till December 15 at 8/2 Loudon Street, 2nd floor, #9830257819; 10 am - 7 pm: Earthy Myths presents its annual exhibition of saris and outfits.PHOTO EXHIBITION
December 8 - 20 at Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, 19A Gurusaday Road; 10 am - 5 pm: British Council and Birla Industrial and Technological Museum present Hard Rain, a project by eminent British photographer, author and environmental campaigner Mark Edwards. This photographic exhibition, interpreting Bob Dylan’s prophetic songs A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, showcases exclusive pictures taken and compiled from around the globe by Edwards to highlight our global problems. Inauguration today at 3 pm.CHESS TOURNAMENT
Till December 8 at Gorky Sadan: 21st The Telegraph Schools’ Chess Championship, sponsored by Himani Sona Chandi Chyawanprash of the Emami Group. A total of 380 students from more than 160 schools are participating. Prize distribution ceremony today at 4 pm.BOOK exhibition
Till December 13 at Crossword, Elgin Road: Crossword-Penguin Fest (in association with t2). Attractive offers on Penguin Books for the entire period across five Crossword stores. Till December 13 at Girish Mancha complex; 3 pm - 9 pm: The Sixth Sutanuti Book Fair, organised by Sutanuti Boimela Committee. Today: Discussion on Purono Kolkatar Boyer Jagat at 6 pm and screening of documentary Barna Parichay at 7 pm. Till December 15 at Starmark (Lord Sinha Road, South City Mall, Mani Square and City Centre); 11 am - 8 pm: Children’s book exhibition offers a wide range of titles.BOOK LAUNCH
December 8 at Crossword, Elgin Road; 6.30 pm: Shankar Sen’s A Dozen Circles will be launched by Dibyendu Palit. Saswati Guha Thakurta and Barun Chanda will be in conversation with the author.SEMINAR
December 8 at Rotary Sadan; 6.30 pm: Icfai University, Tripura hosts a seminar on Corporate Risk Management. Speaker: Anurag Singal.YOGA
December 8 - 11 at G.D. Birla Hall, Birla Mandir; 6 am - 8 am: Mind Unlimited presents Dynamic Yoga by Dr Sneh Desai for a healthy lifestyle. For free entry, call 90078 73073.writers’ MEET
December 13 at Rooftop, 120 Lenin Sarani; 7 pm onwards: Srijan hosts An Unprecedented Adda, a confluence of the sensitive writers from France and Bengal. Participants: André Velter, poet, David B. or Pierre-François Beauchard, representative of the new generation of graphic novelists, Laurent Mauvignier, writer, Olivier Germain Thomas, writer, editor & radio producer, and Philippe Vasset, novelist, journalist & editor, from France; and Amit Chaudhuri, Mahasveta Devi, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Swapnamay Chakraborty and Utpal Kumar Basu from Bengal.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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