Towards a free and equal society As part of its continuing endeavour to facilitate the establishment of a violence-free society with complete gender equality, Swayam organises year-round initiatives to mobilise public opinion against all forms of violence against women and to draw more people into the struggle for women’s rights. During its ongoing International Campaign to Stop Violence against Women and Girls it has tried to use the potential of the student community and channelise it correctly in order to fulfil its vision of a society where women and men enjoy equal rights and privileges. To this end, they are hosting a programme for the youth of Calcutta, Winds of Change... Towards Equality. This programme is the culmination of a process participated by students of four well-known colleges of the city, who underwent a three-day training on gender issues with Swayam. The students were encouraged to express their opinion on gender equality through creative mediums of dance, theatre and photography, all in collaboration with a professional in each field. A series of seven posters on gender equality and its impact on society were also developed as part of this process. This evening’s programme showcases these outstanding student endeavours and will be followed by a music performance by Bangla band Chandrabindoo. Anchor: Shakil Ansari. Event: A programme of music and dance, along with display of posters and photographs, based on the theme of gender equality When: Today at 5 pm Where: G.D. Birla Sabhagar

ART

December 9 at CIMA Gallery; 6.30 pm: Inauguration of In Search of a Context, an exhibition about the relation of art to its setting of time, place, social and historical moorings. Artworks include paintings, sculptures, drawings, collage, films and video. The show continues till January 9, except Sundays and public holidays, 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays). 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 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 27 (except Monday and December 25) at Birla Academy of Art and Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition to mark the golden jubilee celebration of Society of Contemporary Artists. 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 December 30 (except Mondays) at Ahuja Museum for Arts, 26 Lee Road, #40034974, 22894745; 11:30 am – 7:30 pm: Indian Masters I – an exhibition of painting and sculpture by M.F. Husain, S H Raza, A. Ramachandran, Chintan Upadhyay, Laxma Goud, T Vaikuntam, Yusuf Arakkal, Naynaa Kanodia, Manu Parekh, Satish Gujral, Lalitha Lajmi, Dilip Ranade, Gogi Saroj Pal, C. Jagdish, Badrinaryan, Arpana Caur and Maya Burman from the Museum’s collection. 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. Till January 16 (except Sunday) at 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Experimenter presents Freedom is Notional — works of three of South Asia’s finest artists: Shilpa Gupta, Bani Abidi and Naeem Mohaiemen.

TALK

December 9 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Discourses on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Swami Satpravanandaji Maharaj. December 9 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Sarvabhutananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.

DRAMA

December 9 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Charbak will stage Apsara Theater-er Mamla, based on a story by Satyajit Ray. December 9 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Matlobi Paasha. Direction: Chandan Das.

PERFORMING ARTS

December 9 - 12 at Indumati Sabhaghar, Jadavpur University; 5.30 pm: All India Music Festival’s 26th annual conference. Today: Anu Barman (dhrupad), Pratik Narasimha (vocal), Samiran Ganguly (sitar), and Ragini Swarna (vocal).

SEMINAR

December 9 at Vidyasagar Hall of The Asiatic Society; 10.30 am: Inauguration of a day-long seminar to commemorate 100 Years of Martyrdom of Prafulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose, Kanailal Dutta and Satyendra Nath Bose.

PHOTO EXHIBITION

Till December 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 song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, showcases exclusive pictures taken and compiled from around the globe by Edwards to highlight our global problems.

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: Samatat Sanskriti, Uttarpara will stage the play, Totakahini, at 7.30 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.

DANCE FESTIVAL

Till December 15 at Rabindra Sadan & till December 14 at Rabindra Sadan complex; 5.30 pm: Uday Shankar Nrityotsav 2009, hosted by West Bengal State Music Academy, Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal, in association with EZCC and West Bengal Dance Group Federation. Today at Rabindra Sadan: Shrabanti Bhattacharya (Odissi), Anwesha Mohanta, Assam (Satriya), Kapil Sharma, Delhi (Bharata Natyam), P. Girishchandra and Deviji, Hyderabad (Kuchipudi), Natya Nova (dir: Mohana Iyer and Priyadarshini Ghosh Som), Sadhana, Bangaldesh (dir: Warda Rihab), and Progressive Cultural Centre (dir: Susit Baran). At Rabindra Sadan complex: Aditi Chakraborty (Bharata Natyam), Ishani Pal Choudhury (Odissi), Prabhakar Goswami (Satriya), Samima Hossain Prema, Bangaldesh (Manipuri), Prabal Gupta, Bangalore (Kathakali), and Narteshwar Cultural Centre (dir: Pushpita Mukherjee).

EXHIBITION

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.

YOGA

Till December 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.

QUIZ

December 13 at International School of Business & Media, EN-22, Sector-V, Salt Lake City, near WEBEL Gate: MegaWhats Quiz, a written quiz for teams of four. Registration from 2.15 pm. Registration fee: Rs. 200 per team. For details, contact Gautam (98300 44093), Sudeep (98314 33050), Suprio (92305 62601).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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