Art
Till May 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Forms & Re-forms ? the annual exhibition of paintings, drawings and terracotta sculptures by the members of ArtsAcre. Till May 15 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road (near Taaja restaurant); 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Artful Musings ? an exhibition of the works of well-known artists. Till May 22 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: In Search of Reality & Red ? an exhibition of drawings and sketches by Piu Sarkar.DRAMA
May 11 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: Rang-Roop presents Tagore?s Shesh Raksha. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. May 11 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Charanik presents Ora Boley Aamar Police. Direction: Ajanta Ghosh. May 11 at Halwasia Mansion, 6/2 Moira Street, 1st floor; 7 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Maids by the Industrial Theatre Co. Written by Jean Genet and directed by Pushan Kripalani. May 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Chokh Gyalo. Direction: Goutam Halder. May 12 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Natyaranga presents Agantuk. Direction: Swapan Sengupta. May 12 at Sujata Sadan; 6.45 pm: Sandarbha presents Murkid Handi. Written and directed by Soumitra Basu.FESTIVAL
Till May 13 at Sankara Hall, 93 Southern Avenue: Sankara Hall and Sankara Institute of Philosophy and Culture host the Adi Sankaracharya Jayanthi. Today at 12 noon: Mahanyasa Japa Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam; at 5.30 pm: Evening pooja/Rudra Kramarchana and stotra recital by Sri Sarada Mandali; at 6.45 pm: Discourse on Sankara Kathamrutham by Dr K. Ramamoorthy.performing artS
May 11 at Kala Mandir; 5.30 pm: Arghya Sen, Nirmala Mishra, Jatileshwar Mukhopadhyay, Banasree Sengupta, Saikat Mitra, Monomoy Bhattacharya, Snigdhadeb Sengupta, Arunlekha Gupta and Jhinuk Gupta will render songs set to music by Pankaj Mullick as a tribute to the legendary singer-composer on his birth centenary. Rotary Club of Ballygunge will present the programme. May 11 at Rabindra Sadan complex; 5.30 pm: Rabindra Janmotsav, organised by Rabindra Sadan, features Tagore songs by Sumitra Sen, Purabi Mukherjee, Swapna Ghosal, Rakhi Sarkar, Swastika Mukherjee, Kakali Roy, Bula Banerjee, Sramona Chakraborty, Sraboni Sen, Indrani Bhattacharya, Chaiti Majumdar, Roma Basu Mohan Singh Khangura Shantanu Roychowdhury, Tushar Bhanja, Arupratan Banerjee, Sreekumar Chatterjee and others. May 11 at Sarat Sadan, Behala; 5.30 pm: Malashree?s fifth annual programme features Kathak, Odissi and folk dances, and group recitation.EXHIBITION
Till May 12 at Gaganendra Gallery (1st floor); 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of rare photographs, awards, citations and documents depicting the life and time of Pankaj Mullick on the occasion of his birth centenary. Presented by Pankaj Mullick Music and Art Foundation. Till May 21 at Mrignayani, Dakshinapan, 2 Gariahat Road South: Chanderi Utsav ? an exhibition of chanderi sarees by the master craftsmen of Madhya Pradesh.pHOTOGRAPHS
Till May 11 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 7 pm: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Calcutta and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts present a photo exhibition Stefan Moses - Deutsche Vita.TALK
May 11 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan; 6 pm: Biswanath Roy will speak on Sri Aurobindo?s Savitri. May 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha; 6 pm: Swami Shastrajnananda will speak on Vivek Chudamoni. May 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Prabhananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. May 11 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita.ALBUM RELEASE
May 11 at G55 Electronics, Dakshinapan, Dhakuria; 6 pm: Jagannath Bose, director, marketing, Prasar Bharati, will preside over a retail launch of its CDs and VCDs on Indian classical music and dance from its archives, commemorating 100 years of recorded music in India, in presence of Thankamani and Govindan Kutty, Derek Manro, Kalavati Devi, Sutapa Talukdar and Amita Dutt.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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