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Till January 9 (except Sundays and public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays): 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. Featuring works of Manas Acharya, Samir Aich, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Sumitro Basak, Rameshwar Broota, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Swarna Chitrakar, Jogen Chowdhury, Sougata Das, Partha Pratim Deb, Meera Devidayal, Early Bengal School, Anita Gopal, Subodh Gupta, Anup Mondal, Binode Behari Mukherjee, Ravinder G. Reddy, Satyajit Roy, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shakila, Shuvaprasanna, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Arpita Singh, J. Swaminathan, Rabindranath Tagore, Manish Waghdare, Ancient South Indian Sculpture, and Cinematic Installation by Rituparno Ghosh and Mainak Bhaumik. 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 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 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.DRAMA
December 11 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Ensemble will stage Sonata, an Indian English play, written by Mahesh Elkunchwar and performed and directed by Sohag Sen.PERFORMING ARTS
Till December 12 at Indumati Sabhaghar, Jadavpur University; 5.30 pm: All India Music Festival’s 26th annual conference. Today: Babli Chakravorty (vocal), Sukumar Sawthea (santoor), Fullara Mukherjee (vocal), Shikha Nath (sitar) and Arnab Chatterjee (vocal).FILM SHOW
December 11 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: Looking back after the fall of the Wall: Screening of Sonnenallee (dir: Leander Haussmann, 1999, color, 94 min).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. 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.AUDIO-VISUAL
December 11 at Calcutta School of Music; 6.30 pm: Another old favourite, The Sound of Music, a Bonus Friday presentation by Thiri PoSaw. All are welcome.DANCE FESTIVAL
Till December 14 at Rabindra Sadan & 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: Kaushik Roy, Mousam Nandy and Rintu Das (Manipuri), Kalamandalam Swarnadeepa Mohanta (Mohiniyattam), Madhusree Ghosal, Amrita Basu and Priyanka Ghosh (creative), Shibani Patnaik, Orissa (Odissi), San- jeev Bhattacharya & troupe, and Ananda Chandrika (dir: Amita Dutt). At Rabindra Sadan complex: Lakshmirani Das (creative), Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay (Bharata Natyam), Moumita Ganguly (Manipuri), Gaudiya Nritya Bharati (dir: Mahua Mukherjee), Nikkon Odissi Nritya Bitan (dir: Krishnendu Roy), and Mudra (dir: Asit Bhattacharya).TALK
December 11 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Sarvabhutananda will speak in Hindi on Manas Me Sri Rama Ka Charitra. December 11 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Discourses on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprsanga by Swami Achyutananda.WORKSHOP
December 11 - 13 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 5 pm - 7 pm (Day 1) & 12 noon - 2 pm (Day 2 & Day 3): Oxford Junior, in association with Child Magazine, is organising a dance workshop for children of the age group 6 yrs to 13 yrs. For registration, call 9831110300EXHIBITION
December 11 - 18 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 10 am - 7 pm: Kamala (outlet of Crafts Council of India) presents crafts and textiles that have been sourced directly from Santiniketan artisans. Inauguration today at 11 am. 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.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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