A rocking evening Formed a couple of years ago, Glass Onion is a city-based English rock band playing covers but mainly interested in their original music. The group derives its name from a song from The White Album by The Beatles, borrowing from the Fab Four’s idea that their songs did not carry profound meaning and were simply meant to be enjoyed for their own sake. Diverse influences, from the Beatles to Jaco Pastorius and The Ventures, come into play in the band’s performances. Rock n Roll, Glass Onion’s performance this evening, pays tribute to the group’s mentors. On the cards are numbers like Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughn, Memphis Tennesee by Chuck Berry, Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Come Together by The Beatles, Hound Dog by Elvis Presley and Dance With Me by The Wonders. After this, the band will play some of its original compositions like Big Fat Elephant, Coded Lies and Fake Stars, among others, giving the audience a taste of the band’s own music. All in all, the concert has all it takes to make a fun-filled Saturday evening. Event: A performance by music band Glass Onion When: Today at 6 pm Where: Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts,94 Ballygunge Place, #24408937

art

Till July 12 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Summer Workshop: Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen. Till July 13 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Monsoon Hue, an exposition of 15 contemporary artists’ work. Till July 14 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Barun Pramanick, Pradip Chakraborty and Tapas Majumder. Till July 14 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery ‘B’; 3 pm - 8 pm: A group show by Floaters. Participants: Badal Paul, Saibal Dutta, Tarun Banerjee, Subhrakanti Mitra, Sukla Chakrabarty, Indira Halder, Naba Kumar Chakraborty, Suprabhat Bhaduri, Panchanan Das and Jayanta Khan. Till July 14 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Santanu Bhattacharjee, Sujit Kumar Ghosh and Ganesh Das. Till July 14 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: The second part of Measured Cadences, a group show by artists who live and work in Santiniketan. Till July 15 at Galerie Karma, P 505 Keyatola Road; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Abhijit Guha. Till July 15 (except Sunday) at Nandalal Bose Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11 am - 6 pm: Springs in White, an exhibition of works by contemporary Italian artists using different mediums with focus on the theme of the colour white. Organised by the Consulate General of Italy in Calcutta. Till July 16 at Artvisual, Jodhpur Park, #92318 51160; 3 pm - 8 pm: Colours of Bengal, an exhibition of paintings by Nabendu Roy, Swapan Roy, Anup Prasad Sharma, Suvankar Misra and Mihir Kayal.

PERFORMING ARTS

July 12 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.30 pm: An evening of variety programme, in aid of Kanak Prabha Memorial Charitable Centre, features a solo recital of Bengali songs by Nachiketa and drama Goopee Gyne Bagha Byne, produced by Anami. Also, felicitation to veteran film actress Geeta Dey. July 12 at Dr Triguna Sen Mancha, Jadavpur University; 6.30 pm: Geetika presents Gaaner Jharnatalay, an evening of Tagore songs by Madhumita Bhattacharya, Nibedita Ghosh, Prabir Dasgupta, Anuradha Biswas, Prishni Roy and Abhirup Guha Thakurta. July 12 at Calcutta School of Music; 7 pm: An ITC SRA concert of classical Hindustani music with Joyeeta Sanyal on the sitar and Sandip Kumar Ray Chaudhuri on the tabla. July 12 at CC&FC; 8 pm: Chantilli, CC&FC and Sa re Ga Ma, in association with Open Doors, present Tolly Trillers in Song ’n’ Music featuring foot-tapping music from the Sixties to Eighties as well as contemporary hits. July 13 at Birla Academy; 6 pm: Sundar Narayan Bandyopadhyay Memorial Evening — Bengali songs by Nirmala Mishra, Debasish Basu, Arunava Chatterjee, Debmalya Chatterjee and three sisters Sreeradha, Ruprekha and Rajyasree. July 13 at Tollygunge Club, Main Lawn; 7.15 pm: Kingfisher Premium and Tollygunge Club, in association with Club Mahindra Holidays and Open Doors, present Barsha Mongol, an evening of Tagore songs with Manoj Murali Nair and Manisha Murali Nair.

DRAMA

July 12 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Ensemble presents Sonata, designed and directed by Sohag Sen. July 12 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Natasena presents Gorur Garir Headlight. Direction: Saroj Roy. July 12 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Brahmapur Nattyakarmi presents Chitta Binomoy. Direction: Goutam Roy. Till July 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Theatre Workshop 42. A festival pf plays hosted by Theatre Workshop. Today: Surjo Pora Chhai, a Sansriti production, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Tomorrow: Theatre Workshop’s two plays: Lohar Bhim and Buro Shaliker Ghare Rno, both directed by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay. July 13 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi and Niva Arts presents Atmakatha. Drama: Mahesh Elkunchwar. Bengali adaptation & direction: Soumitra Chattopadhyay. Cast includes Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Lily Chakraborty, Poulami Basu and Damini Mukherjee. July 13 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Buddhadeva Bose’s Kaal-Sandhya. Direction: Kumar Roy. July 13 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Fakka. Drama: Ashok Basu. Direction: Chandan Das.

TALK

July 12 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak on Kathopanishad. July 12 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramaranjan Mukherji will speak in Bengali on Samskrite Loka-Sahitya. July 12 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma. July 12 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake, #2334 9265; 7 pm: Dr Subodh Chowdhury will speak on Sri Ramakrishna O Bankimchandrer Kathopokathan. July 12 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Sri Ma Sarada Punthi by Swami Snehamayanandaji Maharaj.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till July 12 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 3 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of photographs to mark the centenary year of Alipore Bomb Case. Till July 19 at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road, behind Kalighat Park; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of photographs by Martine Franck. Till July 19 at at Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Tasveer and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts present exhibitions of photography by Swapan Nayak (Title: Refugees in Their Own Land and Nowhere People) and Tim Hall (Title: Pilgrimage). Till July 19 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani; #2290 2274: Mark Him (Second Half) — a project on Indian football by Riyas Komu.

INAUGURATION

July 12 at 59A Southend Park, #65406499, 98303 31556; 5 pm: Inauguration of Photographers’ Gallery with the exhibition, Bouquet of Photographs, featuring photographs taken by Atanu Paul and members of Third Eye. The show continues till August 12, daily between 3 pm and 8 pm.

EXHIBITION

Till July 13 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Nakshi Kantha of Bengal (Remembering Late Gurusaday Dutta), an exhibition of works by artisans of Seeban Udyog. Till August 3 at Shoppers Stop, Elgin Road, City Centre & South City Mall: Monsoon Makeovers fest. Till August 15 at Starmark (3 Lord Sinha Road, G-202 City Centre, and South City); 10.30 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Penguin Classics Collection covering Greek and Roman works, and Victorian literature and modern classics.

BOOK RELEASE

July 12 at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi; 5 pm: Poet Nirendranath Chakraborty will release a Bhalobasar Dui Duganta (in two volumes), a compliation of works of both veteran and young poets and writers, along with over 100 novels, strories, prose, rhymes, and books on drama and religion, published by Arunima Prakashani.

WORKSHOP

July 13 at South City Mall; 11 am - 1 pm: South City Star Kids Workshop on papercraft for children between 7 years and 12 years, organised by Starmark in association with South City Mall. To be conducted by Kaushik Biswas and Dipankar Pahari. For details and registration, call 99039 85097.

READING

July 13 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Duryodhana futilely trying to rally the demoralized Kaurava ranks after Karna's fall, and Kripa advising him to settle for peace with the Pandavas, in the 433rd weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata. July 13 at Srijan Rooftop, 120 Lenin Sarani; 6 pm: A Cloudburst of Prose, an evening of prose-reading in Bengali by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Srijato, Dibyendu Palit, Prajit Jana, Rabisankar Bal, Shahzad Firdaus and Swapnamoy Chakraborti; in Hindi by Alka Saraogi, Basant Rungta and Nawal; and in English by Anirban Basu, Anjana Basu, Bashabi Fraser, Rimi B Chatterjee and Vinay Sharma. To be anchored by Ashoke Viswanathan. Literature coordinators: Anjana Basu and Boudhayan Mukhopadhyay.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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