A musical confluence The human mind is always in search of novelty. The music connoisseur becomes the catalyst for change and points to the new paths which the artiste must seek and find. The idea of fusion music stems from this eternal curiosity of both the listener and the artiste. In today’s world we all live in a global village, where electronic media and other means of communication have made it possible for us to have a universal culture where fusion of musical genres has its own beauty. Fusion music is an interaction, born out of an enormous degree of respect among the practitioners of different instruments and different genres of music. The object is to create a synergy of ideation and sound, in a celebration of world music. Tollygunge Club presents Fuzorhitm, a musical concert bringing together rock, jazz, funk and both Western and Indian classical elements, in a unique blend that promises a truly refreshing sound. Participants: Anindya Hazra (percussion), Suman Sarkar (tabla), Indradeep Mukherjee (guitar), Devdeep (bass) and Rajeev Karmakar (sitar). Co-hosted by Airtel, Jet Airways and Open Doors. Event: Fusion music concert When: Today at 7.15 pm Where: Tollygunge Club (HSBC Hall)

art

Till October 13 at Chemould Art Gallery, Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Celebrations — Chandana Khan’s latest paintings. Till October 14 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Music of Colours and Textures — recent works of Jacob Jebaraj. Till October 14 at Taj Bengal: Second solo exhibition of paintings by Atin Mitra. Till October 14 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: A group show of paintings by Ramkrishna Malo, Santu Saha, Pintu Sengupta, Abhijit Halder and Shyamal Sikder. Till October 14 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Birla Academy of Art and Culture presents an exhibition of paintings, Vyakta-Avyakta (West Zone Artists’ Painted Realisations). Till October 15 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street; 3 pm - 7 pm: Gen Next II, paintings and sculptures by 40 Indian contemporary artists. Till October 15 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Ganges Art Gallery, Calcutta and Gallery Espace, New Delhi host Surfaces and Textures. Participating artists: Kishore Shinde, Dattaraya Apte, Mona Rai, Rooshika Patel, Manjari Chakrabarty, Mekhla Bahl, Mithu Sen, Ranjith Raman, Neha Turakia, Shobha Broota, Yashwant Deshmukh, Yogesh Rawal and Tapati Chowdhury.

DRAMA

October 13 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: Akash Mati Hawa Jal, the Bengali adaptation of the German play, Himmel Erde Luft und Meer, to be performed by Sutrapat. October 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Samakalin Shilpidal ptresents Hisabgul. Direction: Ambar Roy. October 13 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents Aayna Harin. Direction: Tarapada Mukhopadhyay. October 13 & 14; 3 pm onwards: Nirbak Abhinoy Academy’s 25th annual celebration. October 13 at Nandan complex, 3 pm: Three street plays: Katta Babur Kissa, Joyguru (dir: Anjan deb) and Bhushundir Mathe (dir: Suranjana Dasgupta) and at Abanindro Sabha Griho, 6.30 pm: ‘Natoker Adda’ (Participants: Ashok Mukhopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Anjan Deb and Soumitra Mitra). October 14 at Sisir Mancha, 3 pm - 8 pm: Two silent plays: Putul Ghar and Headlines (dir: Anjan Deb), and three plays: Ibsen’s Dulali, Manoj Mitra’s Banojochhona and Kanan Pisir Japamala (dir: Suranjana Dasgupta). October 13 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sudrak presents Purbanirdharito.

PERFOrMING ARTS

October 13 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 5 pm: Jagacha Aikatan’s 19th annual programme features dance, song and recitation. October 14 at Aban Mahal; 6 pm: Aamar Sonar Bangla, the eighth annual programme of Nritya Kala Sangam, feratures an evening of dance. October 14 at Bally Rabindra Bhavan; 5 pm: Payal presents Nrityotsav 2007 featuring Agomoni, a beldn of Kathak and Western dance, dance fusion and a choreography to mark 60 years of Independence. October 14 at Swabhumi; 5.30 pm: Srijan’s 10th annual programme features recitation, audio-play and dance.

EXHIBITION

Till October 13 at 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road; 10.30 am - 7 pm: Soumya’s Creation presents an exhibition of constume jewellery in new designs and innovative craftsmanship. Till October 13 at 114/L Selimpur Road, 1st floor, Dhakuria; 3 pm - 8 pm: Nibedita Boutique’s exhibition of designer sarees in silk, batik, tant, crepe and kantha with matching costume jewellery. Till October 17 at CIMA Gallery; 11 am - 8 pm: Art in Life, an exhibition of fashion wear, T-shirts, decorative art, masks, exculsive textiles, stoles and scarves, tribal art, jewellery, wall hangings, books, carpets, linens, brass items, embroidered bags and dhurries.

reading

October 14 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya’s report of Arjuna annihilating the Kauravas’ Samsaptaka suicide squad along with Duryodhana’ss elephant division, Krishna extolling Arjuna’s prowess, and Asvatthaman killing the Pandya king, in the 395th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa’s Mahabharata.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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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