A question of faith Padatik presents Patton School One Act Play Competition based on the theme, Is my life, my life only? Teams from nine schools will be performing on stage. Each team has participated in a 10-day workshop at Padatik conducted by Shantanu Bose, an NSD graduate, and Ekavli Khanna, a theatre expert. Each performance shall focus on the search for identity that is an essential part of growing up. With emotional tumult and characteristic rebellion each one of us tries to adapt ourselves to changes within and without. In our times of deteriorating value systems, the question of priorities in life comes across as a major challenge. This is what each script will address by dwelling on issues universally relevant to the youth. Participating schools: Modern High School for Girls, La Martiniere for Boys, The Cambridge School, Apeejay School,Vivekananda Mission School, Calcutta International School, St.Augustine’s Day School, Ashok Hall Girls’ Higher Secondary School, and The Assembly of God Church School. Judges : Kunal Padhy, Zarin Chowdhury and Rohit Pombra. Event: An inter-school one-act play competition When: Today at 5.30 pm; tomorrow at 4.30 pm Where: Gyan Manch, 11 Pretoria Street

art

Till September 14 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Benaras landscapes by Yashwant Shirwadkar. Till September 15 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue; 1 pm - 7 pm: Rintu Roy’s first solo show. Till September 15 at CIMA Gallery; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of Jaya Ganguly’s works (1984 - 2007). Till September 16 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Subhendu Misra. Till September 16 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Solo exhibition of paintings by Asim Goswami. Till September 18 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 1st floor, Orbit Enclave, 12/3A Hungerford Street; 3 pm - 7 pm: Aakriti Art Gallery presents Young Contemporaries 2007, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures curated by Jogen Chowdhury. Participating artists are Amiya Nimai Dhara, Goutam Khamaru, Mahamud Husain, Nantu Behari Das, Paramita Chakraborty, Priyanka Lahiri, Ramu Das, Reji Arackal, Sabir Ali, Sajal Kaity, Sanjay Patra, Sekhar Baran Karmakar, Sharmi Chowdhury, Soumya Samanta, Sudeshna Mitra, Suman Kabiraj, Sumitava Maity, Sweta Chandra, Tapan Bhattacharyya and Tapati Chowdhury. Till September 20 at Samokal Art Gallery, 23 Gariahat Road, 1st floor, Gol Park; 4 pm - 8 pm: Ganesh & Ganesh Janani, a group show featuring works by contemporary painters and sculptures. Till September 20 (except Sunday) at Gallery Kolkata, Duckback House, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 2nd floor; 3 pm - 7 pm: Open Window, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Samir Aich, Probir Gupta, Amitava Dhar, Sunil Dey, Gopinath Roy, Pradip Rakshit, Tapas Konar, K. Muralidharan, Janak Jhankar Nurzary, Prabhat Basu, Hiran Mitra, Dipali Bhattacharya and Sudeshna Halder. Till September 21 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Fictional Universe, an exhibition of etchings by Delhi-based artists. Participating artists: Dattatraya Apte, Vinod Kumar, Anandmoy Banerjee, Avijit Roy, K.R. Subbanna, Manikanta Choudhury, Sushanta Guha, Asim Pal, Uttam Basak, Biswajit Mandal, Rajan Fulari, Sapna Sharma, Anita Das Chakraborty, Annu Gupta, Bina Mishra, Kavita Nayar, Tapan Bhowmik, Jayant Gajera, Ramkrishna Vedala and Mimi Radhakrishnan. Till September 22 (except Sunday) at The Palladian Lounge, BCCI Bldg, 3rd floor, 6 N.S. Road; 10 am - 8 pm: Spandan Art Gallery and The Palladian Lounge present an exhibition of paintings by Keshav Roy. Till September 23 (except Sunday) at Mon Art Gallery, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency Building, 3rd floor; 11.30 am - 7 pm: Mon Art Gallery, in association with Kynkyny Art Gallery (Bangalore) presents recent works by G. Subramanian and Basuki Dasgupta. Till September 25 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings and sculptures by well-known artists including Jogen Chowdhury, Paritosh Sen, Ganesh Haloi, Shuvaprasanna, Aditya Basak, Jayashree Chakraborty and Shipra Bhattacharya. Till September 29 (except Sundays) at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: A collection of mixed artworks by city artists Samir Aich, Tarun Chakraborty, Snehanshu Das, Abhijit Ghosh, Anita Gurbaxani, Ritu Poddar, Dhiren Sasmal, Shambhu Saha and Debasish Sengupta. Till September 30 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32B Judges Court Road; 1 pm - 8.30 pm: Expression of Mind, an exhibition of paintings by well-known contemporary artists of Bengal.

drama

September 14 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nehru Children’s Museum hosts Bhanga Buker Panjore (Direction: Rama Prasad Banik) participated by its students. September 14 at Sarala Memorial Hall; 6.30 pm: Total Theatre presents Ranjan Sen. Drama & direction: Shantanu Bandyopadhyay. September 14 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Hattamela will stage Rakshas Badh Pala. Direction: Gurudas Bandyopadhyay. September 14 at Tapan Theatre; 7 pm: Niva Arts presents Bidushak. Direction & acting: Koushik Sen. September 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Rangakarmee presents Rudali, based on a story by Mahasweta Devi. Concept & direction: Usha Ganguli. September 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Page 4, a Lok-krishti production. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.

PERFOrMING ARTS

September 14 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC hosts the presentation of Manasa Mangal Pala, a dance-drama in Bengali produced by Sur Bahar. September 15 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Prarthana, a series of Kathak duets choreographed and performed by Debashree Bhattacharya and Vikram Iyengar. This performance will be preceded by Swapnasandhani’s one-act play, Samudrer Mouno.

EXHIBITION

September 14 - 17 at Shuma’s, 359 Jodhpur Park, 24722351; 11 am - 8 pm: Exhibition of Puja collection of ethnic patchwork & handcrafted saris. September 14 - 18 at Madhuban, 2/1 Raja Naba Krishna Street, near Sovabazar Metro Station; 12 noon - 9 pm: A pre-Puja collection of fabric, Aari, embroidered sarees, tops, gents kurta and punjabis. Till September 15 at All Bengal Women’s Union, 89 Elliot Road; 11 am - 5 pm: Pre-Puja collection of block-printed sarees & table linen, embroidered baby frocks & nighties, hand-woven bedspreads, table napkins, freshly ground spices, cakes & muffins and other items hand-made by children. Till September 15 at Nupur’s Boutique, 169 Sarat Bose Road, #9830039836; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of Madhubani kalamkari hand-painted sarees, hand-embroidered sarees and block-printed sarees on tussar, silk, cotton and crepe, and salwar suits, kurtas and dhotis. Till September 15 at Darbari, 249 Purna Das Road, #24658537; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of wearable formals in addition to embroidered saris, suits, fabrics, dupattas, kurtis, skirts, ind-westerns and accessories like bag and jewellery. Till September 15 at 113/2 Selimpur Road, Dhakuria: Nibedita’s Boutique’s pre-Puja collection of sarees, tops and costume jewellery. Till September 20 at Sasha Shop, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 10 am - 7 pm, Sunday (10 am - 1 pm): Sasha presents an array of Bangladeshi creations from the fair trade organisation, Aranya of Dhaka. The exhibition includes traditional kantha embroidered sarees in silk and cotton, shakha bangles and home decor items. Till September 23 at Ananya, 46/18 Babu Bagan Lane, Dhakuria: An exhibition of ethnic hand embroidered, mix and match of block, batik, kantha on cotton and silk sarees.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till September 19 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Fine Art Phorography, an exhibition of photographs by Ajay Rajgarhia, Sandeep Biswas, Leena Kejriwal and Malkiat Singh.

WORKSHOP

September 14 & 15 at the seminar room of the Dept. of Plastic Surgery, 2nd floor, Ronald Ross Building IPGM E&R, SSKM Hospital; 12.30 pm: Second Eastern India Workshop on Dermato-Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology 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