Focus on woman power Celebrating its 150th year in this country, BNP Paribas India has commissioned Magnum Photo Agency to organise a photography exhibition on the theme of Women Changing India. The project combines the talents of Magnum and Zubaan, a Delhi-based publishing house specialising in books for and about women in South Asia. The exhibition features six subjects covered by six well-known Magnum photographers: Martine Franck, Alex Webb, Patrick Zachmann, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Olivia Arthur (a photograph by her appears right) and Raghu Rai who have been identified to highlight the cultural and geographical diversity of women’s lives in India. Each subject highlights the changing roles, aspirations, opportunities and challenges that Indian women face, whether they live in villages or cities, whether they are students, taxi drivers, lawyers, movie directors or business leaders. lEvent: An exhibition of works by six Magnum photographers on women who are changing the face of India lWhen: Till December 16; 11 am - 7 pm lWhere: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Nandalal Bose Gallery, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani

ART

Till January 8 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717/8509; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays - Saturdays): Ganesh Pyne: His Mahabharata. Till December 14 at Weavers Studio centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, 2461 3145; 10 am - 7 pm: Spiracle — an exhibition of paintings by Krishna Dutta. Till December 14 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, 24752275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Ashis Sen and Jagadish Majumdar. Till December 15 at ECA Art Walk, South City Mall; 12 noon - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Nabakishore Chanda. Till December 16 at Gandhara Art Gallery, Palm Spring, Flat 5A, 1B Gurusaday Road, 22801790, 22811225; 1 pm - 8 pm: Do You Still Happen? — recent works by Amritah Sen. Till December 16 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, 22873377/88; 11 am - 7 pm: Sculptures and sculpture-based installations by five young artists Bamdeb Mondal, Bhaskar Chowdhury, Kartick Ch. Soren, Tuhin Kundu and Rathin Barman. Till December 18 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, 2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Looking for Bapu, an exhibition of sculptures by Debanjan Roy. Till December 20 (except Sunday) at Eye on Art, 3 Pretoria Street, Chandrakunj Building, 2nd floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: The second solo exhibition of paintings by Tapan Karmakar. Till December 31 (Sundays by appointment) at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, 9831005003, 65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Rhetorical Dreams — an exhibition of the works by Prokash Karmakar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Suhas Roy, Bratin Khan, Sibsaday Chaudhuri, Gourango Beshai, Subrata Das, Shyamal Mukherjee, Sukanta Das, Samir Paul, Atin Basak. Till December 31 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, 24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of Iranian contemporary art. Till January 11 (except Sundays) at Gallery Image Kraft, 56/E, Block D, New Alipore, 32567425; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by renowned contemporary Bengal painters.

DRAMA

Till December 19 at Laban Hrad Mancha, BD Block, Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Salt Lake Theatre hosts its ninth drama festival. Today: Gandhar presents Kachher Manush, directed by Gautam Haldar, filmmaker. December 14 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Kushilav presents Surer Bandhone. Drama & direction: Runu Chowdhury. December 14 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nautanki Kolkata presents its multi-lingual play, Dhnorai Charit Manas. Dir: Abhishek Basu. December 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar will stage Ajnatobaas, directed by Sumanta Gangopadhyay. December 15 at Minerva Theatre; 6.30 pm: Nirbak Abhinoy Academy presents Teen Guchhir Binuni. Direction: Suranjana Dasgupta. December 16 - 25 at Academy of Fine Arts: Nandikar’s 27th National Theatre Festival. December 18 at Girish Mancha; 6.45 pm: Rang Roop presents its latest production, Maayer Moto. Direction & performance: Seema Mukhopadhyay.

PERFORMING ARTS

December 14 at Rabindra Sadan auditorium and Prangan Mancha; 5.30 pm: The concluding day of Uday Shankar Nrityotsav 2010, hosted by West Bengal State Music Academy. At Rabindra Sadan auditorium: Mahua Mukherjee (Gaudiya), Manojit Pradhan & Minati Dasgupta, Bhubaneswar (duet Odissi), Pallavi Krishnan & troupe, Trichur (Mohiniyattam), Ghungroo Dance Academy (dir: Madhumita Roy), and Mamata Shankar Dance Company (dir: Mamata Shankar). At Rabindra Sadan Prangan Mancha: Ranjana Dutta & troupe, Sulagna Roy (Kathak), Barnali Som (Bharata Natyam), Nrityankar Shilpi Sansad, Jhargram (group folk dance), Debjani Chatterjee (Bharata Natyam), and folk dance (courtsey: Lok Sanskriti O Adivasi Charcha Kendra, department of information & cultural affairs, Government of West Bengal). December 15 at The Calcutta School of Music, Sandre Hall; 7 pm: A piano concert by American pianist Gretchen Sterling. December 16 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: A jugalbandi by Aayush Mohan Gupta (sarod) and Lakshay Mohan Gupta (sitar) with Subhankar Banerjee (tabla). December 17 at Madhusudan Mancha; 10 am: Madhumanjeer presents Aamader George-da, a programme on the birth centenary of Debabrata Biswas. Participants: Soumitra Chattopadhyay (narration & dialogue) and Arun Gangopadhyay (disciple of Debabrata Biswas; songs). Also, tunes of Tagore songs on the guitar by Avik Bhattacharya. December 17 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Bhavna presents an evening of Tagore songs by Aditi Mohsin, Jonaki Chowdhury, Rakhi Sen, Raja, Lopamudra Mitra and Sasha Ghoshal. Tickets at hall / 24557845 (11 am - 7 pm). December 19 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Biswabhara Pran presents an evening of Tagore songs, readings and dance-drama Chitrangada.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till December 18 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S. P. Mukherjee Road, 2455 6942/ 43; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Incidents, photographs by Bishan Samaddar.

TALK

December 14 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 5.45 pm: Discourse on Sri Ma Sarada Punthi by Swami Snehamayananda. December 14 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Prasannatmananda will speak in Bengali on Devavani. December 14 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake City; 6 pm: Anjali Banerjee will speak on Sri Sri Mayer Katha. December 14 at Ramakrishna Mancha, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street; 6.30 pm: Swami Shivamayananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Leelaprasanga. December 14 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Swami Abhedananda Memorial Lecture Hall; 7 pm: Prof. Sameer Kr Basu will speak on Man-O-Manus.

EXHIBITION

December 13 & 14 at Hotel Hindusthan International; 4 pm - midnight: In aid of charities, Calcutta Alipore Ladies Circle- 3 has organised Panache, the night market. Media partner: t2. Till December 18 at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, 24408926; 9.30 am - 6.30 pm: An exhibition of old & rare embroideries & sale of contemporary reproductions in saris, sets, tunics, stoles. Till December 19 at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition on children’s book illustration. Till December 31 at Verandah, 75A Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road, 9830329179; 10.30 am - 7 pm: A display of Christmas decorative items.

WORKSHOP

Till December 18 at Birla Cademy; 11 am -7 pm: Birla Academy of Art & Culture organises a graphic workshop by Atin Basak. Participating artists: Aditya Basak, Amitabha Banerjee, Ashoke Mullick, Atanu Bhattacharya, Bimal Kundu, Chhatrapati Dutta, Debabrata Chakraborty, Dipali Bhattacharjee, Dipak Banerjee, Ganesh Haloi, Jaya Ganguly, Jayanta Naskar, Jogen Chowdhury, Kazi Nasir, Lalu Prasad Shaw, Leena Ghosh, Manoj Dutta, Niranjan Pradhan, Parag Roy, Partha Dasgupta, Partha Pratim Deb, Paula Sengupta, Pradip Maitra, Prasenjit Sengupta, Rabin Mandal, Ramen Kastha, Sadhan Chakraborty, Samir Aich, Sekhar Roy, Shamindranath Majumdar, Shipra Bhattacharya, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Shuvaprasanna, Subrata Gangopadhyay and Tapas Konar. Prints will be on view till December 18. December 15 - 19 at Seagull Bookstore, 31A S.P. Mukherjee Road, 24765865, 24862636; 10 am - 12 noon: Adventures in Storyland: A creative winter camp for 5- to 7-year-olds. December 17 & 18 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 10 am - 7 pm: A two-day workshop on Abhinetar Prastuti for 18 yrs and above. To be conducted by theatre icon Rama Prasad Banik. December 18 - 26 at 27B Camac Street; 2 pm - 4 pm: Creative Art workshop to express oneself through different mediums of colour and techniques of using them. Call 9836665651 to register. December 18 - 27 at Studio E2 69, 8/1 Esplanade East; 6.30 pm - 8 pm: Salsa for beginners to be conducted by Prasuna. For details and registration, contact Suman (9830019635).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-700001; Fax: 2234-8244

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