Art
March 15 & 16 at Metropolitan Art Salon; 3 pm - 8 pm: Painting workshop and exhibition for tsunami victims. Till March 17 at ITC Sonar Bangla Art Gallery; 2 pm - 9 pm: Akar Prakar and ITC Sonar Bangla presents The Mixed Media Show featuring works of renowned artists. Till March 20 (Sundays by appointment) at Gallery Katayun; 3.30 pm - 7.30 pm: Spring Song ? works by contemporary Indian artists. Till March 18 at Artists Circle, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition by the members of Artists Circle. Till March 19 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Beauty & the Beast ? an exhbition of paintings, drawings and sculptures by Shyam Kanu and Jayita Borthakur. Till March 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Perspectives - Her Story ? an exhbition of paintings by Chandana Khan. Till March 19 at Galerie 88; 4 pm - 7 pm: The Missing Link ? Paintings by Kanchan Dasgupta. Till March 22 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot presents Drawings of the Masters. Till March 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road (near Taaja restaurant); 10.30 am - 7.30 pm: Realism and Surrealism ? an exhibition of paintings and drawings. Till April 2 (except Sundays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Tradition in Modernity featuring works of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Jyoti Bhatt, Haku Shah, Lalu Prosad Shaw and T. Vaikuntam.DRAMA
March 15 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ensemble presents its latest production, Sirir Neeche. Design and direction: Sohag Sen. March 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Manmoyee Girls School. Direction: Pankaj Munshi. March 15 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Kolkata Suchetana presents two short plays, Luculluser Chhayabichar and Ashwatthama. Direction: Onkar Ghosh. March 16 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Feriwalaar Mrityu. Drama: Arthur Miller. Adaptation & direction: Rudraprasad Sengupta. March 18 at Gyan Manch; March 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Little Thespian?s new production, Yaadon Ke Bujhe Huye Savere (A River across the Unseen Divide), a play by Ismail Choonara. Direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala. March 19 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Proscenium presents Kamla (bilingual - English & Hindi), a play by Vijay Tendulkar. Direction: Sheo Kr. Jhunjhunwala.TALK
March 15 in the Seminar Room, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road; 3 pm: Dr P. Das, former firector, NBFGR, will deliver the Professor H.K. Mookerjee Memorial Lecture on Fish genetic resources and their conservation. Hosted by The Zoological Society, Calcutta. March 15 at CMA Auditorium, 1 Shakespeare Sarani, 1st floor (rear side); 5.45 pm: A CMA-Patton Tuesday Talkshoppe: Prof. Shampa Chakraberty, ICFAI Business School, to speak on Sustainable Development: Exposures, Opportunities, Myth or Reality. March 15 at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Sitanath Goswami will speak in Sanskrit on Bhagavad-Gita. March 15 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 6.45 pm: Discourse on Srimad Bhagawad by Swami Swatantrananda. March 15 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha.performing artS
Till March 20 at Calcutta Maidan, opp. Birla Planetarium; 6 pm: Naba Bharat Utsav, being held in collaboration with EZCC, features Odissi dance by Enakshi Das on March 18 and Manipuri dance by Priti Patel on March 20. March 17 at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: An evening of music featuring Srinivas Joshi (vocal) and Tarun Goswami (devotional and patriotic songs through whistling).EXHIBITION
Till March 15 at Caffeine, 10/4F Elgin Road; 11 am - 9 pm: Nimble Fingers, an NGO promoting Bengal?s handicrafts, presents Flavours of Soil-II ? an exhibition of terracotta coffee/tea mugs, cups, saucers and other accessories. March 15 - 19 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street: Sundari Silks presents an exhibition of silk and cotton sarees of south India.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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