Concern India Foundation presents Art For Concern, the annual art show of Indian paintings in the affordable category. With an impressive list of participating artists, each painting is a collectors’ item. Participants: T Vaikuntam, A.V. Ilango, Jogen Chowdhury, Suhas Roy, Jayasri Burman, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Jahangir Jani, Jiten Hazarika, Ashok Bhowmik, Shekhar Roy, Ashok Mullick, Subroto Gangopadhyay (a painting by him appears here), Prakash Karmakar, T.M. Azis, Laxman Aley, Ramananda Bandopadhyay, P.N. Kurlekar, J.M.S. Mani, Atin Basak, Wasim Kapoor, Datta Bansode , Dhiraj Choudhury, Sanat Kar, Babu Xavier, Bratin Khan, Sunil Das and others. Proceeds of the show will go to support the Foundation’s education, health and community development projects in rural and urban India. Event: An annual exhibition of paintings hosted by Concern India Foundation When: September 15 (6.30pm - 9pm) & September 16 (11am - 7pm) Where: The Tea Lounge, The Oberoi Grand

ART

Till September 17 at Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, 24866735; 11am - 7pm: En-Gender — Recent works by Arunima Sanyal, Geeti Karmakar, Meenakshi Sengupta, Pratyusha Mukherjee, Sudipta Das, Sheersha Mukherjee and Tisha Mondal.

performing arts

September 15 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6pm: Girish Yuger Mancha Gaan (Theatre songs of Girish Era), an evening of theatre songs by Devajit Bandyopadhyay. September 14 & 15 at GD Birla Sabhagar; 6pm: The Dover Lane Music Conference presents a festival of classical dance. Today: Argha Chatterjee (Odissi), Bimbavati Devi & group (Manipuri), Shomila Bhattacharya (Kathak), and Dona Ganguly & group (Odissi). September 15 at Rabindra Okakura Bhavan; 6pm: Sarathi presents Hey Chiro Nutan, an evening of Tagore songs and poems. Participants: Aditi Gupta, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Medha Bandyopadhyay and others in songs and poetry-reading, and solo recital of poems by Joy Goswami, Ishita Das Adhikary, Antara Das and others. September 15 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR; 6.15pm: Suroloke presents Abelaye Jodi Esechho, a collage of poems of Tagore and Joy Goswami. Participants: Prabuddha Raha and Apala Basu in songs, and Ashis Ghosh and Natasha Dasgupta in poems.

DRAMA

September 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6pm: On its 22nd anniversary, Lokkrishti presents Tagore’s Laboratory. Direction: Phalguni Chatterjee. September 15 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30pm: Shohan presents Maan Bhanjan. Dir: Anish Ghosh. September 15 at Girish Mancha; 6.30pm: Rang Roop presents Maayer Moto. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. September 15 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30pm: Institute of Factual Theatre Arts presents Abhisar. Dir: Debasish Dutta. September 15 at Minerva Thaetre; 6.45pm: Sandarbha presents Murkir Hnari. Direction: Soumitra Basu.

FILM SHOW

Till September 15 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6pm: Short Matters! — a series of short films from the European Film Academy. Today: Rendez-vous a Stella-Plage (18 min), Diarchy (20 min), The External World (15 min), and Here I Am (37 min). Till September 16 at Nandan III: Turkish Film Festival. Today, 4pm: Babam Ve Oglum; at 6.30pm: Gonul Yarasi.

EXHIBITION

Till October 1 at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717, 2485 8509; 11am - 8pm: Art in Life 2011. Featuring decorative arts, scarves, bags, linens, fashion wear, T-shirts, dhurries and saris.

LAUNCH

September 15 at Starmark, South City Mall; 6pm: Launch of Arindam Mukherjee’s book, The Fifth P. September 15 at Kala Kunj; 5.30pm: Release of audio album Robi O Mahul.

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