Trance mania Talamasca is a solo project from Cedric Dassulle, a French DJ who began to play in Paris in psytrance parties around 1992. As the psytrance scene is not as powerful in France as it is in other parts of the world such as Brazil, Japan or Israel, in 1994 Talamasca started to play in other countries around the world instead of in his own. In 1996, he decided to create his own project, with the name of Talamasca. When his music became a great success, Talamasca began playing more live acts than in DJ sets. Soon, he came to be considered as one of the leaders of the international trance scene. In 1998, he decided to develop his own label, 3D Vision, which quickly became one of the leading labels of this style of music. Presently, Talamasca is one of the most requested live acts at all important electronic music festivals including the Full-moon Festival, Samothraki or the Boom Festival in Europe, Eclipse, the biggest electronic festival of Canada, the Chemical Sound Festival in Rio, the Goa Sound Festival in Mexico, the Summer Arcade Fuji Festival in Japan, and many more. The master of melodies is here in the city for what promises to be a truly unique performance. With his synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies to be performed in characteristic Talamascan mood, tempo, and style, Talamasca Live will provide those with a taste for alternative music an experience to remember for a long time to come. Event: Live performance by French artiste Talamasca When: Today at 8 pm Where: Tantra, The Park

ART

Till August 14 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717 / 2485 8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show 2010. Featuring works by Manas Acharya, Akhilesh, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Sumitro Basak, Shipra Bhattacharya, Bhuribai, Tapas Biswas, Sakti Burman, Jayasri Burman, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Jogen Chowdhury, Sougata Das, Chandan Das, Meera Devidayal, Anju Dodiya, Debraj Goswami, Ramendranath Kastha, Bhupen Khakhar, Goutam Khamaru, Bimal Kundu, Subrata Kundu, Paresh Maity, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Asim Pal, Niranjan Pradhan, Mona Rai, Satyajit Roy, Suhas Roy, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Kingshuk Sarkar, Ajit Seal, Shakila, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Shuvaprasanna, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Paramjit Singh, T. Vaikuntam, Yusuf and others. Till July 17 at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Inscriptions in Bronze: Sculptures of Tapas Biswas. Till July 17 at G.C. Laha Centenary Fine Arts Gallery, 7 Chittaranjan Avenue, 1st floor; 1 pm - 7 pm: The sixth solo exhibition of paintings by Salil Biswas. Till July 18 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Humanism — an exhibition of paintings by Sumitava Maity. Till July 18 at Taj Bengal, Promenade Lounge; 10 am - 11 pm: Solo exhibition of paintings by Gopal Dey. Till July 18 at Mon Art Gallery, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency - 3rd floor, #2289 5438; 11 am - 7 pm: Abreast Totems — an exhibition of recent paintings by Vasudevan Akkitham, B.V. Suresh, Bhrigu Sharma, Debasree Das, Deepak Kannal, Haraprasad Tripathy, Haresh Dropal, Indrapramit Roy, Kumar Jasakiya, Kundan Mondal, Mayyur Kailash Gupta, Nilotpal Sinha, Pooja Panchal, Rahul Mukharjee, M. Sashidharan, Shivani Bhalla, Susanta Pal and Uday Mondal. Till July 21 at Academy of Fine Arts, South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Academy of Fine Arts presents Om-Ma-Maya-Mukti, a solo exhibition of original paintings based on Vedantic lores by Dipankar Mani.

DRAMA

July 16 at Academy of Fine Arts & July 17 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sansriti will stage its new production, Dream Dream, inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay. July 16 at Purbashree, Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, Salt Lake; 6 pm: Lok-krishti will stage Tagore’s Laboratory. Direction: Phalguni Chatterjee.

PERFORMING ARTS

July 16 at Khaleel Munzil, Alliance Francaise du Bengale, 217 AJC Bose Road; 6 pm: Indian classical vocal by by Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami. July 16 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place; 6.30 pm: Myriad Moods: Featuring Priyadarshini Ghosh (Asmita, based on the traditional nayikas of Natyashastra showcasing a woman’s perspective of her life and existence) and Pallabi Chakravorty (Plural, a dance-theatre impression of the poetry & melody of a Fiaz composition in Kathak style) July 17 at Ramakrishna Mission Insititute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: An Evening of Malhars. Featuring Bhuvanesh Komkali (vocal) with Sambhunath Bhattacharya (tabla) and Suresh Phadtare (harmonium); and Bahauddin Dagar (rudraveena) with Srikant Mishra (pakhawaj). July 17 at Rabindra-Okakura Bhavan, Salt Lake; 6 pm: Samobeto presents Guru Pranam, an evening of Tagore songs based on lesser-heard ragas of Bishnupur gharana. To be rendered by Pandit Shantanu Bandyopadhyay and Manoj Murali Nair.

FILM SHOW

Till July 16 at Nandan II; 4.30 pm & 6.30 pm: Cine Central, Calcutta, in collaboration with Instituto Camoes-Portuguese Cultural Centre, New Delhi and Consulate of Portugal, Calcutta, is organising a Portuguese Film Festival. Today: 20, 13: Purgatory (Dir: Joaquim Leitao) at 4.30 pm; and Belle Toujours (Dir: Manoel de Oliveira) at 6.30 pm.

ODISHA FESTIVAL

July 16 at the Rang Darbar, Swabhumi; 7 pm: Inauguration of Odisha Festival by the Governor of West Bengal and presentation of Utkala Samman to Padma Bhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. At 8 pm: Odissi dance by Guru Sanchita Bhattacharya, to be followed by a flute recital by Hariprasad Chaurasia.

TALK

July 16 at Ramakrishna Mission Insititute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Tattwavidananda will speak in Sanskrit on Adhyatma Ramayana. July 16 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7 pm: Dr Sashanka Bhushan Banerjee will speak on Kathopanishad. July 16 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Prof. Arup Ranjan Pradhan will speak on Devi Bhagavat.

BOOK LAUNCH

July 16 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 6 pm: Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta and Anustup Publication host the launch of Feminist Economics, written by Rinita Mazumder. The book analyses the interdependent relationship between feminist principles and economics. The book will be released by Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

RECORDINGS

July 16 at Calcutta School of Music; 7 pm: Ajoy Ray presents for the Jazz Listeners’ Forum Verve at 50 when Carnegie Hall salutes the Jazz Masters in 1994.

EXHIBITION

July 16 - 24 at 78 Manoharpukur Road, mezzanine floor, #9903643844, 9831323299; 11.30 am - 8.30 pm: Swati Guha’s exhibition of exclusive saris, cottom block prints, tangail and jamdani, tasar, muslin, tasar print, pashmina, crepes and chiffon. Till July 17 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 11 am - 8 pm: The Art of the Book: Digital collages by Sunandini Banerjee. Till July 17 at 16/2 Gariahat Road, #98310 30737; 10.30 am - 8.30 pm: Jo’s exhibits kurtis, patialla and dupattas. Till July 17 at Banquet Hall, 16/2 Gariahat Road: An exhibition of fashion and lifestyle products including saris, salwars, designer kurtis, jewellery and more. Hosted by Maruti, an association of women. Till August 7 at Sasha shop, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 10 am - 7 pm; Sunday (10 am - 1 pm): Sasha presents Out of Africa, an exotic range of African artefacts including a wide range of musical instruments, masks and other interesting crafts.

QUIZ

July 18 at International School of Business and Media, EN22, Sector V, Salt Lake: The Calcutta Quiz Bowl, an open general quiz for four-member teams. Registration starts at 3.45 pm. Quiz starts at 4.15 pm. QM: Supratik Chaudhuri. Charges: Rs 200 per team (Rs100 for teams with 3 or more school or college students).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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