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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. December 16 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR: Calcutta Arts Club is holding its first travelling exhibition, The Bengal Trail, featuring works by five contemporary artists from Bengal: Partha Sarathi Pan, Madhuchanda Majumder, Pradip Das, Debabrata Hazra and Subir Dey. 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. December 16 - 31 (except Sundays & december 25) at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Ground & First floor galleries; 11 am - 7 pm: Unravelling Sweden, an exhibition of artworks by artists from Sweden. 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.PERFORMING ARTS
December 16 & 17 at Rabindra Sadan complex & auditorium: Rabindra Sadan & I&CA department is organising Poush Utsav featuring tagore songs, dances, recitation along with various forms of folk songs of Bengal amidst a handicrafts fair and Poush-parbon delicacies. Today, 4 pm: Road rally of dancers, singers, elocutionists and folk artistes starting from Rabindra Sadan complex. At Rabindra Sadan auditorium, 5.30 pm: Tagore songs by Rajeshwar Bhattacharya, Ashis Bhattacharya, Pramita Mallick, Indranil Sen, Supratik Das and others; dance-dramas Kabitanjali by Upasana Centre for Dance and Biswabina Robey by Saraswat; and recitation by Kallol Dey, Suparna Mazumder, Bhuma Chakraborty, Rita Das and Jayeeta Dashgupta. At Rabindra Sadan complex, 5 pm: Folk songs by Dhiraj Khyapa, Jayanta Chakraborty and Sahajiya, and dance programmes Srijan Chhande Anonde. December 16 at Academy of Fine Arts complex; 5 pm: Reading of poems and recital of songs composed by Hemanga Biswas as part of his 98th birth anniversary celebration. 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 16 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Pragati Centre for the Deaf presents dances by its students and a concert featuring Bangla band Bhoomi. December 16 at Satyajit Ray Auditorium, RTC, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 6.30 pm: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR Calcutta & Embassy of Ecuador present Ballet de Virginia Rosero, a programme of folklore music and dance from Ecuador. 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. Participants: Anita Mullick, Bappa Chatterjee, Koushik Chakraborty, Gopa Roy, Gouri Ghosh, Jonaki Choudhury, Partha Ghosh, Pradip Sarkar, Pubali Debnath, Sharmila Basu, Shamit Ray, Sanchita Chatterjee, Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Subrata Sengupta, Suparna Roy and Gautam Choudhury.DRAMA
Till December 19 at Laban Hrad Mancha, BD Block, Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Salt Lake Theatre hosts its ninth drama festival. Today: Salt Lake Theatre presents Tagore’s Mukti and Debotar Graas. Direction: Monika Mukherjee and Prosenjit Chakraborty. Also, a programme of Tagore songs by Manoj Murali Nair and Manisha Murali Nair. December 16 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Purba Paschim presents Patol Babu Filmstar, based on a story by Satyajit Ray. Direction: Ramaprasad Banik. December 16 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ajantrik presents Parashuram’s Bhusandir Mathey. Direction: Sujit Chatterjee. December 16 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Atmakatha — directed and performed by Soumitra Chattopadhyay.TALK
December 16 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 5.45 pm: Swami Vamanananda will speak on Practice of Spirituality and Meditation. December 16 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake City; 4 pm: Prabrajika Amalaprana will speak on Sri Sarada devi Anudhyan. December 16 at Ramakrishna Mancha, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street; 6.30 pm: Swami Niyatatmananda will speak on Mayer Katha. December 16 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Swami Abhedananda Memorial Lecture Hall; 7 pm: Br. Sataya Chaitanaya will speak on Swami Vivekanander Patravali.EXHIBITION
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.BOOK LAUNCH
December 16 at British Council, L&T Chambers, First Floor, 16 Camac Street; 7 pm: British Council and Prabha Khaitan Foundation host the launch of Journeys, a compilation of short stories, poetry and reportage by writers connected to the South Asian Diaspora, using the theme of journeys as a starting point. A special prize will be awarded to the best writer, Hema Raman of Chennai. Birminham poet laureate and story-teller Adrian Johnson will speak on the occasion.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 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). December 18 at Objet D’ Art, 14/1B Palm Avenue: Workshop on jewellery making. For details, call 9831200077.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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