DRAMA

Till May 23 at Purbasree, EZCC, IB-201 Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Dishari Natytosav 2004. Today: Badnam Manto (direction: Usha Ganguli), produced by Rangakarmee. May 18 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sansriti presents Winkle Twinkle. Direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay. May 18 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan Tyaag, based on Tagore’s short story. Direction: Tapan Mukherjee and Kunal Mukherjee. May 18 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sandipan presents Hari Korechhe Pratigya. Drama, direction and acting: Kajal Chakraborty. May 19 at Madhusudan Mancha and May 25 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Choopkatha presents its latest production, Mrs. Soriano. Direction: Dolly Basu. May 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Krishti Sansad presents Mahasweta Devi’s Kabi Bandyaghati. Direction: Sangramjit Sengupta. May 20 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sangstab presents Gunadharer Asukh. Direction: Dwijen Bandyopadhyay. May 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Nandikar presents Buddhadev Bose’s Pata Jhore Jaye (dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta) and Munshi Premchand’s Borda (dir: Goutam Halder). May 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 10 am: Nandimukh presents Mr. Right. Direction: Ashoke Chattopadhyay. May 23 at Mukta Angan; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Washing Machine. Dir: Bimal Bandyopadhyay. May 23 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Theatre Workshop presents its latest production, Andha Juger Manush. Direction: Ashok Mukhopadhyay.

PERFORMING ARTS

Till May 19 at Rabindra Sadan auditorium and campus; 5.30 pm: Rabindra Janmotsav-1411, organised by Rabindra Sadan. Today at Rabindra Sadan auditorium: An evening of three Tagore plays: Tyag (produced by Howrah Dakshinayan) Shasti (produced by Swabak) and Roop O Aroop (produced by Sinthi Sattwik Natyasanstha) . Today at Rabindra Sadan campus: Solo recital of Tagore songs by Pramita Mallick, Nilanjana Sen, Kakali Dutta, Sruti Maity, Soma Roy, Mita Rudra. Sromona Chattopadhyay, Swapan Shome and others, and recitation by Suparna Roy, Shampa Das, Arunava Biswas, Dinesh Manna, Pritha Ghosh Sen, Jit Sarkar and Ranjana Sengupta. May 18 at Eden Gardens Bandstand; 4.30 pm: The state government’s forest department and Bhavna present Kavi Pranam 1411 featuring Tagore songs and recitation. Participants include Agnibha Bandyopadyay, Abhirup Guha Thakurta, Urmimala and Jagannath Basu, Kajal Sur, Kaushik Sen, Gouri and Partha Ghosh, Jojo, Tania Das, Dipak Rudra, Dr Pabitra Sarkar, Pramita Mullick, Manoj Murali Nayar, Manisha Murali Nayar, Roma Mandal, Rajeswar Bhatacharya, Rupankar, Rupa Ganguly, Lopamudra Mitra, Srikanta Acharya, Srabani Sen, Swati and Sunil Gangopadhyay, Soumitra Chatterjee and Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta. On this occasion, an audio album of Tagore songs and poems, Phul Boley Dhanya Aami, will be released by the state forest minister, Jogesh Chandra Barman. May 20 at The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: A sarod recital by Narendra Nath Dhar, with Samar Saha on the tabla. May 23 at The Calcutta School of Music, Sandre Hall; 6.30 pm: A performance by Austrian musicians, the Duo Medici, with Karin Leitner (flute), and Jorgos Panetsos (guitar). May 21 & 22 at Rabindra Sadan; 7 pm: Mamata Shankar Ballet Troupe presents its new productions, Amritasya Putrah and Tagore in Symphony.

WORKSHOP

May 18 - 28 at Baisakhi Apartments, L 4/1, 2 Dr Deodhar Rehman Road, Calcutta 45: Theatre workshop by The Infinity Company, Mumbai. Details at #3207 8339. May 24 - June 3 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre; 2 pm - 6 pm: A film appreciation course for young people. Details at #24556942/43.

Art

Till May 18 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Chitrakoot presents Summer Oasis — an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by eminent artists. Till May 18 at Chemould Art Gallery; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings and mono prints by Bidula Basu and Puspita Ray. Till May 20 at names-AN.art, 207A Rashbehari Avenue; 11 am - 8 pm: The inaugural exhibition of the gallery features works by eminent painters May 19 - 25 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Kolkata Kala Kendra presents its 4th annual arts exhibition.

TALK

May 18 at CMA Auditorium, 1 Shakespeare Sarani; 5.45 pm: The CMA-Patton Tuesday Talkshoppe: Prof. Surendra Munshi, IIMC, to speak on Culture and Management. May 18 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Govinda Gopal Mukhopadhyaya will speak in Bengali on Srimad Bhagavata-sara. May 18 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha. May 18 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Swami Satprovanandaji will speak on Naradiya Bhaktisutra.