ART
Till July 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: The sixth solo exhibition of paintings by Vandana Rai. Till July 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: Elite Experimental Group presents a group show of painting and sculpture. Participants: Somnath Dutta, Tarun Chandra, Bappa Maji, Haimanti Chakraborty, Sudip Biswas, Debashree Biswas, Shyamal Karmokar and Indrani Barman. Till July 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: The second solo exhibition of paintings by Dr Arpita Jhan. Till July 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3pm - 8pm: Paintings by Sujit Das, Debangshu Das, Santanu Chatterjee and Priya Ranjan Purkait.Book LAUNCH
July 19 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 6.30pm: Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta and Sage India Pvt Ltd present the launch of Business and Polity, by D.N. Ghosh. The author will be in conversation with Dr Rudrangshu Mukherjee on the theme of the book.PERFORMING ARTS
July 19 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 12noon & 6.30pm: Mimi and Brumm, a performance by Swiss puppeteer Margirt Gysin.DRAMA
July 19 at Girish Mancha; 6.30pm: Durgadas Smrity Sangha presents Aajo Brishti Aasey. Dir: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay. July 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 7pm: Rangakarmee presents Manasi. Concept & direction: Usha Ganguli.EXHIBITION
July 19 at The Conclave, Rose Room; 11am - 8pm: D’Autre, a lifestyle fare. July 19 at 85 Lansdowne, 85B Sarat Bose Road; 11am - 7.30pm: 85 Lansdowne’s spring-summer sale with great deals on designer ensembles. The label list includes Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Bal, Ranna Gill, Kiran Uttam Ghosh, Zubair Kirmani, Pankaj & Nidhi Ahuja, Rahul Mishra, Shantanu Goenka and Ed Hardy.taLK
July 19 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6pm: Swami Tyagarupananda will speak on Vartaman Jivane Gitar Prasangikata. July 19 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7pm: Prof. Samir Kumar Basu will speak on Mon O Manush. July 19 at the Ramakrishna Mancha of Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre; 7pm: Swami Shivamayananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Leelaprasanga.QUIZ
July 24 at YMCA, Chowringhee: Adverb + Mind Games present Love All 4 - The Sports Quiz for three-member teams. Registrations start at 4pm. Quiz starts at 4.30pm. No entry fees. QM: Biswabijoy Sen. For more details, call 98317 83470.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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