Freedom from life Located on the northern fringes of the city, Gobardanga has, of late, witnessed a theatre renaissance of sorts, with a number of impressive productions being performed by groups based in the area. This week EZCC hosts the staging of the Gobardanga Trilogy, a set of three plays presented by Gobardanga-based groups. This evening, Rupantar will present Tagore’s Dakghar (picture right). A poignant tale about Amal, a terminally ill boy, it deals with death as a “spiritual freedom” from “the world of hoarded wealth and certified creeds”. Confined indoors on doctor’s orders, Amal yearns for freedom and open spaces. He engages passersby in eager conversation from the vantage of an open window and, fascinated by a new post office visible in the distance, develops a fancy that he will receive a letter from the king, an obviously allegorical personage. Amal represents the man “whose soul has received the call of the open road.” He makes a new world for himself by his imagination and insatiable curiosity, and passersby bring the world to him. Direction: Pradeep Raychoudhury. Tomorrow: Shilpayan will stage Khowab (dir: Ashis Chattopadhyay; at 6 pm); November 21: Naksha will present Swapna Swadesh (dir: Ashis Das; at 6 pm). Event: Play in Bengali, Tagore’s Dakghar, produced by Gobardanga Rupantar When: Today at 6 pm Where: Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, 1B 201 Salt Lake

art

Till November 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of musical drawings and surreal paintings in stitch by Biswajit Mukhopadhyay. Till November 20 at Gallery Upstairs, 16 Loudon Street, #98319 08133; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Rabin Mandal, Veena Bhargava, Prokash Karmakar, Jogen Chowdhury, Niranjan Pradhan, Shipra Bhattacharya, Dwijen Gupta, Wasim Kapoor, Sukti Subhra Pradhan, B.R. Panesar, Shakila and others. Till November 20 at Anant Art Gallery, 18A Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Fieldsoflabour — an exhibition of paintings by Pradeep I. Mishra. Till November 22 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Indrani Barman, Amit Kumar Dhara, Manish Moitra, Kartik Chandra Saren and Touhidul Islam. Till November 22 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery-A; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Chandan Das. Till November 22 at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274; 11 am - 7 pm; Monday (2 pm - 7 pm): Recent works by Chandra Bhattacharjee. Till November 22 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Images of Destitute Children — Nikhil Biswas’ recent paintings. Till November 22 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Untitled 2008, an exhibition of paintings by Debashis Mitra. Till November 23 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Images — a group exhibition of paintings by Sameer Ray, Paramesh Pal, Anbirban Thakur Chowdhury, Samik De and Rintu Roy. Till November 23 at Chemould Art Gallery, Queens Mansion, 12F park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Hemanta Sur. Till November 23 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, Duckback House, 2nd floor, #2287 3377; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of creative art furniture, installation and sculptures. Till November 23 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of Anjan Bhattacharyya’s recent works. The artisrts will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm. Till November 24 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #24752275; 3 pm - 8 pm: A group show by Atanu Bhattacharya, Atin Basak, Partha Dasgupta, Sadhan Chakraborty and Swapan Kumar Das. Till November 24 at Shree Art Gallery, 11 Gurusaday Road, Kusum Apartment, Flat no. 63, #30222040: Festive Hues, an exhibition of paintings by well-known artists. Till November 25 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886/2837; 2 pm - 7 pm: Exhibition of paintings by Phalguni Dasgupta. Till November 28 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: The Voices of the Canvas — an exhibition of the works of 20 well-known artists. Till November 29 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925/24497931; 11 am - 8 pm: Beyond the Dark — Recent works: Mixed Media and Sculptures by Shuvaprasanna. Till November 30 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road (#24556942/43) and at 46 Satish Mukherjee Road (near Rashbehari crossing); 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Suranjan Basu: A Retrospective, an exhibition of Basu’s works (1957-2002). Till November 30 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #2465 1444; 11 am - 7 pm: In Search of Language — an exhibition of paintings by Sunando Basu. Till November 30 (except Sunday) at Aakriti Art Gallery, Orbit Enclave, 1st floor, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Masters Collections featuring works by Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Kartick Chandra Pyne, Manjit Bawa, Paritosh Sen, Partha Pratim Deb, Prokash Karmakar, Sanat Kar and others.

DRAMA

November 20 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Shohan’s 16th anniversary programme begins with the staging of Helmet. Direction: Anish Ghosh. November 20 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nat-Ranga presents Gulbaaj, the Man of the Match. Direction: Sohan Bandyopadhyay. November 20 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: As part of the Gobardanga Trilogy, Shilpayan presents Khowab, directed Ashis Chattopadhyay.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till November 20 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: Album # One — selected photographs by Uday Shankar Hajra. Till November 23 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: Patterns — an exhibition of photographs by Susan Aurinko, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Anirban Das Mahapatra, Gaurav Gangwar, Naquib Hossain, Naveen Kishore, Ameet Mallapur, Mrinal Mandal, Deepak Tandon and Ian Umeda. Till December 12 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street, #4001 0148; 11 am - 7 pm: Bose Pacia Calcutta Gallery, the Embassy of France in India, The Consulate General of France and the Alliance Françiase du Bengale present Tribute to Henri Cartier Bresson: Commented Images.

ALBUM LAUNCH

November 20 at Asutosh Birth Centenary Hall, Indian Museum; 6 pm: Se Re Ga Ma India Limited and Indian Choir Academy host the launch of the album, Biswa Bhara Pran (a choral concert) by Indian Choir Academy and conducted by Arun Kumar Bose. Suchitra Mitra and Buddhadeb Guha will launch the album.

TALK

November 20 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chaqndra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama. November 20 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: parimal Kanti Das will speak in Bengali on Ramakrishna O Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

EXHIBITION

Till November 23 at Farah Khan Boutique, Kalyani Shopping Arcade, Fort William, #22310415/9836049988: Exhibition of crepe kantha saris and pashmina shawls and stoles. Till November 30 at Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, 19A Gurusaday Road; 10 am - 5.30 pm: Measuring Our Planet. Till November 30 at 108 Raja Basanta Roy Road, #2466 4315: Paramita Viswanathan’s collection of south Indian cotton and printed tassar sarees.

PERFORMING ARTS

n November 21 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Doshar Je Jan — Koushiki Bandyopadhyay’s first solo recital of Tagore songs as a tribute to her father, Ashoketaru Bandyopadhyay. Reading/narration: Shankar Chakraborty.

BIRTHDAY

November 21 at Rabindra Sadan; 5.30 pm: Bhavna’s celebrates Rabindrasangeet exponent Maya Sen’s 80th birthday with an evening of Tagore songs, reading and recitation. Participants include Abhirup Guha Thakurta, Anindya Narayan Biswas, Anuradha Biswas, Enakshi Chatterjee, Gouri and Partha Ghosh, Gopa Roy, Chandana Chowdhury, Chandrabali Rudra, Dipak Rudra, Pubali Debnath, Pabitra Sarkar, Pramita Mallick, Mrinmoy Roy, Manomoy Bhattacharya, Manisha Murali Nair, Rakhi Sen, Rokeya Roy, Rachayita Roy, Rajasree Bhattacharya, Rajeshwar Bhattacharya, Bratati Bandyopadhyay, Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay, Shrabani Sen, Swastika Mukhopadhyay, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Sudeshna Basu, Swapan Gupta, Subrata Sengupta, Sukhabilas Barma and artistes of Ananda Dhwani.

QUIZ

November 22 at Dalhousie Institute, 42 Jhowtalla Road; 4 pm onwards: The 30th Annual Argus Open Quiz. Spot registration. No entry fee. November 23 at Bandhab Samity, Baidyabati; 1 pm: Open to all general quiz for two-member teams. Quizmasters Pradip Adhya (98308 16252) and Sukanta Chowdhury (98364 36484)

WORKSHOP

November 22 - December 7 (Saturday & Sunday only) at Hue ’n’ I, Ballygunge Park Road, #98304 47150; 7 pm - 8 pm: Afro-Jazz & Hip Hop dance workshop.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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