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Till January 24 (except Sundays & holidays) at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays): Review, an exhibition of artworks that aspires to redefine our perception and understanding of art of the 20th century. Participating artists: Abir Karmakar, Alok Bal, Debraj Goswami, Farhad Hussain, Jogen Chowdhury, Kingshuk Sarkar, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Mithu Sen, Paresh Maity, Partha Pratim Deb, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Samit Das, Santosh More, Sumitro Basak and Swarna Chitrakar. December 20 at Bose Pacia, Stephen’s Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 6 pm: Inauguration of recent works of Bari Kumar: Foreign Bodies. Till December 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings (watercolour on silk) by Uma Bardhan, Rabin Pal, Kushumita Bhattacharyya and Prodip Kumar Sengupta. Till December 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of sculptures by Gadadhar Das. Till December 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Mood presents the 6th solo exhibition of paintings by Arup Lodh. Till December 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, South-B Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Debangshu Das, Abhijit Mollick, Anjan Bhattacharya and Proshun Sarkar.DRAMA FEST
Till December 21 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Calcutta Comedy Carnival. Today: Gorur Garir Headlight (Direction: Saroj Roy) by Natasena. Tomorrow: Sajano Bagan (Drama, direction & acting: Manoj Mitra) by Sundaram. Till December 21 at Laban Hrad Manch (BD Block), Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Salt Lake Theatre hosts its seventh drama festival. Today: Atmakatha (Dir: Soumitra Chatterjee), produced by Mukhomukhi and Niva Arts. Tomorrow: Gorur Garir Headlight (Direction: Saroj Roy) by Natasena. Till December 25 at Academy of Fine Arts: Nandikar’s 25th National Theatre Festival. Today at 2.30 pm: Pot Gaan / Khattas Raja by Rupantar, Bangladesh; at 6 pm: Harischannar Ki Ladai by Darpan, Lucknow. Tomorrow at 10 am: Lav-Kush by Natadha ‘Mukti-Nikai’, Howrah, and Ghnyaghasur by Nandikar; at 2.30 pm: Tagore’s Dakghar by Kalakshetra, Manipur and Tomar Naam by Nandikar; at 6 pm: Maa’ti by Natya Chetana, Bhubaneswar. Till December 22 at Rabindra Sadan, Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar and Minerva Theatre; 6.30 pm: Academy Theatre Utsav. December 20 at Rabindra Sadan: Theatre (Bangladesh) presents Meraj Fakirer Ma (Drama & dir: Abdullah Aal Mamun). December 21 at Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar: Tar-Betar Abhinoy in the context of cinema, theatre and jatra; participants: Madhabi Mukherjee, Ferdousi Mazumdar and Shantigopal; compere: Ramendu Majumdar. December 22 at Minerva Theatre: Theatre (Bangladesh) presents Mukti (Dir: Trapaa Mazumdar).DRAMA
December 20 at Natya Bhavan, EE 8, Sector II, Bidhan Nagar, #2321 7667; 5.30 pm: Samanantar, a well-known theatre group from Allahabad, presents a solo performance of Asamanjas Babu Ka Kutta in Hindi. December 20 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents its latest production, Dournama. Drama: Indrasis Lahiri. Dir: Meghnad Bhattacharya. December 21 at Minerva Theatre; 6.30 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan presents Hawa Badal. Drama & direction: Kunal Mukhopadhyay. December 21 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Hattamela will stage Hetamgore Hoi Choi. December 21 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Sohan presents Helmet. Dir: Anish Ghosh.PERFORMING ARTS
December 20 - 22 at Purbashree, EZCC, IB 201 Salt Lake, Sector III; 4 pm: Salt Lake Cultural Association presents the 22nd Salt Lake Music Festival in memory of Pandit Hanuman Prasad Misra. Dec. 20: Madhuboni Chatterjee (Bharata Natyam), Purbayan Chatterjee (sitar), and Pandit Rajan Misra and Pandit Sajan Misra (vocal duet). Dec. 21: Ayan Sengupta (sitar), Saugata Banerjee (vocal), Sugato Nag (sitar), Bakul Chatterjee (vocal), and Sanjeev and Ashwani Shankar (shehnai duet). Dec. 22: Dipanjana Bose-Chanda (light classical), Suchisri Roy (thumri), Shubhendra Rao (sitar), Rajesh and Rajneesh Misra (vocal duet), and Buddhadeb Dasgupta and Abir Hussain (sarod duet). December 20 & 21 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: 32nd Gunidas Sangeet Sammelan. Dec. 20: Pandit Viswa Mohan Bhatt (mohan veena) and Shubhra Guha (vocal). Dec. 21: Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty (vocal) and Pandit Satish Vyas (santoor). Hosted by Citigroup Inc. December 20 at Sisir Mancha; 5.30 pm: A solo recital of Tagore songs by Shyamal Saha; narration & poetry-reading: Urmimala Basu. December 20 at Bhowanipore Sangeet Sammilani, 4 Ramesh Mitra Road; 6 pm: Bhajan by Helen Mukherjee and dhrupad by Pandit Falguni Mitra. December 20 at Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR; 6.30 pm: Tara Muzik presents With a Song in My Heart — an evening with operatic tenor Anando Mukherjee, accompanied by Pavel Timofejevsky, pianoforte. December 20 at CC & FC Bar; 7.45 pm: Open Doors presents A Tribute to the Doors featuring band Insomnia and guest singer Francis Lepcha. December 21 at Mahajati Sadan; 4 pm: GRSE Officers’ Association’s 18th annual cultural meet featuresTagore songs by Rezwana Chowdhury Banya, Bengali Adhunik songs by Manomoy Bhattacharjee and Hindi Adhunik sangeet by Mou Mukherjee (Jojo). December 21 at Sree Thyagaraja Hall; 5.30 pm: Rasika Ranjana Sabha presents a vocal recital by P. Aravindan, with V. Ramkumar (violin) and Ganesh Mahadevan (mridangam). December 21 at Birla Academy; 5.30 pm: Jnan Prakash Ghosh Tabla Foundation presents Uttoron 2008. December 21 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: To raise funds for the kidney transplant of Gautam Das, Sanchari Kala Kendra presents Gaan Geyechhilem with Shreya Guha Thakurta, Saheb Chattopadhyay and Kousik Sen, and Uday Aster Gaan (script & direction: Jayanti Purkayastha) by the artistes of the Kendra. December 21 at Gyan Mancha; 6 pm: Open Doors and Chandril Odissi Centre present an Odissi evening and dance-drama Urvashi (dir & choreography: Arundhati Roy).CONVOCATION
December 21 at Uttam Mancha; 11 am onwards: Pracheen Kala Kendra’s 36th annual convocation. Musical concert at 6 pm: Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla lahara), Kushal Das (sitar), Samar Saha (tabla) and Hiranmoy Mitra (harmonium).TALK
December 20 at Institute of Historical Studies, 8/1 Loudon Street; 3.30 pm: Dr Abhijit Dutta, UGC research scientist, dept. of history, Jadavpur University, will speak on Historicity of Christmas. December 20 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 5.30 pm: Swami Girishananda will speak on Uddhava Gita. December 20 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Vedaswarupananda will speak in Bengali on Gita. December 20 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Siksha, Samaj O Dharma.EXHIBITION
Till December 20 at Kalyan Mandapam, 38B Broad Street, # 2247 9001; 4 pm - 8 pm: Swar Sangam, Birla Institute of Liberal Arts and Management Sciences and the Ashok Hall Group of Schools present an exhibition of visual arts and fashion. December 20 at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2460 4245; 6 pm: Inauguration of an exhibition of ceramic works by Indian and Japanese artists. December 20 at Cocoon, New Alipore; 6.30 pm: Opening of The Creative Commune, a collaboration of designers and artists.READING
December 21 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report to Dhritarastra of Sanjaya being freed, Duryodhana fleeing and hiding in a lake, and Dhritarastra's 101st son Yuyutsu escorting his bereaved sisters-in-law to the safety of Hastinapura, in the 453rd weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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