An abstract tradition The butterfly effect is a phase which encapsulates the modern technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variation of the initial conditions may produce large variations in the long-term behaviours of a system. The same may happen in art. The concepts of abstraction arise when such changes occur with respect to tradition. Rolling over several centuries and breaking across geographical barriers, the tradition of abstract art lives on — from Piet Mondrian to Gaitonde, Ramkumar, Raza and the young Partha Shaw. The exponents of abstract art, who are showcasing their works in The Butterfly Effect, the ongoing group show, are Kalicharan Gupta, Kazi Ghiyasuddin, Kishore Shinde (a painting by him appears above), Partha Shaw, Pradip Rakshit, Sheetal Gattani, Shambhavi, Sunil Das and Yusuf. Event: An exhibition of paintings by a group of artists When: Till April 22; 11 am - 7 pm Where: Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road

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Till April 21 at Silpi Art Gallery, 32A Judges Court Road, #2479 2004; 1 pm - 8.30 pm: Reflection of Reality and Beyond, an exhibition of paintings by Amiya Ranjan Sinha. Till April 21 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery B; 3 pm - 8 pm: Ultramarine-8, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by a group of young artists. Participants: Laltu Chowdhury, Sarabita Das, Rana Sabyasachi, Lokenath Yadav, Pinaki Ranjan Bera, Suman Bardhan, Avijit Mondal and Avijit Ghosh. Till April 21 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South Gallery (A); 3 pm - 8 pm: Surrender-II, the second solo exhibition of paintings by Bhaskar Aditya. Till April 22 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: A group show, titled The Butterfly Effect. Participating artists: Kalicharan Gupta, Kazi Ghiyasuddin, Kishor Shinde, Partha Shaw, Pradip Rakshit, Shambhavi Gattani, Sunil Das and Yusuf. Till April 23 at Artists Circle Gallery, 46 Circus Avenue; 2 pm - 7 pm: Impressions of Mandarmoni, an exhibition of the works by 13 city artists who had been to Mandarmoni for three days. Till April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Exposition 2008 — the seventh annual exhibition by the students of Academy of Fine Arts. Till April 24 at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Multiple Choice — Recent paper works by Debraj Goswami. Till April 25 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road: Colour & Rhythm, an exhibition of paintings by Nabyendu Chatterjee. Till April 26 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Joy Dey, Piyali Chakraborty, Sarabita Das, Suparna Chaudhury, Ajit Kumar Ghosh, Surojit Sengupta, Abhishek Acharya, Santosh Sahoo and Chitra Ghosh. Till April 27 at Gallery Yapanchitra, Stephen Court, 3rd floor, Lift 2, 18A Park Street; 10 am - 6 pm: Art Border Line, UK and Art Border Line Foundation India present Tarun Dey Retrospective (1980-2008) Till April 28 (except Sunday) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2283 5394; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays - 2 pm - 7 pm: Shifting the Logic Drawings (1977-2007), an exhibition of paintings by Dilip Ranade. Till April 30 at Galerie Karma, P-505 Keyatola Road, #24636731/32; 10 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by S. Pranam Singh, Sudhangsu Bandyopadhyay and V. Nagdas. Till April 30 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Juxtaposed — an exhibition of paintings featuring the works of Abesh Bivore Mitra, Atanu Bhattacharya and Partha Dasgupta. Till May 3 (except Sundays) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, #3052 3243; 3 pm - 7 pm: Staring Inscriptions, featuring art works by Jayanta Naskar, Lina Ghosh, Maneswar Brahma, Paula Sengupta, Pinaki Barua, Rajen Mondal, Romendra Nath Kasthya, Sabita Pegu, Samita Nag, Siddhartha Ghosh, Som Sankar Roy and Srikant Paul. Till May 9 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Figurative Expressions, an exhibition of the works by Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda, Subrata Pal, Shyamal Mukherjee, Prakash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday Chaudhuri, Gourango Beshai, Bratin Khan and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay. Till May 25 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of the works by Somnath Hore. April 22 - 27 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Bishnu Dhar. April 24 - 27 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Anarkali Reborn — a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Anjanna Kuthiala.

DRAMA

April 23 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents Feriwalaar Mrityu, adapted from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Music & costume: Swatilekha Sengupta. Adaptation & direction: Rudraprasad Sengupta. April 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Samstab presents Eai Ghum. Direction: Dwijen Bandopadhyay. April 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents poet Jasimuddin’s Sojon Badiyar Ghat. Music, concept, design & direction: Goutam Halder. April 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Rang Roop presents Mukhosh Nritya. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. April 25 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 6.30 pm: Little Thespian presents Katha Collage-3 dedicated to Tagore and consisting three of his stories in three languages: Shesher Ratri (Bengali), Jeevit Mrit (Hindi) and Duraasha (Urdu). Design & direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala. April 26 at Academy of Fine Arts premises; 5 pm: Theatre Spandan presents its open-air production, Shial Ponditer Goppo, based on a short story by Upendra Kishore Roy Choudhury. Scripted and designed by Sourav Gupta. April 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Sayak will stage Basbhoomi. Direction: Meghnad Bhattacharya. April 27 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.45 pm: Rang Roop presents Byaram Biram. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay.

PERFORMING ARTS

April 21 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: An evening of Bengali songs, as part of Bangla Sangeet Mela 2008. Participants: Debmalya Chattopadhyay, Supratik Das, Biswajit Dasgupta, Swakshar Basu, Ayan Bandyopadhyay, Raja Chattopadhyay, Sujoy Bhowmick, Joy Bhattacharya, Pranjal Bakshi, Raju Chakraborty, Rumpa Roy (Nath), Gargi Ghosh, Smita Adhikary, Tulika Chakraborty, Jolly Das and band Chandrabindoo. Also, guitar recital by Buddhadev Ganguly. April 21 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6 pm: Bangla Sangeet Mela 2008 features songs by Sunanda Basak, Sukanya Nath, Tripti Sen, Joydeb Sen, Rajyasree Bhattacharya, Biva Sengupta, Jayanta Dey, Debasree Mukhopadhyay, Dola Bandyopadhyay, Nemai Mitra, Indrani Sengupta, Aditi Bhattacharya and others. Also, flute recital by Subir Roy. April 21 at Sisir Mancha; 6 pm: Bangla Sangeet Mela 2008 features Sishu Utsav. Songs by Triparna Chatterjee, Moutan Roy, Debalina Kar, Arunima Bhattacharya, Priyadarshini Tagore, Sreya Dutta and others. April 21 at Girish Mancha; 6 pm: Bangla Sangeet Mela 2008 features songs by Sudeshna Ganguly, Dr Tania Das, Jinia Chowdhury, Madhabi Dutta, Nirmalya Roy, Piya Acharya, Anindita Pal, Shrabana Bhattacharya, Malabika Sardar, Jyotiprakash Chattopadhyay, Mass Singers and others. Also, accordian recital by Saoli Basu Roy. April 21 at Himnagshu Dutta Mukta Mancha, Rabindra Sadan complex; 6 pm: Bangla Sangeet Mela 2008 featuring songs by Sandip Roy, Ananya Halder, Tapan Prabha Dey, Nirjhar Sharma (Silchar), Panchali Kar (Silchar), Bidhan Naskar (Silchar), Moutusi Saha Roy (Silchar), Srilekha Dutta Sudip Sengupta and others. Also, mandolin recital by Saroj Barua. April 25 (4.30 pm) & April 26 (2.30 pm) at Indumati Sabhagriha, Jadavpur University campus: Vistar presents its 32nd Sangeetacharya Late Anil Roy Chowdhury Memorial Classical Music Conference. April 25 at The Princeton Club, 26 Prince Anwar Shah Road; 9 pm: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan presents an evening of electronic and techno-music by Schaeben & Voss feat. Schad Privat, music trio from Germany. April 26 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: Kingshuk presents an evening of dance and Tagore songs. Featuring Panchali Dhar, Pramit Sen, Mrinmoy Roy and artistes of Kingshuk in songs, and folk songs by Bratachari Kendriya Nayakmandali. April 26 at Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani; 7 pm: Netaji Research Bureau presents a programme on women characters in Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry and drama. Dramatic recitation by Bijaylakshmi Barman and Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee with songs by Pramita Mallick.

TALK

April 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Arunatmananda will speak on Mayer Katha. April 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Ritananda will speak in Bengali on Swamijir Patravali. April 21 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Swami Putanandaji will speak on Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

WORKSHOP

Till April 25 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 11 am - 7 pm: A workshop on Rabindrasangeet conducted by Sudeshna Basu.

EXHIBITION

April 22 (12 noon - 8 pm), April 23 - 25 (10 am - 8 pm) at Calcutta Ice Skating Rink: In aid of charity, Rotary Club of Chowringhee presents Parampara 2008, an exhibition of innovative and aesthetic crafts, lifestyle products, pottery, fashion wear, jewellery, etc. from all over India.

FESTIVAL

Till April 21 at Sree Thyagaraja Hall, P-530 Raja Basanta Roy Road: Ved Bhavan Bhajan Samaj celebrates 68th Sri Ramanavami Mahotsavam. The colnculding day features Sundarakaanda Parayanam at 7 pm; and Anjaneya Utsavam by Divyanama Divakara, Kadayanallur Rajagopala Bhagavatar and party at 6 pm.

FILM SHOW

April 23 - 25 & April 28 & 19 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club presents Asian Film World: Fame In - Fade Out, a package of 10 films.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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