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Till February 23 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #9830049825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Hues of Light, an exhibition of impressionist paintings by seven young Vietnamese artists. Till February 23 at Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Mohandas N.N. / New York, an exhibition of paintings. Till February 23 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Dristi presents Miniatures, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by B.R. Panesar, Partha Pratim Deb, Sunil Das, Abhijit Das, Banasri Khan, Chandranath Saha, Debabrata Sarkar, Nabendu Sengupta, Nitai Das, Pradeep Das, Sudipta Dutta and Utpal Dutta. Till February 23 at Gallery with Difference, Avishek Point, 2nd floor, 152 S.P. Mukherjee Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: That is Today — a solo exhibition of paintings and pen & ink drawings by Shomi Banerjee. Till February 24 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, #22289719; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings, ceramics and graphics by Dipanjan Bagli, Manik Ghosh, Partha Kabiraj, Saheb Dey, Swarup Nandi and Tushar Kanti Pradhan. Till February 24 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Windows on the World — an exhibition of the works by Ranadip Mukherjee. Till February 25 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 2 pm - 8 pm: Anweshan hosts an art exhibition by a group of young artists: Amitava Chakraborty, Somnath Majumder, Bijoy Bera, Binoy Dalui, Debabrata Mazumder, Debjani Majumder and Pritish Daw. Till February 26 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Nature Symphonique — paintings by Anju Chaudhuri. Till February 27 (except Monday) at Anant Art Gallery, 18-A Alipore Road, #32584832; 11 am - 7 pm: Nishshabda — paintings by Siraj Saxena. Till February 29 (except Sunday) at Mon Art Gallery, 6 Picasso Bithi (Hungerford Street), Regency 3rd floor; #22895438; 11.30 am - 7 pm: In Search of the Abyss, a solo painting exhibition by Manoj Kachangal. Till March 2 at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace; 11 am - 7 pm: A New Fulfilment, an exhibition of paintings by Dhiraj Chowdhury. Till March 15 (except Sundays) at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindustan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: An exhibition of new works on paper by Ritesh Meshram and Vijay Bandar.DRAMA
February 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Anya Theatre presents Aachhe Aachhe Sthan, with Bibhash Chakraborty in the lead. Drama, music & direction: Ramaprasad Banik. February 23 at Rabindra Sadan-Nandan complex; 4 pm: Theatre Spandan will stage its latest open-air production, Brijer Opore Manush, written and directed by Sourav Gupta. February 23 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Blank Verse presents Furrut: A Theatre for Children. Drama & direction: Raja Bhattacharya. February 23 & 24 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 6.30 pm: Padatik presents its latest production, Lahron Ke Rajhans (Hindi) by Mohan Rakesh. Direction: Shyamanand Jalan. February 24 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Little Thespian will stage Katha Collage 2, comprising four stories by four different writers: Sayeed Premi’s Rihaee (Urdu), Shailendra’s Sapne Ki Baat (Hindi), Madhu Kankria’s File (Hindi) and Anis Rafi’s Polythene Ki Deewar (Urdu). Design & direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala. February 24 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Anya Bhuban. Direction: Pankaj Munshi. February 24 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Natya Aanan presents Satyajit Ray’s Hirak Rajar Deshe. Direction: Chandan Sen. February 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents Aayna Harin. Direction: Tarapada Mukhopadhyay. February 24 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Blind Opera presents Brishti Brishti. Direction: Ashok Pramanik. February 24 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Lok-Krishti’s Krishna Gahwar. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu. February 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Theatron presents Bernarda Albar Bari. Direction: Saswati Biswas.PERFORMING ARTS
February 23 at the grounds of Birla High School for Boys; 5 pm - 8.30 pm: The Alumni Association of J.D. Birla Institute is organising Entourage, a musical evening with DJ Akash. February 23 at Sisir Mancha; 5.45 pm: Surolok presents A Shudhu Gaaner Din, featuring audio-play by Apala Basu, Kajal Sur, Indrani Ghosh and Biplab Sen; Tagore song and reading by Suchhanda Ghosh, Dipankar Pal, Reeta Roy and others; guitar by Dr Sivaji Basu; and a solo recital of songs by Srabani Sen. February 23 at Kala Mandir; 6 pm: To raise funds for the building of Academy of Indian Culture, Indo Occidental Symbiosis presents Basante Aaj Dhorar Chitto. Participants: Sushanta Mukherjee, Sreya Guha Thakurta and Shounak Chatterjee. Compere: Soumitra Chattopadhyay.TALK
February 23 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 5.45 pm: Swami Tattwajnanananda will speak on Kenopanishad. February 23 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Debabrata Sen Sharma will speak on Spiritual Philosophy of Sri Ramakrishna in the Light of Kashmir Shaivaism. February 23 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: Prof. Dipak Gupta will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. February 23 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Manovijnan O Atmatattwa.EXHIBITION
February 23 & 24 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 4 pm - 6.15 pm: An exhibition of wall painting, greeting-card making and other innovative works by the students of Nehru Children’s Museum.EDUCATION
February 23 at Bharat Sabha Hall, 62 BB Ganguly Street; 2 pm: A programme for senior school students for promotion of science. Featuring lecture and question-answer on New Concept of Solar System, to be followed by a film on Albert Einstein. Speaker: Dr Debi Prosad Duari, director, Birla Planetarium. Organised by Indian Association and Kalpana Chawla Centre.BIRTH CENTENARY
February 23 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6 pm: As part of Dadabhai’s (Piyush Kanti Bandyopadhyay) birth centenary programme, Piyushalok presents the release of Chatushtoy, a complete anthology of a collection of four earlier-published (1931-41) books of verse by Dadabhai, and the launch of Katha Chhilo Bhalobasibar, an audio CD of the reading of Dadabhai’s self-composed poems. Also, Dadabhai’s songs to be rendered by Sukti Subhra Dey, Subhankar Bhaskar, Sikha Dey and Pratul Mukhopadhyay.PHOTOGRAPHS
February 23 at the seminar hall of Howrah Distt. Library, 5/4 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Howrah 1; 5.30 pm: The opening ceremony of Society of Photographers’ 40th Howrah Colour Salon and Members Annual Prints Exhibition. Projections at 6.30 pm daily till Feb. 27. Till March 8 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia Kolkata, Stephen’s Court, 18 Park Street; #4001 0148; 11 am - 7 pm: Gauri Gill - The Americans.READING
February 24 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Karna routing Sikhandin, Dhristadyumna battling Duhsasana and Vrisasena Nakula, Sahadeva defeating Uluka and, respectively, Satyaki Sakuni, Kripa Yudhamanyu, Kritavarman Uttamaujas and Bhima Duryodhana, and the Kauravas targeting Yudhisthira, in the 413th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.SCIENCE WORKSHOP
February 24 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 5 pm: As a part of its Startrekkers Magical Voyage,Starmark holds Riddles in Your Teacup, a fun-filled science workshop for children and their parents featuring Dr Partha Ghose.For details, contact 2282 2617/18/19.ANNIVERSARY
Till February 24 at Sankara Hall, 93 Southern Avenue; 5.30 pm: The 55th anniversary celebrations of Tamil Manram features discourses by Tamil scholars Nellai K. Sadagopan and N. Srinivasan.POETRY
February 24 at Rooftop of 120 Lenin Sarani, Calcutta 700 013; 4 pm - 7 pm: Srijan hosts Springtime Poetry Carnival. Participants include Amit Chaudhuri, Amitabha Chaudhury, Amitabha Gupta, Amitava Roy, Amlan Dasgupta, Ananda Lal, Ananya Banerjee, Anjana Basu, Ashoke Vishwanathan, Awadhesh M Gupta, Badal Basu, Bani Basu, Boudhayan Mukhopadhyay, Dibyendu Palit, Ian Zachariah, Joy Goswami, Kashi Kheria, Ketaki Dutt Paul, Mohan K Dewan, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Namita Chaudhuri, Nawal, Narnarayan Harlalka, Nitasha Guha, Pawan Maskara, Rimi B Chatterjee, Samarendra Sengupta, Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sarat K and Bijoya Mukhopadhyay, Sharmila Ray, Sovona Mukherjee, Srijato, Subodh Sarkar, Trina Banerjee, Utpal, Utpal K. Basu and guest poet from the US, Biman Roy. Those interested in reading self-composed poems may e-mail to srijan2000@gmail.comAll 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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