Captured from memory The East Calcutta Photographic Association has been organising the All India Photography Exhibition every year since 1961. This year, the golden jubilee of the exhibition will be celebrated over three days from December 24 to 26. The celebrations, titled Golden Jubilee Salon 2010, will be inaugurated by filmmaker Goutam Ghose at Gaganendra Pradarshashala at 4 pm on Friday. Minister for information and cultural affairs, Soumendra Nath Bera, will be the chief guest. A five-member panel of renowned photographers selected 149 photographers for the exhibition in three sections — Monochrome Pictorial Print, Colour Pictorial Print and Photo Travel Colour Print. Out of these, 12 individual prizes and six certificates of merit will be awarded. Avijit De of Barackpore has been judged the Grand Best photographer of the salon for his portrait Ria, H. Satish from Bangalore has won the Best Landscape Award for his picture Paradise and S.R. Patel from Ahmedabad will be awarded a plaque for his picture Rear Window. Bidyut Goswami and Somnath Roy Dey are the winners of the ECPA Plaque in the travel category. Chhanda Paul and H.S. Byakod are among the certificate winners. The other notable contributors to the exhibition are K.G. Maheshwari from Mumbai, Bhudev Bhagat from Jamshedpur and Ajit Mondal from Calcutta. A seminar on photography and the prize distribution ceremony will be held on Sunday at 5 pm at Paschim Banga Bangla Academy Hall. Photographer H. Satish, Tushar Kanti Dutta, Shivaji Ghosh, B.P. Maity and Biswatosh Sengupta are the speakers at the seminar. Event: Golden jubilee celebrations of All India Photography Exhibition When: December 24 to 26; 3pm - 8pm Where: Gaganendra Pradarshashala, 1/1 Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road

ART

Till January 8 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers (2nd floor), 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, 2485 8717/8509; 3 pm - 7 pm (Mondays) & 2 pm - 7 pm (Tuesdays - Saturdays): Ganesh Pyne: His Mahabharata. Till January 8 (except Sunday & public holidays) at Studio 21, 17L Dover Terrace, 2486 6735; Monday: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesday - Saturday: 11 am - 7 pm: Tarang: New Wave from Santiniketan. Exhibition of recent works by members of SPAN (Santiniketan Practicing Artists Network). Participating artists: Apu Dasgupta, Atanu Mukherjee, Bimalananda Roy, Deepak Rajbhar, Mahmud Hussain, Md. Sabir Ali, Mrinmoy Debbarma, Naba Kumar Maji, Pradip Kumar Patra, Pushpal Sarkar, Rajendra Kumar Pradhan, Rishav Gandhar Narzary, Sajad Hamdani, Sajal Kaity, Sanatan Saha and Shekhar Baran Karmakar. Till December 26 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Inspired Designs: Paintings to Textiles, an exhibition of textile designs from the adaptation of paintings of Abdus Shakur Shah, eminent painter of Bangladesh. Presented by Myth Shop, Dhaka in collaboration with Art Trust, Calcutta. Till December 31 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 11 am - 9 pm: Colour, Life and Beyond, an exhibition of paintings by Rupa Mitra.

DRAMA

Till December 25 at Academy of Fine Arts: Nandikar’s 27th National Theatre Festival. Today at 6.30 pm: Begum Ki Takia (Hindi; dir: Ranjit Kapoor) by NSD Repertory Co, Delhi. December 23 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents its latest production, Manbhanjan. Direction: Anish Ghosh. December 23 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Shilpi Sangha presents its latest play, Kokil Sir, directed by Soumitra Basu.

CHRISTMAS EVENTS

December 23 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 4 pm – 8 pm: Starmark will hold a Christmas Carnival for children with plenty of fun, games, a Santa Claus, tattoo painting and lucky dips. For more details, call 99039 85097

CONFERENCE

December 23 at Taj Bengal; 10 am - 4 pm: Indian Chamber of Commerce organises Travel India - Conference on Tourism, Heritage and Hospitality in presence Shekhar Dutt, governor of Chhattisgarh, Sultan Ahmed, minister of state, ministry of tourism, Government of India, and Manab Mukherjee, minister-in-charge, department of tourism, Government of West Bengal.

SCREENING

Till December 24 at Jorasanko Thakurbari, Bichitra; 4.30 pm: Rabindra Chalachitra Utsav, organised by Rabindra Bharati Pradarshashala and Tapan Sinha Foundation. Today: Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray. Till December 24 at Gorky Sadan; 6.30 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club and Russian Centre of Science & Culture in Calcutta present Golden Steps on Silver Screen, a film festival dedicated to Uday Shankar. Today: Iberia (Direction: Carlos Saura).

TALK

December 23 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 5.45 pm: Swami Vamanananda will speak on Practice of Spirituality and Meditation. December 23 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Somatmananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Mayer Katha. December 23 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake City; 6 pm: Chhaya Ganguly will speak on Sri Sarada Devi Anudhyan. December 23 at Ramakrishna Mancha, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street; 6.30 pm: Swami Atmapriyananda will speak on Kenopanishad. December 23 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak on Abhedanandadarsana.

EXHIBITION

December 23 at Bidhannagar Mela Ground; 5 pm: Inauguration of Children’s Book Fair. The fair will continue till December 31 between 11 am and 9 pm.

PERFORMING ARTS

December 23 at Kund Area, City Centre, Salt Lake; 6 pm: As part of the Restoration of Innocence project, Expression Through Rhythm culminates in a cultural evening presented by the children and hosts of a recently-concluded workshop on music, painting, fashion and dance conducted by Tanmoy Bose, Laura Price, Agnimitra Paul and Madhumita Pal. Featuring Taal Tantra and other special guests. December 23 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: The students and well-wishers of well-known Kathak guru Susmita Misra celebrate her 75th birthday with a programme of six Kathak solos by Saberi Misra, Trina Roy, Ramaprasad Chatterjee, Ashimbandhu Bhattacharjee, Madhumita Roy and Kajal Misra Roy, and Divyachanda, choreographed by Guru Susmita Misra and Kajal Misra Roy. December 23 at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, 3 Regent Park; 5.30 pm onwards: Violin (hall), Synthesizer-junior (open-air stage), English elocution (hall), Bengali elocution (open-air stage), creative dance (open-air stage) and sarod recital by Alam Khan (hall) as part of Aspiration 2010. December 23 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Open Doors & Chandril Odissi Centre present Odissi dance, accompanied by Tagore songs. Choreography & dance direction: Arundhati Roy.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-700001; Fax: 2234-8244

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