Comic tribute As part of its ongoing initiative to promote the cultural heritage of Calcutta, Hutch presents Hutch Odeon 2006, its sixth staging of a festival of quality plays. Marking its beginning is C for Clown, a play created completely out of improvisations on the rehearsal floor. Six clowns enact a day in the life of members of a circus or theatre troupe. As they go through the motions of their daily routine, they encounter a series of human emotions, love and death. The performers? act, including mime, pantomime, acrobatics and dance, along with a bit of spoken language, is a tribute to comedy in the silent era of cinema, and also to all fools, clowns and jesters who have entertained audiences over the ages. In the production, lighting, set, properties, make-up and costume-design go hand-in-hand with the devices of theatrical expression. A complete theatrical creation based on an actor?s experience on and off stage, it represents the first effort of its kind in Indian theatre. Direction: Rajat Kapoor. Event: Play in English, C for Clown, by Cinematograph When: Today at 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm Where: G.D. Birla Sabhagar

Art

Till June 27 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Madhu Dhanuka and Sankari Mitra. Till June 30 at Gallery Nakshatra, 2/1 Outram Street, 2nd floor; 12 noon - 7 pm: The Summer: Content and Discontent, works of celebrated Indian painters. Till June 30 at Gallery Kanishka?s; 11 am - 8 pm: Stylistic Variations, featuring works of eminent artists including Bijon Chowdhury, D.N. Brahma, Paritosh Sen, Prakash Karmakar and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay. Till June 30 (except Sunday) at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm (10 am - 3 pm, Saturday): Paintings on Rajasthan by Nitai Saha. Till June 30 at Vikalp Art Shop, Swabhumi; 4 pm - 8 pm: New Signatures, works of promising artists including Arindam Chakraborty, Debarati Roy & Santanu Roy and sculptures by Debojit Chakraborty.

drama

June 24 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sudrak presents two short plays, Pratimar Kaal and Pakhiwala. June 24 at Madhusudan Mancha & June 25 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Naba Mayukh Nattya Sangstha presents Waarish. Direction: Rishi Mukhopadhyay. June 24 at Padatik Little Theatre- I; 7 pm: Padatik and Rikh present a new play in Hindi, Ho Sakta Hai Do Aadmi Do Kursiyan. Direction: Vinay Sharma. June 24 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Swapna Sandhani presents two short plays, Ajke Aamar Chhuti and Banku Babur Bandhu. Direction: Koushik Sen. June 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natasena presents Katukutu Sambad. Direction: Durga Chakraborty. June 25 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 3.30 pm & 6.30 pm: As part of Hutch Odeon 2006, Ansh presents the Hindi play, Ek Kadam Aage. Direction: Makrand Deshpande. June 25 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Theatre Passion presents Satyajit Ray?s Anukool. Direction: Romaprasad Banik. June 25 at Pyarimohan Library Hall; 6.30 pm: Ethic presents its latest production, Punosthapan. Direction: Debashis Sengupta. June 25 at Padatik?s Buildwell Theatre; 7 pm: Padatik and Brainchild Theatre present the Hindi play, Thaneer Thaneer. Design and direction: Kunal Padhi.

PERFORMING ARTS

June 25 at Gyan Manch; 5 pm: Purvachal (Varddhaman Kalakendra) Kolikata hosts an evening of classical music (tabla lahara) and dance (Bharat Natyam, Odissi and Kuchipudi). June 27 at Crossword Bookstore; 6 pm: The Rainmongers, a rendezvous with monsoon ragas (instrumental and vocal), songs of Tagore and Atulprasad and poetic expressions. Participants: Abhik Mukherjee, Dr Sudeshna Basu, Nipobithi Ghosh, Barun Chanda, Bijoylakshmi Burman and Suchita Raychaudhuri. Compere: Rita Bhimani. Concept & direction: Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee.

talk

June 24 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Veda Parikrama. June 24 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Shantatmananda will speak on Narodiya Bhaktisutra. June 24 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6.15 pm: Prof Arabinda Basu will speak on Conscious Force. June 24 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19 A&B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Manovijnan O Atmatattwa. June 24 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Swami Sarvapremananda will discourse on The Life and Teachings of Swami Vivekananda. June 24 at Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani; 6 pm: Dr Kate O?Malley of Trinity College, Dublin will deliver a lecture on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland. Prof Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University, will be in the chair.

photographs

Till June 30 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Museum & Art Gallery: Image 2006, photographs by Debatosh Sengupta.

discussion

June 24 at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar; 5.30 pm: Sunandan presents a discussion on Rabindranath-er Gaan: Gaowa O Shona. Participants: Enakshi Chattopadhyay, Subhas Choudhury, Malabika Chattopadhyay and Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya. June 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6 pm: Centre for Peace & Progress hosts a discussion on Another Look at Reservation. Eminent political leaders, intellectuals, journalists and social activists will participate.

quiz

July 1 at Swabhumi: Utkala is organising a quiz session for schoolchildren. For details, contact Shreelina Ghosh, #9830439040.

workshop

June 25 at Solace Day Spa & Wellness Centre, 4 Sunny Park; 10 am: Aikido ? the martial art of peace & harmony workshop for children.

reading

June 25 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya?s report of Arjuna?s vow to avenge Abhimanyu?s slaughter by killing Jayadratha, and Krishna rebuking him for taking such a rash decision, in the 333rd weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa?s Mahabharata.

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