DRAMA

July 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Rittwik presents Ichchhapuran. Dir: Pranab Chatterjee. July 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Bohurupee presents its latest production, Nishiddha Thikana. Performing director: Debesh Roychowdhury. July 24 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan presents Bhitu Bhutor Bhul. Direction: Kunal Mukhopadhyay. July 24 at Natya Bhavan, EE-8, Phase II, Bidhan Nagar; 6.30 pm: The Action Players will showcase the work-in-progress of its forthcoming production, Beyond the Land of Hattamala, written by Badal Sircar and directed by Zarin Chaudhuri. July 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Anya Theatre presents Nakchhabita. Dir: Bibhas Chakraborty. July 25 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Samstab presents Gunadharer Asukh. Direction: Dwijen Bandyopadhyay. July 25 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Choopkatha presents Mrs. Soriano. Direction: Dolly Basu. July 25 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Hattamela presents Rakshasbadh Pala. Direction: Gurudas Bandyopadhyay.

EXHIBITION

Till July 25 at Victorial Memorial Hall; 10 am - 5 pm: Victorial Memorial, in collaboration with information and cultural affairs department, Government of West Bengal, presents Pankha — Handfans of the Indian subcontinent: A collection by Jatin Das. Till July 25 at Nirvana China House, 8B Middleton Street; 11 am - 8 pm: Nirvana China House is showcasing original Chinese porcelain from Jingdezhen in south China’s Jiangxi province.

performing arts

Till July 26 at Sree Satyananda Devayatan, 1 Ibrahimpur Road, Jadavpur; 6 pm: The 77th birth anniversary of Sree Archana Maa will be celebrated with classical music, audio-play and recitation, poetry-reading and discourses. Today: Sitar recital by Kajal Chatterjee. July 24 at the Ali Akbar Sangeet Kaksha, CF-339 Salt Lake; 5 pm: Darbari presents a Hindustani classical music programme featuring Pranab Mandal (sitar) and Keka Datta Chowdhury (light classical vocal). July 24 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Shakespeare Sarani; 6 pm: Smarone-Barone — a programme of the songs of D.L. Roy, Rajanikanta, Atulprosad, Dilip Roy and of songs which has music by Tinkari Bandyopadhyay. Participants include Swastika Mukhopadhyay and Agnibeen Chattopadhyay (D.L. Roy), Nupurchhanda Ghosh and Atanu Sanyal (Atulprosad), Sikha Basu and Prabuddha Raha (Rajanikanta), Aparna Majumdar and Debashis Basu (Dilip Roy), and Pranati Roy (Tinkari Bandyopadhyay). Also, Geeti-Arghya by the artistes of Ahana and felicitation to Savitri Ghosh. July 24 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: The Music, The Piano, The Legend — An evening with V. Balsara. Introduction by Kabir Suman. Organised by Anya Haoa. July 24 at Padatik Little Theatre; 6.30 pm: Bharata Natyam recital by Anusuya Banerjee. July 24 at Kala Kunj; 6.30 pm: Compositions presents various types of Bengali songs by Mahul Basu and Mahua Bhattacharya. The second session comprises Tagore songs by Arun Gangopadhyay.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Till July 26 at Zurich restaurant, Sudder Street: Souls of India — an exhibition of photographs taken by Vanessa Diaz Garcia, a tourist from Spain. Till July 31 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 7.30 pm: Tamasha: Present Perfect — an exhibition of photographs by Sandesh Bhandare. Till July 30 at the Metropolitan Art Salon, 7 Chowringhee Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Jahangir’s Paris in Black & White — photographs taken by Jahangir.

TALK

July 24 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Pradyot Kumar Mukhopadhyaya will speak in Bengali on Dharma, Darshan O Vijnan. July 24 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Shantatmananda will speak on Narodio Bhaktisutra. July 24 at Lakshminarayan Temple, 1B Grove Lane, Calcutta 26; 6 pm: Discussion on Bhagavad Gita by Iskcon Youth Forum July 24 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19A & B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Manusher Divya-Swarup. July 24 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagore; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga by Swami Vamananandaji. July 25 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads of Karna’s second refusal of Krishna’s offer to reconcile him to his Pandava brothers, Vidura’s prophecy to Kunti of the doom of all Kshatriyas, and her decision to plead personally to Karna to accept her as his mother, in the 239th weekly session of his complete English transcreation of Vyasa’s Mahabharata.

SPORT SHOW

July 25 at MBD Airport Hotel; 11 am onwards: The sensational German Formula One Race on giant screen.