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Till December 5 (except Sunday) at Aakriti Art Gallery, 12/3A Hungerford Street, #2289 3027/5041; 12 noon - 7 pm: Time’s Whirlwind — Art of Satish Gujral. November 24 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 6 pm: Preview of Words Don’t Sleep — an exhibition of maestro Hiran Mitra’s paintings illustrated by famous Bengali poets. November 24 - 29 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: 38th group exhibition of Painters ’80. Participating artists: Amit Chakrabarti, Amitava Dhar, Alik Das, Bhabatosh Sutar, Debasish Chakraborty, Dipankar Dutta, Pradosh Paul, Tarun Dey and Tanmoy Biswas. Till November 25 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of portraits by Sabita Dhar. Till November 25 at Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery South ‘B’; 3 pm - 8 pm: Magic Reality, an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Debnath Biswas and Subhendu Sarkar. Till November 25 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 7.30 pm: An exhibition of paintings, glass painting and terracotta by 200 students of Nehru Children’s Museum. November 26 at Emami Chisel Art, Emami Towers (near Ruby Hospital), E.M. Bypass; 5 pm: Dream on Canvas — Exhibition of exquisite canvas art for charity by Sumantra Banerjee. Partnered by Nikon and H-P, net proceeds to be donated to Future Hope. Inauguration by Sanjeev Goenka. Open on November 27, 28 & 29, 3 pm to 8 pm. Till November 28 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: T(HERE) and the space between..., an exhibition of works by Kiran Chandra. Till November 28 at Gallery Exposure, 54B Mahanirban Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Young Bengal — paintings, drawings and graphics by Amit Manna, Anirban Khamaru, Anjan Modak, Ankan Chakraborty, Satavisha Hazra and Soma Das. Till November 28 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #9831005003, 65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Color Immersion — an exhibition of the works by Atin Basak, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Saha, Aditya Basak, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Subrata Pal, Suhas Roy, Bratin Khan, Gourango Beshai, Sibsaday Chaudhuri and others. Till November 29 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 3 pm - 8 pm: Astonishment of Being, an exhibition of the works of eminent artists from various parts of India. Exhibits include paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and video. Curated by Deeksha Nath. Till November 29 at The Halo Heritage Art Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, #24190133; 2 pm - 8 pm: Different Strokes — a group exhibition by Swapno to raise funds for offering merit scholarship to the needy students. Till November 30 at Gandhara Art Gallery, 1B Gurusaday Road, #22801790, 22811255: Narratives Now! — works of Chandrima Bhattacharya, Kazi Nasir, Farhad Husain, George Martin, Nantu Behari Das, Pradip Patra, Rupa Paul, Saikat Surai and T.M. Azis. Till November 30 (except Sunday) at Gallery K2, Supra Court, 35 Lansdowne Terrace, #2465 1444; 11 am - 7 pm: A solo show of recent works by Tapas Kanti Mitra. Till November 30 at 26 Lee Road, ground floor; 11.30 am - 7.30 pm: The inaugural exhibition of Ahuja Museum for the Arts features over 1000 works from the museum’s collection. Till December 2 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park, #2464 2617; 2 pm - 7 pm: Recent work by Hugo Bonamin. Till December 2 (except Sunday) at 94 Ballygunge Place, #24613145; 10 am - 7 pm: Windmills of the Mind — an exhibition of paintings by Ketakee Roy Choudhury. Till December 6 at Taj Bengal Promenade Lounge: Celebrating Love — an exhibition of pain-tings by Dhiren Sasmal, based on the love theme found in ancient classics of Bengali literature. Till December 28 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 8 pm: Paintings by Nina Das. Till January 3 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia, Stephens Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: B-Swarga — new works by Jayanta Roy. Till January 16 (except Sunday) at 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Experimenter presents Freedom is Notional — works of three of South Asia’s finest artists: Shilpa Gupta, Bani Abidi and Naeem Mohaiemen.DRAMA
November 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Barasat Anusilani presents Shalya Parbo. Direction: Rudratez Sengupta. November 24 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Natadha presents Shakuntala. Drama & direction: Shib Mukhopadhyay. November 29 at Calcutta Club; 7.30 pm: Stagecraft will stage A Slice of Life featuring four short plays, Match Point, Come Next Tuesday, Give the Bishop My Faint Regards and Stops Along the Way. Direction: Rohit Pombra.FILM SHOW
Till November 27 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #24556942/43; 6.30 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents A String of Suppressed Films. Today: The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, English, 110 minutes).TALK
November 24 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Ramaranjan Mukherji will speak in Bengali on Bharatiya Nandantattva. November 24 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 7 pm: Indo-German Association, Calcutta hosts a lecture on Geotechnical Investigation of Landslide Hazard: A Case Study from Sikkim Himalayas by Dr Biswajit Bera.PHOTOGRAPHS
Till November 24 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #24556942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts and Tasveer present Tales of Chitpur — photographs by Saibal Das. Till November 25 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘A’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Kingshooker Chhobi — the second solo exhibition of photographs by Kimsuk Ray.PERFORMING ARTS
November 24 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6 pm: Sri Aurobindo Jayanti Function: Reading and recitation by Santwana Chowdhury and Debashis Mitra; song by Nupurchhanda Ghosh; and talk by Goutom Banerjee. November 24 at Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar; 6 pm: On its 20th anniversary, Ekushe Sansad presents Chitra Sen’s reminiscences on Komal Gandhar, followed by reading of Ekushe Sansad O Arun Mitra (concept: Ratna Mitra) by Ashok Majumdar, Tarun Pal and Ratna Mitra; poetry-reading by Rajat Bandyopadhyay; reading from selected portions of the play, Kanthanalitey Surjya, by Dwijen Bandyopadhyay, Sumita Bandyopadhyay and Bibhas Chakraborty; and songs by Pratul Mukhopadhyay. November 28 at Nat Mandir, Sovabazaar Rajbari; 6 pm: Sutanati Parishad presents Raag O Besh, an evening of Indian classical music featuring Tarun Bhattacharya (santoor), Mahalakshmi Shenoy (vocal) and Abhijeet Banerjee (tabla).BOOK exhibition
Till December 13 at Crossword, Elgin Road: Crossword-Penguin Fest (in association with t2). Attractive offers on Penguin Books for the entire period across five Crossword stores. Till November 29 at the Art Gallery of Bhasha Bhavan: On the occasion of the 60th year to mark the founding of Asutosh Collection, National Library hosts an exhibition of books, documents and pictures. Till December 15 at Starmark (Lord Sinha Road, South City Mall, Mani Square and City Centre); 11 am - 8 pm: Children’s book exhibition offers a wide range of titles.EXHIBITION
Till November 25 at Artisana, 13 Chowringhee Terrace (1st floor); 10 am - 7 pm: Shrujan presents the finest hand-crafted embroidery from the magical land of Kutch. Till November 30 at The Halo Heritage, 26 Ritchie Road; 11.30 am - 8 pm: Soumya’s Creation presents durries and home accessories.WORKSHOP
November 29 & December 6 at Eduzone campus, 112 Southern Avenue; 11 am - 12.30 pm: Free interactive workshop with audio-visual presentation on tests SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL & IELTS. One-hour diagnostic tests on these exams on request, with corrections and followup. E-mail confirmation at eduzoneindia@gmail.com For details, call 9830020277, 9230613528 or visit www.eduzoneindia.com.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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