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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 28 at Chemould, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Artworks by Bhaskar Bhattacharjee and Dipankar Ray. 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. Till December 31 (except Sunday & December 25) at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Ground & First floor galleries; 11 am - 7 pm: Unravelling Sweden, an exhibition of artworks by artists from Sweden. Till December 31 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, 24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of Iranian contemporary art. Till December 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 65508418; 10.30 am - 6.30 pm: Rhetorical Dreams — a group exhibition by well-known artists. Till December 31 at ECA Art Walk, South City Mall; 12 noon - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sadek Ali. Till January 5 (except Sundays) at Gallery Nakshatra, 2/1 Outram Street; 11.30 am - 7.30 pm: Inner Quest — a group show by eminent artists of Bengal.DRAMA
Till December 25 at Academy of Fine Arts: Nandikar’s 27th National Theatre Festival. Today at 10 am: Rabindra Pronam (Bengali; dir: Jhulan Mukherjee & Shambhunatha Shaw) & Indian Idol (Bengali; dir: Debshankar Halder) by Nandikar’s Children’s Ensemble. At 3 pm: Tomar Naam (Bengali) & Kanu (Bengali), both directed by Swatilekha Sengupta, by Nandikar. At 6.30 pm: Madhabi (Bengali; dir: Swatilekha Sengupta) by Nandikar. December 25 at Kala Mandir; 6 pm: As part of its Annual Utsav, Sangit Kala Mandir presents Bas Itna Sa Khwab, a play in Hindi with Shefali Shah and Kiran Karmarkar in the lead. Direction: Chandrakant Kulkarni. Till December 30 at Bijon Theatre; 6.30 pm: Shohan presents 8th Desh-Bidesher Natya Mela, dedicated to Tagore. Today: Asar Natyam (Birbhum) will stage Shasti, directed by Bijay Kumar Das; and Gayeshpur Manchasena (North 24 Parganas) will stage Bisarjan, directed by Soumitra Basu. Till December 31: The 13th Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsav organised by Aneek. Today at Rabindra Sadan, 3 pm: Fata Gopal (dir: Durga Chakraborty) by Natasena; at 6.30 pm: Chandalika (dir: Usha Ganguli) by Rangakarmee. At Girish Mancha, 6.30 pm: Mayer Moto (dir: Seema Mukhopadhyay) by Rang Roop. At Minerva, 6.30 pm: Sikhondi Katha (dir: Mahakal Natyo Sampraday, Dhaka. At Purbashree, Salt Lake, 6 pm: Kalkutir (dir: Sk. Khoiruddin) by Living Opera, Delhi. December 26 at Academy of Fine Arts; 10.30 am: Rang Roop presents Brajo Buror Sabuj Baksho. Dir: Seema Mukhopadhyay. December 26 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Pancham Vaidic presents Tagore’s Ghare Baire, directed by Arpita Ghosh.TALK
December 25 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 5.30 pm: Swami Tattwajnanananda will speak on Mundakaponishad. December 25 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak on Mrityu Rahasya. December 25 at Ramakrishna Mancha, Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street; 6.30 pm: Swami Satyapriyananda will speak on Narada-Bhaktisutra.CHRISTMAS EVENT
December 25 at Crossword, Elgin Road; 11.30 am onwards: Christmas readings from season’s popular stories and poems, cariols, and a Christmas Quiz by The Radiant Readers — Dr Debnita Chakravarty, Caroline Turner Servaia, Patranjali Nandy and Reshmi Bose. Tarot Card reading at a special price by Dilpreet on december 25, 26 & 31 and on January 2, 11 am onwards.CELEBRATION
December 26 at Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Elgin Road; 6 pm: An evening of music, old photographs and anecdotes from the past in celebration of the birth centenary of Emilie Schenkl, and in honour of Krishna Bose, chairperson, Netaji Research Bureau. Violin Brothers Devshankar and Jyotishankar will perform a special concert.EXHIBITION
December 25 at Taj Bengal; 12 noon - 7 pm: An exhibition of designer jewellery by Bina Goenka. Till December 28 at 8/2 Loudon Street, #22811524; 11 am - 7.30 pm: Earthy Myths presents its Christmas collection of outfits and saris, Nomads, inspired by world cultures.PERFORMING ARTS
December 25 & 26 at the Centenary Hall, University of Calcutta; 6 pm: Pracheen Kala Kendra celebrates Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary with Tagore songs by Srabani Sen this evening; and a shehnai-vocal duet by Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan and Pandit Dinanath Mishra, and a sitar recital by Manu Kumar Sen tomorrow. December 26 at Sash, 27 Mirza Ghalib Street; 5 pm: An evening of Rock music featuring Hades Crossfire.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: 2234-8244All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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