Magic of pottery Pottery is fast becoming popular with today’s creative youth, just as it used to be with the artisans of yesteryear. An interesting group of progressive-minded potters has recently formed an organisation called Clay Stories, which will evolve into a platform for potters, craftsmen, artists and art enthusiasts — who will meet and exchange ideas, concepts and enrich their creative endeavours. It hopes to cement a professional relationship with potters across the country as well as all over the world through workshops, seminars, film shows and other media-based dispersible concepts to help develop the profession with scientific and technological assistance, sourcing of raw material, spreading knowledge and so on. Its ongoing maiden event is a collaboration of contemporary and traditional potters that will eventually connect with the national and international potters’ forum. A concept implemented with the help of Crafts Council of West Bengal, it has on display a colourful variety of lamps, teapots, mugs, cups, candle-holders, incense-stick stands and others household accessories ranging from the rustic to the modern. The show is expected to showcase studio pottery of amazing quality in a demonstration-sale ambience and, over time, to encourage the passing on of experience, improved technology and equipment to rural craftsmen, in order to make the craft more sophisticated and inject fresh life and enthusiasm among artisans. Event: An exhibition of pottery When: Till November 28; 11 am - 7 pm Where: Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani

Art

Till November 29 CIMA Gallery; 11 am - 8 pm: CIMA Art Mela — paintings, sculptures, ceramics, graphics, oleographs and prints. Works by Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Ganesh Haloi, Shuvaprasanna, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Rabin Mondal, Suhas Roy, Veena Bhargava, Partha Pratim Deb, Paresh Maity, Samir Aich, Jayashree Chakravarty, Jaya Ganguly, Shipra Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha Ghosh, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Pinaki Barua, Aditya Basak, Sumitro Basak, Shreyasi Chatterjee, Shakila, Swarna Chitrakar, Ramlal Dhar, Sohini Dhar, Ramendranath Kastha, Bimal Kundu, Ashoke Mullick, Shyamal Roy, Kingshuk Sarkar, Ajit Seal, Atin Basak and others including portrait artists and caricaturists. Original artworks ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 25,000. From 3 pm to 8 pm: Interactive discussions, special food stalls and lots of adda. Till November 30 at Bengal Gallery, RTC, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Victoria Ileana Dragomirescu and Sanda Butiu, two eminent artists of Romania. Inauguration today at 6.30 pm 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. 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 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 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 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 Chemould, 12F Park Street: Paintings by Subir Kr Banerjee. 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 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘B’; 3 pm - 8 pm: Recent works of Tanima Bhattacharya and Arup Lodh.

DRAMA

November 28 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee presents Birja-Shulka. Direction: Tulika Das. November 28 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents Dournama, directed and performed by Meghnad Bhattacharya. November 28 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Swapnasoochana presents Biddho Aakaash. Direction: Sudipto Sarkar. November 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Laketown Sreebhumi Sansriti presents its latest production, Dream Dream. Direction: Debesh Chattopadhyay. November 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natyaranga will stage Dadu Chaye Nati Chaye. Direction: Surajit Bandyopadhyay.

TALK

November 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 5.30 pm: Swami Divyananda will speak on Sri Ramakrishner Bhaktabrinda. November 28 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 6 pm: Prof. Dipak Gupta will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. November 28 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Mrityu-Rahasya.

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.

PERFORMING ARTS

November 28 at Sree Guruvayurappan temple, 3/1/1A Nakuleswar Bhattacharjee Lane, #2463 3859; 6 pm: Kathakali presentation, Rugmangada Charitham, by Kalamandalam Murali and his group as part of Guruvayur Ekadasi Celebration. November 28 at Aban Mahal (CLT); 6 pm: Nritya Kunj presents Dancing Divas of Bollywood. November 28 at Calcutta Club lawns; 7 pm: Calcutta Club presents Bajao Re Mohan Bnashi, dance choreographed and directed by Aloka Kanungo. Vocals by Kamalini Mukherjee, Uma Chatterjee, Namita Banerjee and Mira Dutta. Dances by Nivedita Daw, Srabanti Bhattacharya, Sanchita and others. Concept & script: Maitreyee Sengupta. November 28 at Nazrul Mancha; 8 pm onwards (night-long): A programme of classical music to mark the birth centenary of Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty. Participants: Manas Chakraborty (vocal), Buddhadev Dasgupta (sarod), Chitresh Das (Kathak dance), Anindya Chattopadhyay (tabla lahara), Rajan Mishra and Sajan Mishra (vocal), and Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute). November 29 at Gyan Manch; 10 am: Srabosti School of Music presents Nrityanjali 2009. Direction & choreography: Sanjay Bhattacharya November 29 at Gyan Manch; 5.30 pm: Santoshpur Sur-O-Taal presents an evening of dances by the disciples of Sumita Ghosh and dance-drama Doittyo-O-Jadukar.

DISCUSSION

November 28 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 5 pm: Oxford Bookstore, Calcutta, in association with students of IIMC (Indian Institute of Management) and SPARK (Society for Park Street Rejuvenation, Kolkata), will present an audio-visual study of Park Street, The Case for Park Street: Study and Discussion. Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya will grace the occasion.

EXHIBITION

Till November 30 at Netaji Indoor Stadium; 11 am - 8 pm: EIJS 2009 (East India Jewellery Show), organised by Exposure with t2 as Print partner. Till November 30 at 218 AJC Bose Road; 10 am - 8 pm: Bombaim’s new line of creative designs: Mallika Mathur’s line of semi-formal and formal wear; funky products by Design Temple; Western wear by Cherie D’s & Him Her & The Apple; and jewellery@Bombaim.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: 2234-8244

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