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An eternal tale of love, temptation, deception and separation, Tagore’s immortal dance-drama Shyama has universal appeal and is relevant to our times as well. The story, based on an old Buddhist legend, depicts the passionate love of a court dancer Shyama for the itinerant merchant Vajrasen, and its tragic sequel. To be presented in traditional Bharata Natyam style, this evening’s performance features Bollywood actor Gracy Singh (of Lagaan fame; picture right) in the role of its eponymous heroine, who promises to hold the audience spellbound with her graceful moves and eloquent expressions. Other participants include Manoj Malhotra (as Vajrasen) and Kalamandalam Venkit (as Kotal) in dance; Kavita Krishnamurthy, Srikanto Acharya, Babul Supriyo, Rupankar, Saheb Chattopadhyay and Jayati Chakraborty in songs, and Soumitra Chattopadhyay and Sreela Majumder (narration). Direction: Alokananda Ray. Hosted by Indo Occidental Symbiosis and Juhu Cultural Association (Mumbai).
Event: Tagore’s dance-drama Shyama When: Tomorrow at 6.30 pm Where: Science City auditorium
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art
Till November 15 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings and sculptures presented by Chitri O Bhaskar Gosthi. Participants: Avinandan Barua, Chandrasekhar Basu Majumdar, Dinesh Gain, Goutam Sarma, Jiten Roy, Prithwis Sen, Subuddha Ghosh and Tusar Kanti Prodhan.
Till November 15 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Creators presents a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures.
Till November 15 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park Road, #3058 4060/62; 11 am - 7 pm (weekdays): Larger Perspective, a show of large format contemporary artworks by eminent artists.
Till November 16 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of recent works by Kanchanmala Ghosh. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till November 16 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 2nd floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: Contemporary Group of Modern Artist presents its second group exhibition of paintings and sculptures.
Till November 16 at Gallery Sunayan, P-271, B Block, Lake Town; 3.30 pm - 8 pm: Needle-art works by Namita Chakraborty.
Till November 16 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 8 pm: Emami Chisel Art and Starmark present Art on Easel, an exhibition of artworks by Shukla Bhattacharya.
Till November 16 at Spectrum Art Gallery, 4 Lake West Road, Santoshpur; 2 pm - 8 pm: Rainbow — paintings and sculptures by eminent masters and contemporary artists.
Till November 18 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #2460 4245; 11 am - 7 pm: Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts presents Glasscapes — its first anniversary show of glass sculptures, paintings, photography and object d’art.
Till November 19 (except Monday) at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, #2466 6802/2843; 3 pm - 8 pm: Nature Invited — an exhibition of sculptures by Manik Talukdar.
Till November 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, South Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of musical drawings and surreal paintings in stitch by Biswajit Mukhopadhyay.
Till November 20 at Anant Art Gallery, 18A Alipore Road; 11 am - 7 pm: Fieldsoflabour — an exhibition of paintings by Pradeep I. Mishra.
Till November 23 at Gallery Kolkata, 41 Shakespeare Sarani, Duckback House, 2nd floor, #2287 3377; 11 am - 7 pm: An exhibition of creative art furniture, installation and sculptures.
Till November 25 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886/2837; 2 pm - 7 pm: A solo exhibition of paintings by Phalguni Dasgupta.
Till November 29 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road, #24484925/24497931; 11 am - 8 pm: Beyond the Dark — Recent works: Mixed Media and Sculptures by Shuvaprasanna.
DRAMA
November 15 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Spandan IPTA presents Anticlock, written and directed by Sangram Guha.
November 16 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Ensemble presents Sonata, an Indian English play, wriiten by Mahesh Elkunchwar and performed and directed by Sohag Sen.
November 16 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Samikshan presents Anya Bhuban. Direction: Pankaj Munshi.
November 16 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Buddhadeva Bose’s Kaal Sandhya, directed by Kumar Roy.
November 16 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Mukhomukhi and Niva Arts present Atmakatha. Direction: Soumitra Chattopadhyay.
November 16 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre; 7 pm: Thealight will stage Ruddhabaak, dramatised by Biswadeb Dutta and directed by Atanu Sarkar.
PERFORMING ARTS
Till November 16 at Uttam Mancha: Rasikhapriya presents its 16th anniversary programme of Carnatic music. Today at 5.15 pm: Vocal recital by R. Vedavalli, with Vasantha Kannan (violin) and Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (mridangam). Tomorrow at 5.15 pm: Vocal recital by Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, with Embar S. Kannan (violin), Poongulam S. Subramanian (mridangam) and S. Karthick (ghatam).
Till November 16 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Sangeet Natak Akademi presents Thumri Festival. Participants: Murad Bano, Subhra Guha and Ajay Chakraborty on Nov. 15; and Savita Devi, Mashkoor Ali Khan and Girija Devi on Nov. 16. Also, lecture demonstration on Nov. 15 at 10.30 am. Topic: Legend of Thumri in three parts — Begum Akhtar by Shanti Hiranand, Siddheshwari Devi by Savita Devi, and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan by Ajay Chakraborty.
November 15 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: An evening of Carnatic music and dance. Featuring a violin jugalbandi by Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath, with K.V. Prasad (mridangam) and Vaikam Gopalkrishnan (ghatam); and Bharata Natyam by Milan Adhikari, Shambo Das, Debarghya Chaudhuri and Subho Roy Chowdhury of Kalamandalam Calcutta.
November 15 at Science City Auditorium; 6.30 pm: West Bengal Correction Services and Indo Occidental Symbiosis present Tagore’s Valmiki Pratibha, to be performed by the inmates of West Bengal Correctional Homes. Direction: Alokananda Roy.
CHILDREN’S DAY
November 15 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 12 noon - 8 pm: Playdough Contest with attractive prizes for children. Details at #99039 85097.
November 15 at Tollygunge Club, Club House, 1st floor; 4.15 pm: Airtel celebrates Children’s Day with customers’ children and Thakurpukur Orphanage (courtesy Lions Club of Naheshtala) and guests Oindrilla Dutt, Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee and Dr Jayanto Choudhuri.
November 15 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 4.30 pm: Go As You Like (dfancy dress competition) for children 4 yrs to 12 yrs, and dance programme by Jawahar Sishu Bhavan, Howrah.
November 15 & 16 at Odyssey Stores, merlin Residency, Prince Anwar Shah Road; 6 pm - 7 pm: A fun-filled festival, Magic of Stories, to revive the art of story-telling for the new age kids and parents.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till November 20 at Photographers’ Gallery, 59A Southend Park; 3 pm - 8 pm: Album # One — selected photographs by Uday Shankar Hajra.
Till November 15 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South ‘B’ Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: The first solo exhibition of photographs by Kimsuk Ray.
Till November 23 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: Patterns — an exhibition of photographs by Susan Aurinko, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Anirban Das Mahapatra, Gaurav Gangwar, Naquib Hossain, Naveen Kishore, Ameet Mallapur, Mrinal Mandal, Deepak Tandon and Ian Umeda.
Till December 12 (except Mondays) at Bose Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street, #4001 0148; 11 am - 7 pm: Bose Pacia Calcutta Gallery, the Embassy of France in India, The Consulate General of France and the Alliance Françiase du Bengale present Tribute to Henri Cartier Bresson: Commented Images.
TALK / DISCUSSION
November 15 at State Central Library, 1/17 CIT Scheme, VII-M, VIP Road; 5 pm: A discussion and release function of the Bangla title, on Eshani Megh O Onannyo Galpo (Abhijit Sen).
November 15 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Siksha, Samaj O Dharma.
READING
November 16 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of 700 Kaurava maha-chariot-heroes killed and Sakuni defeated, in the 448th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.
MEDICAL CAMPS
November 15 & 16 at Futigoda, Joynagar; 9 am: Sevayanio Social Welfare Organisation hosts a free eye-testing camp (today) and a voluntary blood donation camp (tomorrow). 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
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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