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Recognised as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of modern cinema, Ingmar Bergman’s films depict bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. Bergman Evenings with Samik Bandyopadhyay is a unique initiative by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, featuring 11 of the legendary director’s varied works. During each screening, Bandyopadhyay will share his readings and impressions on Bergman, besides introducing each film with his commentaries. The shows will conclude with open discussions participated by its audience. To be screened this evening as part of the ongoing retrospective is Winter Light (1962; a scene from the film appears right). Cited as a favourite by Bergman himself among his films, it is sometimes considered the second in his ‘Trilogy of Faith’, the first being Through a Glass Darkly and the third The Silence. The film follows Tomas Ericsson, pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he questions the existence of God, his faith gradually replaced by doubt, apathy, anger and hatred.
lEvent: Film screening as part of a retrospective of works by Ingmar Bergman lWhen: Today at 6 pm lWhere: Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road
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art
August 27 - September 1 at Chemould, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm; Saturday (10 am - 3 pm): An exhibition of paintings by Prasanna Chaudhuri and Utpal Dutta. Inauguration this evening at 5.
August 28 - September 15 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays (3 pm - 7 pm), Tuesdays - Saturdays (2 pm - 7 pm): An exhibition of Jaya Ganguly’s works (1984 - 2007). Inauguration by Paritosh Sen on August 28 at 6.30 pm.
August 28 - September 3 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics by Chitri-O-Bhaskar Gosthi.
Till August 30 at Mon Art Gallerie, 6 Hungerford Street, Regency Building, 3rd floor; 11 am - 7 pm: Embracing Modernity, a solo show of works by Ramesh Gorjala of Andhra Pradesh.
Till August 30 at Academy of Fine Arts, Central Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Utopia presents an exhibition of paintings by Ranjit Kumar Sutar, Premangshu Mitra, Partha Biswas, Samir Karmakar and jit Halder.
Till August 31 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Exhibition of paintings by Aditya Basak, Atin Basak, Manoj Mitra, Sadhan Chakraborty and Swapan Kumar Das.
Till September 5 (except Sunday) at Kanvas Art Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm: Young Expression, paintings by young artists of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. Participants: Bhaskar Goswami, Ramu Das, Deepak Rajbhar, Tathagata Mukherjee, Swapna Biswas, Mirnmoy Debburman, Bilassendu Sil, Mahmud Hussain and Anirban Mitra.
Till September 7 (except Sunday) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park; 2 pm - 7 pm: Objects, Images, Spaces — a show of installations by Chhatrapati Dutta.
Till September 8 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Dynamic Stillnes, an exhibition of paintings curated by Mrinal Ghosh. Participating artists include Anasuya Chakraborty, Anupam Das, Arun Bain, Bhaskar Aditya, Debashis Barui, Jayanta Kr Paul, Jayanta Roy, Manash Saha, Manasjit Datta, Pratap Chandra Chakraborty, Santanu Maity, Sekhar Baran Karmakar, Sourav Chatterjee, Sourav Jana and Sumana Ghosh.
Till September 8 (except Sunday) at Gallery Sanskriti, 5C Alipore Park Road; 11 am - 8 pm: The 17th anniversary show of paintings and sculptures by Sakti Burman, Jogen Chowdhury, Anjolie Ela Menon, Laxma Goud, Surya Prakash, Dipak Banerjee, Prabhakar Kolte, Partha Pratim Deb, Thota Vaikuntam, Shuvaprasanna, Tapas Konar, Jaya Ganguly, Shipra Bhattacharya, Jayasri Burman, Paresh Maity, Chandra Bhattacharya, Debabrata De, Tushar Kanti Das Roy, Srinivas Reddy, Samindranath Mazumdar, Rajeswara Rao and Partha Shaw.
August 28 - 30 at Nehru Children’s Museum Hall; 2 pm - 6 pm: An exhibition of prize-winning paintings by the children of Nehru Children’s Museum selected from the 9th International Children’s Art Exhibition. Also, paintings by other children of the painting division.
August 28 - September 3 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: The third solo exhibition of paintings by Ranajit Haldar.
PERFORMING ARTS
August 27 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 5.30 pm: Souhardya (Calcutta) and Nivea Films (London) presents an evening of recitation and audio-play. Participants include Nivedita Sengupta, Partha Ghosh, Gouri Ghosh, Pradip Ghosh, Krishnapada Das, Joydeep Chattopadhyay and Sovansunder Basu.
August 27 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC presents Pratibha, an evening of music and dance by young Government of India scholarship holders: Suchisree Roy (vocal), Samanway Sarkar and Soumya Sankar Roy (tabla and sitar), Koeli Dutta (Rabindrasangeet) and Tarak Saha and Sumit Pramanik (Gaudiya Nritya).
drama
August 27 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Institute of Factual Theatre Arts (IFTA) presents Sacrifice. Direction: Debasish Dutta.
August 28 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC’s monthly theatre show features Gopa, a play in Hindi directed by Suman Kumar and produced Kala Jagran, Patna.
August 28 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Durgadas Smriti Sangha presents Tagore’s Chirakumar Sabha. Dir: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay.
August 28 at Academy of Fine rts; 6.30 pm: Theatre Passion presents Bhyablai Bhalo. Drama, direction & acting: Ramaprasad Banik.
August 29 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Ushneek will stage its latest production, Durgesh Nandan. Drama & direction: Ishita Mukherjee.
September 1 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: Purba-Paschim’s latest productiobn, Agnijal, a play by Girish Karnad. Translated and directed by Bibhas Chakraborty.
talk
August 27 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Kritarthananda will speak on Swamijir Vani.
August 27 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Ritananda will speak in Bengali on Swamijir Patravali.
August 27 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Amalendu Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga.
FILM SHOW
Till September 4 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 6 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Bergman Evening with Samik Bandyopadhyay, a retrospective featuring 11 of Bergman’s varied works. Film scholar Samik Bandyopadhyay will be present during each screening to share his readings and impressions on Bergman. Today: Winter Lights (1962; 81 min.).
August 27 - 31 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisentein Cine Club presents a four-day festival of the representative works of Girish Kasarvalli. August 27: Nayee Neralu (2006; 105 min.). August 28: Ghatashraddha (1977; 108 min.). August 29: Haseena (2004; 118 min.). August 30: Dweepa (2002; 130 min.). August 31: Marathi feature film Vastupurush, directed by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar.
BOOK LAUNCH
August 27 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: The Sindhi Community of Calcutta hosts the launch of Peace or Perish authored by philosopher and humanitarian Revered Dada J.P. Vaswani.
EXHIBITION
Till August 31 at Weavers Studio, 5/1 Anil Moitra Road, # 24408937; 9.30 am - 6.30 pm: Khadi - 1947 to 2007, an exhibition of wearable textiles: saris, fabrics, classic garments inspired by khadi weavers from villages of Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.
Till August 31 at Darbari, P-249 Purna Das Road, #9831185193; 11 am - 8 pm: Darbari’s collection of crisp and full tunics, kurtis, skirts, dupattas, unstitched as well as readymade ensembles, and sarees, bags and silver accessories.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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