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Hosted by EZCC as its theatre show of the month is Gopa (a scene from the play appears right), a play that narrates the story of its eponymous protagonist, Gopa, wife of Siddhartha of Kapilavastu, the prince of the Shakyas. Renouncing princely life after attaining enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama became Lord Buddha, leaving his wife all alone with his infant son. Written by Arun Sinha, the play focuses on the young wife’s courage, patience, calmness, strength, fortitude and various other qualities of head and heart, at a time when she feels all but abandoned by her husband. Later, she too embraces the religious path chosen by The Buddha and becomes a bhikshuni, a mere helpless, beggar begging for alms for survival. Forsaking a life of ease and luxury, she becomes an ascetic by choice, leading a life of frugality and austerity. Finally, she allows her son Rahul to become his father’s disciple. Direction: Suman Kumar.
Event: Play in Hindi, Gopa, produced by Kala Jagran, Patna When: Today at 6 pm Where: Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB-201 Salt Lake
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art
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 - 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 2 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 7 pm: A group show by Ajay Majumder, Kshadip, Papia Majumder, Sasanka Ghosh, Soma Das, Sushanta Baral and Uday Chowdhary.
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.
August 28 - September 3 at Academy of Fine Arts, West Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: The third solo exhibition of paintings by Ranajit Haldar.
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 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.
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.
drama
August 28 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Durgadas Smriti Sangha presents Tagore’s Chirakumar Sabha. Direction: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay.
August 28 at Academy of Fine Arts; 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.
August 30 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Theatron presents Bernarda Albar Bari. Direction: Saswati Biswas.
August 30 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Institute of Factual Theatre Arts (IFTA) presents Sacrifice. Direction: Debasish Dutta.
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.
September 1 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Ekush Shatak will stage Krishna Ranga. Drama and direction: Loknath Bandyapadhya.
September 2 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Abalilakrome. Drama and direction: Bimal Bandopadhayay.
talk
August 28 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Shivamayananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Ramakrishner Gurudvaya: Bhairavi Brahmani O Totapuri.
August 28 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali on Sri Sri Mayer Katha.
August 28 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Swami Japapriyanandaji Maharaj will discourse on The Life and Teachings of Srimat Swami Niranjananandaji Maharaj, the Apostle of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Deva.
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: Silence (1963; 96 min).
Till August 31 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Eisentein Cine Club presents a four-day festival of the representative works of Girish Kasarvalli. Today: 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.
convention
August 28 at Swabhumi: Annex College of Management Studies hosts its third national convention with the theme, Sustainable Business Development: Winning the Future through Creativity, Innovation, Strategy & Leadership.
BOOK LAUNCH
August 28 at Press Club, Maidan Tent; 4 pm: Manasi hosts the launch of Jyotirmoy Jyoti, a book on Jyoti Basu written by Subosh Chandra Dutta Choudhury. Biman Bose, Biswanath Chowdhury, Nandagopal Bhattacharya, Rabin Deb, Samir Rakshit, Sumit Dutta Chowdhury and Chayan Bhattacharya will be present on the occasion.
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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