Art & Culture

Two foreign poets surprised the teeming number of audience with their poems on Bangladesh at the concluding session of the two-day National Poetry Festival. The veteran Austrian poet Dorothea Muller-Ott’s poem 16th December is on the Victory Day of Bangladesh when the Swedish poet Kristian Carlsson’s series of poems under the title

The 29th edition of the National Street Theatre Festival began on Saturday through staging Dhaka based troupe Opera’s production Kaiballo featuring the negligence towards the martyred freedom fighters and mass graves. A total of 35 awareness generating street theatre productions from district towns of the country will be presented in the weeklong festival at the ... Read more

Patua Quamrul Hassan’s 26th death anniversary will be observed today. A politically conscious and committed artist Hassan died on February 2, 1988 following a cardiac arrest after the completion of the then autocratic ruler Hossaian Muhammad Ershad’s caricature titled Desh Aaj Biswa Behayar Khappore at a programme organised by Jatio Kabita Parishad at Dhaka University. His ... Read more

Chhayanaut artistes brought out a colourful procession on Friday that travelled different roads at Dhanmondi area to celebrate the 50th founding anniversary of the cultural organisation that was formed in 1964 to uphold Banglali nationalism in a time when the Pakistani regime tried to infuse Arabic and Urdu culture. The participants of the procession rendered timeless ... Read more

Syed Shamsul Haque’s 79th birth anniversary was celebrated through presentation of the poet-playwright’s plays and poems on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The programme also featured dance recitals and music. Literary magazine Samanya Kichhu in association with Shilpakala Academy organised the programme over

Professor Emeritus Anisuzzaman was felicitated for receiving the Padma Bhushan award by the popular cultural organisation Surer Dhara at a programme at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in Dhanmondi on Thursday. Professor Emeritus Anisuzzaman was declared as one of the recipients of this year’s Padma Bhusan, the third highest civilian award in India, for ... Read more

Young artist Sumon Wahed addresses the disappointment and frustration towards the socio-political happenings in the country at an ongoing exhibition. The exhibition, taking place at the Dhaka Art Centre in Dhanmondi, displays 50 artworks in different mediums created by the artist. One of the most captivating works on display at the exhibition is the mixed ... Read more

The life of the people depending on the mighty river Padma are on display at a photography exhibition at the La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka. The two-week exhibition titled Life and Struggle of Padma displays 20 black and white photographs captured by noted photographer Sumon Yousuf. Yousuf has beautifully captured the happiness, sorrow, struggles and ... Read more

Artworks by the eminent local and foreign artists are under one roof in a ten-day art exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan. The show titled Ways of Seeing features 42 artworks by 15 local and six foreign master artists in various mediums including watercolour, oil, and acrylic along with a number of prints. ... Read more

Chhayanaut celebrated its founding member Waheedul Haque’s seventh death anniversary presenting songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore and his family members at a commemorative programme held on Monday at the Chhayanaut Auditorium in Dhanmondi. General secretary of Chhayanaut Khairul Anam Shakil narrated the biography of the late cultural personality at

The age-old festivity of pitha making is common during the winter in the country. Such festivities frequent in the rural areas are gradually disappearing from the urban areas. For those who miss the tradition in the urban life, can enjoy delicious pithas at the Jatio Pitha Utsab on Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy premises. Apart from the grandeur ... Read more

Pioneering absurdist in Bangladesh playwright Sayeed Ahmad’s theatre of absurd Kalbela was staged at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday. Theatre activists also discussed on the life and works of the playwright on his fourth death anniversary, observed on the day. Sayeed Ahmad Foundation for

A weeklong Madhu Fair marking Michael Madhusudan Dutta’s 190th birth anniversary began at the poet’s birthplace at Sagardari under Keshabpur upazila in Jessore on Saturday. Jessore district administration chalked out several programmes to mark the anniversary of birth of the poet. The programme includes discussion

The ancestral house of the late legendary actor Suchitra Sen in Pabna will be reclaimed from the illegal occupation immediately and will be converted to a memorial museum, said the cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor in a condolence programme organised at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Friday. The minister further said that he would request Suchitra Sen’s ... Read more

The 190th birth anniversary of great poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutta is being celebrated at Sagardari under Keshabpur upazila in Jessore today. The Jessore district administration has chalked out an elaborate programme to mark the day. A week-long Madhu Fair will be held at the birth place of the legendary poet. Ismat Ara Sadeq, state ... Read more

Spectacular performance of gauriya nritya by Ratchel Priyanka Paris captivated a teeming audience at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. The programme was organised by Nrityanchal to formally conclude a week-long workshop on gauriya dance, attended by 80 students of Nrityanchal and conducted by Ratchel Priyanka Paris.

The ruined ancestral palace of the mystic poet and composer Hason Raja contains no memories of the bard as only a rickety building lies abandoned in the place reminding of Hason Raja’s song Lukey Baley Balere, Garbari Bala Na Amar. The building at Rampasha of Bishwanath in Sylhet is in ramshackle in the absence of any ... Read more

Alamgir Kabir’s Death Anniv Observartion Kabir’s two films screened Noted filmmaker Alamgir Kabir’s popular feature film Surjokanya and his documentary on the war of independence were screened on Tuesday at the National Art Plaza auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Kabir’s close associate filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel also analysed Alamgir Kabir’s talent as a filmmaker at the ... Read more

Bangladesh Liberation War Museum observed the Mass Uprising Day presenting people’s songs, recitations at the open stage of the museum on Monday. Martyr Motiur Rahman’s father Azhar Ali Mallick remembered his son’s dedication and sacrifice for the country at the discussion session of the programme. Sarwar Ali, a trustee of Liberation War Museum, also spoke on ... Read more

Eminent poet Nirmalendu Goon’s popular poems were presented at a recitation programme at the Experimental Theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday. Recitation organisation Sangbrita Abritty Charcha O Bikash Kendra organsied the programme titled Agnidadhho Nakshikantha where the artistes of the organisation recited the