Art & Culture

Noted Tagore singer of the country Iffat Ara Dewan entertained a house full audience presenting Tagore songs on Friday evening at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre. The seasoned singer sang 18 songs in her one and half hours show accompanied by the acoustics of violin,, table, mandira and keyboard. The show began with a

Members of Bangladesh Rabindrasangeet Shilpi Sangstha entertained a houseful audience presenting different genres of Tagore songs on Friday at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The programme was organised by the new organising committee of Dhaka City Branch of the nationwide platform of the Tagore singers. The organisation also conferred

A documentary book of Indian director Goutam Ghose’s film Padma Nadir Manjhi was launched at the on Thursday at the Channel-i office in Tejgaon. Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury unveiled the book cover as the chief guest at the porgramme, organsied by Impress Telefilms Ltd. The managing director of Impress Telefilms Ltd Faridur Reza Sagor, director ... Read more

Ten young talented artists have displayed their artistic creativity through their artworks at an exhibition taking place at the Bengal Shilpalaya at Dhanmondi in the capital. The exhibition is part of the art competition titled Aminul Islam Young Artist 2013 organsied by Bengal Foundation celebrating the 82nd birth anniversary of late eminent artist Aminul Islam.

The two-day Molière Theatre Festival ended on Friday with the 100th show of theatre troupe Swattik Natya Sampraday’s presentation of French playwright Molière’s Pejge. The festival was organised by Swattik Natya Sampraday to observe the 19th founding anniversary of the troupe at the same time to celebrate the 100th show of Pejge by the troupe.

Inclusion of Jamdani in Unesco’s Heritage List Bangladesh’s claim to be evaluated next month Bangladesh’s demand for having Jamdani inscribed as its sole heritage in the UNESCO’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will be evaluated in the next month in Baku, Azerbaijan. The representatives of the ministry of cultural affairs, headed by ... Read more

The artworks featuring the fauna and flora of the Saint Martin Island are on display in an ongoing group exhibition at the Zainul Gallery 1 in Dhaka University. A total of 42 artworks showcased at the group art exhibition titled Memory of Saint Martin reflect on the recent tour of the students to the island, ... Read more

The moving nature of reality is portrayed within the still photographs in a solo exhibition of photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed at the Edward M Kennedy Center in Dhanmondi. Titled Kinetic, this is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition. Earlier, the photographer has exhibited his works in Spain, England, Derby, China, India, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Bengal Classical Music Fest ’13 The wizard of woodwind  In the build-up to the Bengal Classical Music Festival 2013 in association with ITC-SRA (Kolkata), Star Arts & Entertainment introduces you to the maestros set to perform in Dhaka this month. Today’s featured artiste is one who needs no introduction; he is the greatest living artiste ... Read more

Classical music practice in the country is not satisfactory, despite the fact the country has a rich history in classical music, observes a seminar held on Saturday at the Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. Musicologist Alimur Rahman Khan in his keynote speech gives the opinion that both classical music practice and musicians have not been patronised ... Read more

Underprivileged children from Narsingdi presented music, recitation, acrobatic and fashion show on Saturday at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. District Shilpakala Academy of Narsingdi and the underprivileged children’s organisation Badhonhara jointly organised the programme. The programme began with

Popular classical music singer Anup Barua entertained the audience presenting evergreen Manna Dey’s songs in a commemorative programme organised by Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in memory of the recently demised legendary singer of India. A popular classical and semi-classical singer Barua gave a soulful presentation of Dey’s 18 songs at the programme

The versatile singer Suman Chowdhury, who achieved success rendering Nazrul Sangeet and classical music, proved his skill as a Rabindra Sangeet artiste in a solo musical programme at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Friday evening. The audience enjoyed five evergreen Tagore songs presented by Chowdhury from his first Tagore album

Fifty children aged between five and 15 are getting training on difficult acrobatic techniques at a workshop at the Rajbari Acrobatic Centre. Two acrobats, Shahana Akhter and Khurshida Khatun, are conducting the three-month workshop organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy with the mission to create skilled acrobatic artistes. Despite a huge popularity, acrobatic is neglected in ... Read more

Chhayanaut artistes presented a number of Tagore songs at the monthly Tagore evening Geetmalika on Thursday at the Ramesh Chandra Dutt Centre of the institute. Chhayanaut arranges such a programme on the last Friday of every month. But this month it was on a Thursday due to unavailability of halls. In a very ordinary arrangement

Two artists from outside the capital are displaying a number of landscape paintings featuring the harmonious relation between man and nature set against the backdrop of the rural Bangla at the duet exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge in Gulshan. As both of the artists are from the agricultural rich southwest part of the country, ... Read more

Different singers of the country will present recently demised legendary singer Manna Dey’s evergreen songs in phono-live concerts and live musical programme today. Sumon Chowdhury and Alak Sen will render Manna Dey’s songs at the special phono-live programme titled Icchey Gaaner Dupur to be aired at 2:30pm on Maasranga TV. Besides presenting

Forty-five artistes of different branches of Udichi Shilpigoshthi in chorus presented the signature tune of the organisation, Arshir samne eka eka, at the 45th founding anniversary programme at TSC of Dhaka University on Tuesday. Udichi Shilpigoshthi singers also performed the popular songs, they rendered on different occasions, such as Amra manusher joyogaan gai, Hushiyar, Dhor ... Read more

Kamar Ahmad Simon attended the Antenna Documentary Film Festival 2013 in Sydney along with selected filmmakers from around the world who shared their hands-on experience in filmmaking. He also took a ‘master class’ on October 06 in which he shared his experience of making film in Bangladesh. The architect turned director

Popular singers Badshah Bulbul and Moutushi will sing songs of Manna Dey in a tributary phonolive studio concert to be aired today at 11:25pm on Banglavision. In the programme titled Music Club, the singers will present popular numbers of the late music icon Manna Dey. Besides, they will share theirexperiences with the recently demised Dey. Audience ... Read more