Art & Culture

Theatre Fest on Women Issues Monodrama, Tagore’s play staged On the third day of the ongoing six-day theatre festival highlighting the women issues featured a monodrama and a Tagore’s play at the two venues of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Wednesday. Nagorik Natyngon staged monodrama Ami Birangana Bolchhi [the war-heroine speaking] at the National Theatre Hall ... Read more

The eye soothing beauties and the calming serenity of nature have been depicted through colours, brushe strokes on canvasses and papers by Japanese artist Toyomi Hoshina. His artworks are currently being displayed in a nine-day exhibition at the Bengal Shilpalaya Gallery at Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Toyomi Hoshina has dealt mainly with nature and to some extent his ... Read more

Theatre Fest On Women Issues Women as oppressed, protestant depicted Two dissimilar themes of vastly different eras were depicted through two plays on the second day of the ongoing theatre festival highlighting the women issues at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. A 17th century folk based play addressed the pains of the oppressed women in rural Bengal ... Read more

Cultural arena mourns the death of Ekushey Padak winning iconic folk singer Abdur Rahman Boyati who died of old-age complications at the Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital on Monday morning at the age of 74. Cultural activists termed the death of the internationally acclaimed baul singer as a great loss in a difficult time when the ... Read more

The three-day divisional level Bhawaiya music competition in Rangpur ended on Sunday with participation of around 400 artistes from all eight districts of Rangpur division, said a press release. The festival titled Banglalink Rangpur Bibhagio Bhawaia Utsab featured traditional performing art forms like pala gaan, bhawaia dance and bhawaia music competition, among other festivities.

Fellow playwrights observe Young playwrights in the country evaluated the trendsetter playwright Selim Al Deen as a leading bard in the contemporary theatre arena in Bangladesh in a discussion session organised by Swapnodal on Sunday at the seminar room of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The programme titled Natyacharya Selim Al Deen: Nabin Natyakarer Dristite was held ... Read more

Tareque-Mishuk Smrity parishad organised a daylong programme marking the second anniversary of death of the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Minier on Sunday at the Sawkat Osman Auditorium of Central Public Library. The programme featured film screening and discussion session. Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier

Iconic playwright Selim Al Deen’s 64th birth anniversary was remembered by different cultural organizations. Various organizations staged his plays and arranged seminars on the works of the thespian. Al Deen fans and followers placed flower wreaths on the grave of the playwright on the Sunday morning at Jahangirnagar University. The Drama and Dramatics Department

Int’l Day for Indigenous People Indigenous artistes enthralled a huge audience at a cultural show held at the auditorium of CARITAS regional office in the town on Saturday afternoon. The event was organised marking the International Day for Indigenous People. The rendition of indigenous songs and dance sequences with traditional songs entertained the packed hall. ... Read more

Poet Shamsur Rahman’s seventh anniversary of death was observed on Saturday morning with placing wreaths at the grave of the poet at the Banani graveyard. Representatives of the Jatio Kabita Parishad including Habibullah Siraji, Dr Mohammad Samad, Aslam Swani, Tarique Sujat, among others were present at the programme. Bangabandhu Sangskritik

Today is the 64th anniversary of birth of the late iconic playwright Selim Al Deen (18 August 1949 – 14 January 2008). Different cultural organisations and educational institutions have arranged several, special celebrations to mark the occasion. An unparalleled playwright in the post Tagore era in Bangla literate, Selim Al Deen developed a ‘new drama

What happens or may happen in urban, contemporary conjugal life, which is often full of conflicts, was the theme of the 19th production of theatre troupe Shobdo Natyacharcha Kendra. In a family where the husband, by force or by guile, dominates the scene, many possible endings may come forth as a solution or as a ... Read more

Giving a new shape to Bangla literature Ground-breaking novelist, short story writer and playwright, Syed Waliullah, was born in 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. Today marks his 91st birth anniversary. After graduating with distinction from Anandamohan College in Mymensingh in 1943, he enrolled at Calcutta University (now Kolkata University) for Masters in Economics, but was ... Read more

Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier were remembered through lighting candles by film and cultural personalities on Tuesday. Moviana Film Society arranged the programme in the evening in front of the Bangladesh National Museum. Two other commemorative programmes

The theatre department of Dhaka University will premiere Selim Al Deen’s popular play Chaka to celebrate Deen’s 64th birth anniversary on August 18 at the Natmondol of Dhaka University. Two other shows of the production will be staged on August 19 and 20 at the same venue. This is for the first time that the ... Read more

Eventful Innings Bangladesh National Museum completes 100 years  Jahangir Hussain Today (August 7) is the centennial anniversary of Bangladesh National Museum. Bangladesh National Museum, one of the most important and largest museums in Asia, is dedicated to the collection, preservation, display and study of history, heritage, culture and natural history. On  August 7, 1913 Lord ... Read more

Lubna Marium Being a lifelong Tagore aficionado, I was mildly shocked when Chhayanaut, the Bangladeshi bastion of Tagorean music, decided against allowing us the use of their auditorium, because our dance practice seemed to their authorities, to militate against Tagorean aesthetics.  It set me thinking.  Should there be only one interpretation of Tagore’s works? As ... Read more

Dr Saleque Khan Today is the 72nd anniversary of the death of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) a Nobel Laureate poet, philosopher, novelist, playwright, musician and painter. He is perhaps the only litterateur in the world whose songs have become the national anthems of two neighboring countries- India and Bangladesh.  Tagore was also a social reformer and ... Read more

Short Film Festival 2 films given awards   The grand finale of Robi Short Film Festival was held at the BRAC Centre Inn at Mohakhali on Wednesday. Two films got awards in two categories in the competition organised by the mobile operator Robi on the social networking site Facebook. The best film award winner Since We ... Read more

Popular portrait artist Sheikh Afzal is not yet satisfied with his works, though the artist has won awards in home and abroad. A teacher at the painting department of Dhaka University, Afzal said that he has got everything he desired in life but has not yet drawn the portrait he wished to make. ‘I’ve got ... Read more