Art & Culture

The more cultural diversity in a country flourishes, the weaker its extremist forces become. Practice of art and culture is precisely the weapon to fend off the sway of extremist and fundamentalist tendency. With such belief and motto, Bangladesh Sangeet Sangathan Samannay Parishad and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy jointly organised a three-day music festival at the ... Read more

Indian singer and folk researcher Subhendu Maity, who is quite famous as a singer of folk and people’s songs, performed in a solo show at Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday. The show was originally scheduled to be held at the main auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum, but was transferred to ... Read more

The haunting myth of Oedipus has driven men and women into frenzy for more than 3000 years. A popular story for theatre since the ancient time, the story of Oedipus is still no less suitable for a theatre production even at this era. Sophocles (497 BC- 406 BC) was one of the major playwrights to ... Read more

The second Sahitya Sammilon and Jibanananda Mela 2014, organised by Jatiya Kobita Parishad Barisal unit, will end today in Barishal. The three-day fair began on Friday. Dr. Hayat Mahmud, noted academician, inaugurated the fair by paying tribute to the late poet. Shohidul Alam, deputy commissioner of Barisal, was present as the chief guest at the ... Read more

Different cultural organisations and institutes observed the 44th Independence and National Day of the country on Wednesday amid much vibrancy and festivity. The special programmes, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh Liberation War Museum, Sammilito Sangskritik Jote and others, consisted of music concerts, theatre shows,

The fifth biennale of Bangladesh Documentary Festival will begin today at the main auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum. Bangladesh Documentary Council has been organising the festival since 2004 with a view to promoting documentary making in the country. The five-day festival titled Documenting Bangladesh 5, will screen a total of 32 documentaries, all of which

War Of Independence An inexhaustible well for theatre activists The war of independence, with all its glory and loss, courage and suffering, has been an inexhaustible well of stories for the theatre practitioners of the country, say theatre activists. No other historical event has provided local theatre practitioners with such a treasure to exploit for ... Read more

Several powerful films on the liberation war have been made in 44 years since Bangladesh won her freedom in 1971. The directors of some of these films have shared their challenges and gratification on making independence war-based films with New Age. Noted director Chashi Nazrul Islam made Ora Egarojon, the first film on the war ... Read more

Bangladesh National Museum has showcased memorabilia of 24 distinguished personalities who have contributed to the country in diverse fields. The exhibition is a part of the museum’s ‘Oral History Project’, which seeks to display memorabilia, audio and video records of more than one hundred renowned and unparalleled personalities born in the country. The project is ... Read more

World Puppet Day was celebrated through an array of events comprising a seminar featuring problems and prospects of puppet theatre in the country on Sunday at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Organised by the academy, the day-long programme also featured a colourful procession, discussion session where a seasoned puppeteer was honoured and puppet show. The seminar was ... Read more

Bangladesh has already joined the names of record-holders in the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest human flag which was made on February 21 by thousands. This time the country is all set to accomplish another record by singing the national anthem by tens of thousands of people. Preparations for the record-making

World Children’s Theatre Day was celebrated through a colourful programme at the National Art Gallery Auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. Peoples’ Theatre Association, in alliance with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, organised the programme. Numerous child and young theatre

War Of Independence Poems on women’s contribution recited When it comes to contributions in the war of independence in 1971, the male freedom fighters are generally highly glorified in this patriarchal society and the women who also played heroic roles in the war often go unsung. A programme was held to recognise the contributions of ... Read more

The five-day Lalon Smaran Utsab-2014 (Lalon memorial festival) ended on Wednesday at the shrine of the most influential baul, Fakir Lalon Shah at Chheuriy, in Kushtia. The festival is usually held in the first week of the month of Chaitra in the Bangla calendar marking dol purnima (full moon night). The festival was organised

ChilD artistes celebrated the National Children Day through music and dance recitals at a vibrant programme held at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday. The programme was organised by the academy in celebration of National Children Day and also the 94th birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of ... Read more

Child artistes of Nalanda School presented music and dance at a programme held at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Sunday evening. Nalanda School, which is a sister concern of Chhayanaut, organised the programme to mark the 81st birth anniversary of late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007). The music and dance recitals

River has always been a source of livelihood for the people of Bangladesh, a country crisscrossed with numerous rivers. Rivers not only nurture life but they have helped shape the minds of many artists of this region who have been depicting the character of rivers in their paintings from time immoral. Such a river-revering artist ... Read more

Late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007) was recalled marking his 81st birth anniversary through different cultural programmes in the capital on Sunday. Cultural organisations Chhayanaut and Kanthashilon, both founded by renowned Tagore exponent Waheedul Haq, arranged two-day colourful programmes marking their

Noted theatre troupe of the country Dhaka Theatre brought French novelist Albert Camus’ famous novel The Outsider on stage. Translated and directed respectively by Rubaiyat Ahmed and Nasir Uddin Yusuff, the play staged its press show on Friday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Both the translator and director

Artist Shahid Kabir, in his ongoing 12th solo exhibition, has presented paintings featuring the lives of commoners with all their everyday joys in magnificence. Titled ‘I Bow My Head to You in Deep Obeisance’, the exhibition includes 53 paintings, mostly in mixed media on canvas and a few etchings. No heart-wrenching struggle or tattered slums ... Read more