Art & Culture

The season’s festivity is being celebrated in the busy city through a three day Poush Mela at the Ramna Batamul which began on Friday. The fair organsied by Poush Mela Udzapan Parisad consists of music, dance, theatre, recitations and delicious pithas sold in makeshift stalls through which the city dwellers enjoyed the festivity brought in ... Read more

A two-day classical festival featuring classical music performances by noted and upcoming singers began at Chhayanuat auditorium on Thursday. Cultural organisation Chhayanuat has organised the festival Suddho Sangeet Utsab 1420 with a goal to popularize and spread classical music among the music enthusiasts in the country. The first day programme

A hall full of audience enjoyed the evergreen romantic songs of yesteryears of the late eminent singer Mahmud-un-Nabi in a commemorative programme at the TSC auditorium on Thursday. The programme was organised by Bishwa Kalakendra to celebrate and observe the late singer’s 77th birth anniversary and 23rd death anniversary. Mahmud-un-Nabi was born

The spirit of war of independence has been highlighted in a group exhibition celebrating the 43rd Victory Day organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at the National Art Gallery. The weeklong exhibition displays 100 paintings by noted and upcoming artists portraying the images of the valiant freedom fighters, war scenes and massacres done by the Pakistani ... Read more

Tales of the common people have been depicted through dance by the artistes of Shadhona at the Berlin Hall of Goethe Institut in Dhanmondi on Tuesday. Organsied jointly by the Institut and popular local dance troupe Shadhona, the dance production titled A Piece for You Dhaka was choreographed by German choreographer Thomas Leeman.

Ferdousy Priyabhashini tells New Age Eminent sculptor Ferdousy Priyabhashini is a victim of the brutality of Pakistani army and its local collaborators during the war of independence in 1971. She was abducted from her house in Khulna in May 1971 when she worked at the Crescent Jute Mills in Khalishpur and was captivated at a ... Read more

Artist Nasima Khanam Queenie is displaying 31 prints in her first ever printmaking solo exhibition titled Return to Eden at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. In the sixth solo of the romantic artist, Queenie depicts the harmonious relation between man and nature. All the 31 prints depict

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life enjoyed inspirational songs rendered at the daylong Victory Day celebrations programme at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday. Wearing the red and green attires, many of them attended the programme with face paintings in colours of the national flag and sang along with the leading artistes ... Read more

Theatre troupes staged street theatre productions to pay tribute to the martyred intellectuals of 1971 at a programme organised to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day at the Mukta Bedi in Mirpur on Saturday. Most of the six plays staged by the troupes featured the atrocity of the Pakistani army and its local collaborators during the ... Read more

Seventeen singers of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra infused patriotism into the houseful audience presenting inspirational songs they used to render from the radio station during the war of independence at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. They performed at the concluding day of the of the three-day Victory Day celebrations programme

Celebrating The 43rd Victory Day Remembering the choir of freedom  Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha, a travelling troupe of singers and musicians, played a significant role in boosting the freedom fighters’ spirit at the camps during the war of independence in 1971. In addition to performing live at the freedom fighters’ camps, the troupe also ... Read more

Victory Day celebrations began simultaneously in seven places in Dhaka on Saturday. Different Cultural organisations have been participating and performing music, dance, recitation and street theatre at the venues including the Central Shaheed Minar, Rabindra Sarabar, Shaheed Buddhijibi Smriti Soudha Mancha, Dania, Mirpur and Shishu Academy and Uttara. It is a part of Sammilito

Nasiruddin Yousuff’s film on the war of independence Guerrilla was screened at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan on Saturday. Guerrilla is a film that provides an insightful picture of the days of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971. It depicts the intense struggle undertaken by progressive minded freedom fighters against the heinous torture, crimes ... Read more

Sudip Chakroborthy is going to direct a Shakespearean comedy in London to be staged in the 400th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare in 2015. Sudip will direct the Shakespearean classic The Taming of the Shrew in Bangla after a three-year project with the Bishwo Shahittya Kendro London. Artistes from different other London based organisations including ... Read more

Funny yet thought provoking caricatures depicting the predicaments created by corruption are on display at an exhibition at the Zainul Gallery at the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University. The exhibition, inaugurated on December 09, has been organised by Transparency International Bangladesh as an observance of International Anti-Corruption Day. The exhibition is an

Festival At Liberation War Museum Traditional songs and recitations on 3rd day The significant role of traditional musicians at the war of independence was characterized through the presentations of the traditional songs composed during the war. The 3rd day of the ongoing weeklong victory celebration programme was celebrated through the rendition of traditional songs, patriotic ... Read more

The Old Dhaka is gradually losing its heritage at the increasing aggression of commercialisation and unplanned urbanisation for which the signature lifestyle of the locals are also changing drastically. This theme has been revealed artistically in artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed’s solo show at the Institute of Asian Creative in Gulshan. An inhabitant of the locality

Once a busy film banner painter Shitesh Kumar Sur, 55, now occasionally paints portraits in his spare time at his fast food shop. After the introduction of the digitally made banners, Shitesh had to leave the profession to earn for his family like many artisans did. Since then, the passionate artisan paints film banners and ... Read more

Eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi is displaying a glimpse of his kaleidoscopic journey of over five decades in art in his retrospective show at the Bengal Shilplaya in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The show, Quest for Reality, features 120 selected artworks in different mediums done since 1960s by the artist. The gallery has organised the retrospective show to ... Read more

Shariful Islam, from Kushtia, makes traditional string instruments such as ektara and dotara since he was a teenager. He sells his products in fairs and at the outlets near the Lalon’s shrine in Chheuria, Kushtia from where singers and music lovers buy the one-string and two-string instruments widely used in traditional music genres. While attending ... Read more