Art & Culture

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

A beautiful rural ambience was created within the bustling city to celebrate the traditional harvest festival, known as Nabanno, on Saturday at the open space of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Colourful display of various pithas and sweets in makeshift stalls and traditional songs performed in the cultural show at the festival attracted hundreds of enthusiastic audience, ... Read more

The traditional jamdani saree weaver Enamul Haque observes that the inscription of the jamdani saree on the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list will create new opportunities for hundreds of craftspeople like him. He believes that the news will grow interest among the Bengalis living at home and abroad about the

Young filmmaker Gazi Quamrul Islam was conferred with the Tareque Masud Short Film Award for his short film Oblivious Moments on the concluding day of the two-day Tareque Masud Festival at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday. Ashfique Rizwan and Srabonto Habib earned the special citation awards respectively for their short

Theatre troupe Mohakal Natya Sampraday premiered its latest production Prometheus on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Though the play has once been staged at a theatre festival, yesterday it was the formal premiere of the play as the troupe’s 30th production. The play is an adaptation

Since his boyhood Sib Nath Sibu, from Tangail, plays Bangla Dhol, a traditional rhythm instrument having a distinctive sound effect. Following the family tradition, Sibu started playing the instrument from his childhood at different rituals and ceremonies in the temples. Subsequently, he became a recognised instrumentalist through playing the instrument on state-run TVchannel Bangladesh

The agony and struggles of women in this man-dominated society has been portrayed in the paintings by artist Nurun Nahar Supti in her solo art exhibition at the Galerie Zoom of Alliance Française de Dhaka. Twenty two acrylic-on-canvas paintings are on display at the two-week exhibition titled ‘Woman in Gossamer’ which illustrates women bound by ... Read more