Art & Culture

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

Sukumar Ray’s 116th birth anniversary  Born at a time that was the pinnacle of the Bengal Renaissance, Sukumar Ray grew up in an environment that fostered his literary talents. His father, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, was a talented writer of stories and popular science; painter and illustrator extraordinaire; musician and composer of songs; a pioneering technologist ... Read more

Sixteen artists deal with various issues in their delicate wood engraving works known as xylography in a group exhibition on display at the Gallery Cosmos 2 in Mohakhali. The 10-day exhibition features 44 wood engraving prints done by the participants of a printmaking workshop conducted by artist professor Amirul Momanin Chowdhury organised by the gallery ... Read more

Two poets were awarded with Jibanananda Purushkar 2013 in a commemorative programme organised marking the 59th death anniversary of Jibanananda Das on Friday in Barisal, the birth place of the poet. Renowned poet Asad Chowdhury, who is also from Barisal, handed over the prizes to the late poet Khondakar Ashraf Hossain and Shantanu Kaisar for ... Read more

A collection of paintings by Hollywood action star Sylvester Stallone have gone on show at The Russian Museum in St Petersburg, reports BBC online. The exhibition, titled: Sylvester Stallone. Art. 1975-2013, is a selection of works produced by the 67-year-old over the past four decades. At the show’s opening the star said, if he had ... Read more

Urban Youth Fest Artists satirise current political turmoil Young artists criticised the current political crisis through their work in a group exhibition Goethe-Institut at Dhanmondi organised as part the institute’s month-long urban youth celebrations programme beginning on Thursday. Some of these artworks also satirize the apathetic nature of the urban youth. The exhibition also portrays ... Read more

Manna Dey is no more but his last compositions – dedicated to the memory of his wife Sulochana – will be released soon, reports gulfnews.com. The priceless music tracks composed by the singer, who died on Thursday in Bangalore, will be out soon. Dey was 94. Despite his failing health, he had completed recording the ... Read more

The English department of Independent University, Bangladesh organised a day-long programme celebrating 100th anniversary of Tagore’s winning of Nobel Prize in 1913 as the first non-European for his Gitanjali, an English collection of devotional poems. Professor emeritus Anisuzzaman attended the programme as the chief guest and presented a speech describing

The students of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh presented music, dance and recitation at a cultural programme organised to celebrate the Club Day on the premises in Dhanmondi on Thursday. ULAB vice chancellor professor Imran Rahman was present at the programme as the chief guest, while ULAB co-curricular coordinator Tahmina Zaman delivered the welcome speech,

It was a brilliant show of a rural narrative based on pallaikabi Jasimuddin’s classic Beder Meye. Though the experimental dance drama unfolds the tragic life of rural women through traditional dance forms, Shadhona’s Champabati could satisfy the contemporary audience. Champabati was premiered on

A month-long youth festival featuring film screening, exhibition, discussion sessions and music are going on at the Goethe-Institut in Dhanmondi. The institute has organsied the festival to celebrate the spirit of the urban youths of Bangladesh with focal points including student politics, secularism and social Media, and arts. German deputy ambassador

Film lovers watched technological development of cinema as depicted in Side by Side directed by American maker Christopher Kenneally. A good number of students, most whom are film society movement activists, watched the film at a special screening session organised by Bangladesh Documentary Council at the Dhaka Art Centre on Friday evening. The film also ... Read more

Lecture On Classical Music Bandish-Gharana introduced  The ongoing workshop on classical music organised by the Bengal Foundation introduced different genres of classical music attended by a number of music enthusiasts. The lecture on Thursday given by Rezwan Ali Lovlu introduced Bandish-gharana a classical music genre – genre with a fixed and melodic composition – to ... Read more

Noted poet Shamsur Rahman’s peers and fellow poets recited self-composed poems dedicating them to the poet in a programme celebrating the poet’s 84th birth anniversary. The programme, titled Ashuvoyer Sathe Aposhbihin Dando Chai, was jointly organsied by Jatiyo Kobita Parisad and Shamsur Rahman Smrity Parisad that took place at the TSC,Dhaka University

Legendary singer Manna Dey has been an inspiration for singers and musicians. Many singers consider the legend their idol, especially for his dedication towards music. Like the common music lovers, leading singers and composers say that Manna Dey’s evergreen songs have the power to touch all human emotions. In a career spanning over