Art & Culture

Jatra artistes presented Munier Chowdhury’s famous historical play Raktakto Prantor in a typical traditional jatra style on Friday at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. It is a challenging experimentation by the Shilpakala Repertory to present Chowdhury’s  several times staged play, based on the third battle of Panipat between the Marathas and

A graceful façade of the third season of Bangla year Sarat was created by the artistes of Chhayanaut through the evergreen songs at a programme held at the Battola of the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University on Friday. Vibrant dance recitals and songs of mainly Rabindranath Tagore depicting the elegance of autumn were ... Read more

A film festival featuring the works of Bangladeshi female filmmakers will begin at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday, declared the organisers at a press conference on Thursday at the academy’s seminar room. The festival, which will be jointly organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Moviyana Film Society, will feature short films, documentaries and feature films ... Read more

After the huge success of last year’s classical music festival, Bengal Foundation has decided to arrange another festival starting from November 28 to December 01. Ahead of the festival, the organisation has arranged for a month-long workshop consisting of a series of lectures on classical music, dance and different demonstrations at the Bengal

Art lovers fear works may be lost again The master artist SM Sultan’s study works representing his transition period in the early 1950s has been found from the shelves of the artist’s once companion Abul Kasem Joarder. After renovations of the study drawings, mostly done in charcoal and pencil, Bengal Shilpalaya is exhibiting these sketches ... Read more

The Dhaka audience got a new taste of Tagore’s popular dance drama Chitrangada as the Kolkata based troupe Dancers’ Guild staged a brilliant show of the experimental production on Thursday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Earlier the troupe staged another show of the production on Wednesday at the same venue being ... Read more

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy pays tribute to recently demised actor Anwar Hossain organising a three-day film screening session featuring four films starred by Hossain. The festival began on Thursday at the Studio Theatre Hall of the academy through screening of Khan Ataur Rahman’s historical film Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, acting in which Anwar

The kaleidoscopic life of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore has been illustrated in a documentary film screened at the auditorium of National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilkpakala Academy on Tuesday. The 95-minute documentary film titled Rabindranath Thakur: Jibon O Samay has been directed by Indian filmmaker Mujibar Rahman. The film portrays the

The relation between life and art has been depicted in Towfiqur Rahman’s iron sculptures on display at the Gallery Shilpangan in Dhanmondi. The artist’s fourth solo exhibition titled ‘Connecting Art, Life & Living’ displays the fruit of the concept of ‘art, life, process’ on which the artist had been working for last few years. The ... Read more

Jatiya Party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s son Eric Ershad presented Tagore’s songs from his second Tagore music album Alo mar Alo that was launched on Tuesday at the Muktijudhha Smriti Auditorium of Institute of Diploma Engineers in Kakrail. Ekushey Padak winning Tagore singer Kaderi Kibria was present at the album launching ceremony

Jahangirnagar University based cultural organisation Jalshiri has organised a four-day cultural festival marking its 11th founding anniversary on the campus on Sunday. The cultural festival was inaugurated by the JU vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Hossain as the chief guest followed by a colorful procession on the campus.

The internationally acclaimed artist Shahabuddin Ahmed is known to depict the zeal and vigor of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in his paintings. Keeping the theme consistent, Shahabuddin Ahmed has created an exuberant freedom fighter holding a spreading national flag on his back in an oil painting titled Bijoy Ullas. Indicated by

The golden moments in seasoned actor Kabori Sarwar’s life is on display at a photography. exhibition at the Nalini Bhattasali Auditorium of National Museum, Shahbag in the capital. The splendid career of four decades as a film actor and as a politician associated with the ruling party Awami League, as well as her personal moments ... Read more

Tales of Bangladesh, a production by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Puppet Team  entertained the audience at the Studio Theatre Hall of the academy on Monday. The production participated at the World Puppet Carnival in Indonesia last month and won the Best Folk Puppet Musical Award. The production was also nominated for the ‘Best

Jessore, the town that bears the pride of culture, meets the thirst of the people through a six-day international drama festival that ended at Shilpakala Academy, Jessore on Friday. The festival – that was jointly organised by the theatre groups Bibartan Jessore, Tirjak Chittagong, and Drishtipat Dhaka – concluded with the staging of the translation ... Read more

Today is the 107th anniversary of birth of the legendary singer and composer Sachin Dev Burman (October 1, 1906 to October 31, 1975). Born in Comilla to Rajkumari Nirmala Devi, princess of Manipur and Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman, son of Maharaja Ishanachandra Manikya Dev Burman, Raja of Tripura; SD Burman started working as a radio singer ... Read more

After sixteen long years Artist Goutam Chakraborty makes a comeback since he displayed his last show in Dhaka in 1997. His ongoing solo titled I am at the Galleri Kaya in Uttara, owned by the artist himself, features 67 artworks including 27 oil paintings, 6 charcoal works, 15 watercolour works, 10 drawings and 10 serigraph ... Read more

In celebration of its 30th founding anniversary, theatre troupe Mohakal Natya Sampraday organised a 13-day theatre festival that began on September 18 and ended on Monday simultaneously at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Chhayanaut Auditorium. In total, the festival had performances by 36 theatre troupes from Bangladesh and India. Beside 30 local

Popular dance organisation Nrityanchal has taken up a project to preserve the folk dance forms of the country. In this connection a weeklong-day folk dance workshop on traditional raibeshi dance, conducted by Dr Tarun Prodhan, began on Sunday at the Shilpakla Academy. In a seminar held on Saturday the troupe members presented details of the ... Read more

Rabirashmi, the dedicated organisation in practicing Tagore’s songs, celebrated its 15th founding anniversary at the Shawkat Osman Auditorium of the Central Public Library on Saturday. The programme titled Biswaye Tai Jagey Amar Gaan began with the presentation of the national anthem. Subsequently, the leaders of the troupe, namely Mahadev Ghosh,