Art & Culture

Aranyak Natya Dal is currently occupied with its next production Patongo Katha, depicting the Rana Plaza Tragedy in Saver. Patongo Katha will be the 52nd production of the troupe. Written by Rashid Harun and directed by Mamunur Rashid, the play will portray the heart-wrenching incidents that took place after the collapse of Rana Plaza, an ... Read more

Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627), his reign and life appeared with all its elegance and grandeur at an exhibition at the National Art Gallery in Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The exhibition was inaugurated on Friday marking the emperor’s 444th birth anniversary on August 30. Organised by Jahangir Circle,

Plight and struggle of the fishermen community have been depicted in Nikhoj Mohajoner Sondhaney staged by Sushamo Natya Sampradaya on Sunday at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakla Academy. Through the tragic life of a lost fishermen community leader known as Mohajon among his fellow fishermen, Khondoker Anwarul Islam’s play presents lives and hardships, fate and ... Read more

The 3-day National Rabindra Sangeet Convention ended through a colourful cultural programme at Chhayanaut in Dhanmondi on Saturday. The 32nd edition of the convention was organsied by Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad. The day’s programme began with bestowing flower wreath in the killing field of the Rayerbazar by the artists

Recitation troupe Swarachitra observed the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 37th death anniversary on Saturday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The programme titled Rudrabina, compiled and directed by eminent recitation artist Mahidul Islam, featured discussions and presentations of some evergreen Nazrul’s poems highlighting his

National Professor Salauddin Ahmed was honoured with this year’s of Rabindra Padak at the 32nd Annual National Rabindra Sangeet Conventions which ended at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Saturday. The convention was orgsnised by Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad ‘I am happy that I have been conferred with this honour,’ said Ahmed to New Age while ... Read more

Shaheed Altaf Mahmud Foundation arranged a commemorative programme at the Liberation War Museum on Friday to observe the 42nd disappearance day of Altaf Mahmud. The programme featured discussion, award giving ceremony and cultural function. Altaf Mahmud was a singer, a cultural activist and a freedom fighter. From the language

Art Show At Afd Nature talks on Mamun’s watercolour paintings Artist Shahanoor Mamun in his first solo show at La Galerie of Allaince Francaise de Dhaka in Dhanmondi presents some beautiful landscape paintings in watercolour. The show titled Jol Bindu displays 54 watercolour paintings featuring the serenity of nature. Eminent artist Mustafa Monwar, who is also ... Read more

Dhaka Theatre’s latest production Panchanari Akhyan will be staged tomorrow at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Panchanari Akhyan, written and directed respectively by Harun Rashid and Shahiduzzaman Selim, narrates pains, struggles and oppression on women in the male dominated society. In the play Rosey Siddique plays five imaginary characters from different strata

The three-day 32nd National Rabindrasangeet Convention began at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Thursday evening. Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad has organised the convention comprising an array of events like presentation of Tagore songs, discussion session, Tagore song competition and honouring a Tagore exponent with an award The programme opened with

Birangana: Brave Women touched the audiences with the heart-wrenching story of the suffering of the biranganas in theatre. Staged by London-based troupe Komola Collective at the Liberation War Museum on Thursday, the play revealed the story of a birangana (war heroine), women who were tortured by Pakistani invading army during the war of independence in ... Read more

Artistes of Bangladesh Udichi Silpagoshthi entertained a houseful audience on Wednesday at the Music and Dance Centre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy presenting works of three maestros of Bangla literature. In the cultural programme styled Hey Sathi Ajke Sopner Din Gona artistes presented songs and poems composed by Rabindranath Tagore,

Al Deen’s Chaka gives artistic expression of reality Found only in the theories, books and dictionaries, the ‘Welfare State’ does not exist in reality. This fact has been explored artistically in Selim Al Deen’s play Chaka. It’s not a political play or any rough theatre criticising the concept of a repressive state as done by ... Read more

Artist Rahima Afroz has played with an array of colours on her canvases displayed in a solo painting exhibition titled Symphony of Colour at Dhaka Art Center, Dhanmondi in the capital. Afroz has depicted the freshness and vibrancy of nature through 33 abstract and semi abstract paintings, mostly in mixed media on canvas and a ... Read more

Rabindra Parishad Bangladesh arranged a programme on Sunday at Russian Science and Cultural auditorium to celebrate the centenary of Tagore’s winning of Nobel prize. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian to win the prestigious accoldate in 1913. The programme was Ppresided by professor Syed Muhammad Shahed, former director general of

Observing Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 37th Death Anniversary Nazrul becoming occasional  Experts blame authorities concerned Nazrul experts accuse both government and private organisations in the country for making the creations of the national poet occasional and to be performed on programmes marking the birth and death anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam. They also blame these organisations ... Read more

Experts tell New Age The poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is the golden treasure of Bangla literature. The nation has honoured him by conferring the status of the national poet and several other state honours such as Ekushey Padak. It’s true that many centres of learning and culture in India and Bangladesh have been ... Read more

It might not be common knowledge that Kazi Nazrul Islam was the first Bengali Muslim film director in the sub-continent. He jointly directed Dhrubo, released in 1934 with Satyendra Nath Dey. In the film based on Girish Chandra Ghosh’s story Bhakta Dhruva, Nazrul acted in the role of Narada, composed songs, set them to music ... Read more

Cultural Show At Chhayanaut Tagore’s Europe visit presented The Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore’s visit in the European countries and the impact of those visits in his literary works had been presented through a cultural show held on Saturday at the Chhayanaut auditorium in Dhanmondi. The production titled ‘Arup Tomar Bani-Tagore in Europe’ directed by ... Read more

Mukti and Prakrito Purangona staged on last day The first ever theatre festival on women issues organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy ended on Saturday with staging of Mukti and Prakrito Purangona. The six-day festival titled Nari Jagoroner Natya Ayojon featured 12 plays on women issues. Women theatre practitioners had significant contributions in these plays as ... Read more