Art & Culture

Photographs featuring the victims of the recent Rana Plaza tragedy will be displayed today at a group exhibition in front of the depressed land on which Rana Plaza building stood once in Savar. Four photo artistes have jointly organised the show to remind the people about the tragic building collapse on April 24 this year ... Read more

A two-day film festival featuring four Russian fairy tale films has been arranged at the Daffodil International University Auditorium on Tuesday and Wednesday. Cultural department of the embassy of the Russian Federation in Bangladesh arranged the festival jointly with Daffodil International University. On the beginning day, two fairy tale films-The Tale of Tsar Saltan, directed ... Read more

ART WORKSHOP AT DU Korean team teach modern method The fine arts students of Dhaka University are taking part in a fortnight workshop with the students of Korea National University of Arts at a studio at the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University. The 11-member Korean team, led by professor Lee Ju Young, is ... Read more

A 10-day film festival featuring the world’s most renowned comedy films began at the International Digital and Cultural Archive of the Bangladesh Shilapkala Academy on Sunday evening. The festival titled World Best Comedy Film Show has been organsied by the academy to boost the activities of the International Digital and Cultural Archive.10 world famous comedy ... Read more

Theatre troupe Drishtipaat has gone to Kolkata to stage two shows of its latest production Raja Himadri, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Oedipus Rex. ‘Raja Himadri will be staged on July 23 at the Kamarhati Nazrul Mancha in a theatre festival called International Bangla Natyamela, arranged by Prachya. On the following day, the play will ... Read more

Discussants observe at a commemorative programme Iconic author Humayun Ahmed was analysed as a rare talent by the speakers who attended his first death anniversary programme held on Saturday at the Bengal Shilpalaya at Dhanmondi. Humayun was an author who has been able to keep a nation mesmerised for over 20 years only by his ... Read more

A weeklong film festival featuring films based on Tagore’s writings began on Saturday at the EMK Center in Dhanmondi. The programme jointly organised by EMK Center and International Academy of Film and Media will screen five films and a documentary on Tagore’s biography. Renowned film critic Anupam

Teerondaz Natyadal’s latest production Kanthanalite Surjo satirises brutal realities of the contemporary society through an absurd story portraying the sun being stuck into the throat of a man. The troupe premiered its third production on Friday at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The late Indian poet-playwright

Manipuri artistes presented classical manipuri dance and traditional kirtan song at the bamboo made auditorium of Manipuri Theatre at the remote village Ghoramara under Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district. The traditional artistes of the community also presented ritualistic songs and dance recitals at the programme on Thursday, which was organised by Dhrumel, a joint venture ... Read more

Prominent folk singer late Bipul Bhattacharya was recalled at a commemorative programme held at the auditorium of Chhayanaut in Dhanmondi on Friday. The programme comprised of music, film screening and a discussion session on the life and work of Bipul Bhattacharya, who passed away on July 5. Dr. Sarwar Ali, vice-president of Chhayanaut, and Tareq ... Read more

Cultural organisation Wrishiz Shilpi Gosthi arranged a discussion and cultural programme on Thursday at Liberation War Museum to celebrate South African leader Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday. Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, communist party leader Munjurul Ahsan Khan, essayist Mafidul Haque, actor Jhuna Chowdhury, Nader Chowdhury and Golam Kuddus spoke on the occasion presided

The Athena Gallery of Fine Arts in the capital is currently housing a group exhibition titled Finding A Voice showcasing paintings done by 16 aspiring artists. The 25 day exhibition is an outcome of a workshop for emerging artists conducted by the gallery in March this year. The show comprises of 50 paintings mostly done ... Read more

RESEARCH ON HUMAYUN’S NOVELS Bangla Academy fails to keep pledge Observing Humayun Ahmed’s first death anniversary Today is the first anniversary of the death of Humayun Ahmed, the country’s most influential writer after the war of independence. He has written more than 200 fictions and non-fictions. His writing helped Bangladeshi readers to shift their focus ... Read more

As a playwright Humayun Ahmed introduced a new trend in teleplays and TV series by creating realistic narratives, practical characters and witty dialogues in the early 1980s. Humayun’s teleplays and series such as Ei Sab Din Ratri, Kothao Keo Nei, Ayomoy, Bahubrihi, Esho Nipo Bon-e and Janoni aired during the 80s on the state run ... Read more

ICONIC writer Humayun Ahmed emerged as a filmmaker in 1994 through his national award winning film Aguner Paroshmoni, based on the guerrilla operations during the war of independence in 1971. He won the national film award once again for his second film Sraban Megher Din released in 1999. Subsequently  Humayun Ahmed made

Hundreds of Humayun Ahmed’s fans will pay respect to the iconic writer and playwright by placing wreaths and flowers on the author’s grave on the first anniversary of his death today. A marble plaque with an epitaph, two lines from a Tagore’s song, Charana dharite diyo go amare, niyo na niyo na saraye, will be ... Read more

Galleri Kaya in Uttara has organised a big exhibition titled Glimpses marking the 10th founding anniversary of the gallery. The show displays 39 selected paintings of the artists who exhibited their works in Galleri Kaya over the past one decade. Galleri Kaya, one of the leading art galleries in Bangladesh, over the last 10 years ... Read more

Legendary film actor Bulbul Ahmed was analysed as an artiste and a person at a commemorative programme at the seminar hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Wednesday. Cultural organisation Swapnalok arranged the programme to mark the actor’s third death anniversary that was on Sunday. The seminar was attended by

MOUNT ELBRUS EXPEDITION Photo show features Bangladeshi mountaineers’ trip Three Bangladeshi mountaineers—Musa Ibrahim, Niaz Morshed Patwari and Sifat Fahmida Nawshin, conquered Mount Elbrus in Russia on July 26. Some magnificent images of their expedition are on display at a photography exhibition at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The show displays ... Read more

Students of the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University have organised an exhibition for raising funds to save the life of peer Syed Fida Hossain. Fida, an MFA student of the department of drawing and painting, is suffering from fatal disease called familial colonic polyposis for the last few years.Doctors said that at least ... Read more