The National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy turned into a place of major attraction on the sixth day of the ongoing Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival as famous and distinguished thespians acted out segments from Haque’s plays on Thursday. Titled as Natyakar Sannidhye, the event drew a lot of theatre lovers who got the ... Read more
Art & Culture
UODA students depict nature in paintings
A group art exhibition, titled Observation of Nature and Study, was inaugurated on Thursday at Drik Gallery, Dhanmondi. Department of Fine Arts, University of Development Alternative (UODA) has organised the exhibition featuring artworks by 28 artists. The theme of the exhibition is nature and its diversity. In a recently held workshop,
Calligraphy depicts Bangla sayings
The simple yet touching old Bangla sayings have been presented through vivid calligraphy at a solo exhibition by artist Arham-Ul-Huq Chowdhury at Dhaka Art Centre in Dhanmondi. The eight-day exhibition titled Articulation in Alphabet features 52 pieces of calligraphy, a form of visual art created with alphabets. The artist has used brush with acrylic
Tagore’s biography presented in play
Syed Shamsul Haque’s play Banglar Mati Banglar Jal features Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s biography, especially from the episode of his life when he just returned from abroad and visited the land areas, now part of Bangladesh, to perform the responsibility of his inherited land ownership. The play analyses the significance of the visit on the ... Read more
Creating supra-personae in masks
Masks have been used since ancient times for both ceremonial and practical purposes. Masks are a familiar and vibrant element in many folk and traditional ceremonies, festivals and rituals in the country. The experimental artists these days have taken masks as an art form. Such well decorated masks made by the contemporary artists are on ... Read more
A tribute to Satyajit Ray
Today is the 21st death anniversary of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who was also a reputed writer and artist. Satyajit Ray (May 2, 1921- April 23, 1992) a man with versatile talents, is widely considered to be one of the greatest film makers in the history of films in the Indian Subcontinent. Ray directed 36 ... Read more
Uttarbangsha staged
Kanthashilan staged Syed Shamsul Haque’s poetic drama Uttarbangsha on the third day of Syed Shamsul Haque Theatre Festival at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Sunday. Directed by Golam Sarwar, the play is mainly a protest against anti-liberation forces in 1971 and emphasises speedy trial of war crimes done during the war ... Read more
Children’s fair held in Manikganj
Two-day long Shishu Ananda Mela ended at deputy commissioner’s office premises in Manikganj on Sunday through colourful programmes. The programmes included cultural competitions, cultural function, discussion and prize giving ceremony among the winners of the cultural competitions. Hundreds of students from
Anadikalpa celebrates anniversary
Four plays staged in 3-day fest Chittagong based troupe Anadikalpa had organised a three-day theatre festival at Chittagong Shilpakala Academy to celebrate its fifth founding anniversary. Local vernacular daily Azadi editor MA Malek inaugurated the festival as the chief guest on April 18. The festival ended on April 20. Dwelling on the journey of Anadikalpa,
Lubna Marium felicitated
The trustees of Shadhona organised an event to felicitate its artistic director Lubna Marium for being awarded the First Biswaratna Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award by the Assam Sahitya Sabha. Marium received the award on March 28 this year in Guwahati, Assam, from Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam. At Shadhona’s event, the citation
Macbeth staged
Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC) staged the third show of Shakespearean popular tragedy Macbeth on the second day of Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival at the National Theater Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday. Translated by Syed Shamsul Haque and directed by the young director Sudip Chakrabarthy, this is the
Syed Shamsul Haque theatre fest begins
Payer Awaj Pawa Jay staged The National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy was decorated with dazzling lights and colourful papers to celebrate a special moment: the inauguration of the eight-day Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival. Not only the members of the participating troupes, everyone who passed by the area was drawn to the programme ... Read more
Expatriate artist displays his retrospective
The UK based Bangladeshi artist Abu Jafar is displaying a retrospective of his abstract paintings done in the past two decades at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The show titled ‘Ekush Bochhor Sheshey’ expresses various stories of daily life through the shades of colours, which is termed as abstract expressionism. Layers of ... Read more
BIT students stage Merchant of Venice
Bangladesh International Tutorial celebrated the 30th anniversary of the school through staging two shows of Shakespearean classic The Merchant of Venice in English. The BIT students staged the play in presence of a huge crowd on Friday and Saturday at the Senior School Auditorium in Uttara. As part of the celebrations,
A film about finding a new identity
The recently released film ‘Shikhandi Katha’ premiered at Balaka-2 on Thursday. Among others, Muhammad Hannan, the director of the film and Faridur Reza Sagar, managing director of Impress Telefilm Ltd and Channel i, were present. The film is an adaptation of a stage-play ‘Shikhandi Katha’ by Mahakal Natya Sampraday. It has been acclaimed at home ... Read more
Ayna Bibir Pala reveals ill-treatment of women
Maltreatment of women in a male-dominated society is not new, nor the discourse arising from such an issue. Hundreds of years ago, the village bards of our territory addressed significant issues such as ill-treatment of women, as testified by the palas of the Mymensingh Gitika. One such pala called Ayna Bibir Pala was staged by ... Read more
Life of commoners depicted through art
Paintings revealing daily life of average people were displayed at the solo painting exhibition of artist Munawer Mehedi at Shilpangan Gallery in the capital. The human figure paintings, which had mostly been done in oil and a few acrylics, portray workers who toil rigorously for livelihood of their families.
Rafiqun Nabi touches a different reality
Celebrated artist Rafiqun Nabi with his ongoing solo exhibition has broken a recent trend. While most artists present sufferings of the struggling classes, the romantic artist defines and narrates merrymaking and joy. That does not mean Nabi has created anything minus-reality but viewers can feel the essence of real-life amusement of people that they tend ... Read more
Short film features house of Shahidullah Kaiser, Zahir Raihan
Srabanta Habib, nephew of Shahidullah Kaiser and Zahir Raihan, has made a short film on the parental house of the martyred intellectual brothers. Habib made the film titled Smritymoy Barir Mrityu to preserve the memory of the building on Ganguly Road in Old Town of Dhaka, which has been handed over to a real estate
Sanglap holds 2-day theatre festival
The two-day theatre festival organised by Sanglap Group Theatre ended on Thursday through staging of Badnam at the National Theatre Hall. The play, adapted and directed by Mustafa Hira from Tagore’s short story having the same title, features how an ordinary housewife of a police officer emerges as a great patriot and scarifies all the ... Read more