Dance can be a language of life to express something. Daily lifestyle can be expressed by dance by its performance. All kinds of barriers and unusual things like eve teasing and drug addiction can be removed from the dance through dancing. Dance can open closed eyes of human minds,” said noted dance artiste Anwesha Ahmed ... Read more
Art & Culture
Climate Change In Focus
Documentaries screened at the British Council At an event marking the ‘Climate Week’, youngsters had an opportunity to discuss with some renowned climate experts of the world at the British Council Auditorium, on Fuller Road, Dhaka. Ian Burton, Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and Pablo Suarez, Associate Director of Programmes at the Red ... Read more
Silent Spaces
Md. Tokon’s solo exhibition in New York Queens Museum of Art in New York, USA has organised a solo painting exhibition featuring works of Bangladeshi expatriate painter Md. Tokon. The painter has been in New York since 2001. The exhibition opened on March 19 and will run till April 10. The museum also held a ... Read more
Shako presents group art exhibition at DAC
Different aspects of women issues have been displayed through artworks at a nine-day art exhibition which is now going on at Dhaka Art Center in Dhanmondi in the city. Organised by Shako, an association of women artists of Bangladesh, the group exhibition titled ‘Celebration’ marks the 100th years of International Woman’s Day. Various aspects of ... Read more
Desperately Seeking Breathing Space
Exhibition at Goethe Institut highlights a distraught Dhaka Walking into Goethe Institut in Dhanmandi, Dhaka, one notices a fairly large structure of whitened bamboos — with shoes and mirrors hanging randomly from the intricately positioned arms. What is more unsettling about this piece is that little plants with tiny green leaves are sprouting out of ... Read more
History in Flashes
Light and sound show at Suhrawardy Udyan Starting from March 7, a three-daylong light and sound show, titled “Bangladesh-er Hridoy Hotey”, was held at Suhrawardy Udyan. The show was held to celebrate the ‘month of independence’. Our national flag was hoisted for the first time in this month [March 2] in 1971. Bangabandhu delivered his ... Read more
Dhaka University Theatre Festival
“Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka” and “Durghotona” staged The ongoing fortnight-long theatre festival by the Department of Theatre, Dhaka University featured two plays on March 9. The plays — “Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka” and “Durghotona” — were staged at Natmandal Auditorium of DU. Tanvir Rashid directed “Ashchorjo Shundor Ei Bechey Thaka”. The play is ... Read more
Chhayanaut’s Yearlong Celebration of Tagore’s 150th Birth Anniversary Reaches 6th Phase
With the staging of “Daakghar” at the Chhayanaut Auditorium by the students of Nalanda [Chhayanaut’s school], the sixth phase of the yearlong celebration of Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary began on March 3. The four-day event, featuring theatre and film adaptations of Tagore’s works, is being held at Chhayanaut Shangskriti Bhaban and National Theatre Hall ... Read more
Lost Capitals of Ancient Bengal
Photo exhibition highlighting Gaur and Pandua Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts has organised a photography exhibition, titled “Gaur and Pandua — The Lost Capital of Bengal — Bangladesh and India”, featuring the works of Babu Ahmed. The exhibition opened on sunday at Bengal Gallery, Dhanmondi, in Dhaka and will continue till March 8. Indian High ... Read more
Toshihisa Fudezuka in Town
Japanese Printmaking Workshop and Exhibition begins An eight day printmaking workshop and an art exhibition titled “Heart” was inaugurated on February 25 at Cosmos Centre in Malibagh. Internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Toshihisa Fudezuka is conducting the workshop where he mainly focuses on the water- based wood block printmaking technique. He will also demonstrate techniques of ... Read more
Padatik celebrates Int’l Mother Language Day
Ramna Batamul was resounded with songs, recitations, dances and street theatre, performed by artistes from both Bangladesh and India, to mark International Mother Language Day on Monday. The event was organised by Padatik Natya Sangsad which has been holding cultural programmes every year on February 21 for the past 12 years at the same venue
Archiving a Golden Episode
Language Movement Museum in its infancy Written history is the main source for the younger generations to learn about the Language Movement and the Liberation War. Newspapers, television and films have had a great impact but archives or museums are the best way to display and preserve history. The Language Movement Museum is one such ... Read more
Expressing the freedom of art
Expression is more than just communication; it is a way of reaching out and telling a story. Freedom on the other hand may be defined as absence of obstruction on the path to desire. Freedom is always considered a gift as it lets one to express themselves the way they want to. Student of MFA ... Read more
Tamanna Rahman and her manipuri dance
Tamanna Rahman is considered a leading manipuri dancer in the country. Besides presenting spectacular dance recitals at regular shows in home and abroad, Tamanna teaches manipuri dance at different institutions such as Shanto Mariam University of Creative Technology and cultural organisation Chayanaut. She has also received many prestigious awards including
Curtain draws on Chobi Mela VI
The two-week international festival Chobi Mela VI, organised by Drik, will end today. This year’s arrangement of the biennial festival was perhaps better than the previous ones in terms of higher number of entrees and venues. Beginning on January 21, over 500 entries from 30 countries featuring ‘dream’ were on display at seven venues, which drew ... Read more
Chobi Mela VI draws huge crowd
A remarkable number of viewers are watching the display of local and foreign photographers at the seven venues of the ongoing international photography festival Chobi Mela every day. The number of visitors is increasing day by day. And on the holidays — Friday and Saturday — all the seven venues become overcrowded. Beginning on January ... Read more
Two photographers’ show at Charukala
Faculty of fine arts’ Lichutola is now decorated with 26 photographs of two internationally acclaimed photographers — Tamas Dezso and Karen Knorr. The ongoing exhibition is a part of the two-week international photography exhibition Chhobi Mela VI with this year’s theme ‘dreams’. The two-week festival is running simultaneously at seven venues in the Dhaka city ... Read more
Lux-Channel i Superstar 2010 announced
Mahbuba Islam Rakhi has wrested the title of Lux Channel i Superstar 2010, against stiff competition from thousands of girls. She was awarded a brand new Mitsubishi Lancer, a role in an upcoming film, and a scholarship to study acting. Mousumi Hamid became the first runner-up while Mehrin Islam Nisha became the second runner-up in ... Read more
Film screening begins
The formal film screening of the fourth International Film Festival began in nine theatres in Dhaka on Sunday. A total of 40 films on children in different format including feature film, short film, animation and documentary films were screened on the second day of International Children Film Festival. The houseful viewers of Dhaka enjoyed films ... Read more
Chobi Mela VI
Laurence Leblanc’s Out-of-focus, Dreamlike Images To confront the out-of-focus images of fleeting moments by the internationally acclaimed photographer Laurence Leblanc is an unsettling yet fascinating experience. Born and raised in Paris, Leblanc took courses in design and painting at a very young age. She also trained in engraving at the “Ecole des Arts décoratifs du ... Read more