Art & Culture

Children of the city enjoyed programmes on Christmas organised by different city hotels on Thursday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ amid festivity. They came with their families and passed a joyful day with Santa Claus and with his friends –Angry Birds, Micky Mouse and Mini Mouse. Samantha, Zaira, Mahin and many other kids of ... Read more

A collection of exquisitely embroidered quilts that belonged to shilpacharya Zainul Abedin are now on display at the Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. The show, featuring 22 embroidered quilts and a collage of photographs of Zainul’s master pieces, has been organised by Bengal Foundation as part of its yearlong Zainul birth centenary programme. Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul ... Read more

The late artiste Khaled Khan’s recitation album Megh Balika was launched on his first death anniversary observation programme on Saturday at the Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. The album, which was recorded by Khaled Khan 20 years back, has been produced by Bengal Audio in response to the request of Khaled Khan’s family. Noted artistes also presented music ... Read more

A two-day classical music festival ended on Friday at Chhayanaut auditorium with participation from noted local and a few Indian artistes. Both days saw full attendance from music lovers who expressed their satisfaction and thanked Chhayanaut for the festival. On the concluding day, the festival was held in two sessions- from morning till noon and from ... Read more

Artist Nasima Khan has depicted the natural diversity of the char areas in different seasons through her watercolor paintings at a solo exhibition at the Bengal Art Lounge in the capital. The exhibition titled Shifting Sands features 69 paintings all done in watercolour. All the paintings that have been done in watercolour beautifully reveal the landscape of ... Read more

Different cultural organisations celebrated the 44th Victory Day through colourful programmes across the country on Tuesday. As part of Bangladesh Shilpakala’s 13-day Victory Day celebrations programme, the academy organised a special show featuring a collage of music and recitations performed by the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artistes at the National Theatre Hall of the academy on ... Read more

Mainstream Bangla films and theatre plays on Liberation War represent mostly depict collaborators of the occupational Pakistani Army as clowns in typical attires. In most of such films and theatre productions, collaborators appear as fictitious comical characters with attires of pajama, punjabi and tupi, and with make-up of clownish bearded man, who are engaged with some ... Read more

Bangladesh National Museum is displaying photographs, posters, different artifacts and paintings depicting the dreadful killings that took place during the Independence War in 1971 from its collection at the Nalini Kanta Bhattasali Auditorium. The weeklong exhibition titled ‘1971 Ganohatya and Nirjatan’ has been organised by the museum marking Victory Day, on December 16. About 200 displays including ... Read more

Asian Art Biennale Translating theory into art Omani artist Hamed Al-Jabri has won the honorable mention award at the 16th Asian Art Biennale for his installation based on the Impasse Theory, a philosophical discourse of intra-psychic collision of a person. The impressionist Jabri in his installation, Impasse, creates a contrast of two opposing personality traits ... Read more

Dhaka as the city of dreams and of nightmares has been presented in a series of 77 mixed media works in artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed’s ongoing solo at Shilpangan Gallery at Dhanmondi. The changing city has been an inexhaustible theme in Salauddin’s works for well over the last two decades. The artist has focused on the ... Read more

Bengal Classical Music Fest Saturday morning performances begin with Rajan-Sajan brothers Renowned Indian duo pandit Rajan Misra and pandit Sajan Misra moved thousands of audiences on Saturday dawn presenting some tuneful morning ragas at the open air concert at the Army Stadium. The classical music lovers, who forwent snuggling under a comforter back home in the ... Read more

Munier Chowdhury memorial award and Zakaria Smrity Padak were conferred respectively on Mrittika Chakma and Irin Pervin Lopa on Thursday marking the 89th birth anniversary of martyred intellectual, educationist, playwright Munier Chowdhury. Poet-playwright Syed Shamsul Haq handed over the awards to the recipients at a programme organised by Theatre at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh ... Read more

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s upcoming film, No Land’s Man, won the most promising project award at the Indian National Film Development Corporation’s annual Film Bazaar industry event in Goa. NFDC Development award, earlier known as the Incredible India Award, is considered as the flagship of the South Asian film industry event. The cash award of Rs 10 Lakh ... Read more

Chhayanaut observed the 15th death anniversary of its founding president Poet Sufia Kamal with a cultural programme in its auditorium on Friday. The programme featured a commemorative lecture and presentation of patriotic songs composed by three great poets — Dwijendralal Roy, Atulprasad Sen and Rajanikanta Sen — in group and solo. Chhayanaut vice-president Sarwar Ali in his ... Read more

The delicious smell of pithas wafting through the air at Ramna Batamul makes it known that Nabanno festival has finally arrived for the urban dwellers. Nabanno, one of the most celebrated festivals of the country, is one of the greatest times of merrymaking for the farmers, as they harvest their crops at this time. However, the ongoing ... Read more

Today is the 15th death anniversary of Sufia Kamal, a renowned poet and a pioneer of women’s rights movement in Bangladesh. She received Independence Day Award, Ekushey Padak, Bangla Academy Award, Deshbandhu CR Das Gold Medal, and many other national and international accolades. Born in the Shayestabad’s Nawab family in Barisal, Sufia Kamal (June 20, 1911 –November ... Read more

Noted filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon said that his one after another international recognitions for his film ‘Shunte Ki Pao!’ (Are You Listening!) boost him to overcome the hurdles he faces as an independent filmmaker in Bangladesh. The film, an artistic presentation of winning the nature by common people, has recently bagged Best Documentary Film Audience Award ... Read more

The Chakma community, like other communities of the hill tracts of the country, has been mired in political unrest and conflicts for long. In spite of the community’s engagement in weathering hard times, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, an insider of the largest ethnic community and a prominent artist, chooses not to directly address the political struggles ... Read more

It is the age old tradition to celebrate Agrahayan, the seventh month of Bangla year, which is associated with new harvest. Following the tradition, the urban troupes these days also organise programmes celebrating the month. Like the previous years, Jatiyo Nabanno Utsab Udjapan Parisad organised a day-long programme at the Bakul Tala of the Faculty ... Read more

The six-day theatre festival organised by Drishtipat Natya Dal ended through staging of two plays on Friday at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The troupe organised the festival in celebrating its 30th founding anniversary. Eleven local and one Kolakata based troupe staged one production each at the festival that began on November 9, two days before anniversary date ... Read more