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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

Dhaka Theatre has come up with an innovative programme to promote young theatre practitioners of the troupe as theatre directors. As part of the programme, four activists of the troupe named Rubayet Ahmed, Esha Yousuf, Wasim Ahmed and Samiun Jahan Dola will direct iconic playwright Al Deen’s plays titled Iti Potromita, Golpo Niye Golpo, Amrita Upakkhyan ... Read more

An evening of classical music and dance at a programme at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy entertained classical music aficionados on Thursday. The academy organised the programme featuring classical recitals presented by noted classical dancers, vocalists and instrumentalists. Noted dancers Shamim Ara Nipa and Shibly Mohammad, along with the dancers of their dance

The headquarters of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) is being relocated to Shanghai, China, says a press release. After staying in Paris for 66 years, it is expected that the general secretariat will move to Shanghai in April, 2015, adds the release. ITI, to note, is the umbrella organisation, founded in 1948, by theatre and ... Read more

A discussion programme highlighting the 2014 Nobel Laureate for literature, Patrick Modiano was held on Thursday at the auditorium of Alliance Française de Dhaka located at Dhanmondi. The programme was jointly organised by Writer’s Association of Bangladesh (WRAB) and Alliance Française de Dhaka. The intention of the programme, shared the organisers, was to introduce Patrick Modiano ... Read more

As the adage goes, an image is worth a thousand words; and it’s all the more if the image tells the untold stories of oppression. Noted photographer Kakoli Prodhan has used the powerful medium of photography to expose the injustices taking place in different corners of the country. She, however, has not only used photos ... Read more