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Bangladesh has already joined the names of record-holders in the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest human flag which was made on February 21 by thousands. This time the country is all set to accomplish another record by singing the national anthem by tens of thousands of people. Preparations for the record-making

World Children’s Theatre Day was celebrated through a colourful programme at the National Art Gallery Auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday. Peoples’ Theatre Association, in alliance with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, organised the programme. Numerous child and young theatre

War Of Independence Poems on women’s contribution recited When it comes to contributions in the war of independence in 1971, the male freedom fighters are generally highly glorified in this patriarchal society and the women who also played heroic roles in the war often go unsung. A programme was held to recognise the contributions of ... Read more

The five-day Lalon Smaran Utsab-2014 (Lalon memorial festival) ended on Wednesday at the shrine of the most influential baul, Fakir Lalon Shah at Chheuriy, in Kushtia. The festival is usually held in the first week of the month of Chaitra in the Bangla calendar marking dol purnima (full moon night). The festival was organised

ChilD artistes celebrated the National Children Day through music and dance recitals at a vibrant programme held at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Monday. The programme was organised by the academy in celebration of National Children Day and also the 94th birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of ... Read more

Child artistes of Nalanda School presented music and dance at a programme held at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Sunday evening. Nalanda School, which is a sister concern of Chhayanaut, organised the programme to mark the 81st birth anniversary of late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007). The music and dance recitals

River has always been a source of livelihood for the people of Bangladesh, a country crisscrossed with numerous rivers. Rivers not only nurture life but they have helped shape the minds of many artists of this region who have been depicting the character of rivers in their paintings from time immoral. Such a river-revering artist ... Read more

Late cultural personality Waheedul Haq (1933- 2007) was recalled marking his 81st birth anniversary through different cultural programmes in the capital on Sunday. Cultural organisations Chhayanaut and Kanthashilon, both founded by renowned Tagore exponent Waheedul Haq, arranged two-day colourful programmes marking their

Noted theatre troupe of the country Dhaka Theatre brought French novelist Albert Camus’ famous novel The Outsider on stage. Translated and directed respectively by Rubaiyat Ahmed and Nasir Uddin Yusuff, the play staged its press show on Friday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Both the translator and director

Artist Shahid Kabir, in his ongoing 12th solo exhibition, has presented paintings featuring the lives of commoners with all their everyday joys in magnificence. Titled ‘I Bow My Head to You in Deep Obeisance’, the exhibition includes 53 paintings, mostly in mixed media on canvas and a few etchings. No heart-wrenching struggle or tattered slums ... Read more

The patriarchal society has always managed to silence the ‘female-tongue’ by force or by guile. That is why civilisation has forever unambiguously spoken a male dialect. What danger lies there in women’s minds, what could have come out of the female-tongue, is a question of conjecture still. A conjecture of that sort is

A full-hall audience was entertained by seasoned and young folk singers at a programme on Tuesday at Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpkala Academy. Bangladesh Loka Sangeet Parishad organised the programme to celebrate the forthcoming Independence Day. In befitting stentorian voices,

760 masterpieces on display Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, for the first time ever since its founding in 1974, has exhibited its grand collection of original artworks by maestros in an exhibition. For the aficionados of fine arts, the two week-long exhibition of 760 masterpieces by late and contemporary master artists is a rare chance that no ... Read more

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has chalked out a six-day programme to observe the International Women’s Day. The programme features theatre shows, documentary and film screening, recitation, discussion and others at the theatre halls, music and dance centre and national art gallery auditorium. The event was inaugurated by

In the realm of art, what counts more is perhaps the culmination of artistic passion and natural flair, rather than academic degree or age. A good piece of artwork can emerge through artistic endeavour of a child or an eighty year old. The art aficionados of the country themselves can find evidence for the fact ... Read more

7th International Film Festival Five child directors awarded The 7th International Child Film Festival concluded on Friday through a discussion, award giving ceremony and film screening at the Shawkat Osman Auditorium of Central Public Library. Organsied by Children Film Society, the seven-day festival features films from 35 countries across the world. With the theme ‘dreams ... Read more

The weeklong Bangladesh Street Theatre Festival, organised by Bangladesh Pothonatok Parishad, ended on Friday, attended by hundreds of audience. This year, a total of 23 Dhaka based and 18 regional theatre troupes staged their street productions at the festival. Among them, three theatre troupes brought new productions on stage. Dhaka-based troupes Subachan Natya Sangsad, Udichi ... Read more

It is high time that society and the nation treat women, which is half of its population, equally. The contribution of women from homemaking to agriculture, education to defense is no less significant and voluminous than that of their male counterparts. Such theme was addressed in a spectacular dance-drama titled Pala Bodoler Pala (Performing Change) ... Read more