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Cultural activists and others on Saturday mourned the death of actor Khaled Khan, who died in a hospital in Dhaka Friday night, by paying tribute to him. Theatre activists and other cultural personalities crowded the Central Shaheed Minar where the body was kept for public viewing and then at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.

The two-day classical music festival concluded through solo and group recitals of classical music at Chhayanaut auditorium on Friday. The ending day programme of the festival titled Suddho Sangeet Utsab 1420 began with a chorus presentation of raga bhimpalasi by the artistes of the organisation. Directed by Rezwan Ali and accompanied by tabla and harmonium, ... Read more

The season’s festivity is being celebrated in the busy city through a three day Poush Mela at the Ramna Batamul which began on Friday. The fair organsied by Poush Mela Udzapan Parisad consists of music, dance, theatre, recitations and delicious pithas sold in makeshift stalls through which the city dwellers enjoyed the festivity brought in ... Read more

A two-day classical festival featuring classical music performances by noted and upcoming singers began at Chhayanuat auditorium on Thursday. Cultural organisation Chhayanuat has organised the festival Suddho Sangeet Utsab 1420 with a goal to popularize and spread classical music among the music enthusiasts in the country. The first day programme

A hall full of audience enjoyed the evergreen romantic songs of yesteryears of the late eminent singer Mahmud-un-Nabi in a commemorative programme at the TSC auditorium on Thursday. The programme was organised by Bishwa Kalakendra to celebrate and observe the late singer’s 77th birth anniversary and 23rd death anniversary. Mahmud-un-Nabi was born

The spirit of war of independence has been highlighted in a group exhibition celebrating the 43rd Victory Day organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at the National Art Gallery. The weeklong exhibition displays 100 paintings by noted and upcoming artists portraying the images of the valiant freedom fighters, war scenes and massacres done by the Pakistani ... Read more

Tales of the common people have been depicted through dance by the artistes of Shadhona at the Berlin Hall of Goethe Institut in Dhanmondi on Tuesday. Organsied jointly by the Institut and popular local dance troupe Shadhona, the dance production titled A Piece for You Dhaka was choreographed by German choreographer Thomas Leeman.

Ferdousy Priyabhashini tells New Age Eminent sculptor Ferdousy Priyabhashini is a victim of the brutality of Pakistani army and its local collaborators during the war of independence in 1971. She was abducted from her house in Khulna in May 1971 when she worked at the Crescent Jute Mills in Khalishpur and was captivated at a ... Read more

Artist Nasima Khanam Queenie is displaying 31 prints in her first ever printmaking solo exhibition titled Return to Eden at the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka. In the sixth solo of the romantic artist, Queenie depicts the harmonious relation between man and nature. All the 31 prints depict

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life enjoyed inspirational songs rendered at the daylong Victory Day celebrations programme at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday. Wearing the red and green attires, many of them attended the programme with face paintings in colours of the national flag and sang along with the leading artistes ... Read more

Theatre troupes staged street theatre productions to pay tribute to the martyred intellectuals of 1971 at a programme organised to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day at the Mukta Bedi in Mirpur on Saturday. Most of the six plays staged by the troupes featured the atrocity of the Pakistani army and its local collaborators during the ... Read more

Seventeen singers of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra infused patriotism into the houseful audience presenting inspirational songs they used to render from the radio station during the war of independence at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. They performed at the concluding day of the of the three-day Victory Day celebrations programme

Celebrating The 43rd Victory Day Remembering the choir of freedom  Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha, a travelling troupe of singers and musicians, played a significant role in boosting the freedom fighters’ spirit at the camps during the war of independence in 1971. In addition to performing live at the freedom fighters’ camps, the troupe also ... Read more

Victory Day celebrations began simultaneously in seven places in Dhaka on Saturday. Different Cultural organisations have been participating and performing music, dance, recitation and street theatre at the venues including the Central Shaheed Minar, Rabindra Sarabar, Shaheed Buddhijibi Smriti Soudha Mancha, Dania, Mirpur and Shishu Academy and Uttara. It is a part of Sammilito

Nasiruddin Yousuff’s film on the war of independence Guerrilla was screened at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan on Saturday. Guerrilla is a film that provides an insightful picture of the days of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971. It depicts the intense struggle undertaken by progressive minded freedom fighters against the heinous torture, crimes ... Read more

Sudip Chakroborthy is going to direct a Shakespearean comedy in London to be staged in the 400th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare in 2015. Sudip will direct the Shakespearean classic The Taming of the Shrew in Bangla after a three-year project with the Bishwo Shahittya Kendro London. Artistes from different other London based organisations including ... Read more