A three-day children art exhibition featuring the life and work of late noted artist SM Sultan ended at the Dhaka Art Center, Dhanmondi in the capital on Sunday, said a press release. The International quality ice cream brand Bellissimo organised the exhibition titled ‘Artist S.M. Sultan through your eyes’ in celebrating the 89th Birth Anniversary ... Read more
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Evergreen Nazrul songs presented
Prominent Nazrul singers of the country like Fatema Tuz Zohra, Yasmin Mushtari and Sujit Mustafa created a melodic ambiance of popular Nazrul songs like Rangamatir pothe lo, O kalo shoshire, Shunyo e buke pakhi mor at the Music and Dance Centre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Tuesday. Arranged to observe the 37th death anniversary ... Read more
Chanchal starts working for Eid plays
Busy small screen actor Chanchal Chowdhury claims that he has already started shooting for the teleplays to be aired in the upcoming Eid-Ul-Azha. Shooting of the Eid teleplays has started nearly two months before the Eid celebrations as Chanchal is to complete a number of teleplays along with his routine works, Chanchal told New Age ... Read more
Television to participate in four int’l festivals
Mostafa Sarwar Forooki’s film Television is going to participate in four international film festivals. The film will be the curtain raiser of the Perspectives Film Festival in Singapore, which will begin on October 3, said a press release. In the same month Television will be screened in an Italian festival named Asiatica Film Medial, which ... Read more
UK-based troupe conducts workshop on Biranganas
The artistes of the London-based theatre and arts company The Komola Collective participated in an interactive session with the students of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh in a workshop held on Monday at the university. The main objective of the workshop was to inspire the young generation to hear the inimitable stories and
Ganesh Haloi holds fundraising exhibition
Celebrated Indian artist Ganesh Haloi is displaying his latest works in a fund rising exhibition at the Bangal Shilpalaya at Dhanmondi in the capital. With the proceedings of the show, jointly organised by Bengal Gallery and Kolkata based art gallery Akar Prokar, the artist wants to raise fund for a cultural center he wants to ... Read more
Dardarkar presents classical music
The noted Indian artist Omkar Dardarkar presented classical ragas in vocal rendition at a solo musical programme organised by Shadhona Cultural Circle for its members at a residential house in Gulshan on Monday. Presented in bilambit ek taal, Dardarkar’s presentation of raga miyaman began with alap as small notes; the recital gradually rose to fast ... Read more
Aranyak to produce play on Rana Plaza tragedy
Aranyak Natya Dal is currently occupied with its next production Patongo Katha, depicting the Rana Plaza Tragedy in Saver. Patongo Katha will be the 52nd production of the troupe. Written by Rashid Harun and directed by Mamunur Rashid, the play will portray the heart-wrenching incidents that took place after the collapse of Rana Plaza, an ... Read more
Exhibition features Mughal Emperor Jahangir
Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627), his reign and life appeared with all its elegance and grandeur at an exhibition at the National Art Gallery in Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The exhibition was inaugurated on Friday marking the emperor’s 444th birth anniversary on August 30. Organised by Jahangir Circle,
Fishermen community’s struggle depicted in theatre
Plight and struggle of the fishermen community have been depicted in Nikhoj Mohajoner Sondhaney staged by Sushamo Natya Sampradaya on Sunday at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakla Academy. Through the tragic life of a lost fishermen community leader known as Mohajon among his fellow fishermen, Khondoker Anwarul Islam’s play presents lives and hardships, fate and ... Read more
Nat’l Rabindra Sangeet convention ends
The 3-day National Rabindra Sangeet Convention ended through a colourful cultural programme at Chhayanaut in Dhanmondi on Saturday. The 32nd edition of the convention was organsied by Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad. The day’s programme began with bestowing flower wreath in the killing field of the Rayerbazar by the artists
Swarachitra celebrates Nazrul’s death anniv
Recitation troupe Swarachitra observed the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 37th death anniversary on Saturday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The programme titled Rudrabina, compiled and directed by eminent recitation artist Mahidul Islam, featured discussions and presentations of some evergreen Nazrul’s poems highlighting his
Prof Salauddin Ahmed wins Rabindra Padak
National Professor Salauddin Ahmed was honoured with this year’s of Rabindra Padak at the 32nd Annual National Rabindra Sangeet Conventions which ended at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Saturday. The convention was orgsnised by Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad ‘I am happy that I have been conferred with this honour,’ said Ahmed to New Age while ... Read more
Bannya sweeps away audience with melody
The renowned Tagore singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya entertained a full-house audience at Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre on Saturday. The small auditorium of the Centre was teeming with music lovers and the ambiance enjoyedthe Tagore’s numbers.She presented songs of various genres of Tagore from the different episodes of the Gitobitan, a collection of Tagore songs, at the ... Read more
Altaf Mahmud remembered
Shaheed Altaf Mahmud Foundation arranged a commemorative programme at the Liberation War Museum on Friday to observe the 42nd disappearance day of Altaf Mahmud. The programme featured discussion, award giving ceremony and cultural function. Altaf Mahmud was a singer, a cultural activist and a freedom fighter. From the language
Nature talks on Mamun’s watercolour paintings
Art Show At Afd Nature talks on Mamun’s watercolour paintings Artist Shahanoor Mamun in his first solo show at La Galerie of Allaince Francaise de Dhaka in Dhanmondi presents some beautiful landscape paintings in watercolour. The show titled Jol Bindu displays 54 watercolour paintings featuring the serenity of nature. Eminent artist Mustafa Monwar, who is also ... Read more
Rosey plays five oppressed women in monodrama
Dhaka Theatre’s latest production Panchanari Akhyan will be staged tomorrow at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Panchanari Akhyan, written and directed respectively by Harun Rashid and Shahiduzzaman Selim, narrates pains, struggles and oppression on women in the male dominated society. In the play Rosey Siddique plays five imaginary characters from different strata
Nat’l Rabindra Sangeet convention begins
The three-day 32nd National Rabindrasangeet Convention began at the Chhayanaut auditorium on Thursday evening. Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad has organised the convention comprising an array of events like presentation of Tagore songs, discussion session, Tagore song competition and honouring a Tagore exponent with an award The programme opened with
Untold stories of biranganas depicted
Birangana: Brave Women touched the audiences with the heart-wrenching story of the suffering of the biranganas in theatre. Staged by London-based troupe Komola Collective at the Liberation War Museum on Thursday, the play revealed the story of a birangana (war heroine), women who were tortured by Pakistani invading army during the war of independence in ... Read more
Book launch and film screening at IGCC
Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in association with Shadhona – A Center for Advancement of South Asian Culture and the State Bank of India in Bangladesh organised a launch ceremony of ‘A Directory of Bengali Cinema’ and screening of Pundit Uday Shankar’s film Kalpana on Thursday at the centre’s auditorium. A Directory of Bengali Cinema is a ... Read more