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School and college students of the city are participating in a four-day workshop in which the participants will learn the unique physical display based on traditional performing art forms as initiated by Gurusaday Dutt (1882–1941) as part of the Bratachari movement in 1932. The display was resurrected in the 1960s by a group of Bengalis, ... Read more

Artistic endeavours of the designers of Bangladesh Television (BTV) are on display at an 11-day group art exhibition at Bengal Shilpalaya in Dhanmondi. An ensemble of 34 artists, who have previously worked or are currently working as designers at BTV, have displayed 61 artworks done in different mediums and revealing diverse subject matters at

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Morshed wins honorable mention award   Talented artist Hasan Morshed has won the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Honorable Mention Award for his video installation Amar Bayas 42 Bochhor (I am 42) at the 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The installation depicts Bangladesh as it is now 42 years old. The ... Read more

The USA based Bangladeshi cultural organisation Priyo Bangla staged experimental theatre Jiboner Gaan recently at Thomas Jefferson School, Arlington, Virginia in the US. Above 60 Bangladeshi Americans who have been brought up in the US performed in the play. The production, supported by the county government, was dedicated to the victims of the Savar tragedy.

NAT’L ART BIENNALE Mainuddin wins Shilpakala Academy Award  Talented artist Md Mainuddin has won the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Award for his drawing Monajat [prayer] at the 20th National Art Biennale, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, present as the chief guest of the opening ceremony of the biennale, handed over ... Read more

Monsoon, the season that rejuvenates nature with its refreshing downpour, was celebrated with vivacity at Chhayanaut auditorium on Saturday through vibrant dance numbers, synchronised with timeless Tagore songs and poems highlighting the season. The presentation titled Badal Meghe Madol Baaje by Nrityanandan was directed and choreographed by

Young director Sudip Chakroborthy has been bestowed with theatre troupe Natyadhara’s Tanusree Padak. On Saturday, thespian Ferdousi Majumdar who was present as the chief guest on the occasion, handed the award over to Sudip at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Thespian Lucky Enam and Nasrin Jahan

World Music Day was celebrated through a fanfare on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Singers in groups and solos presented different genres of songs at the programme organised by Bangladesh Sangeet Sangathan Samannay Parishad in association with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. June 21 is celebrated as World

Chhayanaut artistes welcomed monsoon presenting songs, poems and dance recitals glorifying the season on Friday at its auditorium. The programme was dedicated to Chhayanaut’s first president poet and social activist late Sufia Kamal whose 102th birth anniversary was celebrated on June 20. The audience enjoyed different

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy organised a two-day Munier Chowdhury theatre festival featuring four plays by the martyr intellectual at the Studio Theatre Hall of the academy. Three public universities and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy staged the plays at the festival organised as part of the academy’s yearly programme of commemorating the great cultural personalities

Amid much enthusiasm and fanfare, one of the biggest biennale exhibitions of the country 20th National Art Exhibition will be inaugurated today at National Art Plaza of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. A press conference regarding the biennale exhibition was held by Fine Arts department of BSA at the academy’s conference room presided by Md. Anwar Hossain, ... Read more

Noted writer and director Mannan Hira is seeking teenagers for his new film Ekatturer Khudiram, for which he has received a national film donation. ‘I am preparing to start shooting it after Ramadan and hope that we will be able to release it before 16th December,’ Mannan Hira told New Age.

Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) and Bangladesh Astronomic Association have jointly organised a photography exhibition and a rocket model-making competition to mark the 50th anniversary of first woman astronaut Valentina Tereshkova’s space flight The organisers had arranged an award giving ceremony for the 10 winners of rocket model-making contest

Twelve jatra troupes are scheduled to present a jatrapala each at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The three-day programme began on Thursday, and will end today. The programme has been arranged by BSA under Jatrashilpka Unnayan Neetimala 2012.  The performances of the troupes will be evaluated by a panel of judges elected ... Read more

A book on kaleidoscopic journey of iconic actress Ferdausi Majumdar in theatre arena was launched by professor emeritus Dr Anisuzzaman in presence of leading theatre activists of the country on Wednesday at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The book titled Abhinetar Rangamancha

Nobo Kumar Bhadra has developed a unique style to secure a position in the contemporary art scene based on his knowledge achieved as a professional rickshaw and banner painter. Bhadra creates completely different compositions from the others in terms use of colours and restructuring human and animal forms. His second show titled Age-Old

Pallikobi Jasimuddin’s classic Nakshi Kathar Math was staged by Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Wednesday. The programme was organised by Bangladesh Nritya Shilpi Sangstha to celebrate 80th birth anniversary of GA Mannan (1931- 1991), a noted dance artiste, who also composed Nakshi Kathar

A two-day Sisimpur Fair 2013 will begin today on the premises of Bangladesh Shishu Academy. Popular characters of the reality show will be displayed for the children today and tomorrow from 9am to 6pm. The fair also inclued games, magic shows, bioscope, Sisimpur exhibition, drawing, educational activities and

The 102nd anniversary of the birth of poet Sufia Kamal will be observed today. She was also a social reformer who upheld women’s empowerment throughout her life, works and career. On the eve of the occasion, New Age talked with some renowned poets, who were close to Sufia Kamal. The poets evaluated Sufia Kamal