The trustees of Shadhona organised an event to felicitate its artistic director Lubna Marium for being awarded the First Biswaratna Bhupen Hazarika International Solidarity Award by the Assam Sahitya Sabha. Marium received the award on March 28 this year in Guwahati, Assam, from Tarun Gogoi, the Chief Minister of Assam. At Shadhona’s event, the citation
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Macbeth staged
Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC) staged the third show of Shakespearean popular tragedy Macbeth on the second day of Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival at the National Theater Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday. Translated by Syed Shamsul Haque and directed by the young director Sudip Chakrabarthy, this is the
Syed Shamsul Haque theatre fest begins
Payer Awaj Pawa Jay staged The National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy was decorated with dazzling lights and colourful papers to celebrate a special moment: the inauguration of the eight-day Syed Shamsul Haque theatre festival. Not only the members of the participating troupes, everyone who passed by the area was drawn to the programme ... Read more
Expatriate artist displays his retrospective
The UK based Bangladeshi artist Abu Jafar is displaying a retrospective of his abstract paintings done in the past two decades at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The show titled ‘Ekush Bochhor Sheshey’ expresses various stories of daily life through the shades of colours, which is termed as abstract expressionism. Layers of ... Read more
BIT students stage Merchant of Venice
Bangladesh International Tutorial celebrated the 30th anniversary of the school through staging two shows of Shakespearean classic The Merchant of Venice in English. The BIT students staged the play in presence of a huge crowd on Friday and Saturday at the Senior School Auditorium in Uttara. As part of the celebrations,
Nasima’s Nazrul album launched
Nasima Shaheen’s first Nazrul song album Nishi Nijhum was launched at the Bengal Shilpalaya, Dhanmondi in the capital on Friday. Noted Nazrul singer Shaheen Samad, the mentor of the young singer, unveiled the album cover at the ceremony. The album features 12 Nazrul songs including Parothom pradip jaalo, Tabo mukhokhani, Sakhi ar obhiman
Kumar Biswajit on his next solo
Noted singer Kumar Biswajit is nowadays busy working for a new solo album, containing eight new songs of diverse genres. The artiste has shared about his upcoming album in an interview with New Age. ‘The songs of the album have been created by noted musician Prince Mahmud,’ said Biswajit, the singer of
A film about finding a new identity
The recently released film ‘Shikhandi Katha’ premiered at Balaka-2 on Thursday. Among others, Muhammad Hannan, the director of the film and Faridur Reza Sagar, managing director of Impress Telefilm Ltd and Channel i, were present. The film is an adaptation of a stage-play ‘Shikhandi Katha’ by Mahakal Natya Sampraday. It has been acclaimed at home ... Read more
Ayna Bibir Pala reveals ill-treatment of women
Maltreatment of women in a male-dominated society is not new, nor the discourse arising from such an issue. Hundreds of years ago, the village bards of our territory addressed significant issues such as ill-treatment of women, as testified by the palas of the Mymensingh Gitika. One such pala called Ayna Bibir Pala was staged by ... Read more
Life of commoners depicted through art
Paintings revealing daily life of average people were displayed at the solo painting exhibition of artist Munawer Mehedi at Shilpangan Gallery in the capital. The human figure paintings, which had mostly been done in oil and a few acrylics, portray workers who toil rigorously for livelihood of their families.
Rafiqun Nabi touches a different reality
Celebrated artist Rafiqun Nabi with his ongoing solo exhibition has broken a recent trend. While most artists present sufferings of the struggling classes, the romantic artist defines and narrates merrymaking and joy. That does not mean Nabi has created anything minus-reality but viewers can feel the essence of real-life amusement of people that they tend ... Read more
Short film features house of Shahidullah Kaiser, Zahir Raihan
Srabanta Habib, nephew of Shahidullah Kaiser and Zahir Raihan, has made a short film on the parental house of the martyred intellectual brothers. Habib made the film titled Smritymoy Barir Mrityu to preserve the memory of the building on Ganguly Road in Old Town of Dhaka, which has been handed over to a real estate
Sanglap holds 2-day theatre festival
The two-day theatre festival organised by Sanglap Group Theatre ended on Thursday through staging of Badnam at the National Theatre Hall. The play, adapted and directed by Mustafa Hira from Tagore’s short story having the same title, features how an ordinary housewife of a police officer emerges as a great patriot and scarifies all the ... Read more
5 films to participate in 2 int’l fests
Three feature films and two documentaries have been selected by the government two participate in two international film festivals in Sri Lanka and Turkey. War of independence based feature films- Morshedul Islam’s Amar Bandhu Rashed and Nasiruddin Yousuff’s Guerilla- released in 2010 will be screened in SAARC film festival in Colombo,
Photo show features self existence
At first glance, the canvas print photographs in Khaled Hasan’s exhibition may look like paintings. Indeed, the photographer’s brilliant technical manipulation of camera has resulted in some sensitive art expositions. Hasan has showcased 29 photographs in his 15th solo exhibition, all of which relate to his inner self and emotions. Titled as ‘Existence…The End’ the ... Read more
Instrumental numbers move audience
Musical band Ionah Trio entertained the Dhaka audience by presenting a several fusion compositions of Indo-European classics on Tuesday. The concert was held at Kudrat-i-Khuda auditorium of Oxford International School on Tuesday. The fusion of sarod, tabla, guitar and shamisen was a pleasure for the concert attendees. In most of the compositions, the band combined ... Read more
Depicting life in Varendra
The first solo watercolour painting exhibition, titled ‘Life in Varendra’, by artist Suman Kumar Sarkar started at La Galerie in Alliance Française de Dhaka on Tuesday. The artist’s intimacy with nature has started since his childhood. It has further intensified in course of time as he found himself fascinated and trapped within the magical net
Shilpakala holds 2-day traditional culture fest
A great number of audiences from different walks of society enjoyed the traditional-music and dance performances held at the National Art Plaza of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Friday and Saturday. The large number of crowd that the program drew made it evident that traditional culture can still enthrall the urban audience. In the two-day Loko-Sangskriti ... Read more
Palakar celebrates founding anniv
Theatre troupe Palakar celebrated its 11th founding anniversary on Sunday evening through much enthusiasm while staging of playwright Sayeed Ahmed’s Kalbela, directed by Aminur Rahman Mukul. Similar to other plays by Ahmed, Kalbela is also belongs to theatre of absurd genre, which depicts the inherent meaninglessness of life. The characters of the play are common ... Read more
Kite festival held in Manikganj
A kite festival was held on the bank of Jamuna River at Shibalaya in Manikganj on Sunday. It was organised by Shibalaya Shotodol Shangskritik o Shamajik Shangathan to celebrate Pahela Baishakh. Hundreds of kites flew in the sky, competing against one another. Around fifty kinds of kite including koira, potinga, dol, baj, sapa ,projapoti, moyur ... Read more