Empowering communities through culture
A unique feature of folk performative practices across Bangladesh is the bondona or requisite invocatory prelude, dedicated to the Guru, to Allah, to Goddess Sarasvati, and to other deities of diverse “Pantheons of Gods”, pronounced all in one breath, by the folk performers.
27 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Confrontations with Pain
‘Tread lightly for you tread on my realities' (Playwright Connel Morrison, on the ethical dilemma of reducing the complexity of conflict situations into narrative theatre)
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Arts Gaze / Of 'crème de café’ and ‘dal tadka’ at interstices of alterity
'It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of ourselves.' ― Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Arts Gaze / Dancing Connections
Since August 2009 Bangladesh has been part of the Asia Pacific Region of the World Dance Alliance which 'serves as a primary voice for dance and dancers throughout the world'.
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Arts Gaze / Dancing the Diasporic Fantasy
Tobin Thomas does Bollywood in Toronto, trading in the virtual dreams created by this larger than life Indian film industry. Based in Mumbai, it is India's – and the world's - largest film business in terms of the number of films produced, and also the number of tickets sold each year.
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
ARTS GAZE / What's so funny about Comedy?
I left banking for comedy, because even my failures in comedy make me happier than my successes as a banker.
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The Politics of Art: Chaumtoli Huq's Documentary 'Workers Voices'
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile, who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician...
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Arts Gaze / Ideology in Representation
While talking to Amit Patra, the scholar and independent filmmaker from Kolkata, invited to conduct a workshop on Documentary Film Production..
16 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Empowering communities through culture
A unique feature of folk performative practices across Bangladesh is the bondona or requisite invocatory prelude, dedicated to the Guru, to Allah, to Goddess Sarasvati, and to other deities of diverse “Pantheons of Gods”, pronounced all in one breath, by the folk performers.
27 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Confrontations with Pain
‘Tread lightly for you tread on my realities' (Playwright Connel Morrison, on the ethical dilemma of reducing the complexity of conflict situations into narrative theatre)
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Of 'crème de café’ and ‘dal tadka’ at interstices of alterity
'It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of ourselves.' ― Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Dancing Connections
Since August 2009 Bangladesh has been part of the Asia Pacific Region of the World Dance Alliance which 'serves as a primary voice for dance and dancers throughout the world'.
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Dancing the Diasporic Fantasy
Tobin Thomas does Bollywood in Toronto, trading in the virtual dreams created by this larger than life Indian film industry. Based in Mumbai, it is India's – and the world's - largest film business in terms of the number of films produced, and also the number of tickets sold each year.
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
What's so funny about Comedy?
I left banking for comedy, because even my failures in comedy make me happier than my successes as a banker.
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The Politics of Art: Chaumtoli Huq's Documentary 'Workers Voices'
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile, who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician...
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Ideology in Representation
While talking to Amit Patra, the scholar and independent filmmaker from Kolkata, invited to conduct a workshop on Documentary Film Production..
16 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Frames of Identity
The death of the soul through the mechanism becomes doubtful at the moment the mechanism becomes ensouled.' (Thomas Mann, Rede über das Theater)
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The Scrolls and Song of Gazi Pir
In a country with scant patronization of the folk arts, eminent thespian Ramendu Majumdar's Expressions Ltd is to be congratulated
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Requiem for a Dream: Bot Tola's 'Crutcher Kornel'
'What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.' Arthur Conan Doyle
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Redefining the world through Music
At the first Rector's Forum of the just completed 'Inaugural Conference of Music Education Alliance Across the Silk Road (MEASR)' held in
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
An Eternity in One Night
Theatre group Teerondaj's choice of Badal Sircar as the playwright to be presented during their agitprop event at 'Beauty Boarding', on April 28, 2017, Friday, was appropriate for two reasons.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
OF LOCATIONS AND DISLOCATIONS
As a riposte to 'Brexit', award-winning British theatre director Marianne Elliott states, “I feel that art, somehow, has to be at the heart of what's happening now.
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Revisiting Critical Thinking
At the beginning of yet another new year and then, yet again, coining of new resolutions, it will certainly be worth our while to resolve to critically evaluate where the world is heading.
21 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Dancing away boundaries
The thought of three young Bangladeshi dancers in North America immediately conjures up images of distance, of 'otherness', of struggle.
19 August 2016, 18:00 PM
And, theatre strikes back!
After the Gulshan carnage, July 15, 2016 was the first day that Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) opened its doors for public performances, to packed audiences in all three of its auditoriums.
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Art & Politics of Documentation
For me, watching Naeem Mohaiemen's expository documentary,'Last Man in Dhaka Central', was essentially a trip down memory lane, reliving a time of hope.
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Culture: The present site for struggle
We, the children of the language and cultural movement, of Bangladesh are heartbroken to witness, unfolding before our eyes, the phenomenon of an alien and mutant culture overtaking the very consciousness of our progeny, our nation. This is a consequence of a two-pronged assault.
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Of Monsoons, Myths and Manasa
In Bangladesh, after the scorching heat of 'grishsho', or summer, comes the monsoons and with it come welcome thunder, lightning and pouring rainfall.
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM