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
HISTORY OF RHYTHM, IN PIXELS
Dance is the one of the most ephemeral artistic creations, as it is here one moment and then gone the next.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
#freeTagore
'Pochishe Boishakh', the birth anniversary of Bengal's very own Poet Laureate, brings with it a blitz of performances based on Tagore's literature...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Don't hold your breath
'Cultural action is an intervention in daily life, directed to the transformation of social consciousness.' ...
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
GIDREE BAWLEE EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ART
A few days ago if you entered the corner-most exhibition space at the EMK Center, no one would blame you if you thought it was an exhibition of rural artifacts.
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Body speaks anew
“To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life - not existing forms of dance.” -- Pina Bausch, German choreographer, dance director par excellence
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM