GEM CINEMA, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Entally, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
GEM CINEMA
04 Feb, 2017 – 12 Feb, 2017
SHIFTING NARRATIVES - A Multidisciplinary Art Project curated by Manas Acharya
An exhibition of works by: Madhuja Mukherjee, Sukanta Majumder, Utsab Chatterjee, Sumantyra Mukherjee, Ankur Das, Debasish Barui, Taxi Art Collective & Paul Holmes
Ruby Bus Stop, Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, East Kolkata Township, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Gallerie88
19 Jan, 2017 – 25 Feb, 2017
The Photographic Eye of Jyoti Bhatt
Curated by Ram Rahman
19 Jan,2017 - 25 February 2017"
Venue: Galerie88
Galerie 88, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Ganges Art Gallery,Kolkata
15 Feb, 2017 – 10 Mar, 2017
Bibidher Majhe Dekho Milan Mahaan
Opening 15th February,2017
Time: 11 a.m - 7 p.m.
Venue: Ganges Art Gallery, 33 A, Jatin Das Road, Kolkata - 700 029
Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Akar Prakar
23 Jan, 2017 – 04 Mar, 2017
Ganesh Pyne-Mandar Studio, Cornwallis Street
Ganesh Pyne-Mandar Studio, Cornwallis Street.
Akar Prakar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
A.M (Art Multi disciplines)
06 Feb, 2017 – 04 Mar, 2017
EXORDIUM - A project on Printmaking
A.M (Art Multi-disciplines), Kolkata will host a printmaking exhibition EXORDIUM, A Project on Printmaking as part of CIMA awards show collateral events. The main intent behind the project is to trace the journey of printmaking from its establishment as a regular art practice in Bengal in the 1960’s to the present day from the perspective of three artists - namely Suhas Roy, Atin Basak and Srikanta Pal.
4/66a, Bijoygarh Main, Narikel Bagan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
GURUSADAY MUSEUM – An exhibition of Kalighat Painting
04 Feb, 2017 – 04 Mar, 2017
Gurusaday Museum
An exhibition of Kalighat Painting curated by Dr.Bijan Kumar Mondal
Gurusaday Museum, Diamond Harbour Road, Diamond Park, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
UDBHAT PURAN
11 Feb, 2017 – 11 Feb, 2017
ENSEMBLE Theatre Group
Performance by ENSEMBLE Theatre Group
Time: 7 p.m.
Venue: Academy of Fine Arts.
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The Harrington Street Arts Centre
07 Feb, 2017 – 14 Feb, 2017
Popular Old Bengal Prints (Collection of Sanjeet Chowdhury)
Title: Popular Old Bengal Prints (Collection of Sanjeet Chowdhury)
Preview date: 6th February, 2017
Preview Timings: 6:30pm onwards
Opening Date: 7th February, 2017
Closing Date: 14th February, 2017
Venue: The Harrington Street Arts Centre. 8, Ho Chi Minh Sarani. Harrington Mansions. Flat No.5&25B. 2nd Floor. Kolkata - 71
RSVP: Mondira Verma. Ph No - 9674139860
The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Connecting Histories: Shifting Cultures and Shrinking Collections”
03 Mar, 2017 – 04 Mar, 2017
CREDAI Symposium at Kolkata
The Symposium “Connecting Histories : Shifting Cultures and Shrinking Collections” is scheduled to be held in Kolkata, on 3rd & 4th March, 2017.
This symposium is a part of the Kolkata Art Festival 2017 a biennial event, brainchild of CIMA Kolkata, which has been designed to push the search for country wide talent in visual arts. The talk segment, within the boundaries of the Art Festival, will have seminars, keynote addresses, conversations, multidisciplinary discussions and presentations by leading experts from the field of visual arts, cinema, architecture, design, literature and liberal arts throughout the month of February 2017 in various landmark sites across the city of Kolkata, India.
Keynotes by noted international architects will be be anticipated closely by the architecture and real estate fraternity of the city as well as students and culture enthusiasts alike.
The Symposium within the thematic bracket of “Connecting Histories : Shifting Cultures and Shrinking Collections” will seek to present polemic voices spreading across nations and nationalities and shall certainly be of great value in this context. Supported by CREDAI Bengal, the apex body representing India’s real estate developers, this international symposium, through the gracious presence of renowned architects will highlight the interconnectedness between local, regional, national and transnational commitment and the greater role of architecture in this sphere.
PROGRAMME
Day 1 - 3rd March, 2017
10:00 - 11:00 - Inaugural Session
11:00 - 11:20 - Theme Overview by Sonia Gupta
SESSION 1
Humanizing Heritage: restoration, conservation, adaptive reuse, heritage responsive planning
Situating heritage within the current climate of developmental pressures, this session challenges the widespread notion of perceiving built heritage assets as static resources to be conserved in materiality and in exclusion from its context – social, cultural, political or economic - and establish it instead as drivers of sustainable development that can address aspirations of contiguous communities. Through a dialogue involving both theory and praxis, this session seeks to revolutionize approaches to heritage conservation and management – encompassing both nature and culture, tangible as well as intangible - in order to bridge between the past and the future through conservation, restoration, adaptive re-use, technological innovations, rights based approaches, heritage responsive infrastructure development and integrated planning strategies, all achieved through participatory processes, towards creating a culturally democratic and inclusive environment.
Moderator: Manish Chakraborty
11:20 - 11:30 - Introduction
11:30 - 12:00 - Sugato Basu
12:00 - 12:30 - Joy Sen
12:30 - 13:15 - George Fergusson (Key note address)
LUNCH - 13:30 - 14:30
SESSION 2
Design Dialect: craft to contemporary
This session explores how the vocabulary of architecture adapts itself to its context to successfully navigate ground realities and also transcend the banal to communicate larger theoretical underpinnings. In a scenario where buildings are expected to be self-explanatory physical forms summarizing the conceptual and epistemological parameters of their design intent, this session investigates how their development process confronts the dilemma of ancient craft traditions, colonial legacies of syncretism, and post-colonial indecision between Modernism and Revival. Examining the merits of transformation and transfer, this session discusses the philosophies that can both delineate the method and define the output of design and technological hybridization towards building autonomous design identities.
Moderator: Abin Chaudhuri
14:30 - 14:40 - Introduction
14:40 - 15:25 - Kazuyo Sejima (Key note address)
15:30 - 16:00 - Palinda Kannangara
16:00 - 16:30 - Gurjit Singh Matharoo
Interactive Session led by Manish Chakraborty and Abin Chaudhuri
Day 2 - 4th March, 2017
SESSION 3
Where the City Sleeps: housing and living
At a time of rapid urbanization, mass metropolitan migration, and mounting pressures on the cities’ infrastructure systems, this session explores in particular the aspect of an escalating housing deficit. Understanding the scenario in the light of neoliberal concepts of urbanism and social injustice, the session revisits people's aspiration and participation as a dichotomy of quantity and quality in housings against a backdrop of affordability. Thus, this session aims to encapsulate issues varying both in scale (from sanitation to waste management in the macro scale, and spatial character to flexible incrementatlity in the micro scale), as well as character (physicality in conjunction with polity, accessibility, financial viability, security, and human dignity).
Moderator: Dibyendu Chakravorty
10:30 - 10:40 - Introduction
10:40 - 11:10 - Kaiwan Mehta
11:10 - 11:40 - Biju Kuriakose
11:40 - 12:10 - Sameep Padora
12:10 - 12:55 - Alejandro Echeverri (Key note address)
LUNCH - 13:30 - 14:30
SESSION 4
Grand Moves: urban direction and movement
With rising populations, demographic shifts, climatic changes, smarter technology and faster transit, it is critical that the design and engineering of urbanity too be radically shifted to suit altering human needs, and holistic approaches to sustainable urban development and planning be adopted, integrating multidisciplinary socio-cultural and economic processes with physical infrastructure. In a quest for high performing and equal-opportunity cities, this session investigates the DNA of the city as the route to make it livable, sustainable, and resilient through aspects such as waterways and waterfront development, public space-making, social infrastructure improvement and revitalization of the city's network of cultural institutions.
Moderator: Ayan Sen
14:30 - 14:40 - Introduction
14:40 - 15:25 - Juergen Mayer (Key note address)
15:30 - 16:00 - Pratap Talwar
16:00 - 16:30 - Madhav Joshi
16:30 - 17:30 - Leila Araghian
Interactive Session led by Dibyendu Chakravorty and Ayan Sen
Summary and theoretical closure of the Convention by Ashish Acharjee
JW Marriott Hotel Kolkata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The Chitrabani Chapter
05 Feb, 2017 – 04 Mar, 2017
Collateral Partners CHITRABANI
inspired by Founder-Director Father Gaston Roberge S.J., headed by Father P.J. Joseph S.J., Director Chitrabani & Festival Director; The Chitrabani Chapter designed by Madhusree Mukherjee, PRO Chitrabani and Festival Coordinator.Partnered by Centre for People’s Photography headed by Aroop Datta and People Of India (POI Studio) headed by Ilmaz Syed. Research input by Anshuman Chakraborty.
CHAPTER 1 / BIOSCOPE
MOVIE SCREENINGS
5th February to 4th March / Venues across the city
CINE-MUZ A Quiz on film and music
25th and 26th February / G.D.Birla sabhaghar
CHAPTER 2 / PHOTOGRAPHY & ALLIED FORMS
‘AALOY AALOKMAY’ / A TRIBUTE TO TAGORE
14th February to 20th February / Bengal Art Gallery ICCR
ART PHOTOGRAPHY, Conventional
7th February to 11th February
ART PHOTOGRAPHY, Digital
18th February to 22nd February
DESTINATION LADAKH – through the lens…on wheels…
In collaboration with Calcutta Tramways Company (presently WBTC)
19th February to 24th February
IN SEARCH OF NIRVANA – scaling the heights with Debasish Biswas
5th February to 26th February /Venues across the city
DELVING INTO THE DEEP – From the Chitrabani Archive
5th February to 4th March / Chitrabani
CALCUTTA, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE
5th February to 4th March / Sudder Street open spaces
BIRD’S EYE-VIEW - a life-time collection of Aroop Datta
27th February to 4th March
ARTISTIC REFLECTIONS ON CIMA AWARDS KOLKATA ART FESTIVAL 2017
26th February to 4th March / Chitrabani
WORKSHOPS, LECTURES and LECTURE-DEMONSTRATIONS, SLIDE PROJECTIONS, INTERACTIVE SESSIONS, PANEL DISCUSSIONS
PHOTO BOOKS DISPLAY
5th February to 4th March / Chitrabani
CELEBRATING SCIENCE DAY
28TH February / Chitrabani
MAGIC MOMENTS – A Closing Ceremony
2nd March / Prabhu Jishu Girja
THE VENUES OF THE CHITRABANI CHAPTER
Chitrabani, ICCR Calcutta, Nandan IV, G.D.Birla Sabhaghar, Sudder Street, Basusree Cinema, The Calcutta Heritage Trams, Prabhu Jishu Girja and the City of Calcutta.
Following schools of Kolkata are undertaking a project ‘Connecting Histories – Kolkata and the world’. Coordinated by ICC Calcutta Foundation at ICC Kolkata.
List of Participating Schools
1. Mahadevi Birla Sishu Vihar
2. Mahadevi Birla World Academy
3. Shri Shikshayatan School
4. Chowringhee High School
5. St Thomas’ Boys School
6. La Martiniere for Boys
7. DPS Newtown
8. The Future Foundation School
9. Apeejay School, Park Street
10. Apeejay School, Salt Lake
11. Sushila Birla Girls High School
12. Birla High School
13. Modern High School for Girls
14. The Heritage School
15. BGES School
16. Aksher School
17. WWA Cossipore English School
18. AIWC Buniyadi Bidyapith For Girls High School
Indian Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
"ART SPACE GERMANY: REVISITED” in Kolkata in February 2017. The exhibition is about Germany as a 'space of art', and how the country’s open federal policies have greatly influenced the shaping and evolving such a space in Germany. The exhibition is the first of its kind, put together in the transnational form, based on foreign cultural policies of the European Union.
Transcending the borders put up by categories of art forms, groups of works by Armando, Candice Breitz, Tony Cragg, Marianne Eigenheer, Ayse Erkmen, Christine Hill, Magdalena Jetelová, Per Kirkeby, Joseph Kosuth, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Spagnulo and Herman de vries stand for the myriad artistic variety to be seen in transcultural unity. By presenting the exemplary positions of the last thirty years, the exhibition follows the meaning and the influence that the men and women artists, living here and known internationally, have had on themes, media and forms of expression in the art discourse of today.
National Library, Belvedere Road, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Oindrilla Dutt (Coordinating a series of entertainment and musical programmes).
06 Feb, 2017 – 25 Feb, 2017
Oindrilla Dutt (Coordinating a series of entertainment and musical programmes).
* VICHITRA by RANAN
Date - 6/2/17
Venue - Loreto House
Time - 12 non
* BICKRAM GHOSH AND DRUMSCAPE:
Date - 6/2/17
Venue - G D Birla Sabhaghar
Time - 6.30 pm
* PBFS's FLORAL SHOW:
Date - 9/2/17 to 11/2/17
Venue - Daga Nikunk
* BELLS OF CHANGING TIMES by RHYTHMOSAIC:
Date - 10/2/17
Venue - Daga Nikunj
Time - 6.30 pm
* 'SALAAM INDIA' - A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA with USHA UTHUP:
Date - 11/2/17
Venue - Victoria Memorial Hall
Time - 6.30 pm
* USHA UTHUP - THE DIVA UNLEASHED:
Date - 12/2/17
Venue - Calcutta Club
Time - 7.00 pm
* 'AGNI' (WITH KALARIPAYATTU) by PRITI PATEL and ANJIKA:
Date - 15/2/17
Venue - Jalan House
Time - 6.30 pm
* 'FREEDOMSCAPE' by SPECIAL CHILDREN
Date - 17/2/17
Time - 6.00/6.30 pm
* ABHISHEK BASU and VEDATRONICS
Date - 25/2/17
Venue - Calcutta Rowing Club
Time - 7.00
* MORTAL LIFE, IMMORTAL MELODIES by DEBOJYOTI MISHRA
Date - 25/2/17
Venue - (to be notified)
Time - 6.30 pm
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