THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

NOVA WITH GENUINE SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS
Date: 8-10 September 
Time: 11am to 9pm
Venue: House #114, Road #3, Block F, Lift 4, Banani, Dhaka
As nature is taking a more colourful look, Nova has come up with a smooth and vibrant collection full of colours, prints and designs ranging from 'gota work', 'dobka work' , beads, Swarovski crystal and many more exciting new concepts. Don't miss it and make yourself more trendy and fashionable this Eid ul Adha.

CONTEMPORARY GERMAN AND BANGLADESHI POEMS IN TRANSLATION
Date: Thursday, 10 September, 2015 
Time: 7pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, House 10, Road 9(New), Dhanmondi R/A
Poets Shahnaz Munni, Sajjad Sharif and Hendrik Jackson, the participants of Poets Translating Poets, will present a selection of their work at the end of their week-long encounter in Dhaka showing the diversity of contemporary poetry. 

Hendrik Jackson was born in Dusseldorf in 1971. He studied Theatre Studies, Slavic Studies and Philosophy in Berlin, where he currently resides as a poet and translator. Together with fellow poets he often initiates readings. Furthermore he is also the editor of lyrikkritik. 

Shahnaz Munni, a renowned journalist and writer, was born in Dhaka in 1969. She graduated from the University of Dhaka in Social Sciences. Although she is a television journalist, Shahnaz Munni has reflected her passion for writing poems, stories, juvenile literature and essays in the twenty books that she has authored. 

Sajjad Sharif, who was born and grew up in Old Dhaka, is writing poetry since the early 1980s. He loves experimenting with the language and transforming old lyrical style into contemporary idiom. Sajjad Sharif has been engaged in the profession of journalism for almost 26 years. At present he is the Managing Editor of ProthomAlo.

SUBHASHIS BHOWMIK MIME SHOW
Date: Friday, 11 September 
Time: 6pm
Venue: AFD Auditorium, Alliance Francaise

Subhashis Bhowmik was an active theatre worker and a mime artist since his college years. He had joined Dhaka Theatre in 1983 where he performed in productions– 'Muntasir Fantasy,' 'Kittonkhola,' 'Keramotmongol,' 'HattHadai,' 'Banapangshul,' and 'DhurtoUi'– a joint production with Goethe-Institut Dhaka. Bhowmik also acted in ITI British Council joint production of Shakespeare's 'Tempest', where he played the role of 'Stephano', the drunken butler. Bhowmik started performing as a mime in 1981 after being inspired by Humayun Faridi and went on to perform his first show in 1984 organised by the 'World University Service' at Jahangirnagar University. He has continually followed the great master of mime– Marcel Marceau, but did not receive any proper training from him. Bhowmik has performed in numerous shows in different parts of Bangladesh. In 1988, Bhowmik staged two shows at the British Council Dhaka and performed four shows at Alliance Française de Dhaka. After 27 years, he is going to perform again at AFD this September.

RAAGA AND RHYTHM: SECOND SESSION
Date: Friday, 11 September
Time: 6pm to 9pm 
Venue: Chhayanaut Songit Biddayaton, Dhanmondi

Raaga & Rhythm is a classical concert for the soulful music lovers in Dhaka, organised by Peshkar Cultural Forum and powered by Bhojnama. Featuring tabla solo recital by Mir Naqibul Islam,  harmonium by Tamnia Islam, flute by the legendary flutist and folk singer Ustad Bari Siddqui, Tabla by Ashoke Paul, sarod by Srinjoy Mukherjee (from Kolkata), tabla by Mir Naqibul Islam. 

Tickets: Tk299. For details contact: 01678138218, 01793699955.Tickets are now available at following locations: Fahim Music (All Branches), Gyankosh (Dhanmondi 4), Surer Mela (Aziz Super Market, Shahbagh), Theater Corner (Bailey Road) and www.ticketchai.com

GODS AND BEASTS - A SOLO EXHIBITION BY RONNI AHMED
Date: 12 September to 7 October 
Time: 11.30am to 8.30pm
Venue: Bengal Art Lounge, 60 Gulshan Avenue , Road #131, Gulshan 1

"Gods and Beasts" is an exhibition of paintings, installations and video artworks by artist Ronni Ahmed, who has been a major voice in Bangladeshi art for more than a decade now. He was critically acclaimed for his work in 2004 titled "Mythoronnia," and he has not looked back ever since. In this eccentric exhibition, Ronni proposed to the public a view to his very personal cosmology, which he infused with sarcastic, witty allusions.

"Gods and Beasts" - Ronni's latest show at Bengal Art Lounge, carries this inquiry a step further. The sarcastic metaphysics of the past make place for a deeper, more spiritual approach. The viewer is again plunged in frenzied renditions of mythical scene with a surrealistic take. Ronni also builds an authentic mystic vision in this exhibition, which he approaches with a genuine devotional endeavour.