The stories we carry: IUTPS brings ‘Break The Circle: Season XII’

On November 27, The Islamic University of Technology Photographic Society (IUTPS) inaugurated “Break The Circle: Season XII” at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s Art Gallery 6, unveiling one of its most ambitious international showcases to date. The exhibition features 50 single photographs and seven photo stories selected from 7,832 submissions by judges Syed Latif Hossain, Suborna Morsheada and Sarker Protick.
30 November 2025, 04:00 AM

‘Dhwojo Mestorir Moron’ returns to the stage after 20 years

After nearly two decades, Manipuri Theatre is bringing its acclaimed production “Dhwojo Mestorir Moron” back to the stage. The play, which portrays the tragic life of Dhwojo Mestori — a master builder of traditional Manipuri homes — will be staged in a renewed form on Saturday at 7 pm at the Experimental Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka.
29 November 2025, 07:51 AM

Amir Hamja’s photo featured in TIME's ‘100 Photos of the Year’

The Ministry of Cultural Affairs has issued a statement congratulating photographer Amir Hamja, whose powerful image has been featured in TIME’s ‘100 Photos of the Year’. His photograph, depicting the funeral prayers of Didarul Islam, was selected for its emotional depth and global impact.
27 November 2025, 11:48 AM

Unraveling Silence: Yasmin Jahan Nupur’s exhibition showcases quiet resilience

Curated by Tanzim Wahab and inaugurated at Bengal Shilpalay, the exhibition was deeply responsive to the venue’s raw architectural setting. The works engaged with the space’s unfinished textures, amplifying the tension between delicacy and solidity that runs through Nupur’s practice.
27 November 2025, 11:44 AM

BotTala premieres 25th production ‘Jojongondha Maya’ tonight

Written by Badruzzaman Alamgir and directed by Imran Khan, the production delivers a taut, haunting meditation on memory, loss and the long, bruising weight of waiting.
27 November 2025, 05:52 AM

Theatre hosts special event for Munier Choudhury’s birth centenary

A century after his birth, Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident Professor Munier Choudhury’s voice still cuts through Bangladesh’s cultural and political history — sharp, principled and defiantly humane.
27 November 2025, 05:43 AM

The first line: Inside ‘22’ exhibition

The exhibition, which runs from November 21 to November 29, invites visitors into the intimate and often unseen beginnings of animated storytelling—before the polish, before the frames move, before the films exist.
26 November 2025, 04:00 AM

Free three-day ‘Jagoroni’ festival brings new plays to Jahangirnagar University

Jahangirnagar University’s Selim Al Deen Open Stage will host a three-day theatre festival titled “Nobin Boron” under the banner “Let the new charioteer arrive on the stage of a turning age.” Organised by Jahangirnagar Theatre, the event — called “Jagoroni” — opens Today and will present three full productions free to the public.
25 November 2025, 06:11 AM

Farooki addresses criticism over Abul Sarkar's arrest, clarifies Ministry’s role

Describing such comments as “farcical”, the adviser urged critics not to behave like the fictional ‘Amin Chairman’, who feared television simply because it was unfamiliar. He shared an anecdote about a friend whose East German father once covered her eyes upon seeing Barbie dolls, fearing they would “corrupt” her — likening this to modern-day discomfort with drone shows.
24 November 2025, 11:15 AM

Exhibition inspired by Jibanananda Das concludes in Dhaka

Another chief guest, artist Kazi Mozammel Hossain, said the exhibition not only expresses the artists’ admiration for Jibanananda Das but also brings forth the everlasting beauty of Bengal’s nature on canvas.
23 November 2025, 13:09 PM

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7 million

A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.
22 November 2025, 05:15 AM

Chhayanaut to host folk-music evening honouring Lalon Sain today

Chhayanaut general secretary Laisa Ahmed Lisa said in a release that the night will feature songs by five traditional lyricists, including Lalon Sain and Manmohan Dutta.
21 November 2025, 06:31 AM

‘Hasan Azizul Haque Theatre Festival’: RU celebrates with plays and colourful processions

Rajshahi University is set to host the fourth edition of the “Kothashahityik Hasan Azizul Haque Theatre Festival”, beginning on Friday and continuing until Tuesday. The five-day event is being organised to mark the 44th founding anniversary of the university-based theatre troupe Somokal Natyochokro.
21 November 2025, 06:22 AM

Theatre brought peace to my life: Nawshaba

There was a time when Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed found herself facing one of the most challenging phases of her life. In the middle of that chaos, theatre entered her world — offering a rare sense of hope and peace just when she needed it most.
21 November 2025, 03:00 AM

Princess Diana returns to Paris in iconic ‘revenge dress’

The central Paris museum—often compared to Madame Tussauds in London—already features figures of Charles, now King Charles III, and Queen Elizabeth II. Diana, however, had long been absent despite her enduring association with the city where she died in a car crash in August 1997.
20 November 2025, 11:57 AM

Miniature Dhaka: Inside ‘City of Memories’ by Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed

In the quiet corners of Alliance Française, a small cluster of canvases invites viewers into a Dhaka that no longer exists — or perhaps one that exists only in memory. In “City of Memories”, Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed turns the familiar chaos of our own Old Dhaka into intimate, abstract landscapes, painted to recall the magic of the city.
20 November 2025, 10:30 AM

Prof Israfeel Shaheen to represent Bangladesh at Asia-Pacific theatre summit

The invitation marks a significant moment for Bangladeshi theatre scholarship, placing a local academic voice at one of the region’s most influential platforms for performance research, collaboration and pedagogy.
20 November 2025, 04:45 AM

‘Scape between Spaces’: Divinity on canvas

As a child in art school, I was known to my painting teacher as the student obsessed with landscapes. I might not have bloomed into a remarkable landscape artist, but fast forward to 2025 – after work, I dragged my exhausted self to Dwip Gallery in Lalmatia just to witness the landscape art exhibition they are currently hosting.
20 November 2025, 03:00 AM

BotTala to stage new production ‘Jojongondha Maya’

Alamgir describes the play as a reflection on the uneven burdens that societies place on their most vulnerable members.
19 November 2025, 06:21 AM

‘City of memories’: Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed’s solo miniature exhibition opens at AFD

Alliance Française de Dhaka has inaugurated “City of Memories”, a solo exhibition featuring 140 miniature paintings by acclaimed artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed. The show opened yesterday, at 11am at the organisation’s Gulshan Gallery.
19 November 2025, 05:23 AM