FEELING THE VOID BY HAMIDUZZAMAN KHAN

Date: Tuesday, 29 October — Sunday, 3 November

Venue: Dwip Gallery, 1/1, Block D (G floor), Lalmatia, Dhaka

Abstraction as an idiom has always been defined in relation to the artist’s ability to empty the painted space of all contents. Although this artistic conviction never held sway over the exponent of abstraction in Dhaka. Yet, the discursive field abstraction was mostly perceived as a total effacement of visual cues, be that to natural or human environment.

The works of Hamiduzzaman Khan stand as testimony to how erasing often translates into an unfurling of the metonymic visuals which work as a bridge between the interior landscape and the world outside. His watercolours often bring into view some fragments, through which, an archaeology of memory is rolled out to the viewer for them to partake of the same.

Dwip gallery is set to present his watercolour works under the title, Feeling the Void.

THE HAUNTED HALLOWEEN WEEKEND

Date: Thursday, 31 October – Saturday, 2 November

Time: 2PM — 8:30PM

Venue: Jamuna Future Park, Ka-244, Progati Sarani, Kuril, Baridhara, Dhaka

Things are about to get stranger as the country’s biggest Halloween event returns! It’s that time of the year again, when zombies start prodding the streets, Dracula wakes up, and werewolves start crawling out of their dens to assemble at the biggest gathering of ghostly figures at Jamuna Future Park Level-5.

Meet cosplayers, listen to great music, get lost within the endless confines of a maze, share stories about your ‘encounters with the ghouls’ and be a part of the monster madness.

The event is organised by DHAKA COMICON and Jamuna Future Park.

DOTARA LESSONS WITH ARIF BAUL

Date: Saturday, 2 November, 2019 — Saturday, 18 January, 2020

Venue: Jatra Biroti, 60 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka

The dotara is a lute specific to the popular traditions of the north-east of the Indian peninsula. The dotara accompanies a repertoire of Bengali folk songs, but is most often performed by travelling musicians, the bauls.

Fees: Tk 3,000/month.

Dotaras available on pre-order, supplied by Arif Baul for Tk 10,000. For registration, log onto: https://goo.gl/forms/ShIONtiUG7RLyvOl1

THIBAULT CAUVIN CONCERT

Date: Tuesday, 5 November, 2019

Time: 6:30 PM

Venue: National Theater Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

Alliance Française de Dhaka invites you to a classical guitar concert featuring the award-winning French guitarist Thibault Cauvin. Organised by AFD, the event is supported by the Embassy of France in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Oryx Bangladesh, and Gandharbpur Water Treatment SNC (a joint venture of Suez International and OTV-Veolia).

Cauvin, whom Télérama described as ‘the champion of classical guitar’ and Los Angeles Times described as ‘just incredible, don’t miss him’ — is the only guitarist in the world to win 13 international first prizes. His eloquent playing puts up a feast to the ears, breaking boundaries and admixing audiences from different places. Cauvin has been touring extensively for the last 15 years, playing in the most prestigious halls in the world — New York Carnegie Hall, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the London Queen Elizabeth Hall, to name a few.

Free entry — first-come, first-served.