10-day long cultural festival ongoing at Shilpakala Academy

Entertainment Desk :
With the aim to display Bangladeshi heritage, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) organised a 10-day long cultural festival at the Academy’s National Music and Dance Auditorium. The festival was inaugurated on June 1, said a press release.
The 10-day long festival began with the performance of Poncho Kabir Gaan (songs of five poets– Rabindranath, Nazrul, Rajnikant, Atul Prasad, and DL Roy) on Thursday. Noted Nazrul expert and singer Khairul Anam Shakil and Anima Roy spoke in short discussion in the beginning of the festival and they praised the initiative of the BSA.
Later, Director General of BSA Liaquat Ali Lucky delivered a short speech. He said, “Shilpakala Academy has enrolled more than one thousand artistes. We are working to develop art and artistes so that we can spread our culture internationally. Newcomers should be informed about this rich culture of thousands of years. Poncho Kobi is the wealth of the country. This Poncho Kobi will add a lot of height to reach aesthetic culture. Today, social media is creating a scarcity of taste, where expression has no control, no art. One who is using it as he can only make a transition from there to art culture.”
In the cultural part, Susmita Das rendered song ‘Aamar Mukti Aloy Aloy’, while Anima Roy rendered the song ‘Bodhua Nid Nahi Akhi Pate’, and Shabari Majumder rendered the song ‘Ei Kothati Mone Rekho’.
Later, dance artistes Anindita Khan, Priyanka Sarker, SaifulIslam Sak, and S M Hasan Ishtiaque performed solo dances at the event.
Khairul Anam Shakil took the stage with the rendition of Nazrul Sangeet. Later, singers Sanjoy Kabiraj, Manisha Sarker, Tomalika Halder, Motiur Rahman, Kabari Das and Debjani Das rendered songs at the event.
At the event, Sirajur Rahman recited Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Hotat Dekha’, while Sifat Ara Bhuiyan recited Kabi Kazi Nazrul’s poem ‘Kuli Mojur’.
The 10-day festival will feature patriotic songs, Baul songs, movies’ songs, Palagaan, Bhawaiya songs and others.