‘Bengal Sangskriti Utsab Sylhet’ begins Feb 22

A ten-day long cultural festival titled ‘Manobik Sadhonay Bengal Sangskriti Utsab Sylhet 2017’ will begin on February 22 at Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sports Complex in Sylhet. 

Organised by Bengal Foundation in association with Dhaka Bank and Channel-i, the festival will end on March 3. 
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will inaugurate the festival and Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor present on the occasion. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon is scheduled to attend in the closing ceremony as chief guest on March 3. 
The festival compound has been divided into many sections named after the greatest luminaries of the region like Hason Raja, Radha Raman, Syed Muztaba Ali and Gurushaday Dutta. 
A total of 383 musicians, dancers, painters, theatre artists and writers will participate in the festival, along with 100 artistes from India and Nepal. Indian singer Haimanti Sukla, Srikanta Acharya, Monomoy Bhattacharya, Jayati Chakraborty and Parvathy Baul will participate in the festival along with Bangladeshi singers Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, Khairul Anam Shakil, Aditi Mohsin, Chandana Majumder, Joler Gaan, Kuddus Boyati and others. 
A number of 27 noted artists including Rafiqun Nabi, Monirul Islam, Shahid Kobir, Rokeya Sultana, Jamal Ahmed, Shishir Bhatyacharya, Toiyaba Lipi will take part in an art camp titled ‘Subir Chowdhury Art Camp’ during the festival. 
Noted author Hasan Azizul Huq, Imdadul Haque Milon, Shahin Akhter and Harishankar Jaladas, fiction writer Serajul Islam Choudhury, Sanat Kumar Saha, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and Shamsuzzaman Khan, poet Kaiser Haque, Anisul Hoque, Ruby Rahman and others will take part in ‘Kali O Kalam’ seminar. Besides, 23 artitses from India, including Samaresh Majumdar and actor-director Shaoli Mitra and two from Nepal will also take part in the seminar. 
The festival will screen 14 Bangla films and will stage four plays during the festival. The festival will also feature a book fair, literary discussions, craft art fair, musical instruments exhibition, digital display, art camp and stalls of traditional food. 
Besides, a digital display on the history and heritage of Sylhet will be arranged while an architectural presentation will be organised to make the Sylhet city more eco-friendly and human friendly. 
To disclose the above information, a press conference was held on Monday in the capital’s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel. Bengal Foundation Chair Abul Khair, adviser of the foundation and Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Dr AK Momen, Bengal Foundation Director General Luva Nahid Choudhury, Managing Director of Channel i Fadur Reza Sagor and Managing Director and CEO of the Dhaka Bank Syed Mahbubur Rahman were present among others at the press conference. 
The online registration for the entry in the festival begins from February 5. People can also register over the mobile phone. They can send messages to 6969 writing Bengal. 

Bengal Sangskriti Utsab Sylhet begins Feb 22

A ten-day long cultural festival titled Manobik Sadhonay Bengal Sangskriti Utsab Sylhet 2017 will begin on February 22 at Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Sports Complex in Sylhet. Organised by Bengal Foundation in association with Dhaka Bank and Channel-i, the festival will end on March 3. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith will inaugurate the festival and Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor present on the occasion. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon is scheduled to attend in the closing ceremony as chief guest on March 3. The festival compound has been divided into many sections named after the greatest luminaries of the region like Hason Raja, Radha Raman, Syed Muztaba Ali and Gurushaday Dutta. A total of 383 musicians, dancers, painters, theatre artists and writers will participate in the festival, along with 100 artistes from India and Nepal. Indian singer Haimanti Sukla, Srikanta Acharya, Monomoy Bhattacharya, Jayati Chakraborty and Parvathy Baul will participate in the festival along with Bangladeshi singers Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, Khairul Anam Shakil, Aditi Mohsin, Chandana Majumder, Joler Gaan, Kuddus Boyati and others. A number of 27 noted artists including Rafiqun Nabi, Monirul Islam, Shahid Kobir, Rokeya Sultana, Jamal Ahmed, Shishir Bhatyacharya, Toiyaba Lipi will take part in an art camp titled Subir Chowdhury Art Camp during the festival. Noted author Hasan Azizul Huq, Imdadul Haque Milon, Shahin Akhter and Harishankar Jaladas, fiction writer Serajul Islam Choudhury, Sanat Kumar Saha, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and Shamsuzzaman Khan, poet Kaiser Haque, Anisul Hoque, Ruby Rahman and others will take part in Kali O Kalam seminar. Besides, 23 artitses from India, including Samaresh Majumdar and actor-director Shaoli Mitra and two from Nepal will also take part in the seminar. The festival will screen 14 Bangla films and will stage four plays during the festival. The festival will also feature a book fair, literary discussions, craft art fair, musical instruments exhibition, digital display, art camp and stalls of traditional food. Besides, a digital display on the history and heritage of Sylhet will be arranged while an architectural presentation will be organised to make the Sylhet city more eco-friendly and human friendly. To disclose the above information, a press conference was held on Monday in the capitals Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel. Bengal Foundation Chair Abul Khair, adviser of the foundation and Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Dr AK Momen, Bengal Foundation Director General Luva Nahid Choudhury, Managing Director of Channel i Fadur Reza Sagor and Managing Director and CEO of the Dhaka Bank Syed Mahbubur Rahman were present among others at the press conference. The online registration for the entry in the festival begins from February 5. People can also register over the mobile phone. They can send messages to 6969 writing Bengal.