For the second time, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) is going to organise a 21-day cultural event titled ‘Bangladesh Sangskritik Utsab 2020’ (Bangladesh Cultural Festival 2020) on the academy premises in the capital.

The inaugural ceremony of the festival will be held tomorrow at 4pm at the Nandan Mancha of BSA. Planning Minister MA Mannan will attend the inaugural ceremony as chief guest, while State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid will inaugurate the festival. Presided over by BSA Director General Liaquat Ali Lucky, secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs Dr Md Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal will be present as special guest.

The festival has been organised with an aim to present an colourful programme through the performance of the children with special needs, child and adult artistes from all 64 districts.

During the 21-day festival, more than 5 thousand artistes from 64 upazilas of 64 districts will participate. The festival will feature traditional folk games, folk-drama, chorus rendition, instrumental music, jatrapala, solo music, Baul music, dance, acrobatic show, puppet show, recitation. The festival also includes performance of the children with special needs, music and dance performance on Bangabandhu and Liberation War, performance on ethnic minorities and choreography on drama.

The festival will also feature branding music and dance performance of 64  districts and documentary screening on traditional places of 64 districts.

Every day, three districts, three upazilas, national-level artistes will present their performances in the festival. Besides, folk-drama will be staged every day at 8pm on the academy premises.

However, with the festival just around the corner, a press conference was held at the Seminar Hall of BSA yesterday. BSA DG Liaquat Ali Lucky and BSA Secretary Badrul Alam Bhuiyan, among others, were present.

Liaquat Ali Lucky said in his speech, “For the second time, we are arranging this cultural festival. We arranged the first edition in 2016. After a long time, we have arranged the second edition of the festival. But from now on, we will arrange it on a regular basis. We have tried to include all the segments of culture in this festival.”

“We have a plan to honour one prominent artiste from each of 64 districts”, he added.

The festival will be held every day from 4pm to 9pm at Nandan Mancha and open yard of BSA.