Where to go, what to see @ Chobi Mela VI

Images - Glimpses, steeped in the colours of tradition, soaked in sacred waters and suffused with the wisdom of cultural values. India, as a nation finds expression through its many religions. A secular nation that emerges from the roots of faith and belief. Photograph Amit Mehra
Alliance Française
26 Mirpur Road (Corner Road No.3)
Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205
Gallery Opening Times: Monday – Thursday: 3pm to 9pm, Friday – Saturday: 10am to 12 pm and 5pm to 8pm
Special Opening Ceremony: 22 January, 3 pm
Exhibitions:
France:
La Gallery: Laurence Leblanc/Can All Dreams be Found Somewhere Else?
Ireland:
Gallery Zoom: Erin Quinn/Dreaming
Asiatic Gallery of Fine Arts
5, Old Secretariat Road, Nimtali, Ramna
Dhaka – 1000
Gallery Opening Times: Everyday 2 pm to 8 pm
Special Opening Ceremony:25 January, 11 am
Exhibition:
Bangladesh:
Students’ Work/Morten Krogvold Workshop
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
1, Sagunbagicha, Ramna
Dhaka – 1000.
Gallery Opening Times: Friday and Saturday: 3 pm to 7 pm, Sunday to Thursday :11 am to 7 pm
Grand Opening Ceremony: 21 January, 4 pm
Exhibitions:

The “Australian Dream” is the dream of a suburban quarter acre block, neighbours that know and care about you, local shops and a general level of prosperity and importantly, security. But the “Australian Dream” is just that, a dream. Photograph Bronek Kozka
Australia:
Bronek Kozka/Suburbia: The Australian Dream
Kelly Hussey-Smith/Caged
Bangladesh:
Sayed Asif Mahmud/My City of Unheard Prayers
Georgia:
Mariam Amurvelashvili/Khevsureti (The Lost Paradise)
India:
Amit Mehra/Timeless India
Indonesia:
Rony Zakaria/ Diamond Dreams
Iran:
Ali Akbar Shirjian/Open Ending of a Long Story
Japan:
Kosuke Okahara/Any Given Day – Living for the Moment in Medellin’s New Drug War
Mexico:
Carlos Cazalis/The Gift
Mozambique:
Mario Macilau/The Zionist (The Zionist Church Movement in Mozambique)
Norway:
Morten Krogvold/Encounters
Pakistan:
Asim Rafiqui/The Inconsolable
Singapore:
Jovian Lim/The Voyage to the Ends of the World
Spain:
Aitor Lara/Maestranza
Sri Lanka:
Dominic Sansoni/Space for Imagination
Turkey:
Onur Coban/Blinded Dreams in Darfur
Group:
National Geographic/All Roads Photography Program
British Council
5, Fuller Road, Dhaka – 1000
Gallery Opening Times: From 9 to 6pm from 21 – 22nd January and 1- 3 February 2011. From 4 to 9pm- 23– 28 January 2011
Special Opening Ceremony: 24 January, 4 pm
Exhibitions:
U.K.:
Gareth Phillips/Existence
Joanna Petrie/ The Girl who Fell to Earth
Drik Gallery
House 58, Road 15A (New),
Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka 1209
Gallery Opening Times: Everyday 3 pm to 8 pm
Special Opening Ceremony:23 January, 3 pm

A S M Rezaur Rahman, Curatorial Director, Chobi Mela and Munem Wasif plan the open air exhibition of Wasif’s “Salt Water Tears”. Drik Gallery, December 2010. Photograph Saikat Mojumder
Exhibitions:
Bangladesh:
Open Air: Debasish Shom/Dhaka: My Dreams, My Reality
Open Air: Munem Wasif/Salt Water Tears
India:
Gallery 1: David de Souza/Dreams
U.S.A.:

Ayatollah Khomeini and the people of Iran who were the engine, the actors, the victims and the onlookers of the tidal wave that no one predicted, and the consequences of which no one foresaw. Billboard portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini. Tehran. February 2, 1979. Photograph David Burnett/ Contact Press Images
Gallery 2: David Burnett/44 Days – Iran and the Remaking of the World
Goethe-Institut
German Cultural Centre
Road No. 9 (New),
House No. 10,
Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205
Gallery Opening Times: Friday and Saturday – 3 pm to 7 pm, Sunday to Thursday – 11 am to 7 pm
Special Opening Ceremony: 21 January, 7 pm
Exhibitions:
Germany:
Stephan Rabold / A Dream of Venice
Lichutola, Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University
Dhaka University, Dhaka – 1000.
Gallery Opening Times: Everyday 12 pm to 8 pm
Special Opening Ceremony:23 January, 12 pm
Exhibitions:
Hungary:

Worn edges of the cities' tissue, the periphery, where one would drive through fast or rush away, sites no one takes note of. Crows gather in a suburban alley near the Hungarian-Romanian Border. Photoograph Tamas Dezso
Tamas Dezso/Here Anywhere
Puerto Rico:
Karen Knorr/India Song
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