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After a long time, the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy arranged a two-day classical dance and a one-day instrumental music performance at the Jatiya Natyashala of the
   academy in Segun Bagicha from June 18.
   On the inaugural day, the audience enjoyed Odissi, Bharatnatyam, Manipuri, Katthak and general dances and the performances by noted dancers Tamanna Rahman and Belayet Hossain Khan.
   Moreover, the audience left the hall satisfied with the performances of Munmun Ahmed. She was accompanied by visiting Indian artistes Amar Bhat on tabla, Mohammad Zafar Khan on sarangee and Guru Krishna Mohan Maharaj.
   During her performance, Munmun said that she danced at Shilpakala after many years.
   ‘I also hope that Shilpakala will arrange this sort of programme of classical dance every year,’ she added.
   Earlier, noted dancer and principal of Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts Rahiza Khanam Jhunu inaugurated the three-day
   programme while director of the production department of the academy Jinat Barkatullah delivered the welcome speech.
   The inaugural function was chaired by Abul Kamal Shafi Ahmed, senior director of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
   Though the students of Pallabi presented Odissi, Shubhra Sen and her troupe presented Bharatnatyam, the audience enjoyed the Manipuri dance performed by Tamanna and her students.
   Tamanna’s ‘Basanta Rash’ and other compositions based on Manipuri dance enlivened the function.
   Later, Belayet Hossain Khan and his students’ presentation of ‘Naba Raas’ and other dance presentations based on Bharatnatyam also added charm to the function.
   Finally, Munmun Ahmed’s presentation of Katthak enchanted the audience. Her students also performed well.
   Today, the organisers will arrange a show of instrumental presentation at 6:00pm at the Natyashala.

The 303rd episode of Amar Chhabi, a magazine show based on cinema will be aired at 6:30 tonight.
   Rafiqul Alam, a renowned playback will be present as guest and will speak about his entry in the field. Some footage from different films will also be screened.
   The event has been planned, scripted, directed and moderated by Shamim Alam Dipen and Shafiuzzaman Khan Lodi respectively. The event is produced by One Step Ahead.

A special live programme on the World Cup titled, World Cup special by Channel-i is being telecast everyday at 6:40pm.
   Presented by Aghor Mandal this show will feature information of the tournament, analysis of matches and observations made by specialists.
   The programme is participated by noted sports personalities of the country and to make it interesting, Channel-i teams are travelling to different parts of the country.
   As part of a quiz programme, questions will be asked to people and winners will be awarded. There will also be a question answer session for the audience.
   Apart from this, Channel-i is also showing football world cup titbits live from different game venues with the direct involvement of Dainik Manabjamin editor Motiur Rahman who at present is in Germany.

A 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased by cosmetics magnate Ronald S Lauder for $135 million, the highest amount ever paid for a painting, The New York Times reported.
   The price tops the $104.1 million paid for Picasso’s 1905 ‘Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)’ in an auction at Sotheby’s in 2004, the paper said in its Monday edition.
   The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist, is considered one of Klimt’s masterpieces.
   It was the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and a niece of Bloch-Bauer who argued that it was seized along with four other Klimt paintings by the Nazis during World War Two, the Times said.
   In January all five paintings were awarded to the niece, Maria Altmann, 90, who lives in Los Angeles, and other family members, it said.
   The sale is subject to confidentiality agreements and Lauder would not confirm the price in a telephone interview, The Times said. But experts familiar with the negotiations, who spoke to the paper on condition of anonymity, said he paid $135 million for the work.
   ‘It is a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition’, said Lauder, who is a founder of the 5-year-old Neue Galerie, a tiny Manhattan museum devoted entirely to German and Austrian art where all five Klimt paintings will be on view from July 13 through September 18. They are currently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Ubra Bachan, based on William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew will be staged at the Nilima Ibrahim auditorium of the Bangladesh Mahila Samity on Bailey Road at 7:00pm on June 20.
   The play, adapted and directed by Khurshid Alam, is produced by Vision Theatre.
   Different roles are played by Shafiqur Rahman Manik, Narayan Kumar Nayan, Nihar Ranjan Saha, Anne Tanbin Bobby, Kaniz Fatima Lisa and Anwar Kabir Liton.
   The set of the play has been designed by the director while Nasirul Haque Khokon has worked for lighting.

Film show
   
   Academy Film Society
   The Quick and the Dead, 06:30pm, Jaijaidin Mediaplex, Love Road, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka
   
   Exhibition
   Group Art Exhibition
   by 25 eminent and young artists
   from 10:00am to 8:00pm,
   Gallery Chitrak, Dhanmondi
   
   Theatre
   National Juvenile Theatre Festival
   Ma O Madak Chakra by Amra Natun, Madaripur
   4:30pm, Nakshi Kanthat Math by Theatre Circle Little Unit, Munsiganj, 5:30pm, Hya by Kishore Theatre, Dhaka
   6:30pm, Ekatturer Ghatak by Srishti Shishu Kishore Natya Goshthi, 7:30pm, Swapner Muhurte by A AA Ka Kha, Bogra
   8:30pm, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, Dhaka
   Event
   Football as never before, directed by Erika Harzer and Kalle Stayman, 5:00pm. Matche:
   Germany vs Ecuador,
   8:00pm, Goethe-Institut, Dhaka

STARRING:
   Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington
   The Manhattan murderer is leaving bony fragments of clues behind after his killings to see if any man of like-minded intelligence is willing to go on a little joyride into corpse-town with him and pick up the missing pieces 7 provided they can keep up.
   lt?s up to Lincoln Rhymes (Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington.
   Training Day. John Q), a New York detective specializing in forensics who teams up with rookie street cop Amelia (Golden Globe winner Arigelina Jolie, Tomb Raider, Original Sin. Beyond Borders) to see if they have the mind and the stomach to trail the clues.
   But idjury sustained in the line of duty leaves Rhymes a quadriplegic, his arms and legs useless, and Amelia must becomes his hands and feet and he, her mind. But will it be enough to decipher the clues in time to find the next victim before the killer does?