To commemorate the International Mother Language Day, 21st February, Bangladesh Heritage Foundation and Bangladesh Research and publications Ltd. will jointly organize an exhibition of fine art titled 'Dali and Others' to be held from 20th Feb to 28th Feb 2009 at BILIA Auditorium (Suhrawardi House 22, Dhanmondi # 7, Dhaka-1205).
Press Preview at the same venue on 18th Feb. Wednesday at 11.30AM
Eminent Educationist and former Adviser of the 1st Caretaker Government,
Professor Zillur Rahman Siddiqui has kindly consented to inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest, while H. E. Mme. Itala Occhi, Ambassador of Italy in Bangladesh, Professor Nazrul Islam, Chairman UGC, Professor Harun-or Rashid, Pro VC University of Dhaka and Mr. Shankar Nath Rimal, Secretary General, Nepal Art Council, will be present as Guests of Honour.
The participating Artists are ;
Nepal : Sashi Bikram Shah, Uttam Nepali, Shankar Nath Rimal, Shyam Lal Shrestha, Gehendra Man Amatya, Gajendra Man Shrestha, Ratna Kazi Shakya & Uma Shankar Shah.
Malaysia : Suzlee Ibrahim and Asliza Aris
India : Sumita Chauhan
Jordan : Hakim Jamain
Greece : Georgia Grigoriadou and sarantis Gagas
Honduras : Jorge Ivan Restrepo
USA : Nel Ivancich and Christine Tarantino
UK : Martha Aitchison
Germany : Ernst Siedl, Dorothea Fleiss and Eric Paproth
France : Andre Derain
Italy : Annamaria Gelmi, Marilena Sassi and Grazia Lavina
Spain : Salvador Dali (from the collection of Ambassador Waliur Rahman)
Bangladesh : Quamrul Hasan (from the collection of Ambassador Waliur Rahman), Samarjit Roy Choudhury, Monirul Islam, Jamal Ahmed, Shahabuddin, Anisuzzaman and Habiba Akther Papia
The exhibition will remain open to the visitors from 10 am to 8 pm upto 28th Feb 2009.
Your kind presence will be deeply appreciated.
Rafique Sulayman
Curator
Press Preview at the same venue on 18th Feb. Wednesday at 11.30AM
Eminent Educationist and former Adviser of the 1st Caretaker Government,
Professor Zillur Rahman Siddiqui has kindly consented to inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest, while H. E. Mme. Itala Occhi, Ambassador of Italy in Bangladesh, Professor Nazrul Islam, Chairman UGC, Professor Harun-or Rashid, Pro VC University of Dhaka and Mr. Shankar Nath Rimal, Secretary General, Nepal Art Council, will be present as Guests of Honour.
The participating Artists are ;
Nepal : Sashi Bikram Shah, Uttam Nepali, Shankar Nath Rimal, Shyam Lal Shrestha, Gehendra Man Amatya, Gajendra Man Shrestha, Ratna Kazi Shakya & Uma Shankar Shah.
Malaysia : Suzlee Ibrahim and Asliza Aris
India : Sumita Chauhan
Jordan : Hakim Jamain
Greece : Georgia Grigoriadou and sarantis Gagas
Honduras : Jorge Ivan Restrepo
USA : Nel Ivancich and Christine Tarantino
UK : Martha Aitchison
Germany : Ernst Siedl, Dorothea Fleiss and Eric Paproth
France : Andre Derain
Italy : Annamaria Gelmi, Marilena Sassi and Grazia Lavina
Spain : Salvador Dali (from the collection of Ambassador Waliur Rahman)
Bangladesh : Quamrul Hasan (from the collection of Ambassador Waliur Rahman), Samarjit Roy Choudhury, Monirul Islam, Jamal Ahmed, Shahabuddin, Anisuzzaman and Habiba Akther Papia
The exhibition will remain open to the visitors from 10 am to 8 pm upto 28th Feb 2009.
Your kind presence will be deeply appreciated.
Rafique Sulayman
Curator
On the occasion of "International Mother Language Day" on 21st February, you may be interested in the contribution, made by the World Esperanto Association, to UNESCO's campaign for the protection of endangered languages.
ReplyDeleteThe following declaration was made in favour of Esperanto, by UNESCO at its Paris HQ in December 2008. http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38420&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html
The commitment to the campaign to save endangered languages was made, by the World Esperanto Association at the United Nations' Geneva HQ in September.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7vD9kChBA&feature=related or http://www.lernu.net