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Snehasish Mazumder

Snehasish Mozumder is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music. Coming from a musically oriented family, he started his initial training at the age of four with Tabla and then Mandolin under the guidance of his grandfather late Sri Bibhuty Ranjan Mozumder and then he took training under his father Sri Himangshu Mazumder and his uncle late Sri Ranjan Mozumder.

Gradually he switched over to his cousin Sri Tejendra Narayan Mazumdar who is a well-known Sarode player of the country. He continued his study under late Acharya Ajoy Sinha Roy who was a beloved disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan Saheb, the founder of Maihar Gharana and he takes lesson of Laykari under the guidance of Pandit Anil Palit who is a senior most disciple of Pandit Kishan Maharaj. Finally he came under the tutelage of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty.

Snehasish has performed many major festivals in India like Sankat Mochan Utsav of Varanasi Swami Haridas Sangeet Sanmelan of Mumbai, Indian Habitat Centre of Delhi, Bhowanipur Sangeeet Sanmelan, GolPark Ramkrishna Missionof Kolkata and Salt Lake Music Conference of Kolkata e.t.c, and also he has toured Europe, U.K., and USA and made a very good name amongst the music lovers. Snehasish is the recipient of Surmani and Jadubhatta Awards.

Golam Sarwar Harun

Golam Sarwar Harun is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He started his career in theater from his high school days, by joining Natyachakra, a leading theater group in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Later he joined Mahanagari-77 and then went on to form his own theatre group, Kushilab. During the 80s to mid the 90s, he has been actively engaged in various theatrical activities that included, acting, directing, writing original plays, and adapting plays from other countries. He has also participated in intense theater workshops that involved training on acting, Mime, writing, directing, and sound/lights of theater organized by Shilpakala Academy and Bangladesh Group Theater Federation. In Dhaka, Harun also made his presence known in radio, television, and films with his acting and screenwriting talents. Living in the US for the last several years, Harun has been quite active in the Bangla community theater scene. He is the Artistic Director of Dhaka Drama, a theater group based in Queens, New York. He has also worked in a few productions with Epic Actors’ Workshop, notable among them is his participation in the New York International Fringe Theater Festival. He has also directed Salim Al Din’s ‘Kittonkhola‘, ‘Dhaboman‘ and ‘Nirastra (Unarmed)’ for South Asian Theatre Festival. Harun acted in a movie titled ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ directed by internationally acclaimed film maker Mira Nair.
Source: sarwarharun.com/biography

Faiz Kabir

Dr. Faiz Kabir – MBBS (Sylhet), FCPS (Surgery, BCPS), PhD (Tohoku, Japan), MD (IM), MBA (Univ. of Toledo).

Poet, Lyricist, Novelist and Musician

Flies an endless sky
with unrained clouds
distant stars, as I see here
they sing in monochrome tone
with silence bursting in dark visuals
I still play my old gramophone
recorded slices of words
they never had any stop
difficult read yet pleasurable tears
lips though tremble, gamble and fumble
with flutters of zigzag run amok shears
just know, I hold them, onto my unwritten letter
that so long I dreamed of sending to you
I simply lost my coffee afternoons
as I walk down, drip drip, my mind’s blue
also know, your smile will always be my teddy dream special
despite everything around me getting everyday void and null.
@Faiz Kabir, Toledo, 1-16-18.

Source: Social Media

Laila Farzana Moonmoon

Laila Farzana is a Poet, Writer, Painter, Singer and an Architect by profession. She studied Architecture and Urban design from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, University of Toronto and the prestigious Columbia University in the City of New York. She is working as an Architect in New York City School Construction Authority. Laila is also the owner of DStudioD Architects and Engineers (The Studio of Design).

Many of her articles, literature, poems are published in different publication and journals. She is now actively working on her very own poetry and art collection which is going to be published soon and her own project for “Shakti”. She is a true artist and actively participates in all art related activities.

Syed Azizur Rahman

“We the human species, as we are born as Homo sapiens we try to achieve a ‘quality’ and we have named it ‘humane’.

Art is one of those processes to become ‘humane’. In other words, art gradually helps a Homo-sapiens a ‘humane’.

The purpose of art is to produce thinking. The secret is not the mechanics or technical skill that creates art – but the process of introspection and different levels of contemplation that generates it. … Art is a process, not a product. Art is a human act for that matter.

We will talk over the process and discuss how it helps humans and how, people involved in the process, practices, and leaves a mark of their genius that other people consider as ‘piece of art’.

Anyone between the age group of 8 years and 80 years olds may participate in the class. We will mostly focus on the visual art-making process. And discuss other art-making processes as well including, science, literature, dance, and music by and large.”