CHATTOGRAM, Dec 24, 2019 (BSS) – A five-day long drama festival-‘Tirjok
Natto Mela’- will begin tomorrow here.
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud will attend the opening ceremony of
the festival as chief guest while noted drama-personalities Bivash
Chakrabarti and Mamunur Rashid will inaugurate both the ‘Natto Mela’ and
‘Tirjok Memorial Exhibition’ tomorrow evening, organizers said.
Noted academic Dr. Anupam Sen will preside over the inaugural ceremony
while Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) mayor AJM Nasir Uddin and Power
Division secretary Dr Ahmed Kaykaus will attend the event as special guests.
The dramas will be staged everyday from December 25 to 29 at three
venues: ‘Mukta Manchha’ of Theatre Institute, Chattogram (TIC), Lecture
Theatre and Gallery.
Along with Tirjok, three other prominent drama and theatre organizations
from Dhaka will also perform in the festival which will begin with staging
‘Tarongo Bhango’ of Tirjok on December 25.
The drama fair includes documentary film, photographs exhibition, drama
dialogue, drama discussions, drawing competition of children, storytelling
program, lecture workshop, recitations, debating, mime action, dance and
rendering songs.
Drama personalities Ramendu Majumder, Asaduzzaman Noor MP, Nasiruddin
Yousuf, Prof. Abdus Selim, Dr. Afsar Ahmed, Mannan Hira, Golam Sarwar, Ziaul
Hasan, Moloy Bhoumik, Dev Prasad Devnath, Alak Ghosh are expected to
participate in different events of the festival.