The fourth edition of The City as a Museum, a 10-day festival of art, culture, and history held across various sites and neighbourhoods, will begin on November 16.
The festival will be held at state archives, colonial houses, the river front, an art college and various other places.
It will have sessions on the Tebhaga Movement focussing on the agrarian rebellion as it investigates the narratives of the resistance in the different districts of Bengal and
also women’s participation in it with academic Kavita Punjabi.
The festival, put together by DAG — the country’s leading art company— then moves on to a 140-year-old publishing house at Sovabazar, PM Bagchi and Company, to trace the map-making practices both of indigenous mappers as well as colonial practitioners of 18th and 19th century.
The event titled — Mapa Theke Manchitra — will also include a walk through the Sovabazar neighbourhood that will reveal more about publishing maps in those times.
A Night on the Riverfront will explore the history of the “other” Europeans like artist F.B. Solvyns who were outsiders to the colonial machinations.
Arranged at the Bengal Paddle, a steamer that runs with paddles of the 1940s, the White Other will showcase some of Solvyn’s landscapes.
