Delhi weekend cultural calendar: Electronic music gig, comedy shows, and more

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26
ART Many Indias at India Habitat Centre
A group show of tribal art from states across India. There is no entry fee.
When: Friday, August 26 to Wednesday, August 31, from 10 am to 6 pm.
Where: Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

ART Nupur Chaube at India Habitat Centre
Delhi artist Nupur Chaube’s new show Abstract Sojourns is a collection of figurative paintings.
When: Until Wednesday, August 31, from 10 am to 8 pm.
Where: Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

ART Jeram Patel at Kiran Nadir Museum of Art
This retrospective of the works of artist Jeram Patel titled the dark loam: between memory and membrane focuses on paintings he made using blowtorches and crow quills. For more information, see here.
When: Until Tuesday, December 20. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm; Monday, closed.
Where: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket. Tel: 011 4916 0000.

THEATRE Lady Anandi at Jawaharlal Nehru University
In this performance, Bangalore-based theatre actor and director Anuja Ghosalkar will essay the role of F, a writer who digs into the past of her great grandfather, a female impersonator on the Marathi stage in the 1800s. There is no entry fee.
When: Friday, August 26 at 5 pm.
Where: School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University, near Munrika, New Mehrauli Road. Tel: 011 2674 2676.

MUSIC Transfr with Peter Cat Recording Co. + TankBund + Outliners + Rivita + Conversations of Verse at The Junkyard Cafe
Four city-based acts, "gypsy jazz" rock band Peter Cat Recording Co., electro-rock group TankBund; alternative rock outfit Outliners; and singer-songwriter Rivita Goyle, will each play sets at this event organised by quarterly youth magazine The ‘Zine that will also feature performances of poetry and stand-up comedy. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 5.30 pm.
Where: The Junkyard Cafe, Salcon Ras Vilas Mall, Ground Floor, Saket District Centre, District Centre, Saket. Tel: 011 3080 6564.

FILM The Lady in the Van at American Center
Directed by British film and theatre director Nicholas Hytner, The Lady in the Van stars Maggie Smith as a homeless woman living in a van on the driveway of a playwright. Entry is free but requires prior registration by emailing AmCenterND@state.gov and the presentation of a valid photo ID. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 6 pm.
Where: American Center, 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg. Tel: 011 2347 2000.

BOOKS Plato’s Symposium at India Habitat Centre
A reading of Plato’s Symposium, a philosophical text about love, will be conducted by Readers’ Break, an organisation that holds weekly book discussions. There is no entry fee. For more information, see the Facebook event page.
When: Friday, August 26 at 7 pm.
Where: Amaltas, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

COMEDY Vinay Sharma + Kunal Rao + Appurv Gupta + Amit Sharma at Canvas Laugh Club
The stand-up comedians will each present sets at gigs through the weekend. On Saturday, Amit Sharma will perform instead of Appurv Gupta. Tickets priced at Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, August 26, Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 at 7 pm.
Where: Canvas Laugh Club, The People and Co. Premises No. 5, Building No. 8, Tower B, Cyber City, Gurgaon. Tel: 0124 414 1000.

MUSIC Culture Resonance at India Habitat Centre
German fusion band Culture Resonance, whose tunes bring together Sufi, Indian and Western classical, Turkish and Afghan folk and jazz music sounds, will perform. Tickets priced at Rs 350 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com and at the IHC programmes desk.
When: Friday, August 26 at 7 pm.
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

MUSIC Minute of Decay + DJ CJ at Bunmanchi
Delhi-based Manipuri funk-rock trio Minute of Decay and city-residing hip hop DJ CJ will each play sets. The cover charge of Rs 400 per person can be redeemed for a cocktail or two beers. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 8 pm.
Where: Bunmanchi, Building M-20, M Block Market, Greater Kailash II. Tel: 011 4165 7867.

MUSIC Rafiq Khan Langa at Depot29
Rajasthan folk musician Rafiq Khan Langa will perform. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 8.45 pm.
Where: Depot 29, Levels 2 & 3, B6/2 Commercial Complex, Humayunpur, Safdarjung Enclave. Tel: 97174 50029.

MUSIC Bullzeye + Avantika Bakshi at Summer House Café
House and techno DJs, Mumbai’s Bullzeye aka Siddhanth Kapoor and Delhi’s Avantika Bakshi will play the Hauz Khas venue. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 9 pm.
Where: Summer House Café, First Floor, DDA Shopping Complex, Aurobindo Place Market, Hauz Khas. Tel: 93509 27000.

MUSIC Kohra at Hive
City-based electronica DJ-producer Kohra aka Madhav Shorey will play a set. Entry is free via a guest list that can be signed up to here. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 9 pm.
Where: Hive, S-27, Main Market, Green Park. Tel: 011 4170 6637.

MUSIC _RHL + Frame/Frame at BandStand
This electronic music gig programmed by website and Magnetic Fields festival organiser Wild City will comprise sets by _RHL aka Rahul Giri from Bangalore and Frame/Frame aka Nikhil Kaul from Delhi. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 9 pm.
Where: BandStand, 7, DDA Shopping Complex, Aurobindo Place, Hauz Khas Village. Tel: 90132 08104.

MUSIC Su Real at Raasta
Bass music producer Su Real aka Suhrid Manchanda will soundtrack the venue’s Ragadub night. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 9 pm.
Where: Raasta, First Floor, 30-A Hauz Khas Village. Tel: 011 4062 3028.

COMEDY Karunesh Talwar at Canvas Laugh Club at The People and Co,
Mumbai-based stand-up comedian Karunesh Talwar will perform his show Paka Mat Na Mote. Tickets priced at Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Friday, August 26 and Saturday, August 27 at 9.30 pm.
Where: Canvas Laugh Club, The People and Co. Premises No. 5, Building No. 8, Tower B, Cyber City, Gurgaon. Tel: 0124 414 1000.

MUSIC Func + Tarqeeb at AntiSocial
Mumbai electronic music producer and guitarist Func aka Randolph Correia will launch and play tracks from his new EP Beast at this gig organised by artist management and event company Krunk. Delhi drum and bass DJ Tarqeeb aka Ashish Jose will also spin a set. The entry fee is Rs 300 per person. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Friday, August 26 at 10 pm.
Where: AntiSocial, Third Floor, 9A and 12 Hauz Khas Village. Tel: 78386 52039.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27
BOOKS Delhi Book Fair at Pragati Maidan
Organised by the National Book Trust and the Government of India, the fair will have stalls by more than 100 publishing houses. There is no entry fee. For more information, see here.
When: Saturday, August 27 to Sunday, September 4, from 10 am to 8 pm.
Where: Halls No. 8 to 12, Pragati Maidan. Tel: 80109 70185.

SHOPPING & STYLE The Pink Post Inc. at The Ashok Hotel
Dresses by Whim by Poorvi and Aekatri, Banarasi saris by Kalakari, jewellery by Paisley Pop, bags by Duet Luxury and shoes by Kanabis are among the items that will be available at this shopping exhibition. For more information, see the Facebook event page.
When: Saturday, 27 August, from 11 am to 8 pm.
Where: The Ashok Hotel, 50-B Diplomatic Enclave, Chanakyapuri. Tel: 95607 64151.

THEATRE The Matriarch and Two Spoons of Sugar at The People and Co.
Based on Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980 film Khoobsurat, the Hinglish play, directed by Karan Arora and Beena Singh, is about a family controlled by a strict matriarch until a fun-loving woman enters their lives. Tickets priced at Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 3 pm.
Where: Canvas Laugh Club, The People and Co. Premises No. 5, Building No. 8, Tower B, Cyber City, Gurgaon. Tel: 0124 414 1000.

THEATRE Piya Behrupiya at India Habitat Centre
Mumbai director Atul Kumar’s musical Piya Behrupiya is a Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Tickets priced at Rs 250 and Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28 at 4 pm and 7.30 pm.
Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

MUSIC Atif Aslam at Leisure Valley Park
Pakistani pop and playback singer Atif Aslam will perform. Tickets priced at Rs 1,000, Rs 2,000, Rs 3,000 and Rs 4,000 per person are being sold on Kyazoonga.com. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 5 pm.
Where: Leisure Valley Park, Sector 29, Gurgaon. Tel: 088263 66773.

POETRY THEATRE Borges and Guastavino and The House of Bernarda at Instituto Cervantes
Poets and translators Subhro Bandopadhyay, Madhuvan Sharma and Akshay Kale will read Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Marathi translations of the Spanish-language poems of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. There is no entry fee. For more information, see here. At 6.30 pm at the same venue, Kolkata-based cultural organisation Los Hispanofilos will perform a dramatised reading of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca’s play The House of Bernarda, about bossy Bernarda Alba and her five daughters. There is no entry fee. For more information, see here.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 5 pm and 6.30 pm.
Where: Instituto Cervantes, 48 Hanuman Road, Connaught Place. Tel: 011 4368 1907.

MUSIC Maxime Zecchini at Alliance Francaise
French Western classical pianist Maxime Zecchini will perform a solo recital. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 7 pm.
Where: Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72 Lodhi Estate. Tel: 011 4350 0200.

THEATRE Chakravyuh at Kamani Auditorium
Nitish Bharadwaj, who played Krishna in B. R. Chopra’s TV series on the Mahabharata, will play the same character in writer and director Atul Satya Koushik play on the chapter of the epic that deals with the entrapment of Abhimanyu on the thirteenth day of the battle. Tickets priced at Rs 300, Rs 400, Rs 500 and Rs 750 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 7 pm.
Where: Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Janpath. Tel: 011 4350 3352.

THEATRE Namaste Jaishree Krishna at Epicentre
Directed by K. K. Raina and starring Ila Arun, this Hindi comedy is about a religious family trying to deal with a young member’s atheist partner. Tickets priced at Rs 800, Rs 1,000, Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 7.30 pm.
Where: Epicentre, Apparel House, Ground Floor, Sector 44, opposite Power Grid Residential Complex, Gurgaon. Tel: 0124 271 5000.

MUSIC Ayushmann Khurrana at FLYP@MTV
Bollywood actor and singer Ayushmann Khurrana will perform. Tickets priced at Rs 1,000 per person are being sold on Insider.in.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 8 pm.
Where: FLYP@MTV, N/57 and N/60, First Floor, Outer Circle, Connaught Place. Tel: 011 3310 5181.

MUSIC Blu at The Piano Man Jazz Club
Delhi-based blues band Blu will play the jazz venue. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 8.45 pm.
Where: The Piano Man Jazz Club, Ground Floor, B6-7/22, Safdarjung Enclave Market, opposite Deer Park, Safdarjung. Tel: 011 3310 6260.

MUSIC NDS at Hive
City-residing electronic dance music DJ-producer NDS aka Siddharth Sharma will play a set. Entry is free via a guest list that can be signed up to here. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 9 pm.
Where: Hive, S-27, Main Market, Green Park. Tel: 011 4170 6637.

MUSIC K Theory at Kitty Su
American electro-hip hop duo K Theory will take over the console. Call the venue for details about the entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Saturday, August 27 at 10 pm.
Where: Kitty Su, The Lalit, Barakhamba Lane, Connaught Place. Tel: 1800 11 6777.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28
MUSIC REProduce Listening Room at Exhibit 320
This instalment of the Listening Room gig series organised by REProduce will comprise sets by Delhi artists such as electronic music producers Jamblu aka Kartik Pillai (who will collaborate with cellist Sangh Prakash Bharti) and One Sock aka Angad Bagga; pianist Sahil Vasudeva; noise artists Hemanth Sreekumar and Vinny Bhagat; and alternative rock band Smooth Relax, the last of whom will perform with Mumbai rapper Manmeet Kaur. Donor passes priced at Rs 300 per person will be available at the venue. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 4 pm.
Where: Exhibit 320, F-320, Old Mehrauli Badarpur Road, Lado Sarai. Tel: 011 4613 0637.

THEATRE Man Disposes, God Proposes at Alliance Francaise
Director Saleem Shah’s English adaptation of British playwright and lawyer John Mortimer’s drama The Dock Brief centres around Himaqat Qureshi, who has been charged with murder of his wife. He’s sure to be proven guilty until lawyer Kamal Kanth Tripathi comes along. Tickets priced at Rs 300, Rs 400 and Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 5.30 pm.
Where: Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72 Lodhi Estate. Tel: 011 4350 0200.

THEATRE Can’t Pay! Won’t Pay! at India Habitat Centre
In this Hindi adaption of Dario Fo’s Italian play of the same name, directed by Sunil Rawat, a middle-class couple is living in the middle of an economic depression. Food prices have inflated to such an extent that the wife Laxmi steals some food from the supermarket during a riot. Her morally upright husband Govind doesn’t approve. Tickets priced at Rs 200 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 7.30 pm.
Where: Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, near Airforce Bal Bharati School. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

THEATRE Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai at Alliance Francaise
Directed by Jay Prakash, this Hindi solo act performed by Saleem Shah is based on writer Sharad Joshi’s stories and essays on youthful romance. Tickets priced at Rs 300, Rs 400 and Rs 500 per person are being sold on Bookmyshow.com.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 7.30 pm.
Where: Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72 Lodhi Estate. Tel: 011 4350 0200.

MUSIC Chayan and Smiti at Depot 29
The Delhi-based acoustic pop duo of Chayan Adhikari and Smiti Malik will perform. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 8.45 pm.
Where: Depot 29, Levels 2 & 3, B6/2 Commercial Complex, Humayunpur, Safdarjung Enclave. Tel: 97174 50029.

MUSIC Fubar Ghetto + Ditty at BandStand
A double bill made up of jazz and blues-rock trio Fubar Ghetto and singer-songwriter Ditty aka Aditi Veena, both of whom are from Delhi. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 9 pm.
Where: BandStand, 7, DDA Shopping Complex, Aurobindo Place, Hauz Khas Village. Tel: 90132 08104.

MUSIC Lucia & Her Soul Brothers + Play It By Ear at Hauz Khas Social
Naga neo-soul singer Lucia, whose full name is Sentirenla Lucia Panicker, and her band the Soul Brothers and Delhi duo acoustic rock duo Play It By Ear will each present sets. There is no entry fee. See the Facebook event page for more information.
When: Sunday, August 28 at 9 pm.
Where: Hauz Khas Social, 9A and 12 Hauz Khas Village. Tel: 78386 52814.

ONGOING
ART Art Collection at the British Council
This exhibition of artworks from the British Council’s collection covers “various influences in British art” over the last century, from the posters of the London Underground in the 1920s to those of the 2012 London Olympics. See here for more information.
When: Until Monday, October 10. Open Monday to Saturday, from 8 am to 8 pm; Sunday, from 9 am to 6 pm.
Where: The Gallery, British Council, Kasturba Gandhi Marg. Tel: 011 4219 9000.

ART Yajanekka Aroraa at India Habitat Centre
Delhi artist Yajanekka Aroraa is exhibiting Shahar-e-Dilli, a solo show of sketches of the city’s architectural ruins. There is no entry fee.
When: Until Wednesday, August 31. Open daily, from 10 am to 8 pm.
Where: Delhi ‘o’ Delhi Foyer, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road. Tel: 011 2468 2002.

ART K. G. Subramanyan at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
An exhibition of the artist’s works titled Anatomy Lessons.
When: Until Friday, September 30. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.30 am to 6.30 pm; Monday, closed.
Where: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket. Tel: 011 4916 0000.

ART Sudipta Das at Gallery Latitude 28
Assamese artist Sudipta Das’s new solo show The Surface of Memory comprises mixed media works that draw on her identity as a descendant of Bangladeshi migrants. See here for more information.
When: Until Saturday, September 10. Open Monday to Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, by appointment.
Where: Gallery Latitude 28, F-208, Lado Sarai. Tel: 011 4679 1111.

These recommendations have been compiled by The Daily Pao.