Entertainment Desk :
A total of 18 cultural personalities and two cultural organisations will be awarded the Shilpakala Padak for the years of 2019 and 2020 in recognition of their notable contributions to different creative arenas like vocal music, instrumental music, dance, film, fine art, dramatics, recitation, folk culture and photography, said a press release.
The awardees of Shilpakala Padak 2019 are: Mohammad Moniruzzaman (instrumental – flute), Lubna Marium (dance), Hasina Momtaz (vocal), Abdul Mannan (fine arts), Masud Ali Khan (dramatics), M A Taher (photography), Shamvu Acharaya (folklore), Hasan Arif (recitation), Anupam Hayat (film) and cultural institution Chhayanaut (creative cultural unit). For Shilpakala Padak 2020, the selected cultural personalities are: Shamsur Rahman (instrumental – shehnai), Shibli Mohammad (dance), Mahmudur Rahman Benu (vocal), Shahid Kabir (fine arts), Malay Bhowmick (dramatics), Shafiqul Islam Swapan (photography), Shah Alam Sarkar (folklore), Dahlia Ahmed (recitation), Shameem Akhtar (film) and Dinajpur Nattya Samity (creative cultural unit).
State Minister of Cultural Affairs KM Khalid will formally hand over the awards to the recipients on behalf of President Abdul Hamid, who will be virtually attending the event as the chief guest. The event will be held at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at 4:30pm today. Following the discussion and award giving ceremony, artistes of BSA will perform at the event.
A 16-member nomination committee-comprising of the Director General of BSA, secretary of BSA, six directors, seven cultural personalities and one representative from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs-selected the awardees.
