MIME SHOW- WE WANT PEACE. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ZILLUR RAHMAN JOHN. JAPAN BANGLADESH INDIA MIME FESTIVAL

MIME SHOW- WE WANT PEACE.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ZILLUR RAHMAN JOHN.
JAPAN BANGLADESH INDIA MIME FESTIVAL 1998 IN INDIA.

PRESENTED BY:
DHAKA PANTOMIME (PIONEERING MIME AND PANTOMIME GROUP OF BANGLADESH)

ORGANIZED & SPONSORED BY:
MINI MIME MINE, INDIA.

VENUE: ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, KOLKATA, INDIA.
1998.

ZILLUR RAHMAN JOHN:
Zillur Rahman John is a Bangladeshi Canadian mime and pantomime Artist, Director, Teacher, Researcher and Author of mime books. He was the founder Artistic Director of "Dhaka Pantomime", a pioneering mime and pantomime group of Bangladesh (23 October 1989 to 30th April 2005).

John performed in many international Theatre and Mime festivals in Asia, Europe and North America including Commonwealth Games Cultural Festivals SUKUM 98 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998. John performed the title character in the production of “The Miraculous Mandarin” at the Winspear Centre, with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO), Canada in 2015. He also performed in Fringe International Theatre Festival at Edmonton, Canada in 2009 and Play the Fool Theatre Festival at Edmonton, Canada in 2021.

Author of several Mime and Pantomime books, he has contributed more than 200 articles on Arts and Culture published in the Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Banglapedia), published by the Asiatic Societies of Bangladesh.

John received the awards from different international mime and theater festivals in India, Australia, Korea, Japan. In 2009 John was honored by the City of Edmonton, Canada, with the City of Edmonton Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award.