A memorial meeting and honours ceremony for martyrs, injured July fighters and their family members is scheduled for August 3 at 6:30 pm at the National Music and Dance Centre auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Organisers said it aims to pay respect and gratitude to those whose sacrifice, blood, pain and courage elevated the July mass uprising in history.

Cultural Affairs Minister Nitai Roychowdhury, MP, is expected to attend as chief guest. State Minister for Cultural Affairs Ali Newaz Mahmud Khaiyam, MP, and Dr. Zahed Ur Rahman, adviser on policy and strategy for the information and broadcasting and cultural affairs ministries, will attend as special guests. Cultural Affairs Ministry Secretary Kaniz Mowla will chair the meeting, while Shilpakala Academy Director General poet Sheikh Rezauddin Ahmed, known as Rezauddin Stalin, will deliver the welcome address.

The programme will open with a collective instrumental rendition of “Muktir Mondir Sopan Tole,” followed by a minute of silence for those killed in the July uprising and a documentary screening. Performers include Ethun Babu and Friends, Monir Khan, Pial Hasan and Yusuf Ahmed Khan. Recitations will be presented by Enamul Haque Jewel, Sima Islam, Iqbal Ahmed, Farzana Eli and Tito Munsi, before Academy vocalists perform a collective song.