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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 17 performing arts venues
Best performing arts venues in Kolkata
The 10 most notable performing arts venues in Kolkata, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Jogesh Mime Academy
97, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rd
329 m from Kalighat metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.447, percentile 100 of 17
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2
Pathshala Institute of Performing Arts and Fitness
226b, Rash Behari Ave
470 m from Ballygunge Junction railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.410, percentile 93.75 of 17
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3
Dnadanceworks
9 Syed Amir Ali Avenue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.278, percentile 87.5 of 17
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4
Bengal Music College
P-1, C.I.T. Scheme LXXII, Gariahat Rd
453 m from Dhakuria railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.237, percentile 81.25 of 17
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5
The Creative Arts Academy
31/2A, Sadananda Rd
279 m from Kalighat metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.147, percentile 75 of 17
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6
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
E.M. BYEPASS ROAD, P.O, Eastern Metropolitan Bypass
109 m from Satyajit Ray metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.093, percentile 68.75 of 17
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7
Deodar Suchanda Sangitalaya
16/1, 16/1, Deodar St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.059, percentile 62.5 of 17
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8
FCP Acting School
11/2, KC Ghosh Rd, opposite to Corporation Bank
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.037, percentile 56.25 of 17
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9
Royal School of Music and Culture
Ground floor, Silver moon , NP 7
450 m from Salt Lake Sector-V metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.024, percentile 50 of 17
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10
Manipuri Nartanalaya
1/158, near Naktala
518 m from Masterda Surya Sen metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.990, percentile 43.75 of 17
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).