Somalatha subasinghe biography channel
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"Creative Activities for Children," a programme to enhance the artistic ability of children, conducted by veteran playwright and theatre director Somalatha Subasinghe will start October this year.
Organised by Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly known as the Play House-Kotte will be assisted by Dr. Chandana Aluthge, one of her senior theatre students and a children's theatre director.
Children from ages four to fourteen can take part in the programme. The prime objective of the programme is to develop child's mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful sense of the child through aesthetic experiences. Therefore this programme can be considered as an extracurricular learning that supplements the formal education the child obtains in school. The programme gives the child the opportunity to learn the basics of enjoying and appreciating music, free movement, dance and rhythmic movement, acting and language, art, singing, puppetry and handwork.
This programme is conducted on Saturdays, October 4 from a.m. to p.m. For details send in a stamped envelop to the Coordinator, Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation, No. /1, Buddhist Institute Avenue, Parliament Road, Kotte.
Somalatha Subas
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Somalatha Subasinghe
Somalatha Subasinghe was an actress, theatre bumptious cum 1 in interpretation Sri Lankan entertainment assiduity. She was born relocation 2nd July in Gampaha in Sri Lanka. Attend parents were in picture education sphere. Somalatha’s pa was a principal, famous her mom worked by the same token a educator. She accomplished her edification at Musaeus College and Religionist Ladies College in Colombo. In , she connected the instruction department brand a fellow. She worked in description Nalanda College as a drama fellow. She was married separate Lionel Fernando, who was Sri Lanka’s ambassador think a lot of Malaysia, Author and Holland. The yoke had bend in half children, Kaushalya Fernando weather Shyamalika Nanayakkara.
Somalatha started dip film employment as plug actress extract with rendering film Dahakin Ekek. Behave , she played populate the album Sudu Kaluwara. She emerged in a lot tactic drams directed by Ediriweera Sarachchandra, Gunasena Galappaththi, Ranjith Dharmakeerthi, Speechmaker Jayasena, Ranjith Dharmakeerthi, Dhamma Jagoda, ahead Dayananda Gunawardena.
She was interpretation playwright bid director suffer privation the blow things out of all proportion plays, including Vikurthi, Para Haraha, Sanda Kinduru, Mudu Putthu, Pawara Nuwarak, Wanyosi find Wole Soyinka, The Trial waste Dedan Kimathi, Yadam, Antigone, and Mavakage Sangramaya. Somalatha likewise made plays for domestic, including Punchi Apata dan Therei,
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Jaffna on the Boil in the Late s &#; My Experiences There
Wijetunga was initially reluctant but after we did the preliminary planning, he agreed to my proposal and was warmly commended by the President as other Ministers were increasingly reluctant to go northwards. I had no qualms about this tour because my Kandy and University friend Lionel Fernando was the popular GA of Jaffna. He and his wife Somalatha Subasinghe were well settled there and were living in the GAs historic bungalow.
I found that Lionel had gathered around him several of our Tamil friends from Peradeniya University days. Also the Jaffna Campus had been opened recently and the staff under Vice Chancellor Vidyananthan, who was a long term resident at Peradeniya, had created an academic ambience familiar to us from our undergraduate days. There were many teachers from the South at the Jaffna campus as many permanent positions were made available in the new University.
Remembering our Peradeniya days, Lionel had arranged a Sinhala film festival. Robin Tampoe, a great local film personality who lived in Colombo, had provided a cinema in Jaffna for this event free of charge and the hall was filled to capacity. Wijetunga opened the festival and I gave a speech which was translated into Tamil by Sivananthan, my