Selecting photos that tell a story…..

first selection of photos

The second workshop was held on 10th and 11th of May 2008. By this time, the participants had already taken the photos. The photos themselves narrated multiple stories that depicted the different perspectives of the participants. A dominant theme was the natural beauty of their surroundings and their sense of cultural identity [...]

Initial visit

Colombo Institute was invited by the Gaveshi Resource Centre in Aludeniya in the Kurunegala District to initiate the film project the institute had already started in Dambana and Dehiattakandiya. The Founder of the group and an art teacher in the Aludeniya Maha Vidyalaya, Mr. Eranda Samarakoon, having heard about the program, wanted his students to [...]

Reading Landscape in Translation: Religion, Nature and the Spatial Politics of Sri Lankan Modernity

The second talk was delivered in April by Tariq Jazeel (Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield) and was titled ‘Reading Landscape in Translation: Religion, Nature and the Spatial Politics of Sri Lankan Modernity.’ This presentation, also in the English language, attempted to explore the methodological challenges involved in engaging the politics of Sri Lankan [...]