First steps in photography…

The first session was conducted on 20th and 21st of June 2008 where 30 participants took part. Though originally planned to be held at the main hall of the Aludeniya Maha Vidyalaya, the venue had to be shifted to the nearby Public Library as the school premises was taken over for a political event. The [...]

Narratives of early settlements of Sri Lanka: the unwritten

The fourth presentation in the series also in the Sinhala language was delivered by Ananda Tissa Kumara (Professor of Sinhala, University of Colombo). Tissa Kumara attempted to add a new chapter to memories of migration and settlement in recent Sri Lankan history by undertaking an initial reading of myths that refer to the dynamics of [...]

Writing the script

On 6th and 8th of June 2008, the Colombo Institute Team conducted another workshop at the Nadee Art center in Lihiniyagama, Dehiattakandiya focusing on script writing. The idea was to generate story lines from the young participants in areas that were thematically important to them. Among the themes they wanted to investigate in a potential [...]

The dynamics and politics of theatre space: the space of the ‘actor’ and the ‘audience’

The next presentation in the series was held on May 29th and was the first to be delivered in Sinhala.

The Speaker, Dhananjaya Karunaratne, well-known Colombo based dramatist, explored the politics and dynamics of theatre space and sought alternative spaces where the actor and the spectator can be put through which the ‘entertainment’ and ‘professional’ aspects [...]