Art
Cube and colour: Barefoot team’s passion on show
“What Barefoot does best is colour and proportion. Our beautiful, clear and simple colour schemes and the geometric patterns they follow are what defines us,” said Jane Conrad, Design Coordinator at Barefoot. Quite natural then, that their newest exhibition is titled ‘Cube and Colour’-a collection of weavings and patchwork from the Barefoot Design team and [...]
TV Times
Sunil Aiya turns sixty
Popular and one of the most controversial singers in the Sri Lankan music scene Sunil Perera, celebrated his sixtieth birthday last week. Popularly known as Sunil Aiya, is the only musician in the local music industry to run a band single handed for more than four decades. At the sixtieth birthday celebrations, he was presented with [...]
Art
Young voices say NO
It was at a lecture on Violence Against Women & Children given by Myrtle Mendis, a highly reputed Family Counsellor that I first heard the extraordinary story of a little-known aspect of “Sri Lanka UNITES – Youth Movement for Hope and Reconciliation”. Mrs. Mendis said that groups of schoolboys who were members of this Movement, [...]
Book a dinner with your favourite cricketers
With T20 fever hitting us right now, Trekurious, Sri Lanka’s premium experiential travel portal is offering a celebrity cricket experience. Trekurious brings to cricket fans a wide array of experiences to choose from, including a dinner hosted by Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardena and 2012 ICC Cricketer of the Year Kumar Sangakkara – at their [...]
Teacher-pupil duo makes waves
It was a guru-gola (teacher-student) effort that led to Sri Lanka gaining prominence at an international Environmental Olympiad held recently. With 125 environmental projects being selected from 50 countries for the 20th International Environment Project Olympiad held in Turkey, Istanbul, it was a proud moment for Sri Lanka when the teacher-student duo from Learnium International [...]
Mirror Magazine
Recognising today’s young leaders
Sri Lanka’s younger generation seem to have a particular affinity for defiance. Defying norms, defying expectations and defying society’s preconceived ideas, this generation is unafraid to speak up and stand out, and they’re very vocal about it. In a bid to highlight such youngsters the Emerging Young Leader Award (EYLA) is presented to a select [...]
Art and the city
How exactly should art be defined? Is art susceptible to a definition? Is there such a thing as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ art? What is the role of an artist? These are some of the primary questions posed and grappled with in the second edition of the ARTRA Magazine. After the launch of ARTRA Magazine Endowment [...]
Do you remember the dance ?
The phenomenally successful movie made heartthrobs of its stars Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze and even though it spawned a whole series of dance movies it has remained the best of them all. How well do you know your trivia? Take the quiz and find out. 1. When Johnny Castle asks Baby to tell him [...]
Losing her heart to Sri Lanka
Brace yourself, Dani Venn’s back in the Masterchef kitchen! The season three contestant will be competing in the upcoming ‘Masterchef All Stars’. You never knew quite what you were going to get with the bubbly, creative Australian cook – fans will remember her liquorice ice cream and Korean rice burgers from Season three. Dani just [...]
Time for Shakespeare
This year’s Inter School Shakespeare drama competition did see some interesting surprises including a ‘bhairava yaka’ standing in for Oberon in an adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the girls round of competition. Starting things off with the girls – Sirimavo Balika Vidyala’s version of ‘A Mid Summer Night’s dream’ portrayed the tale as [...]
TV Times
‘Sing-along Festival’ at STC
‘Sing-along Festival’ of Golden Oldies (English/Sinhala) will come alive with Lankika and the Golden Chimes on Saturday, 6th October at the S. Thomas’ College, Hall commencing 6.30 p.m. This ‘Sing-along Festival’ is organised by the Staff Club of S.Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia in aid of their staff foundation. The President of the Staff Club S.T.C. Mt [...]
‘Adara Madura Atheethaya’
‘Adara Madura Atheethaya 2’, a musical evening organized by the Sports and Welfare Society of Hotel Hilltop in Kandy was held at the hotel premises recently. Popular singers Priyankara Perera, Lalith Ponnamperuma, Tony Hassen, Chamila Thushari, Ananda Perera and his band ‘Swaranjali’ were featured at the ‘Adara Madura Atheethaya 2’on 1st of September. The musical [...]
Weaving a Web TV
Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala who spent his childhood in Italy has come up with a novel idea to watch TV through internet. The first ever web TV in Sri Lanka introduced by him is to be named ‘Freesh TV’. This new TV channel will begin releasing its programmes which can be watched by logging on to [...]
All time cinema classics out on DVD
Two Sri Lankan films made based on prolific writer Martin Wickremasinghe’s novels ‘Madol Doowa’ and ‘Viragaya’ were recently released on DVD format by Torana Video Movies. It is a treat that the two films which could be considered all time hits now can be watched at any time without any disturbance of an annoying advertisement [...]
Step up sets up
‘Step Up Revolution’ the fourth installment in the ‘Step Up’ film series directed by Scott Speer is now being screened at Savoy cinema, Wellawatte. Starring Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman and Cleopatra Coleman in the main cast the film revolves around young aspiring dancer who arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She [...]
‘Balloth Ekka Bah’ back at Wendt
Ravindra Ariyarathne’s popular stage drama ‘Balloth Ekka Bah’ which is having a successful tour around the country has come back to Lionel Wendt Colombo.The hilarious play will go on the boards at 3 pm and 7 pm on today, September 23. Starring a host of renowned artistes including Wijaya Nandasiri, Roshan Pilapitiya, Gihan Fernando, Kumara [...]
Win more tickets for ‘Raaz 3’ at Liberty
After completing 144 weeks on run, ‘Sunday TV Times – EAP Movie Quiz’ is now turned to 144th week with the movie ‘Raaz 3’ at the Liberty Cinema. All Hindi films loving TV Times readers can win more movie tickets to watch their favourite, movie ‘Razz 3’. TV Times Movie Quiz offers a chance for [...]
Sergeant’s show in September
Sando Harris’ ‘Sergeantge Nendamma’ (Sergeant’s Mother-in-law), the latest of the popular comedy play series of Sergeant Nallathambi will have shows in Dehiwela and Nittambuwa. The play will go on the boards at 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm on September 28 at air-conditioned Jayasinghe hall in Dehiwela and on September 30 at Ranpokunagama hall in Nittambuwa. [...]
‘Gamani’ grabs the show
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara’s debut film ‘Gamani’ collected the major awards winning the Best Film of the Year at the maiden ‘Derana Lux Film Awards’ held at Musaeus College Auditorium recently. Rear Admiral Weerasekara won the Best Director and Best Screenplay for his film ‘Gamani’ while the film also won most of the major awards. [...]
‘Raassa Paraasa’ in Australia
‘Raassa Paraassa’, an experimental play based on Sri Lanka’s flak music and traditional dance made by dramatist Nissanka Diddeniya will be staged in Australia in September and October. The play produced using country’s traditional dance, music and choreography and traditional events like ‘Kolam’ is to be shown on September 29 in Adelaide, October 7 at [...]
Kids at the Taste of Colombo Fest
For 5 days – the Green Path of ViharaMahadevi Park will come alive with a festival atmosphere. Compounding on the celebratory mood of the nation which will stem from the T20 Cricket World Cup being hosted in the island – the festival will be a dizzying rush of tastes, sounds, sights and excitement. On Saturday, [...]
TOC’s School Brass Band of the Year
The leading schools of Colombo gather at the very first ‘Taste of Colombo- School Brass Band Competition’ to be held at the Taste of Colombo Festival on 27the to 1st october. A dazzling display will be put on by each school and they will aim to dazzle and thrill as each band delivers a display [...]
