Play House Kotte presents Creative Activities for Children in January
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Creative Activities for Children programme (CAC-Prog) by veteran playwright Somalatha Subasinghe’s Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly known as Play House-Kotte will hold its next session in January 2015.
Aimed at developing the child’s mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste, cheerfulness and the playful sense of the child through aesthetic experiences, the programme can be taken part in by children between ages four and fourteen. 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.
The programme is conducted by Kaushalya Fernando, Dr. Chandana Aluthge and Nilanka Dahanayake under the guidance of Mrs. Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran playwright and theatre director.
This programme is conducted on Saturdays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. at the Battaramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura. More details can be obtained by sending in a stamped envelope to the Coordinator, Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation, No. 166/1, Buddhist Institute Avenue, Parliament Road, Kumbukgahaduwa, Kotte 10100 and details are also available on www.playhousekotte.org, and FB/playhousekotte.org. Kotte Play House could be contacted on 011 2863306.
Mrs. Subasinghe founded Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation in 1981 to promote theatre productions and performances specifically for children and youths, training of actors/actresses, and research on theatre studies. This organisation presently is the topmost institution for children’s and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka. Since 1981 the organisation has produced a repertoire of mainly musical theatre for children and youth and mainstream art theatre productions and performed them in the island as well as abroad. This institution was incorporated in the parliament in January 2007 under Act No. 3 of 2007 to further its quest for the young audiences in Sri Lanka.
