Somalatha Subasinghe’s Play House-Kotte organises another Creative Activities for Children
View(s):Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) popularly known as Play House-Kotte commences its next session of “Creative Activities for Children” programme in June 2015.
Children from ages four to fourteen can take part in the programme. The prime objective of the programme is to develop the child’s mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful sense of the child through aesthetic experiences. 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.
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 directress.
It is conducted on Saturdays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. at Battaramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura. Details could 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 or calling on 011 2863306. Details are also available on www.playhousekotte.org, and FB/playhousekotte.org.
Mrs Somalatha Subasinghe founded LCYTF in 1981 to promote theatre productions and performances specifically for children and youth, training of actors, and research on theatre studies. This organisation presently is the top most institution for children’s and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka. Since its inception the programme 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.