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‘Maayavak’ Shaun live in concert
Popular artiste Shaun Max Dissanayake, will launch his latest song ‘Maayavak’ at a variety entertainment show to be held at the Royal College auditorium on Sunday , 27th March starting from 6.30pm The variety entertainment concert named ‘Shaun Max live in Concert’ will feature some of the popular Sri Lankan singing sensations. Shaun Max Dissanayake, [...]
Irish Fest on ‘Paradise Beach’
Mount Lavinia Hotel’s Paradise Beach is decked in green for three full days for the best Irish fiesta to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The celebrations, which kicked off on 17 March, continued for three full days. Bringing the festival outdoor to the Paradise Beach, Irish Festival offered a different experience this year. The atmosphere blends [...]
‘Manusath Derana won the prestigious JASTECA Gold
The Derana’s CSR project ‘Manusath Derana’ won the prestigious JASTECA Gold award for Corporate Social Responsibility recently at the award ceremony held at the Hotel Galadari. Kenichi Suganuma Ambassador for Japan in Sri Lanka was the chief guest at the Awards ceremony. President of JASTECA Athula Edirisinghe and Chairman JASTECA Awards Committee 2015 Nihal Seneviratne [...]
‘Ho Gana Pokuna’ passes 100th day
‘Ho Gana Pokuna’ (The Singing Pond) internationally awarded children film directed by well-known playwright Indika Ferdinando completed 100 days last week. The film that won the Best Feature film award at the 38th Lucas International Children’s Film Festival, was a box office success and was one of the crowd-puller movies in the recent past. The [...]
A new play on a thief
A new comedy play “Aluth Horek Onee” directed by Ajith Mendis will have its premier show at 7.00 p.m on March 30 at Bishop’s College Auditorium. The play features Wijaya Nandasiri, Roshan Pilapitiya, Saman Hemarathne, Senaka Titus, Mihiri Priyangani and Kumari Senarathne and Anthony Surendra and Llewellyn Vanderwall handle music composition and background creations respectively [...]
“Television is not an art but a business’’
Celebrating 25 years in theatre while playing in a large number of teledramas, award winning actor Gihan Fernando is to celebrate his silver jubilee in theatre in a novel way. A theatre festival from March 31 to April 3 ending with a festival dinner and a stand up show, Gihan Fernando is to celebrate the [...]
A touch of world theatre
The 5th Colombo International Theatre Festival with the participation of a number of foreign theatre productions together with local production will kick off from April 1 at the British School in Colombo and will go on till April 6. One of the main features of this year’s festival is felicitation of veteran playwright Parakarama Niriella [...]
17 years of ‘Pride’, Volkswagen Beetle Owners’ Club celebrates
The Volkswagen Beetle Owners’ Club, which began in 1997 and having an active membership of over two hundred and fifty, has made arrangements to hold the annual “Pride of Ownership Drive” on Sunday the 10th of April 2016. This annual event has carried on unbroken for the past seventeen year and this year too, the [...]
‘Cannonball Run’ at GFH
French Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jean-Marin Schuh and German Ambassador JuergenMorhard recently took part in the traditional Cannonball run celebrated by Colombo’s 150 year old Galle Face Hotel, which was held last year. The Cannonball run is an annual tradition celebrated on the Galle Face Green, to commemorate the extraordinary incident of a cannon misfire by a member of [...]
The cause of the ‘Loris’: First ever photographic guidebook
The first ever photographic guidebook to the ‘loris’ authored by Chaminda Jayasekera and Indika Gamage of Jetwing Vil Uyana was launched last week. President Maithripala Sirisena was presented this photographic guide to the loris at the launching ceremony in Sigiriya. First launched in 2014, the book is Sri Lanka’s first ever photographic guide into an [...]
