Creative Activities for Children by Somalatha Subasinghe Play House
View(s):Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly known as Somalatha Subasinghe Play House commences its next session of “Creative Activities for Children” programme on May 5.
Children from ages four to fourteen can take part in the programme and it aims to develop children’s mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful sense through aesthetic experiences. ‘Creative Activities for Children’ can be considered as extracurricular learning that supplements the formal education the child obtains in school. The programme gives the child opportunity to learn the basics of enjoying and appreciating music, free movement, dance and rhythmic movement, acting and language, art, singing, puppetry and handwork.
This programme is conducted on Saturdays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. at Battramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura main road. For details send 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. Details of the programme are also available on www.playhousekotte.org, and FB/playhousekotte.org. Details can also be obtained from the telephone number 075 9858001.
The programme is conducted by Kaushalya Fernando, Dr. Chandana Aluthge and Thiwanka Ranasinghe.
The Late Mrs Somalatha Subasinghe founded the Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation in 1981 to promote theatre productions and performances specifically for children and youth, training of actors, and research on theatre studies. At present it s one of the top most institutions 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.