TV Times
Sirasa Television, the pioneer in Sri Lankan private television channel, celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
Two decades ago, Sirasa TV took to the airwaves, bringing a host of new experiences to TV audiences across the country. Since its inception, which has become a major milepost in the history of Sri Lankan television, Sirasa TV has gone on to win the hearts and minds of Sri Lankans young and old. From [...]
Bigger and better experience at ‘Big Bad Wolf Sale 2018’
Known as the world’s biggest book sale, ‘Big Bad Wolf Book Sale’ has return to Colombo for the second consecutive year. The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale is set to open to the public from 28 June until 8 July 2018 at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre (SLECC) with 1.5 million books at [...]
Tharupathi launches books on sound studies
Veteran musician and aesthetic lecturer Tharupathi Munasinghe published two books recently, one in English named ‘Sound Studies’ and other one in Sinhala titled ‘Nada Sankathana’: with special reference to Sri Lankan Sonic Experience’. The Sinhala book ‘Nada Sankathana’ is a collection of research articles into the supremacy of audio media, Sound Design in Cinema, Music [...]
Kandy Book Fair 2018
The ‘Kandy Book Fair’, proudly presented by the Sri Lanka Book Publishers Association, will come alive for June 27 to July 1 at the Kandy City Centre premises. As an annual event featuring stalls of bookstores and book publishers from around the island, the event will offer a wide range to choose from. There will [...]
‘Nidahase Piya’ to be screened abroad
‘Nidahase Piya DS’ , a film based on the life and times of Father of the Nation, D. S. Senanayake is scheduled to be screened several other countries prior to its screening here in Sri Lanka. The film is to be screened in Australia, New Zealand and Canada with the participation of Sri Lankans living [...]
Cinema of post Islamic Revolution of Iran
Iran Cultural Centre presents yet another film festival with cinema of post Islamic Revolution of Iran from June 21 to 25 at the Iran Cultural Centre in Colombo. The festival is comprised of selected movies from first generation of Iran filmmakers. The list of films include ‘Mother’ at 6 pm on June 21, ‘Love Stricken’ [...]
Premiere for “Mamai Anduwa”
The premiere show of Sriyantha Mendis’ newest drama “Mamai Anduwa”, will be staged on Saturday June 23 at 7.00 pm at the Lionel Wendt theatre, Colombo 7. The play is written by veteran script writer and director Ajith Mendis, while Sriyantha Mendis, Kusum Renu, Wasantha Wiachchi, Janaka Kumbukage, Rohan Wijethunga and Jayantha Muthuthanthri are in the [...]
Turkish tele series with a real story
‘Muthu Ahura’ (The Ridiculous Flowers), a Sinhala dubbed versions of the award winning Turkish tele serial is now being telecast on TV Derana on every weekday from Monday to Friday at 9 pm. Oroginally titled ‘Kırgın Çiçekler’, the drama, youth and family sequel was screened on ATV in June 2015 are played by Silk Karapınar [...]
‘Balloth Ekka 2’ on popular demand
Ravindra Ariyarathne’s “Balloth Ekka Baa 2” will go on the boards at 3.30 pmand 7.00 pm at the Lionel Wendt theatre Colombo. The play stars Gihan Fernando, Kumara Thirimadura, Chamila Pieris, Sarath Karunarathne, Chinthaka Pieris and Ravindra Ariyarathne in performance. Anthoney Surendra and Llwellyn Vanderwall have arranged music composition and designed background creations while stage [...]
‘Nari Bena’ back
Dayananda Gunawardena’s two popular plays “Nari Bena” and “Jasaya and Lenchina ” will be staged at 3.30 pm and 7.00 pm on June 22 at the Lionel Wendt theatre. All seats are box planned and Tickets now available at the theatre.
New Ex Co for IoH
The institute of Hospitality (IoH) – the largest professional body for individual managers and aspiring managers working and studying in the hospitality and tourism industry in Sri Lanka, had its 26th Annual General Meeting recently at the Ramada Colombo Thusith Samaraweera re-elected as the Chairman of IoH Sri Lanka International Branch for 2018/19 term of [...]
Comilla Bungalow wins WLH Award
Sri Lanka’s Comilla Bungalow was recently declared the Asian Continent Winner in the ‘2017 Luxury Country House’ category at the prestigious World Luxury Hotel Award. Situated near the historic town of Wathurugama, and perched at the summit of a vast coconut estate, the Comilla Bungalow surveys verdant fields of pepper and thickets of tropical fruit [...]
Make a Date with Nigella Lawson
Cinnamon Life will host the internationally renowned TV cook and food writer– Nigella Lawson for a series of events in Sri Lanka from the 21st to 23rd of June 2018. Nigella’s tour in Sri Lanka will comprise of a wide array of exciting events that will form a part of every gourmand’s dreams. On the [...]