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‘A Weekend with Gratiaen Winners’
The Gratiaen Trust, in partnership with Bentota Beach Hotel, the Cinnamon Luxury Collection will present ‘A Weekend with Gratiaen Winners’ at the Bentota Beach Hotel on the 26th and 27th of September 2020. This unique intimate literary experience will feature some of Sri Lanka’s prominent literary figures, in the backdrop of the beautiful Bentota Beach,the [...]
Manoj marks milestone with ‘Thablawa’
Popular musician and well known Thabla Player Visharada Manoj Peiris celebrates his thirty five year tuneful career with his maiden musical literature ‘Thablawa’ Manoj launched his maiden a musical guide book titled ‘Thablawa’ recently responding to numerous requests from many quarters. His guru Sangeeth Nipun Visharada Sanath Nandasiri and Dr. Rohana Weerasinghe wrote the forewords [...]
Street Food Festival by LECS to promote unique food heritage of Sri Lanka
The Street Food Festival will be held on October 17 and 18 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Western Car Park area of BMICH, Colombo. The event is organised by Lanka Exhibition and Conference Service (Pvt) Ltd (LECS). In celebration of our diverse food culture, the festival aims to promote the unique food [...]
‘Be Sri Lankan, Buy Sri Lankan and also wear Sri Lankan’
With the view of supporting Sri Lanka Batik industry, Worldlink Travel Group decided to go for Batik attire in their all office networks. ‘Our motto is ‘Be Sri Lankan, Buy Sri Lankan and also wear Sri Lankan’. This is an initiative by President Gothabaya Rajapakse to revive many of the Sri Lankan home industries and [...]
Multi awarded filmmaker Thivanka focuses on the wild
Lankagama, an isolated village bordering the Sinharaja Forest Reserve recently became a controversy with the construction of a road connecting the town of Neluwa. Environmentalist, wildlife activists and nature lovers alleged that the construction of the road would affect the Sinharaja forest, one of UNCESCO’s world heritage sites. The village of Lankagama is also home [...]
Summer of cinema in Peninsula
Undeterred by Covid-19 pandemic that engulfed the entire world, Jaffna International Cinema Festival, in its sixth consecutive will take place from October 23 to 28 at three locations in Jaffna. While the main festival location is Regals Cinemas, Cargills Square, Jaffna festival screenings will take place at Kailasapathy Auditorim in Jaffna University and Lakam Kandy [...]
Remembering Joe
Remembering the 9th death anniversary of Sri Lanka’s finest character actor Joe Abeywickrema, a ceremony and film screening will be held tomorrow, September 21 at 6 pm at the National Film Corporation. Joe was natural actor who excelled both in the arty and commercial movies. Initially started as a comedian Joe ended up playing internationally [...]
‘Miss. Jenis’ comes this week
Award winning teledrama director Susirinda de Silva’s comedy film ‘Miss. Jenis’ in which the late actor Jayalath Manoratne played a female role will be released from September 25. The cast include the late Dr. Jayalath Manoratne, Jayalal Rohana, Duleeka Marapana, Giriraj Kaushalya, Kumara Thirimadura, Roshan Ranawana, Udari Perera, Anjelow Bans, Oshadi Himaya, Madhani Malwatte, Wasantha [...]
‘The Hunt’ in town
‘The Hunt’, the latest Hollywood horror thriller film directed by Craig Zobel, starring Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Emma Roberts, Ethan Suplee, and Hilary Swank will be released in Colombo City Centre and other Scope cinemas from September 25. Scripted by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, in ‘The Hunt’, twelve strangers wake up in [...]