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Childhood memories and fatherhood bring forth ant tales
Andrew Ebell’s ‘First Adventures of the Ant Family’ is a delightful triad of tales for children, evoking some anthropomorphic, urban and nuclear-family ants (living in a house just like Andrew’s childhood home-with a big tree and a swing in the garden). It celebrates the fizzy joys of childhood- and if a human child finds the [...]
Wildlife and power of photography
A dramatic photograph speaks a thousand words. The Wildlife and Nature Protection Society’s monthly lecture on Thursday, November 25 at 6 p.m. via Zoom will be by Buddhilini de Soyza who will speak on ‘Responsible wildlife photography- a powerful tool for conservation’. Buddhilini De Soyza or ‘Dilini’, as she prefers to be called, was ‘highly [...]
Together on a shared journey
With the Stages Theatre Group’s Children in Lockdown festival set to go virtual from November 26-28, Namali Premawardhana talks to some of the mentors and budding artists involved in this project to shed light on issues faced by young people during the pandemic “Looking back I realized that I had friends who had gone through [...]
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‘Ape Dadda’: Mariazelle sings about old memories
After a long pause Mariazelle Goonetilleke of ‘Kandy Lamissi’ fame finally released her latest music video ‘Ape Dadda’ –‘wfma vevd’ last Monday, 15th on YouTube. The song ‘Ape Dadda’ –‘wfma vevd’ is created by Rajiv Sebastian features veteran actor W. Jayasiri as father (Dadda) of little Mariazelle and Nilmini Kottegoda as her mother, while little [...]
ABBA Confirm New Christmas Single, ‘Little Things’
ABBA have announced that their first Christmas single, ‘Little Things’, will arrive as a special CD release next month. The festive track, which appears on the Swedish icons’ new album Voyage, will be available physically from December 3. An accompanying Christmas-themed video is also expected, with the band telling fans to “watch this space”. The single includes [...]
‘Sangatana’ : New film
The Muhurath ceremony of the film ‘Sangatana’ will be held at the Godagama Reach Hotel on 27 November at 9.00am. ‘Sangatana’ is a Psychoanalytical experimental art film created by new director Tharindu Bandara, while produced by Danushka Eranda
Critically and commercially topped horror thriller
Following the critically and commercially successful ‘A Quiet Place’, director John Burke Krasinski has returned with the second sequel of the horror thriller ‘A Quiet Place II’. The film is now being screened at Liberty by Scope Cinemas, PVR Colombo and Scope Cinemas (CCC) in Colombo 2. The Paramount Pictures production stars Emily Blunt, Millicent [...]
Japanese animation film in town
Fate Grand Order Final Singularity Grand Temple Of Time Solomon’ In line with the international release ‘Fate Grand Order Final Singularity Grand Temple Of Time Solomon’, Japanese animation movie was released on November 19 in theatres around Colombo. Directed by Toshifumi Akai, the film features Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tomokazu Sugita, Kenichi Suzumura and Rie Takahashi as [...]
Rodney ventured into novels
Popular journalist and dramatist Rodney Vidanapathirana recently released his debut novel ‘Charumani’. Rodney is well known as popular travel writer and the former editor of the Sinhala weekly tabloid ‘Tharunaya’. During his tenure at ‘Tharunaya’ he wrote about little known waterfalls of Sri Lanka and introduced many remote scenic places to the general public. He [...]