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Experimenting with resin and beginnings of El Arte
Fascinated by art from a young age, 25-year-old Shihana Riffai used to try her hand at all sorts of media starting with pencil sketching, painting with watercolours and acrylics and experimenting with resin. Her success with the latter has now led to her starting her own business ‘El Arte’. Resin art is a unique painting [...]
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Telling their stories
Three youngsters tread carefully down steep, rocky steps with backpacks which almost seem bigger than they are, leaning from side to side to balance the weight. The only support they have to prevent them from falling off the steps to the bottom of the mountain is a railing made of tree branches. Taken by Paleniyandi [...]
Studio 9 holds 25th b’day bash
Celebrating their 25th anniversary Studio 9 held a Valentine-themed Red Heart Party at Wonder Hotel, Colombo 3 and inaugurated their Pageantry Mall for future stars. Public Relations Director of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotions Bureau Maduvani Perera was guest of honour and Group Activation Director of Munchee Biscuits that co-sponsored the event, Nalin Jayasuriya, also [...]
Lankan cinema will rise because the talent is here; Deepa Mehta
Internationally famed Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta speaking at the screening of her latest film ‘Funny Boy’ based on Shyam Selvadurai’s multi-awarded book, praised the talents in Sri Lankan cinema and vowed that the Lankan cinema will rise because there is so much talent. “There are beautiful films. The standards will rise because the talent is [...]
“The Newspaper” competes at Bengaluru film Fest
“The Newspaper”, directed by two actors Sarath Kothalawela and Kumara Thirimadura is competed at the ongoing 13 Bengaluru International Film Festival. The film is in the Asian Cinema Competition, the main competition section of the festival held from March 3 to 10 in Bengaluru in India. ‘The Newspaper’ will be competing along with 28 films [...]
S. Thomas’ College Old Boys’ Centenary Group builds new Engineering Workshop
The S. Thomas’ College Old Boys’ Centenary Group funded the building of a new Engineering Workshop to provide better facilities for the support staff in maintaining the campus which has now expanded with more buildings class rooms, and improved environmental and safety conditions. The workshop is divided into 3 covered sections for the Light steel [...]
Six Bangladeshi travellers heading towards Sri Lanka
Six Bangladeshi travellers are coming to Sri Lanka. Four writers and two photographers of Bangladesh Travel Writers’ Association are joining this trip. They will get opportunities to visit notable tourist spots in Sri Lanka in this 7-night and 8-day trip. They will start for Sri Lanka in 25 February (Friday). The Sri Lankan Ministry of [...]
‘Thunpane’: a novel teleplay on three young men
‘Thunpane’ is a name of a village regularly used in Sinhala language to refer to any remote outskirt location in Kandy District Sri Lanka. Yet ‘Thunpane’ teledrama starting from February 21 gives a completely different setting. Though one might reflect on a remote village as the setting for the story, the teleplay completely sets in [...]