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A group of eight students who obtained the highest marks at the year 5 scholarship exam will leave today to participate in the 14th Asia-Pacific Children's Summit due to be held in Fukuoka, Japan.

An old girl of St. Gabriel's Maha Vidyalayam, Hatton, and teacher of Maskeliya St. Joseph's Tamil Maha Vidyalayam, Miss Subramaniam Umarasidevi will represent Sri Lanka at the conference which is to be held from July 14 - 27.

Young talent
By Chamintha Thilakarathna
The curtain opened to the colourful sight of young dancers welcoming the audience to the junior school concert of the British School in Colombo held recently at the Bishop's College Auditorium.

Usually a children's concert features a traditional line-up of dances and skits, but the British School's presentation was refreshingly original.

The programme included a modified Cinderella skit, devil dances, choral items, the macarena dance, traditional Sri Lankan dances, and a children's wedding. In the Cinderella act, Cinders met the kind giant from the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk and they became best friends and lived happily ever after. The two fairy tales were effectively combined to convey the simple moral of being nice to people.

The devil dance, saw children in bright red and black brandishing their swords. Students from different nationalities danced to the tunes and songs of traditional 'vannam' and 'kavi' reflecting the wealth of cultural diversity and integration they enjoy. The wedding was another eye-catching segment with a large gathering of guests in their national costumes from around the world.

The Principal of the Junior School, Paul Wingrave said that their objective was to bring out the talents of the students and present parents with an enjoyable evening. Their success was obvious from the spontaneous applause as the evening came to an end.

Events Album
By Vidushi Seneviratne
Photography enthusiasts are recommended to visit the exhibition at the National Art Gallery today by Sameera Jayasundara Bandara, a second year student of the Colombo School of Architecture. This, his maiden one-man exhibition, has been put together with much effort.

Sameera's talents are not just limited to photography, but extend to sculpure and painting as well. Starting off at the Upcountry Photography Society, he moved on to do a diploma at The National Photographic Art Society and then took on a full time course at the Youth Council. He later joined I.T.N.

His exhibition is titled "Pena" signifying two meanings. On the one hand, it refers to the traditional method of 'Anjanang', or seeking to get a glimpse of the future through an astrological method. Like the method of 'Anjanang', what the viewer sees here is purely individualistic. On the other hand, the title of the exhibition simply means visible.

Around 60 photographs are on display. Striving to make it a totally unconventional exhibition, Sameera has used one particular object, together with the neccessary amount of light or darkness and various camera angles to give viewers a different photographic experience.

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