Visual Arts & Design and Performing Arts Unit

International Conference on the Humanities is going to be held on the 05th and 06th of October at the University premises. Please circulate this message among the scholars and get them present at the ICH 2017!! It is an achievement for novices.

"Tha 2016" provided an opportunity to showcase new directions in Sri Lankan Dance traditions

Our students. Big on stage !!

The University shared "Celebrating Life with Colours" an exhibition of Photographs with Jayathi Saha, an Indian Photographer whose insight is to portray the life of Indian people that is symbolized through various festivals, and primarily use colours to represent their deities. Significance is that they were all natural and not underwent any editing.

The students simply did it with their own expertise and under the purview of the eminent staff. Congratilations!!

Thanks everybody for your inspiring comments, thoughts and likes. It inspires each other to appreciate and promote really enthusiastic culture and tradition of art.

International Folk Dance Festival 2015, Delhi,

Our students went on a tour to Delhi from the 17th to 24th October in order to participate in the International Folk Dance Festival held at Kamani Auditorium. It was an astonishing moment for the students as well as the Unit, because it exposed avenues to students to showcase their talents while accrediting the characteristics of authentic Sri Lankan culture. They also got the opportunity to perform as Rabindranath Tagore Auditorium at Chandigarh at the invitation of the ICCR, Delhi and outdoor auditorium at Kullu marking the Dushera festival.

Sri Lankan Traditional Folk Dance Watch Sri Lankan Folk Dance Group manifesting dazzling rendition at Kamani Auditorium at DIAF2015.

Chinese

The young staff members hosted a group of Chinese University students who arrived at Sri Lanka as volunteers and wanted to have some cultural exposure. We were able to provide them an on site experience of Sri Lankan Authentic Dance, Music, Painting and Graffiti as well. They were so interested and enthusiastic in learning Sri Lankan culture and after all it was a very live and energetic program. They enjoyed and we enjoyed by sharing with them.
I believe that we need to promote such activities and generate understanding among communities because this is a "Global Village."
My thanks are to Mr. Harsha Buddhadasa of www.helpinghills.lk/ who invited us to usher these students, and to my colleagues Asitha, Dhananjaya, Dilkushi, Ranganatha, Niroshan, Hasari, Ruwan and Darshi (our loving girl) for making it a very successful event!!!