Creative activities for kids
Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly
known as Play House-Kotte commences its next session of ‘Creative
Activities for Children’ programme in June 2011.
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A hand
puppet demonstration |
The programme is conducted by Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran
playwright and theatre director and Dr Chandana Aluthge, one of her
senior theatre students and a children’s theatre director. Subasinghe
founded Lanka Children’s and youth Theatre Foundation in 1981 to promote
theatre productions and performances specifically for children and
youth, training of actors, and research on theatre studies.
This organization presently is the top most institution for
children’s and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka.
Since 1981 the organization has produced a repertoire of mainly
musical theatre for children and youth and mainstream art theatre
productions and performed them in the island as well as abroad. This
institution was incorporated in the Parliament in January 2007 under the
Act No. 3 of 2007.
Children from ages four to 14 can take part in the programme. The
prime objective of the programme is to develop child’s mental and
physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful
sense of the child through aesthetic experiences. Therefore this
programme can be considered as an extra-curricular learning that
supplements the formal education the child obtains in school. The
programme gives the child the opportunity to learn the basics of
enjoying and appreciating music, free movement, dance and rhythmic
movement, acting and language, art, singing, puppetry and handwork.
This programme is conducted on Saturdays from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm at
Janakala Kendraya situated near the Parliament. For details send in a
stamped envelop to the Coordinator, Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre
Foundation, No. 166/1, Buddhist Institute Avenue, Parliament Road, Kotte
10100. Details of the programme are also available on
www.playhousekotte.org.
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