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Diploma in Dance Traditions of Sri Lanka Internationally famed dance artiste Kalasuri Dr. Basil Mihiripenne invites the lovers of dance and movements to join his training classes to master the art of dance. The training classes will be held at the Centre for Society and Religion, 281, Deans Road, Colombo 10. The classes will begin on Sunday February 5, 2006. The interviews will also be held on the same day at 9 a.m. at the above address, training students to perform solo dances and group dances. Popular songs in Sinhala and Hindi will also be taught. Students, school leavers and adults interested in dance traditions are invited to join the two-year course. Code Inconnu at Alliance Francaise Code Inconnu by Michael Haneke will be screened at the Alliance Francaise, Colombo on January 31, 2006. The movie focuses on Anne a young actress living in Paris with her boyfriend, Georges, a photo journalist who spends most of his time abroad recording the horrors of war. One day, Anne receives an unexpected visit from Georges' younger brother, Jean, who had decided he can no longer live and work on his father's farm. When Jean throws a paper bag at a begging Rumanian, Maria, he is assaulted by Amadou, a young black man who works in a school for the deaf. As their lives continue along separate paths, Anne, Maria, Amadou and Jean each have problems to surmount, in a world that is increasingly inter-connected, but which is growing more and more fragmented..." Best poem at Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition: Anne Ranasinghe bags first prize Sri Lankan writer Anne Ranasinghe has bagged the first Prize in the Sixteenth Annual, 2005, Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition in Israel, for her poem "Be ahead of all parting." The poem was judged to be the best out of 400 entries received from all over the world, according to "Voices Israel" which organises the competition every year, in memory of Reuben Rose, a former editor and founding member of 'Voices Israel'. The judging, was done by Professor Jascha Kessler, Professor of Poetry and Modern Literature at UCLA University, who has received many prizes and awards. These include awards for translations into Hungarian and Finnish. He is also recognised as a world authority on Iranian poetry. Participation in the competition is open to all, but poems must be submitted in English. Four cash prizes are offered - US $ 300, US $ 150, US $ 100 and US $ 50 for the first four places, and Honourable Mention Certificates for the next ten places. A public reading of the poems is held in Israel at a special evening devoted to the winning poems. Anne Ranasinghe is the Chairperson of the English Writer's Cooperative of Sri Lanka. News release The Poem in full follows: "Be ahead of all parting" "Sei allem Abschied voran, als ware er hinter dir" Such a calm afternoon. A benign sun greens the needles of monumental firs. Below the meadow glitters the lake Where a male swan glides in regal style guiding his cygnets, a downy single file;6 and you tell the story of the mother swan who died, poisoned, while still hatching her young. Tea-time. We pass the cake. Your face is pale but beautiful. Almost unchanged. A family circle. We have gathered at this summery place coming from far. It was arranged. White linen, old China - and you, a hostess full of grace. And a guest comes and joins us at the table, we see him but we do not greet him and all the while he sits silently. The afternoon softens into dusk and the firs cast shadows that blacken and grow towards a winter, a bitter winter towards a winter that you will not know. You are fragile as crystal, but also strong - we talk lightly. It will not be long "Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you" Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus |
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