Arts

Rhythm of Lines

Ball point paintings require a lot of patience and imagination and you'd be surprised to know that Dr. Kamal A. Perera (a medical doctor) will be displaying forty of his exhibits or experiments as he terms it, on Sunday July 1 from 10.30 am to 8 pm and then on the next day Monday July 2 from 8.00 am to 8.00 pm.

The exhibition will be held at the Lionel Wendt Gallery. This is not the first time he has held an exhibition. In 2003 he held his first Exhibition at the University of Ruhuna on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the University. The response he received then spurred him on to hold another Exhibition in 2004 and this he did at the Galle Medical Faculty.

"In my school days I used to paint with pastel and water colours up to my O Levels. After entering the Galle Medical Faculty of the University of Ruhuna, I saw a ball point art exhibition held by Mangala Mudannayake and I was amazed! I couldn't believe what I saw, I was heavily influenced and decided to try a hand at it.

I got a lot of support and response from my parents. Ball point painting doesn't need extra preparation and while in medical college I found it to be a therapy to ease the stress of medical studies", says Dr. Kamal who has mastered the art with all its colour nuances.

The forty exhibits displayed by Dr. Kamal at his Rhythm of Line exhibition include animal painting, nature and wild life, scenes, modern art, portraits and human figures.

Besides the use of the normal colours red, blue and black, the other colours cleverly used are brown, green and orange. Ball point painting is something new and clever and this exhibition Rhythm of Lines should not be missed.

MP

Enhance Children's creativity through theatre

Creative Activities for Children (CAC-Prog):

Lanka Children's Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) incorporated in Parliament in January this year under act No. 3 of 2007 commences its next session, Creative Activities for Children programmes in July, 2007.

The Programmes are conducted by Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran playwright and theatre director and Dr. C. Aluthge, a children's theatre director.

The Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Organisation (LCYTO) and Play House-Kotte were founded in 1981 by Somalatha Subasinghe with the intension of promoting theatre productions for children and conducting research on theatre studies.

The LCYTO, now top among the institutions for children's and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka, has produced a repertoire of musical theatre for children and youth and mainstream art theatre productions here and abroad.

The Programmes are open for children aged 4-14 and aimed at developing children's mental and physical aspects and cheerful and playful sense of the child through experiences.

The programmes will offer children the opportunities to learn basics of enjoying and appreciating music, free movement, dance and rhythmic movement, acting and language, art, singing, puppetry and hand work.

The programmes are conducted on Saturday from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. at Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation, No. 166/1, Buddhist Institute Avenue, Parliament Road, Kotte.

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