Creative Activities for Children

Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) commences its next session of `Creative Activities for Children’ program in next month. The program is conducted by, the veteran playwright and theatre director Mrs. Somalatha Subasinghe and one of her senior theatre students and a children’s theatre director Dr. Chandana Aluthge. Subasinghe founded Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation, or popularly known as the Play House-Kotte, in 1981 to promote theatre productions and performances for children and youth, training of actors, and research on theatre studies.

This organisation presently is the top most institution for children’s and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka. Since 1981 the organisation 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 fourteen can take part in the program. The prime objective of the program 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 program can be considered as an extracurricular learning that supplements the formal education the child obtains in school.

The program 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 program is conducted on Saturdays from 9.00 am to 1.30 pm. 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.