Creative activities for children by Play House-Kotte

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Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF), popularly known as Play House-Kotte commences its next session of ‘Creative Activities for Children’ program in January 2013.

Children from ages four to 14 can take part in the program. The prime objective of the program is to develop the 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 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.

The program is conducted by Kaushalya Fernando, Dr. Chandana Aluthge and Mayura Perera under the guidance of Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran playwright and theatre director. Somalatha 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 organisation presently is the top 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 on the island as well as abroad.

This institution was incorporated in the Parliament in January 2007 under Act No. 3 of 2007 to further its quest for young audiences in Sri Lanka.

This program is conducted on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 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. Details can also be obtained by contacting 112863306.