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Arts and Theatre, Cartoon, Colombo, Culture, Memorialisation, Pandemic, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Satire

Corona with the Big Brothers

It is increasingly evident that the lasting impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic will not be merely health related. In the early stages of government efforts to contain the virus and over the…

Vikalpa Vikalpa on 11/02/202011/02/2020
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Environment, Features, Peace and Conflict

Fighting the Fires of Climate Change Through Art

Today is the Global Day of Climate Action Themes of sustainability and environmental degradation have pervaded my work since 2004, long before climate change or the extinction rebellion became global political issues.…

Anoma Wijewardene Anoma Wijewardene on 09/25/202009/25/2020
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation, Remember the Riots

Thenuwara’s At/Most/Fear: A Virtual Testament in Times of a Pandemic

For the past 22 years, activist and renowned contemporary artist Chandraguptha Thenuwara has been memorialising the horrific period of July 1983 through paintings, drawings, sculpture and installation. This year, undeterred by the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 07/24/202007/24/2020
Arts and Theatre, Issues, Politics and Governance, Satire

State Power and Street Theatre in Sri Lanka

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sri Lanka witnessed a marked conflict between the State’s enactment of power in relation to the control of public space, and street theatre’s appropriation of it. The…

Daisy Perry Daisy Perry on 08/22/201908/22/2019
Arts and Theatre, Gender, Human Rights, Identity

‘Culturally Inappropriate’ Love Stories and Identities

Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke was awarded the Gratiaen Prize 2018 for his play ‘The One Who Loves You So’ (TOWLYS). The drama explores the relationship between Vidhura, a ‘Colombo trust fund baby’, and Nick,…

Amalini De Sayrah Amalini De Sayrah on 06/23/2019
Arts and Theatre

Paraconsistent Thought: Notes from a field diary  

The beautiful Fenya of Greek decent asks me with a humble smile if I know the Sinhala word that gives meaning to ‘shame’. Having received ‘yes’ for an answer she sits on…

Shalini Samaranayake Shalini Samaranayake on 03/21/201903/21/2019
Arts and Theatre, Media and Communications

Gramasevakata Pissu: Political censorship and popular culture

 – J.M. Coetzee , seated at the foot of my father’s easy-chair, not understanding (as a nine, ten, eleven-year-old) the incisive commentary the show was making. Soon enough as a teen, I…

Annemari de Silva Annemari de Silva on 02/15/2019
Arts and Theatre, Peace and Conflict

The Days We Screamed

Yes, we screamed. Mostly out of fear. At times, in joy when the opposing side faced more loss than us. Lives were taken for granted, numbers of the fallen mattered much more…

Godwin Constantine Godwin Constantine on 01/31/2019
Arts and Theatre, Issues

Uncasing Horror Sleeping Between Pages: A Review of the Pillowman

On July 7 and 8, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s award winning play ‘The Pillowman’ was presented at the Punchi Theatre in Borella by Stage Light & Magic Inc. Yours truly was at…

Dilshan Boange Dilshan Boange on 07/22/201807/22/2018
Arts and Theatre, Colombo

Unfolding a Fabric of Spectacular Enchantment: A review of ‘Pyramus and Thisby’

‘Enchantment galore’ upon the senses of theatregoers seemed the motive and motif for the twelfth year anniversary show of ‘Pyramus and Thisby’ written and directed by seasoned theatre practitioner Jehan Aloysius, which…

Dilshan Boange Dilshan Boange on 07/15/201807/15/2018
Arts and Theatre, Culture, Issues, Post-War

The Multiculturalism of Sinhala Song: a Review of Sons and Fathers

Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka is often understood as the co-existence of distinct ethnic communities, whose individual histories have unfolded independently during different eras, in different parts of the country.[1] Conventional historical narratives…

Eshantha Joseph Peiris Eshantha Joseph Peiris on 05/28/201805/28/2018
70 Years of Independence, Arts and Theatre, Culture, Gender

Thatti

I worked with Building Bridges on a four-month series of art and creative skills workshops at St. John’s College, Mattakkuliya. It is a co-educational school whose students come from diverse backgrounds in…

Firi Rahman Firi Rahman on 02/07/201802/07/2018
70 Years of Independence, Arts and Theatre, Post-War

Constant Tug of War

Independence Day is marked with military parades and empty rhetoric on peace. The Sri Lankan State continues to exercise power, profiting from political instability, disenfranchisement and control over Tamil bodies and land…

Sindu Sivayogam Sindu Sivayogam on 02/04/201802/04/2018
Arts and Theatre, Colombo

Floating Space Theatre Co. presents ‘rite | now’ at Global Voices Summit

How much do we remember of the time before the internet? How much of ourselves will we leave behind because of the internet, and how much of this do we imagine we…

Groundviews Groundviews on 12/01/2017
Arts and Theatre, Colombo, Culture

In conversation with Tharanga Goonetilleke

Tharanga Goonetilleke is a Juilliard-trained Sri Lankan opera singer who has sung internationally, including with the New York City Opera, at Carnegie Hall and the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka while providing…

Sanjana Hattotuwa Sanjana Hattotuwa on 10/23/2017

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