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'Fine Line' in Negombo A water colour paintings exhibition by veteran artist Ruwan Tharaswin will be held at Rukmani Devi Performing Arts Centre, Rukmani Devi Mawatha, Negombo from April 4 to 6, from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm daily.
The paintings in this water colour exhibition are done, using only one or two dark lines and minimum of colours as to create an exclusive lineage. 75 paintings are included in the exhibition.
Tharaswin, an old boy of Ananda College, Colombo is a journalist painter and a well-known caricaturist. He is also an award winner in many international caricature competitions and has participated as a judge in several art competition panels. Organising the 'Fine Line' in Negombo was decided upon the successful response shown by the connoisseurs of art at his Colombo debut, as well as the requests made by art enthusiasts in Negombo and Chilaw. This will provide for rural folk too to savour art forms hitherto restricted to a limited clientele in Colombo city. 'Fine Line' Negombo exhibition is open to all free of charge. "The Fall Out" by Prasad Abu Bakr. Photographer Tim Dickinson's first one man exhibition "The Fall Out" is presently showing at the 3rd level of the World Trade Centre in Fort.
His collection of 45 pictures serve as an eye-opener to events that follow after a long drawn war, which all parties involved claim that is waged on behalf of their people. But Tim Dickinson's pictures show the many disastrous results war can have on civilians that they are supposed to be fought on behalf of. Born in Manchester, England, Dickinson's career began as an Apprentice to an advertising agency under a senior photographer in the field at the time.
His period of training taught him, first the basics and later the technical details that grooms one to take up a full-time plunge into the pool. However his enthusiasm to go beyond the field of advertising took him out of England across to Australia where he worked for a short while dabbling in Architectural and interior sites.Tim Dickinson is in fact a documentary and hard news photographer. His present exhibition reflects upon this enormous talent within him. His initial visit to Sri Lanka on holiday has taken Dickinson beyond his original plans, probably to dwell on the surface probing the many tourist attraction our country has to offer. But the newsman in him will not stop him there; his visit to Jaffna made him want to probe further for a deeper view of the situation in the North and the East. His present exhibition "The Fall Out" was planned during his second visit which took around three months, with innumerable support by UNDP, European Union, Norwegian People's Aid and Halo Trust he was able to carry out his work to produce the informative narration that is presently shown in Colombo. But from my point of view it is a show that should go beyond the metropolis deeper to the South, Kandy and also to the North and the East, because after all,is this not their own story as narrated by a complete outsider? It can enlighten them beyond their own experience. Exposure of this work in the West will be an eye-opener of the vast damage war inflicts upon society, after all now that the turmoil is gaining some fashionable meaning over there. Dickinson's work cannot be ignored in today's world while we are trying to duck avoiding all kinds of war paraphenalia falling on our heads. "The Fall Out" could have been our plight presented from an artist's point of view, if it was presented sometime back but with momentum that's gathering around the world it is almost a global warning by photographer Dickinson. Needle paintings on "Our Feathered Friends" by Nadira Gunatilleke `Our Feathered Friends', an exhibition of needle paintings by Kusuma Hettiarachchi will be held at the Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo 7 from April 5 and 6 from 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. The exhibition will be ceremonially opened by Rosy Senanayake and Dhanapala Weerasekara on April 4 at 4.30 pm. According to Ms.Hettiarachchi this exhibition and sale is held for the sole purpose of donating the entire proceeds to Hope Cancer Hospital Fund.
She has already conducted three exhibitions in Sri Lanka, England and Canada. "I was interested in embroiding since my childhood and I was often praised for my work. I experimented it and discovered that it was a heritage from the past.", she said. Ms. Hettiarachchi is a graduate retired teacher, a mother of five and a grandmother. She has also served in Zambia as a teacher for seven years. "this is a kind of meditation and a mental therapy", she says. Kandy Music Society School Choirs Festival a success Kandy Music Society arranged a very successful School Choirs Festival in association with the Arts Council, University of Peradeniya at the Engineering Faculty, Peradeniya University on January 25. Seven schools from the Kandy district participated in this event. The programme, which had a very international flavour, featured songs from Africa, America, England, Germany and, of course, Sri Lanka. The festival was opened by Mrs. Bridget Halpe who welcomed all participants in a warm address to the very full audience. All participants observed a minutes silence in memory of Professor Cooray, the founder of the Festival. Mrs. Halpe then introduced the members of the newly elected committee and encouraged members of the audience to join the Society. The first school choir to take the stage was Kandy Girls' High School Senior Choir with an interesting selection of songs which they sang brightly and energetically. Peradeniya Central College Choir followed the High School Choir with some beautiful Sinhala songs dedicated to their parents. The songs were accompanied by a striking and very touching mime which depicted the devotion and dedication of parents to their children. Four instrumentalists accompanies the next traditional song whilst three girls performed a dance routine. Dharmaraja College Choir, next on the programme, sang a rousing version of Grandfather's Clock' which was preceded by the more serene 'Music in the Air'. Then Hillwood College choir sang a beautiful African song which they followed up with an arrangement of the old favourite 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' which they sang with great gusto and enthusiasm. The Girls High School Kandy senior choir chose 'Scarborough Fair' and 'Country Roads' for their presentation, both greatly enjoyed by the audience. Good Shepherd Convent choir were in excellent voice with their arrangements of 'Love Changes everything', 'Any Dream will do' and 'Mallaka'. They rounded off by singing a peace song. Last in the programme but by no means least the CIS senior choir sang 'The Angel Gabriel' then the beautiful 'Ave Verum Corpus,' followed by the more boisterous 'Grandfather's Clock' and the 'Mermaid'. The occasion was great fun and gave the school choirs in Kandy and opportunity to show the good work that is going on in music departments in their schools and the dedication of the hard working-music teachers. - Kathy Roper. Evening of fusion music An evening of fusion music - by Nesan Thiagarajan and friends will be presented by the Russian Centre in Colombo on 4th April 2003 at the Russian centre at 6.30 p.m. Also taking part will be Harsha Markalanda on piano, Priyantha Dassanayake on western and Bamboo Flute, Ravibandu on Tabla and Kandyan Drums, Shiraz Nooramith on Jazz Drums creating a mixture of Jazz and Oriental music in their own unique style. Their unique combination of the Kandyan and Carnatic percussions adds a new dimension to their Jazz compositions. For further details please contact Chandi - on 685429/685440 during office hours. |
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