Creative Activities for Children by Somalatha Subasinghe Play House

Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly known as Somalatha Subasinghe Play House commences its next session of “Creative Activities for Children” program on 9 January 2016. 

 Children from ages four to fourteen 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 through aesthetic experiences.  Therefore this program can be considered as an extracurricular learning activity that supplements the formal education the child obtain 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 Nilanka Dahanayake. The Late 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 in the island as well as abroad. This institution was incorporated in the parliament in January 2007 under the Act of Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation, No. 3 of 2007 to further its quest to mentor the young audiences in Sri Lanka.  

This program is conducted on Saturdays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. at Battramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura main road. For details send in a stamped envelope to the Coordinator, Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation, No. 166/1, Buddhist Institute Avenue, Parliament Road, Kumbukgahaduwa, Kotte 10100. Details of the program are also available on www.playhousekotte.org, and FB/playhousekotte.org. Details can also be obtained from the telephone number 075 9858001.