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Making learners take ownership of their own learning
Society has grown rapidly over the last couple of decades with vast strides in technology and business. However, education and learning trends haven’t kept up, as we frequently realise. Daniel (Danny) Ferdinandusz and Daniel Thambyrajah want to change the concept of traditional learning. They believe that “traditional learning heavily reliant on auditory and visual learning [...]
Young artist from the North explores questions of identity and belonging
As a child, her family often moved from one place to another and she found herself questioning the bonds that communities and individuals make. In ‘Rented Shadow and Neighbours’, her exhibition now on at the Saskia Fernando Gallery, the artist Hema Shironi explores her community’s historical and lived experience of colonization and civil war. This [...]
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Asoka’s poetic film on Pablo Neruda goes to Tokyo
Asoka Handagama’s newest film ‘Alborada’ or ‘Dawning of the Day’ has been invited be for the “international competition” at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). Set in Ceylon (1929) and is a fictionalized account of world renowned poet Pablo Neruda’s stay as the Chilean Consul in Sri Lanka. The film cast includes Luis J Romero, [...]
Sujeewa’s ‘Untouched’ to compete in Egypt
“Untouched’’ English monodrama directed by Sujeewa Pathinisekara has been selected to participate in the competitive section of Sharm El-Sheikh International Theater Festival in Egypt. Held from November 6 to 12, the festival is conducted under three categories. ‘Untouched’ will compete in the Monodrama category. The festival held at Sharm El-Sheikh city in Egypt, Kuwait, Egypt, [...]
Taiwan Fashion Design Award on concepts of ‘Sustainability and Design Creativity’
Sri Lankan Fashion designer Ruwanthi Pavithra Gajadeera became the winner of the ‘Taiwan Fashion Design Award 2021’ (TFDA) which has been successfully concluded at Taipei Fashion Week, in Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan on October 6th. Among nearly 450 designers from 18 countries and regions including Europe, America and Asia, Ruwanthi Gajadeera from [...]
Russian film crew in orbit to make first movie in space
A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation’s space glory. Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut [...]
Why ‘No Time to Die’ is really a remake of the greatest Bond film of all
No Time to Die –director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s long-awaited entry in the James Bond series – opened last week to deservedly glowing reviews. “Extravagantly satisfying” was Robbie Collin’s verdict for The Telegraph, and he spoke for the multitude. Fifty-two years ago, however, one of its predecessors, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, had barely a sliver of such good fortune. [...]