Contemporary Compositions & New Sonic Works II - DAVID SIX

Colombo International Theatre Festival 2015

At this 4th consecutive Colombo International Theatre Festival (CITF), veteran Sri Lankan theatre
personality K. B. Herath will be felicitated for his decades long contribution to theatre.
4 – 9 April 2015 3.30 p.m. & 7.00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the British School in Colombo 

Introduction
The Colombo International Theatre Festival (CITF) was founded to bring together a choice selection of theatre works from all over the world, as live performances, to a central location in the capital of Sri Lanka. Launched in 2012, it has now entered its fourth consecutive year and promises to showcase over 6 days of quality theatre from inside and outside of Sri Lanka.

The main objective of this festival is to create a platform for globally reputed theatre artists to perform in a Sri Lankan setting, thereby raising the standard of local theatre performances and enable Sri Lankan Theatre audiences to witness and engage with a diverse range of theatre productions and communities from across the globe.
Furthermore, the showcasing of international theatre in Sri Lanka will help place the country in the
global map of theatre and boost the image of Sri Lanka, internationally.
Apart from the theatre productions themselves, the festival has always incorporated an information
sharing platform across the different countries incorporating the local theatre community, enthusiasts
and local student population engaged in theatre. Started on an ad hoc basis in the first year, each year a novel way of sharing thoughts has taken place and guaranteed success and continued engagement and new collaborative efforts taking place throughout the year. In addition to presenting a diverse range of theatre productions, the CITF 2015 will organize Colombo Theatre Forum to provide a platform for local an international theatre practitioners to collaborate and engage in broader discussions on the problems of contemporary theatre.
 
Ministry of Culture and the Arts, the British School in Colombo, Foreign missions in Sri Lanka, GOETHE Institute (German Cultural Centre), Mount Lavinia Hotel, media organizations and many other institutional and individual partners collaborated with us in our endeavour to make this event a success, through the years.
03rd April Opening Ceremony at Mt. Lavinia Hotel
 
Date      Country        Production                                                           Language
4 April  Sri Lanka     Jagan Ma (Mother Universe)                                    Sinhala
5 April  Russia          Light Puppet Show                                                Non verbal
6 April  India            The Dance and the Rail Road My Clay Mould           English
7 April  Bangladesh  Duratto (The Distance)                                           Bengali
8 April  Korea           Like Fireworks, Like Butterflies                               Korean with English subtitles
9 April Sri Lanka      Four Performances from Colombo Dance Platform    Non verbal
 
Pradeep Gunarathna: Kuvanna‘s Metamorphosis
Sumudu Virajini Lenora: Cikkana | Gilihiyama | Slippage
Akila Palipana: Pata Thalam
Priyanthi Anusha: Inner-Outer
Solo Performances from Goa - India
Artistic collaboration for solo performances project supported by the Directorate of Arts & Culture, Government of Goa – India.
3 solo productions Directed by M. Safeer of Sri Lanka
3 solo productions Directed by Prof, Vidyanidhee Vanarase of India
One of the above productions will be shown before the main performance daily.

FILM FORUM - AKSHARAYA by Ashoka Handagama

Colombo - National Film Corporation
Kandy - Queens Hotel & Alliance Francaise de Kandy

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On the occasion of World Water Day, the Embassy of France to Sri Lanka and the Maldives would like to invite you for the inauguration of the “Oceans and Climate” exhibition and a full day of film screenings, conference and debates that will follow on the themes of Water, Oceans and Climate with the participation of French and national experts.

Please come along to the Alliance Française de Kotte in Colombo on Saturday 21^st March at 11 Keppetipola Mawatha (Colombo 5)starting from 10 am for one or all the events during the day.

route map alliance de kotte 

Sri Lanka Choral Week

The Sri Lankan Choral Week has been set up in order to attract singers from around the world to share musical experience in rehearsing and performing the immense beauty of Johann Sebastian Bach´s St. John Passion in the idyllic surroundings of Sri Lanka. The performance will take place in the magnificent Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour in Colombo on the Saturday prior to Palm Sunday. It will include the Baroque ensemble of the Chamber Music Society of Colombo, Sri Lankan soloists and will be conducted by Gregory Rose, an established conductor based in London. This will be an unique experience for all those involved; a week of joyous music making. Over the week, each visiting singer will receive singing lessons from an experienced singer and teacher. Alison Wells and Gregory Rose will hold conducting masterclasses during the evening for a small group of student conductors, assisted by a group of players from the Chamber Music Society of Colombo. The choral rehearsals will be accompanied by an experienced local repetiteur
 

Singing and Conducting Workshop

Date: Saturday, 21^st - Friday, 27^th March 2015
Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Goethe Hall

Concert

Date: Saturday, 28^th March
Venue: Cathedral of Christ the LivingSaviour, Colombo

Information supplied by the Goethe Institut Colombo. For clarifications please contact The Goethe Institut

BIG EARS MUSIC SERIES HOSTED BY MUSICMATTERS

This concert presented by Musicmatters features Austrian pianist and composer David Six. Born in 1985, David studied with Martin Stepanik and Sven Birch at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music. Further studies in 2010 in New York with Ellery Eskelyn, Aaron Parks and Fabian Almazan contributed importantly to his musical development. Ever since 2012, he has studied classical South Indian percussion with Manickam Yogeswaran in Berlin. David Six´s repertoire is comprehensive, extending from classical music to contemporary jazz, free improvised and pop music. David is the Musicmatters artist in residence for the months of January - April, 2015.

The evening will also be coloured by the Baliphonics, a Musicmatters project that works with low country ritual music in the new trio format. Susantha Rupathilaka, Isaac Smith and Sumudi Suraweera, fresh from their performance at the CHOPPA experimental music festival in Singapore, will no doubt be able to deepen the audience's connection with the ritual music that is close to their hearts.

Date: Saturday, 7th March 2015
Time: 8 – 11.00 pm
Venue: Goethe Hall
Tickets: LKR 500 /=

 

EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL IN JAFFNA

The travelling European Film Festival will be held in Jaffna between 6th and 8th of March 2015 at Kailasapathy Auditorium, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna.

Participating countries: Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and UK.

DIE VERMESSUNG DER WELT
[Measuring the World]

Direceted by Detlef Bruck, 2011/12, col., 119 min., English subtitles
At the start of the 19th century: two men set out to explore the world. One focuses on the visible and the other on the imaginable. Alexander von Humboldt, an offspring of a noble family, travels to South America to measure the continent and to discover a different way of life. Carl Friedrich Gauß, who comes from a poor family, conducts research at his desk at home and is a famous mathematician. Eventually, the now-famous Germans meet – they are old and have not necessarily found happiness. For the film adaptation of this international bestseller, which is a rare occurrence in recent German literature, the novelist Daniel Kehlmann was personally involved in the writing of the script.

Please check details here: www.europeanfilmfestsrilanka.com/schedule

Date: Friday, 6th – Sunday, 8th March 2015
Venue: Kailasapathy Auditorium, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna
Free entry

FILM FORUM: PREVIEW AND DISCUSSION

            With you, without you

A film by Prasanna Vithange followed by a discussion moderated by Anomaa Rajakaruna

When lonely, tortured pawnbroker Sarathsiri meets and marries the beautiful, enigmatic Selvi, he thinks he has family finally found a way to put his past behind him. but a chance visit from an old friend opens up wounds that threaten to tears open the barely healing fabric of a mutilated nation coming to grips with the unspeakable cost of a thirty years civil war. Will love help them cross the bridge? Or will the past continue to colour the present? 

Date: Wednesday, 4th March 2015
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Goethe Hall
Free entry

IDENTITY & CONFLICT INTRO FILM PACKAGE

What a Day a Difference Makes

A multi-part film programme series on ‘Identity and Conflict’

Curated by Anomaa Rajakaruna, Susanne Sachsse, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus & Marc Siegel

Screening of the Introductory Programme in Colombo and Jaffna

Duration 92’

"What a Day a Difference Makes" thematizes every day differences and the means by which people live with and through them. These differences may not always be the source of conflict, but they often exist alongside tension, disagreement and struggle. The films and videos address issues of identity, difference, and conflict with regards to the individual and the collective, groups and nations, memories and histories. Specifically, we present works that – among other things – confront the complexities of ethnic diversity and gender relations; the difficulties of coping with the ravages of war and disease; the political necessity of recovering family histories; and the challenges of identity categories that are imposed on individuals by society or the state.

The narrative, experimental and documentary shorts along with the longer films in our programme also concentrate on the subtle differences that determine whether one can find the right word, gesture or image to express one's feelings or whether a slight change in an everyday routine can affect a radical revision of one's intimate relations. The programmes employ a variety of aesthetic strategies and affective tonalities, including straightforward realistic modes, allegorical approaches, expressive performance and disarming humour.

The films and videos in this series, therefore, don't simply deal with difference; they deal with it differently. That is, the play of aesthetic and thematic differences provides the mobilizing energy of any individual work differences among characters in a story or among aesthetic and narrative strategies; disjunctions in the sound-image relationship; or even distinctions between actor/performer and role. It also lends dynamism to the relations among the works in the individual programmes.

This introductory programme in the series is exemplary of the aesthetic and thematic diversity that will follow in the programmes scheduled later in 2015.

Programme

Die Worte des Vorsitzenden/The Words of the Chairman (Harun Farocki, Germany, 1966, 1' 30'')

This or that Particular Person (Subasri Krishnan, India, 2012, 26')

Zdravi ljudi za razonodu/Healthy People for Fun (Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia, 1971, 14')

Youm El-Ethneen/On a Monday (Tamer El-Said, Egypt, 2004, 8')

Per Se (Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, 4')

18th of May (Supun Vishvabuddhi, Sri Lanka, 2012, 12')

Falgoosh/Blames and Flames (Mohammadreza Farzad, Iran, 2012, 28')

Date: Tuesday, 3rd March 2015

Time: 6.00 pm

Venue: Goethe Hall

Date: Sunday, 8th March 2015

Time: 3.00 pm

Venue: Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design

199, Temple Road, Jaffna

FREE ENTRY