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Bilingual drama – Study Circle for Alternative Discourses |
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In this project the Study Circle for Alternative Discourses (SCAD) brought together the youth from the estates in Kotagala, from towns in plantation areas, and from Sinhalese villages caught up between the large estates. The group focuses on problems in the area, such as issues of discrimination and poverty. The process leading to the performance is used as a means to focus local issues and indirectly relate them to the national problem. The entire process aims to commence healing of festering wounds between the estranged societies in the estate areas.
Public performances of the bilingual drama were held at Kotagala and in Colombo (BMICH & John de Silva Theatre). ITN telecasted the drama live.
The project is completed but the continuity of it has been ensured as the mixed Plantation Tamil Sinhalese group plans to continue projects in their areas. |
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Sinhala and Tamil creative writings development project – Vibhavi |
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The Vibhavi Centre for Alternative Culture organized a series of district workshops where a select panel of well-known resource persons disseminated information on the finer points of writing to the participants of the workshops. The focus of the workshop was to help improve writing and presentation skills of young persons and recognize their skills through presentation of recognized certificates and prizes. The aim is to develop a balanced view on the ethnic problem among writers. The workshop’s participants were mainly young people, university students and provincial youth groups in the fields of literature and cinema. |
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Youth for Peace project – Future Peace |
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Future Peace, a group of vibrant young men and women from all parts of the country joined hands with NTT and FLICT to organize a multi ethnic and multi religious event at Mihintale in Anuradhapura on Poson Poya Day. The concept was the creation of a “peace city” where young people from all over the country converged on Anuradhapura, living in a tent city and using the space created by the Poson festival to promote the need for a political solution to the ethnic crises and to highlight the importance of human rights. The project publicized the need for peace via street theatre, community radio and film shows.
A database of persons and organizations interested in promoting and taking forward similar projects, was compiled to assure follow up. |
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Peace advocacy and conflict resolution project – Women and Media Collective |
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The NTT in collaboration with the Women and Media Collective (WMC) evolved a project to involve temples and other Buddhist places of worship in public places during the Vasak week as a means to promote peace. Peace placards and banners were displayed at the Bo tree junction in Pettah (heart of Colombo) and 2 radio spots were broadcasted on Sha FM and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation during the day. |
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Sevanali (documentary film) – Young Actors Guild |
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The Young Actors Guild produced a multi-media performance, based on “The diary of Anne Frank” – the story of a young Jewish girl caught up in the Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II.
The production was performed live on the stage while the background featured video clips of the horrors of Sri Lanka’s own armed conflict.
The drama was performed at the Lionel Wendt Theatre.
The project also created a documentary of the drama together with an interactive discourse, which takes place while the drama is being performed. The documentary film is being used as an advocacy tool. It is currently being distributed among community-based organizations that expose the loss of moral values and the horrors and destruction caused by the war. |
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Youth Voice for Peace (radio programme) – Movement in Defence of Democratic Rights |
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The programme, a collaboration between NTT, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Movement for Defence of Democratic Rights, used national radio as a means to actively promote peace and propagate the values of decentralized systems of government.
Youth icons were used to promote the need for young people to actively involve themselves in the search for a just peace.
It’s probably the first time that the country’s business community joined hands with the peace movement.
The interactive programme allowed the audience to phone in with comments, criticism and suggestions.
The programme was broadcasted in English, Sinhala and Tamil and aired over the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. |
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Road Painting Movement |
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Annualy, in commemoration of both the birth and death anniversary of late Dr Neelan Tiruchelvam on the 31st of January and the 29th of July respectively, the road painting in Kynsey Road, at the corner of Rosmead Place, will be refreshed. This is the place where Dr Neelan Tiruchelvam was assassinated on the 29th of July 1999.
The Road Painting Movement has its origin in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam and paints peace murals on roads where war-related violence has occurred. This idea has now gone beyond Colombo and paintings even popped up in the war ravaged city of Batticaloa.
The idea is to reclaim public space, encourage non-vindictive memory and transform sites of violence into sites of beauty and healing. |
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