Art In The Village – The Ultimate Open Mic

Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/06/2017
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
The Sooriya Village

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The Sooriya Village is uber excited to announce, ‘Art in The Village’, the ultimate open mic event, an opportunity not only accepting, but celebrating and promoting artists to perform through all forms of the word “Art” itself. ‘Art in The Village’ provides artists from musicians to dancers to dramatists to film directors to writers and much much more to showcase and discuss their art with audience members. Every month ‘Art in The Village’ will be screening a unique collection of art produced by local artists from all corners of the nation.

To submit your productions/creations/works for a screening/performance, send in your demos to contact@thesooriyavillage.lk along with the subject heading “Art In The Village Submissions” and a brief description about yourself and your work.

Please remember,

Productions/creations/works include and are not only limited to short films, paintings, songs, poetry, book readings, theatre performances.

Works submitted need to be original creations by the creator themselves.

The very first ‘Art in The Village’ is to kickstart on Sunday the 4th of June 2017 from 7pm onwards at The Sooriya Village, featuring Kolamba Talkies screening ‘‘How to become a filmmaker with 10 dollars’, a film by first time filmmakers Dennis Perera and Chandana Prasanna.

Dennis Perera who has studied the arts of theater, film direction, television programming and acting both formally and informally in and out of institutions, is the director of ‘Thathagatha’ (2007) and ‘Gotaimbara Kolama’ play performed in 2016 among a few other short dramas. He is the writer and director of ‘Three wheel diaries’ a film which is to be screened in the future among other short films directed by him. ‘How to become a filmmaker with $10’ is his first collaborated documentary film with his friend Chandana.

Chandana Prasanna debuted his film career with the short film Ape Kale Weerayek (2005) which was awarded one of 10 best shorts in 2005 by Sri Lanka National Film corporation. Later he worked with several directors and some guerrilla film projects as a writer, director and an editor. He edited Boodee Keerthisena’s latest feature Alone in a Valley (2017) and guest directed Thisara Imbulana’s debut feature Nino Live (2017).

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