Creative Activities for Children (CAC-Prog) programme September 2025

Creative activities for children programme commence its next session on 6 th September 2025.
Children from ages Four to Twelve can take part in the programme. The prime objective of the
programme is to develop child’s mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic taste,
cheerfulness and playful sense of the child through aesthetic experiences. Therefore, this
programme can be considered as an extracurricular learning that supplements the formal
education the child obtains in school. The programme 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 programme is conducted by Prof. Chandana Aluthge and NIlanka Dahanayaka. They are
supported by trained artistes. The Late Mrs 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 topmost 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 for the
young audiences in Sri Lanka.

This programme is conducted on Saturdays from 11.15 am to 2.00 p.m. at Battramulla Lion’s Club
Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura Main Road, Battaramulla. The details of the programme
and online application are available on www.playhouse.lk and FB/somalathasubasingheplayhouse.

LCYTF news Release
03.07.2025