Creative Activities for Children (CAC-Prog) programme January 2026
Creative activities for children programme commence its next session on 10th January 2026.
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 8.30 am to 11/00 am. 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.
05.12.2025
LCYTF news Release