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map upmap 1-2Ape Game …. Community project will be used as the mechanism to evolve the community to do research of cultural and historical heritage in each selected area. It will also channel the community energy to preserve and manage and also value the heritage as collective responsibility. This would also emphasis that irrespective of which ethnic/ religious root reflects these cultural and historical property it is nevertheless be viewed as part of  overall Sri Lankan heritage and therefore it is the collective responsibility of the immediate community to preserve and respect it.
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Community Art & Art Educational Initiatives

by anurakri last modified 2009-09-23 15:01


Theertha has supported regional art groups to emerge in selected communities in the past 3-4 years.  We have done it mainly with the help of art teachers through art teacher training workshops in these areas where they have become the link to the artists and art students. In doing so we have also seen the possibility of establishing a much larger impact or reaching a larger community had our programs been more community oriented. More recently, we have included strategies that are community oriented rather than specifically art practice oriented.  Some of theertha programs therefore use visual art as a tool for understanding and intervening on awareness building in art, investigating culture and managing heritage within selected communities that goes beyond mere art into the realms of cultural management. At the same time another emphasis that Theertha has is that these communities itself to become the depository of their own cultural knowledge.  We believe that this approach would have a larger reach and be effective in transforming opinions on art that would be informed of more current art knowledge and information.  At the same time the Theertha hope that such program would effectively support group dynamics in communities which would help for new art groups to emerge and that their intervention within the communities will be better understood. 

In addition, Theertha has invested lot of energy in art educational initiatives, specifically school level art education to further support regional communities in accessing art knowledge. Some of them have been large art projects that have proved to be highly successful in capturing a large audience and disseminating art knowledge.


  ‘Sri Lankan Visual Art of the 20th Century’- Educational Art Exhibition
  ‘Ape Gama’ (Our Village)- Drawing the Cultural Map
    Art project with children Ratnapura Kiramba Rajamaha viharaya Balangoda,  Kiramba village:

 

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theertha International Artists’ Collective, takes pleasure in inviting you to the preview of ‘Imagining Aftermath’
by G.R. Constantine curated by Anoli Perera The first of the eight exhibitions of the "Theertha Pradarshana Wasanthaya - 2011" at theertha Red Dot Gallery 36 A, Baddegana Road South, Pitakotte on SATURDAY, 29th January 2011 at 6.30 pm The exhibition will remain open till 9th February 2011 Gallery Hours: Monday to Wednesday 10.30 AM - 5.00 PM Sundays, open on call, 0773665548, 11.00 AM - 4.30 PM. Closed on all public and mercantile holidays ***

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