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London Star programme receives a Merit
Award in the UK
- 24th
July 2010 |
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Photographs by Vishva
Lanka Foundation and Panduka
Wickramarathne |
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Vishva Lanka
International Higher Education
Institute of Musicology, Aesthetic,
Fine Art and Cultural Welfare
Foundation based in Leicester, UK has
give the London Star production team
a merit award for the services they
have rendered through their
programme to promote the
Sinhala music in the wider world. In
a ceremony held in Leicester the
award was presented to the producer
of London Star Sumith Kadawathage by
the Lord Mayor of the Leicester City
Council. London Star Director
Niroshan Kahawattha, the Visual
Director Tissa Madawela and all five
London Star finalists also attended
the ceremony as special guests.
Director of Vishva Lanka
Foundation Visharadha Narendranath
Tharshi Warnakulasuuriya said in his
introduction that the London Star
concept and the programme is unique as
this is the first ever talent search
organized for the Sri Lankan expatriate
community any where in the world. He
also said that for almost a year this
programme has shown the extraordinary
talents of Sri Lankan people living away
from their motherland , including
singing, music composing, programme
production, programme direction, sound
and lighting direction, set designing,
videography, video editing, make-up,
choreography, and costume design. London
Star production team includes not only
Sinhala expatriates but Sri Lankan
Tamils and Muslims who are settled in
London too. “As a result of London
Star, out of the contestants who
appeared during almost a year long
broadcasts, many have become household
names in Sri Lanka” he said.
During the Vishva
Lanka Foundation’s second
anniversary celebrations and the
prize distribution programme held on
the same day London Star finalists
Eranda Wickramasinghe, Maynu
Thathsaranee Abekoon, Nilakshi
Gunathilake, Sayuri Serasinghe and
Shenik Hiran sang several group
songs bringing the mixed audience to
their feet.
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