The speaker this month is Dr Thevananth Thevanayagam. Thevananth is the founder and director of the Active Theatre Movement, a collective of artists based in Northern Sri Lanka committed to opening up space for and promoting home-grown talent in the arts and culture sphere.
0:00:00 - Jekhan's introduction
0:03:30 - "United Stars", Northern Province dance group
0:07:25 - Presentation by Dr Thevananth Thevanayagam, with translation by Thulasi Muttulingam
0:40:10 - Q&A
1:00:03 - END
Entertainment, Arts and Culture are fundamental to the development of the North. High value highly paid professionals are reluctant to come with their families when there is so little to do outside work. If Jaffna wants to compete with Colombo we must develop our cultural, leisure, and other assets not only our enterprises and entrepreneurs.