Exhibitions
Colombo Exhibition, 5-7 April 2013
The opening exhibition was held in Colombo on the 5th of April at the Harold Peiris Gallery of the Lionel Wendt Art Centre. The exhibition show cased 60 stories in 6 formats: Letters, photo-essays, video, Timelines, Trees of Life and a mediated artwork created by an Artist to represent the themes of the exhibition. About 300 people attended the exhibition in three days.
The following are a few photographs of the event.
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- Shanthi Sachithanandam – CEO of Viluthu speaking at the Inauguration
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- H.E. German Ambassador
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- Curator of Herstories, Radhika Hettiarachchi speaking at the inauguration about the background, process and expectations of the project for oral history and memorialisation in Sri Lanka
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- Handwritten letters
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- Prof. Savithree Gunesekera
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- Artist and Herstories Project partner, Chandraguptha Thenuwara speaking
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- H.E. Shelly Whiting, the Canadian High Commissioner
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- H.E. John Rankin, the British High Commissioner
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- H.E. Robyn Mudie, the Australian High Commissioner reading the Trees of Life Stories
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- Artwork by Chandraguptha Thenuwara representing Hope, Death, Missing and Voiceless Grief.
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- Trees of Life displayed with their translations
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- Letters displayed with their translations
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- Video displayed with subtitles in English and Sinhala/Tamil
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- Timelines displayed with their translations
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- Photo-essays displayed
