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Friday, November 13, 2009 - 5.05 GMT

Five Sri Lankan artists honoured at Bunka Awards

 
Five Sri Lankan artists were honoured at the 16th Bunka (Cultural) Awards held recently at the Lionel Wendt, organized by the Japan Sri Lanka Friendship Cultural Fund.

This year Awards were given to five mid-career Sri Lankan artists; Prasannajith Abeysuriya (drama), Abdul Rahim Noorul Ameerkhan (music), Kasun Kalhara Jayawardhana (music), Lakshman Joseph de Saram (music), and Jayani Senanayake (drama).

The Bunka Awards are presented annually by the Fund, which was established in 1993, on the initiative of the Japanese Solidarity Association and the Japanese Commerce and Industry Association in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan.

For the past fifteen years 88 such awards have been presented to mid-career individuals and organizations on the basis of their creative activities in culture and the arts, in order to encourage and promote individual and collective talent in these fields in Sri Lanka.






 
 
   
   
   
   
   

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