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අප ජීවත් වන්නේ ඉතා වේගයෙන් ඉදිරියට යන ලෝකයකයි. මෙම අදිවේගි සමාජය නවීන තාක්ෂණය නිසා තවදුරටත් සංකීර්ණ වූ ගෝලීය සමාජයක් බවට පරිවර්ථනය වෙමින් පවතිනවා. මෙවන් වූ යුගයක කිසිම ජාතියක හෝ සමාජ කොට්ඨාෂයක අනන්යතාවය පවත්වාගැනීම විශාල අභියොගයක්. මේ සංකීර්ණ සමාජය තුල විදේශගත වූ ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් වන අප සුලගට අසු වූ තණපලයක් සේ සංස්කෘතික, සමාජ අගයන් හා සිරිත් විරිත් කුනාටුවක අතරමං වී ඇත්දැයි සාධාරණ සැකයක් මතු වේ. මෙම ශ්රී ලාංකික සංස්කෘතිය, පාරම්පරික සමාජ අගයන්, සිරිත් විරිත් හා අනන්යතාවය පවත්වාගෙන යාම වැදගත් කර සලකන විදේශගත වූ ශ්රී ලාංකිකයන් ඒ සදහා නොනවතින අරගලයක නිරත වී සිටී. මෙවන් වූ සමාජයක හනමිටි කාරයෙකු නොවී, ශ්රි ලංකාවටම අනන්ය සංස්කෘතිය, සම්ප්රදායික කලාව, ඉතිහාසය හා සිරිත් විරිත් මතු පරපුරට ගෙනයීම ලෙහෙසි පහසු ව්යාපාරයක් නොවේ. "මණ්ඩප ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදය" එම කර්ථව්යයට උරදීමට කැප වූ සහර්දයන්ගේ එකමුතුවකි.
Mandapa Event: “Sri Lanka in the ancient world” postponed
It was all ready!!!
All seats booked, Sponsorships arranged (Touchwood and Sri Lankan… thank you very much!), Visas done, Hotels bookings done, Menus finalised, Flowers, Oil lamps in place… Only thing pending was to get a new shirt for me…
But unfortunate incidents happen… Our beloved artists Joe Abeywikrama passed away… Jackson, our guest speaker, as one of the leaders in the Sri Lankan art and media community is part of the team that was arranging a fitting farewell to the great maestro. We mourn his death as the mandapa.org community, we know it’s a bigger loss to our country and a week’s delay for our humble event is excusable…
We had to postpone the event to next friday, thats 30th of Septemeber. We lost our booking with the hotel, so have to move to another venue. We have the place almost finalised. Just need to confirm and let all of you know the new place…
So if any one already has an invitation, please hang-on to them will send you an update. We have few more seats in the new location, if you want to join us next Friday evening, please send us an email to info@mandapa.org.
I would just like to congratulate the organisers on an excellent program, where all of us had the opportunity to learn things we did not know, about the significance of our ‘small’ island, in the ancient world.
It is to the immense credit of Jackson’s vast knowledge on the subject and his skills as an orator, that all the audience were held spellbound for well over three hours. Kudos to you as organisers for inviting the right person to talk on the right subject, which clearely was of interest to all who were present (and to many I am sure who were unfortunate to miss this wonderful event).
Not taking anything away from a well organised and a well thoughtout program, delay caused by a certain special guest left a bit of a bad taste. While I can understand you inviting this guest, being an event organised by members of the Sri Lankan community, unfortunately such presence does not add any colour or credibility to an already well received program. In fact, in my view at least, the organisers and the distinguished orator carries much more credibility within the community than any such special guest.
Overall, congratualtions to a job well done! The start is excellent and look forward to attending your next event.
Dear Lakshita
Thank you very much for your feedback… We really appreciate your participation and very sorry for the delay. This is the first time we did something like this… We have learned a lot.. may be will do it better next time… and please join us to get it right next time… youknow how to contact us now ..
thank you again for coming down to the hotel and taking part in this event.. it was a great encouragement for us …
Appriciate for arranging valuble event with Jaksan Anthony. The History we never hered of before about Sri Lanka.
Again appriciate for all Mandapa members for arranging such a great work.
Please upload the vedio of the speach to destribute the many Sri Lankan’s who dose not know this Great History.