{"id":1074,"date":"2023-01-17T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2023-01-18T01:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T01:57:06","slug":"book-launch-drama-and-theatre-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/book-launch-drama-and-theatre-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Drama and Theatre Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The experimental book \u201cDrama and Theatre Arts\u201d written by Dr\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/ranjith.senanayake\/\">Ranjith Senanayake<\/a>, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Sinhala Studies, was launched on January 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023 at the New Arts Theatre. The Vice Chancellor, Senior Professor (Chair)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/management.finance\/karunaratne\/\">H.D. Karunaratne<\/a>, was the Chief Guest at the event. Additionally, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Senior Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/geography\/l.manawadu\/\">Lasantha Manawadu<\/a>, and the Head of the Sinhala Department, Senior Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/sandagomi.coperahewa\">Sandagomi Coperahewa<\/a>, were also in attendance, along with a significant number of people.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1074 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon 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Arts Theatre. The Vice Chancellor, Senior Professor (Chair)\u00a0H.D. Karunaratne, was the Chief Guest at the event. Additionally, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Senior Professor\u00a0Lasantha Manawadu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/sinhala\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}