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National Trust has conducted monthly lectures nearly continuously since 2008 on topics of heritage interest; the lectures may be viewed under the lectures in the menu bar and some recent lectures are shown below
Publications
The National Trust has the Published a large number of books on subjects of great heritage value
Traditional Jewellery of Sri Lanka
This publication aims to give a general introduction to Sinhalese jewellery and to understand its significance beyond its use as a mere object of beauty.
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Gammadu Mangallaya – Kandyan Tradition
Gammadu can be identified as rituals held in order to ward off mosquito-borne and other diseases. Upcountry Gammadu festival is dedicated to....
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The Art of Mask Making in Sri Lanka
Dr. Lionel Bentharage started his career as a low country dancer and in 1995 he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts….
Published 2014
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Sri Lanka: Island of Islands
“Sri Lanka: Island of Islands” adds to the existing knowledge on the over 100 offshore small islands around the mainland of Sri Lanka.
Published on 2020
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Coral Reefs of Sri Lanka
The Author Nishan Perera is a marine biologist with an interest in coral reef ecology and fish behaviour. He is an avid dive enthusiast…..
Published on 2011
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The Sculpture of Tissa Ranasinghe
Neville Weereratne has been writing on art in Sri Lanka since the 1950s when he worked as a journalist on the Daily News.....
Published on 2013
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Birds of Sri Lanka
Gihan de Silva Wijeyaratne qualified as a chartered accountant and worked in the “square mile” in London. Since his return to Sri Lanka, he has published 15 books relating to wildlife and travel.
Published on 2008
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Sri Lankan Painting in the 20th Century
Professor Senake Bandaranayake is emeritus professor of archeology at the University of Kelaniya.
Professor Albert Dharmasiri was the former head of the School of Art, which now is the University of Visual and Performing Arts.
Published on 2009
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The National Trust encourages expressions of views of interested persons in academia and of repute to write about issues of interest; some articles of interest to be found in our blog site
Quaint By-Ways and Nature’s Ways in Colombo in the 1940s
Source: Thuppahi.com Hugh Karunanayake, courtesy of THE CEYLANKAN, vol XXI/1, January 2018 where the title is “A Naturalist’s Paradise–Colombo in the 1940s”…
Published on 17th-Oct-2022
Robert Knox’s Journeys in Ceylon and the World in the 17th Century: One
Source: Thuppahi.com Thiru Arumugam, in The Ceylankan, vol 25/1, February 2022 , where the title reads thus “A three-hundred-and-forty-year-old book about Ceylon – Part…
Published on 13th-Oct-2022
PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2021-2022
It gives me the greatest honor to present this Report of the National Trust for the year 2021. Hard on…
Published on 30th-Sep-2022
NATIONAL TRUST – SRI LANKA OFFICE BEARERS – YEAR 2022/2022
PRESIDENT - MR. N.G.WICKREMERATNE HONORARY PRESIDENT - PROF. NIMAL DE SILVA HONORARY PRESIDENT - DR. K. KANAG-ISVARAN PC CO-PRESIDENT -…
Published on 30th-Sep-2022
The Demolition Of The 150-Year-Old De Soysa Building Is Underway – Roar Media
Source: Roar Media
Published on 07th-Jul-2022
Culture
Travellers and traders: Muslims of Sri Lanka
Source: The Island Online In 851 AD, an Arab merchant, called Soleyman, wrote an account of his travels to the…
Published on 14th-Feb-2022
Art
Liberal Arts Perspectives
University of Bologna: ‘Medieval universities had five faculties: arts, philosophy, law, medicine and theology. Of these, the faculty of arts…
Published on 19th-Jan-2022
Heritage
Charting a new history, for a new future
Source: The Island For Sinhala nationalists, I daresay the history of Sri Lanka remains the history of the Sinhala people.…
Published on 01st-Jan-2022
Heritage
Museums through Prof. Thapar’s eyes
Source: The Island On Thursday, 27 January, Prof. Romila Thapar will deliver the Dr Roland Silva Memorial Lecture to the…
Published on 26th-Nov-2021
Projects
Partitioning water between agriculture and hydro-power to maximise Sri Lanka’s clean energy output
Source: The Island The largest drain on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings is in purchasing fossil fuels for power and…
Published on 12th-Aug-2021
Lecture
“Mantai” the great emporium of Cosmas Indicopleustes
Presentation by Dr Roland Silva on Mantai Great Emporium - Manthai Part 1 [embed]https://youtu.be/wNUCjfdj0BA[/embed] Great Emporium - Manthai Part…
Published on 01st-Aug-2011
Lecture
Gateway to Mutual Heritage of Jaffna with special reference to Grid City
Grid City by Archt. Jayatissa Herath, Archt. Deepal Wijethilaka & Ms. Suganya Vinasithamby Heritage of Jaffna - Grid City…
Published on 14th-Jul-2011
Tours
The National conducts quarterly Tours to places of historical and heritage interest. Records of past Tours are to be found with photograph in this section
The first tour for the year was to Jaffna
The first tour for the year was to Jaffna on the 15th, 16th and 17th of March……
Published on 30th of March 2021