Gallery Talk: ‘The Cultural Cold War’ with Dr. Shamara Wettimuny

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka

Dr. Shamara Wettimuny, historian and political analyst, speaks to Pramodha Weerasekera, Assistant Curator Education and Public Programmes about cultural production during the Cold War. This talk will take into account the contemporary cultural movements of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Movement, which emerged in 1958 to champion third world anti-colonial struggles from a literary and cultural standpoint. Works by the movement are on display in ‘Encounters’ until 19 March 2023.ඉතිහාසඥ සහ දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක ආචාර්ය ශමාරා වෙත්තිමුණි සීතල යුධ සමයේ සංස්කෘතික නිෂ්පාදනය පිළිබඳව අධ්‍යාපන හා මහජන වැඩසටහන් සහය අභිරක්ෂක ප්‍රමෝධා වීරසේකර සමග කථාකරයි. මෙම සාකච්ඡාව සාහිත්‍ය සහ සංස්කෘතික දෘෂ්ටිකෝණයකින් තුන්වන ලෝකයේ යටත් විජිත විරෝධී අරගල ජයගැනීම සඳහා 1958දී මතුවූ අප්‍රිකානු-ආසියානු ලේඛක ව්‍යාපාරයේ සමකාලීන සංස්කෘතික ව්‍යාපාර සැලකිල්ලට ගනී. ව්‍යාපාරයේ කෘති 2023 මාර්තු 19 දක්වා 'මුණගැසීම්හි' ප්‍රදර්ශිත ය. வரலாற்றாசிரியர் மற்றும் அரசியல் ஆய்வாளர் கலாநிதி ஷமாரா வெத்திமுனி, துணை எடுத்தாளுனர் கல்வி மற்றும் பொது நிகழ்ச்சிகளுக்கு பொறுப்பான பிரமோதா வீரசேகரவுடன் பனிப்போர் காலத்தில் கலாசார உற்பத்திகளைப் பற்றி உரையாடுகிறார். இவ் உரையாடலில் சமகால கலாச்சார இயக்கங்களான 1958ம் ஆண்டில் காலனித்துவத்திற்கு எதிரான இலக்கிய மற்றும் கலாச்சாரரை முன்னெடுப்பான ஆப்பிரிக்க-ஆசிய எழுத்தாளர் இயக்கத்தையும் உள்ளடக்கியதாகும். இவ் இயக்கத்தின் படைப்புகள் 'சந்திப்புகள்' கண்காட்சியில் மார்ச் 19 2023 வரை காட்சிப்படுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கும்.

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