Chitrasena Dance Company (MFA 2025)
The Chitrasena Dance Company is Sri Lanka’s oldest and most prestigious dance institution. Founded in the 1940s by Guru Chitrasena, with the unwavering support of Guru Vajira, the Company played a pivotal role in elevating Sri Lanka’s traditional dances from village rituals to the modern stage. It became their shared vehicle of artistic expression—infusing refined […]
Kehelama – Impactful Storytelling Studio (MFA 2025)
Kehelmala is a creative studio seeking to inspire and sustain audiences through impactful storytelling that pushes past boundaries, embraces diversity, and provokes thought. Since mid-2024, Kehelmala has acquired a cult following for its original short films released weekly on social media platforms. Many of these comment on important social issues, sparking discussion, courting controversy, and […]
Oken Silva – Visual Storyteller (MFA 2025)
Oken is a storyteller, photographer, and observer of everyday life. His work explores how people, places, and fleeting details come together to tell stories worth remembering. Through his ongoing photography series “Residents of…”, Oken documents the quiet poetry of ordinary lives of coastal towns to historic cities — revealing how identity is shaped by place. […]
Camp Coconut – Sustainable Farm (MFA 2025)
Camp Coconut is a small-scale sustainable farm in southern Sri Lanka, founded by Mithra and Maren in 2020. Mithra holds a Bachelors’ in Sustainable Food and Farming from UMass, USA, and Maren a Masters in Bioeconomy. The farm is a vibrant space where people, animals, and nature live in harmony. The farm is home to chickens, […]
Reading Stamps/Kiyawana Muddara – Educational and Cultural Initiative (MFA 2025)
Reading Stamps is dedicated to exploring the fascinating world of postage stamps and the stories they tell. Through interactive sessions, exhibits, and discussions, we use stamps as a gateway to politics, history, geography, art, and global communication. Their programs are designed to spark curiosity, promote learning, and encourage appreciation for the world’s heritage preserved through […]
Thiushka Soysa (MFA 2025) – Art Collector & Finance Professional
Thinushka has over 15-years of experience across the fields of fund management, advisory, private equity and investment, both on the public and private side. Thinushka was engaging in investments across markets such as Ethiopia and Mongolia, and establishing operations in Sri Lanka for Cerberus Frontier. She is currently on the board of a boutique wealth […]
Dinithi Bogahawatta – Embroiderer & Visual Artist, MFA Community Artist (MFA 2025)
Government Development Officer was part of MFA’s founding org, Freedom Hub’s, Creative Enterprise pilot. Following it, she put her talents to use creating a line of embroidered and painted tote bags under the brand Mama’s Stitch. The mother of two is part of the grassroots public sector that ensures direct community engagement and support from […]
Dr. Gamini Wijesuriya – Architect, Archaeologist, & Heritage Management Specialist (MFA 2025)
Dr Gamini has over 45 years of experience in Sri Lanka and abroad. He pioneered people-centered approaches to heritage conservation and is widely known for his contributions to World Heritage. He served as Director of Conservation at Sri Lanka’s Department of Archaeology during which period one of his notable achievements in the region was the […]
Kaley Tea – Agroforest & Social Enterprise Utilizing the Arts (MFA 2025)
Nestled in a rural village beside the Sinharaja Rainforest, Kaley Natural Farms was founded on the radical principle that business exists to do good. They are not mere tea growers, they are healers. The philosophy – “Healing One Forest, One Community, and You, One Flavourful Sip at a Time,” – forms the bedrock of every […]
Dushyantha HP – Visual Artist (MFA 2025, Supported by India-Sri Lanka Foundation Grant)
Dushyantha is a visual artist whose practice is deeply rooted in drawing, observation, and lived experience. His art evolves continuously with each drawing, shaped profoundly by the places he has moved through or traveled to. Forced migration and displacement have been main subjects in Dushyantha’s work for several years – His family was displaced due to […]