The First International Awards Magazine Was Published

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The Sri Lanka Foundation is proud to present the first edition of our International Awards Magazine. You can view it online here: ONLINE MAGAZINE The Sri Lanka Foundation is dedicated to recognizing exceptional Sri Lankans worldwide. Since 2003, we have been awarding Sri Lankans at our International Awards gala. Through this magazine, we aim to further the reach of our message to help inspire future generations. Our next International Awards gala will be held on Sunday, 21 April 2024, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. To purchase your ticket, visit: https://www.srilankafoundation.org/events/slf-international-awards-2024/ To register yourself for the International Awards Magazine, please visit: https://www.srilankafoundation.org/join-our-physical-mailing-list/
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Happy New Year from the Sri Lanka Foundation

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The team at the Sri Lanka Foundation wishes you prosperity, health, and happiness in the new year ahead and beyond. We thank the community for their continued support and collaboration. We look forward to sharing a wonderful 2024 with you all.
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Sri Lanka Day 2023 Watch Parties

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With Sri Lanka Day 2023 approaching, we are excited to announce our Watch Party initiative. The term “Watch Party” is defined as “an occasion when people watch a broadcast event together, for example a sports game, often in a public place.” Sri Lanka Day is the premier celebration of Sri Lankan Culture and will be held on Saturday, the 19th of August at 2pm Pacific Standard Time and Saturday, 19th of August at 2pm Sri Lanka Time. This year the Sri Lanka Foundation is putting together another amazing show to celebrate Sri Lankan Culture. We have decided to host this year’s celebration Live on our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@slfoundation so we can make our event easily accessible to a global audience. We’ve invited allied Organizations to host their own Watch Parties. Helping everyone gather their communities together to enjoy this celebration in the company of friends and family. We’ll be updating
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NuAsia brings a new sound, a new love to country music, from Asia to America

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NuAsia, led by Roshan Seresinhe, brings a new sound and love to country music from Asia to America and Enters the Emerging 300 chart with its debut Single “Quiet Violence” at #140.  Please vote to rocket NuAsia up the charts: https://www.upcoming100.com/emerging300/9786/#9786 NuAsia’s debut album, Quiet Violence, released June 9, will break some new ground in country music. Judging from the title track, the album will draw many country fans and create some new ones. Most of the new ground, in case the band’s name doesn’t clue you in, is that all six of the musicians are of Asian heritage, by the design of the band’s drummer, leader, executive producer, and founder, Roshan Seresinhe, who is a Sri Lankan native. Another is the band’s lead singer and co-writer, Saint Cloud, a 22-year-old Boston woman of Vietnamese descent, a contestant from“The Voice,” whose voice can go from whispery and ethereal to clear
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Four Hatch Startups Secure Significant Funding Igniting the Local Startup Ecosystem

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Four Hatch startups: Hyperglade, Miris by Islandmom, True by Tina, and Feelo have acquired funding to take their businesses to the next level. The most significant of these funding opportunities came from Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper who funded Hyperglade with USD350,000 proving that the local entrepreneurial talent among Hatch startups is capable of making a global impact. Hatch prides itself on being the center of gravity for all things startup empowering entrepreneurs, through its startup incubator and accelerator programs and co-working space. Hatch strives to connect entrepreneurs by creating a collaborative environment that provides equal opportunity to all, with the goal of creating a thriving startup ecosystem that powers Sri Lanka’s economy. At the start of 2023, Hatch launched an initiative titled ‘Sri Lanka: From Troubled Nation to Startup Nation’ to highlight how Sri Lanka’s top entrepreneurial talent could pave the path to recovery. The first part of this
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Watch ‘Kunchanada’ Now on Youtube

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Award-winning Sri Lankan director Christy Shelton’s “Kunchanada” (කුංචනාද – elephant trumpet) is a tribute to daughter Sarah’s enduring love for the gentle giants of this world by her parents Dr. Lakshman & Mrs. Thusitha Makandura, the producers. The resulting forty-episode masterpiece has been featured on Sirasa TV since the 20th of March, 2023, at 7.30 pm. This teledrama ranks the most in the Sri Lanka Drama Society for TV. You can find it on Sirasa TV’s Youtube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@SirasaOfficial. Sarah Makandura (MBA) is Co-Owner & Manages MedSpa Deluxe L.A. Clinic in West Covina, one of the largest in Los Angeles. She has been an animal lover since her young days and inspired the story scripted by Christy Shelton Fernando. The tele series grapples with the rough currents of the elephant-human conflict enacted daily on the rural landscapes of Sri Lanka when a young woman returns to Sri Lanka in
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Celebration of Veask at the Lankaramay Buddhist Temple

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On Sunday, May 7th, 2023, Lankaramaya Buddhist temple in La Puente, California, held the Vesak celebrations, also known as the festival of light. Each year, on the full moon of the month of Vesak, usually falling in May, millions of Buddhists worldwide take part in Vesak Day celebrations. “Vesak” is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists worldwide. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born. It was also on the Day of Vesak that the Buddha attained enlightenment, and on the Day of Vesak, the Buddha in his eightieth year, passed away. While commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and passing away of Gautama Buddha, the Vesak program was held throughout the day at the Lankaramaya temple. Many activities were conducted, including Buddha puja, dhamma talks, devotional songs, almsgiving, and lighting of Vesak lanterns and
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Upul Dharmadasa appointed new Chairman of Hilton Colombo owning firm Hotel Developers

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Mr Upul Dharmadasa is a former member of the hospitality sector of Sri Lanka and served at Hotel Intercontinental, Holiday inn, and Oberoi. He was an employee of Air Ceylon, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka. He was also the Head of the Food and Beverages on board Lanka Kalyani, the cadet training ship of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation, before migrating to the United States to join his wife, Barbara Dharmadasa.   He completed Nutrition and Food Service Professional Training in the United States at the University of North Dakota. He worked as an in-house hospital dietician before starting Upul’s Travel Service.   Dharmadasa was a student of the Ceylon Hotel School specializing in F&B and currently sitting for an MBA (UK). Following his migration to the USA with the Air Ceylon experience, he excelled in the travel industry in Los Angeles through the well-known name brand in the USA
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Independence Day

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Independence Day message from the chairman of Sri Lanka foundation.
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WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

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May the New Year bring you all Happiness, Peace, Prosperity, and Good Health!!!. Wishing you all a Joyous 2023!
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