Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"A dynamic mixture of subjects with an extensive range from Spoken English to Effective Communication and Speech and Drama make an important and innovative contribution to the development of Language Skills. There is something for everyone."
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"Find in yourself those human things which are universal." - Sanford Meisner
"The more personal, the more universal." - Gary Ballinger
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"You can change your world by changing your words." - Joel Osteen
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"The art of communication is the language of leadership"
-James Humes
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"Performance celebrates the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities." - Daniel day-Lewis
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

"That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again." - Larry Moss
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

“Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.” - Peter Shepherd
Let your voice be heard with CALSDA

“The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise." – Seneca

Colombo Academy of Language Skills & Dramatic Art (CALSDA)

About the Jaffna Centre

At the end of the thirty year war in Sri Lanka in 2009, CALSDA was one of the first institutions to assist the teachers and students in the war torn areas of Jaffna and opened a branch office in the year 2010. Having held several teacher training programmes in Jaffna, many were given the confidence to start teaching on their own. The office served to provide easy access to teaching material and other examination related items.

Having established a good teacher / students base today, we have approximately twenty five teachers who enter around 2500 students annually for CALSDA examinations in Spoken and Written English, Communication Skills and Speech and Drama. Examinations are conducted in Jaffna by Examiners from CALSDA who travel from Colombo and reside in Jaffna during the examination period which is about ten (10) days. Twelve teachers from Jaffna were present at the Teacher Training Programme in Colombo even this year, on the 17^th of February 2020. In 2019 several teachers from Jaffna (25 in February 2019 and 8 in August 2019) attended Teacher Training programmes in Colombo.