Promote cultural value of Tamil community through using existing traditional celebrations

Introduction

‘Tamil’ means ‘sweetness’ and ‘Culture’ has been defined as ‘sweetness and light’. ‘Tamil’ and ‘Culture’, therefore, make a most graceful combination both in Language and Life. Culture has been defined as a ‘way of life’, as ‘sweetness and light’, as ‘activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling’. These brief definitions are sufficient to show the comprehensiveness and the indispensability of culture, for one must have a way of life, and that way of life should be combined with sweetness and light, with activity of thought, and with beauty and humane feeling.

Tamil Culture is nothing else but the Tamil way of life, a pattern of gracious living that has been formed during the centuries of Tamil history. It has been conditioned by the land, the climate, the language, the literature, the religions, the customs, the laws, the food, the games and toys of the Tamil people, by the palmyra palm, the gingelly oil, and the vegetables associated with them. Culture is a most elusive and at the same time an all-embracing term.

Problem: Since there are no proper front-runner to carry and transfer cultural values and norms to another generation due to civil conflict, still our youth are continuing unfamiliar with our cultural values and activities to protect.

Objectives: Protect and promote a culture identical to our community, through identification of valuable cultural components and promoting public to be closer to cultural values in their life.

Sub objectives

·        Make awareness to new generation

·        Develop endangered tamil arts

·        Develop and promote a new culture with cultural entertainment

Strategies:

·        Creating a society with good values through create awareness programmes official and school level programmes

·        Protecting national heritage through designing and conducting cultural programmes at community as well school level in tamil areas

·        Establishing cultural societies in school level to continue relevant activities to promote the activities

·        Organize competitions and other national level conferences

      Target group: Tamil youngster and school children at Tamil areas.