Diary

This evening choose between Deloitte’s budget briefing and ICES’ lecture performance on archives. Upali’s Lankan retro music and for the broké, Lakmahal’s BYOB Story Slam. Or cha-cha the evening away at a

Colombo is often dead, but for once it's not a bad thing. For the dead are out tonight, at over a dozen Halloween parties. Kiku’s and Love Bar’s seem promising. There’

This evening, a Bawa Trust talk on living joyfully among urban intensity, amid a climate crisis. Tomorrow a workshop by the same maestro, titled A Parliament of Objects. Also this evening, a soireé from Stages,

There are few things sexier in the ‘discourse’ than migration and ecological decline, the subject of Chundamani Clowes’ exhibition today onwards at Saskia’s. While you’re out this weekend, catch Ayu, a Sinhalese film

This afternoon, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an architect of India’s history changing economic reforms, speaks at the Central Bank. Livestream here. In the evening, Feroze Kamardeen’s new irrationally rational comedy takes the stage. Saturday

This evening, see Chalith Kalupahana’s surrealism at the Wendt. Kolam Jaffna’s exhibition also opens today at Barefoot.  On Saturday, take your kids for storytelling at the British Council. Then contort yourself into a

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," Bilbo warned. This weekend, it's worth the peril - if only for tonight’s LOTR quiz.  Saturday is packed.

Chitrasena dance troupe performs a tribute to Vajira Chitrasena, on her first death anniversary. It’s next weekend, but tickets are almost sold out.  This week’s Chart reminds us that women’s work is

Our Headline on the UNHRC explored the negotiations between majority, minorities, and the international community. The UN film festival’s Friday screening of The Negotiators — How to Make Peace is timely. At the Bawa Space,