Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Still morose about the Galle Literary Festival’s cancellation? The Matara Arts Festival kicks off today. Galle anyway smelt a bit too much of sunscreen, and FILTH - Failed in London Try Hong Kong. Ofc Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Mashallah, we have at least one literary festival this year. The Ceylon Lit Fest kicks-off today. In the evening; toxic drama from Mind Adventures, a Bawa Trust talk on architects, spooks, and silk in Thailand, Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner On Friday, get schooled by Nandalal Weerasinghe on economic growth and AI, Uditha Devapriya on Martin Wickremesinghe, or Sumathy Sivamohan on education reforms. Or bunk this adult education, and go for magic box mixup at Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This evening: stomp-stomp revolution, a ‘matri-anarchy’ rave at the Rio. In English, Colomboscope’s closing party. But before they sail back to Java (passing the Colombo boat show), get your steps in at their curated Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Colomboscope’s event descriptions rival Sajith in their dictionary rummaging. Care for "transdisciplinary, immersive performance that explores pluriversal localities, memory work, entangled temporarily, and cultural frequency through collected, imagined, and recorded sound?” In a Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Today, Before Barrelism by Chandragupta Thenuwara opens at the JDA Perera Gallery. See his earlier, softer works, before they were steamrolled by the violent barrel. Saskia Fernando features Sri Lanka’s modern and contemporary pioneers Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner After the season, do you really have energy for events, do you really, really? If you don’t, this evening, bargain with the devil for youthful energy. Lakmahal’s book club is on The Picture Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Thomas Mann’s books are often doorstoppers. But fast-forward to the action this evening, with a film adaptation of Death in Venice. Meanwhile the French have apparently replaced replaced sleighs with scooters, in this Christmas Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Year-end blues straining your relationship? Take your beau to the Goethe for a film this evening. Watch how the Cubans navigate love and wars of the soul. Still single? Band your friends together for two Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This week’s Diary is rightly muted. But Colombo has no less than 26 Christmas Carol events coming up. Timeout has the full list, so we won’t bother writing them all out. A wee Read more →
