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 →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This evening, learn how to design a museum at The Bawa Space or why the sathyagrahas failed at ICES. More on communal strife at Lakmahal. Earlier in the day, artists jaw-jaw with philosophers. Sumithra Peiris’ Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner The Season is upon us, but Friday is still dead. The only stirrings are a wine tasting at La Maison. More luck on Saturday. Film scores maybe lowbrow, but theatre music can’t possibly be. Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner 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 Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner 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’ Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner 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, Read more →
