Whether you’re in awe over the Met Gala costumes or in a rage over Jeff Bezos’ money, Take a Chill Pill at Radicle to get the edge off. If that’s not enough, Love, Lies, and Wildlife abounds Friday through Sunday at the Wendt.
Sometimes, history is closer to us than we think. The Aragalaya is already in the past. Memories of it at JDA Perera this weekend.
Rage against the work week with this weekend’s cornucopia of events. Saturday morning, write on paper, or fold it. If neither appeals, a marine chat. In the evening, a Celtic-Lankan artist talk at Barefoot. Ditch their bookshop in favour of a bargain book sale and then a quiz night.
On Sunday, remember to wish your mums their best. Colombo is teeming with Mother’s Day brunches, lunches, and high teas. Or get adventurous and take mother to make a bou-clay (bouquet, but clay), a painting, or work some wood. Mommy issues? Count on a feminist reading praxis to salvage – or destroy – your relationship. Lakmahal’s creative writer’s group meets in the evening. End the weekend with some tasteful music at Manthrayaana.
Did you know Sri Lanka, in an apparent fit of lunacy, adopted a lunar calendar for a while in the 1960s? PVR screens a documentary on it on Friday.
The following week, connect with traditions at the dewol maduwa at the Chitrasena. For the girlies cosplaying as aunties, a new run walk club.
What to read
Examination looks at AI in garments; Vishmila Fernando says the problem isn’t the machines, it’s the people holding the controls.
The legacy of the Bawas’ gardens continues to grow. Brief creeps into the New York Times.
The feminist economic collective argues that Sri Lanka’s economic crisis sparked the spontaneous emergence of feminist spaces and policies. Hardly surprising though, given they typically face the worst of it. Vindhya Buthpitiya writes more photo anthropology, where photographs emerge as “incendiary agents.”
Also, the life of “a fearless fighter against the excesses of emergency rule” Suriya Wickremasinghe.
Comments ()