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 quizzes: murder mystery at Lakmahal or Breaking Bad at Pixels and Pints. Has the year left you with one too many kids? Excel World has Winter Wonderland (open till 2026).
On Saturday, Good Market serves a tropical aperitif to initiate Colombo’s boozy season: drinking the fruits of paradise which usually grace the bowl, not the glass – rambutan, hibiscus and narang. As penance, watch human rights films all afternoon at the Law and Society Trust. Or throw in the towel after just one. Retreat to Barefoot’s garden sessions, salsa at the Hilton poolside or the symphony orchestra’s Christmas concert.
“Strictly no gambling” at Sunday’s poker night. Zero chance you’ll make your entrance money back, but also no risk of losing your shirt. For pursuits more mellow, Ways of Knowing’s guided tour at the Bawa Trust and Ruwan Prasanna’s Life of Fire at Saskia’s.
Later this week the evergreen and overambitious Mahler Society delivers a concert of Wagnerian ambition – combining novella, film and music. Two batteries of theatre – this week and next – at the national youth drama festival.
What to read
On Cyclone Ditwah, two key pieces. From Ravindra Jayaratne’s flood mapping of Sri Lanka. Drains built for old rain patterns are a problem. Rajni Gamage on the politics of recovery.
Can we ever offer doctors enough to stay? Some thoughts in this article on the exodus of some of our best and brightest. Midwives, toy safety and teenage healthcare in the journal of child health.
Other marginalia: a report on Hindu nationalist groups in Sri Lanka, a paper on the rising trend of micro-housing and the male domination of logistics.
In case you missed the President’s Newsweek interview, here you go.
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