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 till mid February, but Stephen Champion’s exhibition closes next week.
Humble your kids by taking them to watch their peers at Saturday’s ballet. And then revive their spirits on Sunday with a free sketch walk through Colombo. Sunday brings feminist exegesis of Arundhati Roy’s memoir, and a carol service at St. Michael Polwatte, home of a grand, sonorous old organ.
The Dutch shipped back some of their loot (a few centuries late), so join the historical dialogue centre to ask “what after restitution?” We'd’ve just thrown a welcome home party, but what do we hacks know about such serious matters.
Drop everything on Wednesday to join us at the Orient Club for a book talk by Arvind Subramanian. Music matters is rivaling us with a pop culture quiz the same evening.
Colomboscope, on the other hand, has some manners. They’ve waited till after our talk. Starting Thursday catch a film screening, Reverberation of the Songs of Ceylon or South African jazz. If money is the real music to your ears, First Capital is having its investors symposium.
Colomboscope continues on Friday, with Navajo and Puebla music. If anyone can gentrify the ocean it’s Colomboscope: and of course they try, with Javanese melodies performed on a boat.
What to read
We’ve abandoned the port for the airport. But Arthur Conan Doyle, Mahatma Gandhi, and Anton Chekhov haven’t. Read Ajay Kamalakaran new book, Colombo: port of call as he views Colombo through their eyes.
Speaking of crossing oceans, a journal article on soundscapes of Sri Lankan migrants in Melbourne. Not to be outdone by the sociologists, the doctors have written on acute disability following Chikengunya. See also the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society's new journal issue, with its charming mascot, as always.
OHCHR released its much-awaited report on conflict related sexual violence. Meanwhile, the battle for the auditor-general goes on, with CPA’s new statement on the issue.
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