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 this is all sour grapes to console ourselves.
Tonight, Rajitha Dissanayake brings Ape Gedara Gini Thiyaida to the venerable Elphinstone. It’s already been postponed once, so don’t miss it. Soul Sounds returns to their convent roots and, on Saturday, primly entreats the Almighty to order their steps. Curado blooms on Park Road with Yuwantha Yasas’ love buffet exhibition. On Sunday, Schokman’s nubile art auction.
Monday has clever academics telling us how to be resilient entrepreneurs. Why do they never invite Pettah merchants to speak at such things? We also have intelligence for you: Mind Adventures’ sold-out Poison is having an extra show. So far only the waitlist have been invited. But…
This week the Bawa Trust is Gandhian: restoring landscapes with Swadeshi plants on Tuesday, and urban home gardens on Thursday.
Sotto arte throughout the week, silent strokes vs sound of silence, at Radicle and Paradise Road. The French navel gaze at their Lady: their notre dame can’t be ours, non? noh? And next month, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce morphs into Hii magazine with a diplomats night.
What to read
Swastika Arulingam inherits the Old Left’s debating prowess. Her Shan Memorial Lecture was quite parliamentary.
Of course no one can silence Swastika, but neither can they the 81 year old Saskia Pintelon. The Indian Express reviews her exhibition in Delhi. “What is written is often not said, and what is said is often never written,” she observes. Her painting does both.
Ganananth Obeyesekere argued “Väddas could become Sinhala Buddhists and Sinhala Buddhists could become Väddas”, says R.S. Perinbanayagam in his review of the great man’s book on the Veddhas.
Finally a public library donation drive, no better way to save your books from the veeyas.
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