The testosterone has arrived: big match season starts this weekend. Here’s how you can escape the SSC. Start with the art and jazz festival — perhaps Fairway’s contrition for GLF. Then walk over the OGF for the World Press Photo exhibition. For the evening, Tamil speakers head to a comedy show, others listen to the universal language of music.
Train your toddlers this Saturday. Good Market is teaching kids how to make tea so you can finally reap the fruits of your labour. Catch also the last day of Prasad Hettiarachchi’s ‘neighbours dance in my garden’ exhibition. We thought the only reasons to brave Pettah were cheap home appliances, cheaper spectacles and Sri Suryas. Add history to that list. CHDM takes you on a memory stroll.
Uditha Devapriya has decided to give Martin Wickremesinghe a rest and talk to another author, Ajay Kamalakaran, instead. This Sunday they discuss Colombo: Port of Call. If wizards are more your thing, Lakmahal’s book club discusses Ursula Le Guin.
The week is for cinema. Bridgerton, of course. But if you finished it all already, catch a screening of ten short films by female filmmakers and one long film, presumably by a turtle. Speaking of seas, the wildlife society is exploring the ocean through eDNA.
Bawa Trust’s open house festival is coming up in March, for you to enjoy a real-life pinterest board. As is the Mahler Society’s collaboration with WAYO - tickets are selling out fast.
What to read
Read up on Sri Lanka’s three favourite C’s, courts constitutions, and (C)Karma, in Benjamin Schonthol’s book on Buddhism in legal practice. And since the courts just take too much of everyone’s time, a report on community mediation. Or G.L. Pieris’ analysis of the new renters bill.
This week we wrote on how trade migration influenced food. Pair that with a review of Pala Pothupitiya’s art which meditates on the same theme.
Ganga Rajnee Dissanayake, meanwhile, discusses stolen relics and artifact diplomacy. Udara Pieris explains why anchoring inflation expectations are important, and how two years of missing targets could put the bank’s credibility to sea.
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