Women’s Day is nigh. So pink and purple are in fashion 👀, as are all things girlypop. If you’re a woman, throw some hoppers and drink some drinks tonight. Sea of Change, a worryingly timely exhibition, also opens at the Wendt. Next week, the Wendt's theater attacks fairytales.
Over the weekend, the Bawa Trust’s Open House – really more of a festival, with 36 events and tours of ordinarily private spaces, including CoCA and architects’ offices. Collectorcon summons poké nerds to Havelock City. They’re probably ageing now, Pokémon’s been around for thirty years.
The Travelling Southasia documentary festival floats between Hatch and the Public Library. For less seeing and more doing, an art club at Lakmahal on Saturday. Also, the last two days of the World Press Photo exhibition and Curado unveils Echoes and Origins.
Sunday is eclectic; a Thai food market at Siam Niwasa, WNPS’s Wild Walk & Trash Talk at Thalangama tank, and once again in honour of women’s day, a free screening of Gehenu Lamai for the ladies at Havelock Mall. For those feeling excluded, a not-free screening at Scope CCC and Havelock.
In its emptiness, a vaguely dystopian rest of the week. Fittingly, Lakmahal’s book club discusses A Clockwork Orange. No rest for the pages, as elsewhere, the Saskia Fernando Gallery opens Noperalena Pitu, where Kingsley Gunatillake reconceives the book as a wounded form.
One last note for the thespians among us; Kolamba Kamatha announced the second edition of their theatre festival. Stay alert for the schedule and tickets to be announced this week.
What to read
War in the Gulf, and now home, the President’s carefully considered, even cunning, statement is worth perusing.
275 Sri Lankans – fighting for Russia as soldiers of fortune – have been killed in the Ukraine, Himal reports. Sri Lanka tops the South Asian death toll.
The news moves on just as fast as our attention spans. But this week we circle back to cyclone Ditwah, and its impact three months after. Pair this with an analysis on natural disasters and population impact for the last 15 years and consider its effect on our demographic shift. Through a Kalpitiya lens, a policy brief on Tourism Development and Land Leases.
Speaking of circling back, the rising Central Bank’s rising star Chandranath Amarasekara on our road to recovery post-economic crisis. Ofc, not complete without a section on moving beyond the IMF.
For the history nerds, evening tea with the Goan priest who saved Catholicism in 17th-century Sri Lanka, and a fascinating account by Luc Bulten on the social history of 18th-century Lanka based on the Thombos.
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