This evening, Saskia’s gallery promises not to give a damn. But their group exhibition, Little do I care, doesn’t live up to its name — with “measured resistance to histories of control”.
The rebellious Sugathapala de Silva retrospective steals the limelight at the Kamatha Theatre festival. It’s also Open House Colombo’s last weekend – a rare chance to prowl through the lives of others. Or for lives of the past, jaunt off to Anuradhapura with an ethnographer, thanks to the history and memory collective.
Saturday brings a Hannah Montana nostalgia party, and in the evening, Anoma Rajakaruna’s documentary meditation on the Katchchatheevu feast and the Tamil creative jam at Lakmahal.
On Sunday, a yummy mummy pilates scavenger hunt, and board games. For the sake of your kids, rewind to 2015 – when you were still wild and young and free – at the Inside Out screening.
Trivia quizzes are back in vogue. Tipples always were. On Monday grab your bebadda friend for tipsy trivia night. Open up your voice with the Chamber Music Society’s vocal masterclass with the high-powered Andrew Watt.
Come Tuesday, Uditha Devapriya is reunited with his Martin Wickremsinghe muse.
On the 1st, barring all the April Fools’ jokes, a workshop on the Japanese technique of kintsugi. If only we could glue Lanka so.
Ponnaiyah Peter’s exhibition Mayfly, or not, at Barefoot. What’s certain is it will end.
What to read
Buddhism, more than any other faith, embraces impermanence. This essay asks why it all but disappeared in the land of its birth, India, but flourished further East.
Why the fuel price shock doesn’t need to fully fall on consumers, from Verité Research’s boffins. Pair that Molotov cocktail with how the government’s own fuel pass puts data privacy laws to the test. On that note, the future isn’t today. Apparently Hans’ Q3 digital ID deadline is impossibly aspirational.
A journal article (excellent archival photos, terrible writing) on the history of our national institute of mental health. And a detailed academic review of the MMCA’s first exhibition One Hundred Thousand Small Tales.
Fr. Aloysius Pieris, the bolivar of Asian Liberation Theology, died this week. A documentary on his impish cross-cultural life – at timestamp 33.00 is a particularly poignant vignette.
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