This evening a Music Matters power duet: open mic and Chiththa. But they don’t silence the flowers at the Curado. Lahiru Sandaruwan paints his experience of being hacked, at the Gallery Café. Andrea Novellis rethinks the post-liberal order in a BCIS short course.
On Saturday, the history collective wanders through the Colombo Museum, figuring out how to lighten the colonised’s burden. Lakmahal hosts three clubs: for the poets, the queers and the fictional scientists.
Lounge on Sunday with the literati at the Fika Deli. Or groove, in your indestructible Wendt chair, to Tilanka Jayamane’s Paradise Jukebox. Anoma Wijewardene sheds light on her work, and herself, as she walks through her exhibition at Radicle. A repeat next Sunday too.
Come Tuesday, social scientists launch a book on colonial land-grabbing, of the domestic variety. It's called Manal Aru / Weli Oya. Sidenote: an oya runs dry outside the monsoon, a ganga flows eternal. Exporters, shove your complaints in the minister’s face at the Ceylon Chamber. If he doesn’t listen, figure out whether to migrate, or not, courtesy an Alliance Française screening of Clara.
Watch the Palme d’Or winning thriller “It was just an accident” on Wednesday, much better than trying to figure out how to pay your taxes if you have a peti kade.
Thursday brings Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts fans to Lakmahal. The Guardian called her “one of the sharpest minds of her generation.”
F#ck Up next Friday with Noeline at Hatch, manicures have a lower error tolerance rate than code, ok. Pitch an AI start-up at First Capital’s Start-up nation, or dream up its antidote at the Age of Surveillance capitalism book club.
June brings events from the Chamber Music Society, the Mahler Soc and the Ceylon Chamber’s climate chaps. And tickets go live for August’s Naadha Gama music festival.
The Examiner, meanwhile, heads to America this June. Foreign subscribers, catch Mimi in Toronto, New York, DC, and Boston. Local subscribers, yes, she’d love to be a pack mule, but no, she doesn’t have extra luggage space.
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Murtaza Jafferjee does a teach-in on the Daily Mirror’s whole front page, arguing against fuel subsidies. EconomyNext has examined every nook and cranny of the Colombo Port’s decline. Rathindra Kuruwita wants to white van the Mattala Airport.
Ermiza Tegal on how a suite of new laws are eroding our civil liberties. Journalists warn against amending the RTI act.
A review of Ramya Jirasinghe’s Father Cabraal’s recipe for love cake, and go behind the scenes of the documentary, “Democracy in Debt”.
D.B.S. Jeyaraj put down his pen for the last time, a selection of obituaries from The Hindu, The Wire, Jaffna Monitor and FT. His website also lives on. Nor is he the last of Jaffna College writing to the papers, Mahendran Thiruvarangan on decolonizing the Vaddukoddai Resolution.
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