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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-34/
- Published: 2026-06-05T06:40:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-05T08:24:19.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-21-2026

This evening, [legends](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D2Qe6hbDN/) of the Sinhalese alt rock scene. Tomorrow Thilini Jinadasa [workshops](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYhdRPpktYy/?ref=examiner.media) the art of abstraction at the Radicle, GirlWalk [glides](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/girlwalk-silent-disco-edition-tickets-1990882498145?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse&ref=examiner.media) through Port City, [crisis managemen](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYWIECQDLYc/?ref=examiner.media)t from crisis veterans at the Bandaranaike Academy, and [proud short films](https://web.facebook.com/equitesrilanka/posts/pfbid0LN8UYHdAHbqQdV6m1qmq8UPjM4Nk39v3KMfHANxh1cPn7GjJCfpMfQLnAxJRGTCHl?rdid=1RagmiluiYOI21ck&ref=examiner.media). For the competitive kids, a [lego](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYzINHsFRgy/?ref=examiner.media) challenge. And for the shy, a self-expressive [drawing workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYy1K8ItPNN/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D). 

On Sunday, V.V. Ganeshananthan [explores](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZHIVVLoxgB/?ref=examiner.media) whether fiction could be truer than fact (no prizes for guessing the journalist's answer), Ruwangi the illustrator’s [dreams come true](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZC0T9ao2Eg/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D) at Curado, and Lakmahal’s [writing circle](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZHC4Brn-2u/?ref=examiner.media). Fabienne Francotte’s eternal [artist](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-walkthrough-ad-vitam-aeternam-fabienne-francotte-tickets-1990770767957?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse&ref=examiner.media) walkthrough ends. Stages [collabs](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYysBqjDHFt/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) with dramatists from Mannar, at the Kamatha. 

Come Tuesday, [Ditwaahsha](https://web.facebook.com/share/p/1EEyu93c81/?ref=examiner.media) on how women religious leaders tended to their flocks during Ditwah. Slightly less saintly, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on making climate change an [opportunity](https://web.facebook.com/events/864636799282815?%5Frdc=1&%5Frdr&ref=examiner.media) . 

While V.V.G. makes the case for fiction’s verisimilitude, on Wednesday Marguerite Richards [reminds](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dangerous-art-of-truth-telling-a-conversation-on-memoir-writing-tickets-1989889519118?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse&ref=examiner.media) us the truth is often dangerous. Instagram’s algo spit out a webinar on [gig work.](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZFWlcqNCj7/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D) 

Missed out on acting at school? Here's the [workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DXLHYdlDxFo/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) for you, on Thursday at Lakmahal. Followed by the Tuesday really Friday [Book Club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZEmcxbnW57/?ref=examiner.media). The archivists [excavate](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZFWPw5CGjG/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) the Civil Rights Movement. 

Later in the month, the Mahler Society draws the curtains for their season [opener](https://www.instagram.com/p/DXlY%5FQxDJCM/?ref=examiner.media), a rave [malfunctions](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYhN6NLyHWn/?ref=examiner.media) at Hatch and [dancing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DY%5FUqh2yxzY/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D) while keeping your body still. Or gold-dig at the Ceylon Chamber’s mining [conference](https://www.chamber.lk/ceylon-chamber-to-host-mineral-sands-technical-conference-with-mineral-technologies-australia/?ref=examiner.media). 

Don’t forget to tell your friends, *The Examiner* is in [Boston](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-examiners-sri-lankan-meet-up-in-boston-tickets-1990219591373?aff=oddtdtcreator&ref=examiner.media) on Sunday, [New York](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sri-lankas-new-government-reviewing-two-years-in-office-tickets-1990219067807?aff=oddtdtcreator&ref=examiner.media) on Monday and [DC](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sri-lankas-new-government-reviewing-two-years-in-office-tickets-1990218688673?aff=oddtdtcreator&ref=examiner.media) on Tuesday. Here's Mimi speaking to a full-house at the Toronto Public Library, Steeles. 

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*What to read*

What do next-gen politicos think about foreign policy? Rajni Gamage [asks](https://www.nbr.org/publication/tracking-the-next-generation-of-leaders-in-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) the whole lot of them. The UK isn’t doing itself soft power favours, ‘[deporting](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/01/home-office-letters-children-care-workers-leave-uk?ref=examiner.media)’ children isn’t a good look. But, I suppose neither is Japan unwittingly [closing curry shops.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/asia/japan-immigration-curry-shops.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.mlA.jt1f.2vs9SDAXZnEX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ref=examiner.media) 

Elizabeth Harris asked the late Aloysious Pieris, given his knowledge of and empathy for Buddhism, what kept him within Christianity. “A God who sides with the poor; no other religion has this,” was his answer. Her obituary [here](https://polity.lk/aloysius-pieris-s-j-visionary-activist-elizabeth-j-harris/?ref=examiner.media). Himal reposts a [requiem](https://www.himalmag.com/requiem-jaffna-library/?ref=examiner.media) for the Jaffna Library, and Tisaranee Gunasekara on [*sangha* reform](https://www.ft.lk/columns/Sangha-at-crossroads--reform-or-decomposition-/4-792807?ref=examiner.media). 

Sulakshana de Mel on how import substitution led to culinary [innovation](https://sulakshana3.substack.com/p/substitute-economies), and Verité Research on how [cigarette taxes](https://www.ft.lk/columns/The-cigarette-that-got-a-tax-cut/4-792734?ref=examiner.media) are getting lighter, and whether ‘good governance’ or ‘system change’ [passed more laws.](https://manthri.lk/en/blog/posts/run-rate-of-passing-laws-in-parliament?ref=examiner.media) The Seafood Exporters Association [fish](https://www.ft.lk/front-page/Seafood-industry-urges-Govt-to-curb-illegal-Indian-trawler-incursions/44-792938?ref=examiner.media) in the troubled waters of the Palk Strait. And apparently the EU is being [naughty](https://www.aol.com/articles/european-fishing-firms-reflag-ships-000319000.html?ref=examiner.media) at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission.