This evening, legends of the Sinhalese alt rock scene. Tomorrow Thilini Jinadasa workshops the art of abstraction at the Radicle, GirlWalk glides through Port City, crisis management from crisis veterans at the Bandaranaike Academy, and proud short films. For the competitive kids, a lego challenge. And for the shy, a self-expressive drawing workshop.
On Sunday, V.V. Ganeshananthan explores whether fiction could be truer than fact (no prizes for guessing the journalist's answer), Ruwangi the illustrator’s dreams come true at Curado, and Lakmahal’s writing circle. Fabienne Francotte’s eternal artist walkthrough ends. Stages collabs with dramatists from Mannar, at the Kamatha.
Come Tuesday, Ditwaahsha 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 .
While V.V.G. makes the case for fiction’s verisimilitude, on Wednesday Marguerite Richards reminds us the truth is often dangerous. Instagram’s algo spit out a webinar on gig work.
Missed out on acting at school? Here's the workshop for you, on Thursday at Lakmahal. Followed by the Tuesday really Friday Book Club. The archivists excavate the Civil Rights Movement.
Later in the month, the Mahler Society draws the curtains for their season opener, a rave malfunctions at Hatch and dancing while keeping your body still. Or gold-dig at the Ceylon Chamber’s mining conference.
Don’t forget to tell your friends, The Examiner is in Boston on Sunday, New York on Monday and DC on Tuesday. Here's Mimi speaking to a full-house at the Toronto Public Library, Steeles.
What to read
What do next-gen politicos think about foreign policy? Rajni Gamage asks the whole lot of them. The UK isn’t doing itself soft power favours, ‘deporting’ children isn’t a good look. But, I suppose neither is Japan unwittingly closing curry shops.
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. Himal reposts a requiem for the Jaffna Library, and Tisaranee Gunasekara on sangha reform.
Sulakshana de Mel on how import substitution led to culinary innovation, and Verité Research on how cigarette taxes are getting lighter, and whether ‘good governance’ or ‘system change’ passed more laws. The Seafood Exporters Association fish in the troubled waters of the Palk Strait. And apparently the EU is being naughty at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission.
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