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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-37/
- Published: 2026-06-26T07:13:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-26T07:13:11.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: maintag-Diary, Diary, Week-24-2026

This Friday, Colombo uni’s lecture halls go still for Prasanna Vithanage’s [Silence in the Courts](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZm8kCUiGyK/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media). If you’re more in the mood for tussle than tranquility, discuss [a new age of sexism](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZO%5FpT%5FjBtb/?ref=examiner.media) at Lakmahal*.* MusicMatters [trivia](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZZnsdARMmB/?ref=examiner.media) from 7, and a[ drag show](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZhTL%5FbDZ05/?igsh=MW1mMWRlMmswM243Nw==&ref=examiner.media) in Mount for those a tad more festive. [Akurugraphy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ86mlOiOEm/?igsh=MWUwaDEyYXZ4emMxZw==&ref=examiner.media) at the Bawa Trust dissects Sri Lankan typefaces.

Come Saturday, the punners at [Reid Lit Chats](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZm8kCUiGyK/?img%5Findex=3&ref=examiner.media) unshackle Jayadeva Uyangoda’s prison poetry, Dileepa Abeysekara chats about translating Shehan Karunatillaka and Neluka Silva discusses Richard de Zoysa’s verse. Channel that poetry, and kamikaze your self-doubt, by creating your own [song](https://www.instagram.com/p/DY4zOxEDM0E/?img%5Findex=3&ref=examiner.media) at Nidhas. A [walk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZtqOmDoA7p/?ref=examiner.media) of women’s memory; also watch them [stride](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZphV2HN97C/?ref=examiner.media) across the silver screen. [MagicBoxMixup](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZu-2jgtCHq/?ref=examiner.media) gets Octopussy’s tentacles in a twist. 

Last chances and lost causes this Sunday.[ “Of Prophetic Dreams”](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZC0T9ao2Eg/?ref=examiner.media) closes at Curado, so catch the exhibition before it's gone. Elsewhere, an[ all-day rave](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZunlD0l9jY/?ref=examiner.media) promises eighteen DJs and presumably zero prophetic dreams of your own come Monday morning. ‘Eclectic’ workshops:[ expressive art and emotions](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXU-bNoDnB/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media),[ diamond painting](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZmbl03s3L-/?ref=examiner.media),[ sound healing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZY5iIOIAgP/?ref=examiner.media) with gongs and Tibetan bowls — take your pick of this new age. 

[Women Talk Leadership](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZhnHPnvNk8/?ref=examiner.media) on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Anna Konjetzky's[ Songs of Absence](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ6kRG7j0S6/?ref=examiner.media) brings dancers – from butter Europe, olive-oil Europe, and coconut-oil Lanka – to the stage. Main hosts a[ FIFA quiz](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ4hjVPDydx/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media) for those whose loyalties lie with balls rather than books. 

Next Friday,[ Stories Spark Startups](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZxQQ58Gng3/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media) tries to do exactly that, presumably the kind of stories that end in funding rounds rather than rejection emails. [Sarah Kabir screens her film](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZxQQ58Gng3/?img%5Findex=3&ref=examiner.media) on post-independence Sri Lanka at the Kobbekaduwa Institute. And for the truly committed, the[ Tiki Bar's immersive murder mystery](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZrfpnqsZOf/?ref=examiner.media) at the Shangri-La promises an evening of solving a fake crime, which beats stewing over the real ones.

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*What to read*

Sri Lankan modernist ruins at their finest, in this [photostory](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZr6IrQlNNE/?igsh=MXF0cjBhYzNydGh6bw==&img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) on the Tangalle Bay Hotel. Put this week’s examination in its historical context, with B. Skanthakumar’s [review](https://island.lk/cartographies-of-conflict/?ref=examiner.media) of a new book on our ‘borderlands,’ *Cartographies of Conflict.* Vindhya Buthpitiya [speaks](https://uwpressblog.com/2026/06/22/the-political-work-of-photography-a-conversation-with-vindhya-buthpitiya/?ref=examiner.media) about her new book and the politics of photography. 

The World Bank’s Sri Lanka[ Country Partnership Framework](https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/country/srilanka/cpf?ref=examiner.media) reviews the last three years' progress (they say not great) and how their lending over the next three years will be put to work.