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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-39/
- Published: 2026-07-10T08:06:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T06:54:08.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-26-2026

This evening, build your "climate character" (presumably no hotties allowed) at Lakmahal's [eco writing workshops](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNMEYQn3wB/?ref=examiner.media) – they’re on during the weekend too. Ready yourself to storm the barricades with a [burgundy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaPZ0tBknJx/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media) tasting at the kopi department – Bastille Day’s almost upon us. Inflict that liquid courage tornado on the unsuspecting souls at Music Matters [open mic](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaFV1K-RlhO/?ref=examiner.media). 

Come Saturday, beg, borrow or steal a child and [remember how to play ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaCYD65zTVw/?ref=examiner.media)with Mind Adventures'. Puccini and Donizetti get an airing courtesy the[ Menaka Singers Opera Ensemble](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaNVpRgDzay/?ref=examiner.media) at the Alliance Française, while the industry poses its eternal question — how to stay ["relevant in a changing world"](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DaP4VNNoP4H/?ref=examiner.media) — at the Media Festival. There’s an oceanic [watercolour workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DacH8oxErDg/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) with Fifty Shades of Blue, followed by the [Art of Shibori](https://www.instagram.com/p/DacH8oxErDg/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) the next day. All very Radicle indeed. [ Animated shorts](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dacv0RAssap/?ref=examiner.media) probe gender, identity, and sexuality at the Colombo digital media hub. 

On Sunday, the greatest pop hits get Soul Sounds' soulful once-over, Soundarie David conducting [The Pop Era](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaZ5U4CMf82/?ref=examiner.media) at the Wendt. Another open mic, [Verses & Voids](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ9OaMICM%5Fp/?ref=examiner.media), this time at the Bawa Space. 

Monday through Wednesday, catch[ "Sorrow spreads under the dark sky"](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZr4HFhjT%5FU/?ref=examiner.media) before the wreckers do, at No. 10 Marine Drive.

On Wednesday [Read with Ranil](https://www.newswire.lk/2026/07/07/unp-to-launch-read-with-ranil-youth-engagement-initiative/?ref=examiner.media). They haven’t released what book’s being discussed, maybe because they’re all ashes. 

Come Thursday, Project Roots[ maps Muslim women's stories](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZxQQ58Gng3/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) and talks regenerative leadership. Elsewhere the talk turns to coexistence and[ Sri Lanka's leopards](https://www.instagram.com/p/DaUbzaZD3TX/?ref=examiner.media) and to coexistence of a rowdier kind — five stand-ups let loose at[ Comedy Curry](https://www.instagram.com/p/Daa%5Fb%5FYoryP/?ref=examiner.media). 

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*What to read*

The Human Rights Commission's [prison study](https://www.hrcsl.lk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Prison-Study-by-HRCSL%5FConcise-Version.pdf?ref=examiner.media) is the authority on the subject. The prison fracas[ also made The Hindu editorial.](https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/prisoners-of-violence-on-sri-lankas-prison-riots/article71198236.ecehttps://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/prisoners-of-violence-on-sri-lankas-prison-riots/article71198236.ece?ref=examiner.media) 

The Center for Investigative Reporting[ follows](https://asiandispatch.net/how-debt-bondage-traps-sri-lankas-malaiyaha-tamil-tea-workers/?ref=examiner.media) a Malaiyaha Tamil tea worker’s escape from debt, over the estate wall, at midnight. Shannon Constantine[ revisits](https://polity.lk/dear-children-sincerely-seven-decades-of-sri-lanka-stages-theatre-group-colombo-2026-shannon-constantine/?ref=examiner.media) Dear Children Sincerely, seven decades of Sri Lanka, as dramatised by the Stages Theatre Group. And Minor Matters[ navigates](https://minormatters.org/report%5Fpolicy%5Fbriefs/navigating-intersecting-rights-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-and-freedom-of-expression-in-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) the awkward junction where the freedom to worship meets the freedom to say what you please. 

Social Indicator [finds](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NADKRpjl0McT9Uc1IKI8AzanSppc4fQK/view?ref=examiner.media) more people give the government a thumbs-up for managing the cost of living than a thumbs-down. And two-thirds are happy with their Ditwah handling. Sanjana Hattotuwa’s [published](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1%5Fa6QE55vqgaIB%5FZb%5FbeCgbMo4DdDrEgI/view?ref=examiner.media) Lanka’s first systematic account of how AI-generated women are manufactured and monetised on Facebook.

Tamara Fernando's[ Shallow Blue Empire](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294141?ref=examiner.media) dives into a century of pearling across the Indian Ocean, meanwhile a piece on Lanka’s 21st century [Corn Law debate.](https://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Held-to-Ransom-How-policy-failure-is-poisoning-Sri-Lankas-poultry-industry-consumers/172-345139?ref=examiner.media)