This evening, build your "climate character" (presumably no hotties allowed) at Lakmahal's eco writing workshops – they’re on during the weekend too. Ready yourself to storm the barricades with a burgundy 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.
Come Saturday, beg, borrow or steal a child and remember how to play with Mind Adventures'. Puccini and Donizetti get an airing courtesy the Menaka Singers Opera Ensemble at the Alliance Française, while the industry poses its eternal question — how to stay "relevant in a changing world" — at the Media Festival. There’s an oceanic watercolour workshop with Fifty Shades of Blue, followed by the Art of Shibori the next day. All very Radicle indeed. Animated shorts 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 at the Wendt. Another open mic, Verses & Voids, this time at the Bawa Space.
Monday through Wednesday, catch "Sorrow spreads under the dark sky" before the wreckers do, at No. 10 Marine Drive.
On Wednesday Read with Ranil. They haven’t released what book’s being discussed, maybe because they’re all ashes.
Come Thursday, Project Roots maps Muslim women's stories and talks regenerative leadership. Elsewhere the talk turns to coexistence and Sri Lanka's leopards and to coexistence of a rowdier kind — five stand-ups let loose at Comedy Curry.
What to read
The Human Rights Commission's prison study is the authority on the subject. The prison fracas also made The Hindu editorial.
The Center for Investigative Reporting follows a Malaiyaha Tamil tea worker’s escape from debt, over the estate wall, at midnight. Shannon Constantine revisits Dear Children Sincerely, seven decades of Sri Lanka, as dramatised by the Stages Theatre Group. And Minor Matters navigates the awkward junction where the freedom to worship meets the freedom to say what you please.
Social Indicator finds 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 Lanka’s first systematic account of how AI-generated women are manufactured and monetised on Facebook.
Tamara Fernando's Shallow Blue Empire dives into a century of pearling across the Indian Ocean, meanwhile a piece on Lanka’s 21st century Corn Law debate.
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