There are few things sexier in the ‘discourse’ than migration and ecological decline, the subject of Chundamani Clowes’ exhibition today onwards at Saskia’s. While you’re out this weekend, catch Ayu, a Sinhalese film based on true events. It isn’t set on a walauwa verandah.
Then there’s the colour power weaving workshop at the Bawa Trust on Saturday morning. In the afternoon, Shanaathanan has a guided walkthrough of Barefoot’s Kolam-Jaffna exhibition. At sunset, Paata, a dance theatre production at the BMICH. Vibe Dance Company is known as much for its hip-hop swagger as its classical graces.
Wedding season will soon be upon us. This pop-up market on Sunday may help you survive it. Con the kids into abandoning naughty for nice at Dilmah T-Lounge’s halloween craft and play workshop.
Tuesday brings two shorts commemorating the expulsion of the Muslims from the North, at Elibank Road. And a Kadirgamar Institute seminar on how we know what’s happening in our ocean area. While on Thursday, learn how big retail makes you shop till you drop at the Sri Lanka Retail Forum. Next week, the Ceylon Motor Show returns after a six year hiatus.
What to read
Paanama, a kalawam Sinhalese-Tamil village, has decades of anthropology to its name. Thamali Kirthsiri and Bart Klem’s book chapter offers a history of these anthropologies. The BBC podcasts the life of Viraj Mendis, who sought sanctuary in a UK church for two years to avoid deportation.
A team is only as good as the country it represents: The Hindu says Sri Lanka’s women's first eleven has “shown heart, but execution has lagged” (paywall). Tisaranee Gunasekara has a piece on the Israeli-Buddhist nexus in Lanka.
IPS’s State of the Economy is out, as is Human Rights Watch’s report on how declining tax collection and education underfunding squandered Sri Lanka’s early education lead. For a legal treatise on preventing domestic violence, slog through Thahira Cader and Raaya Gomez’s detailed piece.
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