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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-4/
- Published: 2025-10-17T06:05:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T07:58:13.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, week-06-2025

There are few things sexier in the ‘discourse’ than migration and ecological decline, the subject of Chundamani Clowes’ [exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjDU3iAdBl/?ref=examiner.media) today onwards at Saskia’s. While you’re out this weekend, catch [Ayu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVCA5rzWy%5FM&ref=examiner.media), a Sinhalese film based on true events. It isn’t set on a *walauwa* verandah. 

Then there’s the [colour power weaving workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPk3f6rjLps/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) at the Bawa Trust on Saturday morning. In the afternoon, Shanaathanan has a guided walkthrough of Barefoot’s [Kolam-Jaffna exhibition.](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPvmYaMkvn1/?igsh=MWFhY3VvZ2ZkZG8wOQ==&ref=examiner.media) At sunset, [Paata](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPv6uh1DP5b/?igsh=MXgyaHVwcGE4bDUwbw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media), 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 ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxy4yyALug/?igsh=eHF3dTFuNGJscTBq&ref=examiner.media)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](https://web.facebook.com/100067093045592/posts/1122175743362183/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=r4LqRJh9LOOCZzXo&ref=examiner.media). 

Tuesday brings [two shorts](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1155945400064810&set=pcb.1155945423398141) 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](https://lki.lk/admirals-morning-october-schedule/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com) area. While on Thursday, learn how big retail makes you shop till you drop at the [Sri Lanka Retail Forum](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1155945400064810&set=pcb.1155945423398141). Next week, the [Ceylon Motor Show](https://polity.lk/thahira-cader-raaya-gomez-reflecting-back-and-looking-forward-20-years-since-the-pdva/?ref=examiner.media) returns after a six year hiatus. 

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*What to read*

Paanama, a *kalawam* Sinhalese-Tamil village, has decades of anthropology to its name. Thamali Kirthsiri and Bart Klem’s [book chapter](https://books.google.lk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Qo6NEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT91&dq=lanka&ots=JEjszUYedp&sig=KFKn40H2NWvh0VCKiWweMnbI8A4&redir%5Fesc=y&ref=examiner.media#v=onepage&q=lanka&f=false) offers a history of these anthropologies. The BBC [podcasts](https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/in-detail-sanctuary-act-of-defiance-bbc-local-podcast?ref=examiner.media) 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](https://www.thehindu.com/sport/we-have-to-be-in-the-present-and-identify-the-key-moments-to-win-sri-lanka-coach-ratnayake/article70159575.ece?ref=examiner.media) 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](https://www.himalmag.com/politics/srilanka-israel-palestine-gaza-buddhist-muslim?ref=examiner.media) in Lanka. 

IPS’s [State of the Economy](https://www.ips.lk/events-2/?ref=examiner.media)is out, as is Human Rights Watch’s report on how [declining tax collection and education underfunding squandered Sri Lanka’s early education lead](https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/14/sri-lanka-ruinous-tax-policies-stoke-inequality?ref=examiner.media). For a legal treatise on preventing domestic violence, slog through Thahira Cader and Raaya Gomez’s [detailed piece](https://polity.lk/thahira-cader-raaya-gomez-reflecting-back-and-looking-forward-20-years-since-the-pdva/?ref=examiner.media).