This evening, Project Roots goes rummaging through the diaspora's roots and routes at Hatch, Uncover sadly doesn’t strip at the JDA Perera Gallery, and the slightly inscrutable Denary Odyssey 3 at the Wendt. Shakespeare's lovers lose their way beneath the poson poya moon as Cold Theatre 7 stages A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Wendt, tonight and tomorrow.
Come Saturday, the value-chain crowd champion ‘home grown solutions’ at the Good Market, the young ones tell tall tales at Colombo Storytelling, and a constructive cruelty awaits you at Lakmahal's critique circle. Amaani Hamid proves a simple stroke can say plenty, teaching the art of Arabic calligraphy at the Bawa Space. Kiku's roll-your-own sushi night: no harakiri demanded for those short of perfection. Or dine grander at a supper club with a MasterChef semi-finalist. Coucou the devil is in the details, at CoCa’s Linda langasangamaya.
On Sunday, architecture nerds, chop-chop: applications close for the Bawa Trust's Architectural (Hi)stories seminar.
Tuesday resurfaces — literally — with a fusion of downward dog and near-drowning, aqua-yoga, followed by the drier Indonesia–Sri Lanka Business Forum. On Wednesday, Vijay Prashad and the Yukthi Collective chart a future beyond neoliberalism. Meanwhile the Chamber talks trust at machine speed.
Come Thursday, poet-in-concrete Junya Ishigami delivers the 23rd Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture.
Next Friday belongs to the bookish. The packed Colombo Literary Festival opens at Arcade Independence Square, rivaling its Galle and Ceylon predecessors — most notably in price. Or Vajra unpacks the craft of storytelling at Lakmahal. And, for a different sort of spectacle entirely, Sashbomb rolls into town. The last batch of tickets for Tharooftop takeover’s end of July party goes out this week.
What to read
Nadeera Rajapaksa reminds us that two Sri Lankan writers, Antonythasan Jesuthasan in 2026 and Shehan Karunatilaka in 2025, won France’s top prize for Asian literature in translation in consecutive years. She reviews them in Polity.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallage drill into the deep-sea mining deadlock between Colombo and Delhi. Verité Research on tax revenue going up in smoke.
Grandparents are holding migrant households together. A Lankan-founded startup, Logical, got into Y Combinator, a first for a fully Lankan team. And a farewell serenade: Mariazelle Goonetilleke has passed away.
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