Two meteor showers light the night sky this week; for a longer run, Abhisari, at Scope Cinemas, explores the “raw and complex lives of sex workers.”
The fact-y crowd descends into Macfarlane's Underland at Lakmahal's book club. Last call for Lakmahal’s StorySLAM. Everystory screens Pakistan’s Oscar nominee Joyland. Just as we forsook Forsaken Land, you can’t watch it there. An Akurugraphy tour at the Bawa Trust, the redeemers gather for Stigmata, and Argentine DJ, Hernán Cattaneo, at Port City.
Saturday, take in the Romantic masterworks of the symphony orchestra. By day Design Collective’s Jodi pop-up and our version of jousting re-enactment is palm-leaf writing. Who compete with Hypercon cosplayers? The prizes aren’t chump change, it’s serious stuff.
Sunday, the Goethe screens disability-rights landmark Crip Camp, Arjuna Gunarathne unpacks his kaleidoscope of perceptions in an artist talk and walkthrough. Keep walking till you reach the Latin dance classes and then tango out.
Tuesday’s heavier: Black July at Fearless Space and disaster nationalism at the SSA. For gentler company, Brahms and Mozart at this year’s Earle de Fonseka concert, which always brings out many of our best players.
On Thursday, Sri Lanka remembers it’s next to India. One of the key architects of India’s economic renaissance, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, speaks. Lots of other panels to bridge the divide, sadly none on the actual bridge. The winner takes it all at quiz this week, and the musicians go back to school for an alumni workshop at MusicMatters.
What to read
Verité on how cigarette taxes fell while almost everything else climbed. Twenty years on,Human Rights Watch finds no justice for the Muttur massacre, and Rathindra Kuruwita weighs-up tariff concession.
The draft NGO law in old wine in old bottles, a brief to the PM weighs children, harms and rights in the under-16 social media ban, and Christian children are found bullied.
Skip the Spivakese introduction to read the sections on translation, in this paper on epistemic injustice in insider research. The costs of dengue (indirect cost is $371 per case), a stressed food-security outlook, and WNPS's Loris journal, children's version in tow.
And a farewell: Sir Christopher Ondaatje — writer, corporate buccaneer, adventurer, Olympic bobsledder and brother of Michael — has died at 93.
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