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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-43/
- Published: 2026-08-07T06:42:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-07T06:42:42.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-30-2026

The Manchester unplugs: [live music](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbp%5FTBEseLF/?igsh=MTRybmtxYmVrYW05aw%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) this Friday. Now you want to sit back, relax, and enjoy your evening. When all of a sudden, you hear this agitating, grating voice… It’s the Chamber of Commerce with a [session](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ceylonchamber-share-7485593893493944320-ZbFf/?utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fsend&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fdesktop%5Fweb&rcm=ACoAAAEMqXABFhuz-5NijOvl6xsnH0Zkp0-uRAk) on taxes. Alas, painful but important.

Kiku’s done eight turns about the sun, and is [rewarding](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbsRoO9CMOb/?img%5Findex=8&ref=examiner.media) you with a new menu + a mish-mash of jazz, electronic, and non-alien music. Chandraguptha Thenuwara’s more interested in punishment. Walk-through of his “cast the first stone” [exhibition](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-walkthrough-chandraguptha-thenuwara-cast-the-fist-stone-tickets-1996092545537?aff=ehometext&ref=examiner.media) as Saskia’s. Lakmahal hosts a [story slam](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbh4OGkDcWj/?ref=examiner.media) and your children might enjoy [painting](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbdj2uJRHBa/?ref=examiner.media) a turtle. Vimukthi doesn’t forsake his land obsession, this time apparently it's [silent](https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/the-vitra-design-museum-opens-the-first-geoffrey-bawa-retrospective-in-two-decades/?ref=examiner.media). BCIS [jumps the gun](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/share-7490613621367074816-eNxB/?utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fsend&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fdesktop%5Fweb&rcm=ACoAAAEMqXABFhuz-5NijOvl6xsnH0Zkp0-uRAk): what happens after US hegemony? They must be manifesting…

On Sunday don’t miss the [kite festival](https://web.facebook.com/reel/1769706374187957/?ref=examiner.media) at Galle Face. And then pop over to Brown Sugar’s [kurta pop-up](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbpZl%5FwKv6V/?igsh=eDVya2liYm5uYmRq&ref=examiner.media). 

The week turns unrepentantly artsy. Possibly the greatest photo-chronicler of 20th century Lanka, Stephen Champion, [exhibits](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXe9PRD23Z/?ref=examiner.media) again.Nod through a [sculpture](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbhiZ-9AUVD/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media) talk and doodle through a [font](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-lessons-from-emerging-type-communities-in-thailand-tickets-1993674413840?ref=examiner.media) one. And Arjuna Gunarathne’s riot of colour kaleidoscope [exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbcnE1Ohwn%5F/?ref=examiner.media). The Wendt fuses Verona with Veyangoda; a rendition of [Romeo and Juliet](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbnILuwkvnt/?ref=examiner.media) in two tongues. Later in the week Bimsara Premaratne’s new [play](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbp93rjFPqc/?igsh=MWpjNjJhYjd1azdqZQ%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) at the Kamatha. There’s also a [talk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbkKORpD8lI/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) on elephant conservation in human-dominated areas, an agon of sorts. 

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*What to read*

In bus Gemunu’s worst nightmare, metrobuses are here. Find your [route](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nuwansenaratna%5Fcolombo-metrobus-srilanka-share-7491098229972049920-aop-/?utm%5Fsource=social%5Fshare%5Fsend&utm%5Fmedium=member%5Fdesktop%5Fweb&rcm=ACoAAAEMqXABFhuz-5NijOvl6xsnH0Zkp0-uRAk), more details [here](https://web.facebook.com/story.php?story%5Ffbid=122123097272817054&id=61574511642745&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=W3aNPasGy281mSNP&ref=examiner.media). Hela’s now in the reject pile, everything you need to know about them [here](https://economynext.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Echelon%5FJuly%5F2026%5Fcompressed.pdf?ref=examiner.media). Meanwhile Advocata [rethinks](https://samvaada.substack.com/p/issue-1-rethinking-inflation-policy) money inflation – not wordcount inflation. 

Did you know that forests around Tibetan monasteries have higher biomass than other areas? Not so in Sri Lanka [where](https://tricycle.org/article/buddhism-environmental-law-sri-lanka/?utm%5Fcampaign=02655378&utm%5Fsource=p3s4h3r3s&fbclid=IwY2xjawTfQUBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQaSnOFKk-BKNddC9BR4uUOmmxbL7RxiYjXqTpNUQWyjamuhTtPftVmFOcKE%5Faem%5FA3TPQXZ9IAeGks%5Fllkq-LA) environmentalism fights Buddhism, and the courts have to step in. Also, the new issue of [Loris](https://www.wnpssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Loris.pdf?ref=examiner.media) is out! The nature magazine includes an article on the elephants of Colombo and a children’s section. Bawa’s legacy of merging man, matter and nature goes from strength to strength, this time a major Vitra Design Museum [exhibition](https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/the-vitra-design-museum-opens-the-first-geoffrey-bawa-retrospective-in-two-decades/?ref=examiner.media).