The Manchester unplugs: live music 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 on taxes. Alas, painful but important.
Kiku’s done eight turns about the sun, and is rewarding 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 as Saskia’s. Lakmahal hosts a story slam and your children might enjoy painting a turtle. Vimukthi doesn’t forsake his land obsession, this time apparently it's silent. BCIS jumps the gun: what happens after US hegemony? They must be manifesting…
On Sunday don’t miss the kite festival at Galle Face. And then pop over to Brown Sugar’s kurta pop-up.
The week turns unrepentantly artsy. Possibly the greatest photo-chronicler of 20th century Lanka, Stephen Champion, exhibits again.Nod through a sculpture talk and doodle through a font one. And Arjuna Gunarathne’s riot of colour kaleidoscope exhibition. The Wendt fuses Verona with Veyangoda; a rendition of Romeo and Juliet in two tongues. Later in the week Bimsara Premaratne’s new play at the Kamatha. There’s also a talk on elephant conservation in human-dominated areas, an agon of sorts.
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In bus Gemunu’s worst nightmare, metrobuses are here. Find your route, more details here. Hela’s now in the reject pile, everything you need to know about them here. Meanwhile Advocata rethinks 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 environmentalism fights Buddhism, and the courts have to step in. Also, the new issue of Loris 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.
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