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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-47/
- Published: 2026-09-04T07:24:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-04T09:00:42.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-34-2026

Hatch's[ F#ckup Fridays](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcu-GyrtToD/?ref=examiner.media): considering how many ways a function can go wrong, this week’s speaker, an event planner, should know what they’re talking about. This week’s art — like much of our island’s oeuvre — dwells on the past. [Marutha Osai](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcnJHdMq6vx/?ref=examiner.media) on that nostalgic diadem — paddy fields — at Radicle, while memories move through objects at the Curado’s[ Atmosphere of Stillness](https://www.instagram.com/p/DctDGeBCPgw/?ref=examiner.media) and then [get fractured](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcdWGdgIXZ7/?ref=examiner.media) on Saturday at the Bawa Trust (repeat at Fearless on Tuesday). 

Also on Saturday, learn to [film](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dckjr%5F8EStA/?ref=examiner.media) through Bawa’s gaze. And on Sunday, forget zines. [Comics](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc0DrJVk4ZM/?ref=examiner.media) are zinging; the faithful commune at Lakmahal. Kiku’s [hip-hop tribute](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbz3bbsAb1l/?ref=examiner.media) sundowner; what could be cooler than the Bronx meeting Shibuya. 

Bach through Brahms on Tuesday at the[ Wendt](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db%5FGNcgCLH4/?ref=examiner.media). Or for those with a more contemporary and conceptual palate: art historian Edwin Coomasaru[ reviews ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcsMUusCi8L/?ref=examiner.media)recent Lankan art shows in the UK through the lenses du jour. 

On Thursday Barefoot [launches](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcdghswmGW2/?ref=examiner.media) the George Beven Foundation with an exhibition and talk by Coomasaru. [A logo isn’t a brand](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcxdAsmFrlI/?ref=examiner.media); Amy Quickfell on what people feel rather than see, at the Bawa Space. Ajantha Ranaweera's[ Gaman Māligā](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcgM7S6IQY1/?ref=examiner.media) power plays run at Saskia's to the 15th.

Next week WNPS rovers to[ Kumana](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcdAWW-RhSH/?ref=examiner.media) for a field trip and an ICES [history workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcsdaRfEclV/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fweb%5Fcopy%5Flink&igsi=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D). 

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[Readme.lk](http://readme.lk/?ref=examiner.media)’s nifty [digital government ](https://readme.lk/digital-government/?ref=examiner.media)tracker. Goeffrey Dobbs – that walking contradiction – is dead. But, for better or worse, he was certainly a character, writes Sunila Galapatti in her [obituary](https://www.sundaytimes.lk/260830/plus/for-better-or-worse-this-was-geoffrey-dobbs-653354.html?ref=examiner.media). Asha Abeysekara’s [ethnography](https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/pdf/11043?ref=examiner.media) of Slave Island. A piano teacher shares everything you ever wanted to know about [piano teaching](https://reference-global.com/download/article/10.4038/jrm.v4i2.70.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on the island and a former Mannar government agent writes a wartime diary, available at Barefoot. Before we get to the numbers, community mediation boards that give people voice aren’t quite translating into [trust](https://reference-global.com/download/article/10.4038/jssnisd.v4i1.60.pdf?ref=examiner.media). 

Sankhitha Gunaratne on asset-declaration [regression](https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/opinion/Asset-Declarations-What-is-the-Right-to-Know-if-there-is-No-Right-to-Speak/172-349259?ref=examiner.media); even if not quite a case of *un okkama yaluwo malli,* it still smells of *plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.* 

The Central Bank’s 2026 [socio-economic statistics](https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/statistics/economic-and-social-statistics?ref=examiner.media) are out. And Verité Research on how to build[ trust in carbon trading](https://archive.veriteresearch.org/bitstream/handle/456/8299/carbon-trading-needs-a-good-rulebook-insight-14-01.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&ref=examiner.media). NUS [publishes](https://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/papers/the-politics-of-public-finance-irregularities-under-the-npp-government-in-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) on a painfully familiar topic: the politics of public finance irregularities.