Hatch's F#ckup Fridays: 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 on that nostalgic diadem — paddy fields — at Radicle, while memories move through objects at the Curado’s Atmosphere of Stillness and then get fractured on Saturday at the Bawa Trust (repeat at Fearless on Tuesday).
Also on Saturday, learn to film through Bawa’s gaze. And on Sunday, forget zines. Comics are zinging; the faithful commune at Lakmahal. Kiku’s hip-hop tribute sundowner; what could be cooler than the Bronx meeting Shibuya.
Bach through Brahms on Tuesday at the Wendt. Or for those with a more contemporary and conceptual palate: art historian Edwin Coomasaru reviews recent Lankan art shows in the UK through the lenses du jour.
On Thursday Barefoot launches the George Beven Foundation with an exhibition and talk by Coomasaru. A logo isn’t a brand; Amy Quickfell on what people feel rather than see, at the Bawa Space. Ajantha Ranaweera's Gaman Māligā power plays run at Saskia's to the 15th.
Next week WNPS rovers to Kumana for a field trip and an ICES history workshop.
Readme.lk’s nifty digital government tracker. Goeffrey Dobbs – that walking contradiction – is dead. But, for better or worse, he was certainly a character, writes Sunila Galapatti in her obituary. Asha Abeysekara’s ethnography of Slave Island. A piano teacher shares everything you ever wanted to know about piano teaching 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.
Sankhitha Gunaratne on asset-declaration regression; 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 are out. And Verité Research on how to build trust in carbon trading. NUS publishes on a painfully familiar topic: the politics of public finance irregularities.
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