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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-48/
- Published: 2026-09-11T06:32:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T09:01:13.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-35-2026

The *opa dupa* emerge this weekend, with our new political column and with a bastardised poem-play, airing [Dirty Laundry](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcvBbGDiNmg/?img%5Findex=2&ref=examiner.media). An unexpected venue for an evening with your granny; Kiku [offers](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcAxyxYuk0E/?ref=examiner.media) RnB and Bingo. Electronic [music](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc-0qSdgJEl/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) at hatch, and bodily [sculptures](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc3VoD9jTuX/?ref=examiner.media) at Saskia’s. A murder mystery takes over UK theatre - British Council offers you the [cinema](https://www.britishcouncil.lk/library/events/movie-screening-inspector-calls-colombo?ref=examiner.media) version. 

Saturday is kinetic. Go watch a fight at [KFL](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcurznBsuM9/?ref=examiner.media) or get into one at Lakmahal’s [critique circle](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc3QUS6jYWV/?ref=examiner.media). The otherwise sleepy Port City wakes up to a [rave](https://www.spotseeker.lk/event/6a2f7fca741cb?utm%5Fsource=ig&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Fin%5Fbio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAacFP3STTXxCqvmDchl2zFTGgV5NIfvnrI5bxgGp%5FkNljszzV3NHhkTh33fSGg%5Faem%5FujWfzq3zuxqJgdqbRGJnHg), and the [Marians](https://www.ticketsministry.com/concerts/sing-along-with-marians/7536344f-226d-45a0-9996-a1353032a48e?ref=examiner.media) give you a chance to croak. If you’re looking for something a little more gentle, Alliance Français [screens](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc5svaKP9es/?ref=examiner.media) a film about a girl and her wolf. Bawa Trust [teaches](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc2-OTADtCk/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) you your ABC’s with a workshop on expressive letter writing. In a rare opportunity to appear cool to your kids, pull out your stamp collection then take them to the kiddie [workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc7mgnEINcB/?ref=examiner.media) on Stories through Stamps. 

Try-hards that they are, Port City [parties](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcTc0Rujath/?ref=examiner.media) into Sunday. Try-hard that you are, take the 5km [run](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dctd3v5DZof/?ref=examiner.media). DBS’ articles live on — get a book of his landmark works at a commemorative [launch](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OI5OI3eg61Oqubxu0Fl4QH6kHjqEf8zJ/view?usp=drive%5Flink&ref=examiner.media). The historical collective meanwhile turn their [attention](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc7ikMSo5O%5F/?ref=examiner.media) to another great — his friend Neelan Thiruchelvam. 

This week SSA develops a taste for dodgy business. They’re teaching you how to commit a crime, in a [lecture](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcu8zhvo4En/?ref=examiner.media) on the Anthropology of Extortion. There’s also a Study in the US [fair](https://fulbrightsrilanka.org/universityfair/?ref=examiner.media), for those of you still undeterred by The Orange Man. Think you’re hardcore because you stay up partying all night? Owl-obsessed Deepal Warakagoda could put you to shame. Join him at a [session](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc-6WKdHIAv/?ref=examiner.media) on these hidden night predators. Also on offer are mind-bending [plays](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8BGRsAsaB/?ref=examiner.media), and plot-twisting [stories](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc8Aau%5FDb2%5F/?ref=examiner.media).

Coming up, Jehan Aloysius puts on the [Hunchback of Notre Dame](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc-64FBPd1o/?stkn=bW5uejRydTA2bDMx&ref=examiner.media) and *The Examiner* puts on its birthday suit. 

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*What to read*

Sanjana goes off at SLC. He [finds](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/officially-blocked-yet-still-broadcast-1xbat-across-hattotuwa-ph-d--ors2c/?trackingId=hwlwRrlSQkdPigvh8OjcqQ%3D%3D&ref=examiner.media) that millions have seen betting ads at their matches. Lionel Bopage [remarks](https://polity.lk/this-government-that-opposition-and-the-work-still-ours-lionel-bopage/?ref=examiner.media) on the integrity of Bala Tampoe and Raj Sivananthan on [complexity](https://groundviews.org/2026/08/31/which-vasudeva-nanayakkara-should-history-remember/?ref=examiner.media) shall we say, of Vasudeva Nanayakkara. The UNHRC releases its [report](https://www.newswire.lk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Report-on-the-Visit-of-the-President-of-the-Common%5F260907%5F173003.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on Sri Lanka featuring mass graves, the 22nd amendment, and anti-corruption crackdowns. Gnanasara’s get out of jail free card expires. Back to jail he goes following a Supreme Court judgement. 

Ashanee Kottage [reflects](https://ashaneekottage.substack.com/p/on-coaches-coincidences-and-climbing?r=3h4jn&utm%5Fmedium=ios) on religion and women as she journeys up Adams Peak. Equally reflective, but with an absolutely justified bone to pick, Vidya Balachander [crusades](https://vidyabalachander.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-eating) against diet culture. 

Centre for a Smart Future, meanwhile, releases a [statement](https://www.newswire.lk/2026/09/10/csf-urges-careful-design-of-trade-adjustment-programme-to-address-industry-pressure/?ref=examiner.media) on our trade adjustment programme.