This evening, shatter your history at the Lakmahal’s pow-wow on Dalrymple putha’s new book. Fuel prices are up, delete Uber and read more with a Colombo book fair haul. Or, later in the week, an SSA one.
God Given Son Amila Sandaruwan returns at Music Matters. A new exhibition at Radicle offers only “imagined serenity”— not the real deal. Uncover the post-taboo human form at Sky Gallery. Or music for your mind, from the Concept Collective.
Non-prodigals return too on Saturday; sometimes from the grave, this time a box of Qunitus Fernando’s long-forgotten photo-box turns up at Barefoot’s gallery. Children these days don’t read, but with Akurugraphy they may write or even learn a little empathy. Thalawathagoda cosplays King’s Landing at this Games of Thrones quiz.
While you rest, let the little ones play God on Sunday; puppet making for the babas at the Public Library. Considering we live in Lanka, can’t be sure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is fantastical enough to qualify for Lakmahal’s sci-fi book club; their feminist one The Mountains Sing, what’s described as a Vietnamese Pachinko. Sometimes the British Council remembers that it isn’t a tutory, this week some MusicMatters jazz.
On Tuesday, First Capital’s Startup-Nation tries to annexe the region, while the French Embassy dives us into the undersea cables that connect us to it. While MusicMatters unceasing waves continue: listen to a software created music exploring “Buddhist themes of impermanence and emptiness by building systems that record, degrade, and recombine” in real time. On Thursday, the Bawa Trust’s men of letters kick-off 30 days of Akurugraphy — fingers crossed that’s a euphemism for a party.
Later in the month, a trip to Horton Plains, with the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society.
What to read
Why Sri Lanka hasn’t launched a proper tourism promotion campaign in a quarter of a century. Damning. More tourism fiascos, this time we promised away twice. Pair with sectoral economic development strategies from IPS.
Reading is praxis too, says this feminist workshop series. Polity explores the reality, and hyper-reality, of image-based sexual abuse. While Piyumi Fonseka writes about reporting after the Easter Bombings.
Nature mags Loris and Little Loris are out. And Rohan Pethiyagoda’s The Curious Naturalist is available for sale again.
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