This evening, a Bawa Trust talk on living joyfully among urban intensity, amid a climate crisis. Tomorrow a workshop by the same maestro, titled A Parliament of Objects. Also this evening, a soireé from Stages, the theatre troupe, celebrating their silver jubilee.
Sail into Tuesday with the Admiral’s Mornings at the Kadirgamar Institute. This week they discuss Sri Lanka’s strategic neighbourhood. On Thursday, its former director, Ganeshan Wignarajah, speaks on the root causes of our crisis at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (listen in on Zoom).
For the kids: make Peking Opera headresses on Sunday afternoon at Lakmahal, a house once filled with Chinese abacuses. Next Friday and Saturday, a halloween kids beach party at the fittingly monstrous Port City. For the adults, dance with the damned, also next Friday at Kiku’s halloween party.
BCIS’ three-part lecture series on Democracy and Democratisation begins in a fortnight. Tickets are also now on sale for the Youth Symphony Orchestra and Ne-Yo in December.
What to read
WSO2 might be the most impressive Sri Lankan company in history. Its founder, Sanjiva Weerawarna, gives a thoughtful interview to McKinsey. Thiruni Kelegama has a piece on infrastructure brokers and the Port City over six governments. Nicholas Muller looks at the Xpress Pearl calamity four years later.
The latest Sri Lanka Barometer suggests that Sri Lanka’s reconciliation efforts are directionally correct. Gehan Gunatilleke offers ideas on using faith to help, but cautions that success depends on “avoiding overreliance” and “utilizing faith actors only for the specific strengths they offer.”
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