Deep down, every parent knows that every day is children’s day. This weekend, don’t be shy, admit it to your kids with activities celebrating the holiday. Havelock City’s Kids Land takes over the weekend, as does a sushi workshop for the princelings.
Or, rebel parent. On Friday, Angry Indian Goddesses is on, so are jolly Germans at the start of Oktoberfest. There’s also beautifully colourful strokes at the Curado, bringing you contemporary Indian miniatures.
On Saturday, Kasun Wickramasinghe’s dark angels at Paradise Road, and on Sunday, find your inner goat at the Elphinstone. Line up at Lakmahal for a poetry open mic. Slots are full for now but if you’re persistent maybe they’ll squeeze you onto the waiting list. No such prep needed for the comic art club meetup.
The coming week looks outward. Over at Himal, Roman Guatam speaks on the polycrisis in Nepal. And Shezad Dawood talks about modern South Asian architecture, picking five case studies.
Formerly posted in Sri Lanka, Gurjit Singh lectures on his new book on Sri Lanka in a changing Asia. There’s also a workshop for banks to get up to speed on personal data protection. And if that all sounds quite dreary, Kiku gives you a horny quiz.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is next weekend, so start currying favour with your model and photographer friends. Also tickets are out for UBU, an entirely devised play with a stellar cast, that promises to be weird and bold.
What to read
There’s a lot to say on PSTA 2.0: here’s the bill, the human rights commission’s observations, Sanjana Hattotuwa’s critique, Rohan Samarajiva’s cautious not bad, Ambika Satkunanathan’s detailed analysis, the UN’s concerns, Internet Media Action’s journalist POV, and The Examiner’s cop-out of just aggregating all this in diary. There’s also a bit on 22A, this time from G.L. Pieris.
Kumari Jayawardene lives on and Basil Fernando, recently passed, is remembered. Rajni Gamage and co. inspect how gen z, generally derided for being lazy, successfully led regime-shifting protests in South Asia.
Americans, unsurprisingly, are awed that Jetavanaramaya’s been around for nearly 2 millenia. Elephants likely built it. And a netflix show creates more drama outside of it than in.
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