Bimsara Premaratne is kind to us type Bs. For those of you who missed it, she brings back her acclaimed play A day in July 2019 this evening. The bells ring at the Wendt this month, as workshop players put on The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Theatre takes a hat trick - a screening of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. If instead alien music is somehow more your thing, Sound Room gives it to you on saxophone and guitar. Barefoot puts on a fabric-first coat exhibition.
Cafe Meeples’ board game calendar features puzzle days, quiz days, and on Saturday, a rock paper scissor league. You can also join a discussion on finding the right mental health support, followed by some liquid mental health support at D’Or’s ladies night.
Sunday is for rock and, separately, piano. Pair either with a seafood buffet.
Take a sharp turn during the week. A webinar on public debt and microfinance, and a manufacturing supply chain show. Something is in the air these days. Registration is already closed for the chamber’s investment summit and Stages Theatre’s Katawaha is sold out till next week. Shed no tears for the first, but best get moving on the second.
What to read
The judgement is out in a writ application where an elephant is named as the second petitioner. He’s the sole survivor of his herd killed by a train. His lawyers argued that he needs the court to order an environmental assessment of the railway line.
The Guardian’s comedy wildlife selection is out, featuring a Lankan buffalo (not the median MP), and Ishara who regularly contributes to us gets featured in their photo of the weekend.
Shiran Illanperuma gets his titles right: The South-Asia shaped hole at BRICS. The World Bank offers their development update and the Boston Consulting Group, way easier to read, a purchasing-power one. Viyanga Gunasekera muddles border villages.
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