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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-52/
- Published: 2026-10-16T07:11:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T07:11:50.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-40-2026

**This evening**, assess our music buffs’ nerdiness level at [Musicmatters’](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeMMDMdv7Dq/?ref=examiner.media) trivia night. Kiku hosts [RnBingo No. 5](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdylkKuuPGn/?ref=examiner.media), devoted to one-hit wonders, a worthy prelude to what should be their next one: wedding band music. 

An [animation workshop](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeMFw5QPp6d/?ref=examiner.media) for the teens, not that their lives need any more animating, at Alliance Française on **Saturday** (there’s also a [screening](https://www.instagram.com/p/Debt9wev8Hr/?ref=examiner.media)). The *babas* learn to [live in harmony with elephants](https://www.instagram.com/p/DedrX9AIw1I/?ref=examiner.media) at the British Council, a lesson the grown-ups are still working on. Decolonial feminist “[reading praxis](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTYvXHpTzd/?ref=examiner.media)” at the Fearless Space, though the reading list remains a mystery. 

Natasha Edirisooriya tells us about [how she invented sex](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeJtnSQg%5F4E/?ref=examiner.media) and why sex jokes scare some people more than inflation, at Barefoot. [Mo Aung](https://www.instagram.com/p/DebrYc%5FOIMN/?ref=examiner.media) plays live at The Sound Room. Lakmahal’s poets [club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeOXp7uBd-%5F/?ref=examiner.media) on what’s lost, and occasionally found, in translation.

A whisking workshop: [the Matcha Club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DedhRmJtL%5Fa/?ref=examiner.media) at Kai on **Sunday**, for patriots willing to stray from Ceylon tea. Musicmatters curates[ Chiththa](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeOm015I-0q/?ref=examiner.media)’s experimental sounds at the British Council. At the Bawa Space, Madan Meena finds the desert in bloom, in a[ talk on block-prints](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeL2o8ulHsn/?ref=examiner.media). 

Clubs convene too: a [feminist book club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeB-eSGt3PO/?ref=examiner.media), a [writers club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeBn8pLtv11/?ref=examiner.media), and, yoginis only, [stretch, sip and pet *pooosas*](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZNbttIxBH/?mdxt=ZjAzcTZsdnoxZHM2&ref=examiner.media) at Soul Theory. 

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*What to read*

AKD gave his biggest economic speech of the year so far, talking about everything from ports to technology. Full translated transcript [here](https://www.examiner.media/p/5163cfc1-e8fa-4ae5-ac5c-9eb9b15929ce/?member%5Fstatus=free). He’s also been busy penning an oped for Time Magazine on our [community-based mental health care](https://time.com/article/2026/10/12/the-case-for-shifting-mental-health-care-from-institutions-to-communities/?ref=examiner.media). 

In this [auto-ethnography](https://polity.lk/the-art-of-witness-memory-and-resistance-in-sri-lanka-yolanda-foster/?ref=examiner.media), Yolanda Foster interrogates the relationship between art and human rights in Colombo. Worth reading for her photos of 1990s exhibitions alone. Speaking of human rights, curtain calls from the Human Rights Commission. First, on the detention of Piratheepan’s books at customs, which, in Kafkaesque fashion, [no one took responsibility](https://www.hrcsl.lk/hrcsl-issues-recommendation-on-seizure-of-four-books-by-b-piratheepan-by-sri-lanka-customs/?ref=examiner.media) for. Second, a [monograph](https://www.hrcsl.lk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HRCSL-Report-on-the-Human-Rights-Situation-of-the-Northern-and-Eastern-Provinces-of-Sri-Lanka.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on human rights in the North and East today. 

A stunning Reuters photoessay on the [human-elephant war](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/srilanka-elephants/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAU9bvxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWUQVHebgu63A23FGXaZC61LVqIS2%5F%5F3NydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR6sitxpm33EcLPNq9g9WYE8L0sFUhOtdOb4QCIbDupdaSlydXGeb8FeHyDJNQ%5Faem%5FggEw35BZJZDyettDpy6KkQ&ref=examiner.media) and North-Eastern essay on the [queer wedding between a fox and crow. ](https://northeastmag.com/essays/a-wedding-between-a-fox-and-a-crow?ref=examiner.media)