This evening, assess our music buffs’ nerdiness level at Musicmatters’ trivia night. Kiku hosts RnBingo No. 5, devoted to one-hit wonders, a worthy prelude to what should be their next one: wedding band music.
An animation workshop for the teens, not that their lives need any more animating, at Alliance Française on Saturday (there’s also a screening). The babas learn to live in harmony with elephants at the British Council, a lesson the grown-ups are still working on. Decolonial feminist “reading praxis” at the Fearless Space, though the reading list remains a mystery.
Natasha Edirisooriya tells us about how she invented sex and why sex jokes scare some people more than inflation, at Barefoot. Mo Aung plays live at The Sound Room. Lakmahal’s poets club on what’s lost, and occasionally found, in translation.
A whisking workshop: the Matcha Club at Kai on Sunday, for patriots willing to stray from Ceylon tea. Musicmatters curates Chiththa’s experimental sounds at the British Council. At the Bawa Space, Madan Meena finds the desert in bloom, in a talk on block-prints.
Clubs convene too: a feminist book club, a writers club, and, yoginis only, stretch, sip and pet pooosas at Soul Theory.
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. He’s also been busy penning an oped for Time Magazine on our community-based mental health care.
In this auto-ethnography, 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 for. Second, a monograph on human rights in the North and East today.
A stunning Reuters photoessay on the human-elephant war and North-Eastern essay on the queer wedding between a fox and crow.
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