Lend your ears to Colombo’s redoutable Western classical music tradition. The Symphony Orchestra remembers Deshamanya Rohan de Saram, a British-Sri Lankan cellist, this evening. A weaker Lankan tradition is hip hop. Pair it with live instruments at The Sound Room. Grab a free matcha at Havelock City and walk to Curado for the opening of Rukmini Attygalle’s transitory lives. For botanical blues, Rasika De Silva exhibits at Saskia’s.
Your teenagers are anyway going to curse you for the world you’ve left them. Might as well give them a headstart with a storytelling workshop on marine plastic pollution this Saturday. Or Alliance Français is screening French short films, and they’ve gone out of the way to clarify they’re keeping it PG (if that’s possible for the French). Your grandparents might enjoy a talk on taking Kolam from their verandah onto a modern typeface. Ghosts quiz you at Lakmahal and dance with you at Tunescape’s last hoorah. DM them for tickets.
Worship the new God this Sunday: fitness. Run and Rave at Kai or Pilates at Granbell. For those nursing last night's hangover, a ladies-heavy stand up comedy night.
Central Banks are usually allergic to the public. But ours actually has a public lecture series, this week on AI and South Asian labour markets. Not to be outdone, the Chamber of Commerce offers similar fare, focused more on Sri Lanka. AILS new book series reads from Shallow Blue Water. Gehan Blok traipses from crass to absurdist comedy in Nuga Gahak, a Sinhala adaptation of An Oak Tree.
What to read
Great power rivalry is getting in our heads, says Avinash Paliwal at the Carnegie Endowment. And the human rights commission doesn’t seem to be getting enough out of Gehan Gunatilleke. He’s had time to write a tome on free speech and international law.
The Eastern province gets some attention this week, with Adayaalam reporting on their Ditwah situation and HRCSL on their human rights one. Two weeks ago we reported that your tattoos could land you in jail through the new organised crime bill. This week it gets thinkpieces and observations.
Sanjana Hattotuwa breaks down social media responses to Gnanasara’s arrest and Amali Wedagedara community responses to mineral sand mining. The bribery commission’s asset declarations database is down. Never fear, Dinidu comes to the rescue.
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