The spectre of an American holiday is haunting Colombo. This evening, The Cauldron bubbles into an open mic, Fairway promises a buffet spookier than its real estate portfolio, and Water's Edge burns you at the steak.
Underground, the Sinhala music scene comes alive. Kiku wants to hear you scream. Vault locks you in. Our favourite period film, Carrie, is for the fearless and if you really like to shoot things, Image Expo is open through the weekend.
If the Anti-Corruption Law doesn’t scare you, five stand-up comedians promise you the problem has multiplied.
Lakmahal stays real. Their non-fiction book club takes up Ajay Kamalakaran's Colombo Port of Call. Yet to Be, the group exhibition at Radicle, closes today.
Saturday starts earnestly. Commons Coffinhouse wants you to talk about death and dying. As this El Niño talk will surely remind us, that day could come sooner than you think. Head over to Comic con for more costumes, as though this weekend doesn’t have enough. Memory archive promises sensory play for the big ghouls, Trust Bawa with candy for the babas. In the spectre of capitalism, the Halloween market. You can have your DJ Cake and DJ Snake too. Meet the vampire at Lakmahal’s book club or solve a murder mystery. Legacies wrap up for H. A. Karunaratne and the British Council hosts Gratien winner Savin Edirisinghe
On Sunday, KAI salutes the sunset. Check out Nelun Harasgama’s work before it goes back to the stockroom.
Next week, the Chamber explains the National Green Reporting System to businesses. Talk about Noguchi or blockprint Sushi with Moju on Wednesday. How to write sculpture? The Bawa trust asks. Radicle opens Chamila Gamage's And Then, Somewhere.
What to read
October may end. But the horrors persist. Human Rights Watch thinks that the Organized Crime Bill could encourage police torture. While the Human Rights Commission finds between 2020 and March 2025, 79 people died in police custody. Yet they haven’t prosecuted any of the 1,000 detained foreign fraud suspects this year, finds The Sunday Times.
The skeletons in our closet: International Truth and Justice Project’s report on international law violations during the final battle of the decades long war. They also count those missing from the Office on Missing Persons' own records.
Amalini De Sayrah writes about the late Rathugala adivasi chief and how modernity changed their lives. Prasanna Perera on why the East Container Terminal still isn't working, more than a decade in. Nihal Jayawickrama explains why Maithripala Sirisena is wrong: Gnanasara Thera's pardon wasn’t a "technical error".
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