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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-55/
- Published: 2026-11-06T06:57:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-06T06:57:23.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-43-2026

Lost **this evening**? Sit [down](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfEOC2DGFLq/?ref=examiner.media) with two artists — one young and one old — at Barefoot. Berlin [radio](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfEQF%5FLCEjQ/?ref=examiner.media) comes to Colombo, and then, [somewhere](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfTdFRUMLU9/?ref=examiner.media), an art exhibition. Catch Brandon Ingram’s experimental [Ubu](https://karanda.lk/?ref=examiner.media), it's in theatres, fleetingly. If you’re hoping to catch Harini or Tilvin instead, maybe try the Abba [sing along](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGhdYAisRa/?ref=examiner.media). 

Going once, going twice, and sold! Chandragupta Thenuwara, Ismeth Raheem, Channa Ekanayake and others go under the gavel at a charity [auction](https://www.happeningcolombo.com/%5Ffiles/ugd/effac4%5Fe6d54271cfc04aa2ac3135730fd21d6d.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on **Saturday**. Prefer your art homemade? Bring the kids to a [puppet](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfCZ6NuOpgQ/?ref=examiner.media) making workshop and let them stage a show for you. Or, for the more adventurous a Colombo [scavenger hunt](https://www.instagram.com/p/De%5FZmzSsjzL/?ref=examiner.media). Themal Ellawala [lectures](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGozZtIizO/?ref=examiner.media) on colonial sexual regulation at the public library. Next door, Viharamahadevi park hosts the practical ;) Lanka collector con gives you a [chance](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd6d-INNhhn/?ref=examiner.media) to spend all your money and HQ at W15 a chance to shake your ass — crazy RobR is [playing](https://www.ticketsministry.com/concerts/afro-embassy/ef2eef26-9c56-43c2-9922-9b022fd97589?utm%5Fsource=ig&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Fin%5Fbio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaeZSLiRLMznyx1jF7y-Ph9iCoX6gkADFtpWqqYu1UJB6qbnL7-%5F8nKwWzvuug%5Faem%5FZ53lSBDHVreYhgApuww6yQ).

KAI, Kiku, and Lakmahal are fast becoming the wholesome holy trinity. This **Sunday** a [run](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfULg%5F8MJZ0/?ref=examiner.media), a girl [walk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfHnytvuDI0/?ref=examiner.media) and bingo, and a [storytelling club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfMTLUCRN-a/?ref=examiner.media). 

The **week** is for post-war European [cinema](https://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/en/ver.cfm?event%5Fid=27361486&ref=examiner.media), book talks on colonial [tourism](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfCFTqDgLQw/?ref=examiner.media), and… cricket. With our thrilling comeback last month, Upali’s can finally hold a Sri Lankan [cricket quiz](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfHo7nuCZ-W/?ref=examiner.media), without wailing and gnashing of teeth. Saskia hosts an [exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/De1W7vGIu7t/?ref=examiner.media) featuring Parrot Rahman and others. And a [documentary](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfPa3Tdtk85/?ref=examiner.media) on Neelan Thiruchelvam. The Bawa Trust guides you around its [Akurugraphy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfRQdluF7sv/?ref=examiner.media) exhibition, again, just in case you’ve been living under a rock and missed it the first five hundred times.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/56/2b/562b4f8e-9dd1-43bb-a213-bc1615650661/content/images/2026/11/the-world-cup-bound-sri-lankan-cricketers-in-a-pre-tour-camp-at-nuwara-eliya.webp)

*What to read*

Colombo Municipal Council doesn’t seem to be getting with the digitization drive. You can inspect their [budget](https://documents.gov.lk/api/content-file-proxy?file=/extra-gazette-content/PG8099%28E%29%20%20[IV-B]%5F1793775849.pdf&ref=examiner.media) for 2027, but only if you visit them in-person, on select days, during office hours. Sunday Times featured a gigantic [expose](https://www.sundaytimes.lk/261101/news/inside-the-top-secret-chinese-cybercrime-networks-in-lanka-662595.html?ref=examiner.media) on how the police keep arresting scammers, but never prosecuting them.

Lal Wijenayake died last weekend. Here is a [tribute](https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/lal-wijenayake-his-life-politics/?ref=examiner.media) to his life-long quest for social justice. Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena takes a break from her rights column to [reflect](https://polity.lk/unfinished-conversations-the-life-and-works-of-intrepid-human-rights-lawyer-basil-fernando-kishali-pinto-jayawardena/?ref=examiner.media) on her friend and activist Basil Fernando. Amalini De Sayrah [attends](https://polity.lk/a-funeral-in-rathugala-amalini-de-sayrah/?fbclid=IwY2xjawVU6LdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR9BwMCC9U5WTPvFZmc9HHY88vt3kEjehYFikiDsk7vu4SlfaGkL63zpcE2bWA%5Faem%5F5ZeAzWncfgkzaK7O6OEVGQ&ref=examiner.media) an Adivasi funeral and a glass of blood to drink — [musings](https://www.himalmag.com/jvp-insurrection-1971-sri-lankan-poetry-lakdhas-wikkramasinha/?ref=examiner.media) on Lakdhas Wikkramasinha’s insurgent poetry.

Ashlyn Chak [writes](https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3371105/how-new-generation-sri-lankans-reshaping-colombos-restaurant-and-bar-scene?pgtype=topic&ref=examiner.media) on Colombo’s trendy food scene, which thanks to a cop raid on Kampong, has only gained more aura. And Vanditha Widyalankara on the [ghosts](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/05/no-one-cares-about-the-little-guy-sri-lankas-fishers-still-reeling-from-2021-toxic-plastic-spill?ref=examiner.media) of X-Press Pearl. And, since fuel is on everyone’s minds yet again, Jason Hingert takes on oil [bunkering](https://backend.echelon.lk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/OCT-Issue-Magazine%5Fcompressed.pdf?ref=examiner.media).