Lost this evening? Sit down with two artists — one young and one old — at Barefoot. Berlin radio comes to Colombo, and then, somewhere, an art exhibition. Catch Brandon Ingram’s experimental Ubu, it's in theatres, fleetingly. If you’re hoping to catch Harini or Tilvin instead, maybe try the Abba sing along.
Going once, going twice, and sold! Chandragupta Thenuwara, Ismeth Raheem, Channa Ekanayake and others go under the gavel at a charity auction on Saturday. Prefer your art homemade? Bring the kids to a puppet making workshop and let them stage a show for you. Or, for the more adventurous a Colombo scavenger hunt. Themal Ellawala lectures on colonial sexual regulation at the public library. Next door, Viharamahadevi park hosts the practical ;) Lanka collector con gives you a chance to spend all your money and HQ at W15 a chance to shake your ass — crazy RobR is playing.
KAI, Kiku, and Lakmahal are fast becoming the wholesome holy trinity. This Sunday a run, a girl walk and bingo, and a storytelling club.
The week is for post-war European cinema, book talks on colonial tourism, and… cricket. With our thrilling comeback last month, Upali’s can finally hold a Sri Lankan cricket quiz, without wailing and gnashing of teeth. Saskia hosts an exhibition featuring Parrot Rahman and others. And a documentary on Neelan Thiruchelvam. The Bawa Trust guides you around its Akurugraphy exhibition, again, just in case you’ve been living under a rock and missed it the first five hundred times.
What to read
Colombo Municipal Council doesn’t seem to be getting with the digitization drive. You can inspect their budget for 2027, but only if you visit them in-person, on select days, during office hours. Sunday Times featured a gigantic expose on how the police keep arresting scammers, but never prosecuting them.
Lal Wijenayake died last weekend. Here is a tribute to his life-long quest for social justice. Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena takes a break from her rights column to reflect on her friend and activist Basil Fernando. Amalini De Sayrah attends an Adivasi funeral and a glass of blood to drink — musings on Lakdhas Wikkramasinha’s insurgent poetry.
Ashlyn Chak writes 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 of X-Press Pearl. And, since fuel is on everyone’s minds yet again, Jason Hingert takes on oil bunkering.
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