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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-56/
- Published: 2026-11-13T06:01:08.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-13T06:01:08.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-44-2026

We no longer live in the era of DJ’s refusing to field even a single baila request. Vault [dedicates](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfjfWElCjBs/?ref=examiner.media) all of **this evening** to our creole rhythms. If balancing arrack glasses on your forehead isn’t for you, some more conventional circus [tricks](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfYzj9vjHkO/?ref=examiner.media), courtesy a British council musical. Kiku [serves](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfKKJKhuSzR/?ref=examiner.media) you Bingo, with a side of ramen. Coca brings you a moth-y musical [experience](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dfc3K5yvmZ0/?ref=examiner.media). And, to help the deaf and blind school, the De Silva brothers [sing along](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfcU81-lDlp/?ref=examiner.media). 

Kids too serious? Send them to Bawa Trust’s [clowning](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfTmhWoikUV/?ref=examiner.media) around on **Saturday**. Some butterflies have mistaken the Rio cinema for Sri Pada. They’re [playing](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfgvV1sDprX/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) the bass. Or fly with dandelions instead, to Alliance Français’ outer space venue. Address: alien [planet](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfROBQ5I%5F6U/?ref=examiner.media). Learn to [play](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=pfbid01T6ZRr5uPjPKXTLtU1iWDg1WDuuNqTEbL7GuZYNjFJeJ5QaEFcgoAXwr6H8FVBJml&id=61560289960011&rdid=G6LUwe5o8S1cTtO5#) Bibuthu with Ranga Dasanayake or draw [comics](https://www.instagram.com/p/De6khnlBCVl/?ref=examiner.media) at Lakmahal. For a lower lift, simply step into a colourful Rasika de Silva [painting](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fusion-play-tickets-2004158483976?ref=examiner.media). 

Kiku hosts a pole dancing [brunch](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfKLc3TsSiS/?ref=examiner.media) — somewhere an aunty is lighting a lamp for us all. And One Galle Face finally finds a serious use for itself come **Sunday** — the lovely Sarasavi bookshop [hosts](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfOeKiqolLZ/?ref=examiner.media) this month’s poetry open mic. If performance scares you, try the writers [club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfMTLUCRN-a/?ref=examiner.media) at Lakmahal instead or Cafe Meeples’ [board game](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfM7nzsjbiS/?ref=examiner.media) night. Guitars, drums, and saxophones do what they’re not supposed to, at MusicMatters’ experimental [composition](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfPV8dpTvOX/?ref=examiner.media). 

Come **the week**, the world [congregates](https://www.goethe.de/ins/lk/en/ver.cfm?event%5Fid=27381764&ref=examiner.media) at Elphinstone for a four day dance festival. It features dances from the Netherlands, South Africa, and India too. The treasury secretary tells you about the [way forward](https://www.instagram.com/p/DetHCYLkrNx/?ref=examiner.media) and Colombo university students screen the [way back](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122204266460837511&set=a.122132264762837511&type=3&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=bk0u58vGFqaNR85e&share%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F19C8S7y4Lq%2F%3Fmibextid%3DwwXIfr#). An Indian wildlife bureaucrat [shares](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfUAG4QFMTA/?ref=examiner.media) how they’re managing elephants and a Malaysian economist how they’re managing that less predictable creature — [sustainable development](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfJdEV-zAFJ/?ref=examiner.media). Hatch’s November line-up [includes](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfhKhCkl-8o/?ref=examiner.media) founders’ failures, in case you need a petty pick-me-up. ICES [uncovers](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfSSTLmH-gt/?ref=examiner.media) the origins of the woeful section 365 of the penal code and Safe Space Screenings the happier [origins](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfjMDSvCGum/?ref=examiner.media) of the vibrator. For those with free Fridays, Leiden university has a full day [workshop](https://www.uu.nl/en/events/colonial-environmental-encounters-in-sri-lanka?ref=examiner.media) on colonial environmental encounters in Sri Lanka.

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*What to read*

Pineapple press [diagnoses](https://pineapplepress.news/sri-lankas-devil-buses-why-the-roads-turn-into-a-race/?ref=examiner.media) “Devil Buses” or why Sri Lankan buses race. Bad publicity is still publicity, I suppose, especially with the metrobus hoarding all the attention. Usually a discussion about human resources, Mahendran Thiruvarangan [turns](https://island.lk/the-infrastructure-crisis-at-state-universities/?fbclid=IwY2xjawViG9xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWJyaWQRMVkxMXBndkQydTNEVElRdldzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfw%5F6a1v9OU7If6QW%5Fi%5FLgkaIa1U2O0WLVj707JsSkxaU-O4Zt2DO58K%5FwPuE%5Faem%5FeByPlPHvA1AdgzN2RtsRow&ref=examiner.media) to the infrastructure problem with universities instead. 

The weather forecast last week [said](https://floodsupport.org/research/colombo-flash-flood-2026?ref=examiner.media) “light showers,” and Colombo heard “swimming lessons.” Shiran Illanperuma inspects the annual reports of the top 50 companies [tracing](https://polity.lk/unfinished-business-the-rise-of-the-financial-bourgeoisie-in-sri-lanka-shiran-illanperuma/?ref=examiner.media) the history of how they went from nobodies to somebodies (derogatory). 

The Supreme Court has mostly given the green light to the anti-terror law. Read what UN experts [think](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/11/un-experts-sri-lankas-proposed-terrorism-law-must-respect-human-rights?ref=examiner.media) of it. Get in on the drama — an ex-IRD official [complains](https://www.ft.lk/columns/The-unethical-Customs-rewards-system/4-799997?ref=examiner.media) about Customs.