We no longer live in the era of DJ’s refusing to field even a single baila request. Vault dedicates all of this evening to our creole rhythms. If balancing arrack glasses on your forehead isn’t for you, some more conventional circus tricks, courtesy a British council musical. Kiku serves you Bingo, with a side of ramen. Coca brings you a moth-y musical experience. And, to help the deaf and blind school, the De Silva brothers sing along.
Kids too serious? Send them to Bawa Trust’s clowning around on Saturday. Some butterflies have mistaken the Rio cinema for Sri Pada. They’re playing the bass. Or fly with dandelions instead, to Alliance Français’ outer space venue. Address: alien planet. Learn to play Bibuthu with Ranga Dasanayake or draw comics at Lakmahal. For a lower lift, simply step into a colourful Rasika de Silva painting.
Kiku hosts a pole dancing brunch — 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 this month’s poetry open mic. If performance scares you, try the writers club at Lakmahal instead or Cafe Meeples’ board game night. Guitars, drums, and saxophones do what they’re not supposed to, at MusicMatters’ experimental composition.
Come the week, the world congregates 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 and Colombo university students screen the way back. An Indian wildlife bureaucrat shares how they’re managing elephants and a Malaysian economist how they’re managing that less predictable creature — sustainable development. Hatch’s November line-up includes founders’ failures, in case you need a petty pick-me-up. ICES uncovers the origins of the woeful section 365 of the penal code and Safe Space Screenings the happier origins of the vibrator. For those with free Fridays, Leiden university has a full day workshop on colonial environmental encounters in Sri Lanka.
What to read
Pineapple press diagnoses “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 to the infrastructure problem with universities instead.
The weather forecast last week said “light showers,” and Colombo heard “swimming lessons.” Shiran Illanperuma inspects the annual reports of the top 50 companies tracing 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 of it. Get in on the drama — an ex-IRD official complains about Customs.
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