Colombo is often dead, but for once it's not a bad thing. For the dead are out tonight, at over a dozen Halloween parties. Kiku’s and Love Bar’s seem promising. There’s even one for the kids. Barefoot’s Impermanence and Saskia’s Go Home with Me open.
Halloween parties aside, Q’s jazz promises dangers more mellow at Bayleaf on Saturday. For activities sacred rather than profane, St. Michael’s Polwatte has choral services on all weekend. Also explore the memories embedded in objects at Lakmahal and children’s cookie making at Hungry Island Studio.
Sunday has a tour of the Bawa Trusts Ways of Knowing exhibition. On Tuesday, they explore how traditional knowledge can regenerate our modern future. Also discuss the death of expertise with universal expert Rohan Samarajiva. Thursday brings Music Matters open mic.
Next week dissect the budget with Duminda Hulangamuwa and other captains of industry. Plus Uditha Devapriya’s webinar on Martin Wickremesinghe.
What to read
Sri Lanka’s tax rates now make much more sense, the challenge is really in enforcing them. Mick Moore’s paper explains how we can make property taxes actually work. Tl;dr: digitize property valuation. Also watch Ganeshan Wignarajah's lecture on lessons from our sovereign default.
The government published its climate finance strategy. ICES gathers together materials under the umbrella of Religion and Resistance. The Institute for Political Economy argues debt for nature swaps won’t save Sri Lanka. What can? Mongabay has a piece on the island’s illicit elephant trade.
Three cumbersome reads with important facts. Researchers find that Mannar wind farms aren’t affecting the fish catch. Kanishka Werawella at Colombo University’s data shows previous generations of women are more likely to join the labour force than those that followed them. This Polity article reminds us that one in five victims of sexual violence don’t tell anyone.
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