This evening choose between Deloitte’s budget briefing and ICES’ lecture performance on archives. Upali’s Lankan retro music and for the broké, Lakmahal’s BYOB Story Slam. Or cha-cha the evening away at a latin dance class.
Saturday brings Pradeep Thalawatte walking you through his exhibition at Saskia’s and a Kid’s Curtain Call at the Wendt. If you missed it on Friday, catch a Sinhalese improv comedy show.
If the budget hasn’t bored you utterly by then, on Monday the Ceylon Chamber has a budget briefing with business bigwigs. If it has bored you, Junior Symphony Orchestra also performs.
Tuesday delves into war wounds - physical and psychic - via Prassana Vithanage’s film, Death on a Full Moon Day.
Ways of Knowing exhibition continues at the Bawa Trust, with a guided tour on Thursday. Also a memory walk at the Victoria -> Viharamahadevi park.
Next Friday, two-way film and dialogue: Boddee Keerthisena traces departure to Italy, Niluka Telli returns to rediscover her roots. And, next weekend, the first blind women' s cricket world cup at Katunayake.
Tickets now online for the month’s headline concert, Kankalu. Start booking your digs for the Matara Festival of the Arts in early December, especially as the Galle Literary Festival isn’t happening :’(
PS The Amaliya Foundation organises yoga, scrabble, and tech for the goldies. There’s something on almost every day.
What to read
Manoj Jinadasa asks why men rag men. A case study of anti-microfinance sathyagraha and women’s land rights protests in Panama.
Army training comes in handy after all. A fifth of respondents to a survey of prisoners involved in organised crime were ex-military or police, says a study of organised crime career trajectories.
The Census and Treasury’s Mid-Year Fiscal Review are out. The government’s pension bill is now over a third of the wage bill, and it’s growing . A quarter of Sri Lankans are multi-dimensionally poor. While researchers find power cuts might be a barrier to electronic medical record adoption.
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