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# Where to go and what to do
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-what-to-read-44/
- Published: 2026-08-14T05:49:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T08:16:37.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-31-2026

A tribute film week with our #2 Cannes entrant [The Forsaken Land](https://www.facebook.com/mahendrapereraactorsstudio/posts/pfbid029tddzVd7Qw95XuSje1eGFGhQv5K3NzwiqryQLdf78jU7wYsujjy2Qa8DLJVTPo9fl)this evening. Karunasiri Wijesinghe [sketches](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbsdIwKmBAZ/?ref=examiner.media) four decades of seeing the wood for the trees at Barefoot. Few peer deeper into Lanka’s eyes than Stephen Champion, a [rare solo exhibition](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXe9PRD23Z/?ref=examiner.media) at the Wendt. More analogue this week: Mount Studio’s [film photography workshop](https://www.mountstudio.lk/?ref=examiner.media). 

 Lakmahal convenes its latest[ poetry club](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7fnVzCJF9/?ref=examiner.media), and the Bawa Trust its [design](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db2RmRjlVT%5F/?ref=examiner.media) one. Put a shot and rouse the crowds as [Mark Antony, Henry V or, better yet, Falstaff](https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ4oec9DCiV/?ref=examiner.media). Tamil sing-along at[ MisMatched](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbiWSustIjL/?ref=examiner.media) or the KSHMR-and-R3HAB EDM juggernaut at[ Sunfest](https://www.instagram.com/p/DanPoq2DWkg/?ref=examiner.media). 

On Sunday, Mount Studio goes[ In Search of Nihal Fernando](https://www.mountstudio.lk/?ref=examiner.media), also check out their chic office. Can loyalty be betrayal? asks Park Chan-wook's [Handmaiden](https://www.instagram.com/safespacescreenings/p/DbalfzLgspQ/?ref=examiner.media). Watch art’s [Lemuria](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db0fC2MjXh4/?ref=examiner.media)slowly, mournfully collapse into the sea. 

Get to work on Tuesday, the Chamber demystifies [paperless customs declarations](https://event.chamber.lk/Details/Event/499?ref=examiner.media), the sign of a bad UX. 

On Wednesday, Lakmahal launches its[ Storytelling Club](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbnNET8H4KQ/?ref=examiner.media) and Tamara Fernando casts pearls before us swine in[ Shallow Blue Empire](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbsOUHOGNkl/?ref=examiner.media), a century of Indian Ocean pearling. 

The next day Isle Amore settles the eternal question of whether they were on a break at[ a Friends quiz night](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbzrSapxMZd/?ref=examiner.media).

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*What to read*

Stop bugging us: here's [Pujith](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DtgX6tmaMnNsjhnFkCGodZRUy1yZ67uL/view?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media) and [Hemasiri's](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNFTX10JqiV-yrIwL8V-Z1Nz3KnT0Li7/view?usp=sharing&ref=examiner.media) judgements.

Civil society finds the new NGO bill suspicious and hands a report to[ FATF](https://neelan.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Civil-Society-Shadow-Report-submission-to-FATF-Mutual-Evaluation-of-Sri-Lanka-August-2026.pdf?ref=examiner.media) ahead of our mutual evaluation, and CSF listens to[ women in the gig economy](https://www.csf-asia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Womens-Experiences-in-Sri-Lankas-Gig-Economy%5F-Analytical-Note.pdf?ref=examiner.media). Lasitha Jayasinghe brings home Sri Lanka's first-ever[ silver at the Maths Olympiad](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thedaynewsglobal-tdng-internationalmathematicalolympiad-share-7491951821402308608-Hgg0/?ref=examiner.media).

Across the Strait, Tamil Nadu's[ pigeon seizures](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/tn-pigeon-seizures-linked-to-racing-demand-in-lanka/articleshow/133037984.cms?ref=examiner.media) turn out to feed Lanka's racing habit. Saroj Pathirana [reopens the X-Press Pearl](https://pulitzercenter.org/resource/investigating-alleged-corruption-after-environmental-disaster-case-x-press-pearl?ref=examiner.media) file, while Rohan Pethiyagoda on why he’d [feed](https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Animal-Welfare-Bill-A-dog-s-breakfast/14-795873?ref=examiner.media) the Animal Welfare Bill to his dogs.

Pramodha Weerasekara‘s [Carceral Forms, Peripheral Zones](https://www.parenthesesreview.com/essays/carceral-forms-peripheral-zones?ref=examiner.media) on prisons at the edge of the map and a Buddhist monk who takes on[ religious hate speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CtIKQO-uc&ref=examiner.media) online. A [review](https://thewire.in/books/an-invaluable-narrative-by-an-insider-about-the-failed-peace-process-of-the-sri-lankan-civil-war?ref=examiner.media) of G. L. Pieris’ insider account of the ceasefire and the postwar[ aid-exploitation spectrum](https://www.parleypolicy.com/post/navigating-the-aid-exploitation-spectrum-in-postwar-sri-lanka?ref=examiner.media). Finally, Polity[ reviews](https://polity.lk/state-formation-and-conflicts-in-sri-lanka-sunil-bastian-london/?ref=examiner.media) Sunil Bastian's *State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka*.