A tribute film week with our #2 Cannes entrant The Forsaken Land this evening. Karunasiri Wijesinghe sketches 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 at the Wendt. More analogue this week: Mount Studio’s film photography workshop.
Lakmahal convenes its latest poetry club, and the Bawa Trust its design one. Put a shot and rouse the crowds as Mark Antony, Henry V or, better yet, Falstaff. Tamil sing-along at MisMatched or the KSHMR-and-R3HAB EDM juggernaut at Sunfest.
On Sunday, Mount Studio goes In Search of Nihal Fernando, also check out their chic office. Can loyalty be betrayal? asks Park Chan-wook's Handmaiden. Watch art’s Lemuria slowly, mournfully collapse into the sea.
Get to work on Tuesday, the Chamber demystifies paperless customs declarations, the sign of a bad UX.
On Wednesday, Lakmahal launches its Storytelling Club and Tamara Fernando casts pearls before us swine in Shallow Blue Empire, 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.
What to read
Stop bugging us: here's Pujith and Hemasiri's judgements.
Civil society finds the new NGO bill suspicious and hands a report to FATF ahead of our mutual evaluation, and CSF listens to women in the gig economy. Lasitha Jayasinghe brings home Sri Lanka's first-ever silver at the Maths Olympiad.
Across the Strait, Tamil Nadu's pigeon seizures turn out to feed Lanka's racing habit. Saroj Pathirana reopens the X-Press Pearl file, while Rohan Pethiyagoda on why he’d feed the Animal Welfare Bill to his dogs.
Pramodha Weerasekara‘s Carceral Forms, Peripheral Zones on prisons at the edge of the map and a Buddhist monk who takes on religious hate speech online. A review of G. L. Pieris’ insider account of the ceasefire and the postwar aid-exploitation spectrum. Finally, Polity reviews Sunil Bastian's State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka.
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