Today (Friday, 14th), 5.30-7pm, Park Street Mews, Warehouse D, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Free and open to the public. No reservations or tickets. Limited seating.
How do we see our past, and thereby choose to learn from or repeat that which gave rise to violence? In framing histories, what are the politics of selection and exclusion? In a country where the single story often wins out against multiple truths, in looking back at the past, how do we capture the marginal, the violently erased, the inconvenient? How do we, in other words, frame our past to understand our present, and shape our future? The four speakers will approach te topic with different perspectives, ranging from digital photography and literary criticism to the visual arts and theatre.
Featuring T. Shanaathanan, Selyna Peiris, Ruhanie Perera, Abdul Halik-Aziz.
Moderated by Saskia Fernando.
Photography by SHAMSIA HASSANI, Kabul, 2014, The Magic of Art is Magic of Life
