Monthly Archives: August 2025

Join us for an evening of reflection, dialogue, and exchange with writers, artists, and activists from Jaffna. Nilani Joseph, T. Krishnapriya, Angel Queentus, Anutharsi Gabilan, and Rani Sritharan will come together to share their experiences, perspectives, and creative practices shaped by life in the Northern Peninsula.

The conversation, moderated by Tisa Thiruchelvam, will explore themes of memory, identity, resilience, and the many ways women articulate their voices within and beyond their communities.

Open to all, this gathering invites audiences to listen, learn, and engage with narratives that are both deeply personal and resonant across wider contexts.

This event is part of the event series Sister Library in Jaffna. The project is funded by the Franco-German Cultural Fund. The Fund was set up in 2003 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty of friendship between France and West Germany and it promotes Franco-German cooperation by providing support for cultural and artistic projects.

Image:
T. Krishnapriya
Internalization (Solo Show at Kalam, Jaffna), 2022.
Series “Reshaped”
Drawing on found wood
Courtesy of T. Krishnapriya

✨ Announcing the schedule for The Routes we Take Jaffna from the 29th, 30th, and 31st August!

⚡️At the YGC Innovation Festival: check out The Routes we Take “Station” from 9am-5pm on 29th & 30th August and register to join the workshop on ‘How to Take your Creativity to the World’ 30th August from 9am-12pm

🧵At the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design: register to join the lunch + workshops from 12.15pm-7pm on 30th August and the talk on 31st August

📍YGC Innovation Festival @ Jaffna Thiruvalluvar Cultural Center + Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture & Design @ 199 Temple Road, Nallur

👉Register now at the link to explore your creativity!  Good Life X | Facebook | Linktree

🎥 Un Jeune Chaman follows Ze, a 17-year-old shaman in Ulaanbaatar. While balancing school and his spiritual calling, he communicates with the spirits of his ancestors to help his community. But when he meets Marla, a new reality begins to emerge.
📅 Thursday, 21st August
🕖 7.00 PM
🎟️ Free entrance
📍 Alliance Française de Colombo
🔵 With English subtitles

🎥 Belle et Sébastien : Nouvelle Génération follows Sébastien, a 10-year-old city boy spending the summer in the mountains. When he meets Belle, a mistreated dog, their friendship leads to the wildest summer of his life.
📅 Saturday, 16th August
🕒 3.00 PM
🎟️ Free entrance
📍 Alliance Française de Colombo
🔵 With English subtitles

📚 Join us for two evenings of book presentations as part of Sister Library, hosted within the exhibition Empowerment: Arts and Feminisms. Led by Indigenous artist Aqui Thami, Sister Library is a vibrant art initiative that reimagines the library as a feminist space—merging literature with community to honor the creativity of women writers, artists, and zine makers.
🌍 In Sri Lanka, the project is funded by the Franco-German Cultural Fund and presented in partnership with Everystory Sri Lanka, an organization amplifying underrepresented voices through literature. Everystory has contributed Sri Lankan works to the collection, while the Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française have added feminist literature from Germany and France, translated into English.
📖 Across two evenings, we’ll share favorite titles from the bookshelf. Stefan Winkler, Director of the Goethe-Institut, will reflect on reading science fiction—traditionally male-dominated—and spotlight Sultana’s Dream by Rukeya Hussain, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, and Kindred by Octavia Butler. He’ll also introduce Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah and Utopias of the Third Kind by Vandana Singh.
👥 On the second evening, Thadini Liyanage and Raeesa Samsudeen from Everystory will lead a session on The Vegetarian by Han Kang. They will be joined by Cécile Hoorelbeke and Vidura Rodrigo from Alliance Française de Colombo, who will present their favorites, including Frozen Women by Annie Ernaux and Poems of the First Buddhist Women, translated by Charles Hallisey.
🎨 The event is part of the public programme of Empowerment: Art and Feminisms, a travelling South Asian exhibition featuring 31 feminist artists and collectives. On view from 4–11 August 2025 at JDA Perera Gallery, the show explores gender, identity, care, resistance, and inclusion. It is curated by Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, and Uta Ruhkamp, and co-produced by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.