Upcoming Events
at your leisure with the art club
at your leisure: with the art club is a relaxed, facilitated picnic and painting session designed to encourage women to spend time or ‘loiter’ in a public space together without pressure or urgency. Held at Vihara Mahadevi Park, the event creates a shared environment where participants can sit, talk, eat, and make art in an open, accessible setting.
The session will be facilitated by Shehara Gunaratne and Cyrene Rabel, who will guide light-touch activities to help participants ease into conversation and creative expression. This may include simple prompts for painting, small group interactions, and opportunities to share ideas or experiences. The focus is on participation and connection.
No prior experience with art is needed. The painting component is meant to be approachable and flexible, offering a way for people to engage with each other while doing something hands-on. Participants are encouraged to move around, join different groups, and take part at their own comfort level.
Meeting point
Bring your own art supplies, water and any personal snacks/refreshments
*This is a women-centered, shared space where participants are encouraged to be open to conversation and group participation
All we imagine as light - Community Watch Party
Join us on the 29th of May for a screening of All We Imagine As Light at the W.A. Silva Museum, 6–9 PM
All We Imagine as Light is a poetic, atmospheric drama directed by Payal Kapadia. It follows two Malayali nurses and roommates in contemporary Mumbai, Prabha and Anu, as they navigate love, financial hardship, and the pressures of the bustling city. The film highlights the everyday struggles of working women and contrasts the isolation of urban living with a transformative journey to a seaside town.
not your government's beautification project
This interactive session explores how public visual culture—such as posters, signage, and notices—shapes our experience of shared spaces. Beginning with an observation of the posters that crowd our streets, participants will reflect on their messaging, aesthetics, accessibility, and whose voices they represent or exclude.
Following this, participants will discuss how public-facing visuals can be more engaging, representative, and inclusive of diverse communities, before taking part in a hands-on poster-making session. Here, they will design and create their own alternative posters, responding to local issues, celebrating community identities, or simply experimenting with more colourful, expressive, and people-centered forms of communication.
The session encourages creativity, critical thinking, and collective reimagining of public space, challenging top-down ideas of "beautification" and instead centering community expression and ownership.
Who Do We Design For with Colombo Urban Lab and Anuradhi Jayasinghe
Join us for a discussion on design, disparity, and who gets left out of the brief
This virtual session explores public vertical housing through a design lens, examining how design shapes and is shaped by the social and economic conditions of the communities it serves. We look at the disparity in how different communities are designed for, and ask: who do we design for?
Reimagining the City
Workshop by Colombo Urban Lab
The interactive session will explore how women experience the city and will encourage participants to think about how gender influences our experiences with the built environment, which can in turn shape livelihood, education and quality of life.
A series of activities and games will guide participants to reimagine the city through the lens of spatial justice, safety, leisure, labour and care, and consider what planning processes and systems could build an inclusive city that is sustainable and just for all.
The Breadwinner: Community Screening
The Breadwinner (2017)
In 2001, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, an 11-year-old girl named Parvana disguises herself as a boy to work and support her family after her father is unjustly arrested. Risking everything, she uses her courage and imagination to find her father and reunite her family in this animated drama.
Free Entrance
Community Watch Party: The Importance of Being Earnest
The National Theatre London is releasing their hit production of The Importance of Being Earnest on to YouTube for a week. What's a better way to watch it than with your friends?
So, bring your Friends and join us for a community watch party for free!
'Dead Poets Society' Screening
Join us for a nostalgic movie night with 'Dead Poets Society' - grab your popcorn and get ready for some classic cinema!
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy. It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
‘made with care’ valentines clay-sculpture making with Ivy Ceramics
Join us for a clay workshop about making gifts by hand, questioning why care is often gendered, and exploring softness, touch, and tenderness. This event falls under our YFN theme ‘Masculinity’
GALENTINE’S DAY MOVIE NIGHT
Spend Galentine's Day with us watching K3G! Grab your girls, and come ready to quote K3G all night while dancing and singing to K3G classics
Girls Only!
Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan), the adoptive son of business magnate Yash Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan), feels eternal gratitude to his father for rescuing him from a life of poverty. Yet, when Yash forbids his love for poor Anjali (Kajol), Rahul marries her and moves to London with new wife and sister-in-law, Pooja (Kareena Kapoor), breaking the heart of his mother (Jaya Bachchan). Ten years later, Rahul's younger brother (Hrithik Roshan) comes to London intent on brokering peace between father and son.
Community Screening of ‘Kumbalangi Nights’
Join us for the community screening of ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ under our YFN theme ‘Masculinities’
Kumbalangi Nights (2019) is a Malayalam drama that follows four estranged, dysfunctional brothers—Saji, Bony, Bobby, and Franky—living in a broken home in the fishing village of Kumbalangi. As they navigate personal insecurities and lack of direction, the story explores themes of brotherhood, toxic masculinity, and emotional healing, ultimately leading to their reconciliation and growth.