KANDY - 8TH-10TH JANUARY 2016 GALLE - 13TH- 17TH JANUARY 2016 JAFFNA - 23RD- 24TH JANUARY 2016 KANDY DAY1 GALLE DAY1 FRIday 8th JANUARY 2016 6:00- 7.30. PERFORMANCE (St Paul’s Church). SOUL SOUNDS in Concert. Proceeds go to Festival Educational Promotion DAY2 9:00 – 12:00. EXCURSION. (Depart Queens Hotel at 9.a.m) Channa Daswatte on Kandy: Centre of Power and Ritual. 9:30 - 10.30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL. (Queen’s Hotel) FREE EVENT. Panel conducted in Sinhala. Sunanda Karunaratna, Isuru Chamara and Timran Keerthi on Sinhala Poetry: A Vibrant Literary Form. 11:00 - 12.00. Thinking Out Loud. (Queen’s Hotel) Sebastian Faulks on Faulks on Fiction. 12.30 – 2:00. LITERARY LUNCH. (The Empire Café) Sebastian Faulks on Where My Heart Used to Beat. 2:30- 3.30. IN CONVERSATION. (Queen’s Hotel). Shani Mootoo on Cereus Blooms at Night and Moving Forward Sideways like a Crab. 4:30-5:30. PERFORMANCE. (Queen’s Hotel) FREE EVENT. Please note this is a +18 event. Attendees should bring their IDs. The Grassrooted Trust perform From the Cloud. 8:00- 9:30. LITERARY DINNER. All festival authors and Omar Musa recites from his work (The Kandy House) DAY3 SUNday 10th JANUARY 2016 9:30 - 10.30. IN CONVERSATION. Ovida Yu on Aunty Lee’s delights and Aunty Lee’s deadly specials (Queen’s Hotel). 11:00 - 12.00. Thinking Out Loud. Hugh Thomson on the Green Road into the Trees: A Walk through England (Queen’s Hotel). 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH (Queen’s Hotel) All FESTIVAL AUTHORS. TITLE SPONSOR HOSPITALITY PARTNER 11:30-2:00 GARDENS OF TAPROBANE TOUR AND LUNCH, (Taprobane Island). 7:30-9:00. FESTIVAL WELCOME (Akersloot). 7:30-9:00. ARMY CULTURAL SHOW (Law Court Square) FREE EVENT. DAY2 8:00-9:00. PERFORMANCE. Dance Adventures by Sea Legs (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Tom Holland. 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: A Celebration of Poetry Gregory Pardlo (Why House). Wednesday 13th JANUARY 2016 6:00-7:30. BEATING RETREAT (Law Court Square) FREE EVENT. SATURday 9th JANUARY 2016 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: Sebastian Faulks on Devil May Care and James Bond (Galle Fort Hotel). THURSday 14th JANUARY 2016 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Jenny Balfour-Paul. 12:30-2:00. LUNCHTIME ILLUMINATIONS: Shani Mootoo on Experimental Video and Activism (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 2:30-3:30. IN CONVERSATION: Jeet Thayil on Narcopolis (Hall de Galle). 2:30-3:30. IN CONVERSATION: Andrea Maria Schenkel on Murder Farm and Ice Cold (Maritime Museum). 8:00-12:00. EXCURSION: Architectural tour of Ruhunu University Campus with David Robson (Departs from Amangalla at 8 a.m.) 2:30-4:30. WORKSHOP: Samanth Subramaniam on Reading to Write for Narrative Non-Fiction (Amangalla). 9:00-10:30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: Out on Main Street. Visakesa Chandrasekaram, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Shani Mootoo and Ovidia Yu (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 3:45-5:00. TEA AND POETRY-POETRY READING: Tishani Doshi and Omar Musa (Poonie’s Kitchen). 10:00-12:00. WORKSHOP: Padma Viswanathan on People, Places, Things: Creating Characters from Real-World Observations (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing). 10:00-2:00. COOKERY CLASS, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH: The Fort Ladies on Galle Cuisine (Gourmet Galle). 10:00-2:00 COOKERY CLASS, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH: Chef Charles on How to Create an Elegant Cocktail Party (Fort Bazaar Hotel and Spa). 11:00-12:00. THINKING OUT LOUD: Hugh Thomson on Nanda Devi – A Journey to the Last Sanctuary. (Hall de Galle). 11:00-12:00. IN CONVERSATION: Meg Rosoff on Jonathan Unleashed and How I Live Now (Maritime Museum). 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: Mark Tully on India’s Road Ahead (Paddy Fields, Meet at Jetwing Lighthouse at 12:15). PLATINUM PARTNER GOLD PARTNERS 4:00-5:00. THINKING OUT LOUD: Jenny Balfour-Paul on Journeys through Indigo (Hall de Galle). 4:00-5:00. DUET: Minoli Salgado and Nayomi Munaweera on Writing Sri Lanka from the Diaspora (Maritime Museum). 5:30- 7:00. PERFORMANCE: Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s The King and the Assassin (Maritime Museum) FREE EVENT. 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER A Night with Meera Syal (Kahanda Kanda). 9:30 onwards. MAYHEM PAST MIDNIGHT: Omar Musa on his poetry and new Hip Hop album (Sun House). DAY3 FRIday 15th JANUARY 2016 9:30-10:30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: Literary Juries- How Do They Work, What Are Their Criteria? Syed Manzoorul Islam, Tissa Jayatilaka, Jill Macdonald and Carmen Wickramagamage (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 9:30-10:30. IN CONVERSATION: Anuradha Roy on Sleeping on Jupiter (Maritime Museum). 9:30-10:30. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA: Shyam Selvadurai on Many Roads Through Paradise, The Hungry Ghosts and his project Write to Reconcile (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing) FREE EVENT. 10:00-2:00. EXCURSION: Channa Daswatte on Lunuganga: Genius of the Place (Depart from Amangalla at 10a.m). 10:00-12:00. WORKSHOP: Anthony McGowan on How to Write a Gripping Book for Children (Scouts Headquarters). 5:30-7:00. THINKING OUT LOUD: Fiona Shaw on Shakespeare and Friends, Ibsen and Enemies (Hall de Galle). 10:00-2:00 COOKERY CLASS, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH: French Chefs Jacques & Laurent Pourcel on Food of the Mediterranean (Landesi by Jetwing). 5:30-6:30. WINE TASTING: (Lit Café) FREE EVENT (limited to a 50 complimentary tickets - available online at wOw.lk and all box offices) Wine Tasting by Favourites. 10:00-2:00 COOKERY CLASS, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH: Meera Sodha on My Favourite Family Recipes (Gourmet Galle). 5:45-8:00. EXHIBITION LAUNCH: EarthLine by Anoma Wijewardene, with words by Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe and a reading by Amitav Ghosh (48 Lighthouse Street). SILVER PARTNERS 11:00-12:00. IN CONVERSATION: Amitav Ghosh on his Ibis Trilogy (Hall de Galle). 11:00-12:00. IN CONVERSATION: Mark Tully on No Full Stops in India and India The Road Ahead (Maritime Museum). PRINT MEDIA PARTNERS ELECTRONIC MEDIA PARTNERS 11:00-12:00. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA: Edmund Jayasuriya, Ariyawansa Ranaweera and Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardena on The Salalihini Sandesa, the Sandesa Tradition and Translations (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing) FREE EVENT. 6:30-7:30. WINE TASTING: (Lit Café) FREE EVENT (limited to 50 complimentary tickets available online at wOw.lk and all box offices.) IDL on Wine Tasting. 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: Meera Syal on Anita and Me (The Fort Printers). 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: Sebastian Faulks and William Sieghart Poetry and Fiction (Fort Bazaar Hotel and Spa). 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Andy Stanton. 8:00-10:00. TAPROBANE PARTY: With Festival Authors (Taprobane Island) (Limited Tickets). 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! David Lough. 12:15-2:00. LUNCHTIME ILLUMINATIONS: Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s Frangipani (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 2:00-3:00. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA: Jayatilaka Kammallaweera and Nandana Weerasinghe on Contemporary Trends and Achievements in Sinhala Literature (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing) FREE EVENT. Panel conducted in Sinhala. 2:30-3:30. THINKING OUT LOUD: Saba Douglas-Hamilton on The Secret Life of Elephants (Hall de Galle). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: An Evening with Tom Holland (Tamarind Hill). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: In my Mother’s Words with Nandana Sen (Amangalla). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: Out of Africa with Saba Douglas Hamilton (Owl and the Pussycat). DAY4 SATURDAY 16th JANUARY 2016 9:00-12:00. EXCURSION: CHANNA DASWATTE on A Walk through Time and Style (Depart from Amangalla at 9 a.m.). 2:30-3:30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: The Art of the Thriller and Mystery Novel. Anthony McGowan, Andrea Maria Schenkel and Ovidia Yu (Maritime Museum.) 9:00-10:30. DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE SHORTLIST PANEL (Hall de Galle). 2:30-3:30. DUET: Omar Musa and Padma Viswanathan on Trauma, Migration and Recovery (Scouts Headquarters). 2:30-4:30. WORKSHOP: Shehan Karunatilaka on How to Tell a Sri Lankan Story (Galle Library, Galle Fort). 3:00-4:00. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA SERIES: Ramla Wahab-Salman on The Bittersweet Histories of the Muslims of Southwest Sri Lanka (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing). FREE EVENT. 3:00-5:30. COOKERY CLASS FOLLOWED BY LIGHT MEAL: Chef Charles on Ceviches, Crudos & Tartares (Gourmet Galle). 3:45-5:00. TEA AND POETRY-POETRY READING: Fiona Shaw and Mona Arshi (Poonie’s Kitchen). 4:00-5:00: IN CONVERSATION: Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers (Hall de Galle). 4:00-5:00. IN CONVERSATION: Matt Haig on Reasons to Stay Alive (Maritime Museum). 4:00-5:00. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA: Elmo Jayawardena and Vivimarie VanderPoorten on Writing Sri Lanka in English. (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing) FREE EVENT. 5:30-6:30 FAIRWAY NATIONAL LITERARY AWARD CEREMONY (Fairway Hospitality Marquee). (limited to a 100 complimentary tickets - available online at wOw.lk and all box offices.) HOSPITALITY PARTNER 7:00-9:00. PUB QUIZ: Jehan Mendis on The Galle Literary Festival Pub Quiz, Dick’s Bar, Sun House. 8:00-9:30. PERFORMANCE: Sonam Kalra and The Sufi Gospel Project (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Hugh Thomson. TITLE SPONSOR 6:30-7:30. PERFORMANCE: The Grassrooted Trust perform From the Cloud. (Maritime Museum) FREE EVENT. Please note this is a +18 event. Attendees should bring their IDs. 9:00-10:30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: Comedy and Comic Writing. Sebastian Faulks, Shehan Karunatilaka and Chhimi Tenduf- La (Maritime Museum). 10:00- 2:00. COOKERY CLASS, FOLLOWED BY LUNCH: Fort Ladies on their Kitchen Secrets of Great Curries and Rotis (85 Leyn Bahn Street). 10:00- 12:00. WORKSHOP: Tishani Doshi on How to Write a Love Poem (Galle Library, Galle Fort). 10:00-11:30. POETRY PHARMACY: William Sieghart offers Poetic Prescriptions for what ails you (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing). FREE EVENT (limited to 20 complimentary tickets - available online at wOw.lk and all box offices). 11:00-12:00. IN CONVERSATION: Sonali Deraniyagala on Wave (Hall de Galle). 11:00-12:00. THINKING OUT LOUD: Kenan Malik on The Quest for a Moral Compass (Maritime Museum). 11:00-12:00. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL, SANGAM: FESTIVAL OF INDIA IN SRI LANKA 2015-2016: India’s Great Regional Voices. Sri M. Mukundan, Dr. Pratibha Ray and Dr. R. Vairamuthu (Scouts Headquarters) FREE EVENT. 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: Anuradha Roy and Nayomi Munaweera on Writing South Asia. (Amangalla). PLATINUM PARTNER GOLD PARTNERS 12:30-2:00. LITERARY LUNCH: The Forward Poetry Prize Lunch: Tishani Doshi and Mona Arshi (Fortaleza). 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Padma Viswanathan 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Shehan Karunatilaka 12:30-2:00. PRIVATE AFFAIR! Samanth Subramaniam. 12:30-2:00. LUNCHTIME ILLUMINATIONS: Screening of Common Ground (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 2:30-3:30. THINKING OUT LOUD: Tom Holland on Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Hall de Galle). 2:30-3:30. DUET: Rohini Mohan and Samanth Subramaniam on Sri Lanka’s War and Peace through Indian Eyes (Maritime Museum). 2:30-3:30. THINKING OUT LOUD: Alex Stewart on Image/Word/Image: The role of Illustration Alongside the Written Word (Scout’s Headquarters). 2:30-4:30. WORKSHOP: Sebastian Faulks on The Joy of Fiction and Historical Fiction (Landesi by Jetwing). 3:45-5:00. TEA AND POETRY-POETRY READING: Gregory Pardlo and Jeet Thayil (Poonie’s Kitchen). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: The Maharajah’s and Maharani’s Feast by chef, Meera Sodha with Amitav Ghosh (Elysium). DAY5 SUNDAY 17th JANUARY 2016 9:15-10:15. THINKING OUT LOUD: David Lough on Churchill and His Money (Jetwing Lighthouse). 9.30-11.30. EXCURSION: Memories of the Fort with Mrs.Cader (Departs from Old Fort Gate at 9.30) 10:45-11:45. IN CONVERSATION: Sebastian Faulks on his French Trilogy: The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (Jetwing Lighthouse). 12:00- 1:00. DUET: Gregory Pardlo and Mona Arshi on Poetry: the Personal and the Political. (Jetwing Lighthouse). 1:00-2:30. FINALE LUNCH: Grand Finale and inauguration of the Edward Lear Prize for Poetry (Jetwing Lighthouse). JAFFNA PLEASE NOTE: ALL EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. DAY1 SATURDAY 23rd JANUARY 2016 4:00-5:00. DUET: Sonali Deraniyagala and Shyam Selvaduraion Memoir vs Autobiographical Fiction (Hall de Galle). 9:30 - 10.30. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: Panel conducted in Tamil. Ayathurai Santhan, Gayathree Srikandavel and Kandiah Shriganeshan on Tamil Literature, Across Genres (Jaffna Public Library). 4:00-5:00. GALLE LITERARY FESTIVAL PANEL: Paul M.M. Cooper, Anita Nair and Anuradha Roy on Historical Fiction (Maritime Museum). 11:00 - 12.00. Thinking Out Loud: Kenan Malik on The Quest for a Moral Compass (Jaffna Public Library). 4:00-5:00. ARCHITECTURAL TALK: David Robson on The Architectural Heritage of Sri Lanka (The Fort Printers). 2:00- 3.00. IN CONVERSATION: Padma Viswanathan on The Toss of a Lemon. (Jaffna Public Library). 4:00-5:00. FAIRWAY CELEBRATION OF SRI LANKA: S. Pathmanathan on Contemporary Tamil Poetry (Galle Heritage Villa by Jetwing) FREE EVENT. Panel will be conducted in English with readings in Tamil and English. 3:30-4:30. IN CONVERSATION: Ovidia Yu on Aunty Lee’s Delights and Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials (Jaffna Public Library). 4:00-5:00. PERFORMANCE: Heike Fiedler performs Territory Stories (Scouts Headquarters) FREE EVENT. 5:30- 7:00. DSC PRIZE 2016 AWARD CEREMONY (Hall de Galle) FREE EVENT. 7:00-8:00. PERFORMANCE: The Chamber Music Society of Colombo plays A Selection of Classical Masterpieces (Dutch Reformed Church). Proceeds go to Festival Educational Promotion 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: An Evening with Fiona Shaw (The Fort Printers). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: An Evening with KENAN MALIK and JEET THAYIL. Join these award winning writers for a dinner. Kenan will talk briefly and Jeet will read from his own work (Galle Fort Hotel). 8:00-10:00. LITERARY DINNER: An Evening with Sonali Deraniyagala and Chef Charles (Dutch House). SILVER PARTNERS 5:00-6:00. PERFORMANCE: The Grassrooted Trust perform From the Cloud. Please note this is a +18 event. Attendees should bring their IDs (Jaffna Public Library). DAY2 SUNDAY 24th JANUARY 2016 9:00 - 10.00. IN CONVERSATION: Session will be conducted in Tamil and English Rohini Mohan on The Seasons of Trouble (Jaffna Public Library). 10.15 - 11.15. Thinking Out Loud: Sebastian Faulks on Faulks on Fiction (Jaffna Public Library). 11:30-12:30. PERFORMANCE: Performance will be in Tamil. Geeta Ramanujam performs Soul Story (Jaffna Public Library). 12:30-1:30. THINKING OUT LOUD: Jon Snow on his The Golden Age of Journalism (Jaffna Public Library). Disclaimer: The Festival organisers will not be liable for any changes made to the Festival Programme, since time of going to print. PRINT MEDIA PARTNERS ELECTRONIC MEDIA PARTNERS
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