Artist Tour for Families 18 May Saturday, 3–5pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ led by artists Irushi Tennekoon (b. 1989), Sumedha Kelegama (b. 1988), and Sumudu Athukorala (b. 1980), whose specially commissioned film ‘is this an architectural documentary?’ (2023) about the Watapuluwa Housing Scheme
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Exhibition Tour in Tamil 18 May Saturday, 11am–12 pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ in Tamil led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing
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Exhibition Tour 5 May Sunday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’,
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Workshop ‘Make Your Ideal Space’ with Shenuka Corea (for ages 8–13) 4 May Saturday, 3–5pm Register here In this workshop conducted in response to the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’, artist and illustrator Shenuka will guide participants to develop their own visual narratives about their ideal space. This Workshop
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Exhibition Tour in Sinhala 4 May Saturday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ in Sinhala led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme
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Gallery Talk: ‘Geddes and the Garden City’ with Ramla Wahab-Salman and Sumedha Kelegama 3 May Friday, 6–7pm Register here Researcher and Executive Director of the American Institute for Lankan Studies, Ramla speaks to Artist and Architect Sumedha. They speak about Conservative Surgery by Patrick Geddes as an approach to community housing, participatory architecture, and the
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Exhibition Tour 21 April Sunday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’,
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Exhibition Tour in Sinhala 20 April Saturday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ in Sinhala led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme
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Exhibition Tour 07 April Sunday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’,
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Exhibition Tour in Tamil 6 April Saturday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres’ in Tamil led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of the Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva' on view until
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Gallery Talk:‘Research Behind the Scenes’ with Dhilashini Karthigesu, Johann Peiris, and Pramodha Weerasekera 5 April Friday, 6–7pm Register here Join Dhilashini, Johann, and Pramodha as they speak about their experiences in conducting fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and archival research for the exhibition ‘88 Acres’ and the animated documentary ‘is this an architectural documentary?’ (2023). This Gallery
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Workshop: ‘Writing Home’ with Kanya D’Almeida (for ages 18 and above) 6 April Saturday, 3–5pm Register here Kanya guides participants to remember their homes as an abstract and physical space of memories, and engages them in exercises of autobiographical writing. This workshop is inspired by Minnette De Silva’s (1918–1998) own writing on her projects and
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Exhibition Tour in Tamil 30 March Saturday, 11am–12 pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ in Tamil led by a Visitor Educator of the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Exhibition Tour is offered as part of Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing
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Curator’s Tour with Thinal Sajeewa 31 March Sunday, 11am–12pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ with SAssistant Curator at the MMCA Sri Lanka. This Curator’s Tour is offered as part of the Public Programmes of the exhibition ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette
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Artist Tour 23 March Saturday, 3–5pm Register here Join a tour of ‘88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette De Silva’ led by artists Irushi Tennekoon (b. 1989), Sumedha Kelegama (b. 1988), and Sumudu Athukorala (b. 1980), whose specially commissioned film ‘is this an architectural documentary?’ (2023) about the Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minnette
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