- 05 Feb 2025 Wednesday, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Opening Night
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Day Pass: Thursday 6th
- 06 Feb-09 Feb 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Festival Pass (4-Day Pass)
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM Your Life in Words
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Mansions of the Moon
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Dystopia: Our Fascination with an Alternative Future
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Lyrical Landscapes: Crafting Narrative across Mediums
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Growing Up Wild : LITERARY LUNCH
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Razeen Sally : LITERARY LUNCH
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Urban Illustration : Architecture, People & Cherished Objects
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Reshaping the Modern-Day Museum: Digital Collections in South Asia
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM 30 Years in Print
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Tea & Poetry: Tea Stained Lines
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Nicolas Bouvier’s The Scorpion-Fish: 70 Years after the Author’s stay in Galle
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Running in the Family: Unravelling Trauma through Memoir
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Galle Fort Photo Walk
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Vietnam Through Time: A Nat Geo Photographer’s 25-Year Journey
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Morning TV to Murder Mystery: Adventures in Broadcasting, Sport and Writing
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Celebrating the Art of Slow Textiles
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Twilight Songbook
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 6:00 PM to 11:45 PM 30 Years of Reef
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Afua Hirsch : LITERARY DINNER
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Philippe Sands : LITERARY DINNER
- 06 Feb 2025 Thursday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Jayaflava : LITERARY DINNER
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Morning Yoga
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Galle Fort Photo Walk
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Brotherless Night
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Catalysts of Creativity: Why Writing Prizes Matter
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Day Pass: Friday 7th
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Storytelling as Peoples’ Histories
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Legacy: Who Do We Choose to Remember?
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM Explore the Enchanting World of Artisanal Ceylon Tea
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM How to Write a Children’s Book
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM Writing Poetry
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Connecting Cultures: The Art of Literary Translation
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM The Landscape of a Lost Kingdom
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM The Fusion of Dreams & The Forbidden Gift
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Shyam Selvadurai : LITERARY LUNCH
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Songwriting: Turning Ideas into Music
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Foreigner, Expatriate, Immigrant
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Beyond Kairos : Opera, Literature & Language
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Tea & Poetry
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Plastic Emotions
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM The Future of War
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Tattoo: Reclaiming Ancestral Traditions
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM Galle Fort: A Heritage Walk
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM The Pepperpot Diaries
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Worrell: Caribbean Cricket & Post-Independence Identity
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM Shaking Things Up: Mr Lyan and Modern Cocktail Culture
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 6:00 PM to 11:45 PM Growing Leaders
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 6:00 PM to 11:45 PM Cocktails & Contemporary Art with ARTRA
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Soviet Bus Stops
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Sustainably-Conscious Architecture : LITERARY DINNER
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Peter and Georgina Godwin : LITERARY DINNER
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Peter Frankopan : LITERARY DINNER
- 07 Feb 2025 All day GLF Beach Party
- 07 Feb 2025 Friday, 9:00 PM to 11:45 PM Mayhem Past Midnight
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Morning Yoga
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Galle Fort Photo Walk with the Streets of Colombo
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Childrens Pass – 12+
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM With Fresh Eyes: The Insider & Outsider in Travel Writing
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM LOVE: In Literature as in Life
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Climate Crossroads: The Imperative to Act
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Day Pass: Saturday 8th
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM Childrens Pass – 9-11
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM Childrens Pass – 6-8
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Childrens Pass – 2-5
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM AI in Writing: Friend, Foe or Tool?
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Inheriting the Past: Vietnam’s Legacy Through Two Lenses
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Fusing Fact with Fiction in the Historical Novel
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Writing a Crime-Thriller: Creating a Storyboard with Greg Mosse
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM Muslim Kitchen Demonstration
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM Child Migrant Voices
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM LGBTQ+ Identities On & Off the Page
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Gauguin and Polynesia
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Discover Your Voice
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Louise Minchin : LITERARY LUNCH
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Illustration Builds Character with Lalith Karunatilaka
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM The Stuff of Legend
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM A Photographic Guide to the Wildlife of Sri Lanka
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM Beyond the Frame: People and Cultural Photography with Catherine Karnow
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Tea & Poetry
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM A Ride Across America
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM Cuisine as Community: Tales from the Diaspora Kitchen
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM In the Footsteps of Elephants
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM Galle Fort Photo Walk with the Streets of Colombo
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Behind the Curtain: Writing for Theatre
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 5:00 PM to 5:45 PM Shringar: An Evening of Classical Indian Dance
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 6:00 PM to 6:45 PM In Concert: The Chamber Music Society of Colombo
- 08 Feb 2025 All day The Women’s Prize for Fiction
- 08 Feb 2025 All day THE AFTER PARTY
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Comedy Night with Sashi Perera and Taniya Lewwanduwage
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:00 PM to 7:45 PM Cocktails and Conversation with Lakshman Joseph-de Saram
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Ben Macintyre : LITERARY DINNER
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM Nihal Arthanayake & Sathnam Sanghera : LITERARY DINNER
- 08 Feb 2025 Saturday, 7:30 PM to 9:45 PM The 2024 International Booker Prize : LITERARY DINNER
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM Morning Yoga
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM A Way with Words: The Magic of the Multilingual Writer
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM The Siege
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM The Podcast Era: The Impact of Audio Storytelling
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Day Pass: Sunday 9th
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Beyond the Frame: People and Cultural Photography with Catherine Karnow
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM A New Wave of Democracy in South Asia?
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Kairos: The 2024 International Booker Prize
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM Sati Savitri
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM Creative Writing with Nadeesha Paulis
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM The Art of Poster Design with Mads Berg
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Comedian, Writer, Recovering Lawyer
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Seeing Ourselves: South Asian Representation in Children’s Books
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Repatriation: Objects of Empire
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Shakespeare with Michael Attenborough : LITERARY LUNCH
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Kate Mosse & Greg Mosse : LITERARY LUNCH
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Food Writing: Kung Pao Chicken with Susan Jung : LITERARY LUNCH
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM Understanding Sri Lankan Identity through Novels
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM Wild Encounters, Wise Choices: Shaping Sustainable Wildlife Tourism
- 09 Feb 2025 Sunday, 2:45 PM to 6:00 PM Birding on the Hill