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Day Pass: Thursday 6th

Day Pass: Friday 7th

Day Pass: Saturday 8th

Day Pass: Sunday 9th

Your Life in Words

Reshaping the Modern-Day Museum: Digital Collections in South Asia

Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty

Mansions of the Moon

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

Lyrical Landscapes: Crafting Narrative across Mediums

Dystopia: Our Fascination with an Alternative Future

Razeen Sally : LITERARY LUNCH

Growing Up Wild : LITERARY LUNCH

30 Years in Print

Urban Illustration : Architecture, People & Cherished Objects

Running in the Family: Unravelling Trauma through Memoir

Nicolas Bouvier’s The Scorpion-Fish: 70 Years after the Author’s stay in Galle

Tea & Poetry: Tea Stained Lines

Morning TV to Murder Mystery: Adventures in Broadcasting, Sport and Writing

Vietnam Through Time: A Nat Geo Photographer’s 25-Year Journey

Galle Fort Photo Walk

30 Years of Reef

Twilight Songbook

Celebrating the Art of Slow Textiles

Jayaflava : LITERARY DINNER

Philippe Sands : LITERARY DINNER

Afua Hirsch : LITERARY DINNER

Morning Yoga

Galle Fort Photo Walk

Catalysts of Creativity: Why Writing Prizes Matter

Brotherless Night

Writing Poetry

How to Write a Children’s Book

Explore the Enchanting World of Artisanal Ceylon Tea

Legacy: Who Do We Choose to Remember?

Storytelling as Peoples’ Histories

The Landscape of a Lost Kingdom

Connecting Cultures: The Art of Literary Translation

Shyam Selvadurai : LITERARY LUNCH

The Fusion of Dreams & The Forbidden Gift

Beyond Kairos : Opera, Literature & Language

Foreigner, Expatriate, Immigrant

Songwriting: Turning Ideas into Music

Tattoo: Reclaiming Ancestral Traditions

The Future of War

Plastic Emotions

Tea & Poetry

Galle Fort: A Heritage Walk

Worrell: Caribbean Cricket & Post-Independence Identity

Shaking Things Up: Mr Lyan and Modern Cocktail Culture

The Pepperpot Diaries

Soviet Bus Stops

ARTRA Magazine Launch

Growing Leaders

Peter Frankopan : LITERARY DINNER

Peter and Georgina Godwin : LITERARY DINNER

Sustainably-Conscious Architecture : LITERARY DINNER

Mayhem Past Midnight

Morning Yoga

Galle Fort Photo Walk with the Streets of Colombo

Climate Crossroads: The Imperative to Act

LOVE: In Literature as in Life

With Fresh Eyes: The Insider & Outsider in Travel Writing

Writing a Crime-Thriller: Creating a Storyboard with Greg Mosse

Fusing Fact with Fiction in the Historical Novel

Inheriting the Past: Vietnam’s Legacy Through Two Lenses

AI in Writing: Friend, Foe or Tool?

Gauguin and Polynesia

LGBTQ+ Identities On & Off the Page

Child Migrant Voices

Muslim Kitchen Demonstration

Louise Minchin : LITERARY LUNCH

A Photographic Guide to the Wildlife of Sri Lanka

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

The Stuff of Legend

Illustration Builds Character with Lalith Karunatilaka

Beyond the Frame: People and Cultural Photography with Catherine Karnow

In the Footsteps of Elephants

Cuisine as Community: Tales from the Diaspora Kitchen

A Ride Across America

Tea & Poetry

The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Behind the Curtain: Writing for Theatre

A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars

Galle Fort Photo Walk with the Streets of Colombo

The Women’s Prize for Fiction

In Concert: The Chamber Music Society of Colombo

Shringar: An Evening of Classical Indian Dance

Cocktails and Conversation with Lakshman Joseph-de Saram

Comedy Night with Sashi Perera

The 2024 International Booker Prize : LITERARY DINNER

Nihal Arthanayake & Sathnam Sanghera : LITERARY DINNER

Ben Macintyre : LITERARY DINNER

Devdutt Pattanaik : LITERARY DINNER

Morning Yoga

Beyond the Frame: People and Cultural Photography with Catherine Karnow

The Podcast Era: The Impact of Audio Storytelling

The Siege

A Way with Words: The Magic of the Multilingual Writer

The Art of Poster Design with Mads Berg

Creative Writing with Nadeesha Paulis

Sati Savitri

Kairos: The 2024 International Booker Prize

A New Wave of Democracy in South Asia?

Repatriation: Objects of Empire

Seeing Ourselves: South Asian Representation in Children’s Books

Comedian, Writer, Recovering Lawyer

Food Writing: Kung Pao Chicken with Susan Jung : LITERARY LUNCH

Kate Mosse & Greg Mosse : LITERARY LUNCH

Shakespeare with Michael Attenborough : LITERARY LUNCH

Wild Encounters, Wise Choices: Shaping Sustainable Wildlife Tourism

Understanding Sri Lankan Identity through Novels

Birding on the Hill

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Childrens Pass – 2-5

Childrens Pass – 6-8

Childrens Pass – 9-11

Childrens Pass – 12+