It is hard not to notice the passion and the remarkable effort reflected in the lifelike wax figures at the Ehelepola Walawwa Wax Museum in Kandy - personalities who shaped the history of the Kandyan Kingdom.

Who said a runway is only about beautiful clothes, fabulous walks and striking poses? Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can wear is courage! This week on Buzz with Danu, we’re talking about something that deserves more than just a passing conversation. Breast cancer affects lives, families and futures, yet in Sri Lanka, it’s still a subject many hesitate to discuss openly.

For Gayathrie Soysa, the upcoming dance production Eternal Rhythm at the Elphinstone Theatre on October 23 is far more than another performance. It is the realisation of a long-cherished dream, bringing together different dance traditions, years of artistic exploration and the students she has nurtured through her Gayathrie School of Dance.

There is a profound beauty in seeing the world through the unfiltered lens of a child. Before life becomes complicated by adulthood, joy is wonderfully simple. Joy is a water fight. Joy is staying up past your bedtime. And, coming in at number one on a very important list, joy is ice cream.

There is an incredible, unbothered arrogance in the assumption that a woman’s wardrobe is open for public jurisdiction. It is one of the few constants that survives across centuries, borders, and completely opposing political or religious spectrums. The rules change depending on who is holding power, but the impulse never shifts: a woman’s body is treated as a billboard for everybody else’s convictions.

When life is a non-stop spiral of deadlines, traffic light geometry, and endless to-do lists, the capital stops being a living, breathing place and becomes a set of coordinates to survive. We know which lane down Galle Road moves two seconds faster, which café has Wi-Fi that won’t make you cry, and exactly which stretch of Duplication Road will test your religious tolerance for gridlock. We zip through the streets on autopilot, AC blasting, head

There is a particular pleasure in reading someone who can laugh at herself without rushing to tidy up the embarrassment afterwards. In Up Sigiriya & Escalators with KitKat, Goolbai Gunasekara finds comedy in family life, childhood memories and the indignities of growing older, drawing on ordinary situations that often reveal rather more about us than we intend.

A grandmother gets a call from her grandson: panicked, crying, saying he’s been in an accident and needs money wired immediately. The voice sounds exactly right, the tone, the little verbal habits, even the way he says her name. Except he’s not in an accident. He’s asleep in his own bed. The voice on the phone was never his at all.

Presented by the Colombo Ballet School, Devi: The Golden Voyage brings to life the story of Princess Viharamahadevi as a full-length Classical Ballet in three Acts. Tara Cooke spoke to the Daily Mirror on the creative process behind this unique production that marks 10 years of the Ballet School, and the work involved in bringing the Princess’ story to stage.

Art history has a way of making complicated journeys look inevitable. Artists are celebrated, movements are named, and works find their place in the story of how art evolved. What is less visible is the work that precedes that recognition: the research, the preservation of collections, the arguments made on behalf of an artist, and the people who decide that a body of work deserves to be seen again.