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August 27, 2024

In the long-standing tradition of artists using Lunuganga as a source of inspiration and site-specific location for their work, local artist Firi Rahman has spent the last several months engaging with the garden through a two-part installation. Consisting of indoor and outdoor components—entitled In between: the Existence of Firdaus and Perch, respectively—the installation considers the […]

July 30, 2024

The Geoffrey Bawa Trust recently welcomed a mix of local and international guests across Colombo and Bentota for a weekend-long launch of To Lunuganga Season 3. To Lunuganga is a multi-season programme dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Geoffrey Bawa’s garden, and its final phase began with a series of tours, performances, installation launches, culinary […]

July 17, 2024

Between 11th and 14th July 2024, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust launched the third season of their ongoing programme, To Lunuganga, which celebrated 75 years of Geoffrey Bawa’s garden. A series of multivocal projects took place over the past twelve months during Seasons 1 and 2 of the programme under the themes “nature and the natural,” […]

May 13, 2024

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Geoffrey Bawa once wrote of Lunuganga, his sprawling Bentota garden and longest-running project: “Nature had often provided marvellous scenes and settings, but equally often human imagination and invention had emphasised this beauty.” Tree Talks, a new podcast by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust, taps into this intersection between nature and humankind by exploring wider narratives rooted […]

June 8, 2023

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Colombo, 08 June 2023. The current edition of Rendez-Vous with Yasmin and Kumar now showing on the YouTube channel of the Embassy of France in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, takes viewers on a visit of two of the most beautiful gardens in Sri Lanka and France – Geoffrey’s Bawa’s Lunuganga in […]

Perched in between: Firi Rahman’s Installation at Lunuganga

To Lunuganga Launch of Season 3

The Final Season of the First of its Kind: To Lunuganga Season 3 Launch

Tree Talks, A Podcast Unearthing the Stories of Lunuganga

Lunuganga and Giverny, now on Rendez-Vous with Yasmin & Kumar