# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden: Literature, Gardens & Botanical Memories
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join Pawan Wijesinghe for a discussion on ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden through Literature, Gardens and Botanical.About this EventWhat do we know about the home gardens of urban Ceylon, and how are these spaces remembered through literature and history? Pawan Wijesinghe will examine the history of Sri Lankan gardens as depicted in literature, alongside those recorded by colonial travel writers. Drawing from the burgeoning field of plant humanities, the talk will rethink the garden as a more-than-human space where memories, bodies, and biopolitics shape how it is imagined, perceived, and experienced. By situating the gardens within the larger organism of the city, the talk also invites us to experience them as spaces transformed by our changing relationships with both past and future urban life.Pawan Wijesinghe is an educator and researcher whose work spans literature, cultural studies, and the environmental humanities. His research interrogates the representation of the body, animality, and ecology across diverse literary and visual cultures, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary and premodern literary traditions.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/colombo/‘rewilding’-the-colonial-garden-literature-gardens-and-botanical-memories/100001981845116092
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Colombo
- **state**: WP
- **country**: Sri Lanka
- **location**: Geoffrey Bawa Space
- **lat**: 6.910726
- **long**: 79.8684061
- **full address**: Geoffrey Bawa Space, 42 /1 Horton Place, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden: Literature, Gardens & Botanical Memories being held?
  - **A:** ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden: Literature, Gardens & Botanical Memories takes place on Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Geoffrey Bawa Space, 42 /1 Horton Place, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- **Q**: Who is organizing ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden: Literature, Gardens & Botanical Memories?
  - **A:** ‘Rewilding’ the Colonial Garden: Literature, Gardens & Botanical Memories is organized by Geoffrey Bawa Trust.

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