Idea 394 of 500. Cluster 19: Heritage, archives and film
Jaffna and Kandy literary festivals to sit beside Galle's
The mechanism, from the book
Eight World Heritage Sites and 2,300 years of records, and the country's story is told to the world by other people.
Every idea in cluster 19 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Organise a single afternoon of readings in Jaffna or Kandy with three local writers, in a school hall or a library, and sell tickets at a small price. Invite two local businesses to sponsor it for their name on the programme. Tickets sold and a sponsor's payment tell you whether a full festival will stand up.
- Who pays first
- A local business, such as a hotel or a bookshop, that wants its name beside a cultural event and will sponsor the programme.
- What leaves today
- Literary visitors now gather around one festival in the south; festivals in the north and the hills spread that spending and build new audiences for local writers.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
More from cluster 19
- 381A film-location service: crews, permits, fixers and locations, sold to the studios of India and Europe
- 382Documentary production about the island's own stories, sold to the streaming platforms
- 383A museum shop worthy of the museum, at the National Museum, at Anuradhapura, at Galle
- 384Digitisation of the palm-leaf manuscripts and colonial archives as a paid service to the libraries of the world
- 385Architecture tours of Bawa's buildings with the houses opened by their owners
- 386Heritage-building restoration firms with the skills to work on the forts and the villas
Idea 394 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.