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This weekend we closed Climate Positive: An Exhibition of Regenerative Possibility, but its roots run far deeper than these past weeks.

The Climate Positive exhibition is just one outcome of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship. In June 2024, ten artists engaged in an immersive residency with scientists, conservationists, academics, and community leaders as mentors, guiding them through ecosystems, data, histories, and lived realities. These encounters built trust, sharpened vision, and helped each artist reconnect with their creative source.

When funding was unexpectedly cut in January this year, it could have ended there. Instead, we reimagined. The exhibition evolved from a large-scale, tech-immersive concept into a more intimate, independent form, holding onto its essence while adapting to reality. That agility, and the trust built over months, is what made this possible, along with the unwavering commitment of our fellows, the generosity of local and diaspora supporters, and the belief of everyone who understood why this work matters.

The response exceeded anything we imagined: full walkthroughs, repeat visits, intergenerational conversations, and organic media coverage - without a single boosted post or paid placement. Sri Lankans stepped forward, giving this work not just visibility, but life.

We close with deep gratitude, for our fellows, our mentors, our partners, and every visitor who took the time to listen, question, and imagine alongside us. This was more than an exhibition. It was a demonstration of what happens when creativity, science, trust, and collective will come together in service of regeneration.



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Good Life X works in the creative sector because we see creativity as a catalyst for systemic change. The challenges of our time, ecological, social, and economic, cannot be solved by technical solutions alone. The challenges we face demand new ways of seeing, feeling, and imagining. By connecting artists with scientists, entrepreneurs, and communities, we unlock regenerative thinking that can shift systems.

Tomorrow, from 10am to 6.30pm, is the last day to view Climate Positive at Barefoot Gallery Colombo.

Join the following final programming:

🦚 11am-12pm: Walkthrough with , Program Director, Creative Catalyst Fellowship

🌾 4pm-5.30pm: Leela Bhumi Walkthrough with

🪻 5.30pm-6.30pm: Tactile Futures - Eco-Cultural Play Across Realms Workshop with and

Don’t miss out on your last chance to see the exhibition!

Wrap up Walkthrough

As the exhibition comes to an end, join our Program Director, Randhula de Silva, as she hosts a walk through in a final triumph to wrap up the event.

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Saturday 9th August
Time: 11am - 12pm

This workshop is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.

AfterThrow- Plastic to Product

Join in for a walkthrough by designer Kanil Dias Abeyagunawardene of his project AfterThrow - Plastic to Product

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Thursday 7th August
Time: 4.30pm - 5.30pm

This workshop is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.

The Climate Positive Exhibition is open today - Sunday 03 August from 10.30am - 6pm at the Barefoot Gallery Colombo 🌿✨

Come enjoy Sunday jazz and engage with the exhibition 🌀🦚

Tactile Futures - Eco-Cultural Play Across Realms Workshop

Explore how physical and digital game design can bring together culture, ecology, and hydrology. In this hands-on session, participants will build games inspired by Sri Lanka’s ancient cascade systems, blending traditional knowledge with Augmented Reality (AR) to create immersive experiences.

The workshop includes a live demo, game walkthrough, and a group play session of Cascade Keepers — a game reimagining ancestral water practices for the present day.

The workshop is conducted in collaboration with SriVerse.lk, first Sri Lankan gamified metaverse experience.

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Saturday 9th August
Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm

All are welcome. Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

This workshop is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.

The Monster’s Cave Screening and Discussion with Producer Dilsiri Welikala and Director Mahinda Abeysinghe

Born from years of cleaning Kalpitiya’s shores, The Monster’s Cave, is a cinematic protest as a costume, a performance, a creature made of waste. Plastic, packaging, ocean debris have been reshaped into a haunting form that tells its own story.

Join artist Dilsiri Welikala and director Mahinda Abeysinghe for a screening of their movie, and for a special discussion afterwards on their creative process, the ideas behind the film, and the unexpected friendship that made this collaboration possible.

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Thursday 7th August
Time: 7pm

All are welcome. Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

This screening and discussion is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.

Slow Seeing and Imagined Futures

Join visual anthropologist and photographer, Munira Mutaher to spend time within the gallery using a series of prompts and simple activities that encourage us to slow down and look, moving past the impulse to make meaning.

The more time we give to something, the more it can give back. By taking things in slowly, we open up space to notice new details, emotions, and ideas - and maybe even spot the quiet signals that guide us forward.

We explore the possibility of how seeing can open up and act as portals to imagine different futures for ourselves. This session is a chance to explore those ideas, through looking and thinking together.

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Thurs 7th August
Time: 5.30-6.30pm

This walkthrough is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X, an innovations and development catalyst in Sri Lanka.

All are welcome. Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

Art Walk through “Leela Bhumi” (Playful Earth)

An interactive conversational archival walk with Poornima Jayasinghe, fellow of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship
Presented as part of CoCA: Symbiosis

Enter an immersive sensory experience inspired by Leela Bhumi, a mobile, multifunctional space grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems, ecological memory, and cultural heritage.

On Kemmura days [Wednesdays and Saturdays] the artist invites you to walk with her through Leela Bhūmi, a living, breathing archive held in land, scent, sound, and silence. This is an interactive, conversational art walk activated only when the veil between worlds grows thin. You will walk not to arrive, but to listen, with our bodies, our breath, and our remembering.

Following the walk, the group will gather in a sensory experience shaped by ancestral knowledge, ecological memory, and the material language of plants. Through touch, scent, and intuitive making, together you will co-create gestures of care and communion with the land.

Here, art is not produced. It is offered.
It is not a noun. It is a verb.

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date and Times:
Sat 2nd August 4.30pm - 6.00pm
Wed 6th August 4.30pm - 6.00pm
Sat 9th August 4.00pm - 5.30 pm

All are welcome. Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

This walk through is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X, an innovations and development catalyst in Sri Lanka.

Our Friends, the Fish

Join in for a storytelling and interactive workshop by soft sculpture artist Lakshika Rajapakse, of Tikiri & Co, for kids on the conservation of freshwater fishes.

Suitable for children aged 5-11 — parents welcome to join!

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Sat 2nd August
Time: 3.00pm-4.00pm

Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

This workshop is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.

Where do academic explorations take hold in the pursuit of creating a better world? The views of youth and their young minds tackling a narrative of change and hope for a climate positive future?

Join in a series of presentations by students from the Department of Biodiversity at the University of Rajarata, sharing their work in exploring the intersections of nature and humanity.

The presenting topics are:

1. Bird Diversity of Rawan Oya, Kandy Sri Lanka by Thivanthi Fernando
2. Social Behaviour and Play among Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Calves in the Minneriya and Kaudulla National Parks, Sri Lanka by Dhanani Sepalika
3. Abundance and Activity Patterns of Meso Mammals in the Kaludiyapokuna Forest Reserve in Dambulla, Sri Lanka by Udani Weerasinghe

Venue: Barefoot Gallery Colombo
Date: Fri 1st August
Time: 5.30pm-7.00pm

All are welcome. Register for this event and others at the link in bio.

This presentation is part of Climate Positive, an exhibition by the fellows of the Creative Catalyst Fellowship, organized by Good Life X.