Exhibitions to form part of Mdina Festival

The Mdina and Rabat Festival opens today, featuring street theatre, demonstrations of local crafts and re-enactments.

It also features a flower arrangement exhibition in St. Paul's Band Club, Main Street, Rabat and a ceramics and sculpture exhibition at Torre Dello Standardo in Mdina.

The floral arrangements are the work of Mariuccia Micallef Grimaud and her two daughters Nadine and Glorianne while the ceramics exhibition has been put up by David and Sue Mifsud.

The Grimauds have exhibited their works all over the world, and Mr and Mrs Mifsud have taken part in numerous collective exhibitions utilising stonework, crank clay, wood and stone to create abstract designs and sculptures. Their present collection is a reflection of their intensive work in three dimensional art.

Both the flower arrangement and the ceramics and sculpture exhibitions will be open today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Admission is free.

Those people interested in the history and heritage of Malta may also take the opportunity to visit a number of monastries which will be open during the Mdina and Rabat Festival.

These are the Franciscan Conventuals priory, the Augustinian priory, the Dominican priory and the Franciscan Minors (Ta' Giezu Church). The monastries will be open from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. during the festival.

The Mdina and Rabat Festival is organised by the Malta Tourism Authority's Product Planning and Development Directorate.