Coming up

• The Xaghra Christmas village - an open market of traditional food, crib exhibition, Christmas crafts, sculpture and painting, music and choir singing, and games, organised by the local council - is open today on Victory Square between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

• RV Runaway Vacation is showing at Don Bosco Oratory today at 5.30 p.m.

• A Christmas concert, Gmiel il-Milied, will be held at the Catholic Action headquarters in Victoria, today at 6 p.m., in aid of the Lourdes Home and Fr George Camilleri's mission in India. Tickets are available from Manresa House, Victoria, or from David Fenech (www.davidmariofenech.tk)

• The Eucharistic Diocesan Movement is organising a Eucharistic adoration with the theme "Biex L-Imhabba Tkun Mahbuba" at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church, Ta' Hamet, today at 7.30 p.m. Mgr Giovanni Bosco Gauci will lead a concelebrated Mass.

• The Gozo School of Music is holding two concerts at the exhibition hall, St Francis Square, Victoria. A junior concert will be held tomorrow and a senior concert on Tuesday. Students will perform as soloists and as part of ensembles on different instruments, including piano, violin, flute, clarinet, saxophone, guitar and percussion. Both concerts begin at 6 p.m. Entrance is free.

• A coffee morning in aid of Gozitan missionaries in Guatemala will be held at Crystal Palace, Marsalforn, on Thursday at 9 a.m. For more information call 2155-6509.

• The 35th San Lawrenz Christmas pageant will be held on the village's main square on Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. A cast of over 200 will wear faithful biblical costumes and perform on a stage consisting of three sections representing the Holy City, Eden, and the vicissitudes of the royal families and their kingdoms.

• The Gozo Curia's secretariat for Education and Culture is organising a Christmas choir festival at Ghajnsielem parish church on Friday, December 29, at 7 p.m. Entrance is free.