Pembroke school wins originality award in Garibaldi exhibition

Sir Adrian Dingli Girls' Junior Lyceum, Pembroke, was recently awarded a trophy for originality for the exhibition that students of Italian had put up earlier this year to mark the 200th anniversary of Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi's birth.

The Italian Embassy and the Education Ministry's Department of Italian had invited all schools in Malta to put up an exhibition on July 4, Garibaldi's birthday.

Thanks to the co-operation of the school's various subject teachers, a large number of the students had actively participated in the competition and left no stone unturned to research Garibaldi's personal and political life to put up a wide range of exhibits including portraits, timelines, artefacts, flag replicas, slide show projections, and even mime performances of the Impresa dei mille under the direction of the school's drama teacher.

Italian ambassador Dr Paolo Andrea Trabalza and other personalities adjudicated the exhibits of the several schools that had participated in the activity. The ambassador was most impressed by the Pembroke school's performance, especially by the students who guided him through the exhibition and engaged in a conversation with him in Italian.

Garibaldi, an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento, is considered a prominent figure in Italy's history.

He personally conducted military campaigns which brought about the unification of Italy. He is also known as the 'Hero of the Two Worlds' in tribute to his military expeditions in South America and Europe.

In 1864 Garibaldi also visited Malta for a mere 40 hours.