100 years from Manuel Dimech’s Xirka
A public conference will be held on October 21 to commemorate the centenary of the foundation of Manwel Dimech’s Ix-Xirka tal-Imdawlin (The Fellowship of the Enlightened). The fellowship was founded by Dimech and his colleagues on October 21, 1911. The...
A public conference will be held on October 21 to commemorate the centenary of the foundation of Manwel Dimech’s Ix-Xirka tal-Imdawlin (The Fellowship of the Enlightened).
The fellowship was founded by Dimech and his colleagues on October 21, 1911.
The Xirka was hated by the upper classes and condemned by the Church authorities due to its revolutionary nature.
The conference will be held at the Osborne Hotel, South Street, Valletta, from 6.30 p.m.
Talks will be given by: Yosanne Vella on ‘Dimech and the feminine perspective’; Marco Galea on ‘Dimech’s involve-ment in the world of theatre’; Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci on ‘A Marxist reading of Dimech’ and by Desmond Zammit Marmarà on ‘Dimech as an educator’.
The conference will be chaired by Mark Montebello.
During the event a new publication, illustrated with photographs and documents, will be also be launched to commemorate the diamond anniversary of the fellowship’s foundation.
Manwel Dimech: Ivan u Praskovja u kitbiet oħra, is edited by Montebello and published in Maltese by Sensiela Kotba Soċjalisti.
It is a collection of Dimech’s writings, and includes the novels Ivan and Prascovia, and Majsi Cutajar, the original statute of Dimech’s fellowship, together with hundreds of citations from Dimech’s works, especially from his weekly Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin (The Flag of the Maltese).
The book will sell at €10.
A discussion and refreshments will follow.
Entrance is free.