Following its success at the Malta Arts Festival, the Kelma Kelma u Nota Nota event will be held again on Wednesday at 9pm at Pjazza Teatru Rjal in Valletta.

The performance, which brings together language, music, social media and personalities from popular literature, offers a unique experience, where characters from fables, songs and rhymes come to life for an evening of song, music, poetry and word play.

The project is the result of a collaboration between the Big Band Brothers, made up of 18 musicians, and Kelma Kelma, a Facebook page about the beauty and possibilities of the Maltese language. The event will be held in Maltese.

With the participation of Ray Calleja and the Bezzina siblings, the performance was first held last month as part of the Malta Arts Festival. Its re-run is being organised through the initiative of Arts Council Malta, in collaboration with the Culture Ministry, under the patronage of President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca. All proceeds from the event will go towards the Community Chest Fund.

Administered by Michael Spagnol, the Kelma Kelma Facebook page produces a steady stream of colourful memes which deal with several linguistic issues, such as the word of the day, proverbs, puns and wordplay, nursery rhymes, curious word origins, linguistic trivia and the like.

Tickets for the event are available from ticketline.com.mt, from the Embassy box office and from Pjazza Teatru Rjal.

Tickets cost €15 or €10 for students and senior citizens. Children under 12 won’t pay on presentation of a ticket. Each child must be accompanied by one paying adult.

This event is a free seated event; seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.