Arts & Entertainment
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Laughing all the way from Calgary
Comedian Peter White has earned his funny spots performing at impressive gigs across the international circuit – and now he’s on his way to Malta. Here he chats to Jo Caruana about career choices, raising eyebrows and performing in… living...
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The clothes they wore
Kenneth Gambin (ed.), Peasant Costumes, Insights into Rural Life and Society, Heritage Malta, Malta, 2012, 112 pp. The exhibition on peasant costumes organised by Heritage Malta in Gozo proved a great crowd-puller but, as is the nature of all...
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An inspiring mix of talent
They came from as far as South Korea, China, the US, Armenia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Italy and Malta. They ranged in age from two seven-year-olds to mature and highly experienced concert pianists and professors. What linked them is the piano and...
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A dance legend performs
Ahead of the Manoel Theatre’s collaboration with international flamenco legend María del Mar Moreno, Jo Caruana meets Ingrid Sciberras, the director of local flamenco school Alegria, to discover more about this very unique art form. The Manoel...
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Behind the scenes at a wedding
Described as ‘a sparkling comedy’, Secret Bridesmaids’ Business by the Australian playwright Elizabeth Coleman, certainly sparkles much of the time, though an ominous note is struck fairly on in the first act, and the main plot development in the...
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A concert dedicated to the Bel Canto era
Some of the most beautiful arias of the Bel Canto period, represented by three composers Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini, will be the focus of Viva Il Bel Canto, the forthcoming concert being organised by Barocco...
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Aspects of beauty
For centuries, beauty was always the most potent realm for artists to explore and to create aesthetically appealing imagery in their work. Aspects of Beauty is the title for the seventh solo art exhibition by Bulgarian artist Vania Goshe. In this...
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Education through drama for under-privileged children
A group of Maltese teachers and carers will be helping improve the education system for under-privileged children in Camodia through a new NGO called the Drama Outreach Project. The project will offer these children the chance to learn drama and...
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Missing chairs and Maltese songs
Last month, the 37th edition of the L-Għanja tal-Poplu festival came to a close at the University of Malta’s Sir Temi Zammit Hall, with the song Hawn Siġġu Nieqes clinching the top prize. Penned by Paul Ellul and Mark Spiteri Lucas and sung by...
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A first for Maltese rock
The night of May 9, 2013, will forever be etched in the chronicles of Maltese music, and with good reason too. On that night, for the first time ever, a Maltese band, namely Winter Moods, was selected to join hundreds of international artists whose...
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Desert rock, metal and the blues
It’s not quite clear what connection exists between Bud Spencer and metal music, but there he is, with his trademark fist ready for action, gracing the Facebook page for an event that promises to deliver some of the best metal the Maltese music...
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Footprints release Stick No Bills
Stick No Bills is the title of the new single from local Christian rock band Footprints. Written by Hilary Spiteri, the song was launched last week as part of the Stick No Bills campaign involving Aġenzija Sedqa and Aġenzija Żgħażagħ and the band...
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Loathe’s metal slaughter
After releasing debut album Despondent by Design in 2009, local metal act Loathe went through several changes, eventually resurfacing with its current line-up last year ahead of a new release that had been eagerly anticipated by the band’s legion of...
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The BMAT PRS Malta Top 20 Airplay Chart
1 The Person I am Ira Losco 2 Tomorrow Gianluca Bezzina Home The Crowns 4 Want You to Know Planet Seed 5 Flight 170 Chris and Moira 6 Daphne Lyndsay 7 Elizabeth, I No Snow/No Alps 8 Paul Red Electrick 9 Memory of a...
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Otello returns to the Astra
Otello, one of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpieces, is Teatru Astra’s choice this year to kick off the next theatre season in October, as it opens the 12th edition of Festival Mediterranea, the programme of which is currently being finalised. This year...
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True oasis for the soul
Fresh back from a six-month gigging and song-writing tour of Europe and America, stopping off in Detroit, Dallas, Austin, London, Oslo, Sicily and Ireland en route, musician Martin McNeil is back on Mediterranean turf with a whole new set of gigs...
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Comic illustrator and writer Tim Perkins in Malta workshop
Award-winning comic illustrator and writer and Wizards Keep founder Tim Perkins will be giving a workshop focusing on comic creation. The workshop is being organised by Wicked Comics, the voluntary organisation behind the annual Malta Comic Con and...
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When love meets tragedy on stage
Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding is one of the 20th-century’s outstanding poetic dramas, and should not be approached lightly by any stage director. It requires a strong infusion of stage poetry to complement the poetry of the text, and this, I...
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Second Bir Miftuħ concert
The second concert in the Bir Miftuħ International Music Festival series is set to put the spotlight on the Lucentum Horn Quartet, made up of Jose Garcia Gutierrez, Gabriel Garcia Gutierrez, Jose Chanza Soria and Alberto Garcia Izquierdo. The...
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Anton Calleja to give art lecture
Artist Anton Calleja will be giving a lecture about art, creativity and design, while focusing on his role as art teacher and discussing some of his own works and other art and design creations. Calleja is a self-taught painter who, in his early...
