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Folklorist Ġużi Gatt will be giving a public talk tomorrow outlining his grandmother’s view of the world.

Every one of us has a knack for forming a framework of ideas and beliefs through which we observe and interpret the world around us and interact with it. One’s level of education, the knowledge and beliefs that society inculcates in the mind of its members, together with the experiences one picks up in life, and the very language that one speaks, all contribute to one’s perception of the world.

How did the people of previous generations view the world? One cannot generalise, so Gatt will try to describe what he believes to be his grandmother’s world view, based on what he used to hear her say when she was alive.

This is the fifth talk in a series on Maltese oral traditions organised by the Department of Maltese within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta.

Ġużi Gatt is the secretary general of the Malta Folklore Society and the editor of the society’s annual publication, L-Imnara. He is the author of two volumes entitled Qiegħda fil-Ponta ta’ Lsieni (At the Tip of My Tongue), both published by Klabb Kotba Maltin. Gatt has translated various plays into Maltese, including Bertold Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Visit and Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming and The Caretaker. He has done research about traditional Maltese musical instruments and has been involved in their reconstruction. His main area of interest is local folklore and early medieval studies.

■ The talk is taking place tomorrow in the main library of the University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, at 6pm. Entrance is free. More information on this talk as well as about the oral traditions research project is available at tradizzjonioraliblog.wordpress.com. Klabb Kotba Maltin is supporting this project.