• The Old Motors Club (Malta) is organising a Charity Run around Malta today. Proceeds will go to The Malta Hospice Movement. The motor show will start at Victory Square in Birgu at 9 a.m. The cars will proceed to Birkirkara. The next destination will be Mosta Square, from 1.15 until 3.30 p.m. and the final venue will be Ta' Qali, next to the Aviation Museum, from 4 till 5.30 p.m. For more information, call Johanna Calleja on 2144 0085. Donations can be made by sending a blank SMS to 5061 7384 for €2.33, 5061 8100 for €4.66 or 5061 9234 for €11.65.
• A prayer meeting will be held at Girgenti, Siġġiewi, today at 3.30 p.m. by the Moviment Madonna tal-Konsagrazzjoni committee. For details view www.ourladyofconsecration.org.
• The Malta Hospice Movement is organising a bazaar at the Paola Youth Centre, 145, Paola Square, Paola, from tomorrow until Wednesday from 9 a.m. till noon and 4 till 7 p.m., and on Thursday from 9 a.m. till noon. For more information, call Johanna Calleja on 2144 0085 or e-mail frhospice@onvol.net.
• YWCA Malta is organising a card, tea and games party at the Imperial Hotel, Sliema, on Wednesday at 4.30 p.m. for members, relatives and friends. For bookings call 2132 4424.
• An evening of prayer for peace and new evangelisation of the world will be held in the basement chapel of Sarria church, Floriana, on Wednesday from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m. by the International Movement of Prayer Blessed Pope John XXIII.
• The Central Marian Cenacle will be held on Thursday at the Our Lady of Lourdes chapel, Floriana, after Mass, which will be celebrated at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend.
• This year's Gaudium et Spes Lecture, organised by the Institute for Research on the Signs of the Times (Discern), will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Phoenicia Hotel, Floriana. Robert Keen, a member of St Edmund's College and a VHI senior research associate at the University of Cambridge, will addressing the question 'Banking on Virtue?'
• A pasta night is being held to reunite students, friends and teaching staff of St Teresa College Girls' Junior Lyceum, Mrieħel, at the school on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Proceeds will go to the Malta Community Chest Fund, Caritas and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. For more information call 2149 2166/7 or 2148 7885/6 or visit www.exorgroup.com/funrun.
• The Maltese-American Association will celebrate Thanksgiving on Sunday at the Seabank Hotel, Mellieħa Bay. Thanksgiving Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Buffet lunch will be served at 12.30 p.m. For tickets and more information call Dar l-Emigrant, Castille Place, Valletta, on 2122 2644, 2124 0255 or 2123 2545.
• 'Who is in control: we or the media? How to empower users' is the theme of a public talk that Fr Joe Borg will give on November 26 at 7.15 p.m. at the National Council of Women centre, Mountbatten Street, Blata l-Bajda. For further information and booking call 2124 8881/6982 or e-mail ncwmalta@camline.net.mt.
• YWCA Malta will be organising a Christmas bazaar co-ordinated by AX Foundation, in collaboration with the Malta Fairs and Convention Centre, between November 26 and 29. The association is appealing to the public to donate any unwanted new gifts to be sold at the bazaar in order to raise funds for upcoming projects. Donations will be received until November 23 at YWCA Malta, Ċentru Nazzjonali, 177/178, Valley Road, Msida, on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. till noon.
• A card party in aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor will be held at the Preluna Hotel, Sliema, on December 2 from 10 a.m. For bookings call Blanche Martin on 2133 0387.
• The 3/11 Regiment Royal Malta Artillery (Territorial) Association will be holding its annual general meeting at the Sliema Chalet Hotel, Għar id-Dud, Sliema, on December 4 at 6.30 p.m. This will be followed by the annual pasta night. The fee is €6.50. To book, call Renè Grixti on 2133 8661.