• A blood donation session will be held at Gozo General Hospital’s Outpatients Department today from 8am to 1pm, and on Tuesday from 1pm to 5pm.

• The Gozo Squash Association in collaboration with Kempinski Hotel San Lawrence is holding a squash tournament in aid of Puttinu Cares today.

• The Gozo Bird Breeders Society is holding a show at Sannat Primary School today from 8.30am to 6pm.

• San Lawrenz local council is holding the third edition of Swejjaq (small market) today at 11am in the village square. It will include artisan Christmas ornaments, seasonal food and games for children.

• Turning Pointe Dance Theatre and Gozo Gymnastics Academy will present Struck by Magic at Mnarja Band Club Theatre, Nadur, on Wednesday at 7.30pm.

• The feast of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated on Thursday at the Franciscan conventual church, Victoria. Mgr Lawrenz Sciberras will lead a concelebrated Mass at 9.30am with the participation of Laudate Pueri choir, under the direction of Mro Can

Ġorġ Frendo. Can John Sultana  will deliver the panegyric. Major Seminary rector Fr Richard Farrugia will celebrate Mass at 4pm. The procession starts at 5.45pm, accompanied by La Stella Band of Victoria.

• The feast will also be celebrated on Thursday in Qala. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will lead a concelebrated Mass at 9.30am at Immaculate Conception Sanctuary. The 62nd edition of the

traditional motorcycles pilgrimage from Ta’ Pinu Sanctuary starts at 1.30pm.

The aux flambeau procession starts at 5pm, accompanied by Ite ad Joseph Band of Qala.

• The Gozo Agricultural, Industrial and Cultural society is holding its annual Christmas exhibition of traditional crafts from Tuesday to Thursday at the Gozo Ministry exhibition hall, St Francis square, Victoria. Entrance is free. Trophies for the best exhibits will be awarded by Gozo Minister Anton Refalo on Thursday at 5.30pm.

• Schola Cantorum Jubilate choir will perform its Carols by Candlelight concert at St Augustine’s Priory, Victoria, on Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm.

• Għaqda Armar Diċembru 13, Nadur, will hold its Ikla tal-Ħbieb on Saturday at 7.30pm. To book, call 2756 0360.

• There will be solemn adoration  at Our Lady of Mount Carmel church, Xewkija, on Friday from 6am, and all day

on Saturday and Sunday. Gozo Bishop Mario Grech will celebrate Mass on Saturday at 8pm.

• Dar Karmni Grima, Għarb, is hosting a sacred art exhibition entitled Caro Factum Est by Maltese artist and iconographer Nathanael Theuma. It will be inaugurated by Gozo Minister Anton Refalo on Saturday at 6.30pm. Its opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 4pm, and Sundays from 9am to 12.30pm, until January 21, 2017.

• A charity sale will be held at Victoria football ground, next to the car park, next Sunday from 7.30am to 1pm by Friends of the Sick and Elderly in Gozo. A fee of €10 per car space is payable on the day.  For more information call 2155 3336, 2155 1180 or 2155 8250 or e-mail admin@fsegozo.org.

charles.spiteri@timesofmalta.com

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