THEATRE
Losing Louis
4-6 May at the MADC Clubrooms, St Venera
Interwoven events from the past and present blend together in this hilarious, touching comedy spanning two generations of a family. Secrets that refuse to remain buried erupt as Jewish and non-Jewish family members are brought together. After years of separation, the funeral of their father Louis is the catalyst for the family members having to face it out in the bedroom - the place where all the confusion began. And the place where the truth about each of them will finally be discovered.
Directed by Wesley Ellul and starring Jean Pierre Aguis, Nanette Brimmer, Stefan Cachia Zammit, Jo Caruana, Rachel Darmanin Demajo, Malcolm Galea and Ingrid Scerri. Tickets may be booked on email [email protected].
whodancedit
25-27 May at MITP, Valletta
Hats & Tales present this one-act play about four very peculiar characters who find themselves trapped in a very peculiar place...with a dead body. No one knows who she is or how they ended up in there. As truths unfold, their world becomes odder and odder. A sinister presence lingers heavily in the air and their senses are threatened by the very crimes that keep occurring before them. What they do know is that death is the most likely exit. The question is whether their morbid exit will be excitingly gruesome enough. "Might as well dance my way out of here", says one of the characters, hoping that he will make it back to the living in time for the curtain call. Written and directed by Nicole Cuschieri and Christian Galea, with an original score by krisukola. The cast is made of Chris Galea, Kirsten Holland, Annabelle Galea, Dominic Dimech and Gilbert Micallef. Bookings from St James Cavalier tel. 2122 3216; email: [email protected].
MUSIC
Chasing Pandora
2-6 May at St James Cavalier, Valletta
After the huge success of their debut single Feel The Rain, Chasing Pandora are about to release their much anticipated first album Mocking The Mocking Bird. To launch their new album the band are bringing their fans five magical nights in the St James Cavalier theatre. The concerts will be an intimate, acoustic evening featuring, alongside Melissa’s unique vocals and Keith’s sensitive, soulful guitar, also keyboards, percussion, cello, double bass and violin. Bookings from St James Cavalier tel. 2122 3216; email: [email protected].
Eurovision 2007
10, 12 May in Helsinki, Finland
Maltese contestant Olivia Lewis’s dream finally comes true as it is finally her turn to represent Malta this year. Malta's place in the final on 12 May is however not yet secured and depends on whether European audiences choose Vertigo among the 10 favourites from the 28 countries competing in semi-final on 10 May.
Meet the Composer series – The Mozart Family
17 May at the Auberge d’Aragon Valletta
This new exciting series is produced by St. James Cavalier introducing the newly formed St James Consort, a 13-piece string ensemble. The concerts will include an informal presentation about the composer and interesting facts related to the works performed. For the month of May, in collaboration with the Austrian Embassy, the Duo Notabene will be presenting works by the Mozart Family.
Intimate Letters – the second series
29 May at the Auberge d’Italie, Valletta
The fourth concert in this second series is titled Johannes Brahms – A turbulent life, and will shed light on the personal life and on the music of this famous composer. Godfrey Mifsud on clarinet and Caroline Calleja on piano play alongside the ProMuzika Ensemble with Marcelline Agius and Nadia DeBono on violins, Sarah Spiteri on viola and Mario Psaila on cello.
Earth Garden Music Drama Art Festival – Live Concerts
5-6 May, National Park, Ta' Qali
On 5 May, local bands Etnika, Nafra and Spooky Monkey will come together in a live concert at the Greek Theatre in Ta’ Qali. The following night will see concerts by Renzo Spiteri with his Latin Jazz Quintet, and by Tribali.
CINEMA
Earth Garden Music Drama Art Festival – Film Village
5-6 May, National Park, Ta' Qali
The festival will feature a film village dedicated exclusively to Maltese short films that have been produced independently by local filmmakers. The programme features a selection of shorts that were screened in past Kinemastik short film festivals and also educational features and high quality documentaries about planet earth as well as film workshops.
VISUAL ARTS
The Search for a Space – Show 3: Asylum Seekers
5-6 May at Marsa Open Centre, Albertown
The Search for a Space (Questioning Spaces) is a series of 5 contemporary art exhibitions curated by artist Mark Mangion and featuring a variegated number of local artists. Each group exhibition is being held in a different space around Valletta and Marsa in quick succession so as to create a critical link in memory. The shows started in April and are taking place every 2 weeks and lasting for 4 days each, creating a very informal and fast paced relationship with the viewer and with the work itself. Asylum Seekers is the third of the shows in this series and will address issues of migration, race, dislocation, dispossession and integration using the Visual Arts within the context of the transient and unstable camp environment. It will focus on project-based works, which integrate within the fabric of this real and politicized space. The lab-based structure of this project will culminate in a series of interventional works and films, which will occupy the real and functioning spaces within the centre. For more info visit www.thesearchforaspace.com.
Contemporary Art
16 May– 12 June at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
An exhibition of drawings by Caesar Attard
The Search for a Space – Show 4: Chroma
17-20 May at Flat 5, 24 St Ursula Street, Valletta
The fourth show in the series will attempt to address colour in a heightened light. It will search for challenging new questions on how colour is used in Art today. It will deal with the synthetic and the natural, light and dark and new representations of how colour appears within the framework of the image and object. It will attempt to push the boundaries of what colour is across all media.
The Search for a Space – Show 5: Forbidden Spectacle
31 May-3 June at the Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
A series of contemporary works in various media will be juxtaposed against the 17th and 18th century painting galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts and will attempt to engage the existing works in a double-layer exchange within the space; one of comfort and conflict, history and progress, the idle and the rapid, the dark and the luminous.
Earth Garden Music Drama Art Festival – Art Square
5-6 May, National Park, Ta' Qali
The Art Square will feature artistic works belonging to different genres, which will be exhibited in an all-encompassing space. Over 20 artists are collaborating in a collective exhibition including Denise Scicluna, Karl Mallia and Joseph Barbara.
Impressions
4-25 May at Gallery G, 4, Sir Ugo Mifsud Street, Lija
This exhibition of watercolours is artist Andrew Borg’s first solo exhibition. Mr Borg was always attracted to the demanding and unforgiving nature of watercolours as a painting medium. Gallery G's exhibition halls and gallery shop are open to the public between 9am and 5pm on weekdays and 9.30am and noon on Saturdays.
Contemporary Art
23 May 2007 – 19 June 2007 at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
An exhibition of paintings by Madeleine Gera
James Vella Clark: Drawings and Studies
28 May – 1 July at Heritage Malta head office, Valletta
An exhibition of artworks by James Vella Clark
LECTURES
In the Name of the Cross
2 May at Heritage Malta head office, Valletta
Public lecture at 6.30pm by Sandro Debono, Senior Curator Ethnography, organised by Heritage Malta and sponsored by The Farsons Foundation
Are we winning the war on terror?
3 May at the Foundation for International Studies, Old University Building, St Paul’s Street, Valletta
The Department of International Relations at the University of Malta is
organising a public lecture by Prof. Christopher Coker from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Professor Coker is one of the leading scholars on the study of war and has authored more than 20 books including War and the Twentieth Century (1994), War and the Illiberal Conscience (1998), Humane Warfare (2001), and The Future of War (2004).
The Metamorphosis of the Gran Castello: The Transformation of a Fortified Town into a Cultural Attraction
16 May at Heritage Malta head office, Valletta
Public lecture at 6.30pm by Godwin Vella, Gozo Sites manager, organised by Heritage Malta and sponsored by The Farsons Foundation
Are we preserving our textiles as part of our heritage?
29 May 2007 at Heritage Malta head office, Valletta
Public lecture at 6.30pm by Jill Camilleri, organised by Heritage Malta and sponsored by The Farsons Foundation
OTHER EVENTS
Lejlet Lapsi Notte Gozitana
19-20 May in Victoria, Gozo
Gozo will be hosting its own version of the now trademarked cultural evenings, following the success that Notte Bianca and Notte Magica held in Valletta.
The programme boasts a balanced mix of different art forms. Art, music, dance and theatre will be on the menu as much as history, traditions and heritage that are inherent to Gozo. Commercial outlets in Victoria will be open as much as food and beverage outlets that are also expected to generate an added attraction.
Main stages of a thematic nature will be set up in six different locations – Independence Square, Savina Square, St Augustine Square, St Francis Square, St George’s Square and Republic Street crossroads – with activity by renowned performers till early Sunday morning. Re-enactments and street performances will feature prominently in the narrow and winding streets of Victoria, with concerts and recitals taking place in churches and chapels scattered around the town centre.
Valletta Creative Forum
26 May
May’s forum has as its theme Show Business: sustaining our creative industry. The venue is still to be announced. To apply and for more info visit St James Cavalier’s website on www.sjcav.org or email Toni Attard on [email protected]; tel. 2122 3216
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