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Visually-impaired artist publishes book

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 13:35 Last update: about 5 years ago

Visually-impaired artist Maria Elich has launched the book The Art Beyond Light Project, through which blind artists have expressed their imagination through art. Featuring a collection of...

Early Malta guide books – A historical survey

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 11:00 Last update: about 5 years ago

Malta has always been known as an island of beautiful views and the panorama of the Grand Harbour, as seen from Barrakka Gardens is one of the magnificent sights in the world. Before the fully-fledged...

#SpeakUpForMentalHealth

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 10:02 Last update: about 5 years ago

It is not OK to hide one’s feelings of psychological distress, since acknowledging that one is not feeling well, whether physically or psychologically, is normal and to be...

Quality tourism, what quality?

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 10:00 Last update: about 5 years ago

In my last article, I wrote about the need to learn from other destinations about managing tourism. The Smart Tourism Destinations project, which is represented in Malta by the Malta Tourism Society,...

Should the use of pepper-spray be legalised in Malta?

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:59 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

In 2016 police in Denmark sparked anger by warning a teenage girl that she faced prosecution for using pepper spray to fend off a sexual assault near an asylum seekers centre. The rape and murder of...

A giraffe has escaped from Castille

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:31 Last update: about 5 years ago

Well, technically it's not true but I did get your attention. Spazju Kreattiv's next theatre commission is one you should not miss and it's about more than just a giraffe. Penned by Aleks Farrugia and...

Marie Benoit's Diary: A pleasant luncheon for a good cause

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:28 Last update: about 5 years ago Marie Benoît

The Maltese are generous when it comes to fundraising. This is obvious just by watching the fundraising that goes on on TV stations. Whether it is for the missions, The Community Chest Fund, the Trust...

Exploring the naked figure through Zoom

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:25 Last update: about 5 years ago

I have loved figure-drawing since my first encounter with a "life" model during my foundation course at Hull College of Art back in the 1970s. Since then I must have drawn thousands of models, besides...

A masterpiece about life, love and mortality

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:22 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Nobel Prize winner Sir Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki Japan in 1954 and moved to the UK with his parents when he was five years old. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017....

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