FILM
Tnejn għat-Talkies
Every fortnight, the Embassy Cinemas in Valletta is screening classic and renowned cult movies.
Today, it will screen the 1994 histor
THEATRE
Animal Farm
Masquerade Malta has opened the 2022-2023 season with George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm.
Reimagined by Youth Theatre Masque
ARTS FESTIVALS
Birgufest
Vittoriosa will be lit up with thousands of candle lights tonight as the fortified city celebrates the second night of Birgufest.
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MUSIC
Strummin’ Round the World
The 18th edition of the charity concert is back in aid of the Smiling with Jerome Foundation.
The concert, which featur
Nicholas Vella Laurenti writes:
As a former long-time student of artist and musician Chev. Mro Pawlu Grech, one teaching of his that I prize above all others is that contradiction is the fundamental principle of all art.
Pawlu Grech passed away on February 10. The timing and circumstances of this event present at least three contradictions, all coincidental but significant, nonetheless.
The first contradiction is that his death happened just 10 days shy of his 83rd birthday. The second is that it occurred in the recurrence of the national feast of his biblical namesake, whereas Pawlu, though by no means an atheist, was profoundly and viscerally averse to the idea and practice of organised religion.