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17 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 9 JANUARY 2019 LISTINGS WHAT'S ON Theatre DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 13 Comedy Knights: Let's Talk about SIX! Comedy is coming your way! This Christmas season, The Comedy Knights return with their hilarious new show, Com- edy Knights: Let's Talk About SIX! Get ready to have yourself a FUNNY little Christmas! Fol- lowing the MASSIVE success of last year's show The Comedy Knights: 5how Me The Funny, the Lords and Ladies of com- edy are coming back with this year's festive season special: Comedy Knights: Let's Talk About SIX! powered by XFM 100.2. JANUARY 11 - 12 Ghall-Bejgh 5 years from her successful debut album 'Hawn Jien', song- stress Corazon returns with 'Ghall-Bejgh' - her second al- bum of original songs in Mal- tese, this time accompanied by the Malta Philarmonic Orches- tra, under the direction of Au- relio Belli who has also taken care of all the arrangements of the album. Audiences at Sir Temi Zammit Hall can listen to the 12 songs included in the al- bum performed live during the Launching Concert, as well as obtain their exclusively signed copy of the new album. A re- ception will follow. JANUARY 12 Rhythm In Essence How to develop a univer- sal understanding of rhythm. Rhythm is a basic element in Music yet different styles of music require different skills. This masterclass at Knight Music is open for all instru- mentalist. Efrain Toro is recog- nized as one of the finest and most complete all round per- cussionists in the world. Efrain began his musical career in his native Puerto Rico. Although he started on the drum kit, he very soon began to work with timbales, congas, and a wide variety of other instruments. JANUARY 15 – 22 The Mediterranean Dimension: Intercultural music Residency The 7-day residency will con- sist of morning and afternoon sessions. Participating musi- cians will be collaborating with musicians from the Mediter- ranean. Wind, brass and string musicians, singers (any style including pop, jazz, classical, folk, etc.), and għannejja (Mal- tese traditional singers/poets) are eligible to apply. Piano and guitar are not required for this residency. Performances of work created during the resi- dency will take place on Tues- day 22nd January at Spazju Kreattiv Theatre, Valletta. For participation conditions: https://www.arcrc.eu/2019-in- tercultural-residency To apply: ht t ps://w w w.a rcrc .eu/2 019 - residency-application JANUARY 11 – 26 Valletta Baroque Festival 2019 The 7th edition of the Val- letta Baroque Festival will cover 36 performances on 18 locations between 11 and 26 January 2019. It again will be a showcase of top musicians on mesmerizing baroque loca- tions. The festival will just as last year venture out of Valletta to other baroque venues in- cluding: Mdina, the old Siculo- Norman capital where one can still see the columns of roman temples in its foundations, Bir- gu (Vittoriosa) and Senglea (L- Isla) which lie across the Grand Harbour from Valletta and form part of what is referred to as The Three Cities; and Rabat, Ghaxaq, Qrendi and Zejtun – all boasting exquisite examples of Malta's baroque heritage. FEBRUARY 14 – 16 Unforgettable – A Concert By Nico Darmanin Popular Maltese tenor Nico Darmanin will perform in an unforgettable swing, jazz and big band concert in February next year. Darmanin will be holding his first-ever big band swing concert in Malta next February – just in time for Mal- ta's swing-music lovers to enjoy a truly unforgettable Valen- tine's Day. In his one-weekend- only Unforgettable concert on 14, 15 and 16 February, Nico will be performing swing, jazz and big band classics inside the magnificent Grand Salon at the National Museum of Archaeol- ogy. Accompanied by live mu- sic from the Big Band Brothers, and featuring singer Jasmine Abela, Nico's Unforgettable concert will include classic songs immortalised by artists from the golden age of music including Mario Lanza, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, in a genre that emulates the pure romance of the season of love. at the National Museum of Ar- chaeology, Valletta. Tickets are available from www.ticketline. com.mt EXHIBITIONS DECEMBER 27- JANUARY 20 Bahar Zmien (Of Time and the Sea) Peter Sant's debut feature film, BAĦAR ŻMIEN (Of Time And The Sea) is an alle- gorical film about a stasis and slow change that explores the usefulness and pain of memo- ry, and attends to the contem- porary situation of a life – a life where physicality and memory have eroded to create an ethe- real and bizarrely harmonious world. In this world, a crip- pled king whose kingdom has crumbled lives in a remote cor- ner of an island called First in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin with his two daughters. The King forces his younger daughter to work tire- lessly, building rubble walls in strange megalithic-type con- figurations in a feverish at- tempt to stave off a return of the virus. Bahar Zmien will be at Spazju Kreativ Cinema on 27, 29 and 30 December at 8:30pm. DECEMBER 20 – JANUARY 31 Songcraft: The Young Singer- Songwriter Showcase Aġenzija Żgħażagħ and Spazju Kreattiv have joined forces to create a music ini- tiative geared towards young people aged 16 – 18. They are looking for upcoming singer- songwriters that are willing to improve their skills and present original songs to an audience. – Mentorship opportunities with established singer-songwriters, including Alex Alden (Singer- songwriter, judge at X Factor Malta), Ivan Borg (Red Elec- trick), Alison Galea (Etnika, Beangrowers, The Shh), Mark Zizza Abela (Brodu) Contact on songcraft@kreattivita.org for more info. UNTIL JANUARY 20 Shifting Context The Shifting Context exhibi- tion was curated through an open call for young artists by Aġenzija Żgħażagħ. The ex- hibition seeks to explore the critical role of art in respond- ing to a rapidly changing world, encouraging young artists to appropriate the theme of Re- location in their work, taking it elsewhere into new and un- expected territories. Creativ- ity entails looking at familiar things from a completely novel perspective and Shifting Con- texts will encourage and sus- tain this approach. Shifting Contexts will promote a shared vision of the future of young people in accordance with the National Youth Policy - To- wards 2020. DECEMBER 21- JANUARY 27 Vanishing Valletta In 1982 artist photographer David Pisani embarked on a personal project to document the city of Valletta and the sur- rounding harbour area with an emphasis on the socially deprived periphery of Valletta and the infamous red light dis- trict of Strait Street which he regularly frequented. What started as a photo essay of the derelict buildings of the city and the dwindling activity in Strait Street would evolve into an epic documentation of Val- letta spanning 29 years. All the photographs in this collection are fine art silver gelatin print- ed from the original negatives by the photographer. UNTIL FEBRUARY 28 The Immortals of a City The Immortals of a City showcases 51 selected pho- tos from the vast quantity of works, these photos are not objective records of the sculp- tures, but rather stunning re- inventions inspired by lots of reading and reflection on his- torical documents. The exhibi- tion seeks to convey the influ- ence and charm of European public artworks, by represent- ing sculptures of European cities through photography, offering visitors an extraordi- nary taste of glimpses captured in these European cities, and inviting one to reflect on life and moments of history while progressing toward the future. It has been exhibited in Beijing, Qingdao, Tianjin and other places in China, meeting with profound appreciation and interest in the historical, cul- tural and exotic diversity of the urban carvings, especially by many who have never been to Europe.