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15 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 16 JANUARY 2019 THEATRE JANUARY 15 – 22 The Mediterranean Dimension: Intercultural music Residency The seven-day residency will consist of morning and afternoon sessions. Participating musicians will be collaborating with musi- cians from the Mediterranean. Wind, brass and string musi- cians, singers (any style including pop, jazz, classical, folk, etc.), and għannejja (Maltese traditional singers/poets) are eligible to ap- ply. Piano and guitar are not re- quired for this residency. Perfor- mances of work created during the residency will take place on Tuesday 22nd January at Spazju Kreattiv Theatre, Valletta. For participation conditions: https:// www.arcrc.eu/2019-intercultur- al-residency To apply: https:// www.arcrc.eu/2019-residency- application UNTIL JANUARY 26 Valletta Baroque Festival 2019 The 7th edition of the Valletta 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 mesmerising ba- roque locations. The festival will just as last year venture out of Valletta to other baroque venues including: Mdina, the old Sicu- lo-Norman capital where one can still see the columns of ro- man temples in its foundations, Birgu (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 Ra- bat, Ghaxaq, Qrendi and Zejtun – all boasting exquisite exam- ples 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 music from the Big Band Brothers, and featuring singer Jasmine Abela, Nico's Unforgettable concert will include classic songs im- mortalised 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 Na- tional Museum of Archaeology, Valletta. Tickets are available from www.ticketline.com.mt EXHIBITIONS UNTIL JANUARY 20 Bahar zmien (Of Time and the Sea) Peter Sant's debut feature film, BAĦAR ŻMIEN (Of Time And The Sea) is an al- legorical film about a stasis and slow change that explores the usefulness and pain of memory, and attends to the contemporary situation of a life – a life where physical- ity and memory have eroded to create an ethereal and bi- zarrely harmonious world. In this world, a crippled king whose kingdom has crum- bled lives in a remote corner of an island called First in the wake of a bizarre mala- dy of mysterious origin with his two daughters. The King forces his younger daughter to work tirelessly, building rubble walls in strange meg- alithic-type configurations in a feverish attempt to stave off a return of the virus. Bahar Zmien will be at Spazju Krea- tiv Cinema on 27, 29 and 30 December at 8.30pm. UNTIL 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 oppor- tunities are available with es- tablished 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 exhi- bition was curated through an open call for young artists by Aġenzija Żgħażagħ. The exhibition seeks to explore the critical role of art in re- sponding to a rapidly chang- ing world, encouraging young artists to appropriate the theme of Relocation in their work, taking it elsewhere into new and unexpected territo- ries. Creativity entails look- ing at familiar things from a completely novel perspective and Shifting Contexts will encourage and sustain this approach. Shifting Contexts will promote a shared vision of the future of young people in accordance with the Na- tional Youth Policy - Towards 2020. UNTIL JANUARY 27 Vanishing Valletta In 1982 artist photographer David Pisani embarked on a personal project to docu- ment the city of Valletta and the surrounding harbour area with an emphasis on the so- cially deprived periphery of Valletta and the infamous red light district of Strait Street which he regularly frequent- ed. 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 documen- tation of Valletta spanning 29 years. All the photographs in this collection are fine art silver gelatin printed from the original negatives by the pho- tographer. 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 sculptures, but rather stun- ning reinventions inspired by lots of reading and ref lec- tion on historical documents. The exhibition seeks to con- vey the inf luence and charm of European public artworks, by representing sculptures of European cities through photography, offering visi- tors an extraordinary taste of glimpses captured in these European cities, and inviting one to ref lect on life and mo- ments of history while pro- gressing 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. LISTINGS WHAT'S ON Songcraft is an initiative geared towards young people