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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 1 JUNE 2025 5 ALMANAC Nature Notebook Join us for a sunset dinner to celebrate community and summer together! Mark the first evening of summer with a vibrant gathering of culture, creativity, and connection. Join us for a Sunset Dinner in the garden at Friends of the Earth Malta — a special night filled with shared stories, home-cooked dishes, and the spirit of community. Enjoy a delicious spread featuring flavours from around the world along- side traditional Maltese food. As the evening unfolds, we'll open the floor for an open mic poetry night, where everyone is welcome to share their voice. Don't forget to bring your own traditional food to share! This event is proudly part of Refugee Week, an arts and culture festival that celebrates the contributions, creativity, and resilience of refugees. 21st June, 18:00–21:00, Friends of the Earth Malta, Floriana Victor Falzon Green idea of the week 126 Register and find out more here: https://foemalta.org/ event/sunset-dinner-at-refugee-week/ Don't miss this Give nature a voice. Become a BirdLife member 1. Portugal Wine Tasting Event at Blackley's 1906 Terrace Date: 4 June Location: Blackley's 1906, Pieta Join Vintage&Co and Celebra for a Portugal Wine Tasting on the Terrace at Blackley's 1906, Wednesday June 4th at 8PM. Explore 5 wines from Lua Cheia & Casa Ermelinda Freitas, guided by Lara Dias & Pedro. Enjoy flowing platters in a vibrant summer setting. Limited spots— bookings now open! 2. Singing Festival 2025 Date: Starting from 13 June Location: St Patrick's Salesian School, Sliema Associazione Mozart Italia Malta presents the Singing Festival 2025. Enthusiastic Singers of all ages will perform in the Opera, Chamber Music and Musicals repertoire. Some of them will perform what they learned during the singing masterclass organized by AMIM in the previous days. Special guests of the evening will be the Internationally renowned Opera Singer Laura Ansaldi, soprano and the tenor Brian Cefai, beloved Maltese Opera Singer and choirmaster of the Amadeus Chamber Choir. Entrance is free and during the evening free donations will be collected to support the activities of AMIM in collaboration with the Salesians Don Bosco. 3. Bocci, The Musical Date: Starting from 13 June Location: Guy Bocci Klabb, Zurrieq Teatru Malta and Give or Take Productions are teaming up to present Bocci, the Musical. A bocce club is on the brink of closure. An eccentric cast of characters who couldn't be more different from each other come together to try to save the club. Osmar 'the Canadian', the club's last player, along with the club's owner Jes, never imagined they would have a woman in their club. The young mother, Martha, cannot accept that the club is going to close and wants to do everything she can to keep the club open but her reasons are not so obvious to Jes and Osmar. Why does Martha want the club to stay open? What is this interest in the bocce club? 4. Exit: Korean Voice Band Date: 13 June Location: Teatru Salesjan, Sliema "An escape from routine through music" – this is the hidden meaning behind the name of the group Voice Band EXIT. Composed of five members, the group presents an astonishing variety of genres using only their voices. 5. Deste Trio Concert Date: 20 June Location: Teatru Salesjan Sliema Piano Trio Recital in Aid of the Beatification Cause of Henry and Inez Casolani. All proceeds support this noble cause. Don't miss the chance to experience the emotional beauty of these masterpieces while contributing to a meaningful initiative. Featuring two magnificent works: Brahms Piano Trio in C minor; Mendelssohn Piano Trio in C minor. 6. A Midsummer Dream - An Mdina Resounds Concert Date: 25 June Location: St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina This June, Mdina's St Paul's Cathedral hosts A Midsummer Dream, a magical evening where classical music meets poetry. Featuring works by Mozart, Debussy, Vivaldi, and more, performed by the Cordia String Quartet with soprano Miriam Cauchi. Actor Mikhail Basmadjian brings poetry by Shakespeare, Blake, and Briffa to life. 7. Spmo Musical Moods - Selections for solo clarinet & string orchestra Date: 27 June Location: Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta Step into an evening of evocative soundscapes with SPMO Musical Moods – Selections for Solo Clarinet & String Orchestra, a captivating concert that celebrates the emotional depth and expressive power of classical music. Join the St Paul Metropolitan Orchestra and a virtuoso clarinet soloist for a carefully curated programme that explores a rich palette of musical moods— from lyrical serenity to playful brilliance and stirring drama. Deste Trio Concert at Teatru Salesjan 972. Vapourer WE have hundreds of moth species. But we hardly appreciate this because, contrary to their gaudy day-loving cousins the butterflies, moths are largely drab in colour and fly by night. One moth that breaks the night-shift rule is the vapourer (M. l-imferfxa). The male is often on the wing at this time of year, fluttering about incessantly (hence the Maltese name) in search for females. As he doesn't land much, we miss his rich-brown patterned upperwings and orange un- derwing. His lady's lot is rather different: she is flightless, she stays in her woolly cocoon, gets fertilised in there and dies in her cocoon- turned-tomb. Her strange larvae (pictured – no Photoshop, honest!) then burst out of their dead mother's body and out into the world. Move over Alien!