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18 Events maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2013 Ten Tenses – MJMDA's ten-year Anniversary Exhibition TEN: The first of the double digits. A milestone, but not the mile stone. A reflective pause before the rest of the journey. Ten is energetic, still young and hungry for adventure – nevertheless it's sharp and understands the world around it. TEN is an exhibition set up by Matthew James Mercieca Design Architects (MJMDA) to share their journey to date and project their visions for the future. MJMDA is Ten – Ten is an exhibition that will look into sharing MJMDA's tenses with a broader audience to: Look into the past, celebrate accomplishments and the journey that got them to where they are today. Share present projects, to incite a higher awareness of what it takes to create products to our desired multidisciplinary technicality. Peek into the Architectural visions of the future through exploration and dedicated development in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering students from the University of Malta. Established in 2003 by Archi- tect Matthew J. Mercieca, MJMDA (Matthew James Mercieca Design Architects) now excels at designing and executing projects in their entirety thanks to its strongly melded multi-disciplined team. This project methodology is not co-incidental and was one of the key visions of the founder, to carry projects from the concept stages right through to the finishes until they are in a userready state. MJMDA, in almost all cases has managed to assure by way of commitment truly user enhancing architectural solutions. With a comprehensive list of completed projects, the Team has amassed a cutting edge working spirit and refined expertise. The Firm has been commissioned with the execution of key projects ranging from single new-build dwellings, single unit rehabilitations, multiunit dwellings, food and beverage outlets, retail outlets and offices and office complexes. This exhibition has been laid out to give the public a peek in to the way MJMDA carries out these projects, elaborating on the techniques used to ensure that projects are holistically delivered to our clients. Being held at the new Pace and Mercieca premises in Mriehel, a building by MJMDA in it's finishing stages, the event will run between the 8th – 17th November 2013. Location: P & M Building, Level 2, Triq il-Ghadam, Mriehel Opening hours are as follows. 9 No- vember: 10am – 4pm; 10 November: 10am – 12pm; 2pm – 4pm; 11-15 November: 2pm – 7pm; 16 November: 10am – 4pm; 17 November: 10am – 12pm; 2pm – 4pm Emirates keeps kids entertained GasanMamo supports History Week 2013 this holiday season Airline ups children's inflight entertainment programming for December WITH the winter break fast ap- proaching, young travellers will have more entertainment choices than ever, thanks to Emirates. The airline announced it will boost the children's content on its awardwinning in-flight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen (information, communication, entertainment) in time for the busy travel season. From new release movies and Disney classics to a massive selection of TV programmes, December will be a great month to fly Emirates with the family. Children on an Emirates flight in December have more than 50 hours of kid-friendly TV waiting for them. New features on ice Digital Widescreen include Nickelodeon featuring Bubble Guppies, Spongebob and Team Umizoomi, plus new and updated channels dedicated to Thomas & Friends, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Austin & Ally, and The Gruffalo. This is in addition to the BBC's CBeebies, preschool channel Disney Jr., Cartoon Network and over 15 channels of top children's television. ice Digital Widescreen's movie line-up is also guaranteed to keep just about any child occupied with new releases for kids headed up by Despicable Me 2 and the smash hit, One Direction: This is Us, just two of 15 recent movies that children will love including The Smurfs 2, Planes, and The Croods. Many of these movies are available in up to seven different languages and close to half offer closed captions for the hard of hearing. New movies are backed up with an awesome selection of 40 Disney Emirates will be boosting the children's content on its award-winning in-flight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen (information, communication, entertainment) in time for the busy travel season Classics: movies parents will love introducing to their kids. All-time favourites such as 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella and Mary Poppins are always popular onboard as are "modern classics" like Cars, Toy Story, and all four Pirates of the Caribbean movies. "We want getting there to be half the fun, and the flight on Emirates to be the part that everyone in the family looks forward to. Having a great entertainment line-up for kids also helps alleviate some of the travel stress from the parents, so they can relax and enjoy the flight," said Patrick Brannelly, Emirates' Vice President Corporate Communications Product, Publishing, Digital & Events. He added: "Emirates pioneered YOUR FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY www.maltatoday.com.mt inflight children's entertainment with the launch of a dedicated children's TV channel back in 1992, and the introduction of a huge selection of Disney movies in 2003. We aim to continue raising the bar in this regard and look holistically at the whole entertainment offering such as the variety of games to play, music to listen to, kids activity packs and the newest members of the Emirates family: the Fly With Me Monsters." Each month Emirates reviews its entertainment to deliver the latest and best movies, television, audio and games from around the world. With more than 1,600 channels in 30 languages, ice Digital Widescreen ensures passengers of all ages are spoiled for choice. Emirates operates four scheduled flights weekly from Malta to Dubai via Larnaka, Cyprus, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. While on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, Emirates operates direct flights from Dubai to Malta and return flights fly via Tripoli AS part of its ongoing commitment towards its comunity, GasanMamo are sponsoring a series of lectures which are being organised by the Malta Historical Society and the University of Malta under the Auspices of the Embassy of Spain. These lectures will be held at Palazzo de la Salle in Republic Street, Valletta today and 14, 15 November at 6pm and 8pm. "Over time we have seen a growing interest among Maltese in Malta's history and heritage and it is still the case today," said Julian Mamo Managing Director at GasanMamo. "The Malta Historical Society has been at the forefront in promoting history and heritage through a number of activities and it is therefore a privilage to be one of the sponsors of this year's edition of History Week." Preperations are well underway to hold the 16th edition of History Week which this year will see the participation of a healthy mix of established historians such as Prof. Stanley Fiorini and Dr William Zammit, and a number of emerging historians who will be given a chance to present various aspects of their research. While it is hoped that these lectures will help provoke an awareness of history and heritage, the general public is invited to attend and participate in the ensuing discussions which promise to be highly interesting. Founded in 1950, the Malta Historical Society is Malta's leading non-governmental and not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the academic study and diffusion of Maltese history and culture. The society's committee is composed of eleven members of whom Judge Giovanni Bonello is President and Professor Mario Buhagiar, formerly Head of the Department of History of Art of the University of Malta, is Vice-President. The Malta Historical Society would like to thank GasanMamo, who, together with other sponsors, have generously contributed towards the organization of History Week 2013 and the eventual publication of the proceedings. Networking event at Creative Partners offices From left: Trudy Kerr, Carmen Pullicino Orlando, Kevin Schembri and Jason Micallef A group of professional businesses, made up of The Creative Partners, Astra Consulting, Divino, Shadeena, Boutique Escape, Two In One, held a networking event for clients with the name 'There's Someone I'd Like You to Meet' at The Creative Partners' offices in Iklin. A number of distinguished guests turned up for the event tocreate synergies with other professionals. Music was provided by Lorna Fiorini, Neville Refalo and Ruth SammutCasingena.