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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 29 JUNE 2014 37 THIS WEEK THE final part of Ġgantija 2013 Project, led by the Ars Vitae Ensem- ble will be held at the Upper Galler- ies of St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, and will run from July 12 up to the August 24. During this final part of the project, new works by Victor Agius, includ- ing sculptures in mixed media, will be exhibited. Mariella Cassar's new musical work Ġgantija II will be performed on August 6 in the music room at the same venue. During this event, a fully illustrated catalogue, including images from the Ggantija 2013 per- formance, installation views of the final exhibition and the publication of the literary works by Immanuel Mifsud, together with a CD con- taining audio clips of Ġgantija 2013 will be given to guests. Ġgantija II will be performed by Tricia Dawn Williams, Gisele Grima, Simon Ab- dilla Joslin and Alistair Attard. Ġgantija 2013 Project is an ongo- ing- multidisciplinary work embrac- ing music, visual art and literature. The project aims to dialogue with Ġgantija, a Unesco World Heritage Site situated on the island of Gozo through the use of contemporary media. Curated by Vince Briffa, this artistic initiative is a group effort between composer Mariella Cassar, artist Victor Agius and the inter- national acclaimed Maltese writer Immanuel Mifsud. The project was launched in June 2013 at the Tem- ples via a performance of Ġgantija 2013, composed by Cassar and penned by Mifsud, and sculpture interventions and light installations by Agius. Between June and November 2013 a number of interactive hands-on workshops were held at Heritage Malta's National Museum of Ar- chaeology, the Manoel Theatre in Valletta, Ġgantija Interpretation Centre, Xagħra Youth Centre and Skola Sajf in Xagħra Gozo. These were led by Agius and Cassar them- selves while the one at the Manoel Theatre for the Music teachers was led by Dr Chris Best from Falmouth University of the UK. All these workshops aimed to show ways of how to interact with a historical site via contemporary art and music. When commenting on the works presented during last year's per- formance, the project curator Vince Briffa stated that, "Agius's sculptur- al and media installations, redefines today's meaning of collective ritual through a combined process of production and reaffirms man's in- nate regard for the creative process as a distinctive means of realising a higher state of being". He added that, "the ambiguity of this evoca- tion is further heightened by the vis- ceral sonority of Cassar's composi- tion which manages to concurrently evoke the primordial desires of our ancestors while contemporaneously speak in a modish language". Ġgantija 2013 Project is hosted by St James Cavalier Centre for Crea- tivity and Heritage Malta and is supported by the Malta Arts Fund, Banif Bank (Malta) plc, GasanMa- mo Insurance, Gozo Cultural Of- fice, Xagħra Local Council, Gozo Express Services Ltd, Marsamena Wines, Artsphere International and The Janatha Stubbs Founda- tion. Keep updated the Ġgantija 2013 Project via the Facebook page https:// www.facebook.com/ArsVitaeEnsem- ble or through www.victoragius.com and www.mariellacassar.net 37 Final exhibition of Ggantija 2013 Project at St James Cavalier Horizons dives into World Cup history