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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 40 THIS WEEK Airport Impressions win international award Science speed dating, travelling medicine busking and CSI at Science in the City THE song 'Berlin', released this year by Maltese band Airport Impressions, was awarded 'first place' in the 2014 Unsigned Only Music Competition. This international competition, based in the United States, gives a platform for unsigned artists, with the aim of exposing them to major record labels. 'Berlin' was awarded 'first place' in the 'Adult Album Alternative' cat- egory out of nearly 8000 entries received from over 100 countries. This made Airport Impressions the only non-UK European winners in this competi- tion. The judges who selected the winners for this com- petition were high-profile recording artists includ- ing Robert Smith from The Cure, Rosanne Cash, 3 Doors Down and Of Monsters and Men. The Adult Alternative Category features songs in a genre which is broad- er than the limited playl- ists of hit radios and, as noted by competition or- ganizers, the category in- cludes artists in the style of John Mayer, Coldplay, Jason Mraz, Ben Harper and others. Berlin is the second single released from the Band's recent album 'Ma- riette. A fun face-to-face speed dating with scientists will be held at one of the leading wine bars in Valletta as part of Science in the City festival on Friday 26 September from 18:30 till 23:00. A number of young and senior sci- entists will be sitting around a bar with posters indicating their scien- tific field. Participants will be able to stretch their imagination skills and ask questions and get an answer from the scientist in just seven minutes. As soon as the gong goes, the par- ticipant will move on to the next sci- entist and present another question. Participants will be able to leave and re-enter the circuit whenever a free position is available. The scientific fields will include glow-in-the-dark molecules, sea pol- lution, green algae, aeronautics, space exploration, cancer and more. Science speed dating will be held at Charles Grech Wine Bar in Republic Street, Valletta, from 6.30pm onwards. Travelling Medicine Show Creative Island street performers will be holding a 'Travelling Medicine Show', staging vintage style enter- tainment in three different locations in Republic Street. At 8.30pm at City Gate, 9.30 pm at the corner between Republic Street and St John's Street, and at 10:30pm in St George's square. The act focuses on medical history of Malta, depicting some unusual and strange medical practices. The performers, Vee Stivala, Joseph Zammit, Maria Pia Meli, and Marie Claire Camilleri will gather audi- ences behind them to the next stop where at the end they will give out elixirs to the crowd. Produced by Nicole Cuschieri, directed by Vee Sti- vala, and aided by research consult- ant Miriam Calleja, the Travelling Medicine Show is being funded by the Malta Arts Fund. CSI: Valletta At the courtyard of the Ministry of Health in Merchants Street, Dr Marco Galea from the University Theatre Studies, investigators from the Malta Police Force and forensic scientists from the University of Mal- ta will present Grimani, min Qaltu? (Who killed Grimani?) An evening of Maltese ballads, performance and fo- rensic science related to an unsolved crime story involving the murder of a priest in Malta. While researching Maltese ballads "għana tal-fatt", Marlene Mifsud Chircop came across Fr Vincenzo Grimani's murder. The learned preacher/lecturer, aged 35, was sav- agely killed at night in his Valletta convent cell in 1738, door locked from outside, key thrown away in the garden. Up to a couple of months ago the nine-stanza ballad about the mur- dered friar and the loss his mother suffered was all that was known about the murder. A Dominican friar was unjustly ac- cused as there was no proper police investigation or forensics. He was imprisoned in terrible conditions but escaped and remained in exile in Sicily for years, claiming till the end to know the murderer and to be in- nocent. The story and ballads will revive the murder scene in our times, nar- rating what police procedure and fo- rensic tests would have been done to find out the real murderer. The 30- minute production will be shown at 19:00, 20:00, 21:00 and 22:00. The Science in the City festival— European Researchers' Night is sup- ported by the EU's Marie Skłodowska- Curie Action of the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Programme. The event is organised by the Uni- versity of Malta, Malta Chamber of Scientists and the Research Trust of the University of Malta, in partner- ship with Karl Borg Events, Studio 7, Valletta 2018 Foundation, MEUSAC, Valletta Local Council, Malta Coun- cil for Science and Technology, Malta College for Arts, Science and Tech- nology, Arts Council Malta, PBS, Notte Bianca, St James Cavalier, Lufthansa Technik Malta, General Soft Drinks with Coca Cola, Ta' Me- na wines, and British Council. The full programme and venue de- tails can be downloaded from www. scienceinthecity.org.mt Airport Impressions