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XIV maltatoday, Sunday, 11 January 2015 This Week Foundation The Rotary Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of a scholarship for international post-graduate studies valued as US $30,000 Tuition Fees | Flights & Accomodation | Educational Material For more information visit www.rotary.org.mt/Stories/scholarship2015 Closing date extended to 25 January 2015 ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS Academic Year 2015 | 2016 Comedy Knights charge back with one more night of 'funny' Local satirical comedy group The Comedy Knights will be perform- ing their show 12 Months of Funny once again to satisfy the over- whelming demand for tickets. Featuring a fast-paced mix of original sketches and songs, the show takes a humorous look at the year gone by. It played to sold-out houses over the Christmas season and was described by tenor Joesph Calleja as "excellent" after he joined the group on stage for an impromptu performance. The show pokes fun at local politics, personalities and daily life with comparisons being drawn to shows such as Have I Got News For You, That Was, The Week That Was, Saturday Night Live as well as the work of performers like Tom Lehrer and Monty Python. Written by Chris Dingli and Steve Hili, the show is performed by Jo Caruana, Thomas Camilleri, Marc Cabourdin, Colin Fitz, Pia Zammit and Dingli himself. Direction is in the hands of Wesley Ellul. The encore, titled One More Night of Funny, will play on Janu- ary 17 at the Salesians Theatre in Sliema. Tickets are available from www.ticketline.com.mt and include free parking Songs at St James Co-Cathedral secrets decoded After more than a decade, singer Nadine Axisa and pianist Vinny Vella will be collaborating once again in the forthcoming concert 'Songs' in The Music Room at St James Cavalier, Valletta January 23 and 24 at 20:30. Tunes from their latest album releases namely, Axisa's 'Velvet' and Vinny's 'Another Way' will be performed together with other well known and more popular tunes. Axisa had performed with Vella in his critically acclaimed project 'The Beatles Works' and also 'A Groovy kind of Pop'. Completing the band is drummer Joe Micallef. He has performed in the Malta Jazz Festival on sev- eral occasions and is considered by many as Malta's finest drummer. On bass, Edward Ellul is not a new face in the local music scene either. He plays regularly with popular Band The Residents, and also performed at the Malta Jazz Festival with the Band Noir. The evening will also feature special guests Andreana Debattista and Kris Spiteri. Bookings: boxoffice@sjcav.org, 2122 3200 Although the passage of time has blurred the meaning of the images and symbols used on the tombstones and monuments of St John's Co-Cathedral, the ico- nography continues to fascinate many people today. What do the symbols on the tombstones and monuments in St John's Co-Cathedral reveal about the deceased and those who created the memorials? Members of the public who would like to know more about the complex sym- bolic iconography on the marble tombstones and monuments of St John's Co-Cathedral are invited to Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar's first heritage talk for 2105, when Dane Munro, an authority on St John's marbles, and author of the definitive book Memento Mori, will reveal all this in his interest- ing and perhaps controversial lecture about "the most beautiful floor in the world". In this lecture, specifically prepared for Flimkien għal Am- bjent Aħjar (FAA) Dane Munro will interpret the symbols on the tombstones and monuments of St John's Co-Cathedral using digital photo enhancing. Munro will also explore the relationship between the viewer and this complex sym- bolic iconography in a way that has never been done before. The talk will take place on Janu- ary 21 at the Corinthia Palace Hotel, Attard, at 18:30. Entrance is against a €5 donation towards FAA's art restoration project. Bookings: www.faa.org.mt, tick- etengine.faa.org.mt or 2131 0720. Visitors are requested to be seated by 18:00 Unveiling the mysteries of Gozo The series of public talks lectures or- ganised by Din l-Art Helwa resumes on January 15 with a talk by Fr J. Bez- zina entitled 'Hidden aspects of Gozo', at Din l-Art Ħelwa, 133, Melita Street, Valletta, at 18:30. Bezzina will project an overview of the history of the island of Gozo, from the first arrival of humans to recent times, with an emphasis on the least known type-sites. It will include a glimpse at the recent discoveries in and around the Gozo Citadel: the Mystery Circle, the Roman Walls, and the 1701 bridge. Bezzina, born in Victoria, Gozo studied at the University of Malta and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He holds three history degrees, including a First-class Honours Doctorate in Church History, and has also received the Pope's Award, his University's highest honour, after being placed first in the 1982 finals. He was for many years Head of Department of Church History at the University of Malta and Senior Lecturer in history in the Faculty of Theology at the same University and at the Sacred Heart Seminary, Gozo. He is the Assistant National Archivist of Malta and Head at its Gozo Sec- tion that he founded in 1989. He has written over forty books, including a history of Malta during the early British period: Religion and Politics in a Crown Colony, The Gozo-Malta Story, 1798-1864; a history of the Church in Malta from the apostolic era to recent times: Storja tal-Knisja f'Malta, and a short history of Gozo: Gozo's Government, the autonomy of an island through history. Fr Bezzina is the author of a number of studies published in English, Maltese, French, German, and Italian. Entrance is free of charge but donations to Din l-Art Ħelwa will be appreciated. For more information: 21225952 or info@dinlarthelwa.org