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Michael Michael XIII maltatoday, SUNDAY, 19 APRIL 2015 This Week Virtù Ferries This week's winner is M'LOUISE PERICI CALASCIONE who has collected her two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other Artists to avail themselves of €130,000 Cultural Export fund Maltese artists will have in- creased opportunities to export their work after a new fund aimed specifically to support artists showcase their work abroad was launched earlier this week. The fund – called the Cul- tural Export Fund – will deploy a total of just over €130,000 annually in grants for travel, touring and translation. The Cultural Export Fund builds on the Malta Arts Fund's Mobil- ity Grant and Spreading Words and was developed further into a new programme with increased investment to ref lect the focus on cultural export. Travel Grants aims primarily to support the mobility of artists and cultural operators to explore, to develop skills, to build networks, and to engage in international collaborations. The maximum allocation is of €2,000 per project and there are four deadlines in 2015 with a session budget of €8,000. The next deadline is on May 22 at noon. 'Presentation and Touring' aims to support one-off international presentations/exhibitions or tours. The focus is specifically on making professional work sustainable while sharing creative excellence with international au- diences. The maximum allocation is of €8,000 per project with a ses- sion budget of €24,000. There are two deadlines in 2015; the next deadline is on June 22 at noon. Spreading Words aims to sup- port the translation of artistic works, ranging from books to films, for international distribu- tion. This strand will be launched later this year. The fund was launched at the Malta International Airport as the national dance company, ŻfinMalta, was on its way to its first international touring event at Ramallah, highlighting the new impetus that has been injected into this sector. Dur- ing the launch, Albert Marshall, Executive Chairman of Arts Council Malta, announced that the Cultural Export Fund is part of an extensive international cultural programme announced in this year's budget. The alloca- tion of €200,000 includes other initiatives, such as assisting and supporting public cultural or- ganisations to export their work. This year Arts Council Malta is teaming up with the CHOGM taskforce and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to present an outgoing cultural programme by public cultural organisa- tions within key Commonwealth countries. The strategy also includes Arts Council Malta initiatives to help the sector export its work and provide training. For instance, 35 projects are ready to be exported as part of the second Malta Show- case and artists will be given spe- cialised training in international development. The need for an internation- alisation strategy in the cultural and creative sectors has long been felt, said Culture Minister Owen Bonnici. "Providing an incentive so that artists can have access to international markets allows the arts to become more professional and sustainable in the long-term. This is in synch with our belief in intercultural dialogue, which will serve as one of the main tenets running through the long-term plan, to be implemented during the 2017 Presidency and through to the European Capital of Cul- ture 2018." Information sessions on the Cultural Export Fund will be held on April 22 and 23 in Malta and Gozo; these will be held in collab- oration with the Creative Europe Desk. Like other public funds administered by Arts Council Malta, the fund is competitive and will be evaluated according to established criteria. More info and application forms from maltaculture.com, call on 2339 7000 or email fundinfo@maltaculture.com Centre: Minister Owen Bonnici and Albert Marshall at the launch of the Cultural Export Fund