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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2015 32 This Week MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE OCTOBER 30 Brikkuni & Veronique Vella: GĦARAM – il-Kunċert Concert by folk-pop act Brikkuni in collaboration with pianist Veronique Vella at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta at 20:30. Tickets are at €20, €15 and €10. Bookings: bookings@teatrumanoel.com.mt, 21246389. NOVEMBER 7 Don Ross Live The Canadian artist returns to Malta for a gig at City Theatre, Valletta at 21:00. Tickets at €20 can be booked from ticketline. com.mt. More information: 7920 5402. THEATRE OCTOBER 23-31; NOVEMBER 1 My First Time Back by popular demand, the TAC Theatre production will be staged at City Theatre, Valletta at 20:00. Tickets are at €10, €15 and €20. Directed by Wesley Ellul and Marc Cabourdin. Cast includes Jo Caruana, Thomas Camilleri and Joe Depasquale. Bookings: http:// new.ticketline.com.mt/. OCTOBER 30, 31; NOVEMBER 1, 5-8; 12-14 Attempts on Her Life Unifaun Theatre production of Martin Crimp's play, directed by David Barton and staged at St James Cavalier, Valletta at 20:00. Cast includes: Lizzie Eldridge, Marie Keiser-Nielsen, Bettina Paris, Mariele Zammit, Ruth Borg, Antonella Mifsud, Larissa Bonaci, Philip Leone Ganado, Timmy Paris and Vladislav Ilich. Tickets are at €12 and €20. Bookings: http://www.kreattivita. org/. NOVEMBER 7, 13-15 Bad Dad Performance by comedian Chris Dingli at Blue Box, M Space, Msida at 20:00. Late last year, Chris became a dad. This is the story about how utterly unprepared he was for this experience. People tell you that having a child is difficult, but they don't really tell you! Bookings: https://bluebox.azurewebsites.net. The show is rated 16. WHAT'S ON TODAY Manikata Pumpkin Festival Village event in Manikata cel- ebrating pumpkin produce, near the Manikata church from 10:00 to 16:00. Apart from pumpkins and other fresh fruit and veg- etables, pies, soup, risotto, cous- cous, pasta, cakes all prepared with pumpkin will also be on sale. There will be live enter- tainment by Country Brothers and Artemocion Malta, and lo- cal artist Jeni Caruana will be drawing on the spot. The Malta Doom Metal Festival Doom metal festival at Cha- teau Buskett, limits of Rabat from 20:00. Featuring local and international doom metal acts, including 12th Ode (Malta), Alunah (UK), Arkham Witch (UK), Cromlech (Canada), Dawn of Anguish (Malta), Doomed (Germany), Doomocracy (Greece), King Heavy (Chile), Marche Funebre (Belgium), Nomad Son (Malta), Stonegriff (Sweden), Tysondog (UK), Void Moon (Sweden) and VENOM. Inc (UK). Tickets are at €35, €25 and €16. Bookings: http://malta- doom.com/. Blithe Spirit Production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit at MADC Clu- brooms, Sta Venera at 19:30. Directed by Polly March. Fea- turing Stefan Cachia Zammit, Cathy Lawlor, Coryse Borg, Polly March, John Marinelli, Francesca Briffa and Tina Riz- zo. Tickets are at €10. Bookings: http://booking.madc.com.mt. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Masquerade Theatre Com- pany production of Ken Kesey's classic at Manoel Theatre, Val- letta at 20:00. Adapted by Dale Wasserman, the production is directed by Stephen Oliver. Cast includes: Alan Paris, Alex- andra Camilleri Warne, Victor DeBono, Joe Depasquale, An- dre Agius, Michael Mangion, Renato Dimech, Dominic Said, Colin Willis, Rebecca Camilleri, Rambert Attard, Gianni Sel- vaggi, Christina Frendo, Nathan Alakkad, Peter Busutill, Emma Micallef, Franco Sciberras and Albert Scalpello. Tickets are at €25, €22, €20, €14. Bookings: book ings@teatrumanoel.com. mt, 2124 6389. Tikber u Tinsa Theatre production written by Simon Bartolo and directed by Roderick Vassallo at St James Cavalier, Valletta at 20:00. Cast includes Clive Piscopo, Jamie Cardona and Alison Abela. Tickets are at €12. Bookings: www.kreattivita.org. Senglea Maritime Festival Day of re-enactments and sight-seeing tours around Sen- glea from 10:00 to 17:00. The public attending the Senglea Maritime festival will be able to see a glimpse of the fascinating history of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and in Malta. This is achieved by drills, an air-raid scene and also displays of weapons used by the British forces in Malta. ESF 3.234 LEAP PROJECT mfss.gov.mt/leap Operational Programme II – Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 Empowering People for More Jobs and a Better Quality of Life Project part-financed by the European Union European Social Fund (ESF) Co-financing rate: 85% EU Funds; 15% National Funds Investing in your future 274 individuals benefitted from the project LEAP Traineeship Scheme for Beneficiaries within 91 host organisations. There were 70 NGOs, 17 Local council & 4 Government entities hosting project beneficiaries Out of 274 beneficiaries, 21 individuals are migrants, 80 persons are with disability, and 36 are prison inmates 60 project beneficiaries found employment, whilst 9 opted to further their studies Out of the 274 beneficiaries, 5 never attended schooling, 8 had not complete their primary education, 30 completed primary education, 44 had not completed their secondary education, 144 completed secondary education, 32 commenced post-secondary education and 11 had commenced a course at tertiary level 59 beneficiaries were over 50 years of age, while another 69 were within the 21 to 30 age group Following the project Leap Traineeship Scheme, 184 are now motivated to find a job, whilst 47 are now motivated to follow further training Over 260,000 hours of LEAP training was provided 90 individuals participated to study visits (duration of 6 days each) held in Portugal and Ireland 6 Regional Development Centres (1 in Gozo) and 2 Family Resource Centres were established National Database for persons with disability was developed, over 800 surveys inputted A Network Directory including major social stakeholders was published. Directory was divided in 3 volumes with 2,500 copies of each volume. Chris Dingli is a 'Bad Dad' in his next production Today: Manikata Pumpkin Festival