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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 This Week 35 contemporary art and the featured artists will include Andrew Diacono, Noel Attard, Victor Agius, Antoine Farrugia, Maria Galea, Tony Briffa, Emmanuel Caruana, Gabriel Caruana, Mark Mallia, Stiefnu, Saviour Baldachino, Alan Pace and the Muscat Trio. The exhibition will also include Live Guitar and vocals by Ben Purple. Open until 27 November. Doors open at 20:30. UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER UOMalta MA Fine Arts Final Projects The exhibition is open until the 25th of September at Splendid in Valletta, and 'Modern Irregular Argonauts' will be on display in Addolorata Cemetery, open between 07:00 and 16:30 until the end of the month. 'It-Taraġ', located at the entrance to Valletta is also on display until the end of the month STARTING OCTOBER 1 Bodyless An artistic project that is seeking to retell African migration narrative. Visual artists Teresa Sciberras, Maxine Attard, Aaron Bezzina and Matthew Attard present works ranging from sculptures to installations alongside a viertual reality game developed by Sandro Spina in collaboration with exhibition curator Glen Calleja. Doors open at 09:00am. Runs until October 16. OCTOBER 9 Genna ta' Gonna – 2016 All gardens, museums, historical buildings and other places of interest in Floriana open to the public, with some guided tours. Old manuscripts and mummified bodies of priests under the Cappuccin convents, the bell tower of St. Pubius Parish Church will be available for viewing. Contact Floriana local council on 21235523 or at f loriana.lc@gov. mt for more information. FILM SCREENING SEPTEMBER 29 Babai Film about ten-year-old Nori and his father, Gezim in pre-war Kosovo of the 90s. Gezim wants nothing to do with Nori's mother, and wants to flee Kosovo without Nori. Nori tries to prevent his father from leaving, putting himself through a devastating accident, a perilous journey and an intense confrontation with his father. Screened at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier), Valletta at 20:00. Tickets are at €7. Bookings: http://ticketenginex. kreattivita.org/?eventname=Babai WHAT'S ON Applications open for Maltese Islands Festival 2016 Applications for the first edition of The Maltese Islands Festival of Drama, Music, Singing and Dance (MIF'16) are now open. Part of The British and International Federation of Festivals, MIF'16 will take the form of competitions, with participants performing in front of both a public audience and a professional adjudicator from the UK. Children, aged 4 and above, and adults of all ages are invited to apply. The Festival, which will take place between Friday 2 and Sunday 4 December at St James Cavalier in Valletta as part of the Spazju Kreattiv programme, will focus on drama, dance, music and singing. Each category has been further subdivided into various areas in both classical and popular genres. Each sub-category will be professionally adjudicated, with the winners in each section receiving a prestigious award. "Our mission is to provide a performance-based learning platform for performing arts students and practitioners of all ages, by combining high international-standard assessment with a comfortable, safe performance environment. High standards and quality are our top priority to support educators in the performing arts field; nurturing skills and talents at all levels of ability," MIF'16 festival manager Cathy Lawlor said. Although in its first year, the MIF'16 has already become a member of The British and International Federation of Festivals, which works with amateur festivals across the globe to help create over one million performance opportunities each year in the UK alone. This distinguished and influential consortium has over 560 members in the UK and internationally. Applications to the MIF'16 are now open, with the early-bird offer of 15 per cent off the application fee closing on Sunday 1 October. Final applications will close on 1 November. Those interested can register either as an individual or as a group, with discounts offered to those entering more than one category. Prices for an individual entry start at €30 and group participation fees are €15 per person. "Malta's arts and culture sector is steadily growing in the run up to Valletta hosting the European Capital of Culture title in 2018; however singing, music, dancing and dramatic art has played an important role in Maltese culture for centuries. This festival helps students and practitioners – whether aged four or eighty four – to develop and showcase their skills by providing an opportunity to perform, to practice and to gain valuable experience. We invite you to take a leap, to apply and to trust that you will gain positive experience," Lawlor said.