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15 WHAT'S ON maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2016 this week WHAT'S ON TODAY Violin and Piano waving through Strada Stretta An evening of classical music, under the artistic direction of Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci. Musicians Emel Hasanoglu on piano Matteo Colombo on violin will perform a repertoire of classical music, including Antonin Dvořák's sonatina op 100, Fritz Kreisler's 3 old Viennese Dances, and Charles de Bériot's Scenes de Ballet op 100. Free Entrance. More information at www.facebook. com/events/513882532140738/ Italian night at Fra Martino An evening under the stars including soft Italian music and a selection of seasonal salads, antipasti and main courses, served al fresco on a terrace overlooking St George's Bay. Price: €33.50 per person. Diners benefit from three hours complimentary parking. For reservations please contact us at 2370 2685 or email framartino. stgeorges@corinthia.com MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE SEPTEMBER 30 Digby 'Two Sides To Everything' Album Launch Rapper DIGBY returns with a new album of ten tracks. The launch party is taking place at the Warehouse. Performers include Digby, CJ Cordina, Shyli Cassar, Kapitlu Tlettax. Doors open at 8:30pm. Entrace is at €8, or €12 including the album. OCTOBER 14-15 Statix Festival 2016 A two-day music festival with three stages, incorporating genres of techno, house, electronica and psy. Over 40 local artists performing, including, 4Ace, A-Call, A-Mag, Acidulant, Bass Culture, Belli, Bjan Jansen, Brian James, Carl Lautier, Cloned, Darren, Dtraum, Duo Blank, Fabricka, FDM Crew, Fullster, Interconnekted, James Ferrando, Jaunn, Jon-roy, Jupiter Jax, Kerg, Louie G, Mato, Migz, Moodshifter, Muke, ND, No Symmetree, Owen Offset, Rickett, Rod Minus, Sequenchill, Serial Depth, Silvan, Sonitus Eco, Supre, Stimulus Timbre, Twitch, Urban Kaos Crew, U-Jack and Wayne Richard. Tickets at €10. NOVEMBER 26-27 Amor Alegria Academia de Baile Flamenco presents its bi-annual production entitled 'Amor'., based on the Maltese legend 'L-gharusa tal-Mosta'. Special guest artist Renzo Spiteri will participate on percussion. The production will showcase a variety of Flamenco rhythms together with a few Maltese traditional songs including a local folk singer. This event will be making a contribution towards Cancer Research through RIDT. SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 2 Wine and Artisan Festival Montekristo Wine and artisan beer tasting, accompanied by unplugged music. Taking place at Montekristo Estates in Lua. Doors open at 7pm. THEATRE OCTOBER 5 Romeo & Juliet – The Greatest Love Story Ballet "Romeo & Juliet" Ballet, being organised by the Crown of Russian Ballet dancers with soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre from Moscow. Romeo and Juliet fall passionately in love, but their families are sworn enemies. The lovers marry in secret before Romeo kills Juliet's cousin Tybalt in a fight and is banished from the city. Juliet's family arrange for her to marry Paris. To escape, Juliet takes a potion that makes her appear lifeless. Romeo does not receive the message explaining her plan; thinking her dead, he goes to her tomb and kills himself. She wakes, sees Romeo's corpse and stabs herself. Performace stars at 8pm, at Republic Hall. Bookings: http://booking.mcc.com.mt/ Event/6916/ SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 23 Il-Giddieb Ghomru Qasir/The Lying Kind Bilingual production of Anthony Nielson's play by Unifaun Theatre at Sir Temi Zammit Hall, University of Malta. The Maltese production will feature Chrysander Agius Daniel Chircop, Snits, Michael Tabone, Julie Pomorski, Magda van Kuilenburg and Marylu Coppini and will be staged between October 7 and 9. The English version will feature Edward Mercieca, Alan Paris, Antony Edridge, Magda van Kuilenburg, Polly March, Michaela Fenech and Thomas Camilleri. The play is directed by Chris Gatt. Bookings: www.ticketline.com. mt. EXHIBITIONS STARTING SEPTEMBER 30 Lokali Exhibition focusing on Maltese 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. 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 Inga Boissevain's novel at all leading book shops @ €8.99 Film Adaptation at the Malta Book Festival 2016 The National Book Council will host a special event on film adaptation, which will take place in Temi Zammit Hall, MCC Valletta on Saturday at 8pm. It will feature a screening of this year's winning entry of the NBC PBS Short Film Contest, Ryan Gatt's film adaptation of Walid Nahban's short story Il-Kompliċi, from the collection of short stories Lura d-dar u ġrajjiet oħra li ma ġrawx (Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2009.) Visitors to the Festival will have the opportunity to meet the young director and the writer in person and to assist to a discussion on the theme of literary adaptation into film. This should be particularly interesting as on the same day, a little earlier at 19:00, members of the public are invited to watch a screening of excerpts from another film adaptation – Mission: London by Dimitar Mitovski, based on a novel of the same name by the popular Buglarian satirical writer Alek Popov. The latter will be talking to journalist Teodor Reljic about the themes that inform his literary work. It-Tarag by Noel Attard