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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 28 MAY 2017 48 This Week New series of cultural evenings at Pjazza Teatru Rjal FOLLOWING an agreement signed between the management of Pjazza Teatru Rjal and the Ministry of Edu- cation and Employment under its EducationPlus programme, Pjazza Teatru Rjal will be launching a series of evenings combining different mu- sical and literary genres and styles entitled Iljieli fit-Teatru. The first in this series will be held on Monday 29th May, 2017 at 19.30hrs in the theatre's Green Room. The recently- refurbished hall, which may be ac- cessed through the theatre's back- stage entrance, will enable the venue to accomodate similar events and to maintain the theatre active all year round. During the first from the Iljieli fit-Teatru series, violinist Reggie Clews – assistant concert master of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra – shall be performing a selection of Capricci by Niccolo Paganini while Norbert Bugeja, Leanne Ellul and Aleks Farrugia will read a selection from their literary works in Maltese and English. During the event the public will also be introduced to the poetry of Adrian Scerri. Admission to the event will be free of charge. The agreement between Pjazza Teatru Rjal and the Ministry of Edu- cation and Employment will bring this national space closer to schools, opening its doors to school perfor- mances and offering - through job shadowing and placements - an op- portunity for students to experience the theatre hands-on. This enhances the existing collaboration between Pjazza Teatru Rjal and the Minis- try for Education and Employment, which collaboration started in 2016 when both entities worked together with the International Spring Or- chestra Festival on Ritmi-KA, an ed- ucational percussion project involv- ing about fifty students annually. "With Iljieli fit-Teatru we are fur- ther promoting the theatre as space for the arts, where the theatre be- comes a complex of different spaces active all year round, creating a space for a dialogue between the arts and provide opportunity for Maltese cul- tural voices to express themselves," said Charles Gatt, Chairman of Pjaz- za Teatru Rjal during the signing of the agreement. Mr Joseph Caruana, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Employment add- ed that "both entities are looking for- ward for Iljieli fit-Teatru to become part of the Maltese cultural calendar with the involvement of more artists, musicians and writers, particularly as a platform to introduce new tal- ent to the Maltese public".