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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2017 THIS WEEK 15 WHAT'S ON EXHIBITION UNTIL NOVEMBER 13 Collectif Elili Photography Exhibition The work of six photographers from the Collectif Génération Elili will be exhibited at the Malta Postal Museum & Arts Hub, 135, Archbishop Street, Valletta in the run up and during Rima Film Festival. La Génération Elili is a group of photographers based in Brazzaville, engaged in the promotion of Congolese photography on an international level. All of the members of the Collectif are self-educated artists, wholly passionate about photography, and determined to promote the valorisation of the visual arts and the improvement of photography in all of its manifestations. UNTIL NOVEMBER 18 I Am the Body of a Human Exhibition by US artist Andrew Birk at Malta Contemporary Art, Felix Street, Valletta. Birk presents a series of Life Shrouds, an exercise of dirt-on-denim pieces made with the imprint of his own body. Coming from a trajectory of painting, exploring materials in relation to their common use, Birk turns to the most primordial tool, subject and material - the body and what it is surrounded by, what it is made of. A body that is neither a medium, like a brush operating between the gesture and the image, nor a portrait of a subject. These paintings are multiple indexes of one same reference, a physicality in movement: each the unpredictable product of an alive, perfect machine. UNTIL DECEMBER 12 REL•INK – Indelible Narratives Collective exhibition drawing on the history of tattoos in Malta, on display at the Malta Maritime Museum, Birgu. Featuring oral accounts and images of tattoo designs of elderly Maltese men, who worked on ships or on the waterfront as stevedores, fishermen, longshoremen, dockers, sail makers, sailors, stewards, coalmen, firemen, Royal Navy service men, Merchant Navy men, firemen, stokers, labourers and others. REL•INK is a community outreach project in collaboration with the Malta Maritime Museum, the Library Information and Archive Sciences Department of the University of Malta and Arts Council Malta. MUSIC OCTOBER 24 Lunchtime concert – The Ave Marias Lunchtime concert by Soprano Marita Bezzina at the Oratory of St Francis, Valletta at 12:00. She will be accompanied by pianist Ramona Zammit Formosa. Bookings: 7968 0952 or send an email at: baroccomalta@ gmail.com. OCTOBER 25 EGS in Concert The European Graduate School (EGS), Malta, in cooperation with The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra present the first 'EGS Concert of Musical Thought in Valletta, Malta'. The concert will be held on October 25 at the Robert Samut Hall, Floriana at 20:00. Featuring: Christophe Coin (Violoncello), Maria Tecla Andreotti (Traverso), Mechthild Karkow (Violino), Martin Zimmermann (Cembalo). Entrance to this concert is free of charge. THEATRE OCTOBER 27-29; NOVEMBER 3-5 Ernest and the Pale Moon Gothic theatre production based on the Oliver Lansley short story at Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta. Directed by Denise Mulholland, the cast includes Thomas Camilleri, Jo Caruana, Chris Galea and Chiara Hyzler. Staged by newly-minted theatrical company The Shrinking Violets. Bookings: www. ticketline.com.mt. NOVEMBER 3-5 Lib(r)a A collaborative devised theatre performance by Teatru Santwarju at Valletta Campus Theatre, St Paul's Street, Valletta at 20:30. Featuring Julia Camilleri, Martina Georgina and Althea Corlett. Bookings and more information: https:// www.facebook.com/Teatru- Santwarju-694696734069139/ HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 28 Halloween Monsters' Ball at Zion Halloween Party at Zion Reggae Bar, St Thomas Bay, Marsascala at 20:30. Featuring DJs Geddumu, Chris Radium & Jon-Roy. Entrance is at €5. FESTIVALS OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 4 Rima Film Festival Second edition of the film festival focused on migrant narratives, and organised by the Rima Project. Screenings will take place at two different venues: Casa Pereira and Malta Post Museum, both located in Valletta, from 20:00 onwards. A number of these screenings will be followed by special guest and director's talks. Throughout the festival there will be an exhibition of works from six photographers forming part of the collective 'Generation Elili' based in Brazzaville, Congo. For more information on the programme, special guests and purchasing of tickets visit our website on: www.rimaproject.org. NOVEMBER 8-12 Malta Book Festival Annual edition of the Malta Book Festival (formerly Malta Book Fair) at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta. the programme of events will feature conferences on themes of literary and sociopolitical importance, book and author presentations, book launches, fun activities for children, readings and much more. This year's special guests include: Rosie Goldsmith, the renowned BBC journalist, the US born and UK raised novelist and poet Ros Barber, French novelist Gilbert Sinoué, Kuwaiti poet Shahd Al Shammari and local author Alex Vella Gera. Another special guest for this year is Ahmad Said Abdel Moneim, a renowned Arab publisher who will be giving a talk on subversive literature in the Arab world. Saturday evening closes off with a highlight event: the short film premiere in Temi Zammit Hall at MCC. This year's winner of the NBC PBS Short Film Contest is the company Mitħolma of Charles Stroud, who will be adapting Joe Friggieri's short story Dritt Għall-Punt from the collection of short stories Nismagħhom Jgħidu (Kite Group, 2016). Soprano Marita Bezzina Andrew Birk exhibits at Malta Contemporary Art Gilbert Sinoué will be at Malta Book Festival Teatru Santwarju present Lib(r)a Photography by Francis Kodia at the Collectif Elili Photography Exhibition