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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY 2018 17 Events Artists for Red Bull Curates announced RED Bull is giving artists the oppor- tunity to be part of the Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project, where up and coming artists will be challenged to turn blank Red Bull Cool- ers into works of Art. After an open call that lasted for over a whole month and where almost 50 art- ists applied to be cho- sen, the judges finally picked the ten artists that will take part in this year's Valletta special edition. All coolers of this year's edition will be placed in some of Valletta's trendiest bars, pubs and restaurants. Aleksandar Vo- jvodic, John Mark Sammut, Bernard Montebello, Belen Parades, Joshua Par- lato Trigona, Fran Borg Costanzi, Ga- brijela Parigros, Da- neil Romero Cala, Zach Ritchie and Ed- gar Farrugia are this year's artists who will work on the project. The artists will now have a whole month to complete their works, with coolers finished off during a live paint- ing session at Valletta on Saturday 3 March. Coolers will be exhib- ited at the St James Cavalier between 13 March and Sunday 19 March. For more informa- tion and updates about the event join the Red Bull Curates: Canvas Cooler Pro- ject Valletta. Former press secretary to Princes Charles joins global PR Summit Malta COLLEEN Harris, the Former Press Secretary to Princes Charles, William and Harry and Official Spokesperson at William and Kate's Royal Wed- ding is one of the international PR gurus scheduled to address the Global PR Summit Malta. This two-day conference, tak- ing place on 12-13 April at the InterContinental Hotel, is con- sidered as the country's most anticipated business, public re- lations and social media event. Building on the remarkable success in 22 countries around the world, the two-day public relations and social media ex- travaganza in Malta includes interactive presentations by some of the world's leading PR and social media experts from Virgin, You Tube, Credit – Suisse, Grayling, Fleishman- Hillard, TUI Group, Civil Avi- ation Authority and Unilever Hair Care. Princess Diana's former chief-of-staff and the Former VP Communications at BP America during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are also scheduled to present. Harris held a senior com- munications position in the Prime Minister's Office be- fore being appointed Press Secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales. She handled the me- dia for The Prince of Wales during some of the most tur- bulent years, and also media- managed the emergence of Princes William and Harry into the public eye. Her career included senior posts in the Deputy Prime Minister's Of- fice, and the Cabinet Office as well as in non-departmental public bodies. She has worked in Britain and abroad as a con- sultant with private compa- nies, non-profit organisations and UN agencies, including the World Health Organisa- tion. "The Malta Summit will be providing an in-depth under- standing of some of the most important issues in today's PR world such as fake news, data leaks, crisis communica- tions for the tourism industry, content public relations and inf luencer marketing," sais Kosta Petrov, Event Director and Chief Experience Officer at P World, the organiser of the Summit. The first ever Global PR Summit was held in March 2011 and since then the event has been hosted annually in countries including Canada, USA, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and Egypt. The Summit is organised by P World with Malta's market- ing communications agency BPC as the Event's Exclusive Partner. For more information about the agenda and pricing, kindly visit: https://www.thepworld. com/event/global-pr-summit- malta Colleen Harris, the Former Press Secretary to Princes Charles, William and Harry Chamber of Advocates unveils newly restored painting of Maltese judge who served under the Knights, the French and the British THE Chamber of Advocates recently unveiled the newly restored portrait of Judge Vin- cenzo Bonavita. The painting, one of the oldest items in the collection of artefacts housed inside the Chamber of Advo- cates' premises, underwent a conservation and restoration procedure thanks to a generous donation by two of the judge's descendants, brothers Roger and Martin Vella Bonavita. The first Bonavita to come to Malta was a Venetian Judge named Biagio who was married to Isabella from Forli and set- tled in Malta in 1600. The Bo- navitas flourished in Malta and were mainly lawyers, judges and notaries. Vincenzo Bon- avita (1752-1829) had the dis- tinction of serving as Judge un- der the Knights of St John, the French and the British. He also served as the first Procurator of the "Sodalita di Sant' Ivone di Malta" which was set up in the early 19h century at the Jesuits Church in Valletta by a body of jurists, judges and advocates. Roger Vella Bonavita ex- plained how he and his brother Martin, who both moved to Perth in Western Australia in the early 1980s, only learnt of the existence of this painting earlier last year. "Judge Bonavita is our great, great, great, great grandfather from our paternal grandmoth- er's side and the most illustrious member of our family," he said. "We would not like our family name to be forgotten and this is why when we learned that the Chamber of Advocates wished to restore his portrait, as it was not in a good condition, we of- fered to meet the cost. Our offer was immediately accepted and the portrait was quickly con- signed to the restorers who did a fantastic job." George Hyzler, President of the Chamber thanked the Bonavita family for their generous sup- port towards the restoration of the painting. "We are delighted to have re- discovered this painting in our collection and to have had the good fortune of finding the right support to have it professionally restored," he said. " In fact, this restoration has not only returned this prestigious painting to its original condi- tion but has also helped us learn more about a Maltese histori- cal figure who was also part of Malta's judiciary in the 18th and 19th centuries." The restoration was entrusted to the professional restorers and conservators PrevArti who com- pleted the works over the past months.