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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2018 THIS WEEK 15 WHAT'S ON EXHIBITIONS UNTIL MARCH 29 Hagraisland Debut solo show by Isaac Azzopardi held at the Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta. Through the use of construction material, appropriation and rubbing techniques, the show revolves around three main references: Austin Camilleri's installation Stones from 1999, as Maltese contemporary art canon, Anselm Kiefer's ideas about art as alchemy and Malta's changing urbanity. Opening hours are 08:30 – 19:00 (Monday to Friday); 08:30 – 13:30 (Saturday). UNTIL APRIL 21 Except for Access Only Exhibition by artist-architect Tom Van Maldaren at Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta. Malderen presents a series of objects that due to denominations of scale, materiality and context sit somewhere between sculptural objects and architectural models - at a juncture between the field of architecture and that of art. While many of the reflections that have made their way in the exhibition can be traced back to architecture, they feel equally relevant and stimulating when brought into an art context. Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday (13:00 – 18:00); Saturday 10:00 – 13:00. MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT MARCH 16 Kewn Records Showcase 001 Musical launch event for the newly-minted Kewn Records label at The Garage, Zebbug. Featuring the bands BILA, Krishna and Heart of Darkness. Entrance is at €7. Doors open at 21:00. MARCH 17-19 HUSH Original musical written and directed by Denise Mulholland, with music and lyrics by Luke Saydon held at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta and performed by Teatru Manoel Youth Theatre (TMYT). Gus Nightingale is a little boy from a very famous musical family, but when his mother dies, all music is banned from his house. After he is dreadfully humiliated by The Maestro, Gus decides the safest option is to stop speaking and singing - in effect to HUSH! One day, Gus passes the old music shop and finds it open. Inside, he finds a girl called Clementine Pickles. Clementine shows Gus how it is possible to play beautiful music even on broken instruments but as Gus is leaving, an evil stranger enters the shop, locks Clementine in a cello case, steals her voice & a precious baton! This evil stranger uses the baton to extract sounds from everyone and everything, leaving the world a completely silent place. A hush has fallen. A plan unfolds. A voice is forgotten... Show times: 18:00 (March 17); 15:00 and 18:00 (March 18); 10:00 and 12:00 (March 19). The event is organised in collaboration with the Valletta 2018 Foundation. MARCH 21 Piano and Strings Classical music concert at the San Anton Palace, Attard at 19:30. Pietro de Maria joins the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra String Quartet to perform two masterpieces of the genre, by Shostakovich and Brahms. The rest of the featured musicians include: Emilia Wiśniewska (violin), Philipp Orlov (violin), Aiveen Gallagher (viola) and Peter Flanagan (cello). They will be performing: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (Dmitri Shostakovich) and Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (Johannes Brahms). Bookings: https://www.showshappening. com. MARCH 22 La Divina Commedia Dante's triptych masterpiece will set the scene for this special experience bringing together sound, movement and light, with select choreography by Francesca Tranter and taking place at Robert Samut Hall, Floriana at 20:00. With a concept by Michelle Castelletti (also serving as Conductor), the concert features the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra chamber orchestra and A Cappella Choir. Bookings: www.showshappening.com. MARCH 24 Zion Opening Party Opening party of Zion Reggae Bar, St Thomas Bay, Marsascala from 20:30. A night of strictly reggae, Earthrocker, Freedom Fighters, DJ Onns & Johshanty will be spinning sweet reggae tunes for those on the dancefloor. THEATRE MARCH 16, 17 En Folkefiende – An Enemy of the People Unifaun Theatre production of Brad Birch's adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People at Blue Box, M Space, Msida at 20:00. Directed by Toni Attard. Cast includes Mikhail Basmadjian, Anthony Ellul, Simone Spiteri, Antonella Axisa, Victor Debono, Philip Leone Ganado, Jean Marc Agius Cafa and Raquel Theuma. Bookings: http://bluebox.azurewebsites. net/Event/10371/. PUBLIC TALK MARCH 15 Il-Kurcifiss, Marija Madalena u Poeta Malti Public talk by author Immanuel Mifsud at European Commission Representation in Malta, Dar L-Ewropa, Valletta at 18:15. Mifsud will be speaking about the paradoxically "physical" elements employed by certain religious and metaphysical writers and poets, when addressing the phenomenon of the crucifix. BOOK FESTIVAL MARCH 21-23 Campus Book Festival Annual edition of the Campus Book Festival at University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq. The publishers and distributors participating in the festival are BDL, EDE Books, Faraxa Books, Horizons, Midsea Books, Pjattaforma and Sensiela Kotba Soċjalisti (SKS). These publishers and distributors will be selling their books at their stand and will be organising their own book launch events. The special guest this year is Jasmin B. Frelih, the Slovenian author whose novel Na/Pol (In/Half) earned him the European Prize for Literature in 2016. He will be joining us on Campus for special events scheduled on each of the three days, with a creative writing workshop on March 21, a discussion with Maltese writer and poet Immanuel Mifsud on Slovenian literature on March 22, and a interview with Noel Tanti on March 23. On Friday afternoon, Inizjamed will be contributing an Open Mic session featuring Frelih. The festival will close on Friday night with live music by Cryptic Street and Fuzzhoneys. Opening times and dates are: March 21 and 22 (09:00–16:00); March 23 March (09:00 till late). The festival is open to all, free of charge. En Folkenfiende at Blue Box, M Space Immanuel Mifsud Krishna