DREAM LAND is an interdisciplinary project which combines narratives of identity, belonging, familiarity and home through the complex overlap of art-making and crafts.
Spazju Kreattiv's Space B is set to undergo a captivating transformation into an immersive installation during the Art Explora festival. This unique space offers a sneak peek into the array of creative projects showcased at the port.
Over the last decades, institutions with archival holdings have invested important resources to offer access to digitized items. These “digital treasures” are thus included as primary sources to free access portals, but they do not have a transformation process nor generate economic returns. Digital collections have enormous potential for changing the way that information is used, and for developing new ways of preserving, collecting, organizing, propagating and accessing knowledge.
Inearth, Unearth: Archives of Matter and Ritual is an exploration of the associations and multifold meanings associated with various materials which are core to Agius’ practice.
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.
It was supposed to be a straightforward plan with seven easy steps.
IO CAPITANO tells the story Seydou and Moussa, two Senegalese teenagers who leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await. On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers and the beauty of the desert, the shock of detention centres in Libya, and the perils of the sea in their pursuit of a better life, in an epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.
Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.
Directed by Ethan Coen. Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way.
How much longer do wild salmon have? Join us for a screening of Artifishal, a feature-length documentary that explores the damaging effect that humanity has had on the wild salmon population, driving them closer to extinction. The documentary highlights the interdependence of the communities that depend on salmon runs not just for food but as a part of their culture. It also shows the role politics and commerce play, and how they seem to outweigh the importance of ecosystem preservation.
Independent and innovative filmmakers from around the world have been selected to show weekly for the duration of maltabiennale.art, which runs from 13 March until 31 May, giving voice to diverse, daring, original works that straddle creative documentary, personal essay, animation and experimental.
From the mundanity of the everyday, to the grandeur of the historical, fantastical and biblical, with fabricATE, Gabriel Buttigieg reworks Graeco-Roman myths from Oedipus to Ovid, and subverts them.
As people of the mediterranean, the sea courses through our very being. The sea connects us, allowing us to travel from space to space; from culture to culture– allowing us to exchange the mannerisms and traditions of our ancestors. From the middle of the 19th century until the early 20th century, Maltese people emigrated in droves to countries like Tunisia, Morocco and Libya. Even till the present day, there are traces of Maltese people abroad with descendants carrying the surnames and traditions of the islanders that crossed the frequently treacherous waters of this sea, creating a complicated history now susceptible to extinction.
Beguiling and unpredictable, Cannes Un Certain Regard breakout THE DELINQUENTS reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure like no other.
Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler's List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Game of Thrones, Luther) star in a brand-new ‘full-voltage visceral’ (★★★★ Daily Telegraph) production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Tiny Keys – Big Sounds, presents a programme for toy piano, electronic music and small percussion instruments. This project contributes to the growing repertoire through the commissioned works by 10 Maltese and international composers that will showcase the artistic potential and expressive possibilities of the toy piano. This unique concert inspires audiences and raises the awareness that toy pianos ain’t playing around! They can indeed be considered a concert instrument.
