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After being exhibited at Earth Garden 2009 and then 22 2, the "eye" paintings series were also part of the set up for the last Tribali concert for this year at BirguFest.
 


  (10th October 2009)

from kolkata..life took me to a port...
a port of sea..a port of peace...
in july 2009...i laid in porto pollenca...& there the sea happened...
all water became part of me...

Bejn l-14 u t-18 ta’ Ottubru 2009

Post: 60, Triq il-Kbira, il-Qrendi

Tribali's last performance for 2009 will be on Friday 9th October as part of the Birgu Fest. Set in between the bastions of Birgu, this will definitely be an event not to be missed!

Doors open at 19:00pm.
Tribali live at 21:30pm.

Standard Tickets: 12€  (17€  at the door)
VIP Tickets: limited number at 25€  (including an after open bar at D-centre)

Tickets: D-centre (Birgu), All Puma outlets, Aw Tribu (Fgura), Juuls (Sliema)


More Band Photo so on:
http://www.allenvenables.com/?p=293#more-293

NO BLINGS SHOW
 
"Lucija u Samwel"
From The Album Stejjer Mill-Bandli (Tal-Mosta)




http://.myspace.com/noblingshow

4 September - 4 October 2009
@ St James Cavalier, Valletta



‘Pornolitics Remix’ is not about sex.  It's not pornography either.   It's not a political manifesto.  And it's not even finished.
 
A work called ‘Pornolitics’ by Raphael Vella was excluded from a collective exhibition held in Valletta during July, 2009.  The exhibition was called ‘The Life Model’ and dealt with the human body in art.
 
The  exclusion   of  ‘Pornolitics’  from ‘The Life Model’ sparked off a debate in local printed and online newspapers.  Many of the writings that appeared  between the  work‘s  exclusion and   its acceptance at  St James Cavalier  are now included in ‘Pornolitics Remix’ because they form  part of  the work’s history and helped to form public opinion about the piece before the work was viewed in public.
 
‘Pornolitics Remix’ presents the work in a ‘censored’ mode because public discussion about censorship  has indelibly  imprinted itself on the public’s interpretations of the work.  Issues of self-censorship, censorship, the visible and the hidden have also  featured regularly in Raphael Vella’s work in the past.
 
Although ‘Pornolitics Remix’ is more about our experience of life through the media’s lens than about politics, public debate about the piece has focused on the identity of political figures in it.  It is nevertheles an interesting fact that Maltese modern and contemporary art has avoided the subject of local politics for decades,  despite the self-evident centrality of politics in Maltese social life.  Is Maltese art divorced from the social  realities it  inhabits?   In ‘Pornolitics Remix’, the public  is  invited to  interact with the work.  “In your hands, my fellow citizens...”

 

Norah Jones has announced the title and release date of her upcoming album, The Fall, her fourth studio album which will be released by EMI’s Blue Note Records on November 17th, 2009.  It can be pre-ordered from NorahJones.com.
 
Norah has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris.                      

The track listing for The Fall is as follows:
1. Chasing Pirates (Norah Jones)
2. Even Though (Norah Jones/Jesse Harris)
3. Light As a Feather (Norah Jones/Ryan Adams)
4. Young Blood (Norah Jones/Mike Martin)
5. I Wouldn't Need You (Norah Jones)
6. Waiting (Norah Jones)
7. It's Gonna Be (Norah Jones)
8. You've Ruined Me (Norah Jones)
9. Back To Manhattan (Norah Jones)
10. Stuck (Norah Jones/Will Sheff)
11. December (Norah Jones)
12. Tell Yer Mama (Norah Jones/Jesse Harris/Richard Julian)
13. Man Of The Hour (Norah Jones)

"Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth,
freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon,
following the breath of the greater life that wells up
from the depth of his being and leads him beyond the farthest horizon
to an aim which is already present within him,
though yet hidden from his sight."

Lama Anagarika Govinda - The way of the White Clouds


 

http://www.illum.com.mt/2009/08/16/interview.html

Conservators are removing decades of yellowed varnish from the Art Deco murals in the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Full slide show: http://bit.ly/1aqXIt


  Stripping away the darkness the murals are reborn

Fragile letters in which the painter Vincent van Gogh revealed the precarious state of his mental health and finances will be displayed next winter at the Royal Academy, it was announced today. They will go on show beside paintings that became some of the most expensive sold in the 20th century.

The RA show, opening in January next year, will be the first major exhibition of Van Gogh's work in Britain in more than 40 years, and the first anywhere to bring together familiar works with letters by the artist that give vivid accounts of his life and opinions.  ( Read more... )

"The Outermost House” by Henry Beston

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for the tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animals shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete gifted with the extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices shall we never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.   

 Check the whole documentary on:
http://www.semchen.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=83

Renzo Piano's project for City Gate, new Parliament and the Opera House in Valletta were revealed on the 27th June. 

Plans are to be exhibited during all of July at the Archeological Museum in Valletta.

 


More at:

http://public.di-ve.com/streaming/on_demand_event_encoding.aspx?id=2647&backUrl=streaming%2fon_demand_event_library.aspx

Name:   Renzo Piano
Event Date:   27-Jun-2009
Genre:   Current Affairs - Current Affairs


 

 Jekk tifhem x'jgħidu l-kwiekeb
lill-qamar tul il-lej',
jekk tagħraf minn fejn telaq
is-sħab, fejn sejjer, fej',

jekk tirfes kull mogħdija
u tterraq kullimkien,
jekk tkellem lil kull ħlejqa
li tikber fil-ħolqien,

jekk togħdos fl-ibħra kollha
u tmiss qiegħ l-oċean,
jekk titla' kull muntanja
u titfi kull vulkan,

jekk tifhem lil kull siġra
u tkellem lil kull fjur,
jekk torqod ma' kull dudu
u tqum ma' kull għasfur,

jekk tgħodd in-numri kollha
u taf kull alfabett,
jekk tħott kull teorema
u żżarma kull kunċett,

jekk togħxa b'kull tbissima
u tokrob b'kull uġigħ,
jekk toftoq il-kliem kollu
u ssib is-sens li fih,

jekk taf kif kien il-bidu
u kif se jkun it-tmiem,
jekk taf kull fuq, kull isfel,
kull wara, kull quddiem,

jekk taf għaliex kull għabex
iżelleġ kull żerniq,
jekk taf kemm hija twila,
kemm twila, twila t-triq,

jekk taf għaliex l-iżbalji,
u taf x'inhu perfett,
jekk taf għax serp jitkaxkar
u għax itir farfett,

jekk ittawwalt iżżejjed
fuq xifer il-ġibjun
tal-qalb biex issa ttella'
bis-satal x'hemm midfun,

jekk il-maltemp sikkittu
u lill-irjieħ raqqadt,
jekk l-ilmijiet nixxitfhom
u lin-nirien qabbadt,

jekk fhimt kull mistoqsija
u jekk kull ħalfa ħlift,
u jekk kull rebħa rbaħtha
u jekk kull telfa tlift,

- il-pétali tal-warda
waqgħulek minn idejk,
dan l-univers itektek
inqasam hemm, f'riġlejk.

Il-ħajja mistoqsija
miġbura f'elf għaliex,
u ssirlek poeżija
jekk int ma tweġibhiex.


 

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Michelangelo's painted ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome may be the most lauded in the ceiling world, but it's far from the only one worth straining your neck to see.

The editors and members of travel website VirtualTourist.com have compiled a list of the World's Top 10 Greatest Ceilings, apart from the Sistine Chapel.

1. Bellagio Hotel; Las Vegas, Nevada
The coloured disks that float on the ceiling of the Bellagio may look like multi-coloured jellyfish, but they are in fact thousands of hand-blown glass flowers.

2. Debre Berhan Selassie church; Gonder, Ethiopia
You'd never guess by looking at the outside of this small, relatively simple church that such stunning artwork graces the inside. It's said that none of the 104 winged cherubs that dot the ceiling are alike.

( Read more... )

 

GreenPak Earth Garden & Echo Fest
23rd and 24th of May - National Park, Ta Qali
2.00pm onwards - Free Entrance






A section of Earth Garden will be dedicated to different forms of Visual Art.

You can't use up creativity, 
creative thinking builds on itself and 
increases the creativity of the thinker...

You can’t use up creativity. 
The more you use, the more you have.

GreenPak Earth Garden 2009



http://www.earthgarden.com.mt/

A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, concealment, performance, or amusement. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually worn on the face... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask





   Red Dharmapala Mask


   Buddha Mask


   Elephant Mask

   "Light"

C215 is a French artist who creates his works through templates (Stencils). His work focuses primarily on the portrait. He tries to make visible the invisible in our society. The protagonists of his creations are homeless people, beggars, yonkies, street children.





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Maltese band Tribali this afternoon launched a new album, ‘The Elephants of Lanka’ featuring 11 new tracks. The popular band, best known for its ethnic rhythms, performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007 and later in Australia.

The band will take the stage at the Earth Garden Festival at Ta’Qali next month. The album went on sale today - available at all Exotique, D'Amato outlets and Aw Tribu - Fgura.



http://www.tribalimusic.com/


 

     art by Azenor

Earth Day is celebrated every year to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment.
http://www.earthday.net/

acrylics on paper
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Time:	6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location:	National Museum of Fine Arts
Street:	South Street
City/Town:	Valletta, Malta

Meet artist Madeleine Gera in the company of popular TV presenter Lou Bondi at the National Museum of Fine Arts over a glass of wine. Follow the discussion on Madeleine’s choice of painting by one of the famous artists on exhibit at the museum.



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One Woman's Search for Everything



will also be released as a movie in 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879870/

Spread over an area of forty-acre (160,000 m²), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items. This project was secretly initiated by Nek Chand around 1957 and discovered by the authorities in 1975, by which time it had grown into a 12-acre (49,000 m2) complex of interlinked courtyards, each filled with hundreds of pottery-covered concrete sculptures of dancers, musicians, and animals. The authorities took over, and the garden was inaugurated as a public space in 1976. At the time, the city of Chandigarh was being redesigned as a modern utopia by the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier.

"Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together." - Mark Twain

The New Choral Singers under the direction of Robert Calleja, present

 
A Concert of Sacred Music for id-Dar tal-Providenza

 

Featuring: Te Deum by M.A. Charpentier

At: Lija Church, Thursday 16^th April, 7.30pm

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.  - Bob Dylan

An exhibition of paintings by Anthony Spagnol at the Loggia, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta. Free Entrance. Open Monday to Sunday from 9.00 hrs - 17.00 hrs (Last Admission 16.30 hrs).

http://www.heritagemalta.org/

"Redemption Song" is the last track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' ninth Island music album, Uprising.

At the time he wrote the song, circa 1979, Marley already had been diagnosed with the cancer that later was to take his life at age 36. According to Rita Marley, "he was already secretly in a lot of pain and dealt with his own mortality, a feature that is clearly apparent in the album, particularly in this song".

The song is considered Marley's seminal work, with lyrics derived from a speech given by the Pan-Africanist orator Marcus Garvey.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090405/local/contraception-should-be-womens-choice-cherie-blair

Cherie Blair is a firm believer and champion of women’s rights. She strongly believes women have a choice whether to bear children or not through contraception.

The mother of four, barrister, Queen’s Counsel, and wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, said she felt “rather sad” when she heard Pope Benedict XVI say that condoms “increase the problem” of AIDS during his recent visit to Africa, as well as with the way it was reported.

She recounts how Leo was conceived because she had decided to leave this ‘equipment’ behind during the couple’s visit to Balmoral, the Queen’s residence in Scotland, after a diligent courtier had embarrassingly unpacked her overnight bag during the previous visit.

“I think we do have to understand that there is concern about promiscuity. But there’s also a real concern about saving lives and I absolutely believe, and scientific evidence shows, that condoms do save lives. Therefore, when there’s a choice between endangering and not endangering life, we should always choose life,” she stresses in an interview with Ariadne Massa.

The arches along the main nave of St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta have been restored to their original splendour in an extensive project that cost about €530,000. The arches were damaged by the dampness and the accumulation of dust and grime over time and it took the Italian and Maltese restorers almost two years of meticulous work to reveal their former beauty. The project was funded by the St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation and entrusted to Sante Guido Restoration Company.
 

Charlotte Bellizzi carrying out consolidation on the arch of the passage to the Oratory.

The cathedral is often described as Malta's gem. Now, it sparkles even brighter. After the recent controversy that raged over the foundation's proposed underground museum, the focus can now shift to the exquisite grandeur of the cathedral's interior.

The grandmasters of the Knights, who took great pride in their conventual church, wanted it decorated in a Baroque style. The process of decoration lasted from the 1650s to the 1660s and it was only after Mattia Preti painted the vault that the nave and chapels were adorned with elaborate motifs, transforming the walls into a riot of richly gilded foliage, flowers, angels and triumphal symbols.

As a result, the restoration of each arch and the interior wall of the façade entailed an initial detailed study of each arch, taking into consideration the gilding technique, the state of conservation, old restorations and materials as well as factors of deterioration.

Samples were taken to understand the constitutive materials of several arches as well as for comparative studies.

The arches suffered from dampness, salt migration to a height of approximately three metres, loss of gold and original paint layers, over paintings in tempera and oil medium and application of linseed oil.   Tests were carried out on each arch to ensure the cleaning method was suitable for all arches.

The restorers then started from the top, removing all dirt and grime using aqueous solutions applied by brush and working on the surface with a circular motion, followed by thorough rinsing with de-ionized water.

Lower areas that had a high content of water and salt florescence were rid of salts using absorbent materials and techniques. Thick layers of linseed oil were removed using poultices of alkaline solutions. In all methodologies, rinsing the surface from all products was extremely important to stop any action on the surface that could cause further damage.


  Arch of the Chapel of Philermos

Unstable and detached stone or paint layers were consolidated while old, weak in-fills were removed and replaced with fresh plaster. Cracks and other losses were filled in with the same reversible material to attain continuity of decorative surface.

Once the structural work was wrapped up, areas that had loss of paint layers were repainted using reversible water colour technique and then gilded.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090318/local/530-000-st-johns-restoration-project-completed/

“Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.”

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

http://www.plumvillage.org/

A portrait of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena, which hangs at the President's Palace in Valletta, has been taken to Heritage Malta's restoration centre in Bighi after it was damaged during conservation works.

The portrait of the Grand Master sustained a 10 to 15-centimetre tear at the side where the canvas meets the frame when it was placed to lean against a wall but fell on a chair.

The damage was not considered to be serious, Heritage Malta chief executive officer Luciano Mulè Stagno said. He explained the tear was reversible. It had been temporarily fixed and would now be restored.

Since the work was not planned, it was difficult to tell when the painting would be returned to its place, Heritage Malta senior curator, arts and palaces, Sandro Debono noted.

The incident happened earlier this month when the painting was removed from its usual hanging place in the Palace's corridor during conservation works on the walls. It was placed in the Throne Room leaning against a wall and, somehow, it tipped over and landed on a chair.

Grand Master de Vilhena was a Portuguese aristocrat of royal descent who served between 1722 and 1736. To meet the demand for housing and accommodation in Valletta, he laid plans for the building of a suburb in the neighbourhood later called Floriana after architect Pietro Floriani who designed the Floriana Line. A statue of Grand Master Vilhena stands facing St Anne Street in Floriana in the open space between the Catholic Institute and Middlesea House in Floriana.

The Grand Master had built Fort Manoel in Marsamxett Harbour and the Manoel Theatre in Valletta, which is believed to be the second oldest theatre in Europe. The portrait of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena that usually hangs in the corridors at the President's Palace in Valletta.

The renovation of the chapel of Our Saviour in Kalkara was of a highly specialised nature because the Maltese stone used to build it had deteriorated very badly and water seeped inside, a spokesman for the Restoration Unit of the Ministry of Resources and Rural Affairs explained.

Built by Fra Giovanni Bichi on plans by Lorenzo Gafà in 1652 after it had been destroyed in the Great Siege of 1565, the chapel has six walls, more or less of the same length.

Such was the deterioration of the Maltese stone that water was seeping through, causing even further damage. In fact, the restoration job included works both on its interior and the exterior.

The stone had to be cleaned and, where necessary, changed. The chapel's façade was also cleaned, giving a uniform colour all round, the spokesman said.

The high pavement was removed and substituted and a new lighting system was installed.

The altar, close to which is a sculptured effigy of Fra Bichi, who was related to Pope Alexander VII, was also restored. Fra Bichi reportedly died of plague and was buried inside the same chapel.

The original statue that used to stand on the main door was renovated by the Malta Restoration Centre and is shortly ex-pected to be returned to its former place.

acrylics on paper
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A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/
www.slumdogmillionairemovie.co.uk/

Date:	Thursday, February 5, 2009
Time:	6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:	Heritage Malta Head Office
Street:	Merchants Street
City/Town:	Valletta, Malta

A lecture on Victor Pasmore will be held at Heritage Malta Headquarters in Merchant Street Valletta on Thursday 5th February at 6 pm. The lecture is being held as part of the commemorative exhibition currently held at the National Museum of Fine Arts, South Street Valletta.

Pasmore’s art is present in many Public Collections around the world including Tate Britain, the Royal Academy of Arts - London, Museum of Modern Art - New York, The British Council, Yale Center for British Art and numerous regional British galleries.