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The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

This festive season do not only watch the Queen in the theatre balcony!

Instead, walk in her footsteps and sharing your stories and memories of the royal couple’s stay in Malta, at the former royal residence Villa Guardamangia in Pietà, as Heritage Malta opens it to the general public for the very first time on the 19^th of December.

Regular guided tours on first come first serve basis will be held throughout the day, from 10.00hrs to 16.00hrs.

Do you have a story, old photo, footage or any other object you would like to share with us on the day? Send an email showing your interest on communications@heritagemalta.org or call 22954301, and we shall contact you back.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Taste History, Heritage Malta’s gastronomic arm, has launched its second season of short documentaries featuring historical recipes and beverages, following the resounding success of the previous one.

In the second episode, Taste History’s team of curators, food historians, and chefs shed light on the various cereals that were ground to produce different flours at Ta’ Kola Windmill in Gozo. Wheat and barley, for instance, were combined together to create il-ħobża tal-maħlut (mixed bread). Featuring a commentary by Daphne Sant Caruana, Principal Curator of this unique relic of breadmaking in Gozo, the Ta’ Kola documentary will also recreate and provide the recipe for this traditional bread.

Named ‘Malta never refused wheat’, after the old Maltese proverb Malta qatt ma rruftat qamħ, the second episode will be streamed live on Heritage Malta’s Facebook page on Friday 10th December at 7pm.

The short documentary is in Maltese with English Subtitles.

Keep updated about future Taste History events by liking the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TasteHistoryMalta or browsing the website https://tastehistory.mt/

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Join Heritage Malta on a naval secret operation from Fort St Angelo on the 12^th of December from 10.00 to 17.00hrs, where Malta Command WW2 Living History group will be taking over the fort, bringing to life the daily schedule of a World War 2 soldier.

The group will be inaugurating its newly formed Combined Operations unit. Combined Operations Pilotage parties, also known as COPP in short, were a top-secret military organization that operated for the first time during the war by being sent to Algiers. A presentation lecture at 11.00hrs at the Admiral’s Hall will delve deeper into the history of this special unit, alongside showcases of weapons and other equipment used by these soldiers.

A live demonstration session of these weapons will be held following this lecture. On the day, the Fort’s upper part, better known as the Cavalier, will also be open to the public, and veterans from the ‘Royal Naval Association – Malta Branch’ will be honouring the event with their presence.

At 13.00 an exclusive Curatorial Tour for Heritage Malta members will be held at Fort St Angelo’s Cavalier (Upper part).

Fort St Angelo will be open from 10:00 to 17:00, with last admissions at 16:30. Tickets for general entry will only be available at the door, with reduced prices as follows: €5 for adults, €2 for children, students, seniors and Heritage Malta passport holders, and free admission for Heritage Malta members. Tickets for the lecture cost €1 and are available online at www.shop.heritagemalta.org. Members will be admitted to the lecture free of charge but should prebook by sending a request on info@heritagemalta.org. For the members’ curatorial tour, tickets are available from Heritage Malta museums and sites, or by sending an email to info@heritagemalta.org.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

On the 13th of December- Malta’s Republic Day, Heritage Malta will be offering the public the rare chance to visit the church of Our Lady of the Pillar in Valletta.

Arguably one of the finest of Valletta’s lesser known assets, the church of Our Lady of the Pillar formed part of the adjoining Auberge of the Langue of Aragon, Catalonia and Navarre, first built during the early 1670s.

Tickets at a reduced price of only 2 euros will be available at the door. Opening hours are from 10.00 to 16.00 hrs.

All attendees must wear a face mask and respect social distancing measures.

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Many a visitor of the National Museum of Archaeology, upon touring the museum, is astonished by the regal building housing the museum. Few however realise that the building was originally one of the eight auberges built by the Knights of the Order of St John to serve as their hostel and administrative powerhouse.
Heritage Malta is inviting you to get to know this iconic building better at Christian Mifsud’s lecture at the National Museum of Archaeology on the 15^th of December 2021.

Through the study of recent discoveries, new observations and reconsiderations will be explored and shared for the first time, providing a much more complex narrative of the architectural history of the Auberge narrated so far.

Tickets: Free. To reserve your place send an email with your details on archaeology@heritagemalta.org

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Heritage Malta is inviting you to welcome winter on the 19th and 21st of December during the Winter Solstice at Mnajdra Temples.

The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and is the first day of winter. Part of Mnajdra, which was one of the Neolithic complexes built between the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, was built to mark the position of the rising sun on the first day of each season.

Meeting time: 06.20hrs outside the Ħaġar Qim Park Visitor Centre

Price: €30 per person, €20 for Heritage Malta members.

Tickets are available from all Heritage Malta sites and museums, and online on https://shop.heritagemalta.org/index.asp?eventid=931 and https://shop.heritagemalta.org/index.asp?eventid=932

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.

From the 14^th of December till end of February 2022, Heritage Malta is inviting you to delve into the uncharted yet mesmerising medieval millennium of Gozo, in its newly launched exhibition ‘An Island in Transition 700 to 1700AD’ at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta.

The second event in the MEDIEVAL MALTA EXHIBITION SERIES, this exhibition aims to promote greater appreciation of our medieval heritage, through four main themes of medieval culture: maritime trade, art, the rural landscape and artisanal production.

The exhibition will be open everyday from 10.00hrs to 16.30hrs.

Heritage Malta is inviting you to welcome winter on the 19th and 21st of December during the Winter Solstice at Mnajdra Temples.

The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and is the first day of winter. Part of Mnajdra, which was one of the Neolithic complexes built between the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, was built to mark the position of the rising sun on the first day of each season.

Meeting time: 06.20hrs outside the Ħaġar Qim Park Visitor Centre

Price: €30 per person, €20 for Heritage Malta members.

Tickets are available from all Heritage Malta sites and museums, and online on https://shop.heritagemalta.org/index.asp?eventid=931 and https://shop.heritagemalta.org/index.asp?eventid=932

The residency brings together the work of Johannes Buch and Aidan Celeste. They will use their skills in publication to revisit and curate a narrative with contributions from experts in  heritage and maritime, as well as collaborations with other artists. This research will be used to contextualise their personal interventions around the Grandharbour, and focus on its relationship to great storms. How do we deal with such a radical force of nature? How does it shape our values and engagement? The project takes place under the guise of a reading room in the Residency Space at MUŻA. It will be the main site for the artists to engage their immediate community, and invite them to contribute through workshops, events, as well to present the design of a new site-specific intervention.

Dates – Friday 12th November 2021 till Sunday 9th January 2022

Location: – Community Space, MUŻA

For far too long we have excavated, constructed, demolished, dumped, and restarted. AKKA by A Collective seeks to bring together key individuals to raise awareness on the impact that quarrying for natural stone has on our landscape, coupled with the increasing space consumed by blindly dumping construction waste, and, in turn, bringing to light Professor S. Buhagiar’s reconstituted limestone, a recycled and recyclable construction material, ‘ReStone’.

Historically, we cut the ground on which we built to ensure that the material used for construction was contextually adequate. The principles were inherently sustainable but as construction boomed, sustainable practices where brushed aside for economic gain. It’s time to reconsider the economic cycles and put the environment at the forefront. The sand-coloured limestone walls are an intrinsic aspect of the Maltese landscape that cannot be discarded, so whilst the reconstituted limestone retains this intrinsic sand colour it allows for the sustainably engineered stone to be used in a contemporary manner.

AKKA, ‘H’ in Maltese, was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the standard limestone building block. AKKA attempts to challenge the common perception of stone as a heavy, impermeable, and static material whilst playing on vernacular construction techniques of stacking, spanning, and interlocking. AKKA strives to portray reconstituted limestone as a sustainable solution for contemporary architecture which respects the past and looks forward to a cleaner and greener approach.

COLLABORATORS:

Professor Spiridione Buhagiar, Hugh Vella, Julian Vassallo (photographer), James Vernon (videographer), Dr. Margaret Camilleri Fenech (environmental researcher), Robert Colvin

DATES: Friday 10th December 2021 till Sunday 16th January 2022

LOCATION: MUŻA Corridors

COURTESY OF:

Halmann Vella, BRND WGN & SAW

SPONSORED BY:

Project is supported by Arts Council Malta

Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His trailblazing 1948 exhibition at the Phoenicia Hotel in Valletta is said to have imprinted Modernism on the local scene. In the early post-war years prior to leaving Malta to further his studies in Rome, Preca was employed as a restorer with the Museums Department, where he worked upon a few of the masterpieces from the National Collection. Now some 77 years later, the tables have been reversed, and a team of Heritage Malta curators, conservators and restorers are returning the favour.

Twenty-one paintings, four drawings, and six ceramic objects that Preca used for some of his still lifes have been loaned to Heritage Malta by the artist’s family and restored in time to participate in an exhibition at MUŻA that will run from 3rd December 2021 until 27th February 2022. Much of the artwork which travelled from Rome -Preca’s home from 1956 until his demise in 1984- has never been displayed in public, making it a fitting first for the author’s place of birth.

The exhibition, which has been in the pipeline for a few years now, is the result of the goodwill established between Heritage Malta’s and Preca’s family, and a shared interest in doing justice to Giorgio’ Preca’s legacy.