Rhythm Diversity is a training course and festival of popular Mediterranean music and dance funded by the Euromed Youth programme of the EU and run by Inizjamed between 13 and 19 October, 2004, with the support of the University of Malta cultural cooperative, Koperattiva Kulturali Universitarja.

The participating groups are Mille Danze (Milan, Italy) • El-Funoun (Ramallah, Palestine), in picture above • L'Officina (Marseilles, France) • Lamusica (Cairo, Egypt).

 

The music and dance workshops for the general public and the performances by the guest groups will be held at MITP, St. Christopher Street, Valletta. [Read on]
 

Performances and Theatre Workshops by Nora Amin

Inizjamed has invited Nora Amin to Malta to lead a series of workshops and to perform her latest theatrical work "ARAB" at the St. James Cavalier Theatre on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 September, 2004, at 8.00pm. Tickets at Lm3 are available from St. James Cavalier (tel 2122 3200).

Nora Amin is a performer, theatre director and educator from Egypt. She is also a playwright, short story writer, poet and novelist.

Nora has been trained by international theatre masters, among which Augusto Boal, the master and theoretician of the “Theatre of the oppressed”. [Read on]

Inizjamed at the Naples 2005 Biennial

The theme chosen for the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean is “Un Anno Di Passione,” a year of passion. The Naples Biennial will also commemorate 20 years since its first edition in Barcelona in 1985.

 
In Naples 2005, Inizjamed will be taking part in 4 categories: Literature, Music, Visual Art and Gastronomy. The Maltese contingent will also include a leading journalist and established artist. [Read on]

 

Martin Schillig Arrives in August

Martin Schillig will arrive in Malta in August to take up his post as volunteer with Inizjamed for one year. He will be working within the Fair SHARE EVS project financed by the EU through the Youth programme.

 

The Fair SHARE project aims to promote cultural sustainability in Malta and in the Mediterranean and the ethical, educational and cultural richness of fair trade by designing and running concrete projects that are carried out in Malta among young people from various social and educational backgrounds and with the active participation of Refugees and asylum seekers, especially the young adults among them.  

 

Martin Schillig got his degree in "Social Nurse" (Sozialpfleger) in 2002. He has been working in the social service sector since the year 2000. During the training period he worked in a home for old people and also with an organisation which organises activities for people of all ages who have a disability. [Read on]
 

Recommendations for NGO Legislation

Friday, 21 May, 7.00pm, St. James Cavalier

 

The Working Group for NGO Legislation in Malta set up by large number of local NGOs will be presenting its recommendations to the organizations who were represented at the first two public meetings held in January and February 2004 and to other interested groups.

 

This meeting will be held this Friday, 21 May, at 7pm in the Music Room of St. James Cavalier. The recommendations will be presented by Patricia Camilleri who will also be chairing the meeting. The Working Group will be seeking approval of its work from the representatives present for the meeting.  [Read on]