Funded projects for 2011
Malta Arts Fund
Applicant: Trevor Borg
Reference number: S-173-FN232
Project Title: Placeness
Amount Awarded: €1,000
A large scale visual arts exhibition revolving around the central theme, pushing the boundaries of landscape arts. This project is aimed at secondary school students attending this educational program consisting of workshops.
Applicant: Mario Vella
Reference number: S-175–FN234
Project Title: Trabokk
Amount Awarded: €2,000
The production and recording of the second album of the Maltese band ‘Brikkuni’ . This album will be accompanied by the production of an artistic stop-motion video in support of its release.
Applicant: Raphael Vella
Reference number: S-177-FN236
Project Title: Public engagement with contemporary art in Malta (PECAM)
Amount Awarded: €2,500
5 research seminars of 2-2.5 hours each aimed to target new sections of the Maltese public to help professionalize Maltese contemporary art and to engage in a long term educational project focused on theoretical approaches to art.
Applicant: Mark Geoffrey Muscat
Reference number: S-181-FN240
Project Title: Shape, colour, composition- an exhibition of watercolour paintings.
Amount Awarded: €1,000
An exhibition of watercolours painted between 2009 and 2011, focusing on local themes as observed by an architect.
Applicant: Matthew Pandolfino
Reference number: S-184-FN243
Project Title: Dancing through landscape and technology.
Amount Awarded: €908
A dance video project in relation to site explorations through the use of the body and the camera.
Organisation: Masquerade.
Applicant: Veronica Bezzina
Reference number: S-192-FN251
Project Title: Workshops with world renowned vocal and acting coach Patsy Rodenburg
Amount Awarded: €2,125
The settings up of two workshops were participants, both active and observers, will understand how to use basic tools to develop stage presents and communicate text effectively.
Organisation: Architect Project Limited (AP)
Applicant: Konrad Buhagiar
Reference number: S-195-FN254
Project Title: ‘City Gate’ – Filming of demolition
Amount Awarded: €2,120
An essay-film showing the progressive demolition of the Valletta City Gate prior to its new construction. An artistic documentary including theoretical, photographic and anthropological research.
Organisation: St. Joseph Philharmonic society AD1889.
Applicant: Mario Spiteri
Reference number: S-196-FN255
Project Title: Prestige- An international master class by Steven Mead.
Amount Awarded: €2,000
A one- hour private tuition and a three-hour master class by world renowned euphonium player Steve Mead at Ħamrun. The aim is to further develop musicians at Maltese band clubs whilst networking with other local musicians.
Applicant: Keith Sacco
Reference number: S 198 FN 257
Project Title: BISYOC symphony orchestra
Amount Awarded: €663 (full funding)
The young European musicians forming BISYOC symphony orchestra will give two performances of music by John Williams. Applicant will also participate in chamber music concert and a composition workshop.
Organisation: Malta Amateur Dramatic Club
Applicant: Adrian Buckle
Reference number: S 200 FN 259
Project Title: 12th night Shakespeare project
Amount Awarded: €1,100
The MADC will be employing international Californian director Dave Barton to direct ‘12th Night’ by William Shakespeare. Participants will learn how to understand Shakespeare and how to apply meaning to his language.
Organisation: ICOM Malta
Applicant: Samantha Fabry
Reference number: S 205 FN 264
Project Title: The museum 2011 conference
Amount Awarded: €1,800
Attendance to the Museum 2011- international conference on building identity: the making of national museums and identity politics.
Applicant: Chris Briffa
Reference number: S 216 FN 275
Project Title: Museum of modern and contemporary art.
Amount Awarded: €2,825 (full funding)
The project focuses on the need of a suitable space in Valletta’s cultural hub to exhibit contemporary and modern art in Malta, particularly in view of ECOC 2018.
Applicant: Norbert Bugeja
Reference number: S 220 FN 279
Project Title: Maltese Anglophone Poetry in Performance- Ubud writers and readers festival 2011.
Amount Awarded: €1,160 (full funding)
Attendance to the Ubud festival – an internationally regarded and attended event which draws several top level actors in the world literary industry.
Applicant: Keith Micallef
Reference number: S 221 FN 280
Project Title: Cecchetti International 2011 Classical Ballet Competition
Amount Awarded: €2,348 (full funding)
Attendance to the prestigious Cecchetti International Classical ballet competition.
Applicant: Victor Agius
Reference number: S 223 FN 282
Project Title: Contemporary Fine Art Practice- An interdisciplinary and intensive fine art course.
Amount Awarded: €2,413
An intensive interdisciplinary contemporary fine art course at central St. Martin’s college of arts and designs which forms part of the University of Arts in London.
Applicant: Rebecca Camilleri
Reference number: S 224 FN 283
Project Title: DanceWeb scholarship program
Amount Awarded: €2,150 (full funding)
Participation in research projects and technique workshops organized by the DanceWeb program to be held in Austria and Malta.
Applicant: Matthew Attard Navarro
Reference number: S 230 FN 289
Project Title: Call Your Girlfriend
Amount Awarded: €3,000
An exhibition consisting of thirty naturalistic portraits of teenage life targeting an audience with a fresh new look at photography in a style rarely explored by a Maltese photographer.
Applicant: Nicholas Agius Darmanin
Reference number: S 232-FN 313
Project Title: Sotli Te Kanawa Accademia di Bell Canto
Amount Awarded: €1,200
The applicant was chosen out of 9 singers to participate in the above mentioned academia. A participation in a master class project with dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen and the director John Copley .
Applicant: Raphael Vella
Reference number: S 236-FN 317
Project Title: Art across Boundaries
Amount Awarded: € 3,000
A collaborative project between Maltese and foreign visual artists and writers which will be exhibited at Saint James Cavalier. The publication of a book will include the extension of the applicant’s work.
Applicant: Francesca Galea
Reference number: S 238-FN 319
Project Title: Local Jazz Workshops
Amount Awarded: €1,000
Participation in a workshop in Crest, France . This will help to promote jazz locally as an art form.
Applicant: Nicola’ Micallef
Reference number: S 240-FN 321
Project Title: The Royal Ballet, White Lodge Summer School (10-14 years)
Amount Awarded: €1,200
Attendance in dance classes.
Organisation: Ċeramika Maltija
Applicant: Sue Mifsud
Reference number: S 243-FN 324
Project Title: Bill Brown – Workshops, Training and lectures
Amount Awarded: €1,500
A number of workshops, training sessions and lectures by Mr. Bill Brown who is an internationally recognized ceramic artist and master.
Applicant: Christine Zerafa
Reference number: S 248-FN 329
Project Title: Piano master classes with Norma Fisher
Amount Awarded: €2,400
Series of piano master classes to be held in London under the tuition of the internationally renowned tutor Norma Fisher.
Applicant: Joseph Aquilina
Reference number: S 252-FN 333
Project Title: The Commonwealth Resounds!
Amount Awarded: €2,000
A participation in the mentioned international project by Ms. Alison Cox. This project involves musicians, singers and other performers and it will take place in London (UK), and Perth (Australia).
Applicant: Lisa Gwen Baldacchino
Reference number: S 254-FN 335
Project Title: Art Criticism- Art and politics: From Dada to the Present
Amount Awarded: €700
A participation in 2 intensive courses at central St. Martin’s Southampton Row and in London.
Applicant: Michaela Attard
Reference number: S 257-FN 338
Project Title: Berkley College of Music 2011.
Amount Awarded: €1,000
Attendance to an intense program at Berkley College of Music which offers a basis of building contracts necessary to organize concerts, locally and abroad.
Applicant: Keith Azzopardi
Reference number: S 260-FN 341
Project Title: Skariġġi
Amount Awarded: €2,000
The publication of a book entitled Skariġġi. Various writers will contribute to this book, namely: Adrian Grima, Leli Psaila, Rita Saliba, Keith Borg, Guze’ Stagno, Jacob Piccinino and the applicant himself.
Applicant: Isabelle Gatt
Reference number: S 269-FN 350
Project Title: Marinando Dance Theatre Project.
Amount Awarded: €2,500
A group of youths aged between 12 and 16 will work on a devised theatre/dance artwork project. The music being used is mainly by Ruben Zahra and it will be part of the Marinando Festival to be held in September 2011 in Puglia Italy.
Applicant: Walter Vella
Reference number: S 302-FN 383
Project Title: Trania
Amount Awarded: €3,000
A contemporary Maltese ethnic music group will be launching a CD containing 3 original tunes played life at the Manoel Theatre in 2008.
Applicant: Audrienne Degiorgio
Reference number: S 303-FN 384
Project Title: Public Comic Anthology
Amount Awarded: €500
The publication of a comic book anthology which is a collection of short stories in the form of sequential art. A collection of illustrations will support the comics, called ‘Pilot’.
Applicant: Adrian Abela
Reference number:
Project Title: Sajda / Black Sea
Amount Awarded: €3,428 (full funding)
An exhibition of works which explore the paradox of the Mediterranean Sea. This project is in collaboration with Nigel Baldacchino. There will also be a scupture and a video.
Organisation: Malta Dyslexia Association
Applicant: Clare Agius
Reference number: L 62-FN 291
Project Title: Self through Drama
Amount Awarded: €10,000
A project aimed at creating more awareness of the challenges imposed by society on dyslexic persons and the importance of drama in student empowerment and self- esteem through experimental workshops.
Organisation: 12th May Band & Social Club
Applicant: Joseph Micallef
Reference number: L 64-FN 293
Project Title: Kuncert- Master classes
Amount Awarded: €3,500
A musical concert to be held at the Manoel Theatre in occasion of the band club’s 50th anniversary. The repertoire will include works by Carl Jenkins
Organisation: Actionbase studio
Applicant: John J. Schranz
Reference number: L 68-FN 297
Project Title: Festival Launching Performance- The pedagogy studio and drafting future international formation process.
Amount Awarded: €14,479.76 (full funding)
An international festival launching Actionbase’s new performance research aimed at promulgating new Actionbase’s performance standards.
Applicant: Chris Briffa
Reference number: L 74-FN 303
Project Title: Malta Design Week
Amount Awarded: €20,000
4 exhibition, lectures, a presentation by international design personalities and workshops involving children, students and the creative industry. It is aimed at establishing Malta as an international design hub and possibly an annual event.
Applicant: Joan Haber
Reference number: L 75-FN 304
Project Title: Malta Ceramics Festival 2011
Amount Awarded: €15,000
A children’s festival including a creative mixture of activities wherein all ceramists form various working groups whilst the general public may join in spontaneously. Afterwards a seminar and exhibition will precede the festival.
Applicant: Mariella Cassar
Reference number: L 76-FN 305
Project Title: A contemporary approach to music
Amount Awarded: €5,000
A performance at the Manoel Theatre with the participation of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Italian pianist Nazareno Ferruggio.
Organisation: Jesuit Refugee Service Malta
Applicant: Fr. Joseph Cassar
Reference number: L 77-FN 306
Project Title: The Art of Storytelling
Amount Awarded: €13,200
A professionally written and illustrated book in Maltese and English telling a refugee's story, to be distributed free of charge in all local primary schools and used in the organisation's outreach activities aged 8/9-12.
Applicant: James Micallef Grimaud
Reference number: L 78-FN 307
Project Title: Putting Colour in the Streets
Amount Awarded: €11,158
An exhibition of graffiti works as an initiative to get youngsters more involved in the arts.
Applicant: Karl Fiorini
Reference number: L 88-FN 405
Project Title: Recording of Karl Fiorini’s Violin Concertos
Amount Awarded: €10,000
A professional recording production of the works for violin and orchestra of Karl Fiorini, a Maltese composer currently based in Paris, France.
Applicant: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Reference number: L 91-FN 408
Project Title: Xahar tat-Teatru Malti
Amount Awarded: €20,000
Two scripts divided into two phases: Scripting, and production at the Manoel Theatre.
Applicant: Gilbert Calleja
Reference number: L 93-FN 410
Project Title: Milkshake
Amount Awarded: €20,000
A multi-media artistic project focusing on the reflection and the presentation of gender and the body. This project includes the visual and literary arts, a dance performance, workshops, seminars and the publishing of a book.
Organisation: Unifaun Theatre Co Ltd
Applicant: Adrian Buckle
Reference number: L 96-FN 413
Project Title: Edward Bond Project
Amount Awarded: €10,000
A theatre project is divided into three phases: Workshops in Malta by Chris Cooper, a visit to Birmingham and the production of Edward Bond’s ‘Olly’s Prison’.
Applicant: Stephanie Degiorgio
Reference number: L 100-FN 417
Project Title: Love Will Tear us Apart – The Game
Amount Awarded: €20,000 (full funding)
An online art game which will be accessible online via a website dedicated solely to this game.
Organisation: Leone Band Club (AD 1863)
Applicant: Joseph Debrincat
Reference number: O 01-FN 418
Project Title: Annual Opera Program; Tosca – Joseph Debrincat
Amount Awarded: €12,000
Tosca is a 3-act opera by the renowned Italian Composer Giacomo Puccini. Resident conductor Mro Colin Attard is entrusted with the musical direction of the opera.
Organisation: The Classique Foundation
Applicant: Joseph Debrincat
Reference number: O 02-FN 419
Project Title: Grand Opera Concert
Amount Awarded: €5,500
This concert will include arias and duets from the most popular operas by popular composers such as Verdi and Bellini. It will also feature overtures and ballet music from the operatic repertoire.
Organisation: Theatrencore
Applicant: Tyrone Grima
Reference number: O 03-FN 420
Project Title: Annual Program
Amount Awarded: €4,400
TheatreNcore’s ethic is to integrate with new established talent and is made up of five production team members.
Organisation: National Council of Women
Applicant: Grace Attard
Reference number: O 04-FN 421
Project Title: Biennale Music Competition
Amount Awarded: €2,400
This project helps to create awareness of women’s civic morale, political and social responsibilities to society as a whole. This is done through the use of music and arts.
Organisation: Victoria Arts Festival Foundation
Applicant: Maria Frendo
Reference number: O 05-FN 422
Project Title: Victoria International Arts Festival
Amount Awarded: €12,000
This festival offers of a number of events and concerts by various artists from Europe and the US. It includes musical and literary events.
Organisation: Kinemastic
Applicant: Slavko Vukanovic
Reference number: O 06-FN 423
Project Title: Annual Program
Amount Awarded: €7,200
Kinemastic International Short Film Festival includes screenings, exhibitions, talks and concerts with the aim to create links for young film makers in Malta with the world of cinemas.
Organisation: Creative Island
Applicant: Nicole Cuschieri
Reference number: O 07-FN 424
Project Title: Annual Program
Amount Awarded: €5,000
This project encourages local talents to create original work professionally through frequent rehearsals and international workshops and to tutorials. It attempts to supply artists with the vital tools to challenge their creativity.
Organisation: Inizjamed
Applicant: Adrian Grima
Reference number: O 08-FN 425
Project Title: Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival
Amount Awarded: €12,000
The Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival is organized by Inizjamed and Literature across frontiers. Writers around the world are invited for workshops to share and learn different cultures.
Organisation: M3P Foundation
Applicant: Toni Sant
Reference number: O 09-FN 426
Project Title: Oral Series
Amount Awarded: €6,800
This project aims to provide an inclusive, collaborative online multimedia database for memories of Malta’s Music and associated arts and to ensure that these are kept safe for the present and future generations.
Organisation: L-Ghanja tal-Poplu
Applicant: Rev. Maurice Mifsud
Reference number: O 10-FN 427
Project Title: L- Ghanja tal- poplu 36th Edition.
Amount Awarded: €13,400
L- Ghanja tal- poplu is a festival of original songs written in Maltese that deal with the experiences and desperations as a nation in the world today.
Organisation: Socjeta’ Filarmonika La Stella
Applicant: Paul Zammit
Reference number: O 11–FN 428
Project Title: Annual Opera Program; Norma
Amount Awarded: €5,000
This musical voluntary organization organizes the annual event of festival Mediterranean which includes two performances of an opera.
Organisation: Koperattiva Kulturali Universitarja
Applicant: Patricia Camilleri
Reference number: O 12-FN 429
Project Title: Evenings on campus 2011
Amount Awarded: €10,000
This summer festival aims to animate the university campus and provide top quality cultural and educational performance to the summer audience.
Organisation: The Dance Workshop Limited
Applicant: Theresa Stafrace
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Project Title: Dance encounter with a master choreographer- Mr Robert North
Amount Awarded: €1,500
A 3-day course through which students to a world class choreographer and his works. Mr North will be assisted by Sherry Cook.
Applicant: Christopher Spiteri
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Project Title: European Union Youth Wind Orchestra (EUYWO)
Amount Awarded: €504
An application to participate as a tuba player with the EUYWO in a week of intensive rehearsing and a final concert to be held in Lamego, Portugal.
Applicant: Maria Zahra
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Project Title: European Union Youth Wind Orchestra (EUYWO)
Amount Awarded: €430
An application to participate as a bassoonist with the EUYWO in a week of intensive rehearsing a final concert to be held in Lamego, Portugal.
Applicant: Teresa Sciberras
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Project Title: Little White Lies; Tereza Sciberras, new works on panel
Amount Awarded: €2,000
Contemporary paintings on panel for the contemporary hall at the National Museum of Fine Arts. There will also be the production of a catalogue and a children’s workshop.
Applicant: Darren Tanti
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Project Title: Participating in the ‘Bjenali tal-artisti zghazagh tal-Ewropa u l- Mediterran’
Amount Awarded: €584
A participation in a workshop which will be held in Thessaloniki Greece, and will centre around the theme of symbioses.
Applicant: Nicholas Morales
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Project Title: Nosnow/noalps European Acoustic Tour
Amount Awarded: €600
Following the launch of the group’s debut album ‘RomantikPolitik’, an acoustic tour will be held in Copenhagen, London, Paris, Berlin and Milan
Applicant: Matthew Attard
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Project Title: Venice Studio Residence.
Amount Awarded: €2,000
It consists of research work, a public presentation and a possible exhibition at the A+A Gallery in Venice.
Applicant: Desiree Attard
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Project Title: Elements Dance Group
Amount Awarded: €400
A dance public performance which aspires to contribute to the 2018 ECOC
Applicant: Adrian Abela
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Project Title: Suggested Conversations with/ between various Tissues.
Amount Awarded: €1,000
A visual composition of 4 different bodies of works which will be presented in such a way to create a conversation between them. It will be held at Auberge D’Italie.
Applicant: Robert Zahra
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Project Title: Bodies II
Amount Awarded: €2,000
It consists of an exhibition, a catalogue, public talks, students visits and workshops. All which to be held at the Auberge D’Italie, Valletta.
Applicant: Jonathan Grima
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Project Title: Lore of the Sea.
Amount Awarded: €1,900
In collaboration with heritage Malta, this project consists of a specialized tour about the Lore of the Sea in the museum’s collection, a new multimedia performance of Lore of the Sea and a documentary about the process and performance of the project.
Applicant: Nadia Mutschler Mifsud
Reference number: M 01-FN 394
Project Title: Participation in Petra Project: Congress in Brussels
Amount Awarded: €341.42
A participation in a multi-layered project spanning over a period of nearly 18 months and entitled PETRA (European Platform for Literary Translation).
Applicant: Jean Pierre Magro
Reference number: M 03-FN 396
Project Title: Story World Conference
Amount Awarded: €1,904
The applicant will be presenting his project entitled ‘The Tower of Fables’ at the InProduction Showcase at the Story World Conference in San Francisco.
Applicant: Francesca Cassar
Reference number: M 04-FN 397
Project Title: Istanbul Ballet Scholarship
Amount Awarded: € 279
A one-week scholarship granted by the Malta Dance Council and the Istanbul Dance Conservatoire
Applicant: Jon Mallia
Reference number: M 06-FN 399
Project Title: In Barcelona
Amount Awarded: €2,400
A course to further the practical education of the artists ‘Sixth Simfoni’ and ‘No Bling Show’.
Applicant: Christopher Zahra
Reference number: M 07-FN 400
Project Title: Relocating Cable 35
Amount Awarded: €3,000
A 6-month project during which the independent local band Cable 35 will aim for maximum exposure and increase its fan base.
Applicant: Marta Vella
Reference number: M 12-FN 422
Project Title: Atlantic Acting School 2012 Summer Intensive Program
Amount Awarded: €3,000 (full funding)
Attendance to a 6 week intensive program in New York. It is designed to give students a comprehensive actor training, covering the majority of the curriculum studied in the first year of the 2.5 Year Conservatory program.
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