NOTTE BIANCA 2014 NOTTE BIANCA OPENING Venue: Valletta Entrance Time: 19:00 No night of festivities would be complete without a little pomp and circumstance. In that fashion Notte Bianca opens grandiosely with a historical re-enactmentby the Inguardia Re-enactors and Duke of Argyll’s Own Pipe Band marching around Valletta. NOTTE BIANCA RED CARPET

Venue: Freedom Square Time: All Night Long Freedom Square will be hosting an elegant red carpet event starting at 19.00. Come by and take your photos surrounded by all the glitz and glam.

BELLOPHONE Venue: Independence Square Time: All Night Long

This year Notte Bianca is proud to present the Bellophone; an innovative project which will allow you to play the bells of Valletta! A collaboration between sound designer Mario Sammut, engineers and the Valletta communities has brought us one of the most innovative projects ever programmed for Notte Bianca.

Set up in Independence Square, the Bellophone is a large-scale instrument incorporating two Valletta church bell towers - those of the Anglican and the Carmelite churches - and a state-of-the-art playing console. The console features a playing board, similar to a keyboard of a piano in function, but instead of keys it has large round buttons, which when pressed will ring the bells in the towers wirelessly. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you to be able to play the bells of two churches simultaneously.

For more info please visit: http://www.bellophone.org/

ELECTROSTRAIT Venue: Strait Street Time: All Night Long Throughout the night Strait Street will be having a ball, specifically an electroswing ball introduced by 1920s style flapper girls. Electro-Swing Malta will be pumping out the best tunes in this exciting novel genre, which blends vintage swing with contemporary production techniques. Don your finest duds and swing, swing, swing. TBERFIL TATTOO Venue: Republic Square Time: 19.00 – 00.00 Get some ink! But not just any ink. This year Notte Bianca has commissioned tattoo artist Charlot Seychell to design tattoos based on traditional Maltese tberfil by John Farrugia. Tberfil is an elegant local typography that can traditionally be seen on vintage Maltese buses and luzzi (Maltese fishing boats). So come visit our tattooist at Pjazza Regina and don’t miss this opportunity to get inked the Maltese way. The non-permanent kind will also be available. ŻIFFAŻFIN Venue: Old Market Place Time: 19.30 – 00.30 Dance the night away! On an elevated stage at the Suq tal-Belt we are going to be having a dance expo with a twist, featuring some of the best dance troupes on the island. Imagine line dancing to Maltese oldies, fiery flamenco to marċi funebri, oriental dance to local Għana and much more. This is fusion dancing like you will have never seen. All this introduced by a Maltese Milonga just outside the Old Market. Featuring DanceWorks, New Identity Line Dancers, Caramella Oriental Dance, Keith & Joanne, Alegria Dance Company and the Malta Argentine Tango Association MALTAPOP Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Time: 19.00 Surely there’s nothing that can get a smile on your face quicker than a Guggen band, so here come the Big Friends Guggen Music. Big dancing band, dressed up in motley Carnival colours, playing as loud and as boisterously as you can possibly imagine. On top of that the set list is going to include the best of Maltese pop music. What’s not to like?

NOTTE BIANCA LIVE

Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Time: 21.00 Ever feel nostalgic for the old days? Then step into the music of our local past with the concert O Żmien Ħelu, featuring beloved songs from all the golden oldies. Maestro Dominic Galea has created arrangements for some of the greatest Maltese pop compositions. Then we got Enzo Guzman, Doreen Galea, Freddie Portelli, Mary Spiteri, Mary Rose Mallia, Mike Spiteri, Bayzo, William Mangion, Tony Camilleri, Joe Grech and a special surprise from abroad! All this will be presented by the Di u d-Do of our old concerts, John Demanuele and Charles Saliba. This will surely be a night to remember. This concert will also be aired live on PBS! ORKESTRA SWING Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Time: 00.00

As the bells chime midnight, the Malta Youth Orchestra will be kicking off a swing concert in Pjazza Teatru Rjal full of oomph, pzazz and zing! Join this talented young ensemble for what promises to be a great energetic performance.

The Malta Youth Orchestra is the ‘sister ensemble’ of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and is made up of talented young musicians. The target aim of the MYO is to provide an excellent opportunity for budding musicians to gain first-hand experience playing in an orchestra and, more importantly, to participate in the joy of ensemble music-making.

L-GĦANA L-KBIRA Venue: Great Siege Square Time: 19.00, 21.30 Għana is the music of the Maltese people and a tradition that needs to be passed on from generation to generation. This year Notte Bianca has started a community project, where a group of għanneja was commissioned to collaborate with guitarist Evan Plumpton to teach 50 guitar students the art of għana. This special concert will see four of our finest għanneja singing with a backing band of over fifty guitar students.

CHOIR BOX Venue: Great Siege Square Time: 20.30, 23.00 Outside the Law Courts experience an interactive choir. Browse the jukebox playlist set up nearby, select your favourite tune and enjoy the song performed live by the Mirabitur Choir just for you. The choir will also be collecting donations in aid of the community chest fund. BAND’OĦRA Venues: Manoel Theatre – Indie Stage Old University Building – Metal Stage St John’s Square – Big Band Stage Time: 19.00 – 02.00 Some of the finest local bands will be taking the stage at different venues around Valletta to keep the night alive with music. Each venue will be dedicated to a specific music genre, so attendees can revel in the best Malta has to live music until the early hours. The Old University will turn into the Metal Stage with Malta's best metal and doom bands. The Manoel Theatre will present some of the best alternative and indie bands on the island, whilst St John’s Square will dance to the brass sounds of our big bands. Our Indie Stage will feature Milk Mi, Three Stops to China, Errormantics, Massacre House Party, Claire Tonna, The Shh, and Cable 35. The Metal Stage features Different Strings, R.A.S, Fallen Icon, Angelcrypt, War Trigger, 12th ode and Abysmal Torment. Our Big Band Stage will feature the Armed Forces of Malta Military Band, Rockastra from Gozo and we also heard that the Big Band stage has a couple of surprises up in store. For full details on the programme of events refer to the Notte Bianca Website or App. ĠENNATA RJALI Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Time: All Night Long Angels and Saints will be looking from above at Pjazza Teatru Rjal. This majestic installation by artist Antoine Farrugia will dress up the columns in the pjazza using traditional decorations as typically seen in local festas. INFORMAZZJONI Venue: Castille Place, Merchant Street, St John’s Street Time: All Night Long It shouldn’t be too hard to spot our info team. Just look up at Castille Place, Merchant Street or St John’s Street, and look out for our friendly animators sitting on high lifeguard chairs,

megaphones in hand, letting everyone know about all that is going on during the night. Feel free to ask them any questions; they will be more than happy to help. BASKTIJIET Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Info Point Time: All Night Long Take your Notte Bianca 2014 memories home with you, thanks to our limited edition illustrated eco-bag inspired by our magical capital city. This beautifully illustrated souvenir, with designs by Nadine Noko, can be purchased from the Notte Bianca Information stands. Don’t miss out! THE GREAT FLEA MARKET Venue: Hastings Gardens Time: All Night Long Fed up of shopping for the same old products on the same old shelves? Or are you looking for some genuine local arts and crafts items? Then Notte Bianca’s Great Flea Market is the place for you. Featuring florists, portrait artists, antiques, crafts, car-boot sales, home-made foods and all other sorts of stalls, the flea market will manifest the best Maltese markets have to offer. This area will also feature our own Villaġġ, a trade fair for various entities that will be exhibiting and promoting their services and organisations. The local folk bands Ta’ Verna and The Jackson’s will be keeping the night alive with fun banter and good music. AMAZE2

Venue: St George’s Square Time: All Night Long You think you can’t fit Science in one box? Think again! Logix Creative and Daaa Haus have been entrusted with the conceptualisation, design and fabrication of a massive cube science installation in Pjazza St. George during Science In The City 2014 and Notte Bianca 2014. Introducing AMAZE2. A massive installation in the shape of a giant cube housing a maze that plans to portray the various elements of science in a fun and eclectic way. The installation, a journey through various rooms arranged as a full size maze, takes the visitor through various representations and interactive exhibits of science. From the weather to the big bang, from the earth to the human body, from solar energy to renewable energy, no stone will be left unturned. Logix/Daaa are also thinking outside the box – quite literally - as around the installation there will be a host of other exhibits; Lufthansa will be presenting an array of interactive displays designed to experience the science around flight engineering; a car manufacturer will be displaying a fleet of EV vehicles; and a Beer manufacturer will be sponsoring a Beer Haus experiment bar. All this promises to make the AMAZE2 cube a truly unique experience.

AMAZE2 offers visitors of all ages an accessible exhibition of educational displays that puts science in their hands. A mix between art and culture to form an epic assault on the senses. Everyone will be truly AMAZED. RITZ ARCADES Venue: Republic Street Time: All Night Long Ritz arcades, Valletta's forgotten realm. Once a force in the strong retail era of Valletta, for the past twenty years the Ritz arcades have existed as an eminent ghost in Valletta. Dreams, memory and political issues all combine in this majestic empty building now only home to a cinema, that is almost forgotten, and an art studio gallery that has been working on the fringes for the past year.

Artists Selina Scerri, Emma Talbot and Tom Estes have joined forces to transform the arcades of old into a novel, vibrant experience. Each of the three artists will be showcasing an exhibition in different areas of the arcades. Emma Talbot’s installation is entitled I Was Dreaming of You. Selina Scerri’s painting exhibition is called Visions of Realms Unknown. Finally Tom Estes will be displaying a performance in the cinema titled The Bell Ringer.

IĊĊAQLAQ (EUROPEAN MOVE WEEK) Venue: St James Bastion Time: 19.00 – 02.00 Kunsill Malti għall-Isport (KMS) has, for the second year in a row, been entrusted by the International Sports & Culture Association (ISCA) to organise the European Move Week in Malta between the 29th September and 5th October 2014. This year the KMS is featuring as part of Notte Bianca Valletta! Move Week is the flagship activity of the Now We Move campaign which aims to get 100 million more Europeans moving by the year 2020 in a bid to fight inactivity and obesity. Hosted in St. James Bastion, everyone is welcome to come participate in a wide range of exciting sports that are sure to get your feet moving and heart pumping. Judo, Karate, Boxing, Abseiling and Wheelchair Basketball will all be organising demonstrations for the public to watch and join in their activities. Come and put your sports shoes on! VALLETTA OBSCURA Venue: Merchant Street & St John’s Street Time: All Night Long Have you ever wanted to step inside a photograph? A project by international artists Leta Shtogryn, Berrak Eyiceoglu and Nicholas Borchers, Notte Bianca’s Valletta Obscura is your chance to experience the Valletta cityscape through unique dreamlike projections. In this special dark room, a live reflection of the Valletta streets will fill up the walls. Lie down in the

room and gaze upon the beauty of Valletta’s architecture given a new and dazzling perspective. The host will guide you through the principles behind camera obscura, an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. BIEB IL-BOMBI Venue: Bieb il-Bombi, Floriana Time: All Night Long Every single day, hundreds of locals and tourists drive under the Bieb il-Bombi monument in Floriana on their way to Valletta. But very few people know that there is access to the top of these gates. This year Notte Bianca is organising a special visit, where patrons can visit the overpass of these monumental gates. Don’t miss this one off opportunity to get a different perspective of these historical fortifications. Bieb il-Bombi is an ornamental gate in the Floriana Lines, which formed the outer defensive walls of Valletta. Constructed in the Baroque style, the gates were completed in 1721, a year after the death of Fra Ramon Perellos u Roccaful, the 64th Grandmaster of the Order of Saint John. Perellos’ coat of arms appears above the gate. LOGĦOB FIL-LIBRERIJA Venue: National Library Time: All Night Long Step into the virtual world of video games at the National Library. Academics from the University of Malta’s newest research centre Institute of Digital Games will showcase alternative, independent games that challenge our assumptions, ask problematic questions, and even help children with dyslexia. The selection of awards winning games will be showcased to players of all ages. L-IKLA T-TAJBA Venue: Stock Exchange Building Time: All Night Long

L-Ikla t-Tajba at Notte Bianca is the final step of a Valletta 2018 initiative aimed at empowering a group of twenty youths and adults to learn the art of local cookery and have the opportunity to share their culinary talents with you.

The team behind the stoves at Castille Place this evening had never been in a professional kitchen before taking up an intensive training programme organised by Valletta 2018 early in the summer. Training focused on both the technical and the creative side of cooking. They learnt how to respect local produce and the land that provides it. Participants were tasked

with the design of their very own signature dishes, and tonight is where they showcase them.

Assisted by a handful of professional chefs, the twenty people cooking for you tonight come from all walks of life. Some are married couples, other single mothers. There are business people, skilled people and unemployed; star pupils and children with learning difficulties; locals and expatriates - a wide array of participants brought together by their shared passion for food - all working as a tight team. This has been an empowering experience for all of them.

The team came up with eight street food recipes using some of the island’s most cherished produce – namely lampuki, pork, rabbit, ġbejna, pomegranate, potatoes, beetroot, bigilla, tomatoes, tuna, honey and grapes.

Hungry?

L-ikla t-tajba, bon apetit IT-TIP TAGĦNA Venue: Republic Street Time: All Night Long The team behind local website MaltaType have been commissioned to collaborate with L-Għaqda tal-Malti Universita’ and design a series of banners, each featuring a specially selected quote from local authors. Look up at Merchants Street to take in the displays. The banners' designs are influenced by vintage Maltese shop signs. KASTILJA KLASSIKA Venue: Castille Square Time: 19.00 – 02.00 Fancy a night at the proms? Then join us at the magisterial Pjazza Kastilja for a night of operatic and classical concerts. Local singers and musicians, will be giving a concert full of the best classical music pieces and popular operatic arias. The evening will also feature a special concert celebrating the Nani family. Featuring the harpist Lydia Buttigieg, maestro Dr. Joseph Gatt, tenor Brian Cefai and soprano Kimberly Marie Grech accompanied by pianist Louise Zammit.

ID-DINJA FUQ IL-PLANĊIER Venue: St Lucia Street Time: 19.00 – 02.00 Notte Bianca shall again be reviving the traditional Maltese planċier, which were used for concerts of band clubs around Valletta. Creating a beautiful reconstruction of this traditional stage, Notte Bianca will be giving this characteristically Maltese construct back to the city. Showcasing their talents on this stage will be a motley crew of musical variety, including Australian fusion, samba music, and the Matuto American Folk band straight from America! CLINT CAMPISI AUSTRALIA MATUTO AMERICA SAMBA SOUTH AMERICA BAND ON THE RUN Venue: Casino Maltese Time: 20.00 – 00.00

A new musical project rooted in the rich tradition of the Maltese band club, Band on the Run aims to unite musicians from every local band club in Malta and Gozo. This talented ensemble already boasts over 70 members, who will be involved in both performance and education across this exciting cultural initiative.

In the spirit of celebrating Malta’s much-loved band music, Band on the Run strives to foster a sense of community between all local band clubs while nurturing musical talent amongst Malta’s young musicians. Aiming to offer performances of high standard and new opportunities in musical education, this collaborative project will actively seek to fuse traditional band music with different musical styles. Such focused efforts will work to highlight Malta’s unique combination of local identity and European influence through music.

The Band on the Run team is currently organising weekly rehearsals and outreach activities to band clubs in different towns and villages. Master classes, workshops and a series of performances and projects are being held in collaboration with local councils, local band clubs and schools.

Community events are open to students as well as the general public, with the valuable participation of band masters, conductors and teachers from the various localities involved. Solo performers and chamber groups from various communities are also contributing to performances and master classes. By 2018, Band on the Run plans to hold activities in all localities in Malta and Gozo.

Band on the Run (Banda Nazzjonali ta’ Valletta 2018) is a collaboration between Valletta 2018 Foundation and Għaqda Każini tal-Banda.

FUQ L-ORGNI TA’ PATRI BERT

Venue: Santu Wistin Church Time: 20.30 The Voices from the Cantores choir will give us a concert on one of the hidden musical gems of Valletta, the organ at the church of St Augustine. The programme includes beautiful pieces from Maltese composers such as Benigno Zerafa, Rev. John Galea, Giuseppe Fenech but also Mediterranean contemporary and classic composers such as Ennio Morricone and Guiseppe Verdi. IL-QADDISIN! Venue: Tal-Karmnu Church Time: All Night Long Inside tal-Karmnu Church strange happenings are afoot. The traditional vari of our beloved local feasts are coming to life to tell their tales and reminisce the good old days of their respective festas. Even long standing rivals like San Ġorġ and San Bastjan will be trying to settle old scores! PINTA TEATRU, QATT MA NINSA Venue: Palace Courtyard Time: 19.30 – 01.00

Three inventive local theatre groups are putting up projects inspired by the stories discovered during the V18 and Maritime Museum project Qatt Ma Ninsa.

The Valletta 2018 Foundation, in collaboration with Heritage Malta, launched the first edition of Qatt Ma Ninsa in June. Qatt Ma Ninsa is a collective memory project, aimed at collecting stories and objects related to the sea. Qatt Ma Ninsa invited the public to the Maritime Museum, bringing along objects, photographs or memorabilia related to the sea and to share memories and stories associated with these objects.

Featuring Claudio Carta, Versilħoss and Maleth, you will be seeing these stories brought to life at the Palace Courtyard.

ŻIGUŻAJG AREA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE Venue: Upper Barrakka Time: 19.00 – 23.30 Żigużajg is the International Arts Festival for Children and Young People held annually in Valletta produced by St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity. The performances target an audience of children and youth, from newborns to 16 year olds. Żigużajg will be giving a very special preview of its programme for 2014 during Notte Bianca. Join the Żigużajg team at the Upper Barracca Gardens on the night for a guaranteed evening of creativity, culture and fun for children of all ages! Participating artists include Trevor Zahra, Drama Unit, Xarulu' and St James Cavalier Animators. This year Notte Bianca’s children’s area will be taken over by the Żigużajg team! ATMOSFERA Venue: All Around Valletta Time: All Night Long Notte Bianca is the night where all of Valletta comes to life. From City Gate to the far end of the peninsula, every street, corner and pjazza will be buzzing with spectacle. Museums, churches and other magical spaces will be waiting for you to pop a visit. From the usual jazz at the Bridge Bar to the grandiose St John’s Co-Cathedral tours, there is definitely something for everyone. So wander around, explore, and soak up the atmosphere. MUSIC St. James Church Merchants Street All Night Long St James Church will be open to the public with a youth mass at 19.30, animated by the choir and orchestra of Musicalibera, directed by Brandon Attard, together with the foreign nuns from different congregations who resides in Malta. The mass will be celebrated in an African style. After the mass the church will remain open and will continue with a musical and choir concert. The music entertainment will be Gospel. The animation will be held from 20.30 to 21.15 and resumes again from 21.45 to 22.30. Part of the animation will be held by the Children Helping Children Choir, which will be singing from its repertoire. The children will be directed by Samuel Bezzina. On the same side of the church there will be a bake sale of sweets. The sweets will be a variety from different countries from around the world. This is done to promote diversity and unity amongst cultures.

St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral West Street 19.00 - 23.00 St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral will open its doors to Notte Bianca at 19.00. Every hour, at 20 minutes past each hour, you will hear recitals on the newly restored organ given by international musicians. From Independence Square you, personally, will be able to play the St. Paul’s bells via an ingenious WiFi connection. And your playing will be accompanied by a light show from the spire tower. Welcome to Notte Bianca at the Cathedral under the Spire. St. Francis of Assisi Church & Friary 290, Republic Street 17.15 - 00.00 The church is open to the public to visit the recently restored Mattia Preti paintings and Guiseppe Cali’s masterpiece. Mass is being held at 17.15 and 18.30 followed by a vigil at 20.30 and an organ recital at 22.00. Tuneful easy listening organ music will be played by Noel Gallo on the recently restored Mascioni pipe organ. The organ will be played from the new custom made detached console located at ground level. Bridge Bar East Street (near Victoria Gate) Performance from 21.00 - 01.00 Live jazz sessions by Effie’s Jazz Quartet. Omerta’ Trattoria & Wine Old Bakery Street All Night Long Omerta’ Trattoria & Wine will be hosting the Fourth Fret as a 4 piece local band. ART & EXHIBITIONS YTC Merchants Street All Night Long Tint of Hope is an exhibition of various paintings from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zanzibar and Tanzania, to promote cultural art from African lands. The paintings will be hung on bards in front of the YTC. Together with the paintings there will be a section of wood carvings, originating from Africa as well.

Messina Palace (formerly Casa Rocca Grande) St Christopher Street All Night Long Messina Palace will be housing an exhibition of very recent works by Maltese painter, sculptor and printmaker Jesmond Vassallo. The title of the exhibition is LANDSCHAFT 2014. The collection includes new studies/drawings, prints and oils inspired by Maltese landscapes. Entrance is free of charge. Jesmond Vassallo born in 1976 is a visual artist who works in painting, graphic arts and sculpture with a special interest in figurative art. Jesmond studied History of Art at the University of Malta and fine arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara. He worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and during this time underwent an apprenticeship period with Venice-based printmaker, Diego Candido Cattarin. Upon his return to Malta he periodically collaborated with a number of established Maltese artists including Paul Carbonaro, Raymond Pitre and Gabriel Caruana. Jesmond has participated in numerous solo and collective exhibitions, both locally and overseas and his works are found in collections in Malta and abroad. Arti f’Palazzo de La Salle The Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de La Salle, 219, Republic Street 19.00 - 00.00 The Malta Society of Arts will be opening the doors of its premises at Palazzo de La Salle. The Courtyard, Paul Asciak Hall and the upper halls will be open with the MSA’s Members’ Annual Art Exhibition. The Filigree Centre, at the basement of the Palazzo, will also be open. Central Bank of Malta Castille Place 18.00 - 23.00 The Central Bank of Malta will be exhibiting the latest addition to its numismatic collection - a rare silver ingot, manufactured in Malta during the French Blockade of 1798-1800. The Bank will also offer discounts on a limited selection of numismatic coins. This special offer is only available during the Notte Bianca evening. China Cultural Street Chinese Cultural Institute, 173, Melita Street All Night Long The event of China Cultural Street is divided into indoor and outdoor. Indoor, there will be the 65th China National Day exhibition entitled “the Memory of P.R. China”, which will be held in the gallery of China Cultural Centre. Outdoor, there will be the

demonstration and fairs of Chinese handicrafts, Chinese food and Chinese medicine as well as the free charge treatment. The Malta School of Art ‘Casa Brunet’ 106, Old Bakery Street, Valletta 19.00 - 01.00 In the foyer – Sculptures and other works by sculptor Joseph Chetcuti. His recent works include the bronze statue of De Valette has highlighted his long career after studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence and working at the famous Italian painter’s Pietro Annigoni’s studio. In the main hall an exhibition of art works – paintings, etchina and sculpture – from the collection of the School of Art by renowned Maltese artist of the twentieth century. Works by Anton Inglott, Willie Apap, George Preca, Frank Portelli, Envin Cremona, Edward Pirotta, Anton Agius, George Fenech, Edward Caruana Dingli, Robert Caruana Dingli, Censu Apap, John Bonnici and many others In the basement an exhibition of recent works of art by students who attend the School of Art – Painters, Sculpture, Etchina, Installations….etc Studio 104 Valletta, Large Scale Printing Workshop Santa Lucija Street All Night Long Studio 104, Fine Art Space, Valletta will be hosting a Large Scale Printing Workshop for the general public, during Notte Bianca. The subject of the workshop will be the cultural phenomenon of the Selfie and the participants will have the opportunity to create their own self-portrait through digital imaging, transferred and engraved onto Perspex and printed onto large scale plates. Participation to the workshop is free of charge, however, due to time and space limitations, it will be possible to accommodate only a limited number of participants. This print workshop is in conjunction with SELFIE a group exhibition at Studio 104. Exhibiting Artists: Victor Agius, Arthur Aquilina, Daniela Attard, Ray Axiaq, Umberto Buttigieg, Joseph Chetcuti, Alex Dalli, Patrick Dalli, Antoine Farrugia, Clemens Hasengschwandtner, Rune Bo Jakobsen, Tonio Mallia, Franco Navarro, Reuben Pace, Christopher Saliba, Joe Smith, Darren Tanti, James Vella Clark & Elisa Von Brockdorff.

Identita’ at Palazzo Pereira 224, Palazzo Pereira, Republic Street All Night Long Feast the senses at Palazzo Pereira during this year’s edition of Notte Bianca with music -including an acoustic concert and piano recitals - and an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, digital art and photography taking the visitors on a six-decade artistic experience celebrating the nation’s anniversaries through the talents of our nations artists. Bottega del Presepe Sala San Frangisk, Triq Melita 18.00 - 22.30 Bottega del Presepe will have an exhibition with the aim of encouraging local families to have the Presepe in their homes at Christmas. Therefore the Bottega will offer video-projections of past exhibitions, local and foreign, demonstrations about the building of “family” cribs, production of accessories, making of pasture and other items related to the tradition of il-Presepju. Members of the GHAQDA HBIEB TAL-PRESEPJU – Malta will welcome visitors and share crib experiences with them encouraging them to build their own crib. 140 Sena tas-Socjeta’ King’s Own King’s Own Band Club, 274, Republic Street 20.00 - 23.00 Exhibition of historical trophies and photos depicting the history of King’s Own Society. Ministry for European Affairs and the Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto Auberge D’Aragon, Pjazza Indipendenza 18.00 - 02.00 The Ministry for European Affairs and the Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto, Auberge D’Aragon shall be hosting an interactive exhibit organized by the various EU funds falling under the Funds and Programmes Division (FPD) and the Planning and Priorities Co-ordination Division (PPCD). This event will showcase projects supported under the 2007-2013 programmes together with information on funding opportunities.

Street Art Exhibition Il-Bottegin ta’ San Martin, 185A, Old Bakery Street All Night Long Artists Alive will be performing throughout the evening, while Martin Bezzina Wettinger and Carol Busuttil will be working and answering questions. There will also be tango dancing from 19.45 till 19.45 with help from Nathalie Mifsud and her students. University of Malta, Valletta Campus, Old University Building, St. Paul Street 19.00 - 02.00 Art exhibition by Jo Debono. A Celebration of Life and Death St. Augustine’s Oratory, Old Bakery Street All Night Long A Celebration of Life and Death involves predominantly the spiritual but traditional rites that entail great care in presentation and formalization. This exhibition is a journey through history of the Roman Catholic tradition presenting vestments, the processional ways, and the ecclesiastical dimensions of celebrating death. 202 Jewellery Strada Santa Lucia All Night Long Get a chance of a lifetime. View the new Sif Jakobs collection 2014 at the 202 Jewellery Boutique, at the 202 Jewellery outlet in Strada Santa Lucia, Valletta and get the change to personally meet the founder and designer Sif Jakobs. Look out for our introductory offers on the prestigious Sif Jakobs brand. Check out our FB page for further details. Domus Pawli St. Paul Street 19.00 till 00.00 Exhibition of arts and crafts related to ecclesiastic works from St. Paul Shipwreck.

St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity All Night Long VIVA – Valletta International Visual Arts Festival The Malta Photographic Society Melita Street All Night Long The Malta Photographic Society is holding the 49th Annual Exhibition at the Heritage Showcase, Melita Street (up the road from St Francis Church). There are about 130 colour and monochrome prints on show as well as digital images. Come and enjoy the show. PLACES OF INTEREST & CHURCHES Bank of Valletta plc Misrah San Gwann All Night Long The BoV museum of banking exhibits displays going back to the origins of Bank of Valletta plc. HSBC Water Programme – Water Aid Ghana Projcet HSBC Bank Malta plc, Merchants Street All Night Long Fund raising activity in aid of a third world country to fund a long-term water project. Pontifical Mission Societies 7, Merchants Street All Night Long Open to the public, including the shop Faith Hope and Charity St. Andrew’s Scots Church South Street c/w Old Bakery Street 18.30 - 00.00 St Andrew’s Scots Church is an International Church with regular worshippers from several different countries and from the widest range of Christian denominations. The church has its roots in the Church of Scotland and has a partnership with the Methodist Church. The building was completed in 1857.

MEUSAC Republic Street 19.00 - 01.00 This year the MEUSAC foyer will be transformed into a vintage cinema for children, showing at intervals the latest episode of The Magical Adventures of Tommy and Rosy – Episode 4. A Tommy and Rosy photobooth is going to be on site to which children will be able to keep a ‘souvenir’ token of their visit to MEUSAC. House of Representatives, Parliament of Malta 18.00 - 00.00 The Parliament of Malta, in view of its functions of enacting laws and holding the Executive to account, can be considered the highest Institution of the country With Malta’s accession to the EU these functions have been extended to the European level. Parliament, not least by facilitating physical and on-line access to both the debates and documentation, encourages civil society to engage in a dialogue on all aspects of parliamentary work. A visit to the Parliamentary Chambers within the Grandmaster’s Palace during Notte Bianca is an opportunity not to be missed in view of the imminent migration to the new Parliamentary precincts at the entrance to Valletta. A visit to this site shall provide the public with an opportunity to meet Members of Parliament and Parliamentary staff and discover what goes on in the Parliamentary precincts which have housed this Institution since its inception in 1921. St John’s Co-Cathedral, Oratory and Museum 19.00 - 00.00 (last entry at 23.30hrs) St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation invites the general public to visit St John’s Co-Cathedral and the museum. St. John’s Co-Cathedral is a unique architectural, historical, artistic and religious monument of great national and international importance. Guided tours in the Co-Cathedral and Oratory will be held from 19.00 till 21.30. Jesuits’ Church Merchants Street 19.00 - 23.00 The Jesuits’ Church is one of the oldest churches in Valletta, and one of the largest in the diocese. The site, comprising a college and a church is bounded by four streets occupying the whole area. St Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus in 1534.

Ministry for Foreign Affairs Palazzo Parisio, Merchants Street 19.00 - 23.00 The Ministry for Foreign Affairs will be open to the public. Built in the late 18th century, the Palazzo becae Napoleon’s headquarters during his short visit in Malta. It is named after Chevalier Paolo Parisio Muscati, a Neapolitan Maltese nobleman who played an influential role during the latter years of the Order of St. John’s rule in Malta. Sorijiet Agostinjani tal-Klawsura Kunvent Santa Katarina, Republic Street 20.00 - 22.00 During the opening of the church, a Holy Eucharistic Adoration will be held and animated by ‘El-Gibor Worship group’. St. Dominic’s Parish Church Merchants Street 16.00 - 22.00 A procession of our Lady of the Holy Rosary will be taking place between 18.00 to 19.00 following by mass. The church will remain open to the public. Casa Rocca Piccola 74, Republic Street 19.00 - 00.00 The underground bomb shelter is going to be open to the public for free. Guided tours of this 16th century palace of a Maltese Nobel Family will be taking place at a fee of €5. Ministry for European Affairs and the Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto Auberge D’Aragon, Pjazza Indipendenza 18.00 - 02.00 The Ministry for European Affairs will be open to the public. The Auberge D’Aragon is the oldest of the seven Auberges built by Girolamo Cassar and survives almost in its original form, with all the hallmarks of a Cassar building. Altough the façade is plain; the Auberge D’Aragon has fine renaissance rooms. Since the return of self-government in 1947, four Maltese Prime Ministers have used the Auberge D’Aragon as their office, starting with Sir Paul Boffa, followed by Dr. Enrico Mizzi, the only Prime Minister to die in office. Dr. Giorgio Borg Olivier succeeded Nerik mizzi and it was he, in his second term of office, who successfully negotiated sovereign

independence for the Maltese islands. It was then the term of Prime Minister Duminku Mintoff to use the Auberge till he eventually moved the office of the Prime Minister out of the Auberge D’Aragon to the Auberge de Castille in 1972. Since then the Auberge d’Aragon has been occupied by various Ministries. Today it houses the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Auberge de Baviere St Sebastian Street All Night Long The World War II shelter is going to be open to the public. Come and enjoy a performance by local talents in the Auberge’s courtyard. St Paul’s Shipwreck Church St Paul Street 19.00 - 00.00 St Paul’s Shipwreck Church will be open to the public and a Holy Mass will be celebrated at 21.00 by Christian Fellowship. National Museum of Archaeology Republic Street All Night Long The National Museum of Archaeology is housed in the Auberge de Provence, in Republic Street, Valletta. The building, an example of fine Baroque architecture, was built in 1571 and followed a plan by local architect Ġilormu Cassar. The Auberge de Provence was house to the Knights of the Order of St John originating from Provence, France and displays beautiful architectural features. Of particular note is the Grand Salon, with its richly painted walls and wooden beamed ceiling. The Museum exhibits a spectacular range of artefacts dating back to Malta’s Neolithic period (5000 BC) up to the Phoenician Period (400 BC). On display are the earliest tools used by the prehistoric people to facilitate their daily tasks and representations of animal and human figures; elements which not only show the great artistic skills of the first dwellers of the island but also gives us an insight of their daily lives. Highlights include the ‘Sleeping Lady’ from the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, the ‘Venus of Malta’ from Ħaġar Qim, bronze daggers recovered from the Bronze Age layers at Tarxien Temples, and the Horus and Anubis pendant and the anthropomorphic sarcophagus, both belonging to the Phoenician Period. The Museum provides the visitor with a good introduction to the prehistory and early history of the Maltese Island sand acts as a catalyst to the other archaeological sites in Malta. Works are currently in progress to include another hall dedicated to the Punic period and others dedicated to the Roman and Byzantine periods in Malta. Notte Bianca special block ticket to enter Heritage Malta museums is a nominal fee of €1.

National Museum of Fine Arts South Street All Night Long The National Museum of Fine Arts is located at the lower end of South Street (Valletta) within an area including other fine historical palaces dating from the time of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The area is also well known for its wine bars and cafés and offers little-known breathtaking views of the city’s grid-shaped streets which visitors usually explore on their way to the museum. Set in a complementing historic building, the museum presents a multifaceted overview of art and artistic expression in Malta from the Late Medieval period to the contemporary. The palace was officially inaugurated as the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1974 and has since then been Malta’s most important museum for the arts. Highlights from the collection on display include paintings by leading local and internationally acclaimed artists, precious Maltese silverware, statuary in marble bronze and wood, fine furniture items and splendid maiolica pieces. The collection also includes works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), Jusepe Ribera (1591-1652) and Guido Reni (1575-1642). The large piano nobile halls house works of art from the Early Renaissance to the High Baroque with a focus on the corpus of works by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti. This is the biggest corpus of works by Mattia Preti on display in any public museum. Notte Bianca special block ticket to enter Heritage Malta museums is a nominal fee of €1. The Palace Armoury St. George’s Square All Night Long The Palace Armoury is one of the world’s largest collections of arms and armour that is still housed in its original building. The Knights of St John were a unique brotherhood of resolute warrior monks. From Malta, their island stronghold, these combatant aristocrats from the noblest houses of Europe, carried out their relentless crusade against the Ottoman Turks in defence of the Catholic faith. The Palace Armoury is certainly one of the most visible and tangible symbols of the past glories of the Sovereign Hospitaller Military Order of Malta. Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt transferred the Order’s arsenal to the Magisterial Palace in 1604 where it was the pride of the Order. Apart from being lavishly adorned with elaborate trophies of arms, it held enough arms and armour to equip thousands of soldiers. It was housed in the magnificent hall at the rear of the building, right above its present location. At present, it is displayed inside two halls that were originally the stables of the palace. Following the forced departure of the Order of St. John from Malta, the armoury somehow lost much of its original grandeur. However, it was restored and was officially opened as Malta’s first public museum in 1860. Although only a fraction of its original splendour remains, the Armoury still contains abundant material of Italian, German, French and Spanish origin from principal production centres. Also displayed is an exotic selection of Islamic and Ottoman arms and armour. Apart from the massed arms of the common soldiers in the collection, the

enriched personal armours of the nobility still manage to make a statement. Notte Bianca special block ticket to enter Heritage Malta museums is a nominal fee of €1. The Palace State Rooms St. George’s Square All Night Long The State Rooms are the show piece of the Presidential Palace sited at the heart of Malta’s World Heritage capital city of Valletta. The Palace itself was one of the first buildings in the new city of Valletta founded by Grand Master Jean de Valette in 1566 a few months after the successful outcome of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. The Palace was enlarged and developed by successive Grand Masters to serve as their official residence. Later, during the British period, it served as the Governor’s Palace and was the seat of Malta’s first constitutional parliament in 1921. The palace today is the seat of the Office of the President of the Republic and the House of Parliament. It was Grand Master Fra Pietro del Monte who, back in the late 16th century, first commissioned the building of a Magisterial Palace that was improved upon, enlarged and embellished by his successors to reach its present structure by the mid-eighteenth century. Following the brief interlude of the French in Malta between 1798 and 1800, the Palace became the official residence of the British Colonial Governor of Malta. While it was mostly through the embellishments of the various Grand Masters that the Palace reached its current appearance and dimensions, the British Governors also contributed to the dynamic and at times rather complicated architectural history of this edifice. The damage suffered by the President’s Palace as a result of the Second World War was considerable. Fortunately, the competent repairs after the devastating air-raids of February and April 1942 helped to revive the prime national and stately function of the Palace. The Palace subsequently became the seat of Malta’s Legislative Assembly set up in 1947, Malta’s first parliament following Independence in 1964 and subsequent legislatures till the present day. Ever since the times of the Order of St John, the palace was the seat of a collection of works of art and heritage items some of which still grace its walls. Some were purposely produced and form part of the historic fabric of the building. Others were acquired, transferred or presented at different times throughout its chequered history.