Notte Bianca

So Notte Bianca is here again. Tonight, Valletta will be host to a spectacular nocturnal celebration of people, culture and arts. I will be in Valletta tonight too, most of the time at Gallery Pi, if you want a glass of wine please pop over and come and say hello. Will go for a visit to Vee Gee Bee too, there is a large canvas on which people are invited to paint on. I already started off the painting and am very keen to see where it will end. 

Another activity I wish to visit is the Milonga organised by the Argentine Tango local community. It will be held at stage 33 near Strait Street from 7pm onwards. DJ for the night is David Bonnici. Also, today kicks off Malta Design Week with a number of  installations/exhibitions all over Valletta. For more info about Malta Design Week visit HERE. There are numerous other things i would like to see but the list is too long to mention, for more info about Notte Bianca please visit http://www.maltaculture.com

Malta Med. Milongas: Sept-Oct 2011

For all those Tango lovers out there. If you are looking for a spot of culture, Med-food and a tango embrace, ISLA DEL TANGO is organising the event for you. From 29 September to 2 October 2011 the Maltese Tango Community has come together to present to you a beautiful tango weekend.

There are four Milongas in four nights, quite a marathon for Maltese standards.

Thursday 29th of September - IL-FORN, Birgu

Friday 30th of September - Pebbles Bar Radisson, Għajn Tuffieħa Beach

Saturday 1st of October Notte Bianca, Valletta

On Sunday 2nd of October Private Milonga

For more information contact ISLA DEL TANGO on info@isladeltango.com or visit http://isladeltango.com/2011/09/16/maltamediterraneanmilongas/

An Introductory Course in Argentine Tango

Anyone interested in learning some Argentine Tango should have a look at http://www.tangomalta.org/2011/01/introductory-course-january-2011.html

Tektika Tango

On Thursday 29^th April, at the Phoenicia Hotel, will see the launch of Tektika Tango, an Argentine Tango event combining dance and art.  Six artists, namely, Stephanie Borg, Gordon Pace Flores, Bernard Bonnici, Sergio Muscat, Gordon Knox and Rupert Cefai will be exhibiting their work together with a common theme, Argentine Tango. The exhibition includes a mixture of paintings, calligraphy, photography, drawings and sculptures. During the exhibition, dancers will be taking part in a milonga (Argentine tango social dancing). 

From Friday 30th April to Sunday 2nd of May, Argentine Tango enthusiast will be taking part in a workshop with Maestros Gisela Natoli and Gustavo Rosas, from Argentina. 

On Saturday 1st May a Grande Milonga will be held starting off with a taster class for the general public, continuing with a night of social dancing and two special exhibition dances by the maestros. The General Public is welcome to attend, participate and socialize.

Full details of the event can be found at www.tektikatango.com

Milonga Otonal

On October 24th, a number of my works will be on display during the event Milonga Otonal at Villa Madama, Attard (see advert). The works are a small collection of studies and sketches I am currently working on, having a common theme, Tango. These are all preparatory works for the upcoming collective exhibition which I am helping to organise together with tango teacher Nathalie Mifsud, titled Tektika Tango which shall be on sometime during May 2010.

Milonga Otonal will be the closing event of the Tango Otonal Workshop with the renowned Maestro Eric Jeurissen from El Corte, organised by Isla Del Tango. The event will start at 9pm and is free to the general public. For further information please send an email to natalie@isladeltango.org

Tektika Tango

At the moment I am working on a number of projects for 2009, both collective and solo exhibitions. The solo exhibitions that will take place both in Malta and Rome, will occupy me for most of 2009 whilst a number of collective exhibitions will keep me occupied even further. Details of these events will be announced at a later date.

One of these events is Tektika Tango, a collective exhibition with works by a selected number of local and foreign artists working in different media on a common topic, Tango. The event should be on by the end of the first quarter of 2009, more details will be also announced at a later stage.

for more information please visit www.tektikatango.com

(original photo by Bernard Bonnici)

My First Milonga

For those of you who think that a Milonga is some form of strange animal, like I did, its not. All my worries that this milonga thing would need cleaning, feeding, regular exercise etc. were wrong. It turned out that a milonga is just the term for a place or an event where tango is danced. Yesterday evening, at the l'Isle Adam Band Club in Rabat I attended my first milonga. And so there i was, doing my first tango steps...... it was my equivalent of Disney's Fantasia, where hippos are dancing ballet. My wife was much better though. She was really good, especially when dancing with others. The only problem she had was psychological, she was finding it difficult to accept that i had to lead!!!!

But it was an enjoyable experience and will go again for sure.