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Be Your Own Jewellery Designer

Posted by Iggy Fenech in Artisans, Jewellery

Yana’s Jewellery in Msida allows you to choose your own stones, materials and beads to create a piece of jewellery that is truly your own. Here, ANNA MARIE GALEA talks to Yana Azzopardi on how it’s done, the reason behind this unorthodox approach to jewellery-making and what inspired her to start her own jewellery business. I was once told that life is too short to wear boring jewellery and this phrase couldn’t but naturally spring to mind when I received my first piece of Yana’s Jewellery as a graduation present…read more

Jan.16

Celebrating Three Years of Merill

Posted by Iggy Fenech in Agriculture, Artisans, Food

Nature, culture, history and tradition: Merill showcase Malta’s enviable talent at crafting great produce. Agriculture has been such an integral part of our story that even our small island’s name comes from the word ‘honey’; yet as time’s gone by, we’ve become detached from the productive process that goes into making our foods, with many never setting foot in a field or a farm. Nevertheless, people, just like for millennia before them, are still working the land and making the most of our covetable weather to craft top-notch products that should…read more

Jan.08

Little Red: A Play

Posted by Iggy Fenech in Dance, Theatre

A classic turned personal: Maria Theuma’s Little Red is an exercise in confessional writing. A retelling of the Grimm Brothers’ ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, Little Red sees the infamous grandmother’s and Little Red’s descent into madness and explores the drama that unfolds thereafter. Yet it is also an intrinsically personal piece – as Maria Theuma will explain further on – and one that doesn’t take the famous fairy tale at face value. Here we talk to the scriptwriter Maria Theuma on how the idea came to be, how personal it got,…read more

Jan.03

Kris Micallef’s REGNVM

Posted by Iggy Fenech in Art, Artists, Photography

An imagined, underwater kingdom comes to life in Kris Micallef’s upcoming exhibition REGNVM. Kris Micallef, known for his edgy fashion photography that has gripped the imagination of many, is one of Malta’s best and most renowned photographic artists and although young, he has already been exhibited in the Netherlands (Maastricht), Belgium (Brussels), Ukraine (Kiev), France (St. Tropez), and Palestine (Jerusalem). Now, he is ready to move away from fashion and landscape, with his upcoming project REGNVM. In a nutshell, REGNVM is about a submarine kingdom, whose inhabitants live in a…read more