The National Museum for Religious Art Catharijne Convent, Cultural Sundays, Rosa Ensemble – they all have in common that their representatives are planning to go to Malta, end of February. Gertrud van Dam, for the City of Utrecht working as the coordinator for cultural Exchanges between Utrecht and Malta, will off course join them.
Guus van den Hout and Nicollette Bartelink from the museum Catharijne Convent will meet Pierre Bonello, senior executive - Exhibitions and Design at Heritage Malta, and Sandro Debono, Senior Curator of Arts and Palaces at Heritage Malta. They will make appointments about the loan of two paintings by Mattias Stomer from the Museum for Fine Arts to the exhibition in Utrecht ‘Painted with passion’. This cooperation is the result of recent contacts between Utrecht and Malta. The official opening of this exhibition with mostly paintings from 17th century with a religious theme will take place at Friday April 25 by the new Mayor of Utrecht, Mr. Aleid Wolfsen. Being in Malta Guus van den Hout and Nicolette Bartelink will also talk about lending pieces from their museum to Malta, and off course visit St John’s Co-Cathedral.
Mariëlle Pals is project manager for the organization of the Utrecht Cultural Sundays, a concept Malta is interested in. Cultural Sundays is a series of festivals and events with a new edition taking place once every month. Local art institutions and venues work together to prepare a festival based on a theme which is of specific relevance to the city of Utrecht. Each festival presents a broad spectrum of cultural and recreational events and programmes for a wide audience, generally free of charge and programmed over one day: a Sunday. Every art discipline, including theatre, opera, music, dance, film, literature, visual arts, street culture and storytelling are represented in the festivals. Having a broad view of cultural life in Utrecht, Mariëlle Pals can play an important role in organising cultural exchanges between Utrecht and Malta. It’s our ambition is to have groups performing at each others festivals and at Cultural Sundays. A visit to St James Cavalier, the multi cultural centre in Valetta, with meetings with Sarah Spiteri and Toni Attard, is surely on the programme.
Rosa Ensemble is the first music group from Utrecht that will surely perform their ‘world music’ in Malta. Rosa is a young and very successful group. Having good contacts at the Temple Studios in Malta the group is working on recording their new CD there. This gives the chance to meet with local musicians and perform together at several spots in Malta. One of the possible stages is the Manoel Theatre in Valetta, the oldest theatre in Malta with a modern programme. Floor Ruyters (manager), Daniël Cross (artistic manager) and Alex Geurink (technics) use this first visit to Malta to make arrangements for a tour later this year. On Friday February 22, Floor Ruyters will be present at the big launch of the Maltese Project of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, which will take place at St James Cavalier.
The whole group will also have a meeting with the ambassador of The Netherlands in Malta, Jan Heidsma. The visit of this Utrecht-delegation comes about in good cooperation with Marika Grech and Caldon Marcieca from the Ministry for Tourism and Culture. They will surely put together a busy programme with interesting meetings combined with their friendly hospitality. Next time this blog will give a report of the trip.
Guus van den Hout and Nicollette Bartelink from the museum Catharijne Convent will meet Pierre Bonello, senior executive - Exhibitions and Design at Heritage Malta, and Sandro Debono, Senior Curator of Arts and Palaces at Heritage Malta. They will make appointments about the loan of two paintings by Mattias Stomer from the Museum for Fine Arts to the exhibition in Utrecht ‘Painted with passion’. This cooperation is the result of recent contacts between Utrecht and Malta. The official opening of this exhibition with mostly paintings from 17th century with a religious theme will take place at Friday April 25 by the new Mayor of Utrecht, Mr. Aleid Wolfsen. Being in Malta Guus van den Hout and Nicolette Bartelink will also talk about lending pieces from their museum to Malta, and off course visit St John’s Co-Cathedral.
Mariëlle Pals is project manager for the organization of the Utrecht Cultural Sundays, a concept Malta is interested in. Cultural Sundays is a series of festivals and events with a new edition taking place once every month. Local art institutions and venues work together to prepare a festival based on a theme which is of specific relevance to the city of Utrecht. Each festival presents a broad spectrum of cultural and recreational events and programmes for a wide audience, generally free of charge and programmed over one day: a Sunday. Every art discipline, including theatre, opera, music, dance, film, literature, visual arts, street culture and storytelling are represented in the festivals. Having a broad view of cultural life in Utrecht, Mariëlle Pals can play an important role in organising cultural exchanges between Utrecht and Malta. It’s our ambition is to have groups performing at each others festivals and at Cultural Sundays. A visit to St James Cavalier, the multi cultural centre in Valetta, with meetings with Sarah Spiteri and Toni Attard, is surely on the programme.
Rosa Ensemble is the first music group from Utrecht that will surely perform their ‘world music’ in Malta. Rosa is a young and very successful group. Having good contacts at the Temple Studios in Malta the group is working on recording their new CD there. This gives the chance to meet with local musicians and perform together at several spots in Malta. One of the possible stages is the Manoel Theatre in Valetta, the oldest theatre in Malta with a modern programme. Floor Ruyters (manager), Daniël Cross (artistic manager) and Alex Geurink (technics) use this first visit to Malta to make arrangements for a tour later this year. On Friday February 22, Floor Ruyters will be present at the big launch of the Maltese Project of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, which will take place at St James Cavalier.
The whole group will also have a meeting with the ambassador of The Netherlands in Malta, Jan Heidsma. The visit of this Utrecht-delegation comes about in good cooperation with Marika Grech and Caldon Marcieca from the Ministry for Tourism and Culture. They will surely put together a busy programme with interesting meetings combined with their friendly hospitality. Next time this blog will give a report of the trip.
