Evenings on Campus, the summer festival for cultural events, is in its 16th edition.
It comprises five films, two literary evenings, one Italian play, a contemporary dance and one musical event. Valletta, the venue chosen to host the events this year, will provide a historical backdrop for all the events.
When the festival originated, cultural events were not very numerous and the University campus used to be deserted in summer.
Since then Evenings on Campus has become a regular and appreciated addition to Malta's summer cultural life.
One of the main objectives has always been to animate campus by involving the students, lecturers and staff and to offer a venue to whoever felt they had a talent, whether it was artistic or organisational.
Students' ideas were always accepted with enthusiasm and made possible through funding by the University of Malta with the Koperattiva's resources, expertise and contacts.
■ The activities, which start on Monday will be held at the Old University Courtyard, St Paul's Street Valletta starting at 8.30 p.m.
Events next week
FILMS
This year's films are of the 'Ensemble' genre and include some true cult movies. Most ensemble films centre on a single character or location; it is their connection to either the location or the person that makes their story valid in the ensemble.
The strong characteristic of these films is the ability of the directors to create a dynamic between one story and other until the stories draw a tighter circle, become closer and finally become one.
Pulp Fiction
Showing on Monday (€5)
The script by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.
LITERARY EVENING
Evening with Douglas Dunn
Thursday (€8)
Professor Douglas Dunn was born in 1942 in Scotland. He is currently Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981 and is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to newspapers and journals including the Glasgow Herald, the New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement.
This poetry reading is organised in collaboration with the Department of English and DESA (Department of English Students Association) under the guidance of Professor Ivan Callus.
It comprises five films, two literary evenings, one Italian play, a contemporary dance and one musical event. Valletta, the venue chosen to host the events this year, will provide a historical backdrop for all the events.
When the festival originated, cultural events were not very numerous and the University campus used to be deserted in summer.
Since then Evenings on Campus has become a regular and appreciated addition to Malta's summer cultural life.
One of the main objectives has always been to animate campus by involving the students, lecturers and staff and to offer a venue to whoever felt they had a talent, whether it was artistic or organisational.
Students' ideas were always accepted with enthusiasm and made possible through funding by the University of Malta with the Koperattiva's resources, expertise and contacts.
■ The activities, which start on Monday will be held at the Old University Courtyard, St Paul's Street Valletta starting at 8.30 p.m.
Events next week
FILMS
This year's films are of the 'Ensemble' genre and include some true cult movies. Most ensemble films centre on a single character or location; it is their connection to either the location or the person that makes their story valid in the ensemble.
The strong characteristic of these films is the ability of the directors to create a dynamic between one story and other until the stories draw a tighter circle, become closer and finally become one.
Pulp Fiction
Showing on Monday (€5)
The script by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.
LITERARY EVENING
Evening with Douglas Dunn
Thursday (€8)
Professor Douglas Dunn was born in 1942 in Scotland. He is currently Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981 and is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to newspapers and journals including the Glasgow Herald, the New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement.
This poetry reading is organised in collaboration with the Department of English and DESA (Department of English Students Association) under the guidance of Professor Ivan Callus.