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Malta to host Mediterranean Night
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19/09/1996
19/09/1996
| Malta has been chosen as the venue for the 1996 Mediterranean | Centre of Audio-visual Communication (CMCA) transmission "Mediterranea: One Night in Malta", subtitled "Our past is our future". |
| Agreement was reached late Monday evening following discussions | between the Minister of Justice and the Arts Dr Michael Refalo, CMCA Secretary General Dr Guilio C. Giordano and PBS Chief Executive, Tony Mallia. |
| RAI, PBS and many other media partners from radio and TV stations | in the Euro-Mediterranean area will be contributing inserts to CMCA's one and a half hour programme due for transmission in mid-December. |
| CMCA is currently negotiating with Hispavision a.s.o. and RAI | International for the programme to be screened via satellite to North and South America. |
| Previous editions of Mediterranea have featured Arles (France) in | 1993, Tunis (Tunisia) in 1994, and Palermo (Italy) in 1995. Artists from the twenty-four Mediterranean countries take part in an evening of music and dance. |
| The show will be staged towards the end of November at the | Mediterranean Conference Centre while the TV transmission is expected to go on air in mid-December. |
| Dr Giordano said that "Following the Palermo experience, our | current and main objective is the realisation of a new happening, based again on the ideas of peace and brotherhood between men, to be expressed through Art- music, dance, poetry and drama - and translated into essential links between different cultures, religions and traditions." He also added that the introduction of a new concept, that of a journey from place to place, will stress the mutual influences and exchanges between peoples which have developed throughout the centuries to form the common idea of belonging to the same area, the Mediterranean. |
| Arts Minister Dr Refalo confirmed that negotiations with CMCA had | been going on for some months and that agreement had now been reached. |
| "I am delighted that we have concluded this agreement. We will | again capitalise on our culture and portray a fuller and softer dimension of Malta to a much wider audience." Adding that this positive image projection would benefit all interests, the Minister said that similar initiatives had "to be undertaken holistically and in this case we will be liaising with the Ministry for Economic Services and NTOM" |
| "We will also be working closely with the Ministry of Foreign | Affairs as meetings of the Council of Europe Cultural Action Group, and of the Presidents Action Group Conference of Mediterranean Audio-visual (COPEAM) are also scheduled for Malta as parallel activities to the Mediterranean Conference Centre Euro-Mediterranean evening." |
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