EVENTS PROGRAMME www.nottebianca.org.mt N ARCHBISHOP STREET IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CALL 112 MERCHANTS STREET ST JOHN’S STREET REPUBLIC STREET SOUTH STREET NOTTE BIANCA OPENING NOTTE BIANCA LIVE - MALTIN MOD IEĦOR Venue: MCC Open Square Venue: Pjazza Teatru Rjal Time: 18.30 to 19.30 Time: 21.00 to 23.00 The DUĦĦAN MIS-SOQFA project will mark At Pjazza Teatru Rjal, various Maltese singers, the colourful and unique atmospheric opening of accompanied by the PBS ORCHESTRA will Notte Bianca’s 10th edition. perform a special selection of iconic Maltese tunes of the last 30 years. The 20 song set will A number of brass bands and troupes will bring include music by Scream Daisy, Characters and the streets of Valletta to life with marches from The Riffs amongst others. The concert will be 19.00 onwards. The In Guardia Troupe, the Duke of broadcast live on PBS. Argyll’s Own Pipe Band and the King’s Own Band Club will accompany the opening. Her Excellency the President of Malta will be SAL-BANDLI present to launch a great initiative. Venue: Pjazza San Ġorġ Time: All Night Long Ready to be wowed by gravity defying acts and VIVA N-NOTTE BIANCA! rainbow confetti showers? Then you can't miss the adrenaline rush our acrobat performers will be Venue: Pjazza San Ġorġ injecting into the night at Pjazza San Ġorġ! Come Time: 19.00 to 00.00 watch! To celebrate Notte Bianca’s milestone 10th anniversary, a massive event is being held at Pjazza San Gorg. Mark Magro will be remixing Maltese classics whilst Pawlu Borg Bonaci and IT-TAPIT L-AĦMAR Carlo Borg Bonaci will be spinning their decks off the roof of the Attorney General’s Office for Venue: Ordinance Street, St James Bastions Stairs everyone’s enjoyment. Animated by Colin Fitz and Time: 19.00 to 00.00 JD Patrick, expect hourly surprises 21:00 onwards and loads of fun! The most glamorous part of Notte Bianca will be awaiting you once again this year. Dress up for the occasion, walk down the red carpet and strike a pose just like your favourite celebrities. Our photographer will be waiting for you! FUQ! Venue: Various Creating a legacy and building on the success BAND’OĦRA of previous editions, the Valletta Planċieri will once again be out in all their glory hosting a large Venue: St Elmo variety of gudgeon and brass bands. Roam the Time: 19.00 to 01.00 streets of Valletta and enjoy concerts and great music live from these traditional high stages. Join Malta’s finest bands at the newly restored St. Elmo for a night of eclectic live music. Playing various genres, from Maltese to Metal and from Planċier Tal-Karmnu - Old Mint Street Indie to Rock, expect a great vibe and definitely Time: 19.30 to 00.00 something for everyone to enjoy. Planċier San Pawlu - St. Lucia Street Explicit, Infinite loop, Angelcrypt, Forsaken, Time: 19.30 to 01.00 BEANGROWERS, Marmalja & Plato’s Dream Machine Podium Pjazza Teatru Rjal - Republic Street Time: 19.30 to 00.00 BOZZA FUQ KAROZZA #NOTTEBIANCA10 Venue: Pjazza La Vallette Venue: All over Valletta Time: All night long Time: All Night Long INNOVATION THAT EXCITES Live Programme and social media updates will be Nissan is in 5th gear for its debut at Notte Bianca broadcast all over Notte Bianca. You can use our and promises an evening of art, spectacle and hashtag to tag your stories and photos. glamour whilst offering passers-by its very own brand of ‘innovation that excites’. With several surprises and activities in store, Nissan is set to provide an unparalleled user experience whilst PINTA TEATRU adding a significant dose of colour and vibrancy to Malta’s most attended ‘white’ night! Venue: Roaming Time: All Night Long Interactive street theatre all over Valletta. KARAOKE TA’ VERA This will feature comical sketches by Teatru Manoel Youth Theatre and some very random Venue: Law Courts conversations about the Great Siege. Time: 19.00 to 00.00 This is a karaoke like you’ve never experienced before. Forget cheesy synthesiser playbacks, L-IKLA T-TAJBA during KARAOKE TA’ VERA, Notte Bianca will offer you the once in a lifetime opportunity to Venue: Central Bank Area, St. James Bastions sing your song of choice accompanied by live Time: All Night Long bands such as Mikaela, The Busker and Xarulu. Choose your song, book your space and sing! L-Ikla t-Tajba, in collaboration with Valletta 2018, sees participants from different age groups on a culinary journey, supervised by head chef David Darmanin. The participants have been divided into ŻEGLEG teams, with each team having its own specialty. Venue: Piano Steps Original recipes utilising traditional Maltese Time: All Night Long ingredients were created in order to offer an appetizing menu of mouthwatering dishes which ŻEGLEG is an inclusive Street Dance community will be served on the night. project by Plethora Dance aimed at those with a limited opportunity to perform. Following a number of workshops for beginners, amateurs and enthusiasts, the participants, including entire MHUX FESTA, FIESTA! families, are now ready to give the performance of a lifetime. Venue: Lower Barrakka Time: All Night Long The Lower Barrakka will be transformed into a ŻIFFAŻFIN fiery, colourful Fiesta Flamenca! Fjakkoli will lead through this enchanting garden, filled with music, Venue: All over Valletta percussion, castanets and laughter. The entire area Time: All Night Long will be transformed into a showcase of delicacies from Andalucia - with Spanish Food and Drink and Expect everything from Hip-Hop to Contemporary lots of Flamenco. Alegria Dance Company, all in all over Valletta. Get ready for some very colourful Trajes de Flamenca will lure you into a interactive Street Dance performances in flash- passionate mood for dance. From 8pm onwards, mob style by Urban Echo, Patsy Scerri and Moveo enjoy a flamenco performance every hour. Ole !!! Dance Company! RING ROAD DRIFTING BUŻŻ KLASSIKU Venue: St. Elmo Granaries Venue: Teatru Manoel Time: 20.00, 21.30 and 23.15 Time: 20.00 to 00.00 Team Maximum Lock’s engines are all revved up and ready to go! Get ready to be wowed by the The culmination of a full week of workshops with team’s professional stunts and impressed by the various Maltese and international professional four-wheeled showmanship of Malta’s Number 1 musicians, THE MALTA NATIONAL YOUTH Drift Team. ORCHESTRA under the direction of conductor Robert Hodge, Musical Director of Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra, will present a varied repertoire of Romantic, Operatic and 20th Century Music. MERCHANTS OF VALLETTA Hosted by the Manoel Theatre, the programme will feature Verdi, Arnold, Delibes, Khachaturian Venue: from San Duminku to Market Square and Gershwin. Time: All Night Long There will be a surprise dance in between! We promise you there won’t be a dull moment. From magic to all sorts of wondrous performances, expect the unexpected all over the city thanks to the Merchants of Valletta. There OPERA U GĦANA will be also a surprise performance from two chickens coming all the way from Italy! Venue: Mediterranean Conference Centre Time: 20.00 to 00.00 A collaborative project presenting a fusion of two very distinct musical genres. An event not be KAMARATA PUPI missed by music lovers. Venue: Kamrata Time: All Night Long What do wild animals, robots and a giant have SCIENCE IN THE CITY in common with clothes hung out to dry? What is this weird mix of sci-fi and realism? Perhaps Location: Upper Barraka you could ask the scientist or the artist. Maybe Time: 19.30 to 00.00 they’ll explain, maybe they won't just hold onto your wits in the meantime as things are Fire, experiments, and comets are coming to expected to get loud and colourful within a few Notte Bianca at the Science in the City festival short minutes. KAMRATA PUPI is a unique set area at the Upper Barrakka. Come see the Rosetta of short performance sketches featuring hand satellite, 3D printed models, black holes, and made puppets by Sean Briffa. Christine Briffa meet Malta’s own space scientists! Experience Francalanza, Chris Briffa and Sarah Camilleri are science shows with flaming tubes and reactions also involved in collaboration with residents of hot enough to melt car engines. There will also be the Kamrata itself. loads of experiments to try out for yourself, come be a scientist for a night. KORIJIET TAL-MADALENA! BIEB IL-BOMBI Venue: Church of St. Magdalene Time: 19.30 to 00.00 Venue: Bieb il-Bombi, Floriana Time: All Night Long Choirs will be gracing the newly restored late 16th century Church of St. Mary Magdalene with the Bieb il-Bombi is an ornamental gate in the sound of their precious voices. The programme Floriana Lines, which formed the outer defensive will be performed by Simone Attard’s Children’s walls of Valletta. Constructed in a Baroque style, Choir, the Enkor Choir and the Joy Gospel Singers. the gates were completed in 1721. Once again Notte Bianca is making it possible for patrons XATT IL-GĦANA to visit the overpass of Bieb Il-Bombi. If you didn't make it last year, be sure that for the Venue: Marsamxett Harbour 10th anniversary of Notte Bianca Valletta you Time: All Night Long not to miss the opportunity to get a different perspective from atop these historical gates. Crossing with the Ferry? Having a drink at Marsamxett Harbour? You will be greeted and entertained by our traditional għanneja who will be singing traditional Maltese għana all night long LIGHT UP THE CITY to locals, tourists and ferry crew alike! Venue: Strait Street Time: All Night Long VALLETTA FAVOURITES Mdina Glass, Malta’s most renowned producers of handmade glassware, have covered a section of Venue: Various Strada Stretta in a kaleidoscopic light installation Time: 22.00 to 02.00 which will light up Strait Street in a way you’ve never seen before.