22 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC288 views4 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🏅 Malta’s young sailors just brought home a world top-10 finish
🇲🇹 Katrina Micallef finished 8th overall in the women’s fleet at the 2026 ILCA 6 Youth World Championships in Aarhus.
⛵ The regatta gathered 429 sailors from 45 countries, with winds swinging from 8 to 25 knots through the week.
👏 Jonas Micallef placed 27th out of 307 in the men’s fleet, while Kaine Muscat finished 19th in the U17 category.
✨ It was onl…
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21 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC442 views2 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎬 Gozo Film Festival opens tonight on the Cittadella bastions 🇲🇹
• The three-day festival runs from August 21 to 23 in Victoria, mixing indoor and open-air screenings at one of Gozo’s most dramatic historic backdrops.
• Opening night brings three Maltese shorts — *Wild Land*, *Island of Oblivion* and *Unur, Fama u Glorija* — before workshops and more screenings across the weekend.
• The programme also includes hands…
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19 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC702 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎼 A Rooftop Opera Night Is Coming to Floriana 🇲🇹
• Opera Nova Project singers take over the Catholic Institute rooftop in Floriana this Wednesday for A Little Night Music, part of the Rooftop Series Summer Festival.
• The programme mixes opera and Broadway favourites, from Carmen and Lakmé to West Side Story, with pianist Maria Elena Farrugia accompanying six young Maltese performers.
• Organisers say the setting is…
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18 Aug 2026, 09:57 UTC774 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎭 A Maltese play is winning hearts at the Edinburgh Fringe 🇲🇹
• *The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey*, written by Maltese duo Malcolm and Angele Galea, opened at the Edinburgh Fringe on August 6 and is now set for 24 performances.
• The production began in Malta, first staged over one weekend at Spazju Kreattiv in 2023, and has now reached one of the world’s biggest arts festivals.
• Early reviews have been strong: one f…
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17 Aug 2026, 08:08 UTC881 views8 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🧵 Mdina is hosting a fashion story with a conservation twist 🦊🇲🇹
• Heritage Malta’s new Fashion and the Birth of Nature Conservation exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History looks at how feathers, fur and exotic materials shaped fashion across centuries.
• The display includes rare 20th-century pieces, taxidermy examples and even references to Malta’s little-known rabbit-fur trade and milliner Marie Thér…
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16 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC896 views8 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎆 Mqabba’s Santa Marija celebrations just lit up the sky with a giant 3D heart 🇲🇹
• The display was created by the St Mary Fireworks Factory using more than 500 firing positions.
• It turned Mqabba’s festa night into one of those very Maltese moments where craft, timing and village pride all meet in the air.
• With Santa Marija celebrations continuing across Malta and Gozo, this set the bar very high for the weekend…
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15 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC958 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎶 SummerDaze opened with 18,000 fans singing along at Ta’ Qali
• SummerDaze 2026 kicked off with a packed crowd of 18,000 for Lewis Capaldi at the Ta’ Qali Concert Area.
• The night also brought local names onto the stage, including Jamie Cardona, Shaun Farrugia and J Joy before the headline set.
• It was the festival’s first concert at the Ta’ Qali Concert Area, with another huge night expected as Calvin Harris tak…
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14 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC≈1,030 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎆 Mqabba’s Tower of Light is back for Santa Marija eve 🇲🇹
✨ On August 14 at 9.30pm, Mqabba brings back its famous 63-metre Tower of Light with a show built around four separate performances.
🎇 Organisers say the night will fire off 10,000 shots, moving from music-synchronised fireworks to traditional Maltese aerial displays and a huge finale.
🎡 The celebration ends with mechanised Catherine Wheels, including moving …
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13 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC≈1,040 views7 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎇 Santa Marija turns Mosta into one of Malta’s biggest festa stages this week 🇲🇹
✨ August 15 brings the Assumption feast to seven towns across Malta and Gozo, and Mosta is one of the brightest stops on that island-wide celebration.
⛪ The Rotunda becomes the centrepiece, with High Mass on the feast day and a mechanised ground fireworks display outside the church from 11.30pm on August 14.
🎺 On August 15, the processi…
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12 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC≈1,060 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🔭 Xlendi Tower opens for a rare summer weekend in Gozo 🇲🇹
• On August 15–16, the historic Xlendi Tower will welcome visitors for a free open weekend in Gozo.
• Inside, guests can explore the site’s maritime story, see underwater artefacts, and try a virtual reality dive into the Xlendi Underwater Archaeological Park and the Phoenician shipwreck.
• The tower will be open from 9am to noon and again from 1.30pm to 4pm …
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11 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC≈1,130 views3 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🎤 Maltese singer Chess Galea steps onto a new world tour stage
🇲🇹 Performer Chess Galea, born in Swieqi, is joining the cast of Can You Feel It, a new international tour built around Michael Jackson’s music after previously touring with The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
✨ Galea first appeared in Malta’s local charts at 18, later moved to London, and this year returned home for the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2026 b…
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10 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC≈1,120 views5 reactionsread 22 August 2026 Photo
🌊 Malta’s cleanest swim spots are not where the biggest crowds are 🇲🇹
• A new bathing-water analysis covering May 12 to July 20 ranked St George’s Bay as Malta’s most polluted beach this summer, with Balluta Bay second.
• Tal-Għażżenin, Sirens and Tax-Xama’ also showed repeated contamination, while Exiles and Pretty Bay stayed in the intermediate range.
• San Blas came out best overall, with Little Armier and Marsal…
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