Impenji / Events

1999

Qari ma' Kilin fir-Razzett tal-Markiż il-Mosta (Diċembru)

Schengen and Migration in the Mediterranean, The Strand, Gzira (November)

A Cultural Identity Between Europe and the Mediterranean, BJCEM, Rome (June)

"Un Samurai Maltese" (Palermo)

Isefra - L-istejjer ta' Poplu (March)

African Week - Third World Group (March)

Qari ma' Kilin fir-Razzett tal-Markiż Mallia Tabone, il-Mosta

Nhar is-Sibt, 4 ta' Diċembru, 1999, l-Għaqda Letterarja Maltija, permezz ta' Sergio Grech, stednitni biex, flimkien ma' Kilin,  naqra l-poeżiji tiegħi fir-Razzett tal-Markiż Mallia Tabone, il-Mosta, bini (jingħad li kienet stalla) tas-seklu 17.

Meta ktibt lil Sergio l-għada tal-qari, għedtlu kemm ħadt gost li ltqajt ma' Kilin għall-ewwel darba.

"Irrid nghidlek mill-ewwel li veru ħadt pjaċir ilbieraħ - ħafna. Kont ili ma nieħu pjaċir daqshekk waqt laqgħa letterarja, għax kien hemm atmosfera. Dawn in-nies iħobbu l-poeżija, sinċerament, u m'għandhomx ħafna mill-pretensjonijiet li għandna ħafna minna. [...] L-atmosfera, l-attenzjoni, l-apprezzament [...]"

Ġimgħa qabel l-attività Sergio Grech kien kitibli, fost l-oħrajn, hekk: "Ser ikun hemm żewġ qarrejja li ser jaqraw xogħlijiet minn tiegħek u ta' Kilin. Żgur li ser noħroġ ħafna minn xogħlijietkom it-tema ta' l-ambjent. Mill-innoċenza u s-sempliċità fiżika ta' Fuq il-Għajn ta' San Bastjan għat-tkissir vendikattiv li inti turi fil-poeżija tiegħek. Nemmen li dan l-inkontru ser ikun interessanti."
 

Fil-fatt kienu attendew mal-50 ruħ li wħud minnhom, wara l-qari, qraw ix-xogħol tagħhom.

Ara Talking to Kilin ta' Ray Abdilla fil-Malta Today (21.07.02)

Schengen and Migration in the Mediterranean

The Strand, Gzira, 19-21 November, 1999

My paper "Reopening the Fortress" was presented at a conference on 'Schengen and Migration in the Mediterranean' organized by the Ceratonia Foundation, Alternattiva Demokratika (Maltese Green Party) and the European Greens in Malta, 19-21 November, 1999.

The speakers included Alima Boumedienne-Thiery (Green MEP), Arnold Cassola (Secretary General, European Federation of Green Parties), other Maltese and foreign politicians, refugees, the GWU (the largest Maltese union) and Maltese NGOs. Adrian Grima was representing the Third World Group.
 

Excerpt from the article:

"According to the Caritas report on Poverty in Malta for 1998, a good number of Maltese respondents 'considered the presence of immigrants and refugees in the neighbourhoods as a threat to their security. It somehow down-classed their neighbourhoods and brought abnormality into their otherwise normal lives.'

And yet, as seasoned migrants ourselves, we really should know better. Malta has a two-hundred-year-old direct experience of emigration. It has never been easy for those of us who emigrated, mostly for purely economic reasons, to other countries. In 1912, the Daily Malta Chronicle (quoted by Mario Azzopardi) published a piece about the negative reactions of the Australians against the poverty and ignorance of the Maltese emigrants in Sydney. (Note the racist reference to 'coloured people'.) 'The Australians are classing the Maltese with coloured people. This can be read in the newspapers and no Australian or Englishman will work with them. We are beginning to feel ashamed of ourselves on this account. In Sydney the Maltese are utterly cold-shouldered and soon it will be the same in Tasmania.' Moreover, the State Authorities in Australia were apparently targeting the Maltese for cheap labour."