Tied with these feasts are a number of voluntary organisations which prepare feast decorations to adorn the squares and streets of towns and villages in Malta and Gozo, which imbue our summer evenings with colours and the most beautiful mechanical ground fireworks, which take care to spread the local musical culture, as well as safeguarding and strengthening traditional cultures in our country. In these voluntary organisations, one may find a nucleus of people who work voluntarily throughout the year to prepare activities related to the feast of their village or town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Council recognises the importance that voluntary Maltese cultural and social organisations have as regards the dissemination, safeguarding, and strengthening of cultural traditions in our country. This is all done on a primarily voluntary basis and, as such, in order to strengthen the work of these organisations, an artistic heritage scheme is being launched. This scheme is administered by Arts Council Malta within the Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government.
Voluntary organisations should be active in at least one of the following sectors:
\u2022 In instrumental music for the feast
\u2022 Health and safety in fireworks factories
\u2022 Semi-permanent feast decorations
The proposals should qualify as one of the following:
Proposals for instrumental music for the feast<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Musical teaching and training programmes aimed at musical tutors (surmastrijiet), assistant music tutors, and teachers.
\u2022 Proposals for investment in educational needs as regards extracurricular teaching.
\u2022 Innovative projects through which the society or organisation can expand its musical activities both in Malta as well as abroad, which activity should also be sustainable.
\u2022 Projects so that the society or organisation invests in technology and communication to have more modern structures (set-ups) for the benefit of its members.
\u2022 Restoration of objects\/artefacts in their possession, such as paintings, musical archives, platforms, standards, old instruments, old furniture, etc.
\u2022 Strengthening of collaboration between band club societies as regards their band club members.
\u2022 Strengthening of internal administrative systems related to a society or organisation and their band club members.
\u2022 Strengthening, beautification, and restoration of existing infrastructure related to learning environments, those used for the execution of more professional musical acts, and\/or in order to implement all this work in a more accessible environment.
\u2022 Implementation of sociocultural or musico-literary projects or programmes.
Proposals for healthy and safety in fireworks factories
\u2022 Investment in equipment and set-ups so that fireworks can be launched in more secure manner.
\u2022 Investment in machinery and tools which facilitate the manufacturing of fireworks and increase the security of its production.
\u2022 Investment in educational resources on health and safety in the manufacturing of fireworks.
\u2022 Investment in the infrastructure of fireworks factories.
\u2022 Restoration of fireworks factories.
\u2022 Strengthening of collaboration between local and European fireworks factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proposals for semi-permanent feast decorations
\u2022 Design and manufacture of banners (bandalori).
\u2022 Design and manufacture of festoon lighting.
\u2022 Design and manufacture of cloth pavilions.
\u2022 Design and manufacture of lit pavilions (pavaljuni tad-dawl).
\u2022 Design and manufacture of artistic pedestals.
\u2022 Design and manufacture of feast decorations which are set up during feast days (this excludes the liedna).
\u2022 Investment in teaching and training related to the design and manufacture of artistic decorations.
\u2022 Cultural projects and activities.
\u2022 Social projects and activities.
\u2022 Restoration of every type of feast decorations which are set up in streets during feast days (these exclude the liedna)
\u2022 Statues set up in streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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