The Gozo Culture Office and Munxar Local Council assisted by event organiser and ceramist Joan Haber are organising the Second Gozo Ceramics Festival, which will take place at Xlendi Bay on the 6th August from 19.00 hrs onwards.

It will be a very animated evening activity buzzing with people, creativity, art and jazzy music. For the evening the Xlendi Administrative Committee will be illuminating the bay with the now famous magical fjakkolata. Around 30 of the very best Maltese and Gozitan ceramic artists will be working live in the main street of Xlendi, demonstrating different techniques such as throwing, coiling, modelling, slab building and also firing. A hands on experience for children will be led by experienced pottery teachers. Last year it was a great success, with a large number of participants making clay sculptures and ceramic crafts in the street. Visitors present were also very numerous including VIPs, Gozitans, Maltese and foreign tourists. Children concentrating on their creations were a pleasure to see, with the allocated table busy all the time. This year, they built on last year’s success and on the sand we are having an installation made up of swans by artists and children with the proceeds from their sale going to Puttinu Cares.

Organisers will be giving swan tokens to all who donate. The largest swan and much of the idea was put together by Sam Ciavola, Nirvana Azzopardi’s very artistic son who is a long time ceramics student. For this year’s edition we included the best thrower in Malta, Michael Ciappara who will be exhibiting his great talent in public for the first time. He will also be willing to help visitors, both adults and children to have a go on the throwing wheel. It is such a pity that this great talent is getting lost. Also included are sculptors who will be modelling in clay, which will later be fired in a gas kiln.

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