**Culture at the Crossroads: Why Malta’s Creative Heart Must Beat Louder in Vision 2050** Valletta’s Republic Street on a Friday night hums with more than café chatter and clinking wine glasses. Inside the old Knights’ granaries, a techno producer from Gżira is remixing ġħana folk samples for a Berlin label; upstairs, a 23-year-old game-design graduate…
**MEIA Report Pulls Back the Curtain on Malta’s ‘Passion Economy’: Artists Earn €4 an Hour—If They’re Paid at All** Valletta’s open-air theatres are glowing again, Birgu’s candle-lit festivals are back on the calendar, and cruise-ship passengers spill into Strait Street every evening to snap photos of buskers in lacey *għonnella* costumes. From the outside, Malta’s…
MEIA Urges Stability and Long-Term Planning for Malta’s Creative Sector In a sun-lit hall at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta last Friday, chairs scraped and coffee cups clinked as Malta’s creative community packed in to hear the Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA) deliver its most forceful call yet for policy certainty. With theatre lights…
