A Seminar on the theme 'The Discernment of Spirits according to St Ignatius of Loyola' will be held on Friday, May 17, 2013 between 1800hrs and 2030hrs at the Auditorium of the Archbishop’s Seminary, at Tal-Virtù, Rabat. Fr Timothy M. Gallagher OMV will be presenting and explaining the Rules for the Discernment of Spirits found in the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola. Entry donation: €5.

Fr Timothy Gallagher OMV is considered one of the foremost exponents of the subject. He is capable of bringing together an insightful and deep explanation of the subject matter with a very practical application to one’s life and ministry. He is the author of several books, including The Discernment of Spirits. An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living (2005) and Discerning the Will of God. An Ignatian Guide to Christian Decision Making (2009). More information could be found on his website.

For any further information on the seminar one could contact Fr Nicholas Cachia by email.

A Voyage into how Star Trek changed Science and popular culture forever
free entrance

Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture and Eden Cinemas are organising the first ever Star Trek event on Monday 13 May at 1830hrs at Europe House – 254, St Paul Street, Valletta. Ever since Gene Roddenberry’s TV series debuted in 1966, Star Trek has entered popular culture and ignited scientists’ imagination like a supernova. Few would have predicted that Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the adventures of the starship Enterprise would attain the status of modern myth. Can we travel at warp speed? Is the U.S.S Enterprise transporter technology science fact or fiction? The Star Trek event aims to provide an insight into the real life science and technology of the series and how a generation of technologists who embraced the show in the 1960s, with its vast array of wondrous gadgets had an active role in bringing those gadgets to reality in the 1990s and now.

Film researcher Justin Camilleri and Scientist David Pace will boldly go where Star Trek has gone and beyond to find out how modern-day technology can create some of the gadgets used in Star Trek and how the series has left its impact all over the world. The speakers will also delve into how the Star Trek stories stimulate learning through fun, direct, and parallel comparisons of modern science and science fiction with which one can inspire children to take up science as a future career.

To spice up the evening there will also be a massive Star Trek quiz, where audience members can win prizes and Eden Cinema tickets to the 3D screening of Star Trek Into Darkness on 15 May. So quiz participants keep your eyes open on the Star Trek clues! For bookings call on +356 99454066 or send an email.

A book launch organised by the Libyan Embassy in Malta will be held on Monday, 6 May 2013 at 1130hrs in M.A. Vassalli Building (Gateway) B1. The book entitled Misrata : A New Name - Misrata Liberation War as witnessed by Foreign Media is edited by Eng. Ibrahim Ehmaida Dermish.

Staff and students are invited to attend.

The Local Council of Isla would like to invite any interested parties to three sessions about the Deployment of Innovative Tools for Entrepreneurship in Malta. This initiative is being organised as part of the 2InS Clusters project in Malta.

The 2InS Clusters Project (SMEs’ Innovation and Internationalisation Support Clusters) is a 36 month initiative co-financed by the European Commission, within the framework of the Programme MED. The Project aims at the design and validation of a transnational coordinated Integrated Framework for the establishment of viable collaborative platforms, whose mission will be to promote and enhance regional competitiveness through the support of knowledge-based and internationalised entrepreneurship.

Registration and attendance to this series of events is free of charge.
Please click here to register.

The events will take place at the headquarters of the Isla Local Council, 2/4, Triq San Ġużepp, Isla ISL1229

For further information please visit the following websites:
Filming and Entrepreneurship Isla Local Council, Friday 17 May
Entrepreneurship Isla Local Council, Thursday 16 May
Supporting Innovation and Internationalisation in the Mediterranean, Monday 6 May

St Helen's Collegiate Chapter, in collaboration with the Foundation for Theological Studies and Discern (Institute for Research on the Signs of the Times), is holding a Public Forum to commemorate the Edict of Milan in the year 313 by Emperor Constantine.

The speakers at the forum will be: Rev. Albert Sammut O.F.M.Conv. (The so-called 'Edict' of Milan from a Historical Perspective), Professor Sergio Tanzarella of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (313: From the Meeting at Milan to the Edict at Nicomedia. Sources for a Religious Politic which inaugurated Constantinism) and Rev. Dr Hector Scerri of the University of Malta (The Lasting Relevance of 'Dignitatis Humanae' of Vatican Council II).

The Forum will be held on Friday 26 April, at 1900hrs, at St Dominic Savio Oratory, St Julian’s Street, B’Kara. The public is invited.