Special events to close the #CittadellaGozo Inaugural season

by Gozo News · September 1, 2016

While thousands of tourists continue to flock Gozo's own Cittadella since its opening in June, the #CittadellaGozo Inaugural season draws to a fitting end with a number of different events this September.

The Cittadella will host the internationally renowned Yoga instructor Cinzia di Ciocciofor Sunset Yoga – a free of charge open-air Yoga workshop in the historic environs of Gozo's oldest fortification. This will be held on Saturday, the 10th of September, kicking off at 6.30pm.

This event will be followed by a concert featuring DCapital's Band, in the Cittadella Ditch, on Sunday, the 11th of September, starting at 8:00pm. DCapital's Band Live at Cittadella Ditch will also be free of charge and it is a family oriented event.

This concert will pave way for the last major event for summer 2016, which is UMANI, on Friday, the 16th of September. A unique collaboration between Body Art Dance Group and none less than TRIBALI is set to end the #CittadellaGozo Inaugural season with a bang.

The event consists of a contemporary dance performance that will eventually blend into a Tribali concert nestled in between the bastions' towering walls that will provide the most unique backdrop for such an event. UMANI, set up in the idyllic Cittadella Ditch, is set to explore and celebrate humanity.

The evening's entertainment is suitable for all audiences and starts at 9pm. Free seating for the dance performance will be available on a first-come-first-served basis, while the Tribali share of the evening is earmarked for a standing audience.

Gozo Minister Anton Refalo said today that these final two weekends of #CittadellaGozo inaugural season consolidate the message that the Cittadella is a living heritage to be continuously and repeatedly explored on different occasions, in different times and varying contexts.

The Minister added that with commercial establishments, catering outlets, the Gozo Law Courts, the Heritage Museums, the Culture Centre and the Visitors' Centre and, of course, the Gozo Cathedral and the Santa Marija festive period serving to attract different visitors at different times of the day and summer, the Cittadella has been populated round the clock and has fast grown as a place to be associated with events of varying natures.

These final two weekends of performing arts, he said, will continue where the opening Swar u Hajja event left off, establishing Gozo's Cittadella as the ultimate open-air performing arts venue, so rather than closing a season, really and truly a new era is being heralded.

Further information on the Sunset Yoga, DCapital's Live at Cittadella Ditch and UMANI, by Body Art Dance Group and TRIBALI may be acquired from the respective facebook event pages or from here.