26.05.2024



Looking at the Sky with Lara Buttigieg #21
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In this episode, three-time national cross-country champion of Malta, international elite race at XTERRA Malta champion, founder of Multisport Malta coaching academy, triathlon coach, and elite triathlete Lara Buttigieg talks about her first triathlon experience, the fear of winning, and the importance of emotional intelligence in coaching.


She believes successful coaching is all about the relationship between a coach and an athlete. Her coaching approach focuses on enjoyment, personal development, and the development of physical capabilities. Lara blends these three categories to help a person mature within a sport and learn how to take decisions, to engage and, thus, learn faster and more effectively, to work as a team and respect each other, and to uncover the benefits of healthy eating and living as a holistic approach to sport.



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04.04.2024



Looking at the Sky with Domenico Barra #20
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In this episode, an Italian artist of digital art and dirty new media, lecturer, art director and curator whose work has been exhibited in the galleries and art centres worldwide, Domenico Barra, talks about the kitchen of the glitch art, why he has decided to challenge the notion of beauty and his relationship with AI.


Throughout his work, Domenico investigates and explores the notion of error, imperfection, diversion and stereotyping using machine failures (glitches) in various environments and digital styles that allows to question the influence of new technology on human relations in terms of interactions and values, and how machines manipulate individual’s self-awareness through conception and perception.



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06.03.2024



Looking at the Sky with Johan Siggesson #19
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In this episode, award-winning fine art photographer, author of ‘Where Wild Orchids Grew’, member of the prestigious nature photography community 'Naturfotograferna' and safari guide Johan Siggesson talks about the importance of stories in his photographs, why he chose a black-and-white approach for animal portraits and his experiences in the African savanna.


Through his photographs, Siggesson aims to capture the uninterrupted complexity of nature within the African savanna. For the fine art photographer, the creative process begins with seeing and experiencing. And Siggesson above all does his best to convey such experience with respect and reverence for the, sometimes very fragile, nature that surrounds us.



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16.02.2024



Looking at the Sky with Alon Peretz #18
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In this episode, a composer and sound artist Alon Peretz talks about the difference between music and sounds, what sound art is and his recent journey from Israel to Portugal.


Alon’s compositions have been performed around the world. And his portfolio has an extensive number of collaborations with feature films, theatre and dance productions. Alon’s style combines avant-garde chamber music with live electronics, intently shifting into abstract sound installations. Through sound installations, Alon is exploring the relationship between sound, time and space.



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14.01.2024



Looking at the Sky with Pablo Del Cid Brolo #17
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In this episode, a coffee producer Pablo Del Cid Brolo shares his story of how passion for coffee has evolved into a worldwide business stretching from the United States to Saudi Arabia.


Born and raised in Guatemala, Pablo is the fourth-generation coffee producer. Pablo’s great-grandfather Eusebio bought the farm in Guatemala in 1918 and for over 100 years, the Del Cid family has managed the property. On his own micro-lot, Pablo has experimented with processes to elevate the grade of his family’s coffee, challenged the traditional methods of coffee production in the region and forged a new path for Del Cid name into the specialty coffee industry.



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29.09.2023



Looking at the Sky with Nathan James Thomas #16
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In this episode, the founder and managing editor of Intrepid Times, and the author of ‘Untethered: Living the digital nomad life in an uncertain world’ and ‘Travel Your Way: Rediscover the world, on your own terms’ Nathan James Thomas shares his latest travel experience in Armenia, challenges the notion of authenticity and finds the so-called khrushchevka, a Soviet-era apartment building, thought-provoking.


Born and bred in New Zealand, Nathan has lived in China, Georgia, Spain and Hungary while simultaneously visiting and experiencing several other countries along the way. Currently Nathan is based in Poland. Nathan’s writing has been published in places like Roads and Kingdoms, Outpost Magazine and New Zealand Memories. His work as a ghostwriter has been featured in Forbes, the Huffington Post and the Harvard Business Review.



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04.07.2023



Looking at the Sky with Michael Raimondo #15
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Michael is a filmmaker and producer with more than 800 short films and 20 years of experience under his belt. But beyond this, he is a storyteller who lives off-the-grid on the tip of South Africa and for the past five years, he has travelled extensively around the world to tell the stories of common people and their relationship with love, joy, happiness, anger, and misfortune. What has been learned from such relationship and how much more there is to learn. Michael is on a mission to stitch up the fabric and remind about the mutuality-and-interconnectedness of humanity.



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25.06.2023



Looking at the Sky with Govinda #14
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Govinda is a certified yoga teacher, the founder of RAW yoga studio and GOVINDA plant-based kitchen who counts her eighth year in Malta. Born and raised in Arequipa city in the south of Peru, Govinda has set herself on an adventure to learn about and experience life. Through her practice, she stresses the importance of appreciating the complex relationship between the body, mind, and the spirit and invites to perceive food through the lens of joy and nourishment.



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02.06.2023



Looking at the Sky with Charlene Galea #13
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Charlene Galea presents herself as a conceptual artist who explores the notions of online identity and physical experiences. Using performances as a tool to positively influence various groups of people within the society, Charlene immerses in movement and storytelling about various subjects such as being a woman, the effect of the media and fake news, space and environment, human relations, and the social world of communication.


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27.04.2023



Looking at the Sky with German Montalvo #12
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German Montalvo is a head route setter (a person who designs artificial rock-climbing wall routes) and one of the coaches for indoor and outdoor climbing at Ġebla: Malta’s first dedicated indoor bouldering gym that, as well, organises climbs around Malta's cliffs and valleys. A few years ago, after experimenting with different kinds of sports, German discovered climbing and was taken away by it to the extent where climbing has become his bread and butter.



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03.02.2023



Looking at the Sky with Iliyana Stoyanova #11
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Iliyana Stoyanova is a poet, editor and translator, holding a PhD in Theology. She is the Living Legacies Editor at the Living Haiku Anthology, Editor of Blithe Spirit and Awards Administrator at the British Haiku Society (BHS), Photo Editor at Haikupedia; Former Secretary of the United Haiku and Tanka Society (2017-2020), and former BHS Communications Officer (2016-2023). Iliyana is a member of the BHS, Haiku Club-Plovdiv, The London Haiku Group and Tanka Society of America. Her haiku and other poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, winning several international awards.



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26.01.2023



Looking at the Sky with Marcin Piekalkiewicz #10
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Marcin Piekalkiewicz is a researcher and visual artist whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and beyond. Using still images, Marcin explores the social and environmental effects of neoliberal capitalism and deconstructs the abstract economic processes that shape the tangible realities of everyday life.



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25.10.2022



Looking at the Sky with Lorette C. Luzajic #9
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Lorette C. Luzajic is an award-winning writer, mixed media artist, founder of The Ekphrastic Review journal, and a teacher of ekphrastic writing, art appreciation and mixed media painting. On the podcast, we discuss the promotion of writing inspired by the arts, similarities between Andy Warhol’s and Salvador Dali’s public personalities, and why art appreciation is the most important thing of all…


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05.10.2022



Looking at the Sky with Simone Puddu #8
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Simone Puddu is a professional fitness coach, clinical exercise specialist, and a certified WHM (Wim Hof Method) instructor who has a mission to help people get better physically, mentally, and most importantly, spiritually. For Simone, love is the answer to all the personal and global issues that we, as individuals and societies, face. But to understand his concept of love, you have to surrender yourself to the cold and melt into the silence it brings to your mind.



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24.09.2022



Looking at the Sky with Daniela Attard #7
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Daniela Attard is a visual illustrator who, through her art, tackles uncomfortable topics that most of us are hiding under a carpet. One of such, environmental anxiety, is at the core of Daniela’s latest solo exhibition ‘Dying Planet’. She uses art as a tool to raise awareness and thought-provoke the viewer. Daniela believes that changes are possible if each and every one of us make a small but firm effort towards a positive outcome for all.



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01.09.2022



Looking at the Sky with Christine Xuereb Seidu #6
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Christine Xuereb Seidu is an eminent voice in the Maltese art circles and the owner of a reputable art gallery ‘ChristineX’. Art has a special place in her heart, and she finds the selection of a painting according to the colour of curtains a crime against it and believes that it should be the other way around: the design of an apartment must set the tone for the painting.



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22.03.2022



Looking at the Sky with Brian James #5
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Brian James is a well-known name in Malta’s electronic culture family, spinning vinyl in different clubs since the late 90s, who favours non-commercial music, made his parents work for the phone bills and had his first gig in a living room.



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14.02.2022



Looking at the Sky with Stefano Moncada #4
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Stefano Moncada is a Rome born Italian who calls Malta his second home for the past eighteen years where since 2008 at the University of Malta he lectures and conducts research in the areas, among others, of climate change and sustainable development, believing that everyone can contribute to the change they want to see in the world.



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14.01.2022



Looking at the Sky with Jo Montebello #3
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Jo Montebello is an Australian born Maltese, founder of ‘Burlesque Candles’ and a passionate environmentalist who favours individual uniqueness, finds the history of art thought provoking and believes that money follows those, who dare to leave a part of themselves in the products they create.



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12.11.2021



Looking at the Sky with Dominik Kalweit #2
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Dominik Kalweit is a vice executive director at Kopin, a NGO based in Malta, who speaks honestly and bravely about migration, believes in critical thinking and urges the public not only to answer questions, but to question answers.



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10.10.2021



Looking at the Sky with Conrado Enrique #1
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Conrado Enrique is a professional yoga teacher, currently living in Malta, who sees yoga as a lifestyle, answers the question: ‘Who are you?’ by simply replying ‘Me’ and identifies his biggest life challenge as ‘Going out from my mother’s vagina…’



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