For Immed Release : Pjazza Rjal Teatru to host INANNA - “RIsing Goddess of Malta” is “Coming Home” In Epic Multimedia Performance on July 18th and 1

For Immed Release : Pjazza Rjal Teatru to host INANNA - “RIsing Goddess of Malta” is “Coming Home” In Epic Multimedia Performance on July 18th and 19th, 2025

(VALLETTA, Jan 8, 2025)

“Local audiences have never seen anything like this before.”

The awe-inspiring historical Pjazza Rjal Teatru in the centre of Malta’s beautiful capital city, Valletta, has been chosen as the performance venue for a culturally important, truly epic multimedia performance that will thrill locals and visitors alike in the summer of 2025.

A year ago, Canada based Maltese citizen JOanne Camilleri (the star and visionary creator behind the project), a globally renowned Belly Dancer and instructor at the prestigious University of Toronto whose parents emigrated to Canada from Mellie?a, made an exciting announcement. Thrilling art and theatre lovers across the island nation, she shared her plans to bring her incredible stage show, “INANNA” - RIsing Goddess of Malta” - back home to the Maltese Islands. “I am so excited to bring this international Maltese–Canadian multi-media production to my mother country.”

INANNA the Rising Goddess of Malta is a 90-minute multi-media, dance, circus, animation projection and an original musical soundtrack, a mix of folk rock and Islamic scales bringing the sounds and performance of the east and west together in this production that celebrates Malta’s prehistoric culture and circles around Malta’s goddess of fertility story for a contemporary audience. As Camilleri puts it, “it is through the mythos of the Goddess of Love and Fertility in the present, that Malta can embrace a celebration of its history via the performing arts.”

“INANNA is an exciting modern multimedia art project based on one of the oldest stories ever told,” says Camilleri. “I am so thrilled to bring this international Maltese–Canadian multi-media production to my mother country - where the story of Inanna began. It truly is a nationally important performance about Malta’s critical contribution to the development of society and culture. She also points out that the concept of INANNA comes from the Maltese named for Camilleri’s Maltese ‘grandmother,’ ( in Maltese ‘in-Nanna’ - referring to all her grandmothers since antiquity.)

“The story of INANNA is found inscribed on clay tablets and fragments in INANNA's temples that exist today in Malta and her sister island Gozo,” says Camilleri who wrote the fascinating script from the ancient myth of the "the descent of INANNA." This epic poem found in scripted on a cuneiform from the early Neolithic Age in the Latin: cuneus named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions is one of the first stories ever told by the first poet known in history, Edehuanna.

INANNA has already been garnering international attention. Entertainment Monthly in the United States described it as “an epic stage production,” in a full feature article they did about the show. In addition to the Entertainment Monthly profile, “INANNA - the Rising Goddess of Malta,” was also featured in the December 2023 issue of the newsletter, The Maltese Presence in North America. Camilleri also sat down with the editors at Authority Magazine stateside for a deep dive into her fascinating career for their Live Arts / Theater and Live Performances section.

Camilleri hopes the July performance will be the first of many future performances on the islands. “It is my vision to share this story in performance on Malta and Gozo and at the Goddesses Neolithic Temples where Inanna once lived.”

This production was also highly endorsed and promoted amongst the Maltese-Canadian Community in Canada and the one million Maltese and Gozitan diaspora around the world by the former Consul General of the Republic of Malta to the Commonwealth of Canada, Dr Raymond. C. Xerri.

Xerri says : “This production is not only unique to the Maltese Islands, it’s an original artistic masterpiece with enormous potential in a variety of spheres, which not only narrates one of our civilization’s oldest stories but has all the elements and hallmark to transcend into a permanent Maltese heritage production - which can be treasured by all Maltese and millions of tourists who visit our islands alike.”

Camilleri agrees. “I see this production becoming a national-level performance that will be representative of Malta’s ancient history and will celebrate Malta for both locals and for tourists on an annual basis. Effectively our Production will contribute to the cultural preservation of history through the performing arts,” she adds with passion. “Internationally, the production will educate the world on Malta/Gozo’s critical contribution to the development of modern society through the mythos.”

INANNA Productions will be auditioning vocalists, musicians and dance performers from the Maltese islands.

JOanne Camilleri is available for media interviews about the exciting INANNA project and all aspects of Belly Dance. Dr Raymond Xerri is also available to the media for interviews about his support for the INANNA project and how important it will be for the Maltese islands.

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