European Capital of Culture or Malta’s Disneyland?

 

So how are we going to show the world what a cultural city Valletta truly is, since it has been appointed the European Capital of Culture 2018?

I am all for encouraging children’s creativity and of course they should be involved in cultural events, but seriously, “a roller coaster around Valletta, a water fight at the Palace Armoury and a water slide at St George’s Square”?

This was suggested by nine –year-olds at an event organised by the Valletta 2018 Foundation, and splashed across the Malta Times news pages.

The idea apparently was to encourage children to come up with ideas for the celebrations. I am not sure how the two actors facilitating the event went about doing it, but it seems to me that the children are all going to be so disappointed when it turns out that in fact turning Valletta into Disneyland isn’t really what the event is all about.