The NUI Galway Summer Festival starts next Wednesday and runs until Thursday July 22, featuring a feast of theatre shows, music, and exhibitions, which are open to the public.
The festival’s theatre programme will feature a double-bill production of Do I Look Fat In These Fig Leaves by Alison Matthews and Christian O’Reilly’s It Won’t Be Great When I’m Not Here from July 14 to 17 at 8pm.
The Art Society will perform its stage version of The Breakfast Club from July 19 to 21 at 8pm and on July 22 at 9pm. All productions will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn.
The exhibition Altered Frequency will run to the end of the month. The exhibition is based on the one act radio play series produced earlier in the year by students from the university and aired on Flirt FM. The installations inspired by the plays can be viewed from 10am to 6pm upstairs in Áras na Mac Leinn.
Classical music fans can look forward to ConTempo’s free lunchtime concert on Monday July 19 at 1pm. The programme includes Handel’s ‘Passacaglia for violin and cello’ and Dvorak’s ‘American String Quartet’.
The Galway Sinfonietta, made up of NUIG staff and students, and formed by Joanne Cater and John Roe, will perform in the Bailey Allen Hall on Thursday July 22 at 7.30pm. They will be backed by two established city orchestras.
Admission to both concerts is free.
There will also be a Children’s multimedia summer camp for nine to 16-year-olds, during which participants will create their own newspaper and radio show, learn mask making, juggling, creative writing, and photography.
For more information see www.socs.nuigalway.ie, email [email protected], or contact the SocsBox, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUIG (from 10am to 6pm ) on 091 - 492852.
