LiveStock - Music and Arts Festival
Thu, Jun 16, 2022
The summer is here and with it LiveStock 2022 arrives. An exciting, new, family friendly, independent music & arts festival is taking place in Aughrim, Co. Galway on Friday 1st- Saturday 2nd July. You will be welcomed to what promises to be a fun and relaxing experience with fantastic independent music, art, food, entertainment, and activities centred around the ancient ringfort at Liskelly Farm just a few miles from Ballinasloe (Exit 15 on the M6).
Read more ...Two exceptional American theatrical productions from US
Wed, Jun 08, 2022
Extraordinary theatre awaits as part of this year’s Galway International Arts Festival, with productions from Ireland and abroad. However, this year, US theatre features strongly in the programme with two stand-out productions.
Read more ...Podcast looks behind the scenes at Mirror Pavilion
Wed, Jun 01, 2022
If, like me, you are fascinated with the logistics of staging major and unusual events, then you will be thriled with the new podcast which looks behind the scenes at the iconic Mirror Pavilion installation which stood alone as a solitary cultural landmark in the city during the initial stages of the pandemic.
Read more ...GALWAY AFRICA DAY 2022 - EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC OF CULTURE.
Tue, May 24, 2022
On Saturday 28th May 2022, 2-6 pm at Salt Hill Park, Galway’s African Community invites all of Galway to join them in a celebration of culture as part of the national Africa Day Celebrations.
Read more ...Six is the number at Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc innovative new production
Thu, May 19, 2022
You have to hand it to Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc for innovation. Their new production involves six short plays by six temporarily anonymous writers in six different intimate sections of the theatre.
Read more ...Powerful dance and dramatic show to premiere at THT tomorrow
Thu, May 19, 2022
![15/05/22 repro free: Spotted at the Spanish Arch in Galway members of Ériu Dance company rehearsing a scene from their new show "The Village" ahead of its world premiere at Black Box Theatre, Galway, this Friday, May 20th. See tht.ie
Photo:Andrew Downes, Xposure.](http://www.advertiser.ie/images/2022/05/129572_thumb.jpg "15/05/22 repro free: Spotted at the Spanish Arch in Galway members of Ériu Dance company rehearsing a scene from their new show "The Village" ahead of its world premiere at Black Box Theatre, Galway, this Friday, May 20th. See tht.ie
Photo:Andrew Downes, Xposure.")
A powerful new show is to have its world premiere at Galway’s Black Box Theatre tomorrow Friday, May 20.
Read more ...Artists undertake solar powered expedition to spark climate action through the arts
Thu, May 19, 2022
The Eco Showboat Mayfly expedition is a four-month arts voyage from Limerick to Enniskillen on the Mayfly, the flagship of the Eco Showboat project, and the first solar electric boat to make this journey. The project is the brain child of artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, aka School of Looking.
This Eco Sunday, May 22, the Eco Showboat Mayfly will be moored at Portumna Castle Harbour in Portumna, County Galway for an afternoon of fascinating waterside events.
Read more ...Catch your laughs on Thursday nights at Tigh He-He
Thu, May 19, 2022
A pop-up comedy club, featuring the very best of Irish stand up comedy launched last week and will run on Thursdays until June 30.
Read more ...An Cailín Ciúin — finest film made in Ireland for a long time
Thu, May 19, 2022
The Quiet Girl is Cait, we first see her she is being called by her mother lying completely still in a field surrounded by brush. Her mother is heavily pregnant and has another baby taking up her time, along with Cait’s three older siblings she deemed too much work for the family so is sent away for the summer. Her father takes her three hours south to her mother's cousin, a childless couple who will look after her during the summer holidays. Cait is uneasy at first, not used to attention and affection but slowly she begins to enjoy her time on the farm.
Read more ...Ralph Fiennes in NT Live’s ‘Straight Line Crazy’ at the EYE Cinema
Thu, May 19, 2022
The EYE Cinema in Wellpark is thrilled to bring to Galway National Theatre Live’s new production‘Straight Line Crazy’ for one night only on Thurs May 26 at 7pm.
Read more ...Music as science — Galway Early Music Festival is back
Wed, May 18, 2022
One of the cornerstones of the Galway cultural season, The Galway Early Music Festival – “Musica et Scientia”, May 27-29, is live and hybrid in 2022 with a dazzling programme featuring music and the stars, the harmony of the planets in their orbits, the music of mathematics and geometry, music in art, and the music at the heart of the Universe.
Read more ...Return of the uke
Wed, May 11, 2022
The Galway Uke Fest is back — Showcasing unique and exciting talent from the Irish ukulele scene, the festival will run from May 20 to May 22.
Fashion Show Fundraiser.
Wed, May 04, 2022
Join us on Friday 6th May at 11am in Standún, An Spidéal for a Fashion Show Fundraiser in support of our 65 new Ukrainian neighbours.
Read more ...Downton Abbey: A New Era and a complimentary glass of Prosecco this weekend only at Pálás!
Fri, Apr 29, 2022
The highly anticipated Downton Abbey sequel opens this Friday at Pálás. To celebrate the return of the Dowager and extended Crawley family to the big screen, Galway Advertiser readers will receive a complimentary glass of Prosecco with the purchase of a ticket across the opening weekend in Pálás. You can collect your glass of prosecco at the refreshed box office to enjoy in screen or relax in the bar* before or after the film.
Read more ...From the drill to the quill
Wed, Apr 27, 2022
Des Kavanagh’s poems are full of the names of people and places he knows or has known well. Names are great familiarisers and Kavanagh’s Ireland is a close and familiar place. But it also bears within it the ache of absence, not just for specific people, but for the world they inhabited, a world that made them and that they also made. Kavanagh’s ancestral Inishowen in Donegal, his family, in it’s old and new generations, often provide the pivot that turns him to the past, although it also allows for glimpses of the future, through children and grandchildren — so said the late Seamus Deane of the Galway poet.
Read more ...Role of electronic communication studied in Declan Clarke's The Last Broadcast
Wed, Apr 20, 2022
Declan Clarke’s solo exhibition The Last Broadcast opens on 29th April at Galway Arts Centre. A special screening of the exhibition’s central work What Are the Wild Waves Saying? takes place in Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns Island Theatre at 5pm, followed by Q+A with the artist in conversation with author Emilie Pine- author of the bestseller Notes to Self and Professor of Modern Drama at UCD.
Read more ...An ill wind blows good for a songwriter
Wed, Apr 13, 2022
As we headed out of the pandemic and into global unease due to the Ukrainian tragedy, the season of Lent took on fresh significance for me this year. I made my usual token gesture of giving up a few titbits like desserts and alcohol, with the mixed motive of pruning myself into physical shape.
Read more ...Galway’s paper boat sets sail at last
Wed, Apr 06, 2022
Join a cast of over 100 performers on Saturday April 23 in St. Nicholas’ Church, Galway for the world premiere of Paper Boat - a community opera for Galway.
Paper Boat weaves together history, mythology and current events to tell a story of human endurance, inspired by the diverse communities who engage with the cultural and spiritual hub that is St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway.
Read more ...Galway’s paper boat sets sail at last
Wed, Apr 06, 2022
Join a cast of over 100 performers on Saturday April 23 in St. Nicholas’ Church, Galway for the world premiere of Paper Boat - a community opera for Galway.
Read more ...Galway’s paper boat sets sail at last
Wed, Apr 06, 2022
Join a cast of over 100 performers on Saturday April 23 in St. Nicholas’ Church, Galway for the world premiere of Paper Boat - a community opera for Galway.
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