Design Island Galway exhibition

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE FOURTH Design Island Galway exhibition will present furniture pieces, lighting design, stone sculpture, ceramics, glass, artwork, and fine metalwork, designed and hand built in Ireland.

Meet Fred - the tiny prejudice fighting firebrand

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

FRED IS an anarchic two-foot-tall cloth puppet; a social activist, angry about the injustices he sees in society; and burning with determination to fight prejudice wherever he finds it.

Overhead, The Albatross - GIAF 17 concert

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE FIRST three words of the opening lines of Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' are also the moniker for one of Ireland's most ambitious bands, whose music, like the Floyd's, is wide screen, cinematic in scope, heavily atmospheric, and epic.

Sonya Kelly's Furniture for Druid Debuts

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

FURNITURE, A new play by Sonya Kelly, has been announced as one of two titles for the Druid Debut series of staged readings at the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival.

Furbo Art 2017

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

THE SECOND annual Furbo Art exhibition returns to the meeting hall of the Furbo Baptist Church, displaying work by 17 professional artists, drawn from the Na Forbacha area and the Baptist congregation.

AGU - Fringe Fest gig @ The Quays

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

SHE HAS been called "one of the most remarkable new singer-songwriters in the Czech Republic" by Milan Tesar in Magazin UNI. Today she is baed in Galway and about to play the Galway Fringe Festival.

Art, Yeah? asks Kinvara

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

ART, YEAH? is an exhibition of work, using a variety of media and exploring a rage of themes, by County Galway artists aged between 16 and 19, opens next week in The Courthouse, Kinvara.

Aimee Banks to sing at Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

AIMEE BANKS, the 15-year-old soprano who shot to fame representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Bulgaria, will give a concert at the Augustinian Church as part of the 2017 Galway Fringe Festival.

GIAF exhibition inspired by Voyager Golden Records

Thu, Jul 13, 2017

GOLDEN RECORD - it can mean the LP included on the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 or an album which has sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States. Both are documents or recorded music, preserved for posterity.

What you might see on the streets

Wed, Jul 12, 2017

FOR ALL the shows taking place in theatres, venues, bars, and even the Big Top, if no events and happenings are taking place on the streets of the city during the arts festival, then it just isn't the arts festival.

'A mountainscape of pianos'

Wed, Jul 12, 2017

PERHAPS THE hottest ticket in GIAF 2017 is Woyzeck In Winter, in which some of Ireland’s foremost theatre-makers combine to present a thrilling fusion of two timeless German classics; Georg Büchner’s play Woyzeck and Franz Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle.

'The show is about being human'

Tue, Jul 11, 2017

RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN circus troupe Casus makes its second visit to the Galway International Arts Festival with Driftwood. It previously played the festival in 2013 with international smash hit Knee Deep, which won Best Circus & Physical Theatre awards at both the Adelaide Fringe and Avignon festivals.

'Music that makes people feel stronger'

Tue, Jul 11, 2017

BRIAN WILSON is not the only veteran of thrilling 1960s harmony-based singing coming to the Absolut Big Top in this year’s GIAF. Ladysmith Black Mambazo are flying in from Durban with their world-renowned celebratory sounds of South Africa.

Galway actor joins new Channel 4 comedy series

Mon, Jul 10, 2017

GALWAY ACTOR Nicola Coughlan, and Galway based comedian Tommy Tiernan, are set to star in a new comedy series from the producers of Father Ted - Derry Girls, which comes to Channel 4 later this year.

Pet Sounds - made for all times

Mon, Jul 10, 2017

MAY 16, 1966, was the day The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds was released to the world. It is an album which still tops many ‘best ever’ lists yet it was initially greeted with dismay and bafflement by its label Capitol Records, and even within The Beach Boys opinion was divided on its merits.

Marwa Al-Sabouni - ‘The Power of Home’

Mon, Jul 10, 2017

WITH HER country still convulsed by war and destruction, the visit to GIAF of Syrian architect Marwa Al-Sabouni, for a First Thought Talk, will surely prompt keen interest. Al-Sabouni, with her husband and two young children, has continued to live in her home city Homs throughout the war, even as much of it was destroyed in the conflict.

'The Cure is my family, it's never not going to be'

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

WHEN DID The Cure begin? Was it December 1976 when the band played their first gig? Was it 1972 when the original line-up, in their early teens, held a jam session? Or was it 1964, when seven-year-olds Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst sat beside each other on the bus to school?

'The thing I’ve always been most drawn to is telling stories'

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

THE ARTS festival has long had a flair for presenting shows in which artists from different backgrounds combine to fruitful effect, and Cover My Tracks, by playwright David Greig and singer-songwriter Charlie Fink, is very much in that tradition.

Gerry Mallon's Laughter Loft is back

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

GERRY MALLON'S Laughter Loft, the annual lunchtime comedy shows in the Ruby Room of The King's Head, is a Galway International Arts Festival institution, and returns for another run this month.

Loner Deluxe to launch new album at Citóg

Thu, Jul 06, 2017

THE RELEASE of Loner Deluxe's second album, Songs I Taped Off The Radio, should be a red letter day, but given this album is being released on July 12 that makes it very much an 'orange' occasion.

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