An exhibition is to take place in Athlone Towncentre this weekend of photographs from the LookWest.ie and Pix.ie Volvo Ocean Race Festival photo competition.
The exhibition, which runs from December 10-13, will feature the best 100 photographs from the competition, which captured the fun and entertainment that took place during the festival in June.
Admission is free and open to the public from 9am to 9pm on Thursday and Friday, 9am to 6pm Saturday and from 12pm to 6pm on Sunday.
Joanne Grehan of the Western Development Commission (WDC ) said, “We ran the exhibition of the top 100 photos throughout September in Galway and it was a great success with thousands of visitors. Now we are bringing it on a tour of Ireland, including an exhibition in Athlone Towncentre, so that more people can have the chance to experience the two weeks of glorious sunshine when Galway played host to Ireland’s largest sporting event in June.
“We are enormously grateful to Athlone Towncentre for giving us the space to display the photos which cover everything from the opening ceremony, the boats and the air show, to the entertainment, excitement and fun of the race village. The photos really capture the city, its people and its visitors, and anyone with 10 or 15 minutes to spare at some stage over the next month should pop in to have a look. It’s a great way to remember the fantastic festival in June and to remind ourselves of what Galway achieved by hosting it.”
Maria Moynihan of Let’s Do It Galway added, “The LookWest.ie and Pix.ie photo competition was one of the major successes of the two-week stopover in Galway of the Volvo Ocean Race. The fact that a record of 17,000 pictures now exists will forever keep the event live in people’s memories. This exhibition in Athlone Towncentre will feature the top 100 pictures but there are thousands of others that are well worth a look at http://pix.ie/go/lookwest and I would encourage people to also go online to have a look at them.”
The photo competition and exhibition were sponsored by The Western Development Commission (WDC ) as part of its work to highlight the ‘Creative West’ as the Western region rapidly becomes Ireland’s hub for the creative industries.
