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A CONCERT of jazz favourites will be performed by the Galway Youth Jazz Orchestra in Galway City Museum this Saturday at 1pm.

Galway’s Filipino Community will be holding a charity concert in the Menlo Park Hotel at 6pm on Saturday April 30.

The Galway City Museum will be getting a floor-by-floor makeover of all its exhibition spaces, in advance of a major loan of artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland.

Calasantius College, Oranmore won the Connacht Schools Team Sailing Championships held in Galway at the weekend.

Oughterard hosts one of the biggest cycle races in the west this Easter weekend when the seventh annual Ras Chonamara takes place.

After last weeks auction in the Shelbourne Hotel where more than 80 properties were sold, auction fever is starting to buzz around the country. O’Donnellan and Joyce is one of Galway’s leading auctioneers for selling properties by public auction, and will hold the largest auction of family homes in the west of the country when nine homes will be placed under the hammer. Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan and Joyce auctioneers says “We have tremendous variety at this auction from a detached house in need of refurbishment at Wellpark Grove at a price of €80,000 to a magnificent detached family home on 1.17 acres in Corcullen for in the region of €725,000.”

THE THIRTY Minute Film Festival, involving 30 short films, each one minute in length, is a new strand which will form part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.

OUTSIDE: INSIGHT, an outdoor exhibition for Brigit’s Garden, in co-operation with Galway Arts Centre, takes place from July 10 to September 4. The organisers are seeking submissions and are inviting artists to create or submit work that responds to the natural and architectural landscape of the site. For descriptions and photographs of the gardens see www.brigitsgarden.ie

RTÉ Radio 1’s Documentary on One is interested in speaking to anyone with memories of listening to the Frankie Byrne programme.

This weekend will see the launch of a new guide to the best walking routes in Connemara and Mayo.