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Following its huge success in 2024, Tonnta will return from January 30 to February 2, 2025 celebrating Galway as Ireland's only bilingual city.

The world renowned masters of storytelling and pioneers of imagination Macnas bring a brand new, spectacular and spine-tingling parade of unearthly magic to their native Galway on Sunday October 29.

The Arts Council in partnership with Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway and Creative Europe Desk Ireland is to hold the Festival Makers Conference in Galway on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May. The event will provide opportunities for festival makers, festival stakeholders and artists to exchange ideas, share skills and discuss festival practice in Ireland.

Bru Theatre are looking for singers for a new project this September. In collaboration with the Town Hall Theatre and composer Katie Richardson, Bru are looking for people who like to sing to join them in creating an exciting, cross cultural community choir performance this September.

ATHENS IS at war and it is not winning. The best playwrights in Greece are dead. Morale in the city is low. The time is right for a hero to step forward.

AN IRISH community and its culture are under siege. Ancient traditions and customs are dying out. The public act of keening is disappearing, and edicts for new ways of doing things are being handed down.

Leading Galway bands and singers, like Rofi James, Galway Street Club, Marc Roberts, Eoin Dolan, and Katie O’Connor and Steven Sharpe, will play Eyes On The Horizon, the new series of outdoor performances and happenings.

IN AUGUST, Brú School will host a two-week physical theatre summer school for adult theatre makers, led by Phillipa Hambly from Arthaus Berlin and Brú’s James Riordan.

THROUGH THE tumultuous times of the Covid-19 global pandemic, children in Galway took on starring roles in two creative projects - St Pat’s Lockdown Olympics and The Street Are Ours - thanks to the RISE programme from the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, in partnership with Galway 2020.

CONNEMARA, the writings of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Pádraic Ó Conaire, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, the music of the West of Ireland, and the impact of emigration will coalesce in an immersive, virtual reality film, to tour Galway in June.