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President Catherine Connolly will make a keynote address on the importance of the arts as a medium to speak truth to power at the opening of the 2026 Galway International Arts Festival next week.

The work entitled ‘Seated Figure’, by artist Sean Henry, was lowered into position on Middle Arch beside the Claddagh Basin last week as part of the build-up to the city’s annual International Arts Festival.

Over the course of 14 days and nights this July, Galway city and county will once again be transformed into a vibrant cultural landscape—alive with theatre, music, circus, dance, visual arts, comedy, street spectacle and ideas. This year’s Galway International Arts Festival 2026 programme, described as one of the most ambitious to date, reflects a festival that continues to grow not only in size, but in artistic depth, international reach and civic importance.

Galway International Arts Festival’s volunteer programme is supporting social inclusion for people from marginalised or disadvantaged backgrounds, an evaluation of the festival’s equality, diversity and social inclusion initiatives as part the Arts Council Outcome Measurement Pilot has found.

The announcement of the Galway International Arts Festival 2026 programme arrives with a sense of scale and confidence that underscores its position as one of Europe’s most dynamic multidisciplinary arts festivals.

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