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The Galway Arts Festival organisation was founded in 1978 by University College Galway's Arts Society in collaboration with community activists from the Galway Arts Group. The first festival was described in local papers as "Galway Arts Society's Week of Craic". Their original budget was €1000 of Arts Council Funding and most of the artistic ...
The Galway Arts Centre is associated with the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, an annual literary festival which has been held since 1985. [5] It also has initiatives, like Galway Youth Theatre [6] and Red Bird Youth Collective, which provide young people with opportunities to engage with the arts and develop their own creative projects. [7]
Paul Fahy is the long-standing [1] Artistic Director of the Galway Arts Festival. A native of County Galway, he has faced some criticism over ticket prices in recent years but replied it was necessary to cover the costs of paying performers and ensuring the high quality of the festival. [2] In 2023 he was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts ...
The Left Field is a travelling stage and bar which forms part of several British festivals.The event is organised by Billy Bragg and Juliet Wills. The Left Field was first designed to tackle apathy and promote left-wing politics and trade unionism in young festival goers at the Glastonbury Festival in 2000.
The festival was founded in 1989, [3] as part of the Galway Arts Festival and was held at the Claddagh Palace until that venue closed in 1995. [4] The festival has become known as a venue for the premiere of domestic Irish films, but as an international festival, it also exhibits foreign film works.
Galway International Arts Festival; K. Kilkenny Arts Festival; S. Spraoi; T. Tailteann Games (Irish Free State) Trinity Arts Festival This page was last edited on 8 ...
As well as touring extensively across Ireland, the company's productions have played internationally to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Druid has been a "pioneer" in the development of Irish theatre and is credited (alongside Macnas and the Galway Arts Festival) with making Galway one of the primary cultural centres in ...
A Macnas structure in Galway City during the Savage Grace parade in October 2016 Performers in the Macnas street parade at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2013. Mácnas (pronounced mock-ness) is (Irish for 'frolicking' [1]) is a performance company based at the Fisheries Field in Galway, Ireland.