Galway City Culture Night 2019 Brochure
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N I P U CULTURE WRAP FRI 20 SEP CULTURENIGHT.IE GALWAY CITY 2019 Welcome to Galway City Culture Night 2019! It’s a giant Galway party and everyone’s welcome! Every year the nation picks one night where we can all celebrate together Ireland’s extraordinary richness of arts, culture and creativity. Galway City has been a delighted participant in Culture Night for over ten years now and this year’s programme looks the mightiest yet! It take place all over Galway on Friday 20th September, sparkling and shimmering from daylight hours and well into the glorious western night. All over this fab city hosts of entrancing, beguiling and massively enjoyable events are taking place in a scintillating showcase of the creative communities and landscapes of Galway. The offerings this year – performances, workshops, exhibitions, concerts, classes, demonstrations, walks, talks and much more in just about every conceivable area of creative activity – are for all ages and they are all free. Brought to you with love from Galway this year’s showcase is made by Galway for Galway and the world and is the perfect introduction to the local geniuses whose inspiration and commitment have made this little city a European Capital of Culture. Whether you have lived here all your life or are a new and welcome arrival you are bound to find something to engage with, take part in, or just sit back and enjoy. We’d like to offer a big thank you to all the innovative, imaginative and hard–working artists, curators and managers and the arts, heritage, science, food, education, sporting, social action and community groups who have made Culture Night 2019 possible. So, jump into it, check out the sensational programme, wrap yourself up in Galway culture, and try something new! www.culturenight.ie www.facebook.com.galwayculturenight Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Creative Ireland Programme in partnership Times and other details are correct at time of going to press. There may be with Galway City Council. subsequent changes so we recommend checking with the venue in advance. 1 1 Artspace Studios Unit 7–8 Addley Park 4 Ballybane Public Library: Castle Park Road, Ballybane Liosban Estate H91 FX98 Tuam Road 091 380 590 H91 E2H5 Share a Story 091 773 046 2pm–6pm 12noon–1.00pm Artspace Studios is an artist–led organisation which provides Clarenmore services Ballybane and the Swan Centre want to share studio space and support for professional artists and Galway’s their stories with you! These stories are a result of creative writing largest and longest established artists’ studios. Artspace will host classes hosted by the Ballybane Library. The project was facilitated an exhibition of members’ work and an ‘Open Studios’ in the by Sinead Hackett and the support staff from the Swan. company of the resident artists. Ruth Cadden Exhibition Opening 4pm–6pm Galway artist Ruth Cadden has created various commissions, exhibitions, CD & book covers, illustrations and design works too 2 Baboró Town Hall Theatre Foyer and has had residencies in Brussels, Kerry and Mayo. Her art is Courthouse Square led by a strong sense of curiosity about the demeanour of society H91 H3C2 and a constant adoration of true nature. As an artist, she feels that 091 562 667 it’s her duty to present the viewer with themes and subjects that raise questions for or provide comfort from this strange, alluring and Children for Climate Change chaotic life that we’re living in. 3pm–5pm Are you frustrated by news of our rapidly changing climate? Would 5 Black Gate Cultural Centre: 14 Francis Street you like to take some positive action? H91 R6P3 Then come along to a creative arts workshop with your family to share some everyday solutions for you and your community. Join Cathal Johnson – Harmonica recital and local artist Sandra Gonzalez in a creative arts workshop for families. discussion This drop–in session will empower children to express their views in a fun, safe and supportive environment. 4pm–6pm All materials provided. Children must be accompanied by adults. Cathal Johnson – Harmonica recital and discussion with accompaniment All ages. from Stephen Simmonds on guitar. Cathal and Steve will play Irish traditional music, blues and country blues, with elements of jazz and country. Followed by a discussion on the development and direction 3 Bádóirí an Cladaig The Claddagh Basin of the harmonica. Harmonica players are also invited to come along to 086 052 8004 play and learn tips on repair and maintenance of their instruments. Selected readings from the works of Flann O’Brien 5pm–8pm 6pm–7pm The Claddagh Community Boat Club (The Claddagh Boatmen) is dedicated to the restoration and sailing of the traditional Galway Join us for an evening to celebrate the writer Flann O’Brien, as we work boats – Galway Hookers. On Culture Night Badoiri an Cladaigh mark the 80th anniversary of At Swim–Two–Birds which was first welcome you to the Claddagh Basin to see great examples of these published in 1939. Considered a major figure in twentieth century beautiful and historic craft, with music and dance on the quay, and Irish literature, Flann O’Brien was also known by several other names some very special Galway guests. It’s a rare opportunity to get close including Brian O Nolan and Myles na gCopaleen. Flann O’Brien was a to the ancient and beautiful sailing heart of Galway. All welcome! Novelist, Playwright and Satirist. Works include; The Third Policeman, (This event is weather dependent). The Poor Mouth, The Dalkey Archive. Curated by Kieron A Smith. Image: Orhun Cakmak 2 3 Black Gate Cultural Centre: 14 Francis Street 8 A skip and a jig for evening shoppers! Eyre Square Shopping Centre H91 R6P3 H91 F5KW Comhaltas Salthill/Knocknacarra 085 174 3493 Eclectics Presents – Mayfly to the Moon with Tuath 6pm–7pm 9pm–11.30pm Comhaltas Salthill/Knocknacarra takes part again this year in Culture Night, playing their usual fabulous few tunes downstairs Eclectics presents a unique evening of avant garde music featuring in the Eyre Square centre from 6pm to 7pm – a skip and a jig for Galway’s finest improvisational ensemble, Mayfly to the Moon and evening shoppers! bilingual psychedelic quartet Tuath. 9 Centre for Creative Arts and Media GMIT: Monivea Road 6 The Blue Notes Choir Screen 3, Pálás Cinema H91 DY9Y 15 Merchants Rd, Lower 091 770 661 H91 F6DF 091 384 800 Metamorphosis 7pm–8pm Metamorphosis is an exhibition that will showcase the work created ‘The Blue Notes Choir’, a Galway–based, mixed by eleven visual artists, photographers, journalists and performance contemporary community choir who sing a capella in artists who have completed the year long MA Creative Practice at four and five part harmony, will be singing an eclectic GMIT’s Centre of Creative Arts and Media 2019. mix of genres which span generations of soul, rock, pop and R n B. If you like your Beach Boys mixed 3pm with Destiny’s Child, a twist of Radiohead and a dash Presentation. Video documentary ‘Switching on the switched off’. of Eurhythmics you will get a sense of the Blue Notes’ repertoire as well as songs which include ‘White Winter It will deal with the crisis facing public service media and the need Hymnal’ by the Fleet Foxes, ‘How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You’ by Marvin Gaye and ‘Sweet Dreams’ by the for a new approach. Eurhythmics. Accompanied by a visual display on the screen behind the choir from Grey + Ginger clothing. It will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Gavin Murphy. The panel will be: Joe Reddington Managing Editor Nuacht RTÉ/TG4, Marian Malone Producer/Journalist Nationwide 7 Blue Teapot Theatre: Munster Avenue Sean Mac an tSithigh Video Journalist, RTÉ/TG4 Nuacht, Six One/ H91 FVF8 9.00 TV News RTÉ. 091 520 977 6pm Rod Goodall and Steve Johnston in ‘The Hound Metamorphosis official opening. Venue: GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts and Media. of the Baskervilles’ Michael Browne, Aleksandra Jagielska, Michelle Hill, Danielle 7pm–8pm Lambert, Fionnuala McKenna, Luke Moloney, Farrah Munroe Madeleine Shinnick. This is a new dramatization of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock See Engage Studios for performance by CCAM’s Elizabeth Holmes mystery, by Galway–based actors and stalwarts of Footsbarn Curran, as part of this exhibition. Theatre, Rod Goodall and Steve Johnston. In this high–energy, two man show, the actors perform the many 9pm characters of Conan Doyle’s Victorian Gothic masterpiece, with live music, songs and sound effects using the premise of a live Photography: Martin Maquire. Venue: Centre for Creative Arts and Radio broadcast by the Atlantic players, back in the days when Media. entertainment was a much more simple affair than today. 4 5 10 Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop: The Cornstore, Middle Street 13 Cumann na bhFear Men’s Shed Unit 1b, Sandy Road H91 AH7A Centre H91 AH7A 091 568 766 087 632 6793 Readings, Radio, Recital and Art 6pm–9pm 6pm–9pm Cumann na bhFear will be hosting a blacksmith demonstration in their own workshop building, showing the old skills of the The iconic Galway city centre bookshop hosts the now traditional Galway smiths. Culture Night literary gathering which invites readings by every Galway author who has had a book published in the last year. Encompassing, fiction, non–fiction, poetry and in any language, authors will read a short selection from their books. Concurrent with the event Galway Bay FM’s Arts Show will broadcast live from the bookshop, with iconic presenter Vinnie Browne presenting an evening of live interviews and news, recitals, performances and sessions, Shop Street and drawn from the city’s entire Culture Night programme.