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FRI 20 SEP

CULTURENIGHT.IE 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 ’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!

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Culture Night is brought to you by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the and the Creative Ireland Programme in partnership Times and other details are correct at time of going to press. There may be with Galway . 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 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 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 , 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! Shopping Centre H91 R6P3 H91 F5KW Comhaltas /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 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, and drawn from the city’s entire Culture Night programme. 14 Margaretta D’Arcy and Mary Coughlan – Also featured (at 8.15pm) is Dreams of Caroline, a piano recital Quay Street and exhibition by Galway based Catalan artist Rosio R Grau, a Soapbox Presentation of The Communist contemporary imaging of O‘Carolan’s timeless Irish melodies. Manifesto

6pm–8pm 11 Cheshire Home Elastic Band Ard Resource Centre 55 Rd Iconic actress and campaigner Margaretta D’Arcy will stage H91 DKF7 a presentation the 1848 political pamphlet by the German 12.30pm–2pm 087 949 0193 philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world’s most influential political The event aims to create awareness around Disability, and how documents. On the night Margaretta will be joined by another we can learn from persons with disabilities, to realise the important Galway legend, the great Mary Coughlan. things in life Cheshire House Elastic Band are a music band made up of people with disabilities and without disabilities. The band create music with a community theme and will play some of their music & read some original thought provoking Poetry at the event. There will be an opportunity for participants to share food, stories 15 Engage Studios Churchfields, Salthill and experiences at the event. H91 YCW9 087 953 7024 12 Eva’s Echo at The Crane 2 Sea Road 4pm–6pm Latte – Rehearsed Reading H91 YP97 091 587 419 Introduction to Drypoint Printmaking. Vicky Smith, Engage Art Studio 8pm member will do a Drypoint demonstration–a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate or We’ve all done it, eavesdropping. You’re in a café, the couple at the sheet of soft perspex with a hard–pointed “needle” of sharp metal. next table, what is their relationship? First date? Related? Colleagues? Similar to engraving but different to the etching process this acid free This play allows the audience a sneak peek into the lives of others printing process creates beautiful soft line drawings or more energetic while they sip their latte. It is a slice of life in contemporary Ireland qualities depending on your drawing style. exploring many modern issues. We are such complicated beings, two regular individuals having a coffee may not be what they seem. 7pm–9pm Join the highly rated Galway theatre company Eva’s Echo as each character in Sarah Fahy’s Latte has more going on than meets the eye. Exhibition and performance by graduating Student Elizabeth Curran Discover their secrets Join us on Culture Night at The Crane Bar. The from The Centre for Contemporary Art and Media’s Master of Arts in rehearsed reading begins at 8.00pm and will be followed by a night of Creative Practice. music and great craic with the Crane’s ace musicians and friends.

6 7 16 Multi–sensory Family Fun! Enable Ireland, 14th Galway Scout Group Fisheries Field Seamus Quirke Road 19 Salmon Weir Bridge H91 E8P4 H91 DX54 087 218 5211 086 823 8303 4pm–6.30pm Scout campfire experience with smore making Come and explore a wonderful variety of multi–sensory experiences and hot chocolate at your own pace in a creative, safe and fun space. We provide lots of interesting items and elements of nature that you and your child 5pm and 6pm can play with together and create anything at all! Lots of hands on A traditional scout campfire experience with instructions and supplies sensory experiences and ideas that you can enjoy at home. Tailor for smores (biscuits, chocolate and toasted marshmallow) we will made workshop for each individual participant and their family. Lots also do hot chocolate. (BYO Cup) of elements to appeal to neurodiverse children. The campfire experience will also include a scout campfire–song All children super welcome! Booking advisable: 091 526321 Image: Baboro Small Size Day with Phillida Eves sing along. This will be guided by our youth member and facilitated by our adult members. Other scout activities will also be showcased such as fire–lighting, woggle making and pioneering skills. These will 7, Upper Dominick Street be age appropriate. 17 Cuirt Festival’s Famous Occasional During the event, members of the public will have the opportunity H91 RP48 to talk to our members about scouts and to find information about Fireside Session at Taylor’s Bar 091 450 475 joining local groups.

6pm–7.30pm Hosted by Taylor’s Bar and Beer Garden featuring music, song, poetry 20 Galway Arts Centre 47 Dominick Street, Lr and story, with MC Paraíc Breathnach and curated by Gerry Hanberry H91 X0AP Cuirt Festival’s Famous Occasional Fireside Session brings to Culture 091 565 886 Night a fleeting flavour of Ireland’s greatest literature festival. Special guest is Tom Mathews the much loved poet, cartoonist and flâneur. AKIN Artist Collective – Meet The Artists 6pm–8pm Get an opportunity to meet the artists – Jay Murphy, Dolores Lyne, Leonie King and Margaret Irwin West and learn about their methods 18 Food on the Edge Theatre of work. The artists will provide insights into what materials and Druid Lane techniques they practice. A film screening will also take place showing the work of the artist Margaret Irwin West. 5pm–7pm H91 N5X9 A time to gather in advance of the Food on the Edge, a two–day Open Workshop symposium that aims to challenge our perspective on food and our 7pm–8.30pm connection to it. Speakers at the symposium are chosen for their innovation, passion and influence on today’s food culture. With their Take a seat and be an artist for the evening, as we invite you to take own unique perspective, speakers talk about the cultural, social, part in our life drawing workshop, and have your art work displayed environmental and educational aspects of food. The emphasis for Image: Margaret Irwin West for one night only. each talk is on their vision for the future of food and how we can make things better, on both a local and a global level. This year sees The Baytones the introduction of ‘migration’ as a theme. To inspire action through debate and dialogue: this is Food on the Edge. 8.30pm–9pm Find out what it is all about at the launch and enjoy a reading by Galway city’s beloved all–male acapella choir. symposium director, JP McMahon, of his play, ‘Irish Food. A Play’. For more details about the symposium, see https://foodontheedge.ie/

8 9 Galway Arts Centre: 47 Dominick Street, Lr 22 Galway Baroque Buskers 091 536 546 H91 X0AP City Centre: High Street (at Opus II), 091 565 886 Mainguard Street (Bank of Ireland), Abbeygate Street Upper (Cooke’s Wine Bar), Outsider Productions presents; Dancing Snake William Street (Two Wildes sculpture) and 9pm–9.30pm Eyre Square (the Quincentennial fountain) Dancing Snake offers an introduction to the world of the ‘Accidental Shaman–Poet’. This performance piece will incorporate Spoken Word, 7.30pm–8.30pm Audio and Video, with a running time of approx. 20 mins. Galway’s renowned choir The Galway Baroque Singers will perform on the streets of Galway for Culture Night. Join this wonderful choir To Gaze Upon Us: Katie O’Connor & Steven as they transport us back to olde worlde Galway and perform the Sharpe greatest hits of the Baroque era. 10pm–12 Midnight After making their debut in April of 2015 in the Róisín Dubh in the run up to the Marriage Equality vote, O’Connor and Sharpe are back. 23 Galway City Library: St. Augustine Street Sharpe takes O’Connor to more upbeat areas, as she leads him to H91 R6WF more sentimental and heartfelt places. Blending their individual styles, 091 561 666 Katie’s melodic vocals beautifully complement Steven’s flamboyant sass to create a lush sound. The realness is right here. Sharpe will A Culture Night Medley also perform extracts from his theatre show The Realness of Miss Representation. 6pm–8pm This is a BYOB/BYOW event. Over 18 Only. In a delightfully crammed programme Galway City Library invites you Curated by Kieron A Smith. in on Culture Night to meet poet Maeve Sullivan and spoken word artist Pauline McNamee. Acclaimed author Alan McMonagle will read and answer your questions; there’s an exhibition of portraits by Clare Guinan, storytelling for adults and children by Rab Fulton, a photographic exhibition from The Museum of Childhood – The Basque 21 Galway Atlantaquaria Toft Park Children of 1937 – library tours and music by Kevin Busher. Promenade, Salthill H91 T2FD 6pm–7.30pm 091 585 100 Join us at Ireland’s largest native species aquarium and learn about the 24 : Spanish Parade, Merchants’ wonderful stories of the sea. See a host of wonderful animals like the Road, Lower H91 CX5P BIG bass, octopus, colourful wrasse, smoothound sharks and more! 091 532 460 On Culture Night we invite you to walk through our Aquarium and listen to the stories of Hy Brasil, the ocean tank and tide pool and join Susie Quinn for an art printing activity. ’s Sporting 5.30pm–7.30pm A dozen researchers present short and snappy illustrated talks on the theme of the sporting history of Co. Galway. This Culture Night event is curated and presented by Dr. John Cunningham and Dr. Sarah–Anne Buckley of the History Department at NUI Galway. Suitable for adults (no booking required). Galway City Museum will remain open to the public until 8pm.

10 11 25 Galway Civic Trust: Wolfe Tone Bridge 27 Galway Community Circus: Shantalla Park/ 091 564 946 St Joseph’s Community Centre, Shantalla, H91 A4VW Fisheries Watchtower Museum 085 111 7224 5pm–8pm Find Your Balance on Culture Night Come and learn about this beloved Galway landmark. Built in 4pm–8pm Victorian times to monitor fish stocks and guard against poaching, the building now houses a fascinating museum dedicated to the history Join us for outdoor tightrope walking and balancing workshops for of the Galway Fisheries and the . Guided tours will take all ages at Shantalla Park. Please wear comfortable clothes and place on Culture Night. thin–soled shoes. If the weather is unsuitable workshops will take place indoors at Galway Community Circus, St Joseph’s Community Centre, Shantalla. 26 Galway Civic Trust: Custom House, Druid Lane H91 XV2C Hall of the Red Earl 091 564 948 28 An Evening with Galway Dance Project Galway Rowing Club 10, Waterside, Wood Quay 4pm – late H91 K072 Galway Civic Trust and Galway Early Music will partner to provide an 091 536 546 evening of information on the ’s original town hall, 6pm–8pm along with interludes of medieval music. Come along and learn about the archaeological remains which once acted as a banqueting hall, Galway Dance Project will present a look back over the year in tax office and courthouse. You will also be charmed by the strains of dance, with performances and presentations from members of medieval music which once echoed through the historic hall. the dance community in Galway. All are welcome!

8pm A special Culture Night Recital with Aisling Kenny (soprano) and Anne–Marie O’Farrell (harpist and composer). Culture Night and Image: Patricia Glynn Galway Civic Trust are delighted to present a fabulous concert by two of Ireland’s finest performers! Galway Mechanics Institute Aisling Kenny, from Galway, is a soloist and ensemble singer 29 Galway Mechanics Institute: specialising in early music and art song. She sings regularly as a 4, Middle Street, H91 XT6P soloist in oratorio: recent performances include Handel Messiah, 091 562 848 Aisling Kenny Hasse Miserere, Bach Actus Tragicus, St Matthew Passion and Michael Collins Documentary Mass in B minor. An active recitalist of Lieder and lute song, she has presented recitals in Basel, Oxford and all over Ireland. Aisling has 8pm–10pm performed as a soloist in several festivals including the Galway Early Music Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival. For Culture Night the Mechanics Institute presents an evening Anne–Marie O’Farrell is a leading harpist of her generation, who with filmmaker Marcus Howard, an independent film–maker, and has significantly extended the boundaries of what was considered the screening of his feature length in–depth documentary from the possible on the Irish harp, broadening its repertoire and chromatic perspectives of Michael Collins. Featuring Áine Broy, the daughter range. On pedal harp she has brought the instrument into new of Ned Broy, Mary Clare Collins Powell, grandniece of Michael contexts, in contemporary and improvised music, by expanding its Collins, Michael O’Mahony, grandnephew of Michael Collins and chamber repertoire through her composition, and with her continued Aengus O’Malley great grand–nephew of Michael Collins. Noted historians such as Tim Pat Coogan, Derek Molyneux, Dominic Price, Anne–Marie O’Farrell transcription of repertoire new to the pedal harp. Joseph EA Connell Jr, Darren Kelly, Liz Gillis, Mícheál Ó Doibhilín provide informed commentary and analysis.

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14 15 30 The Galway Music Residency Culture Night Trail Parkmore Business Park 33 Galway 2020 – European Capital of 16 Merchant’s Road 091 586 706 H91 T3CP at Parkmore Business Park Culture Open House 091 412 493 10.30am 6pm–9.30pm The Galway Music Residency (GMR) likes to start Culture Night early with daytime music events and, this year, we want to bring Building on the success of last year’s Open House Galway 2020 Culture Night to the hard workers of Parkmore Business Park. will once again host an open house at their offices on Culture Night. Join us on an ‘elevenses’ trail through a number of buildings in Following our Programme Launch event on September 18th the Open the Business Park where our internationally–renowned resident House visitors will be able to meet the team behind Galway 2020, ensemble, ConTempo Quartet, will bring music of the highest find out more about the plans for the year and get a copy of the calibre to the Parkmore Business Community. Galway 2020 printed programme and see how you can get involved. Registration is required via Eventbrite.ie. Search for ‘Culture Night Trail at Parkmore’.

31 The Galway Music Residency Culture Night Trail Siobhan McKenna 34 Brendan J. Hynes – Meet at the , Theatre, Arts Millennium Fishmarket H91 E9XA (approx.) at NUI Galway Building H91 EV56 The Galway City River Walk 087 795 3785 091 586 706 1pm Starting from the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, and the Galway Music Residency continues its early 5.30pm–7pm start to Culture Night in conjunction with NUI Galway, its long term Education Partner. Together, we bring you a lunchtime experience Come on the Galway City River Walk to celebrate Culture Night. See of music, song, art and performance on the theme of ‘movement’. the fastest flowing river through an urban setting anywhere in Europe. In the Arts Millennium Building, Psychology Building and adjacent Through time Galway has had a close relationship with the water, outdoor venues, ConTempo Quartet, NUI Galway Staff Singers, evident in the city’s port, coastline and river. Experience the ‘City of NUI Galway Drama and Performance Studies students and staff, Streams’ with master guide Brendan J. Hynes. Open to people of all and NUI Galway Arts Office will present an audio–visual show ages and abilities. celebrating the beauty of ‘movement’.

32 The Galway Percy French Society: All in The Harbour Hotel 35 Brendan J. Hynes – Meet outside the Hotel Meyrick, Bothar na Long, Galway Eyre Square H91 NFD2 an Autumn Evening Docks H91 E9PR The Galway Poetry Trail Tour 087 795 3785 087 799 0637 8.15pm onwards 7.30pm–9pm The ever–popular. Galway Percy French Society presents ‘All in This special Culture Night tour celebrates the Poetry Trail Autumn Evening’ – a programme of music song and story with established in 2006 by the Kenny Gallery, Galway City Arts Office echoes of the beloved artist, songwriter and performer William Percy and Cuirt Festival of Literature. Renowned guide Brendan J. Hynes French (1854 – 1920). highlights the plaques, the poets and the history behind them. Open to people of all ages and abilities.

16 17 36 – Cultures of Moore Institute 39 Over the Edge Open–Mic: Culture Night at Liosbán Retail Park, NUI Galway Tuam Road Exclusion in Contemporary Ireland H91 REW4 Kenny’s Bookshop & Art Gallery H91 N5P8 091 493 906 091 709 350 4pm–5.30pm This panel discussion will bring together Irish Research 3.30pm–8.30pm Council funded experts to share their findings on homelessness and how the current housing crisis in Ireland Over the Edge is holding two open mics, one for writers, and the intersects with other forms of exclusion and inequality. Topics other for poets, with prizes for the best readers. The open–mic for may include direct provision and refugees; gender, racial and fiction starts at 3.30pm. Participants should bring along two pages of class inequalities in social–housing provision; experiences of a story to read. The fiction event will include a special guest reading statelessness amongst homeless and migrants and what’s from Ken Bruen, who will also judge prose on the night. being done to make Ireland a more inclusive and equitable The open–mic for poets starts at 5.45pm. Participants should society, where every resident has adequate accommodation bring along two poems to read. For the poetry section the featured Image: Jon Tyson to call home. readers and judges are Louise G, Cole and Chiamaka Enyi–Amadi. The evening will be MC’d by Kevin Higgins and both open mics will also feature readings of long–listed stories and poems on the Over Image: Ken Bruen (Grove Atlantic) the Edge New Writer of the Year longlist, sponsored by Kennys 37 Just Art It 33 Lower Dominick St. Bookshop. H91 YN93 091 394 006 4pm–9pm 40 Knocknacarra Educate Together NS: An Cimín Mór, Just Art It will provide hands–on print demonstrations led by artist and Cappagh Rd, , printmaker Elena Santos in our Art Lab. The event will also provide The Whale’s Tail H91 Y38E a talk and practical demonstration on the practice of printmaking 091 590 627 editioning, to illustrate the differences between original multiple and a 4pm–7pm commercial print. We will speak about the Code of ethics for original printmaking, and we will go through different artists’ works from our This larger than life installation is a feast for all the senses. Our art gallery, to illustrate the international coding practice. Everyone exhibition in the school shares with visitors our journey as one of is welcome to join our creative community in the Westend. Come to the pilot schools in the Arts Council’s Creative Schools Programme. celebrate Culture Night at Just Art It and have fun printing with us! Working with artists Tom Meskell, Carmel Balfe, Tatiana Dobos and Aoife Barrett this past school year the school children worked with willow, clay, printmaking and shadow puppetry to explore the school’s local habitat. The collaboration culminated in a magical, multisensory installation of a giant whale and lots of other creatures. This family– Fair Hill Road, Upper, 38 Katie’s Claddagh Cottage and Claddagh Arts friendly evening will also give you the opportunity to get creative as Claddagh well after viewing the children’s exhibition. Centre – Stories, Songs and Music from 086 395 2831 Inchagoill Island to Galway Bay

6pm–8pm Stories, Songs and Music from Inchagoill Island to Galway Bay with Dennis Goggin and Micheal Ó Cinnéide from Corrib Beo and music by Gerry Hanley and Joe Clancy, with dancers and guests, all highlighting the importance of Galway’s waterways, telling us how they have shaped our history, culture and social lived experience.

18 19 41 The Melting Pot Luck – Crossing Points: The Cube 44 NUI Galway: Quadrangle and nearby Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway H91 F8DY Our Creative Journeys H91 RTR6 091 493 766 085 822 6449 6pm–7pm Orbital Wind Games An interactive performance that explores the crossing points between 8am–Midnight Irish culture and the different cultures that people in our community A series of Aeolian orbitals by Sue Mills in the trees between the come from, Amazigh, Syrian, Palestinian, Nigerian and many Quadrangle and Aras na Gaeilge. more. Using music, stories, poetry and art as a way of mapping the journeys made to get here we aim to create a welcoming space where people can learn about other cultures and celebrate the many things we have in common.

A Life of Their Own Paintings by Joseph Quilty 42 Visionation The Cube Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway (1914–1995) H91 RTR6 11am–5pm 091 492 852 7.30pm–8.30pm A Life of Their Own Paintings by Joseph Quilty (1914 – 1995), with informal tours with Michael Quilty, son of the artist, 12noon–2.30pm. A series of stories featuring everyday characters and lives within the direct provision system in Ireland, Visionation is devised with actors living in direct provision in Ireland. Behind Closed Doors exposes life in the direct provision system. Stories of everyday life interweave with live music and visual projections to show the impact of life in the direct provision system.

Colours Street Theatre: Black Swan Chariot and Quad Tower 43 Merlin Woods Collective: The Wildlife Sagas Merlin Woods Nest Area 085 248 4380 10am–8pm of Merlin Woods: Tales of Folklore Colours Street Theatre: Black Swan Chariot and Quad Tower, 6pm–8pm a sculpture installation by James Fleming. The Wildlife of Merlin Woods gather together in an intimate re–telling of the stories passed down through the generation. Tales come to life of ancestral heroes in their wild Merlin haven; the Great Oaks, the burning hills and the Muir Linn pools. The creatures share the folklore of their once abundant woodland and are reminded to cherish what remains of their home and their extended woodland family. Theatre and musical pieces combine to create the wildlife sagas in our own folklore tradition of storytelling. Join us in an outdoor community performance in Merlin Wood’s Nest Area at 6pm followed by warm refreshments and a hearty gathering.

20 21 45 Man on the Moon – Computer and Insight Centre for Data 48 Rise Choir Dr Clare’s Apothecary Analytics, Data Science 9 Sea Road H91 C9YA Communications Museum of Ireland Institute, NUI Galway, 087 246 2034 Dangan Business Park 7pm–8pm H91 AEX4 087 293 5106 Come along to Dr Clare’s Apothecary to see Galway’s fun–loving choir performing, pop, rock and soul. Rise Choir provides a 6pm–8pm wonderfully rich and supportive environment for singers and Visit this fabulous tech museum on Culture Night and see how music lovers of all ages and abilities to perform and connect with Space came to Earth in the Science Fiction themes of popular those of like minds. Come along and join the fun. Retro Computer Games, Robots, Toys, Comics, Music and Movies of the 1960s–1980s.

46 Pálás 15 Merchants Rd Lower H91 F6DF 49 Afro– Dance Evening with Salsa Bay Aras na nGael, 091 394 800 45 Dominick St 6pm Galway H91 E1NY Pálás Cinema and Studio Canal are pleased to bring you a Culture 089 412 2950 Night preview of the new animated film from Aardman Animations, Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon. Shaun is back! And there’s a new arrival in town who’s a little 7.30pm–10pm alien...meet Lu–La. Farmageddon – landing in Irish cinemas October Afro–Latin evening featuring Dance Workshops and Social dance. 18th. Experience the Latin Rhythms and their Culture. Something Strange lights over the quiet town of Mossingham herald the different for all ages to join. No partner required arrival of a mystery visitor from far across the galaxy…When the intergalactic visitor – an impish and adorable alien called LU–LA 7.30pm: Introduction to the History of Salsa Music & Dance by – crash–lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun soon sees an Pedro Alberto (Theory) opportunity for alien–powered fun and adventure and sets off on 8.00pm–9.00pm: Introduction to Salsa (Practice) a mission to shepherd LU–LA home. Her magical alien powers, 9.00pm–10.00pm: Social Dancing irrepressible mischief and galactic sized burps soon have the flock enchanted. Shaun takes his new extra–terrestrial friend on the road Salsa Bay Galway promotes Afro Latin Dance, Music and Culture to Mossingham Forest to find her lost spaceship, unaware that a in Ireland since 2007. sinister alien–hunting agency is on their trail. Pedro Alberto is a Dance Teacher, Professor de Capoeira, Can Shaun and the flock avert Farmageddon on Mossy Bottom Sambista, Musician, Performer, Choreographer, DJ and Artist. He Farm before it’s too late? is the creator of the Afro Latin Dance Project and the Salsa Bay Dance School in Galway and has taught widely in Ireland and abroad. Pedro has been teaching in Galway and around Ireland for Galway Christian Fellowship, 47 over 10 years. Pedro’s passion and emotions in dance are evident Planet Science Kidz – Slime Labs New Life Centre, Monivea when you see him on the dance floor, but what will stand out Road, Ballybrit H91 H2W8 more is his big smile and the sense of musicality and fun. This he 083 3422 249 4pm–6pm shares, along with his love for music and dance, in his entertaining and high energy dance classes. Currently teaches Salsa, Bachata Children explore the of polymers and get creative, using and Kizomba classes in Galway. googly eyes to create slime monsters and make slime bubbles. Children will also learn about exothermic reactions and measure pH of different household goods. One not to be missed! Ages 5–12yrs Booking essential: https://www.planetsciencekidz.com/book–online/slime–labs–culture– night–galway/book

22 23 50 Saolta Arts presents Culture Night Newcastle Road 52 Sonke United Methodist/ H91 YR71 Presbyterian Church, at University Hospital Galway 091 544 979 Victoria Place H91 TW21 085 771 7670 6pm–7pm 7pm–9pm Winner of the Ó Riada Gold Medal for harp, Úna Ní Fhlannagáin An interactive, inclusive evening of dance, song and is a harper and singer based in Galway. Rooted in the jigs and music, performed by SONKE choir. SONKE prefers to reels of North Clare and the sean–nós singing of , perform “in the round”, thereby opening up a physical she is also influenced by American post–minimalists and free and sensory space for the audience to become a jazz. Playing music since age 3, she has since performed all over vital part of the event. SONKE always focuses on Europe, and in North America, the Middle East, and Asia. Artistic inclusiveness, and embraces diversity, so that as many collaborations include Celtic music icon Alan Stivell, Grammy– people as possible can experience the energy that winner Bobby McFerrin, and free jazz legend, Anthony Braxton. A SONKE has to offer. As this is an evening for celebrating soulful performer, she strives to create emotional connection with culture in general and Irish in particular, SONKE plans her audience; to bring solace and joy! Performance from 6–7pm to offer a programme that while adhering to our world in the main foyer of UHG. music repertoire, also focuses strongly on Irish culture, with a strong emphasis on what Galway in particular has 7.30pm to offer. Galway is a multicultural city; its citizens can enjoy the best of world and indigenous music and song. Exhibition launch of ‘Wild Atlantic Photographer, Through the In light of this, the songs will reflect the multicultural Lens of Dr Michael Sugrue.’ An exhibition of photos and verse nature of the city. from Dr. Michael Sugrue’s new book depicting the Wild Atlantic Way. Join us on the arts corridor on Friday September 20th at 7.30pm to launch ‘Wild Atlantic Photographer Through the lens of Dr Michael Sugrue’.

Sing! Knocknacarra Community Centre 53 St Nicholas Collegiate Church – St Nicholas Collegiate 51 Cappagh Road, Barna, H91 R6PW Church, 7 Lombard St. A Natural Voice Workshop for All 091 525 846 Open House with Guided Tours H91 PY20 086 389 8777

7pm–8pm 7pm–9pm Anyone can sing! This Natural Voice workshop will guide The church will be open and the Town Crier, Liam Silke, and participants through the world of singing. Enjoy singing others, in medieval dress, will be on hand to give guided tours. in a group, learning harmonies from around the world. Volunteers will be on hand to help and answer questions. A Everything is learned by ear. Treasure Trail will be available for younger visitors. Free teas There will be a chance to learn about our own voice and and coffees will be available. to explore singing with others in a relaxed, friendly setting with the fabulous Kate Duignan, a brilliant Natural Voice facilitator and founder of the Ad Hoc Choir.

24 25 54 Strange Brew Showcase at Róisín Dubh 9 Dominick Street Upper 56 Spás Déantóirí–Clár Techspace Spás Déantóirí–Clár Techspace H91 N4AP Aras na nGael 091 586 540 45 Dominick St, Lr H91 E1NY 091 567 824 8pm–11.30pm 5pm–8pm Strange Brew is a Galway based record label releasing some That’s Life, the award–winning disability programme invites you of the most interesting music from some of the country’s most to Techspace a national network that supports educators and exciting artists. This culture night, they present an intimate show youth workers who want to incorporate digital creativity within from two of their acts. Galway native Anna Mullarkey is a multi– youth settings. Clár Techspace, its counterpart, will instrumentalist composer, performer and producer. Specializing open up its new ‘Spás Déantóirí’ or ‘Maker Space’ to the public for in piano, synth and vocals. Her compositions vary in style from Culture Night at Áras na nGael. Located on the 2nd floor of Áras folk, jazz to electronica, her new solo electronic project weaving na nGael, Clár Techspace has a focus on young people’s creative her voice with analogue synthesizers to create atmospheric development and will be demonstrating some of the amazing electronica. Tech–activities that are available in the space including 3d Printing, Paddy Hanna’s second album, 2018’s Frankly, I Mutate was Greenscreen, Virtual Reality, and Makey Makey. Open to the public hailed by critics as ‘essential’ (Uproxx), ‘Superb’ (The Quietus) on a drop–in basis from 5pm–8pm. Buail isteach! and ‘As Brilliantly distinctive as they come’ (Sunday ). He also received considerable coverage in Stereogum, with Journalist Ryan Leas hailing him as an unsung hero of the Irish music scene. He recently opened for Burt Bacharach’s That’s Life – Magic Garden Nuns’ Island Irish tour, and was invited to perform Raindrops with Burt for the 57 Theatre encore at the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top. Think Nuns Island Jarvis Cocker meets Scott Walker, and you’ll scratch the surface. H91 H322 5pm–9pm That’s Life, the award–winning disability programme invites you to An Taibhdhearc, experience Magic Garden. Come and be immersed in a beautiful 55 garden–themed installation of towering flowers, butterflies, bees 19 Middle St, and interactive projections, with a specially curated soundtrack and H91 RX76 visuals by That’s Life DJs and VJs. 7pm–8.30pm ‘An tSaothraí’, leagan Gaeilge den bhunscannán ‘The Breadwinner’ Ón Stiúrthóir Nora Twomey agus stiúideo beochana Cartoon Saloon (a chruthaigh Amhrán na Mara agus Rún Cheannanais Mhóir). Insíonn An tSaothraí scéal Raven Terrace Parvana, cailín óg 11 bliain d’aois atá ag fás aníos faoin Third Space – Perma–Culture Night on the Canal 58 089 251 0960 Taliban san Afganastáin in 2001. Nuair a ghabhtar a hathair in éagóir, cuireann Parvana cruth buachalla uirthi féin le tacú lena 6pm–8pm teaghlach. Le buanseasmhacht neamheaglach, agus Parvana ag baint neart as na scéalta a d’inis a hathair di, ar deireadh Third Space Galway’s Yurt will be on Raven’s Terrace from cuireann sí a beatha féin i gcontúirt le fáil amach an bhfuil sé 6pm to 8pm with guests and Third Space Galway members fós beo. Scéal corraitheach agus draíochtach é, is scéal tráthúil hosting a walk of Galway’s Permaculture Trail at 7pm. Back at agus spreagúil é faoi chumhacht tharchéimnitheach na scéalta, the yurt we’ll be offering samples of locally grown organic plant agus a gcumas le muid a aontú le chéile agus a leigheas.’ produce from TSG Permaculture garden projects and plots 15+ agus caithfear suíocháin a chur in áirithe roimh ré. along the canal, as well as an exhibition of Third Space’s re– imagined greener Galway, with artwork by Noreen Moore.

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5pm–7pm Let the The launch of an exhibition of paintings by celebrated Polish artist Zbigniew Nowicki, presented by the Bardzo Ładnie Foundation and Margaret Nolan and toured specially to magic in Galway from Poland for Culture Night. Bímis faoi gheasa na (un)titled Pleasure, 60 24 Abbeygate Street Upper draíochta H91 AK82 091 536 546 6pm–9pm Galway will be the European Beidh Gaillimh mar Capital of Culture in 2020. Phríomhchathair Chultúir na A launch event to promote the print issue of (un)titled, a new hEorpa in 2020. publication for young and emerging artists curated by Saffron Lily. As one of the largest cultural The aim of this publication is to support and elevate the diverse events in the world, Galway Mar cheann de na himeachtaí voices of emerging artists in the platform of a publication. The event 2020 promises to deliver a cultúrtha is mó ar domhan, will be held in Pleasure on Abbeygate street, a new space dedicated year of thrilling, life-enhancing geallann Gaillimh 2020 go to music and club culture reimagined in a daytime setting. There experiences through culture and mbeidh bliain den scoth will be live sets performed by emerging DJ artists on the night. The projects are youth led and promote alternative space for young the arts. d’imeachtaí iontacha tríd an people. The exciting pan-European gcultúr agus na healaíona. programme for the year will see Feicfidh an clár iontach pan- events in unexpected venues Eorpach seo imeachtaí in ionaid and locations throughout the 61 Write On Westside – Building New Bridges Westside Public Library agus i suíomhanna neamhghnácha Seamus Quirke Road region on the islands, in remote ar fud an réigiúin, ar na hoileáin, H91 Y067 villages, in fields, mountains and i sráidbhailte tuaithe, i ngoirt, ar on beaches. 6pm–9pm 091 520 616 shléibhte, agus ar thránna. From food, music, dance, Beidh bia, ceol, damhsa, The Write–on Group is proud to present the publication launch of literature and visual arts to poetry, Building New Bridges by group co–founder Frank Fahy. Please join theatre, sport and largescale litríocht, na físealaíona, filíocht, us on Culture Night for the launch and an evening of readings, songs spectacle, everyone will get the amharclannaíocht, spórt agus and entertainment, including readings from the Write On anthologis, opportunity to enjoy a fun-filled, mórthaispeántais ann, agus beidh 2019 and 2020. Write–on is a voluntary, not–for–profit community once-in-a-lifetime experience. deis ag gach duine sult a bhaint as group. All proceeds from sales are used to fund the writing activities eispéireas nach mbeidh acu ach of the group. uair amháin ina . www.galway2020.ie #Galway2020

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We would like to thank all the artists, creatives, groups and contributors who have worked so hard to bring Culture Night to Galway City. Special thanks to Hilda Reid (Wish Design Solutions), Vinny Browne (Galway Bay FM Arts Show), Keith Finnegan and Katie Finnegan (Galway Bay FM) Fionnuala Gallagher, Riona Hughes and John Caulfield (NUI Galway), Ronnie O’Gorman and Maire McCarthy (), Boyd Challenger, Reg Gordon, Diarmuid Clifford, Frank Cummins, the team at Galway 2020, Sharon O’Grady (Arts Officer, Galway ) and Aimee Van Wylick and team at Culture Night.

Culture Night at : Deirdre Headd, Brian Barrett, Thomas Connell, Loretta Raftery, Angela Breslin, Maire Mortimer, Jason , Stephen Healy, Ruairi Lehmann, Caitriona Morgan, Ann Marie Costello and James Harrold.

Social Media: Tracey Ferguson Design: Hilda Reid (Wish Design Solutions)

Galway City Arts Office, City Hall, College Road, Galway 091 536 546 | [email protected] | www.galwaycity.ie

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