Programme of Events July - September 2015 Galway Is Bidding to Become the We Want to Hear from You! Galway European Capital of Culture in 2020

Programme of Events July - September 2015 Galway is bidding to become the We want to hear from you! Galway European Capital of Culture in 2020. 2020 is looking to hear about your ideas The bid represents an opportunity for and visions for Galway in the future. us to come together as a community, Interested in joining the wider voluntary to reﬂ ect on the uniqueness of our team? We’d love to have you on board. Galway culture and to celebrate Talk to us by emailing the richness and diversity of our shared European culture. [email protected] Visit us at the It is as much about celebrating our past as it is about collectively Cornstore in Galway city centre Let’s make Galway planning for our future. Upload your visions and ideas at Galway2020.ie Or give us a call on the European 091 894 394 Capital of Culture in 2020!

@galway2020 #IBackGalway CULTUREFOX.IE TOWN HALL THEATRE · BLACK BOX THEATRE · TOWN HALL STUDIO 5 HOW TO BOOK? July - September 2015 programme at a glance 1. CLICK Buy online twenty-four hours at www.tht.ie. MONTH DATE EVENT NAME TIME VENUE EVENT TYPE PAGE You can now choose your seat when you book online for both the Town Hall AND Black Box. JUNE SAT 27 THE SPEKS 1PM THT FAMILY 6 2. CALL SAT 27 SEAN KEANE 8PM THT MUSIC 6 Phone 091 569777 Mon-Sat 10am -7.30pm. Visa, MasterCard and Visa Debit are accepted. TUE 30 AL-ANDAR FLAMENCO 8PM STUDIO MUSIC 6

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i a C o h m THT Town Hall Theatre · BB Black Box Theatre · STUDIO Town Hall Studio · GRC Galway Rowing Club 6 7 THISISPOPBABY presents THE SPEKS Sean Keane GRANNY’S SUITCASE Panti Sat 27 June 1pm HIGH HEELS € Sat 27 June 8pm Tickets 7* Tickets €20* IN LOW PLACES

Sean Keane is going back to his roots in music. In this Sat 4 July 8pm brand new one-man show, set in his grandmother’s Tickets €20* kitchen as he searches through her old leather suitcase where she held all the words of many famous songs collected from people who visited her home Join Ireland’s High Queen, National Treasure, in Carragh near Caherlistrane, Sean combines songs Performance Giant and Accidental Activist Panti and stories of how he was influenced to sing in the Bliss in her smash hit comedy show, High Heels traditional way from a very early age. Featuring many in Low Places. well-known favourites like A Stór Mo Chroí, Dear Little Isle, May Morning Dew and Erin’s Lovely Home. High Heels in Low Places is her riotous stand-up show about life after ‘Pantigate’, which played to rave reviews and chock-a-block houses across Ireland. COLOURS FRINGE FESTIVAL Al-Andar Flamenco Company Charting brushes with infamy, near misses with fame, and adventures in the seedy underbelly, LUNA Y MARTE Wolf Meets World Productions Panti invites you in to her hyper-real, stiletto- shaped world, in a storytelling tour de force A ROOM WITH NO VIEW where she promises to say the un-sayable. The Speks present a lively mix of nursery Tue 30 June 8.30pm “Exquisitely tart-tongued comedy… rhymes and sing-along songs set to acoustic Tickets €13*/€11* Irish music which will have adults and kids electrically revealing and masterful” Wed 1 to Sat 4 July 8:30pm HHHHH jumping in their seats. They live on a mysterious In their new show “Luna y Marte”, Tickets€10* island off the coast of Co Clare called Glasses Al-Andar brings you the unique sensitivity THE IRISH TIMES Island where everybody wears glasses! The and passion of this tradition from Southern Back by popular demand, A Room With No View “Comic genius.” Speks have won a Parents’ Choice Music Spain. This exceptional combination of Award in the US where their music has been returns to the Town Hall Studio for four nights as part HHHH artists includes dancer/ choreographer of The Colours Fringe Festival. described as ‘’Riverdance for toddlers’’ and they team Fatima Lucia and Patricia Bolonia, on IRISH INDEPENDENT encourage kids to sing, scream, clap and dance their first joint tour, accompanied by the along during their performances! A Room With No View is a showcase of two one act “Wickedly funny.” pulsing beats of Javier Mula’s guitar and plays that highlights the intricate misunderstood HHHH Stephanie Swanton’s evocative violin. condition of mental illness in Irish society. THE GUARDIAN 8 9 The Galway Film Fleadh returns for its 27th year, on the heels of Galway being designated an official UNESCO City of Film and the Film Fleadh itself being named as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World. As ever, this year’s COLOURS FRINGE FESTIVAL WALKING WISDOM 27th GALWAY FILM FLEADH programme of films and events has been curated to have something for everyone – locally, nationally and internationally. www.galwayfilmfleadh.com Wolf Meets World Productions WOODQUAY 7-12 July 2015 The 27th Film Fleadh will open with the World Premiere of My Name is Emily, the debut feature from award-winning shorts director Simon Fitzmaurice. This road movie turned love story, starring Evanna Lynch (better known as Luna STEVE BENNETT & Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay Lovegood from the Harry Potter franchise) and Michael Smiley (Kill List; A Field in England), was directed entirely through the use of iris-recognition software. Sat 18 July 3pm BRIAN KELLY Tickets€8* Among the many World, European and Irish Premieres of New Irish Cinema, the Film Fleadh will host a Gala Premiere of the Oscar® nominated Song of the Sea; a sumptuous animation about a little girl who can turn into a seal and goes on an adventure with her brother to save the spirit world and other magical beings like her. Mon 6 July 8.30pm This year’s country-in-focus will be the Netherlands and the Film Fleadh will host a delegation of Dutch filmmakers, Tickets€5* bringing to Galway a feast of contemporary Dutch features and documentaries, such as Son of Mine; Prince; Zurich and the Dutch-Irish co-production The Surprise. This and much more, including the details of this year’s Masterclasses, Public Interview, Irish Tribute and Oscar®-hopeful short films will all be revealed when the full Film Fleadh programme launches on June 23rd.

. OPENING NIGHT FILM NEW IRISH CINEMA A Conversation on Creative Tue 7 July 7:30pm, Tickets €20* Fri 10 July 10pm, Tickets €10* Cities with Bernadette Divilly, Woodquay resident MY NAME IS EMILY DIR: SIMON FITZMAURICE PURSUIT DIR: PAUL MERCIER Sheila Gallagher, Education 16-year-old Emily runs away from her foster home to find her visionary A thriller inspired by Irish folk legend, Pursuit is a tale of love, betrayal Facilitator Eleanor writer father, locked away in a psychiatric institution. and revenge and the pursuit of a life beyond crime. Hough, and City Architect Rosemarie Webb. Chair: Dr. Nessa Cronin.

The event will be “an adept entertainer with an engagingly completed with a silent wry sense of humour” CHORTLE walking tour, exploring Woodquay by using our physical bodies and GALA PREMIERE THE NETHERLANDS IN FOCUS Two of Galway’s finest funny lads with guitars join forces common sense to bring Thurs 9 July 6pm, Tickets €15* Sun 13 July 8.15 pm, Tickets €10* to bring you an evening of music, comedy and surprises. presence to universal SONG OF THE SEA DIR: TOMM MOORE ZURICH DIR: SACHA POLAK Steve Bennett (Edfringe, Electric Picnic, Body&Soul), design. The latest Oscar® nominated film from Cartoon Saloon, this heart-warming Zurich is a visually rich, emotionally charged, sense-scrambling energetic and charming comedian is becoming a “Groan story combines Irish mythology with an all-star Irish cast. Stars Brendan character study of Nina, a lost soul adrift along the lonely highways Giaf.ie/firstthought Up”. Help from Brian Kelly, better known as one-third of Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan and David Rawle will be in attendance. Ticket and truck stops that crisscross Northern Europe, looking to atone for bernadettedivilly.com/ international pop sensations So Cow. includes admission to reception with music by Kíla. an unforgivable and unspeakable past. walking-wisdom/ My Name is Emily 10 11 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Full details on www.giaf.ie 13-26 JULY 2015

IRISH PREMIERE

GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS “Frank McGuinness’ new play The Match Box, is a stunner.” THE MATCH BOX THE OBSERVER BY FRANK McGUINNESS

Starring CATHY BELTON Directed by JOAN SHEEHY

‘I think it fair to say all hell broke loose when I finished speaking.’

The ties that bind can never be broken and the shocking events that bring Sal to a remote exile on Valentia Island are as unexpected as they are brutal. Frank McGuinness has created an intriguing heroine, a woman to be pitied and feared in equal measure. Her compelling story begs only one question; what would you do if pushed to the very edge? Wed 15 - Sun 26 July 8pm Galway’s Cathy Belton, one of Ireland’s leading actors, makes her long awaited Festival debut in The Match Box. No Interval Matinees Thurs 23 & Sat 25 July 2pm Cathy starred in the 2014 film Philomena directed by Stephen Frears, opposite Judi No show Mon 20 July Dench and Steve Coogan, and most recently appeared in A Little Chaos opposite Kate Tickets €20* - €29* Winslet, directed by Alan Rickman. She also stars in the new TV3 drama Red Rock. Duration 1 hr 40 mins approx. The creative team includes set & lighting design by Paul Keogan, original music by Teho Teardo and sound design by Helen Atkinson. BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL “It’s rare to find storytelling as sharply Frank McGuinness’ plays include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Tues 21 July and simply involving as this.” Towards the Somme, Carthaginians, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and his Tony Award Post–show talk with the company

THE TELEGRAPH winning adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. COLM HOGAN PHOTO: giaf.ie/thematchbox 12 13 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Full details on www.giaf.ie 13-26 JULY 2015

IRISH PREMIERE Exhibit B is a deeply moving work created by South African artist Brett Bailey and lies IRISH PREMIERE “Shechter is a magnificent, somewhere between performance and installation. one of a kind choreographer.” THIRD WORLD BUNFIGHT In a powerful critique of racism, 13 live installations examine the colonial policies HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY THE GUARDIAN and history of Europe in Africa. As spectators walk through Exhibit B to the sound of lamentations sung live by a Namibian choir, the audience gaze is unexpectedly returned. “One of the sharpest, most EXHIBIT B Collectively each scene confronts colonial atrocities and the plight of immigrants today. DEGENERATION daring choreographers/ Described by legendary theatre director Peter Brook as ‘an extraordinary achievement’, composers working today…” CREATED BY BRETT BAILEY this haunting work sets out to subvert a disturbing phenomenon, unpacking the histories CHOREOGRAPHY AND MUSIC BY HOFESH SHECHTER VOGUE and turning the notion of exotic spectacle on its head.

“Terrible and magnificent… should run for several months so that all government ministers and scholars can attend.” The Hofesh Shechter Company THE GUARDIAN wowed Galway Festival audiences in 2010 with the spellbinding Political Mother. Their return to Galway with their new show deGeneration is a much anticipated and very exciting prospect. Tues 14 & Fri 17 July 4pm - 8pm deGeneration is an evening of Wed 15, Thurs 16, Sat 18 & Sun 19 July 1pm - 8pm three works where the company’s € Tickets 20* extraordinarily talented young Walk through performance lasting approx. 40 minutes dancers tackle two creations from Tickets available at 20 minute intervals Shechter’s canon, Cult (2004) and Age 15+, contains nudity Fragments (2003), the works that Tues 21, Wed 22 & Fri 24 July 8pm introduced his cinematic, smoky brand of dance to the world Thurs 23 & Sat 25 July 7pm € € BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL with a bang. Tickets 20* - 29* Thurs 16 July Post–show talk with Brett Bailey and the company Completing the evening is Duration 1 hr 20 mins approx. giaf.ie/exhibitbgiaf.ie/hofesh Disappearing Act (2015) adapted from an earlier Shechter work BACKSTAGE AT THE FESTIVAL Under a Rock, and reworked 22 July especially for and inspired by the Post–show talk with the company

PHOTO: SOFIE KNIFF PHOTO: VICTOR PHOTO: F R ANKOWSKI new dancers of the company. giaf.ie/hofesh 14 15 MICHAEL DISKIN ARTS BURSARY AWARD WINNER Fri 21 & Sat 22 August 8pm Twin Productions Presents Lyrics by LYNN AHERNS Tickets €15*/€12* Music by Fregoli Theatre Company By kind permission of Josef Weinberger Ltd STEPHEN FLAHERTY Group rates available BRENDAN GRACE Co-conceived by ERIC IDLE Based on the works of Dr. Seuss PLEASURE GROUND “bog gothic… reminiscent of The Genial Family Comedian By JARLATH TIVNAN Patrick McCabe” NO MORE WORKHORSE ON SHUR I’LL BE (2014) 43 Years of Laughing at… “a marriage of brutality and tenderness” Sat 29 August 8pm IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE ON DORSET STREET TOYS Tickets €25*

‘Back then I thought it was perfection. But things Brendan Grace, the genial and much loved family change. Oh yes, they do.’ comedian, is celebrating 43 years in the comedy business and is now more popular than at any time in his career A group of friends who’ve gone their separate ways to date - and what an illustrious career that has been! meet back at their teenage haunt, the town park Brendan’s latest show features some brand new material Wed 12 - Sun 16 August and playground, known as the Pleasure Ground. and some ‘Old Favourites’ from his vast repertoire over Wed, Thurs & Fri 7pm The town is dying, the Pleasure Ground’s glory has the last 43 years. His sense of timing and ability to read faded, and life hasn’t quite matched up to youthful an audience is without equal. And the brilliant ‘Bottler’ Sat & Sun 2pm & 6pm expectations. Over their night together, buried character is legendary and is now featured at every € € Tickets 18*/ 16* secrets become unearthed, past grievances boil performance. Brendan has a very special bond with Irish € Preview Wed 15* over, and scores are settled. audiences and is much loved by young and old not least because he gives very generously of his time after each Performed by Kate Murray, Peter Shine, Concert. The ‘Meet and Greet’ is now very much part and Eilish McCarthy and Jarlath Tivnan parcel of each show. Directed by Maria Tivnan THE MUSICAL No Ropes Fri 21- Sat 22 Aug 8.30pm THE OPEN COUPLE Tickets €10*/€8* Seussical brings all of your The colourful characters Seussical is a delightful show Directors No Ropes is a new, Galway based theatre company favorite Dr. Seuss characters transport us from the Jungle of for adults and children alike. This Brian Power & Seán Power whose aim is to challenge our understanding of Cast: Deirdre Bhreatnach, Billy Lyons, Chris Campbell lovingly to life, including Horton Nool to the Circus McGurkus to catchy musical score emerges as a societal boundaries through the production of and guest starring Diarmuid de Faoite the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, the invisible world of the ‘Who’s’. Seussian Gumbo of musical styles Choreographers innovative and little known dramatic works. Director Mairéad Folan Gertrude McFuzz, Mayzie La Bird, Join The Cat in the Hat, Horton ranging from Latin to Pop, Swing Katie Upton & Declan J. Gardiner This fast-paced, satirical three-hander is written Set Design Dara McGee The Wichersham Brothers, The the Elephant and friends as they to Gospel, Rhythm n’Blues to Funk. Music Director & Vocal Director by Italian Nobel laureate Dario Fo and his wife Light Design Jim Faulkner Sour Kangaroo, a little boy with take you on a journey into the So let your toes tap, your fingers Shane Farrell Franca Rame. Written in 1983, the play has a very Sound Design Conor McBrierty a big imagination JoJo - and fantastical, bombastical and snap, and your imagination run contemporary resonance and explores the sexual Music Composer Peter Mannion many more. songtastical world of Dr Seuss. wild in the world of Dr. Seuss. politics of a doomed ‘modern’ marriage. Stage Manager Jane Talbot 16 17 IRISH YOUTH OPERA HANDEL’S VERNON GOD LITTLE IYO will perform the opera in an English translation prepared for English National Opera AGRIPPINA (2007) by Amanda Holden. According to the critic Donald Jay Grout, the unprecedented By DBC PIERRE success of the opera owed much to the libretto in which “irony, deception and intrigue BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2003 pervade the humorous escapades of its well-defined characters”. With its different moods backed by scintillating music and a much more fluid musical structure than 100 BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD BY GQ MAGAZINE Thurs 10 September 8pm many of Handel’s later operas, Agrippina is a gem. € € BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE AWARD FOR COMIC WRITING 2003 Tickets 25*/ 20* THE YOUNG VIC AUDIENCE VOTED IT IN THE TOP 3 SHOWS OF THE LAST TWENTY FIVE YEARS. IYO provides an invaluable platform for young Irish singers to perform in full-scale www.irishyouthopera.ie professional operas chosen specifically to showcase their talents. The company also provides Irish audiences with the opportunity to enjoy this wealth of young Irish talent. Co-produced by NI Opera, in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and Lime Tree Thurs 3 - Sat 12 September 8pm (excl. Sun 6) Theatre Limerick Previews Thurs 3 - Sat 5 September 8pm Funded by an Arts Council of Ireland Opera Production Award Tickets €18*/€15*, Previews €12*

Vernon Little lives in a flea–bitten Texan town, “the barbeque sauce capital of the state”, where his best friend has just massacred sixteen of his classmates. Tommy Swarbrigg Promotions The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on the innocent Vernon who is arrested from the start of the story. As the saying goes – “when the going gets SING-ALONG WITH GOLDILOCKS tough, the tough get going” – Vernon hits the road and flees to Mexico pursued by a media circus of outlandish proportions. AND THE THREE BEARS

Vernon God Little is a riotous, irreverent adventure with a fast-talking fifteen The much loved fairy-tale comes to the stage in an unforgettable live stage year old who cruelly ends up on a version of death row driven by the rules of production of song and laughter. reality TV. Desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Vernon’s innate innocence exposes the nature of the American experience of justice in the eye of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Ruff The Dog perform live on stage in an a media storm, and since he’s a boy of such sweetness, he makes death row a exciting and fun filled musical production. respectable address. The popular tale takes a few twists and turn along the way with other new puppet characters and hopefully a happy ever after. Kids will learn that music can be found everywhere as they sing and dance to all their favourite songs. Throughout the show there are interactive moments that “The debut of one of the most original and seriously children and parents alike can enjoy. Watch your kids take part in action songs like funny narrative voices in recent times” Sun 13 September 2.30pm & 4.30pm the Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes, If You’re Happy and You Know It and Twinkle € THE OBSERVER Tickets 10* Twinkle Little Star as well as many other all time children’s favourites. 18 19 Clive Conway productions Loco and Reckless Productions It’s October 1978. Pope John Paul I is not long dead and Pat Farnon has JOHNNY DUHAN GALWAY/LORIENT CITY Mon 14 September 8pm THE MAN IN THE ‘some business’ to do in town. The TWINNING CELEBRATION FACING THE MUSIC Tickets €25* Man In The Woman’s Shoes follows A Life in Musical Theatre WOMAN’S SHOES Pat as he walks the 5 miles from Fri 18 September 8pm CÉILÍ/FEST NOZ By MIKEL MURFI his wee white cottage to town and Tickets €20*/€18* WITH back. He is an ageing man with a It is still one of the best kept boundless enthusiasm for life. PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE secrets in show business that Wed 16 & Thurs 17 September 8pm Johnny Duhan’s greatest achievement is a Hilariously funny, tender and at IN CONVERSATION WITH Patricia Routledge trained not Tickets €15*/€12* quartet of epic albums - Just Another Town, times downright daft, The Man In only as an actress but also as To The Light, The Voyage and Flame - which Sat 19 September 9pm The Woman’s Shoes will leave you EDWARD SECKERSON a singer and had considerable correspond to the four chapters of his lyrical Tickets €10* uplifted and in love with life again. experience and success in autobiography, To The Light. Johnny’s songs Group rates available musical theatre, both in the UK are sung worldwide in a variety of languages, and in the US. Her many awards thanks to the focus put on them by Christy include a Tony for her Broadway Moore, The Dubliners, Mary Black and hosts of performance in the Styne- other Irish and international singers. His song Fragile Theatre Company Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Harburg musical Darling of The Voyage has become a modern classic. Galway/Lorient city twinning with a special Céilí/ the Day and a Laurence Olivier Christy Moore has termed Johnny “One of our KICKING Fest Noz. A special night of Breton and Irish music Award for her performance in greatest songwriters.” And the late Ronnie and dance which merges the highly popular Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Drew described him as “one of my favourite OSCAR’S CORPSE communal dance of Brittany with the lively Céilí In this fascinating encounter songwriters.” music and dance of Galway. This concert is one of with the writer and broadcaster a number of celebratory activities taking place in EDWARD SECKERSON she Thurs 17 - Sat 19 September 8.30pm Galway over the weekend. recalls this very special part of Tickets €10*/€8* her career with access to some rare and treasured recordings. The works of Oscar Wilde are on trial again. Using actual court transcripts, narration, dramatization and projected images, this stage documentary brings to life the true story of ‘Salome’ dancer, Maud Allen and her libel case against a fascist British MP. By turns this play is comedic, tragic and poignant. “A physical comedian, blessed with plastic features, and with the vocal range of a ventriloquist, Murfi makes sheep, pigs, dogs, and even bees, come to life” “I always been fascinated with the IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE Pemberton Billing trial, and ‘Kicking Oscars Corpse’ is a delight...so well brought to life” “Astonishing - make no mistake, this is a high top performance” MICHAEL SWEENEY, SECRETARY OF THE THE NEW YORK TIMES OSCAR WILDE SOCIETY, LONDON 20 21 Trevor Knight & Honor Heffernan Fri 25 September 8pm THE WHISTLING GIRL Tickets €25* Marc Roberts will perform his critically acclaimed, award winning show ‘A tribute Thurs 24 September 8pm to the music of John Denver’. This includes all the songs from his Number 1 selling Tickets €18*/€16* album & many more! Marc is joined on stage by the well known and respected band the Conquerors. “I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn!” Lorraine McDonald will open the show with songs from the great Karen Carpenter. (Dorothy Parker) Marc’s tribute is a journey through John Denver’s life and music. He performs all the hits including Annie’s Song, Leaving on a jet plane, Take me home country roads, Some days are diamonds, Calypso, Thank God I’m a country boy… Composer Trevor Knight and singer Honor Heffernan are delighted to The show has been a huge success here in Ireland and toured internationally present The Whistling Girl, featuring new musical settings of the poetry of including Denver’s home town Colorado. the great Dorothy Parker.

Audiences can expect a darkly sardonic evening’s entertainment in which the American wit and critic’s words are given a sonic face-lift fusing ‘dirty’- cabaret, electronic-vaudeville, rock and jazz.

Mend & Makedo Theatre Co Written and directed by John A band of top Irish musicians including Garvan Gallagher/bass, Tom MacKenna (Who by Fire; Corner Boys, Jamieson/drums, Ed Deane/guitar and Trevor Knight/keyboards, will be LUCINDA SLY Breathless) the play, with a cast of fronted by internationally acclaimed vocalist and actress Honor Heffernan. nine, tells the true story of the last Wed 23 September 8pm woman to have been publicly hanged Tickets €16*/€14* in Ireland. Lucinda Sly was a Protestant, her lover, John Dempsey was a Catholic; Sat 26 September 8pm € € Lucinda was a landowner, Dempsey Tickets 15*/ 13* was her labourer; Lucinda was 58, Dempsey was 26 - together, they A contemporary style musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life murdered her husband Walter Sly. of a marriage, from meeting to break-up… or from break-up to meeting, Ten thousand people thronged Carlow depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown, The Last town in March of 1835 to see them Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer hang. Intended for an adult audience. and an actress told from both points of view.

Starring Shane Kelly & Sarah Corcoran Musical Director: Shane Farrell 22 23 MCD presents BLACK BOX THEATRE NEXT SEASON INCLUDES: Wed 30 September 8pm Bill Bailey Tickets €30* LIMBOLAND BLACK BOX THEATRE THE NEW TRIANGLE The gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are, is the subject FEATURING of this brand new show. With his trademark JOHN SHEAHAN intelligence and sharp wit, Bill tells tales of finding himself in this halfway place. From DAMIEN DEMPSEY & his countless global travels, he recounts the DECLAN O’ROURKE hilarious saga of a disastrous family trip to Mon 5 October 8pm, Norway to see the Northern Lights. He rails Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents € against a world that doesn’t match up to Tickets 25* our expectations and contemplates the true A GALA EVENING nature of happiness. And no Bill Bailey show would be complete OF MUSIC AND SONG A fundraiser for the Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust without music! AN EVENING WITH JUDY COLLINS Wed 30 September 8pm Tickets €16*/€14* WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARI HEST Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust presents a gala evening of music Wed 7 October 8pm and song featuring Christy Barry (one of Ireland’s best flute and tin whistle Tickets €25* players), Mary McPartlan (one of Ireland’s finest folk singers) and many Sun 27 Sept more special guests. For full details and updates on what promises to be a wonderful night of music, visit www.tht.ie. 2.30pm & 5.30pm Tickets €15*/€13* Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust runs the west of Ireland’s leading Arts Family Ticket (4 people) €48* “unmissable” and Health programme as a means of improving the hospital experience for For all the family, from age 3+ HHHH patients, staff and visitors. The arts trust believes access to the arts promotes THE HERALD SUN IN MELBOURNE well-being and enhances the hospital environment. All proceeds of the There is a magic place where Dinosaurs live and it’s right before your concert will go directly to the Arts Trust to fund its activities. eyes. Jurassic Adventures - set on a magical island with a brave cast, Sun 8 November 1.30pm & 4.30pm superb scenery and, of course, DINOSAURS - allows you follow the “solid gold” Mon 9 November 10.30am & 4.30pm footsteps of Doctor Grant’s team of explorers and laugh at their crazy THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD Tickets: adults €15*, children €13* antics as they search for proof that Dinosaurs still exist! Don’t miss. Family ticket €48*Schools rate available Galway is bidding to become the We want to hear from you! Galway European Capital of Culture in 2020. 2020 is looking to hear about your ideas The bid represents an opportunity for and visions for Galway in the future. us to come together as a community, Interested in joining the wider voluntary to reﬂ ect on the uniqueness of our team? We’d love to have you on board. Galway culture and to celebrate Talk to us by emailing the richness and diversity of our shared European culture. [email protected] Visit us at the It is as much about celebrating our past as it is about collectively Cornstore in Galway city centre Let’s make Galway planning for our future. Upload your visions and ideas at Galway2020.ie Or give us a call on the European 091 894 394 Capital of Culture in 2020!

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