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Galway International Arts Festival 14—27 July 2014
www.giaf.ie 2014 PROGRAMME : 1
Galway International Arts Festival 14 – 27 July 2014
At a glance
Chapatti PG 6
Ballyturk PG 4
Dragonus PG 16
RedBall Galway PG 21
The National PG 23 Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby PG 8
First Thought PG 50-54
Contents 4
Theatre & Spectacle
22 Music 39
Visual Arts
48
First Thought Talks
53 Comedy
#giaf 14
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Booking Information
59
Venue Information & Map
60
Festival Diary
BOOK NOW at www.giaf.ie In person from 16 June at Festival Box Office, Galway Tourist Office, Forster Street, Galway, Ireland. Phone: +353 91 566 577 2014 PROGRAMME : 1
Staff Credits
Chief Executive John Crumlish Artistic Director Paul Fahy Financial Controller Gerry Cleary Festival Administrator Elizabeth Duffy Head of Development Jeremy Hatch Aisling O’Sullivan, Friends Liaison Operations John Donnelly, Manager Aisling O’Sullivan Production Adam Fitzsimons, Manager Rob Usher, Production Co-Ordinator Box Office Frances Burke, Manager Andrea Healy, Manager Marketing Elaine Divilly, Manager Aisling McElvaney, Intern Publicity Gwen O’Sullivan, Manager Programmes Tracey Ferguson, Editorial Manager Volunteer Programme Hillary Kavanagh, Manager Amy Lavelle, Co-Ordinator Intern Ciara O’Reilly Artist Liaison Siobhán Forde, Hugh Lavelle Liam Parkinson, Philip Sweeney Photography & Filming Colm Hogan & Marina Levitina Festival TV Justin McCarthy, Director Leon Butler
Programme Consultants Eithne Hand – First Thought Talks Gugai McNamara – Festival Big Top Brendan O’Regan – Traditional Music Design Zero-G Web Design Pixel Design Print Castle Print Board of Directors Bernadette Mullarkey, Chair Padraic Brennan, John Grealish, Gary Joyce, Maccon Keane, Maria Mahon We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Arts Council and our other key funders, sponsors and friends for their continued and vital support. We would also like to thank you, the audience, and we look forward to seeing you in Galway in July. For regular Festival updates and news, check out Galway International Arts Festival’s online TV channel www.giaf.ie Galway International Arts Festival Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, Galway, Ireland Administration +353 91 509 700 E: info@giaf.ie Box Office +353 91 566 577 (from 16 June) www.giaf.ie
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2014 PROGRAMME : 3
Theatre | Ireland Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival present
Ballyturk
Written and directed by Enda Walsh Starring Cillian Murphy, Mikel Murfi and Stephen Rea
‘I thought we knew everything there was to know.’ BLACK BOX THEATRE, Dyke Road 10-27 July, 7pm Matinees 19 & 26 July, 2.30pm Previews 10-13 July No show 15 & 21 July Tickets €20 - €29.50 Duration 1 hr 30 mins approx. Backstage at the Festival 16 July Post-show talk with the cast and playwright giaf.ie/ballyturk
The lives of two men unravel quickly over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What is this room, and what might be beyond the walls? Gut-wrenchingly funny and achingly sad, and featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy, Ballyturk is an ambitious, profound and tender work from one of Ireland’s leading playwrights Enda Walsh. Cillian Murphy, who last appeared on stage in a sensational solo performance in Enda Walsh’s Misterman, stars alongside Walsh’s long-time collaborator Mikel Murfi, and the internationally-acclaimed actor Stephen Rea. Reuniting the creative team responsible for Misterman, sets and costumes are designed by Jamie Vartan and lighting is designed by Adam Silverman. Sound design is by Helen Atkinson with original music composed by Teho Teardo.
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World Premiere
‘One of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre.’
PHOTO: RICHARD GILLIGAN
THE GUARDIAN
2014 PROGRAMME : 5
Theatre | Ireland/USA
Northlight Theatre and Galway International Arts Festival present
Chapatti
By Christian O’Reilly Directed by BJ Jones Starring John Mahoney and Penny Slusher ‘But it’s just one of those days. One of those days where I feel like I’m wearing myself on the outside. My heart, my soul, all my soft bits.’ 6 : G A LW AY I N T E R N AT I O N A L A R T S F E S T I VA L
PHOTOS: MICHAEL BROSILOW
European Premiere
Romance is a distant memory for two lonely animal lovers living in Dublin. When forlorn Dan and his dog Chapatti cross paths with the amiable Betty and her nineteen cats, an unexpected spark begins a warm and gentle story about two people re-discovering the importance of human companionship. A beautifully poignant and extremely funny new play by Galway playwright Christian O’Reilly (The Good Father, Inside I’m Dancing) Chapatti makes its European debut in Galway following a critically acclaimed world-premiere run in Chicago this spring. Festival favourite John Mahoney, from TV’s Frasier, returns to the Galway stage following his superb performance in The Outgoing Tide in 2012. Mahoney stars opposite Penny Slusher who made her Festival debut in Stella & Lou last year.
TOWN HALL THEATRE, Courthouse Square 15-27 July, 8pm Matinees 18, 19, 25 & 26 July, 2pm No show 21 July Tickets €20 - €25 Duration 1 hour 30 mins approx. Backstage at the Festival 17 July Post-show talk with the cast, playwright and director giaf.ie/chapatti
‘A master class in acting.’ CHICAGO SUN TIMES
2014 PROGRAMME : 7
Theatre | UK
‘Walter Asmus’s production is beautiful and moving as well as chilling.’ THE TELEGR APH
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‘Lisa Dwan is sensationally good.’ THE E VENING STANDARD
Irish Premiere Royal Court Theatre and Mighty Mouth present
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby
IMAGE: LIS A DWAN IN RO CK ABY
by Samuel Beckett Directed by Walter Asmus Starring Lisa Dwan
Directed by Samuel Beckett’s long-time friend and collaborator Walter Asmus, this Beckett Trilogy is performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan following a critically acclaimed run at both the Royal Court Theatre and the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End. Not I is an intense monologue, set in a pitch-black space lit by a single beam of light. A disembodied female mouth floats eight feet above the stage and delivers a stream of consciousness, spoken, as Beckett directed, at the speed of thought. Footfalls is the moving story of May, a ghostly figure who paces back and forth like a metronome on a strip-bare landing outside her dying mother’s room. Completing the trilogy is Rockaby. Probably the most famous of Beckett’s last works, Rockaby explores loneliness and loss as a woman sits on her rocking chair - that appears to rock of its own accord - recounting moments from her past.
AN TAIBHDHEARC, Middle Street 22-26 July, 9pm Matinee 26 July, 3pm Tickets €20 - €25 Duration 1 hour approx. Backstage at the Festival 23 July Post-show talk with Lisa Dwan giaf.ie/beckett
Produced in association with Cusack Projects Ltd. 2014 PROGRAMME : 9
Theatre | Ireland Druid presents
Be Infants in Evil
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane 10-26 July, 8pm Previews 10, 11, 12, 14 July, 8pm Matinees 19, 23 & 26 July, 3pm No show 13, 20 July Tickets €18 - €26 Duration 2 hours approx. Backstage at the Festival Friday 25 July Post-show talk with the cast and director giaf.ie/beinfantsinevil
Fr. Patrick is newly appointed to a parish in Dublin. In his sacristy one morning he decides he has to face the inevitable. But two of his parishioners have other ideas. There is Noleen, a blind widow who knows more than she lets on to know, and Jacinta, an unmarried mother and recent Muslim convert who wants it in writing thats she’s left the church. Then there is Henry, a thirteen year-old boy who decides that this is the time to visit his old friend. At once playfully comic and uncompromisingly savage, Be Infants in Evil is an outstanding debut that complicates the story of modern Ireland, just when we thought we had it all figured out. Be Infants in Evil was staged as a rehearsed reading at Galway Arts Festival 2013 as part of the Druid Debuts Series.
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PHOTO: COLM HOGAN
By Brian Martin Directed by Oonagh Murphy
World Premiere
‘A world-class company rooted in the cultural fabric of Galway.’ THE IRISH TIMES
‘The only time there can ever be love is when there’s life, and that’s now.’ 2 0 1 4 P R O G R A M M E : 11
Theatre / Installation | Ireland
Galway International Arts Festival presents
Room 303
PHOTOS: COLM HOGAN
Written and directed by Enda Walsh ‘I look down from this bed into the big space beneath me...’
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A man has stopped travelling from town to town and from room to room - sharing the good word with people who give him tea and biscuits. All that’s left is this hotel room, his ageing body and a fat fly. Presented in installation in a gallery setting - Room 303 is an absorbing new text by Enda Walsh and voiced by Niall Buggy.
ABSOLUT FESTIVAL GALLERY, Market Street Monday 14 – Sunday 27 July 11am, 11.20am and 11.40am and every 20 mins thereafter with last cycle beginning at 5.40pm from Sunday-Wednesday and 7.40pm Thursday-Saturday. Tickets €5 Duration 13 minutes giaf.ie/room303
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Theatre | Ireland
‘Raymond Scannell’s fascinating new play...’ THE IRISH TIMES
Deep
RADISSON LIVE LOUNGE, Lough Atalia Road 14 July, 7.30pm 15-19 July, 9.30pm Tickets €16 - €18 Duration 1 hr 20 minutes approx. giaf.ie/deep
It’s the summer of 1988 and Cork’s emigration generation are following the beat… in perfect time for a new music movement simmering from Ireland’s first House Club ‘SWEAT@ Sir Henry’s’. Turning the tables on two decades, from the rise of Acid House to the Euro changeover, Deep examines the evolution of the Underground scene as it rises and falls through the eyes of a Vinyl Junkie. Deep features footage of nights at the club and exclusive documentary interviews with the club’s main figures. Raymond’s previous solo performance in Mimic which featured at Festival 2008 has since gone on to tour the world. Most recently he composed the music for THISISPOPBABY’s Alice in Funderland at the Abbey Theatre.
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PHOTO: MARK DUGGAN
Written and performed by Raymond Scanell Directed by Tom Creed
Theatre/Comedy | Ireland THISISPOPBABY continues to ‘redefine theatre for people left cold by traditional drama.’ THE IRISH TIMES
‘Comic genius.’ IRISH INDEPENDENT ( O N PA N T I )
THISISPOPBABY presents
Panti: High Heels in Low Places
P H O T O : RO N A N H E A LY & N I A L L S W E E N E Y
Written and performed by Panti Directed by Phillip McMahon National treasure, performance legend, accidental activist, join Panti in her first ever stand-up show High Heels in Low Places, a warm and wicked evening of outrageously fun tales. Charting brushes with infamy, near misses with fame, and adventures in the seedy underbelly, the ‘High Queen of Ireland’ invites you in to her ultra-padded, hyper-real, stiletto-shaped world, as she swops stories from the gutter and trades secrets of the stars. This is Panti’s fifth theatrical collaboration with THISISPOPBABY, following the recent smash-hit success of All Dolled Up Restitched at the Abbey Theatre.
RADISSON LIVE LOUNGE, Lough Atalia Road 22 & 23 July, 9.30pm Tickets €20 - €25 Duration 1 hr 20 minutes approx. giaf.ie/panti
2 0 1 4 P R O G R A M M E : 15
Spectacle | France
Irish Premiere
Dragonus EYRE SQUARE TO SPANISH ARCH 19 & 20 July, 10pm Free giaf.ie/dragonus
Heart-stopping acrobatic stilt-walkers, an electric rock-opera score with live musicians, pyrotechnics and a monumental moving dragon, this show transports you to the fantastic world of Compagnie Malabar. Spectacle, excitement and audience terror await in equal measure!
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PHOTO: VELISSARIOUS VOUTSAS
Compagnie Malabar presents
Spectacle | France
Irish Premiere
Hallali PHOTO: NIELS BENOIST
Les Philébulistes presents
A grand-scale spectacular performed on a gigantic architectural structure. Based on a new acrobatic, freestyle technique Hallali recalls the circus imagery of fantasy, flight, escape, and suspension of time in a beautifully playful and thrilling circus performance. This latest show from Les Philébulistes, one of France’s most exciting new circus companies, who wowed audiences at Festival 2011 with Arcane, is a truly original spectacle.
EYRE SQUARE 16 & 17 July, 6pm Free giaf.ie/hallali
2 0 1 4 P R O G R A M M E : 17
Theatre | Ireland
Galway Youth Theatre & Galway Community Theatre present
Branar presents
(A Play With Songs)
Devised by Branar, based on the book The Flower by John Light and Lisa Evans Directed by Marc Mac Lochlainn
By David Greig & Gordon McIntyre Directed by Andrew Flynn
Bláth
A quirky, charming love story by one of Scotland’s leading playwrights. Midsummer tells the story of Bob and Helena and a glorious lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts, hungover misery and self-loathing. It’s Midsummer’s weekend in Edinburgh. It’s raining. Two thirty somethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever. Which is why they do.
Bláth is based on the children’s book The Flower by John Light & Lisa Evans. Designed by the artist Maeve Clancy with original music by Colm Mac Con Iomaire (The Frames), Bláth is a non-verbal show that will enchant audiences as they enter a world made entirely of paper.
NUNS’ ISLAND THEATRE, Nuns’ Island
BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE, NUI Galway
14-26 July, 8pm
18 – 24 July, 12noon & 3pm
Matinees 19 & 26 July, 3pm | No show 20 July
Evening shows 19 & 20 July, 7pm
Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes approx.
Duration 40 minutes approx.
Tickets €16 - €18
Tickets €10 - €12.50
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Family Ticket €35 (4 people)
Produced in association with Roscommon Arts Centre and Limerick City of Culture. For audiences aged 7 years & upwards.
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P H OTO: B R E N DA N FO R E M A N N ( M I D SU M M E R), B OY D C H A L L E N G E R ( B L ÁT H)
Midsummer
Theatre | Ireland
World Premiere
‘A masterful storyteller… a thrilling tale.’ THE TIMES ON O’CONNOR’S STAR OF THE SE A
Blue Teapot Theatre Company presents
Moonfish Theatre and An Taibhdhearc present
Devised by Scott Williams and the Company Directed by Scott Williams Dramaturg: Gavin Kostick
Bunaithe ar an úrscéal le Joseph O’Connor Devised by Moonfish Theatre
PHOTO:(ID) REG GORDON
ID
Star of the Sea
ID: Identity ID: Intellectual Disability ‘Who do you think I am?’ ID experiences the world through the eyes of people with intellectual disability and questions our perceptions of identity along the way. Following their Galway Arts Festival debut with Christian O’Reilly’s heartbreakingly beautiful Sanctuary and a ground-breaking year in 2013, Blue Teapot return to the Festival with this provocative and entertaining new work conceived by the company in collaboration with Scott Williams and Gavin Kostick.
A gripping story of revenge and forgiveness. Scéal díoltais agus maithiúnais. In 1847 the famine ship Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. Among the passengers are those with secrets to hide - a silent maidservant, a ruined landlord, and an infamous murderer. Suite i gConamara, i Londain agus ar long an Ghorta Mhóir, pléann Star of the Sea ceisteanna teanga, talún agus cultúir. Blending language, song, movement and imagery, this exciting and inventive production by award-winning Moonfish Theatre brings Joseph O’Connor’s epic novel to the stage. Dráma cumhachtach, fuinniúil agus spreagúil ná caill é! Accessible to non-Irish speakers. Comhléiriú idir An Taibhdhearc agus Moonfish Theatre.
BLUE TEAPOT THEATRE, Munster Avenue
AN TAIBHDHEARC, Middle Street
16-19 & 23-26 July, 8pm
10-19 July, 8pm
Duration 1 hour 20 mins approx.
Previews 10, 11, 12 July, 8pm
Tickets €12 - €15
Matinee 19 July, 2.30pm | No show 13 July
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Duration 2 hours approx. Tickets €10.50 - €18.50 giaf.ie/starofthesea 2 0 1 4 P R O G R A M M E : 19
Spectacle | Slovenia
UK
LJUD presents
Artizani presents
A pink virus is spreading around the world and inviting everybody to join in! An interplanetary expedition of immigrants from outer space has landed on our planet. Their UFO crashed into a building in Galway where they have squatted and turned into an alien asylum. As a reaction to the Earth’s atmosphere they have all gained a new protective colour turning completely pink so we don’t take them too seriously! Exploring the city, nowhere is safe!
Giant lobsters take to the streets. As evolutionists predicted, the new masters of the planet have arisen from the seas to explore the city streets. Join us on this surreal walkabout with these overgrown inflatable crustaceans. A sight to behold, they cruise through the city in their personalised street carts, greeting all who weave their way into their curious claws. The most fun you’ll have with a lobster in this lifetime.
The Invasion Dance of the Lobsters
SHOP STREET & HIGH STREET
EYRE SQUARE TO SPANISH ARCH
25 July, 4pm, 26 July, 2pm & 4pm
15 & 16 July, 1pm / 3pm / 10pm
Free
Free
giaf.ie/theinvasion
giaf.ie/lobsters
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Visual Arts/Spectacle | USA
‘With RedBall’s occupation of urban spaces, what used to be neglected becomes a realm of possibilities.’ SCULPTURE MAGAZINE
Kurt Perschke
RedBall Galway CHECK ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES AND LOCATIONS 17—23 July, 10am - 7pm Free giaf.ie/redballgalway
PHOTO: KURT PER S CHKE
US artist Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project is a sculptural installation travelling around the globe, adopting cities as its canvas. Perschke uses RedBall to explore each city’s unique architectural landscape and history. With vision and wit, he squeezes RedBall between buildings and hoists it above bridges, punctuating overlooked possibilities. The city itself becomes a canvas of potential as the work searches for new opportunities. RedBall represents the immediate creative impulse embedded in all of us—the simple act of seeing afresh. Where would you put it?
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Music | Ireland
USA
Cathy Davey
Sarah Jarosz
Dublin born singer-songwriter Cathy Davey is a Choice Music Prize nominee and Meteor Ireland Music Award Winner known for her unique rock sound infused with hypnotic tones. Her melodies marry sensitivity and angst in equal measure, delivered in a powerful voice. Often compared to artists such as Björk, PJ Harvey and Kate Bush, she became a number one selling artist instantly. Her success continues with her latest album The Nameless which featured a number of successful singles including Reuben, Little Red, and Sing for Your Supper.
Rolling Stone has compared Sarah Jarosz to Gillian Welch; Mojo labelled her a ‘newgrass prodigy’ for her skills on banjo, guitar and mandolin; and the normally reserved New York Times admired her songwriting and instrumental prowess. Still only 23, and with three albums and three Grammy nominations under her belt, it may well be that you are experiencing the future of Americana.
‘There’s no better female songwriter in Irish music right now.’
‘One of acoustic music’s finest talents.’ THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE IRISH TIMES
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street Sunday 27 July, 8pm
CAMPBELL’S TAVERN, Cloughanover (30 mins from Galway City)
Tickets €16
Saturday 19 July, 8pm
giaf.ie/cathydavey
Tickets €22 giaf.ie/sarahjarosz
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Music | USA
‘Exquisite.’ T H E G U A R D I A N O N T R O U B L E W I L L F I N D M E
‘Took the O2 by storm…’ HOT PRESS
Galway Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present
The National
with special guests Phosphorescent
Following five-star rave reviews for both their recent live shows and latest release Trouble Will Find Me, which reached the top three in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, Brooklynbased indie rock band The National are well and truly on a roll. With six critically acclaimed albums and a reputation for great live shows, The National are now one of America’s favourite bands and are sure to deliver one of the most memorable Festival Big Top shows in recent years. Matthew Houck, the sole member of Phosphorescent has been compared to Bob Dylan and Will Oldham. The London Evening Standard declared him ‘the most significant American in his field since Kurt Cobain ‘.
FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field Wednesday 16 July Doors 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm Tickets €39.50 Standing giaf.ie/thenational
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Music | Ireland
Declan O’Rourke
Booka Brass Band
Charismatic singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke has achieved critical acclaim for his soulful love ballads, playing to sold-out crowds both nationally and internationally. He has performed on the same bill as Bob Dylan, and attracted the praise of countless industry giants including Paul Weller.
Booka Brass Band are Ireland’s first New Orleansstyle brass band. Performing together for just over a year, the band’s unique offering and incredible live energy has already brought them an unusual level of success. Followed by late show with Daithí, one of the most exciting music producers working in Ireland today.
‘Dark chocolate melting into your brain.’
‘Lighting a fire under Irish audiences.’
with String Quartet
support Brian Deady followed by late show with Daithí
THE IRISH TIMES
GOLDENPLEC
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
Thursday July 17th, 8pm
Saturday 19 July, 8pm
Tickets €16
Tickets €10
giaf.ie/declanorourke
giaf.ie/ bookabrassband
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Music | Ireland
Galway Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present
The Coronas
with special guests Walking On Cars
The Coronas make a welcome return to the Festival Big Top stage this July having delivered one of the most memorable concerts of Festival 2012. Winners of a prestigious Meteor Best Album Award in 2010, beating fellow nominees U2 and Snow Patrol, The Coronas are the biggest-selling independent group in Ireland with three albums, including their most recent release, the hugely popular Closer to You. With a new album in production and a series of sold-out live shows in Ireland and the UK over the last year, The Coronas rise continues at pace. Special guests for this show are Walking on Cars who have gained a huge fan base and extensive radio play through their infectiously melodic debut single Catch Me If You Can.
FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field Saturday 19 July Tickets €35 Standing Doors 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm giaf.ie/thecoronas
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Music | Ireland
Mark Geary
Luka Bloom
Irish singer-songwriter and long time New York resident Mark Geary returns to Galway for an engaging and thought-provoking live show. Geary has recorded four original albums and has had his songs featured in hit TV series such as One Tree Hill and Bones. He recently teamed up with Glen Hansard to record the top 40 hit Christmas Biscuits and completed a tour of Ireland, the UK, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic and New York.
With a poet’s heart and a rocker’s soul, Luka Bloom is regarded as one of Ireland’s best-respected contemporary folk artists. Having produced 20 albums to date, including his latest 2014 release Head and Heart, Bloom continues to push the boundaries making provocative, poetic music that delves deep into the intricacies of the human soul.
‘The quintessential singer-songwriter.’
‘Bloom’s song choices are interesting and at times inspired…’
HOT PRESS
THE IRISH TIMES
MONROE’S LIVE, Dominick Street
MONROE’S LIVE, Dominick Street
Friday 25 July, 8.30pm
Thursday 17 July, 8.30pm
Tickets €15
Tickets €25
giaf.ie/markgeary
giaf.ie/lukabloom
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Music | USA
Simone The Felice with Sonics Samantha Crain With a musical style leaning toward smooth Americana and effortlessly conjuring images of a wandering troubadour, the soulfully poetic Simone Felice’s warm, soothing tones impart evocative tales of loss, love and death, each as lyrically engaging as they are musically alluring. With her powerful yet achingly beautiful voice, Oklahoma singer-songwriter Samantha Crain creates thoughtful, moving folk music. Crain was chosen as the Rolling Stone ‘Must See Act of SXSW 2013.’
Since the beginning of garage rock, grunge and the northwest sound, The Sonics have been a cornerstone in setting precedent and pace creating the sound that allowed every musician and band that followed the right to take rock to the edge of the universe, to get out of the rut and to scream their guts out. The creators of multiple, major hit songs, their repertoire includes Louie, Louie, Have Love, Will Travel, The Hustler and many, many more. This is The Sonics first ever Irish show.
‘Beautiful...fearless songwriting...’ ‘A gnarly, over-the-top THE IRISH TIMES (ON FELICE)
‘Her voice is gorgeously odd…’ ROLLING STONE (ON CR AIN)
precursor to punk that was never really outdone by punk.’ ROLLING STONE
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
Wednesday 23 July, 8pm
Tuesday July 15th, 8pm
Tickets €20
Tickets €30
giaf.ie/simonefelicesamanthacrain
giaf.ie/thesonics
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Music | USA/Ireland
Ireland
Cass Silent McCombs Night with support by Lisa O’Neill
with special guests Kormacs Big Band
Over the last decade Cass McCombs has become one of America’s most remarkably consistent singer-songwriters, comparable to Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. McCombs’ 2013 release Big Wheel and Others is his most encompassing work to date marking a bold new chapter in the myth of this fascinating and singular artist. Support is from Irish sensation and Choice Music Prize nominee Lisa O’Neill whose live performances are beguiling affairs full of banter and old-style folk intimacy.
Kicking off the night are Kormacs Big Band live on stage. The Festival Club moves to the Festival Big Top for one night only bringing the silent (headphone) disco to the masses! Two of Ireland’s best DJs use their catchiest, most infectious dance tunes in a battle to win the crowd for the unmissable party night of the year.
‘Jawdroppingly beautiful…’ THE GUARDIAN (MCCOMBS)
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field
Thursday 24 July, 8pm
Saturday 26 July, 9pm
Tickets €16
Tickets €15
giaf.ie/cassmccombs
giaf.ie/silentnight
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Music | Canada
USA / Ireland
Kevin Devine with special guests
Owen Pallett
Kevin Devine’s songs weave back and forth through the American landscape with bravado, heart, energy, and austerity…delights at every turn, every strum, every word, taking you in and out of time. In addition to an illustrious solo career, his first strides in the music world came from his performances as Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band. He was also known as one-half of duo Bad Books with Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull.
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street Tuesday 22 July, 8pm Tickets €12 giaf.ie/kevindevine Child prodigy Owen Pallett was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score alongside Arcade Fire, for their work on Spike Jonze’s Her. While Pallett has served as a versatile collaborator to many he is equally beloved for his low-key, whimsical releases as Final Fantasy.
‘From Arcade Fire to Mika, Owen Pallett is the industry’s go-to guy for a lavish orchestral arrangement.’ THE GUARDIAN
Maria Doyle Kennedy & Kieran Kennedy Maria Doyle Kennedy is an Irish singer, actor and filmmaker. Together with her musician husband Kieran Kennedy she runs the independent record label Mermaid Records and they have released six albums to date, including the most recent release Maria Live.
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane
Monday 21 July, 8pm
Sunday 20 July, 8pm
Tickets €20
Tickets €15 - €20
giaf.ie/owenpallett
giaf.ie/mariadoylekennedy
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Music | Ireland
Galway Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present
A Night at the Proms with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field Saturday 26 July, 5pm Seated Tickets €20 - €25 Standing Tickets €15 - €18 giaf.ie/rteco
S P O N S O R E D BY
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra return to the spectacular setting of the Festival Big Top for A Night at the Proms following their Festival debut and one of the most popular performances at Festival 2013. Under the conductor Robert Houlihan the orchestra will perform a programme of popular classics from the Roman Carnival Overture by Berlioz to Offenbach’s Baracolle from the Tales of Hoffmann, and from Strauss’ Gypsy Baron Overture to Pachelbel’s Canon. An evening spent enjoying some of the world’s best-loved classical favourites by the banks of the River Corrib is a celebration to savour.
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IMAGE: COLM HO GAN
Conductor Robert Houlihan
Opera | Ireland / England Resurgam and Atalante present
Orfeo
Directed by Alessio Rosati
A Tragicommedia in a prologue and three acts by Luigi Rossi to a libretto by Francesco Buti. (Paris, Palais Royal, 2 March 1647). Orfeo, the classic tale of Orpheus and Euridice, is a musical carousel of delightful arias, melting love duets, lively ensembles, and sumptuous festive choirs. Erin Headley’s award-winning ensemble Atalante and Mark Duley’s Resurgam will join forces in this new production of Orfeo, presented in a Baroque style and based on images from period paintings and sculptures.
ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, Market Street 23 & 24 July, 8pm
Tickets €20 – €25 giaf.ie/orfeo
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Music | Scotland
‘Haunting, original and magnificent.’ THE GUARDIAN
THE TELEGRAPH
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Galway Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present
The Waterboys The Waterboys embody all that is most precious about music: power, passion, magic and transformation. This legendary band return to the Festival Big Top stage for the first time in over a decade. The band members were much-loved residents of Spiddal, Co. Galway in the 1980s where they created the album Fisherman’s Blues (1988). The album is seen as their absolute masterpiece amidst a superb catalogue of recordings that includes A Pagan Place, This Is The Sea, The Whole of the Moon, and most recently An Appointment With Mr Yeats. The Waterboys continue to make genre-busting records and have matured into one of the world’s finest live acts. They have perfected a skyscraping, imperious strain of rock music full of soul, poetry and an elemental intensity, which has made an obvious impact on many of their peers over the past 20 years. With one of the best festival shows on the road right now, and a back catalogue of classic hits most would envy, this Festival Big Top gig promises to be one of the highlights of the summer.
FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field Sunday 20 July Tickets €40 Standing Doors 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm giaf.ie/waterboys
PHOTO:
PA U L M A C M A N U S
with special guests
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Music | USA New Orleans’ Grammy-nominated Hot 8 Brass Band return to Galway, bringing with them an explosion of passion and noise through a symphony of trombones, saxophones, trumpets, tuba, snare and bass drums. Their rousing sets and charismatic performances draw inspiration from artists such as Leroy Jones, Louis Armstrong and Stevie Wonder.
‘Rowdy, exuberant, all-horns-blazing…’ THE IRISH TIMES
Hot 8 Brass Band
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street Monday 14 July, 10pm Tickets €26 giaf.ie/hot8brassband
Music | Ireland
Music | USA
West Cork Ukulele Orchestra
Uproot Hootenanny
The West Cork Ukulele Orchestra are a high-energy, knee-slapping, foot-stomping ukulele strum-fest. Featuring instantly likeable and recognisable covers of feel-good classics, their live show brings together genre, time and musical taste with ease. A guaranteed fun musical experience with deathdefying ukulele playing.
Uproot Hootenanny promise the most entertaining and unique brand of folk, classic rock, modern rock, pop, roots, celtic, bluegrass, and country music and they live up to their promise. This five-piece string band have a vast repertoire filled with energy and musical surprises.
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
Saturday 26 July, 8pm
Wednesday 16 July, 8pm
Tickets €14
Tickets €10
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Music | Ireland
‘Her performance is flawless.’ CL ASH MAGAZINE
Galway Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present
Imelda May with special guests
Imelda May’s sell-out show last July proved a huge hit with Festival audiences and she will undoubtedly be a Festival Big Top highlight again this summer. With her trademark rockabilly sound, the continued rise of the Liberties girl has been unstoppable ever since the release of Mayhem in 2010. Her singles Johnny Got a Boom Boom and Kentish Town have already earned modern day classics status. Imelda has just released her third chart-topping hit album Tribal. Described as her punchiest yet, this now means she is the only female Irish artist ever to record three successive Number 1 albums.
FESTIVAL BIG TOP, Fisheries Field Friday 18 July Tickets €35 Standing Doors 6.30pm / Show 7.30pm giaf.ie/imeldamay
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Music | Ireland This award-winning quartet from Galway combine Irish music with old-time American and Bluegrass influences, to reveal the banjo’s rich legacy and roots. When this band-of-brothers take flight in a wave of virtuosity, verve and joie-de-vivre, feet tap and pulses race.
‘Bordering on magical.’ THE WALL STREE T JOURNAL
We Banjo 3
MONROE’S LIVE, Dominick Street Wednesday 23 July, 8.30pm Tickets €20 giaf.ie/webanjo3
Music | Ireland / USA
Mary McPartlan & Bertha Hope Unquestionably rooted in the traditional, acclaimed Galway singer Mary McPartlan’s distinctive evocative voice combined with her strong musical personality, allows her to move easily between styles, ranging from the traditional to the blues. Introducing the legendary Jazz pianist from New York Ms. Bertha Hope, and a new wonderful collaboration is born.
Cois Cladaigh Songs of Swans, Saints, Suns, Stars, Stamps, Sadness, Sounds and the Saviour A concert of acapella choral music from the 9th to 21st centuries with the World Premiere of I Told You So by John Speight. Cois Cladaigh was founded in 1982 and specialise in contemporary choral and Renaissance music, and have commissioned many Irish and international composers. Cois Cladaigh has recorded four albums Lux Aeterna, An Equal Music, Beatus Vir and Puer natus est nobis.
MONROE’S LIVE, Dominick Street
ST. NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, Market Street
Wednesday 16 July, 8.30pm
Saturday 19 July, 8pm
Tickets €20
Tickets €10 - €15
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giaf.ie/coiscladaigh
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Music | Ireland
Traditional Music Showcases
The Traditional Music Showcases bring together some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians many of whom are joining forces especially for these Festival concerts. This lunchtime concert series takes place in Monroe’s Live.
Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello with Noel O’Grady Grace Bay is the recent debut and long overdue recording from Boston-based couple Tommy McCarthy (fiddle and mandolin) and Louise Costello (banjo and accordion). They make a welcome return to Ireland where there are joined for this gig by Noel O’Grady on bouzouki. 17 July
Tony Trundle with Jimmy Higgins and friends Tony Trundle is a well-known singer/fiddle player renowned for his smooth fiddle style and his songwriting. Tony will be joined by percussion maestro Jimmy Higgins and special guests. 18 July
Leonard Barry with Conor Byrne & Andy Morrow Uilleann piper Leonard Barry etches out a tune with enviable precision. He is joined by the featured guests of his acclaimed 2013 album New Road, by Conor Byrne on flute and Andy Morrow. 24 July
Four Winds Four Winds are a new ensemble of established musicians deeply rooted in traditional music who came together in 2013 with Daoiri Farrell on vocals and bouzouki; Caroline Keane on concertina; Robbie Walsh on bodhran, percussions and backing vocals, and Tom Delany on uilleann pipes and whistles. 25 July
Greenshine Something happens when families sing and play together. It’s tight, natural, and instinctive. Noel Shine and Mary Greene have long been a vital element of Ireland’s folk fraternity and as Greenshine have been recently joined by their daughter Ellie. 26 July
Laoise Kelly & Cormac Breathnach Laoise Kelly is a virtuoso harpist in the traditional vein and one of the most respected musicians of her generation. Laoise is joined by whistle player Cormac Breathnach, a revered composer and musician, best known for his work with the groundbreaking group Deiseal. 19 July
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Music | Ireland
A Dawn Chorus
Dublin Gospel Choir
Start the weekend off in spectacular fashion at Salthill’s famous Ladies’ Beach as a Festival Chorus greets the morning sun as it rises over Galway Bay. The wonderful backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean will act as a magnificent setting for this large-scale community choral project.
The Dublin Gospel Choir are probably the only act in the world to collaborate with artists as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Nitin Sawhney, John Legend, Riverdance, James Brown, Damien Rice, Rod Stewart, The Chieftains and most recently Kodaline. They continue to charm audiences with their brilliant repertoire of songs.
‘Gladdens the heart and brings a smile to the face.’ HOT PRESS
LADIES’ BEACH, Salthill Promenade
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street
Friday 18 July, 6am
Sunday 20 July, 7.30pm
Free
Tickets €16
Duration 45 minutes
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Visual Art / Installation | Canada
Janet Cardiff
Regarded as the artist’s masterwork, The Forty Part Motet (2001) is a sound installation by leading Canadian artist Janet Cardiff. The installation features a reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui by English composer Thomas Tallis. Translated as In No Other Is My Hope the work is perhaps Tallis’ most famous composition. Consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration the work will play continuously. Visitors are encouraged to walk among the loudspeakers and hear the individual unaccompanied voices as well as the polyphonic choral effect of the combined singers in an immersive experience. In this setting The Forty Part Motet will be nothing short of glorious.
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway, University Road 14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm giaf.ie/janetcardiff
PHOTO:
MARKUS TRET TER
The Forty Part Motet
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IMAGE: JOHN KINDNESS ODYSSEUS HE AD
Visual Art | Ireland
IMAGE: JOHN KINDNE SS S AILOR TOR S O HOME WARD
Painter, sculptor and multi-media artist John Kindness’ work demonstrates an insatiable curiosity for understanding society, politics, literature, history and culture and this most recent body of work Odysseus relates to Homer’s Odyssey. ‘It was not Homer who introduced me to Odysseus but James Joyce, and I think it was because Joyce was more interested in the man than in his deeds that Ulysses started to speak to me in my Stephen Dedalus years. It was also Joyce who taught me about layers of meaning in art; how the quotidian can play a role in the epic and how superficial events can have earth-shaking consequences. When I eventually came to read Homer I found something that could be an adventure story to a schoolboy, a set of case studies for a risk analyst, or a handbook for a man going through a mid-life crisis.’ John Kindness.
ABSOLUT FESTIVAL GALLERY, Market Street 14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm Late opening to 8pm ThursdaySaturday Backstage at the Festival 15 July, 2pm Gallery talk with the artist giaf.ie/johnkindness
This is his first Irish show since 2006.
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Visual Art | Scotland
Eduardo Paolozzi
14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm Late opening Thursday-Saturday, 8pm giaf.ie/eduardopaolozzi
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) was one of the pioneers of the pop art movement in the UK. Paolozzi was a compulsive collector and a jumbler of icons, equally revered as a sculptor and for his kaleidoscopic print projects. Self described as ‘a wizard in Toytown’, the artist’s friend and sometime collaborator, J.G. Ballard, described General Dynamic F.U.N. as a ‘unique guidebook to the electric garden of our minds’. A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.
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A FA K E WA R F O R P U B L I C R E L AT I O N S ? C O P Y R I G H T T H E A RT I ST A N D DAC S
ABSOLUT FESTIVAL GALLERY, Market Street
P H O T O : E D U A R D O PA O L O Z Z I , A N E M P I R E O F S I L LY S TAT I S T I C S …
General Dynamic F.U.N.
I M A G E ( R I G H T ) : E D U A R D O PA O L O Z Z I E VA D N E I N G R E E N D I M E N S I O N , B U N K
Visual Art | UK
Pre-Pop to PostHuman: Collage in the Digital Age
CO URT SE Y THE ARTIST 2014 © PHOTO: MARK BLOWER
I M AG E ( L E F T): GA B R I E L E B E V E R I D G E, U N T I T L E D, 2013.
featuring a selection of Eduardo Paolozzi’s BUNK portfolio Pre-Pop to Post-Human brings together 15 young artists who have created newly-commissioned prints in response to the ideas behind Eduardo Paolozzi’s famous BUNK portfolio. The works made by the artists will be shown alongside a selection of Paolozzi’s celebrated BUNK prints. The selected artists include Pio Abad, Gabriele Beveridge, Nicholas Hatfull, Peles Empire and Samara Scott.
ABSOLUT FESTIVAL GALLERY, Market Street 14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm Late opening Thursday-Saturday 8pm giaf.ie/prepoptoposthuman
A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London, curated by Isobel Harbison.
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Visual Art | Ireland
Galway Arts Festival and Galway Arts Centre present
Liam O’Callaghan
GALWAY ARTS CENTRE, 47 Dominick Street 14 – 27 July, 10am-5.30pm Sunday 12noon – 5.30pm giaf.ie/liamocallaghan
Smart and irreverent, Liam O’Callaghan’s works transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary and expresses a willingness to engage with the absurdity of life, encouraging us to look anew at ourselves and the world in which we live. He sees the value in the everyday and explores this through sculpture, photography, video and sound, and his work often exposes the methods or mechanics of their own construction. With this multi-media exhibition O’Callaghan invites you to engage and ask questions, look beyond and behind the artifice of art making. O’Callaghan is one of Ireland’s most interesting younger artists working today.
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I M AG E : L I A M O ’ C A L L AG H A N T H E R I S E A N D FA L L O F A M A N K I N DA
If and then…(again)
Visual Art | Ireland
Leonie King Inextricably Linked
I M A G E : K A R E N C O N WAY
AN+AISTHĒSIS
I M A G E : L E O N I E K I N G F I R S T B I RT H D AY
‘My great, great grandfather Prof. William King was buried in Bohermore Cemetery, Galway in 1886. He had a son who had a son. My grandfather William King was killed during World War 1 in 1917. My father William King was born 1910 and died recently aged 102. And then came me and mine…’ Leonie King Salvaging the past in vibrant, reconstructed illumination, this exhibition is a visual, family tree of the William Kings and those linked to them.
ABSOLUT FESTIVAL GALLERY, Market Street 14 – 27 July, 10am-8pm Late opening to 8pm Thursday-Saturday giaf.ie/leonieking
Karen Conway An+Aisthēsis
Annual 126 Members’ Show
This exhibition originated from Conway’s visit to the UCH Anaesthetic Department’s Archive, which provided the artist access to research vintage anaesthetic equipment. This research provided a rich creative source for investigation and development of the work on show.
An exhibition curated by Paul McAree featuring the work of the members of 126, Galway’s artist-led gallery. In addition to his curatorial work in Ireland where he was founder of Flood in Dublin, McAree has worked at Tate Modern in London and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY, Newcastle Road
126, Flood Street
14 – 27 July, 10am-8pm
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14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm
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Visual Art | Ireland
Patrick O’Reilly
THE SHED, Middle Pier, The Docks 14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm Backstage at the Festival 16 July, 2pm Gallery talk with the artist giaf.ie/patrickoreilly
Patrick O’Reilly is one of Ireland’s most prolific artists. A hugely imaginative sculptor O’Reilly had his first professional show at Galway Arts Festival in 1996. He is best known in Ireland for his large-scale outdoor ‘bear sculptures’ most notably by the O2 in Dublin and at Greystones Promenade in Co. Wicklow. This exhibition features recent sculpture and installation including an enormous new work Thorn, created specifically for this show.
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I M A G E : PA T R I C K O ’ R E I L LY, U N T I T L E D P H O T O : C O L M H O G A N
Prelude
Visual Art | Ireland / England
Brian Bourke & Jay Murphy Commonage
I M A G E : E VA N S O F E T O N , S A I L I N G B O A T S N E A R T H E S PA N I S H A R C H , G A L W AY, 1 8 3 8 , C O U RT E S Y O F T H E N AT I O N A L G A L L E RY O F I R E L A N D
I M A G E : J AY M U R P H Y, B O G C O T T O N
Brian Bourke and Jay Murphy’s home and studios sit directly across an expanse of commonage, which is a constant source of pleasure and inspiration to them both. For this exhibition Bourke and Murphy capture the seasonal change as they respond to this environment.
NORMAN VILLA GALLERY, Lower Salthill 14 – 27 July, 11am-6pm giaf.ie/bourkemurphy
Evans of Eton: Galway to Leenane
Maurice Quillinan Music on the Water
William Evans of Eton (1798-1877) was the drawing master of Eton College in England and was an accomplished artist who exhibited widely in London, Dublin, and Paris. Evans made a number of visits to the west of Ireland in 1835 and 1838 where he produced many studies and finished watercolours. This exhibition gives a rare picture of this isolated though wellpopulated area before the devastation of the Famine. The work is part of a portfolio from the National Gallery of Ireland and a unique insight into Galway nearly 200 years ago.
This project began seven years ago as a collaboration between Nicholas Ross (pianist), Kent Holliday (composer) and Maurice Quillinan (artist). It is an exploration of the ‘Golden Section’, a mathematical subdivision of a surface area or musical score, suggesting where the most important elements should be positioned.
GALWAY CITY MUSEUM, Spanish Parade
GALWAY CITY MUSEUM, Spanish Parade
15 – 27 July, 10am-5pm
15– 27 July, 10am-5pm
Sunday 12noon - 5pm, Closed Monday
Sunday 12noon - 5pm, Closed Monday
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First Thought Talks
Dr. Michael J. Dowling Spirit of Enquiry Interview Gabriel Weston in ‘I love challenge. I love getting up in conversation with the morning and not being exactly Maccon Keane certain about how to accomplish something… I like canoeing the rapids, not a flat lake… we’re in the middle of the rapids right now in healthcare.’
From a Co. Limerick village to CEO of America’s third-largest non-profit secular health care system, and New York state’s largest integrated health care network - find out how Dr. Michael J. Dowling stays creative about his life and his job. Dr. Michael J. Dowling (President and CEO of North Shore/ LIJ Health Care System, USA) in conversation with RTÉ broadcaster and documentary maker Áine Lawlor.
‘The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.’ JONATHAN SWIF T
How many cancer surgeons could it take to change your world? Join Gabriel Weston surgeon, author and presenter of BBC series, Trust Me I’m a Doctor as she strikes up a conversation with Dr. Maccon Keane - one of Ireland’s leading oncologists, board member of Galway International Arts Festival and avid follower of the visual arts. Expect a lively discussion on the intersection of Medicine and the Arts as two experts share their worlds.
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
Saturday 19 July, 12 noon
Saturday 19 July, 4pm
Tickets €7
Tickets €7
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First Thought Talks
Taking the National Temperature ‘The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.’ DISR AELI 1877
Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe, National Director for Health & Wellbeing in the Health Service Executive in conversation with author and film director Gerard Stembridge whose latest book Unspoken was published in 2013.
In Sight ‘Real site-specific work is about a forensic examination of space.’ L O U I S E L O W E Site specific, site responsive or environmental art. Our panel talks the outside in…. Panellists include: Louise Lowe (Anu Productions); Kurt Perschke (Red Ball Galway); Denis Conway (Ouroborus Theatre Company); Chair: Manchán Magan (playwright, documentary maker and broadcaster).
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
Saturday 19 July, 2pm
Sunday 20 July, 6pm
Tickets €7
Tickets €7
From Out Of The City: Cities and Happiness: Places, Spaces, Art & the City John Kelly “Now as ever city space can serve an important function as an interface between art and people.” J A N G E H L Participants include: Tina Saaby (City Architect, Copenhagen); Kevin Leyden (NUI Galway); Ciaran Cuffe (Green Party/DIT); Tom de Paor (Architect); Kaethe Burt O’Dea (Desireland); Gerry Scullion (The Chocolate Factory). Chair: Nathalie Weadick (Irish Architecture Foundation).
Broadcaster and writer John Kelly has published several works of fiction including, Grace Notes & Bad Thoughts and The Little Hammer. Here, John reads from his new novel From Out of the City and talks to arts journalist and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson about the fine art of juggling.
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
RÓISÍN DUBH,Dominic Street
Saturday 19 July July, 6pm
Saturday 19 July, 4pm
Tickets €7
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First Thought Talks
Architecture and the Playability of Theatre: Mikel Murfi In a demonstration lecture Mikel Murfi talks about his process when working with actors, directors and scenographers. Before the sets, lights, actors et al., what has space got to offer us ... and silence?! Murfi offers a unique perspective on making theatre - its architecture - its playability. Mikel Murfi is currently appearing at the Festival in Ballyturk by Enda Walsh.
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway Sunday 20 July, 2pm Tickets €7
Billington Meets Asmus
Billington Meets Hytner
‘Words were my only love and not many.’
“We have never felt it to be impossible to be challenging and entertaining at the same time.”
SAMUEL BECKETT
Walter D. Asmus, colleague and renowned director of Beckett’s work, and director of the Royal Court Theatre’s Beckett Trilogy with Lisa Dwan which plays at the Festival this year, in conversation with author and Guardian newspaper Drama Critic Michael Billington.
NICHOL A S HY TNER ON WHY THE NATIONAL THE ATRE IN LOND ON IS SPECIAL
Nicholas Hytner leaves the National Theatre in London in rude good health after 11 years at the helm. Join him and Guardian Drama Critic Michael Billington as they discuss his years at the South Bank.
HOTEL MEYRICK, Eyre Square
TOWNHALL THEATRE, Courthouse Square
Sunday 20 July, 4pm
Saturday 19 July, 5pm
Tickets €7
Tickets €7
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First Thought Talks ‘We made bloodied ripped up telegrams, pastry boxes, books of poetry, maps, character passports, patterns for carpets, all the signage you see in the film, banknotes, flags, a police report with Jeff Goldblum’s fingerprints on it… so many different things, and from three different time periods, too.’ Welsh-born, Dublin-based designer Annie Atkins specialising in graphics for filmmaking (including Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel) in conversation with actor and director Hugh O’Conor. Props from the film will be on display.
Watch Closely Now: Creative Graphic Design
The Enduring Appeal of the MixTape ‘The most widely practiced American art form.’ GEOFFREY O’BRIEN
Actor Cillian Murphy and blogging brothers Mark and Craig Carry (Fractured Air) mix it up with journalist Tony Clayton-Lea. Ticket includes entry to Festival Club on Sunday 20 July.
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway Sunday 20 July, 4pm Tickets €7
How to Write a Book… Have you ever wanted to write a novel? How do you get it out and on the page? How do you handle structure, dialogue and plot? And once it’s written, what is the best way to get it published? These and more questions are currently being discussed in a series of features in The Irish Times called How to Write a Book. Join arts journalist Sinéad Gleeson and guests in discussion.
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane
AULA MAXIMA, NUI Galway
Sunday 20 July, 4pm
Sunday 20 July, 11am
Tickets €7
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First Thought Talks
Play Readings
A Boy Helen Called Nedd and I
Hail! The Musical
By Emily Gillmor Murphy Druid Debut
By Meadhbh McHugh Druid Debut
By Ciarán Bermingham and Raymond Scannell
A Boy Called Nedd tells the story of a sixteen year-old boy trying to stay on course after his brother’s suicide. Nedd’s is a fast moving world. Here a relationship goes from awkward silcences to making out, to throwing insults at the speed of light. The lures of the adult world, guns included, are only a text or a mouse-click away. But how fast is he going that he should confuse grief for the need for revenge?
In Helen and I, sisters Helen (49, a single mother to Evvy) and Lynn (47, childless, married to Tony) return home to attend to their dying father. Tony arrives uninvited to ‘take care’ of Lynn – then contrives to bring Evvy into the circle (who has ideas and questions of her own). In the hothouse conditions of a summer’s weekend, the future emerges from hardwon – and hard-fought-over – rearrangements of the past.
Ciarán Bermingham is a real-life taxi driver, jobbing actor and musical theatre fanatic. Ciarán has been known to pick up a fare from people who have just seen him naked in a production of The Full Monty. Taking its cue from Ciarán’s real-life situation Hail! The Musical brings the audience on a musical taxi-journey through the city. Collaborating with sound designer & playwright Raymond Scannell (who also performs in Deep during the Festival), Hail! embraces the challenges of making a Musical for a Taxi.
Directed by Nik Partridge Funded by an Arts Council Project Award 2014.
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane
MICK LALLY THEATRE, Druid Lane
Tuesday 22 July, 2pm
Friday 25 July, 2pm
Wednesday 16 July, 2pm
Tickets €7
Tickets €7
Free
Duration 1 hour 20 mins approx.
Duration 1 hour 20 mins approx.
Duration 45 mins approx.
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Comedy | UK
Ireland
Milton Jones Laughter Loft with Colm O’Regan and Karl Spain
with MC Gerry Mallon
Famed for his incisive one-liners and his madcap hairstyles, Milton Jones is a TV favourite and regular on Mock the Week (BBC2), Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1), Live at the Apollo (BBC1) plus appearances on Dave’s One Night Stand (DAVE). He played to over 100,000 people on each of his last two tours. Awards include a silver Sony Award for his BBC radio show and Chortle Headliner of the Year for his stand up. He was also nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2012, is a Perrier Best Newcomer Nominee, Sony Award winner and British Comedy Award nominee.
Join MC Gerry Mallon for what in essence is a Festival within a Festival, as each day he introduces some of the biggest names on the Irish comedy circuit. The freshest new talent mixes it up with established stars, in this intimate mid-town venue. Amongst those set to perform are Foil Arms & Hog, Kevin Gildea, Chris Kent, Karl Spain, Eleanor Tiernan plus many, many more.
‘The wild-haired Jones has raised wordplay to the level of fine art...’
‘The perfect way to start your daily Festival trek…’ G A LWAY C I T Y T R I B U N E
RADIO TIMES
RÓISÍN DUBH, Dominick Street Friday 25 July, 8.30pm
THE RUBY ROOM, The King’s Head, High Street
Tickets €23
14-27 July, 1pm (Doors 12.30pm)
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Concessions
Online: www.giaf.ie Phone: +353 (0)91 566 577 from 16 June In person - from 16 June
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Galway Arts Festival Box Office Galway Tourist Office, Forster Street, Galway, Ireland Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 10am5.30pm, Sunday 20 July, 1pm-5pm
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Monroe’s Live Dominick Street
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Festival Box Office Forster Street
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The King‘s Head High Street
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Town Hall Theatre Courthouse Square
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Blue Teapot Theatre Munster Avenue
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Black Box Theatre Dyke Road
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Absolut Festival Gallery Market Street
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Mick Lally Theatre Druid Lane
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Galway City Museum Spanish Parade
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Festival Club Waterside
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Galway Arts Centre 47 Dominick Street
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Nuns’ Island Theatre Nuns’ Island
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Norman Villa Gallery Lower Salthill
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Aula Maxima and Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway University Road
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University Hospital Galway Newcastle Road
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St Nicholas’ Church Market Street
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Ladies’ Beach Salthill
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An Taibhdhearc Middle Street
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126 Gallery Flood Street
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Radisson Blu Hotel Lough Atalia Road
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Campbell’s Tavern Cloughanover, Headford
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Róisín Dubh Dominick Street
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Hotel Meyrick Eyre Square
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Festival Diary EVENT
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VENUE
Ballyturk
4-5
Black Box Theatre
Chapatti
6-7
Town Hall Theatre
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby
8-9
An Taibhdhearc
Be Infants in Evil
10-11
Mick Lally Theatre, Druid
Room 303
12-13
Absolut Festival Gallery
Deep
14
Radisson Live Lounge
Panti High Heels in Low Places
15
Radisson Live Lounge
Dragonus
16
Eyre Square to Spanish Arch
Hallali
17
Eyre Square
Midsummer
18
Nuns’ Island Theatre
Bláth
18
Bank of Ireland Theatre
ID
19
Blue Teapot Theatre
Star of the Sea
19
An Taibhdhearc
The Invasion
20
Shop St. & High St.
Dance of the Lobsters
20
Eyre Square to Spanish Arch
RedBall Galway
21
Various Locations
Cathy Davey
22
Róisín Dubh
Sarah Jarosz
22
Campbell’s Tavern
The National
23
Festival Big Top
Declan O’Rourke
24
Róisín Dubh
Booka Brass Brand
24
Róisín Dubh
The Coronas
25
Festival Big Top
Mark Geary
26
Monroe’s Live
Luka Bloom
26
Monroe’s Live
Felice and Crain
27
Róisín Dubh
The Sonics
27
Róisín Dubh
Cass McCombs
28
Róisín Dubh
Silent Night
28
Festival Big Top
Owen Pallet
29
Róisín Dubh
Kevin Devine
29
Róisín Dubh
Maria Doyle Kennedy
29
Mick Lally Theatre, Druid
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TUE 15
WED 16
THURS 17
7pm
7pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
7pm
8pm
Daily throughout the Festival 7.30pm
8pm
8pm
9.30pm
8pm
8pm
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9.30pm
6pm
6pm
8pm
8pm
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8pm
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7.30pm 8pm
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SAT 19
SUN 20
7pm
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2pm & 8pm
2pm & 8pm
8pm
MUSIC
VISUAL ART S
TA L K S
COMEDY
TUES 22
WED 23
THURS 24
FRI 25
SAT 26
SUN 27
7pm
7pm
7pm
7pm
7pm
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7pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
8pm
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2pm & 8pm
8pm
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9pm
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8pm
3pm & 8pm
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8pm
3pm & 8pm
3pm & 8pm
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S P EC TAC L E
8pm
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8pm
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Festival Diary EVENT
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A Night at the Proms
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Festival Big Top
Orfeo
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St. Nicholas’ Church
The Waterboys
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WED 16
THURS 17
Festival Big Top
Hot 8 Brass Band
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Róisín Dubh
Uproot Hootenanny
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Róisín Dubh
Ukulele Orchestra
34
Róisín Dubh
Imelda May
35
Festival Big Top
Cois Cladaigh
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St. Nicholas’ Church
McPartlan and Hope
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Monroe’s Live
We Banjo 3
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Monroe’s Live
Traditional Music Showcase
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Monroe’s Live
Dawn Chorus
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Ladies’ Beach, Salthill
Dublin Gospel Choir
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Róisín Dubh
Janet Cardiff
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Aula Maxima, NUI Galway
John Kindness
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Absolut Festival Gallery
Daily 11am-6pm
11am-8pm
Eduardo Paolozzi
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Absolut Festival Gallery
Daily 11am-6pm
11am-8pm
Pre-Pop to Post-Human
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Absolut Festival Gallery
Daily 11am-6pm
11am-8pm
Liam O’Callaghan
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Galway Arts Centre
Leonie King
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Absolut Festival Gallery
Karen Conway
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University Hospital
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126 Gallery
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Patrick O’Reilly
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The Shed
Daily 11am-6pm
Bourke & Murphy
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Norman Villa Gallery
Daily 11am-6pm
Evans of Eton
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Galway City Museum
Daily 10am-5pm
Maurice Quillinan
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Galway City Museum
Daily 10am-5pm
First Thought Talks
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Daily 10am-5.30pm Daily 11am-6pm
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Various Venues
Play Readings
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Mick Lally Theatre, Druid
Laughter Loft
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The King’s Head
Milton Jones
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Róisín Dubh
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Daily 11am-6pm
Daily 11am-8pm
11am-6pm
11am-8pm
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Daily 11am-8pm
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Daily 11am-6pm
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Daily 10am-8pm Daily 11am-6pm Daily 11am-6pm Daily 11am-6pm Daily 10am-5pm
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Galway International Arts Festival On Tour 2014
LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS AND GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT
THE EMERGENCYROOM AND GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH CUSACK LIVE PROJECT PRESENT
Ballyturk By Enda Walsh
7-23 August OLYMPIA THEATRE, DUBLIN 26-30 August CORK OPERA HOUSE, CORK 11 September – 11 October NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON
riverrun By Olwen Fouéré
11-22 March NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON 29 July – 24 August TR AVERSE THEATRE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE 17-20 September NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM, NEW YORK
NORTHLIGHT THEATRE AND GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT
Chapatti By Christian O’Reilly 7 March – 19 April CHICAGO
24-25 September Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON
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