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Draw St Patrick’s Day – Animated Galway Parade!

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GALWAY CITY COUNCIL PATRICKS DAY

Galway City Council and Galway Cartoon Festival are inviting entries from children for a virtual St Patrick’s Day Parade to take place online in March. Entrants should draw their imaginative participants for the virtual parade, and entries will be animated and marching across screens on 17th March 2021! DRAW ST. PATRICK’S DAY/TARRAING LÁ ‘LE PÁDRAIG … Read more

Galway Cartoon Festival Programme Now Live!

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Galway Cartoon Festival 2020: the full GCF 2020 programme is now live. I am a founding member of the Festival and this year I have selected the works for the main exhibition, The New Normal. It was a massive task with over 400 works submitted, and you could literally throw a dart at the map … Read more

The Home Truths of domestic violence

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IRISH WOMEN’S experience of, and engagement with, the courts and legal system in dealing with domestic violence and abuse, is the theme of a new exhibition at the Engage Art Studios, Salthill.

Home Truths, featuring work by Blaise Drummond, Evelyn Glynn, Alison Lowry, Áine Philips and Ruby Wallis, is part of Galway 2020’s Small Towns Big Ideas programme. The artists were commissioned to respond to women’s testimonies of their court experiences.

via Advertiser.ie – The Home Truths of domestic violence

Macnas Parade Route 2019

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Macnas Parade Route 2019: The annual Macnas Parade will take place in Galway this Sunday 27 October 2019. This year’s parade is entitled Danse Macabre, and will depart from University Road near Macnas’ home in Fisheries Field at 5.30pm. The route will take the dozens of amazing performers, floats, musicians, and breathtaking processional puppets, along … Read more

Is Peter Keane the Biggest Prick on Galway City Council?

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Galway Councillor Peter Keane Fianna Fail Galway busking by-laws Ed Sheeran

Peter Keane Galway: Absolutely infuriating. Galway City Council has voted 12-6 to place restrictions on busking in Galway City, despite Galway buskers attempting to negotiate a voluntary code with them. Circle shows and amplification are affected, and drum kits are just banned. Galway is another one of those conservative places that officially puts more stock … Read more

Table Quiz Galway in Aid of Galway Cartoon Festival Black Gate 29 July @ 8pm

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Table Quiz Galway: we’re having a fundraising table quiz in Galway’s fabulous table quiz emporium/wine bar The Black Gate next Monday 29th July at 8pm. It’s in aid of Galway Cartoon Festival which is now entering its 3rd year and promises to have a host of hilarious cartoon exhibitions and cartoon outreach events (most of … Read more