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Galway International Arts Festival has been connecting audiences and artists for almost four decades. Founded in 1978, it has grown into an event with a major reputation where, in 2016, there were 200,000 attendances at 200 performances, talks and exhibitions in 26 venues over 14 days.
A number of wonderful events will be hosted on NUI Galway's campus during the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival. See below for event and booking information.
Venue:
Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway
Date & Time:
22, 25–29 July, 8pm
23 July, 4pm
No show 24 July
Matinee 29 July, 2pm
Tickets:
€18–€25
Family Ticket €70
Duration 1 hour, no interval
Casus Circus, one of Australia’s most exciting contemporary circus companies, returns to Galway following the runaway success of their hit show Knee Deep at GIAF 2013. Their thrilling new show Driftwood was a big hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, earning glowing reviews and standing ovations.
Using traditional and contemporary circus techniques, Driftwood is a spectacular display of choreography, acrobatics, trapeze and aerial stunts. Marvel at the breathtaking skill, strength and bravery of these phenomenal performers who test the limits of the human body.
Australia’s hottest young circus company takes this art form to a whole new level.
Venue:
Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway
Date & Time:
17–30 July
Sunday–Wednesday: From 11am. Every 20 minutes to 6pm
Thursday–Saturday: From 11am. Every 20 minutes to 8pm
Tickets €7
Duration 15 minutes approx.
A man with a breaking memory tries to stick the pieces together and find some salvation. In a house that isn’t his house – in the bathroom of that house – and staring back from the bathroom’s mirror – is a man he no longer knows.
Bathroom is the fourth in a series of theatre installations by Enda Walsh following on from Room 303, A Girl’s Bedroom and Kitchen.
Enda Walsh’s recent work includes The Second Violinist, an opera with Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy which premieres at GIAF 2017; Lazarus written with David Bowie; Arlington the play, and three short texts presented as Rooms, which tour to New York in May 2017.
Venue:
O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway
Date & Time:
18–28 July, 12 noon and 3pm
29 July, 10am and 12 noon
No show 22–24 July
Tickets:
€10–€12, Age 4+
Duration 45 mins approx.
Once there was a boy who was always looking up.
He dreamt of having a star as a friend. This is the story of his adventure. This adaptation by Galway’s Branar combines puppetry with a magical original score and evocative animation and design. Branar’s signature storytelling creates a show which reminds us all to follow our dreams.
Non–verbal show.
Venue:
O’Donoghue Centre, NUI Galway
Date & Time:
17–30 July, 11am–6pm
Tickets:
Free
GIAF premieres four newly commissioned art works by John Gerrard one of Ireland’s most celebrated international artists.
Featuring the rivers Amazon, Danube, Nile and Yangtze, each computer simulation introduces a portrait of a small section of each river, integrating the buildings and flora on the riverbanks as visible reflections. At the centre of the scene is a gasoline spill – accurately refracting the light to create a vivid prismatic field, endlessly changing shape over time.
The roll of the river creates a flag–like form, which the artist sees as a precise political representation of contemporary conditions. As is typical with Gerrard’s work, the scenes are non durational, instead they are rendered live to unfold over the course of an annual solar cycle, with each Flag keyed to its particular local time.
Co–commissioned by Galway International Arts Festival, Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Simon Preston Gallery, New York.
Backstage at the Festival
Gallery talk with the artist, 17 July, 2pm
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