Festivals & Exhibitions
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Portal Womb
27th – 28th April @ 126 Gallery
An interactive art piece exploring our connection to the land, our ancestry,
ourselves, feminine energy and existence as a whole. Experiencing the
active creative force that gives birth to and moves through, our entire
universe. A recreation of what it would feel like to be inside an active
womb, while the soul is entering the womb. While the soul is leaving the
cairn, and while the portal to the other world is open.
An Tóstal
11th – 12th May @ Salthill Prom
Curragh Racing in Galway
A Deep Well of Want: Photographs and Archives of McGahern Country
Paul Butler launches his book of photography that presents a visual and documentary journey through McGahern Country. Accompanied by an exhibition. This exhibition of photographs by Paul Butler documents the landscape and passing rural life of Co. Leitrim and surrounding areas – the hinterland of writer John McGahern. Accompanied by archives and literary manuscripts from the John McGahern Archive, held at University of Galway Library, curated by Dr. Barry Houlihan, this exhibition presents a visual and documentary journey through McGahern Country – to the sites, places, and lives that formed a wellspring for the literary imagination of John McGahern.
Interlude
Until 26th April @ Burren College of Art
‘Interlude’ navigates the nuances of experience, interaction, memory, and materiality of place within the Burren. The exhibition serves as a testament to the transient nature of these interludes, inviting viewers to engage with the Burren’s essence through multifaceted layers of meaning and sensory immersion
Cúirt International Festival of Literature
A wide selection of world-class authors as well as introducing compelling new voices and debut writers
Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland
CCMI have spent much of the last year revamping this national treasure putting in place new thematic displays including a games zone with original Xbox consoles connected on a pre-broadband LAN (Local Area Network) to allow multiple players on one game. One of the new exhibitions is devoted to Apple Computer, highlighting different periods in the company’s history including the late 1970s to the mid 1980s with the themes of innovation, creativity, youth and counterculture.