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Beneath our Feet
Until September 15th @ Kava Kinvara
The KAVA community art gallery in Kinvara’s former courthouse is the venue for Beneath our Feet, Brenda Kennelly’s first solo exhibition, which opens at 7pm next Thursday, September 5, and runs until Sunday, September 15, from 11am to 5pm daily. The Ballyvaughan-based artist has been making mosaics for many years and after a career in finance is finally satisfying her creative and artistic side more fully. Her mosaics are an intriguing and captivating combination of natural slate and stone combined with glass and vibrantly coloured smalti.
Galway Climate Festival
12th – 15th September @ Multiple Venues
Climate Inspirations-Communities in action’ is an innovative, creative and collaborative festival which aims to change the narrative around climate action to one of positivity. An initiative of the Galway City Council Climate Action Team it will harness Galway’s creative energy and embrace our theatrical, musical, art, active travel, sport, Gaeilge and food cultures and will deliver on objectives as set out in the recently adopted Galway City climate action plan. Opening on September 12 the festival will deliver 3 full days of events in a variety of venues in the city centre from Sept 12 to 15.
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
13th – 28th September @ Galway Arts Centre
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls is an exhibition drawing inspiration from a poem from Ultima Thule (1880), one of the last collections published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The poem can be interpreted as a metaphor for life’s transient nature and death’s enigma. The ocean’s eradication of the wanderer’s tracks suggests the complete erasure of their existence from the mortal realm. Death, in this context, is depicted as irreversible and absolute. The recurring phrase “the tide rises, the tide falls” amplifies this unsettling sense of finality. The works of seven Master’s students—Róisín Doherty, Em, Jed Gjerek, Taïm Haimet, Amy Kramer, Emma Jane Mooney, and Anastasiia Rachok—investigate cultural, environmental, and societal issues of our time.
Jessica Mulas
Throughout September at Portershed
In collaboration with Artspace Studio’s and Portershed, Jessica Mulas is the portershed Artist of the Month. Exploring the world of mass imagery in particular the ‘selfie’; distorted photos are translated to acrylic and watercolours.
Paradigm Shift
6th – 22nd September at 126 Gallery
The exhibition from Tom McClean features new and recent mixed media works centered around “Paradigm Shift” – developed further during an artist residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre filled with experiments and small works on paper
Architecture at the Edge
The 2024 Architecture at the Edge Festival will focus on the islands of Ireland, and will include the presentation of ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’ – Ireland’s national pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. The full programme of events will include a keynote address by celebrated Architect Shane de Blacam who received the Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Prize in London in 2023 plus a series of talks, tours, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions throughout the Festival. Visit ArchitectureAtTheEdge.com for full details.
Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cutlures
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Galway Cartoon Festival
4th – 9th October @ Mutiple Venues
The Galway Cartoon Festival holds exhibitions, drawing sessions, talks and workshops featuring the finest cartoonists from all over the globe.
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.