Photo of three young people sitting on a coastal rocky outcrop.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2023

The 21st edition of the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, entitled honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, takes place in venues across Galway 3-19 November. Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, it features a programme of multi-venue exhibitions and events including artist and curator talks, gallery tours, a performance, a film screening and radio performance on Flirt FM.

Going Coastal Festival

15 – 19 November 2023 Going Coastal is a festival of contemporary original music featuring young, emerging and established acts from the western edge of Ireland. It takes place over five days, from November 15 – 19, across nine venues in Galway City and includes events curated by The Black…

Siamsa 07-09-2023

It’s an amazing weekend for Arts Exhibtions in Galway this weekend. This evening (Thursday) at 6pm you can catch the opening reception for Hinterland – an exhibition from Stephanie McLaughlin in Engage Studios. The work depicts a ‘hinterland of shadows’, hinterland being defined as the area lying beyond what is…

Culture Night Banner: Sept 22nd 2023. One night for all. For all one night.

Retreat Comedy Culture Night Live Recording

Chart topping Retreat Comedy, a scripted podcast, will be recording live on Culture Night Galway at the Flirt FM studios. The audience are invited to come to the studios to observe and hear the five actors and the engineer as they record. They can also tour the studios and see…

Siamsa 14-06-23

Vito Sputnik who have been playing in venues all over the west are organising their first Milonga in Galway tonight – They Dropped by Flirt FM earlier in the week to play some Tangos and talk music Galway Folk Festival kicked off on Tuesday for it’s second year with Steve…

Live from Nuns Island for Cruinniú na nÓg: June 10th

Cruinniú na nÓg, Ireland’s national day of free creativity for children and young people under-18, takes place on Saturday June 10.Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns Island Theatre will host an array of events from 11am to 5pm – for young people and by young people – covering theatre, film, visual arts,…

Harness Your Hopes: New Series

‘Harness Your Hopes’ is a series of 6 podcast episodes of 30 minutes investigating and showcasing fiction. Six of the West of Ireland’s upcoming authors have written a new short story inspired by the theme of ‘harness your hopes’. On the programme, the author reads the story and then speaks with the presenter…