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Roll up, roll up! RoolaBoola, the Linenhall Arts Centre’s annual Children’s Arts Festival is just around the corner, bringing all the excitement of a top children’s festival to your doorstep. Shows, workshops, free events and much, much more are on offer from October 19 to 26 as RoolaBoola celebrates its 12th birthday in dazzling style, culminating in three days of mayhem, fun and entertainment with something for everyone over the October Bank Holiday weekend.

Ladies and gentlemen! Presenting something completely different: So and So Circus Theatre brings the dazzling circus theatre show The Hot Dots to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday November 2 at 8pm.

Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks.

Theatre companies are gathering in force for the beginning of RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival, taking place all next week at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and culminating in a weekend of fun and excitement for young people and their families over the October Bank Holiday. The annual festival kicks off in truly spellbinding style next Monday October 19 with The Musician, a darkly thrilling piece of musical theatre by Northern Ireland’s Cahoots, purveyors of world-class children’s theatre. The Musician is a new opera for children that tells the story of the child who became the best known flautist of them all… the Pied Piper.

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Time to get a trick or a treat at the Galway Races as the much anticipated October race meeting gets under way this Bank Holiday weekend.

KELLY’S PROMISES two very diverse acts this Bank Holiday weekend with shows by the outrageous and surreal The Rubberbandits and the acclaimed DJ duo The Nextmen.

RoolaBoola is in full swing and gearing up for its big weekend over the October Bank Holiday weekend. The Linenhall Arts Centre’s annual children’s arts festival is already rocking to the rafters, and the best is yet to come, with a line-up of top shows, hands-on workshops, drop-in events, and more to keep young people and their families amused, engaged, and entertained over the long weekend. And while the festival ticket office phone has been red hot with bookings, there are still tickets available for various events and workshops to get you into the RoolaBoola groove!

This weekend, on Sunday October 25, opens Mayo’s largest indoor market with over 6,000sq ft of space for stalls, cars, vans, etc. There is full capacity to bring in your car and trailer. There promises to be a lot to see and do.

I was reminded of my long gone Junior Infant schooldays as I walked up the newly developed Parade during the week.