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MONDAY APRIL 15 will be a red letter day for Galway’s classical music aficionados as it sees the debut of the city’s new orchestra, Luminosa, at Galway Cathedral. The debut concert programme, Maestra, will feature works by female composers ranging from the 12th century Hildegard of Bingen to Galway’s own Jane O’Leary.

LIVEFEED: Workshop & Open Mic is a Galway 2020 project for young people interested in music performance, production, promotion, songwriting, sound engineering, and music related photography, social media, and journalism.

DUMBO IS the first of three Disney live action remakes out this year, the others being Aladdin and The Lion King, and the company seems to have taken a different approach to each one.

GALWAY TEENAGERS who are passionate about film and who would like the chance to be part of Europe’s biggest film jury, should check out an event coming to the Pálás Cinema next month.

A SHOW celebrating Judy Garland, Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Elaine Stritch, Patti Lupone and Angela Lansbury, takes place in An Taibhdhearc this weekend.

THE 14TH annual New Writing Showcase, hosted by the Over The Edge: Open Readings, will take place in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday April 10 at 11am, as part of the Cúirt Festival of International Literature.

A FLURRY of locally-produced plays have graced Galway’s stages over the past few weeks, the most of impressive of them being Brú Theatre’s Selvage at the Mick Lally Theatre, written and performed by James Riordan and deftly directed by Lara Campbell.

AN EXHIBITION, featuring a variety of artistic responses to an excerpt from Emilie Pine's Notes To Self - the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards Book of the Year winner - takes place in Just Art It.

BORN ON The Aran Islands in 1896, Liam O’Flaherty was to become one of the most distinguished and prolific writers of 20th century Ireland. His first book, Thy Neighbour’s Wife, was published in 1923 and was followed by an avalanche of novels, short stories, and poems in English and as Gaeilge, as well as travelogues.

A YAKUZA thriller, a boy who meets a dancing Jesus, samurai warriors, a romcom, and anime - Galway is in for a feast of Japanese film throughout April.