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On Sunday next from 9.30pm Callan’s Abhainn Rí Festival 2011 will present The Green Street Carnival of Bright Ideas to celebrate the final night of the Abhainn Rí Festival.

Standing ovations for Cillian Murphy in Misterman and Propeller’s Shakespearean productions, and numerous sold-out shows mark this year’s Galway Arts Festival as among the most successful in the event’s 34 year history.

Balmy sunshine, as it so often does, greeted the launch of Galway Arts Festival on Monday evening and a large crowd of artists and arts aficionados thronged the Radisson Hotel for the event.

The Galway Arts Festival is celebrating 21 years of its Friends of the Festival scheme, which is an important source of revenue for the two week event.

This year the St Patrick’s Day celebrations will start early and the organisers have created a programme of events in the run up to the day.

Colours Street Theatre Company will hold a White Lantern Carnival Parade through Shop Street next week to ‘welcome’ the arrival of Christmas.

Galway business received a €20 million boost from this year’s Arts Festival, organisers revealed this week as the curtain fell on what was a successful event which saw record crowds visit the city during the two weeks.

The International Folk Arts Festival around the barony of Erris kicks off today with carnival music in Eachléim.

Macnas is looking for performers to take part in this year’s parade, The Wild Hunt, which will take to the streets of Galway on Sunday July 18 at 2pm as part of Galway Arts Festival.

THE BIG Sing Multicultural Community Choir will be relaunched on Tuesday at 7pm in St Patrick’s Band Hall as a new musical director takes over.