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As we bid a glad farewell to another year of The New Way of Living and welcome in the latest instalment, we look back on some key moments in the year 2021 - a year of highs and lows, defeats and victories, learnings, resilience and hope.

AT EVERY arts event in the city he would be there, the jolly man with the glasses and the long hair, a smile and good company, enthusiastic for what he, and we, were about to see that night, be it theatre, music, literature, visual arts - and he usually had an important role in supporting it.

James Harrold, who has served Galway for more than 30 years as the city arts officer with the Galway City Council, will stand down from the position on July 16.

New Directions, a Galway City Council Strategic Plan for the Arts 2021-2026, was adopted at Monday’s online meeting.

Mayo artist and musician Breda Mayock has been announced as one of the 31 recipients of the inaugural PLATFORM 31 bursary, the national development scheme for artists to develop their practice and test new ideas of collaboration, research, audience development, place based arts and sharing their work.

SIXTY ARTISTS from around the world, presenting drawings on A5 sized paper, created during the Covid-19 pandemic, will make up The Drawing Box exhibition.

The Galway City Council has been given the green light for the pay out of arts grants totalling €425,000.

TOMORROW BRITAIN formally - finally! - leaves the EU, which means we no longer have to pretend there are 28 EU member states or say the "remaining EU 27".

Over the past eight years, Claregalway Castle has become the premier centre for botanical art and illustration in the west of Ireland, thanks to the annual Botanical Art Expo held in conjunction with the Galway Garden Festival every July.

MA18, FEATURING the work of 12 visual artists and film makers, all graduates of the new MA in Creative Practice, opens tomorrow [September 21] in the Connacht Printworks Gallery, Middle Street.