Baboró 2025: Celebrating big imaginations this October

Thu, Aug 21, 2025

Baboro — Ireland’s flagship international arts festival for children returns to Galway from 10 - 19 October 2025, inviting schools, families and young audiences to dive into a world of imagination, creativity and wonder. The 2025 festival will feature stunning new work in theatre, circus, puppetry, dance and visual art by leading Irish and international artists. Here is a look at three of this year’s festival highlights to get excited about.

Future Artifacts - a refusal to lose imagination

Thu, Jul 24, 2025

Future Artifacts presents the artistic research of five 2025 MA Candidates at the Burren College of Art. Bringing together painting, printmaking, photography, installation, and experimental material processes, the work is rooted in a refusal to lose the imagination battle with fascism. In a time of genocide and ecocide, draw upon history, myth, folklore, and alchemy in an attempt to metabolise collective grief and insist on speculative futures of survival and interdependence.

Sabine Higgins to unveil Shock’s Druid snaps

Thu, Jul 03, 2025

An exhibition of just 50 of his thousands of photos will be launched in The Kenny Gallery during the Galway International Arts Festival to document the fiftieth anniversary of another stalwart of modern Galway city: the Druid Theatre Company.

Art exhibition at the Portershed

Thu, Jun 26, 2025

The west of Ireland artist, well known for her semi-abstract landscapes, has her latest exhibition curated by Cadhla Forde.  

Lakeland inspires artists

Thu, Jun 12, 2025

The UachtarARTS Community Group will launch its latest exhibition Lough Corrib, Our Legacy – Ár gCroí, tomorrow, Friday, June 13, at 7:00pm in the Courthouse Gallery, Oughterard.

Basque residency for city busker

Thu, Jun 12, 2025

Rocío Grau is well-known as a busker in Galway, regularly playing classical music on her keyboard on the city’s streets.

Humanity amid Burren wildlife

Thu, Jun 12, 2025

An exhibition of her latest works will be unveiled at Galway city’s Town Hall Theatre tomorrow, Friday, June 13, at 5pm.

‘Dimensions’ art show in Tuam

Thu, Jun 05, 2025

Dimensions, is the latest exhibition from GRETB’s QQI Level 5 Art and Digital Media programme.

Arts graduate show at ATU

Thu, Jun 05, 2025

ATU’s annual Graduate Exhibition featuring the work of 95 emerging artists, animators, filmmakers and designers will open to the public this Saturday, June 7, in ATU’s School of Design and Creative Arts on Wellpark Road.

What the folk is going on?

Thu, May 29, 2025

With one week to go before the 2025 Galway Folk Festival, excitement is building as the city transforms into a vibrant hub of folk, roots, and traditional music.

Lips, Legs and Locks down Druid Lane

Thu, May 29, 2025

An all-girl team of Galwegian dramatists will begin a three-night run of their latest production Broads at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre from this evening, Thursday, May 29, until Saturday, nightly, at 8pm.

Ragaire returns

Thu, May 29, 2025

Galway-based literary magazine Ragaire will launch its third edition tomorrow, Friday, May 30, in The Porter Shed, on Market Street, at 6.30pm.

Bit of fun at Outset

Thu, May 22, 2025

It’s All a Bit of Fun (Until Somebody Gets Hurt) opens tomorrow, Friday, May 23, at the gallery on Middle Street.

Local cartoonists seek industry gongs

Thu, May 15, 2025

The biennial Irish Animation Awards will be held in Galway later this month, one day after a special industry meitheal on Friday, May 23, at the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill.

Big noise from new art

Thu, May 15, 2025

White Noise Seven are a group of artists based in Galway which work in various and diverse media.

Art portfolios ‘Emerge’ from GTI

Thu, May 08, 2025

Galway Technical Institute will host Emerge next week, a two-day, pop-up showcase of works by art students, from Thursday, May 15.

Photo exhibition of old Galway streetscapes

Thu, May 08, 2025

Running until June 3, this collection of more than 40 photographs captures Galway city and its people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Power of Three

Thu, Apr 03, 2025

The artists in the exhibition are Ceva Thomas, Regina O’Dea and Svetlana Akusevits.

Ceva is a mixed media visual artist from Galway city. She would describe her art as a mixture of abstract and surrealism, using lots of colour and suggestive line and texture. She hopes her art brings some colour and happiness to the viewer.

Cresswell comes home to Kinvara

Thu, Mar 06, 2025

This March, Kinvara Heritage Group is delighted to present 'Cresswell Comes Home', an exhibition at Kinvara Courthouse showcasing photographs of local Kinvara people, daily life, and landscapes captured by Robert Cresswell in the 1950s. Official opening will be on Friday, March 14 at 7pm and the photos will be exhibited until March 23.

Cresswell, a Paris-based American anthropologist, lived in Kinvara between 1955 and 1956, during which time he took over 400 photographs documenting the area. He later gifted the copyright of these images to the Kinvara Community Council for educational and heritage purposes. A selection of his photographs were featured in the 2019 Ireland in Focus exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland.

'Truth or Dare' at Monroe’s

Thu, Jan 23, 2025

High-octane Scottish ska band PorkPie will bring their upcoming ‘Truth or Dare’ tour to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, October 4, with doors open at 8pm.

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