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TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has announced the participating artists for its 23rd edition, taking place from 7–23 November 2025 in venues across Galway City.

From puppetry to urban imaginings, the 2025 festival will light up Galway

Running the full length of the Galway Arts Festival 2025 was the loud production full of country hits and accent misses, Vernon God Little. Brought to the Nun's Island stage by Galway Arts Centre's Galway Youth Theatre, the play was an adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.

There is no greater harbinger of a Galway summer than the release of the Arts Festival’s programme, setting out what delights the city may salivate for until mid July.

Galway City Council's Night-Time Economy Action Plan aims to enrich Galway’s evening cultural landscape, fostering community engagement and creative expression through a series of special events celebrating the Bealtaine Festival, Ireland's national celebration of arts and creativity as we age, an initiative of Age & Opportunity.

Galway City Council Night-Time Economy and Galway Arts Centre are excited to announce the launch of ‘’Thursday Lates,’’ a six-month pilot programme extending its opening hours to provide greater access to arts and culture in Galway City. Starting April 3rd, the centre will remain open every Thursday evening from 10 am to 9 pm, for a six-month period. This initiative directly aligns with feedback from consultations for the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan 2024-2025, which highlighted the extension of cultural venue opening hours as a key priority for the community. It also aligns with the Night-Time Economy Taskforce recommendations and the Program for Government’s objective to promote later opening hours at cultural venues, offering flexible access for visitors and supporting the expansion of related services.

When Fred Johnston was appointed as literary officer in the embryonic Galway Arts Centre, he was asked, on his first day, if he had any plans. He told the then director Dick Donoghue of a dream he had ever since reading Daniel Corkery’s book Hidden Ireland in which the author discussed how ‘courts of poetry’ which had been set up after the Flight of the Earls where poets would gather and recite their works. Fred’s idea was to establish such a court that would introduce international, national and local poets to a Galway audience, a sacred place for the celebration of poetry where it might sing again to big audiences. He did not want poetry to constitute a cultural hidden Ireland.

Local councillors are expected to dredge up the legacy of the 2020 City of Culture celebrations at the first full Galway City Council meeting of 2025 next week.

In conjunction with Galway City Council, Galway Arts Centre announced the awarding of three art commissions under an innovative new artist-in-residence programme. The programme supports artists in engaging with the communities of Galway City’s Westside and creatively responding to scientific research on air quality and climate conducted by local citizens and climate scientists from the University of Galway.

For sixty years Galway Film Society has been at the heart of culture in Galway and the west of Ireland. And at the heart of GFS for most of those years were Joe and Bridie McMahon.