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Sustainable practises and development of the creative industries in Galway are among the goals set out in the new five-year strategic partnership between Galway International Arts Festival and University of Galway, announced this week.

University of Galway and Galway International Arts Festival today announced details of their partnership for 2023, including an exclusive event for University alumni, the largest ever festival theatre being built on campus, and an education programme for the next generation of artists, arts managers and creative entrepreneurs.

“The White House”

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17 Thomond Lodge

The Arts Council in partnership with Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway and Creative Europe Desk Ireland is to hold the Festival Makers Conference in Galway on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May. The event will provide opportunities for festival makers, festival stakeholders and artists to exchange ideas, share skills and discuss festival practice in Ireland.

Maelíosa Stafford did not really have a chance, he was destined for a life in theatre, drama was in his blood, acting in his DNA. His first time on stage was in a Taibhdhearc production his mother was acting in … he was still in his mother’s womb. Both of his parents, Seán and Máire, had made an enormous contribution to the arts scene in Galway and especially to theatre in the west, in various guises as actors, directors, translators of plays into Irish, writers of pantomimes, costume designers, librettists, and drama teachers.

Williamstown might have been asleep in the early hours of yesterday (Wednesday) morning but far away down under in Australia, kidney transplant recipient Teresa Smyth was battling it out in a world darts competition at the World Transplant Games.

Maelíosa Stafford was an actor, director, producer, and educator and one of the most influential, successful, innovative, and charismatic of Galway artists.

A new mixed-media exhibition exploring the third-level student experience, as seen through the eyes of TUS students, was launched in Athlone Library recently. ‘Through Our Eyes’, a joint initiative by TUS’s Athlone campus and the Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), showcases a curated snapshot of the creative work of students across all six TUS campuses.