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Roll up, Roll up! RoolaBoola 2008, the Linenhall Arts Centre’s fun-packed 11th annual arts festival for young people, is on its way with a packed programme of quality shows, events and workshops, as set out in all its glory in the pulsating RoolaBoola brochure (available from the Linenhall, or on the new-look Linenhall website www.thelinenhall.com )

DURING THIS time of economic recession we all need a good laugh and chortles galore are on the way to the city when the Galway Comedy Festival takes place from October 21 to 25.

THE ORGANISERS of the fourth Annual Galway Comedy Festival, which runs from October 21 to 25, have pulled out all the stops to keep ticket prices affordable for Galway audiences this year.

St Gerald’s College will this year celebrate 100 years in Castlebar. The upcoming October Bank Holiday weekend will see the centenary celebrations in full swing. All past pupils and past members of staff are encouraged to join in the celebrations. To assist past associates of St Gerald’s College keep up to date with the centenary celebration, a website has been set up which includes details of the celebrations as well as lists of past pupils dating back to the early 1900s. This site can be viewed at www.stgeraldscentenary.com

Ladies and gentlemen! Presenting something completely different: So and So Circus Theatre brings the dazzling circus theatre show The Hot Dots to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday November 2 at 8pm.

Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks.

Theatre companies are gathering in force for the beginning of RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival, taking place all next week at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and culminating in a weekend of fun and excitement for young people and their families over the October Bank Holiday. The annual festival kicks off in truly spellbinding style next Monday October 19 with The Musician, a darkly thrilling piece of musical theatre by Northern Ireland’s Cahoots, purveyors of world-class children’s theatre. The Musician is a new opera for children that tells the story of the child who became the best known flautist of them all… the Pied Piper.

RoolaBoola is in full swing and gearing up for its big weekend over the October Bank Holiday weekend. The Linenhall Arts Centre’s annual children’s arts festival is already rocking to the rafters, and the best is yet to come, with a line-up of top shows, hands-on workshops, drop-in events, and more to keep young people and their families amused, engaged, and entertained over the long weekend. And while the festival ticket office phone has been red hot with bookings, there are still tickets available for various events and workshops to get you into the RoolaBoola groove!