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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.

AN IRISH community and its culture are under siege. Ancient traditions and customs are dying out. The public act of keening is disappearing, and edicts for new ways of doing things are being handed down.

GILGAMESH, THE story of the ancient hero-king from the Middle East, and brilliantly reimagined by Macnas, will be screened as a short film in the Town Hall Theatre next week.

“SHE’S SOME woman for one woman” is a phrase that can very easily be applied to Macnas artistic director Noeline Kavanagh, who also embodies that old adage, “The show must go on.”

IT IS older than The Iliad and The Odyssey, and may have influenced both. It parallels stories in The Bible. It is the oldest surviving story in the world, and the world's oldest surviving piece of literature.

OUT OF The Wild Sky, the 2018 Macnas Halloween parade, celebrating the act of transformation, creating in its wake, a hypnotic, intoxicating, glittering, mysterious world, filled with shadow and nobility, takes place next week.

Out Of The Wild Sky, the 2018 Macnas parade, which promises to unleash "a world that is hypnotic and intoxicating, glittering, mysterious, and filled with shadow and nobility," upon Galway streets, takes place at the end of next month.