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The Galway Arts Festival Box Office will open at its new location at the Galway Tourist Office, Forster Street, on Monday.

HENRI MATISSE’S reputation as one of the icons of 20th century art was secured long before he reached his sixties. Yet it was in his eighties that he produced some of his most famous images.

POLITICAL MOTHER, an extraordinary dance show which has wowed audiences in Britain and earned rave reviews from the critics will be performed in Galway in July.

Ireland’s leading arts event, the Galway Arts Festival, is set to provide an internationally acclaimed line-up of music, dance, theatre, comedy, street events and art from July 12 to 25.

Galway’s arts community turned out in force on Monday evening for the official launch of this year’s Galway Arts Festival. Augmenting the large assembly of local festival devotees were visiting artists such as musicians Philip Glass and Richard Hawley, playwright Enda Walsh, and artist Ruth McHugh, all of whom feature in this year’s exciting programme.

If there was ever a time when business was business and the arts were — well, just messing around, enjoying oneself, it’s not now, and it’s certainly not in Galway.

This year’s Galway Arts Festival is the largest ever featuring more than 400 writers, artists, performers, and musicians from Australia, Africa, Europe, North America and Ireland.

A war of words and claims and counterclaims have broken out between the Galway Arts Festival, Saw Doctors manager Ollie Jennings, and Fianna Fáil Cllr Michael J Crowe over the Saw Doctors’ summer concerts in Galway city.

The Galway Arts Festival enjoyed its most successful year with this weeks festival breaking box office records and attendance figures significantly up from last year.

THE GALWAY Arts Festival unveiled its 2009 programme last week and, as ever, it’s chock-a-block with top-drawer attractions from both home and abroad. Theatre and dance - as ever,- feature strongly in the line-up and last Friday, over an afternoon coffee, festival director Paul Fahy met up to talk through some of this year’s highlights.