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Major Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights to take place just before Arts Festival
Thought leaders from the seemingly disparate worlds of human rights and the arts will come together for the Galway International Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights from 9-11 July. This landmark event, a world-first, is hosted by NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Rights, and will take place in the days immediately before the Galway International Arts Festival.
Two nights with David O’Doherty
ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comedians David O’Doherty, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh next month, with his new show David O’Doherty Has Checked Everything.
Tongue Fu - poetry, but not as you know it
TONGUE FU, a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film, and improv, and one of London’s best attended spoken word nights, is coming to Galway.
Cúirt Fringe to remember Nora Crubs - “Galway’s first nightclub”
NORA CRUBS, a one time Quay Street venue, described by some as “Galway’s first nightclub” will be remembered and celebrated at an event at the Cúirt Fringe next week.
Cúirt festival opens next week
The 30th Cúirt International Festival of Literature opens on Wednesday April 22 with an official reception and a poetry reading.
Leading poets to read at Cúirt
THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature began life 30 years ago as a festival dedicated exclusively to poetry. Its remit is wider today, but poetry remains a key factor.
Naomi Shihab Nye: Palestine and poetry meet at Cúirt
NAOMI SHIHAB Nye has had both the good fortune, and the bad luck, to have lived in interesting times and places. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1952 to a Palestinian father and an American mother; she grew up in (the now notorious) St Louis suburb of Ferguson, in Jerusalem, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently resides.
Creative writing classes
CREATIVE WRITING classes for beginners and intermediates take place at the Galway Technical Institute, Father Griffin Road, next month.
The Stunning and Ryan Sheridan to play SugarBeat
THE STUNNING, Ryan Sheridan, Hometown and Rackhouse Pilfer are among the acts confirmed to play the 2015 SugarBeat Festival in Tuam Stadium on Saturday August 22 and Sunday 23.
Poet Michael Longley to give Ballina reading
One of Ireland’s foremost comtemporary poets, Michael Longley, is to give a special reading of some of his ‘Mayo poems’ in the Ballina Arts Centre, on Friday, April 10.