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FILM MAKER Pat Collins, who spent a number of years in Galway, will be celebrated at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, with screenings of some of his acclaimed documentary films on Irish writers.

Woodstock Gardens are the site of a temporary public art project this July which will culminate in a unique event celebrating the gardens and the people who created them.

THE ‘GIORGIONE’ in the title of Tracking Giorgione (Brandon), the ambitious novel by Hungarian born writer Thomas Kabdebo, is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian Renaissance painter and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci.

AMONG THE host of outstanding writers converging on Galway for this year’s Cúirt festival is the English poet, novelist, and memoirist Blake Morrison.

Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour, Sinn Féin, Greens, or Independent? Does it matter?

The 2009 RTE All Ireland Drama Festival will get off to a flying start on Friday May 1 next as Kilmeen Drama Group from Cork take to the stage with Jimmy Murphy's touching play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road. Successfully adapted for film as Kings, this award winning work, which tells the tale of a group of Irish emigrant workers who meet up 25 years after they first set off seeking employment in England, will set the standard at this year's festival.

The faces, lives, and stories of people in Mervue’s Loughnane Terrace, St James Road, and Quinn Place, have been captured in paint and the printed word in Mervue Portraits, a new exhibition commissioned by the Galway City Council.

Galway writer Maureen Gallagher has been awarded first prize in the Leyney Writers 2009 Short Story Competition.

The very wonderful Gare St Lazare Players bring their exciting new production of Moby Dick to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday May 7 at 8.00pm.

NO FIXED Abode Theatre Company are in the Town Hall next weekend with Promises Promises, the hilarious new comedy play by Athlone-based writer Margaret Mc Kenna Mullan.