Monday, June 21, 2010

Festival Launch photo, Team and Thank Yous


Galway City Tribune, Friday June 18, 2010

l. to r.: Marina, James, Vera, Deirdre, Fionnuala


The Team:
Festival Director: James Fleming
Artistic Design/Programme Editor/Blog: Marina Wild
Production: Jimmy Rooney, John Smits, Dennis Browne, Padraic Harley, Jack Kavanagh and Banger
Technician: Dom Stratton

Huge Thanks To:
All the artists and performers, Geraldine from Kelly's, Tom Sheridan (Bar 8), Gugai (Roisín Dubh), Fergus McGinn (Monroe's), Breandan O'Hara (Museum), Gráinne from Áras na nGael, Busker Browne's, Oliver Niland, James Harrold, Fionnuala Gallagher, Deirdre Lydon, the SocsBox at NUI Galway, Gerard Coady and O2.

Update:
The Box Office is now open. 3-6pm June 24-July 1 in Bar 8. Tel.: 086 2069886

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Julie's Tea House

Enjoy a cup of tea with Julie Friedrich, Galway's most popular community artist. There will be an exhibition of photographs by Julie, poetry recitals, an interactive sound-sculpture and music by local musicians. From midday until late evening you will be entertained in the comfort of Jimmy's gaff.
60 Newcastle Road, Thursday 12-8pm. Free

Black-and-White Ball

COLOURS's third Black-&-White Ball will round off the Fringe Festival in style.
Booking required. Call 086 4017331.
Dress code: formal -women in white, men in black!
Dinner 25 euro per person.
Bar 8, Friday 8pm

Parade and Fun Day Out

Fabulous Freaks Parade

Come join in the parade dressed as a freak or just yourself! The parade will begin at the top of Shop Street and finish at the Spanish Arch.
Shop Street, Saturday, starting at 8pm. Free

Fun Day Out

The Museum Square will host a day of music, carnival games, circus performances, arts and craft stalls, workshops and visual exhibitions. Free and open to all.
Galway City Museum, Sunday 2pm-6pm. Free

Films

For film aficionados, a series of short films by local filmmakers will be screened in the comfort of Galway's most popular art bar. Bar 8, Wednesday 8pm. Free

-Big Fish, Galway Falafel Experience and The Hussei Brothers by David Solus
-A Tribute to Breda Lewis by Margaretta D'Arcy and Finn Arden:
A moving documentary in her own words and music about a local Galway musician who died in 2009
-Knitting For Peace by Finn Arden:
Nollaig na nBan 6th January: in sub-zero conditions, women (and some men) kept alive the tradition of the Shannon Airport Women's Peace Camp as they held a Knit-For-Peace vigil in protest at the invasion of Gaza.
-Frog Man by Eoin Kenny
-Moustache by Tomás Seoighe (Little Warrior Films)
Followed by Festival Club with DJs and special guests

Knitting For Peace

A Tribute to Breda Lewis

Two documentaries, Mike Casey's Clown Around Lesotho and Dieter Auner's Leaving Transylvania, will be shown in Busker Browne's on Monday at 8pm. Free

Clown Around Lesotho follows three clowns from Clowns Without Borders Ireland, including Galway's Jonathan Gunning, as they travel across the HIV-ravaged Kingdom of Lesotho, performing to thousands of children.

Leaving Transylvania documents the exodus of the Transylvanian Saxons from Romania in the early 90s, an emigration that wiped out villages and endangered the 8oo years old cultural heritage. The film shows the disorientation of elderly Saxon couples from the village Arbegen, charging this documentary with intense emotion and bringing a little-known story to life.


Music

Alternative/roots music/Celtic four-piece The Rye will bring their "savage driven ceoil" to the Roisín Dubh. The Rye present one of the freshest and most exciting approaches to Irish Music, with the ability "to make even a stone statue tap its feet" (John O'Hara, The Galway Music Scene Review). Roisín Dubh, Tuesday 9pm. 7 euro/5 euro

Kevin Melly -lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Cian Mulligan -electric guitar, banjo
Barry Wallace -bass, banjo
Dessie Harrington -drums


The Tectonics are a little bomb waiting to go off. A punchy powerpop trio, with a rock'n'roll edge and more hooks than Hugh Duffy's fishing tackle shop!
Marcus Molloy on bass and Seamus Sullivan on drums (once the rhythm section of The Big Geraniums) provide pumping rhythms pushing incessantly to the dancefloor. The spice in the sauce comes from the spikey guitar of Eoin O'Brien (former member of Kila, Cookers and Claydolls), while all three contribute their vocal harmonies peppering their three-minute fillets of pop. Kelly's, Thursday 9pm. 5 euro
The Tectonics

Every night, Bar 8 will be the venue for our Festival CLub, with DJs and special guests. Bar 8, every night except Friday, from 9.30pm. Free

Suba Suba
, a Galway collective of artists, present an evening of drumming, dance and art from West Africa.
Featuring:
-a collection of African tribal art
-"One Day in Africa" photo exhibition
-SubaSuba live drumming performance
-plus some African Flava DJs
Áras na nGael, Thursday from 8pm until late. 5 euro

Visual Art

Artist Simon Murphy will create an outdoor interactive sculpture using recycled materials to expose how humans neglect proper waste management. Galway City Museum, Saturday 11am-5pm. Free

The museum will also showcase an exhibition of works by artists Eleanor Brennan and Marina Wild. Opening: Galway City Museum, Corribbean Café, Sunday 3pm. Free

Bar 8 hosts a Photography exhibition by Dahlia Browne, Emilie Le Troadec and Vanessa Jordan.
Vanessa Jordan -Instrumental
Emilie Le Troadec -Up to you
Dahlia Browne -
Opening: Bar 8, Sunday 9pm. Free

A video installation by Poland's Michal Ratajczak and a sand sculpture by Hungary's Janos Szecsi will be on view in The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road, Monday-Friday 2-7pm. Free

Performance

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATES AND VENUE! Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different media, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. Bank of Ireland Theatre, Thursday and Friday 6pm. 5 euro
Plastic Age

COLOURS Street Theatre Company presents Colours the Opera. Eight performers engage in a theatrical performance to show how people can evolve using colours to identify birth, life, death and resurrection. We will invigorate your sense of imagination and enhance the notion that we are all connected! COLOURS the Opera debuted to great acclaim at this year's Múscailt arts festival at NUI Galway. Kelly's, Monday & Tuesday 7.30pm. 3 euro
Colours the Opera -drawing by Dagmar Drabent

The Company presents its play Duael. "One Room, One War, Two Soldiers. One Empire dying, One Empire rising. When all is said and done, what's done is done". Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, Monday-Wednesday 8.30pm. 5 euro

NUI Galway's Dramsoc perform Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, Saturday & Sunday 8pm. 8 euro/5 euro

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. APOLOGIES. Noir et Blanc Theatre presents a surprise Puppet Show for the whole family! Duration: 25 min. Kelly's, Wednesday 5pm; Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, Thursday & Friday 6pm. 3 euro

Sorcas Quircas -an interactive experience for all ages. Pipa the cleaning woman gets a job in the circus. But oh no! Too many toys to play with, too much fun to have! Will the job ever get done? Sorcas Quircas invites the audience to be part of Pipa's journey through the world of circus... and maybe even become a circus performer themselves. Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway, Thursday & Friday 1pm. 5 euro

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Festival Launch

The launch of ColoursFringeFestival will take place on Thursday, June 10 at 8pm upstairs in Kelly's. All are welcome. NUI Galway's arts officer Fionnuala Gallagher will launch the programme.

Day 7 -Friday, July 2

1pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Sorcas Quircas -an interactive experience for all ages. Pipa the cleaning woman gets a job in the circus. But oh no! Too many toys to play with, too much fun to have! Will the job ever get done? Sorcas Quircas invites the audience to be part of Pipa's journey through the world of circus... and maybe even become a circus performer themselves. 5 euro

2-7pm,
The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road: Video installation by Michal Ratajczak and sand sculpture by Janos Szecsi. (Mon-Fri 2-7pm) Free

6pm,
Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Noir et Blanc Theatre presents a surprise Puppet Show for the whole family! Duration: 25min (Thur&Fri 6pm) 3 euro CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. APOLOGIES

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE! 6pm
, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different medias, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. (Thur&Fri 6pm) 5 euro

8pm, Bar 8: COLOURS's third Black-&-White Ball will round off the FringeFestival in style. Booking required. Call 086 4017331. Dress code: formal -women in white, men in black! Dinner 25 euro per person.

Day 6 -Thursday, July 1

12-8pm, 60 Newcastle Road: Julie's Tea House -Enjoy a cup of tea with Julie Friedrich, Galway's most popular community artist. There will be an exhibition of photographs by Julie, poetry recitals, an interactive sound-sculpture and music by local musicians. From midday until late evening you will be entertained in the comfort of Jimmy's gaff. Free

1pm,
Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Sorcas Quircas -an interactive experience for all ages. Pipa the cleaning woman gets a job in the circus. But oh no! Too many toys to play with, too much fun to have! Will the job ever get done? Sorcas Quircas invites the audience to be part of Pipa's journey through the world of circus... and maybe even become a circus performer themselves. 5 euro

2-7pm,
The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road: Video installation by Michal Ratajczak and sand sculpture by Janos Szecsi (Mon-Fri 2-7pm) Free

6pm,
Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Noir et Blanc Theatre presents a surprise Puppet show for the whole family! Duration: 25 min (Thur&Fri 6pm) 3 euro CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. APOLOGIES.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE! 6pm
, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different media, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. (Thur&Fri 6pm) 5 euro

8pm until late, Áras na nGael: Suba Suba, a Galway collective of artists, present an evening of drumming, dance and art from West Africa.
Featuring:
-a collection of African tribal art
-"One Day in Africa" photo exhibition
-SubaSuba live drumming performance
-plus some African Flava DJs
Cost: 5 euro

9pm, Kelly's: The Tectonics are a little bomb waiting to go off. A punchy powerpop trio, with a rock'n'roll edge and more hooks than Hugh Duffy's fishing tackle shop!
Marcus Molloy on bass and Seamus Sullivan on drums (once the rhythm section of The Big Geraniums) provide pumping rhythms pushing incessantly to the dancefloor. The spice in the sauce comes from the spikey guitar of Eoin O'Brien (former member of Kila, Cookers and Claydolls), while all three contribute their vocal harmonies peppering their three-minute fillets of pop. 5 euro
The Tectonics

9.30pm, Bar 8: Festival Club with DJs and special guests (Sat -Thur 9.30pm) Free

Day 5 -Wednesday, June 30

2-7pm, The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road: Video Installation by Michal Ratajczak and sand sculpture by Janos Szecsi (Mon-Fri 2-7pm) Free

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. APOLOGIES. 5pm,
Kelly's: Noir et Blanc Theatre presents a surprise Puppet Show for the whole family! Duration: 25 min. 3 euro

6pm
, Monroe's: Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different media, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. (Mon -Fri 6pm) 5 euro
CANCELLED. RESCHEDULED FOR THUR AND FRI 6pm IN BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE

8pm, Bar 8: For film aficionados, a series of short films by local filmmakers will be screened in the comfort of Galway's most popular art bar. Free

-Big Fish, Galway Falafel Experience and The Hussei Brothers by David Solus
-A Tribute to Breda Lewis by Margaretta D'Arcy and Finn Arden:
A moving documentary in her own words and music about a local Galway musician who died in 2009
-Knitting For Peace by Finn Arden:
Nollaig na nBan 6th January: in sub-zero conditions, women (and some men) kept alive the tradition of the Shannon Airport Women's Peace Camp as they held a Knit-For-Peace vigil in protest at the invasion of Gaza.
-Frog Man by Eoin Kenny
-Moustache by Tomás Seoighe (Little Warrior Films)
Followed by Festival Club with DJs and special guests

Knitting For Peace

A Tribute to Breda Lewis

8.30pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: The Company presents its play Duael. "One Room, One War, Two Soldiers. One Empire dying, One Empire rising. When all is said and done, what's done is done". (Mon -Wed 8.30pm) 5 euro

Day 4 -Tuesday, June 29

2-7pm, The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road: Video installation by Michal Ratajczak and sand sculpture by Janos Szecsi (Mon-Fri 2-7pm) Free

6pm, Monroe's: Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different media, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. (Mon -Fri 6pm) 5 euro
CANCELLED. RESCHEDULED FOR THUR AND FRI 6pm IN BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE

7.30pm, Kelly's: COLOURS the Opera by COLOURS Street Theatre Company - Eight performers engage in a theatrical performance to show how people can evolve using colours to identify birth, life, death and resurrection. We will invigorate your sense of imagination and enhance the notion that we are all connected! COLOURS the Opera debuted to great acclaim at this year's Múscailt arts festival at NUI Galway. (Mon & Tue 7.30pm) 3 euro

COLOURS the Opera -drawing by Dagmar Drabent

8.30pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: The Company presents its play Duael. "One Room, One War, Two Soldiers. One Empire dying, One Empire rising. When all is said and done, what's done is done." (Mon -Wed 8.30pm) 5 euro

9pm, Roisín Dubh: Alternative/roots music/Celtic four-piece The Rye will bring their "savage driven ceoil" to the Roisín Dubh. The Rye present one of the freshest and most exciting approaches to Irish Music, with the ability "to make even a stone statue tap its feet" (John O'Hara, The Galway Music Scene Review). 7 euro/5 euro

Kevin Melly -lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Cian Mulligan -electric guitar, banjo
Barry Wallace -bass, banjo
Dessie Harrington -drums

9.30pm, Bar 8: Festival Club with DJs and special guests. (Sat -Thur 9.30pm) Free

Day 3 -Monday, June 28

2-7pm, The Grey Basement, Niland House, Merchants Road: Video installation by Michal Ratajczak and sand sculpture by Janos Szecsi (Mon-Fri 2-7pm) Free

6pm
, Monroe's: Galway artist Stephanie González will perform Plastic Age, a piece which explores consumerism in a contemporary world of fake ideals. Using a collaboration of different media, this visual performance identifies how human nature has become dislodged and transformed into a paradise of contentment for material dominance. (Mon-Fri 6pm) 5 euro
CANCELLED. RESCHEDULED FOR THUR AND FRI 6pm IN BANK OF IRELAND THEATRE.
Plastic Age

7.30pm, Kelly's: Colours the Opera by COLOURS Street Theatre Company. Eight performers engage in a theatrical performance to show how people can evolve using colours to identify birth, life, death and resurrection. We will invigorate your sense of imagination and enhance the notion that we are all connected! COLOURS the Opera debuted to great acclaim at this year's Múscailt arts festival at NUI Galway. (Mon & Tue 7.30pm) 3 euro

8pm, Busker Browne's: Two documentaries, Mike Casey's Clown Around Lesotho and Dieter Auner's Leaving Transylvania, will be shown in Busker Browne's. Free

Clown Around Lesotho
follows three clowns from Clowns Without Borders Ireland, including Galway's Jonathan Gunning, as they travel across the HIV-ravaged Kingdom of Lesotho, performing to thousands of children.

Leaving Transylvania documents the exodus of the Transylvanian Saxons from Romania in the early 90s, an emigration that wiped out villages and endangered the 8oo years old cultural heritage. The film shows the disorientation of elderly Saxon couples from the village Arbegen, charging this documentary with intense emotion and bringing a little-known story to life.

8.30pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: The Company presents its play Duael. "One Room, One War, Two Soldiers. One Empire dying, One Empire rising. When all is said and done, what's done is done". (Mon-Wed 8.30pm) 5 euro

9.30pm, Bar 8: Festival Club with DJs and special guests (Sat-Thur 9.30pm) Free

Day 2 -Sunday, June 27

2pm-6pm, Galway City Museum Square: Fun Day Out - The Museum square will host a day of music, carnival games, circus performances, arts and craft stalls, workshops and visual exhibitions. Free and open to all. Free

3pm, Museum, Corribbean Café: Opening of an exhibition of works by artists Eleanor Brennan and Marina Wild. Free

9pm, Bar 8: Photography exhibition opening. Photographs by Dahlia Browne, Emilie Le Troadec and Vanessa Jordan.
Vanessa Jordan -Instrumental
Emilie Le Troadec -Up to you
Dahlia Browne -
Followed by Festival Club with DJs and special guests. Free


8pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, presented by NUI Galway's Dramsoc. 8euro/5euro

Day 1 -Saturday, June 26

11am -5pm, Galway City Museum: Artist Simon Murphy will create an outdoor interactive sculpture using recycled materials to expose how humans neglect proper waste management. Free

8pm: Fabulous Freaks Parade: Come join in the parade dressed as a freak or just yourself! The parade will begin at the top of Shop Street and finish at the Spanish Arch. Free

9.30pm, Bar 8: Festival Club with DJs and special guests. Free

8pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, presented by NUI Galway's Dramsoc. 8 euro/5 euro

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Welcome

Colours Street Theatre Company presents COLOURSFRINGEFESTIVAL 2010, which will take place from June 26 to July 2 in Galway City. A week of performing and visual arts, music and more, culminating in the annual Black-&-White Ball, this is the first festival organised by Colours, a vibrant company that has been bringing magic to the streets of Galway for the past ten years.
More information to follow!