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

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