The Craic is Back as county and city come alive for Culture Night
The flagship event of Culture Night in Galway City this Friday evening, September 17, will be Night-vision, an audio-visual experience in the grounds of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church from 8.30pm. Ambient, electronic and experimental sounds will play alongside a light installation that will illuminate the church and surrounding area. It’s presented by the group, Give Us The Night and Galway Light.
Visual arts include Curracha, an exhibition of 21 unique painted currach sculptures, commissioned to celebrate 21 years of Inis Oírr’s arts centre, Áras Éanna. It’s in NUIG’s Quadrangle from 11am.
Painting, sculpture, textile, installation and film, the work of 21 graduates from GMIT’s Masters in Creative practice course will be showcased from 3pm in the institute.
Art in Mind on Dominick Street will have a group show of sculpture, painting, ceramics and photography from 4pm. The launch of the Galway Cartoon Festival Programme will be at 5pm at the Cornstore on Middle Street, while the Claddagh Art Collective has an exhibition by Joe Westcott and Jarlath Tourish focusing on their tattoo and art studio.
Galway Arts Centre on Dominick Street, which will stay open until 11pm, has a new exhibition from Ger Sweeney, spanning ten years of his work. In Cross Street, Margaret Nolan will display Iconic, drawings and collage, in the windows of Tigh Neachtain and 2 Wild Geese.
At sunset, multi-media artist Marqu VR will create 3D illusions on the Town Hall Theatre, with a display of architectural projection-mapping. And in The Latin Quarter, Dolores Lyne has curated a showcase of eight Galway City art collectives, which will be displayed on TV screens at The Dáil Bar and Front Door pub.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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