Galway City Arts Office

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⭐️BECOMING ROOSI – advance tickets on sale now!

Screening as part of our spotlight on Estonian cinema, this deep, funny, and provocative documentary follows a young girl, Roosi, for 10 years from age 8 to18. Having grown up as the child of an environmental activist, she struggles to cope with climate grief and guilt as she moves from childhood to adulthood. Roosi tries to find her own identity and place in the world, revealing refreshing wisdom about contemporary life through the eyes of a generation coming of age in an increasingly fluid reality.

📍 Thursday, 9 July, 17:00 — Pálás Screen 1
🎟️ Grab your tickets here: https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/becoming-roosi/

The full programme for the 38th Galway Film Fleadh will be announced on 23 June.

Becoming Roosi

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Meet Madeleine Connaughton and Padraig Connaughton another of our guest vocalists joining us for our 130 Year celebrations on June 21st. Www.eventbrite.ie - Get your tickets now!

Pádraig Connaughton
Pádraig is a Loughrea based Tenor and a long time collaborator with St. Patrick’s Band. Music has always been a big part of his life and he regularly performs locally with the West Coast Big Band, the Moonlight Big Band and the Galway Tenors and nationally with The Limerick Big Band, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as well as many more.

Madeleine Fleming
Madeleine, Pádraig’s sister, also lives in Loughrea. She is highly regarded on both the local and national music scene performing across a wide spectrum of music from classical to modern to church music. She regularly performs with Jazz and Swing bands across the Country as well as joining up with St Patricks Band on a regular basis.

Both Madeleine and Pádraig’s soaring voices are sure to be a hit when combined with the brass band.

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✨ Westside Arts Festival returns next month, from 7 - 11 July.

The 2026 festival theme is “In the Stream of Time”, which speaks of ‘evolution’, ‘change’ and ‘progression’ and indeed ‘the emergence of new things and new ideas’. It has strong intergenerational resonances as each generation has its own experience of the world…as the stream of time moves on!

The full programme of events will be available soon at Westside Arts Festival.

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Would you like to display your art at Westside Art Exhibition this year?

Westside Arts Festival is inviting local artists to take part in this year's exhibition at Westside Resource Centre. A maximum of 2 pieces per artist can be submitted and the deadline for submissions is Friday 19th June.

Looking forward to seeing your artwork!

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Druid Theatre's 2026 Season – Strange Country: Ireland in America – continues with Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten.

🗓 Mon 14 to Sat 26 September
📍 Town Hall Theatre Galway

🎟 tickets available at https://tht.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173667279/events/428726454

Over the course of one day and night in 1920s rural Connecticut, Josie Hogan, the last of her immigrant Irish family left at home with her alcoholic father, and their anguished landlord, James Tyrone, long for escape - she from her life, and he from his loss.

One of the great canonical works of the 20th century, A Moon for the Misbegotten is the sequel to Long Day’s Journey into Night, and the last of O’Neill's trio of largely autobiographical plays which reflect his complex relationship with Ireland.

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