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1-8 Février 2020
Galway 2020 Opening Ceremony
Produced by Wonder Works with Galway City and County Community Cast
Drawn from the communities across the entire County of Galway, a huge cast will participate in a free fiery open- air celebration to mark the beginning of Galway 2020.
About Wonder Works
Led by Piers Shepperd and Jeremy Lloyd, Wonder Works is an international technical production practice for largescale global events including the four unique and spectacular Ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic.
https://www.wonder.co.uk
Mars
Savage Beauty (Finland)
Kari Kola
A Galway 2020 Commission
To coincide with Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations, the internationally acclaimed Finnish light artist will create a dramatic illumination of one of the country’s most famous topological feature, the Connemara Mountains in Galway. Exploring the Galway 2020 theme of landscape, Kola and his team will bring the newest technology to bear, greening the mountain range in a dazzling display of technical virtuosity to create the largest lit artwork ever made.
About Kari Kola
Finnish artist Kari Kola has worked with light for 17 years. His spectacular light installations have illuminated some of the world’s most significant sites including Villa de Laak, the sacred Saana Mountain in Finland and the Stonehenge UNESCO World Heritage site.
8 Mars
Wild Atlantic Women
Margaret Atwood
Presented by Galway 2020 in association with Galway Public Libraries
Margaret Atwood talks to writer Susan McKay about her remarkable career, why The Handmaid’s Tale has become a symbol of women’s struggle against oppression and the inspiration for her extraordinary new book, The Testaments.
Mars – Décembre
Monument
Presented by Galway City Council Museum and Galway 2020
Curated by Sybil Curley and Eithne Verling
Galway City Museum will be the lead partner on
Monument – a project that celebrates the cultural landscapes and visual language of islands in Europe. With a primary focus on the stone forts of Aran, this innovative project will investigate some of Europe’s most impressive stone monuments located on some of Europe’s smallest islands. This project will represent the communities that created these massive monuments and work with the scientists and scholars who have investigated them – focusing on what has endured and what has been lost.
About Galway City Museum
Established in 2006, Galway City Museum has three floors of exhibition space the archaeology, history and sea science of Galway. The attraction is one of Galway’s most popular cultural hotspots and welcomes over 200,000 visitors per year. Sybil Curley is a Galway-based architect and CEO of Sybil Curley Architects. Eithne Verling is Director of Galway City Museum
www.galwaycitymuseum.ie
2-29 Mars
Sruth na Teanga
Branar Teatar do Phaisti will create an immersive theatre adventure through the story of the Irish Language in five other-worldly experiences combining live performance, puppetry, music, video mapping, breath-taking design and beautiful imagery. With cinematic levels of detail,
Branar will create different worlds, each offering a poetic interpretation of crucial periods in the life cycle of this ancient language. The audience is invited into an unforgettable theatrical experience, encountering imaginative worlds that evoke the landscape, history and forces that have shaped Gaeilge, one of the ten most ancient languages still spoken today. Branar’s world-class brand of storytelling will enchant audiences of children aged 8-plus and adults alike.
About Branar
Branar Téatar do Pháistí is one of the leading theatre companies making work for children in Ireland. The company creates beautiful, innovative, high quality productions that inspire children and their families. Their work tours to venues and festivals locally, nationally and internationally. We support artists to make work for young audiences through our tailored programmes of resource sharing and Tiny Show creation. Branar create opportunities for children to explore their own arts practice in school settings. The company tours extensively nationally and internationally every year. Our work has been presented throughout Ireland, Europe, USA, China and Japan.
Avril – Juillet
Druid: The Galway Tour (Ireland)
A Galway 2020 commission
An ambitious county wide project recalling Druid’s original and ongoing commitment to rural touring from its base in Galway as Ireland’s leading theatre company. The company will live and work in the town and villages across County Galway, creating and presenting a series of production of the greatest Irish one-act plays of the 20
th century. The tour will culminate in a month-long residency in the Mick Lally Theatre on Druid Lane in Galway during summer 2020. Creatively re-imagined and presented in site specific locations and venues, it is hoped that this project will leave a lasting legacy within the fabric of these communities
About Druid
Druid was founded in Galway in 1975 by
Garry Hynes,
Marie Mullen and
Mick Lally, the first professional Irish theatre company outside of Dublin. Over the years, Druid has worked with actors, designers, directors, writers, producers and administrators, many of whom have each gone on to play leading roles in Irish and international theatre and all of whom have contributed to the shape of the company.
https://www.druid.ie/
Avril - Octobre
Mirror Pavilion (Ireland)
John Gerrard
Presented by Galway International Arts Festival and Galway 2020
Irish artist John Gerrard will create two extraordinary artworks on LED walls set within a Mirror Pavilion.
Straw Work and
Leaf Work will be located at the Claddagh Quay in Galway City and then on the spectacular 4,000-year-old Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara respectively. In both works, a number of leaf and straw covered mythical characters, whose movements respond to ecologies in hyper stress, are generated by an artificial intelligence to create a never-ending, constantly-evolving performance. The large scale and beautiful mirrored structure will reflect the environment around it. Crucially, Mirror Pavilion will be powered by local sustainable energy sources.
About John Gerrard
John Gerrard is best known for his large scale and site-specific works which have been installed in urban spaces such as the Lincoln Center Plaza in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and alongside isolated locations including Palm Desert, California and a Norwegian forest. Born in 1974, North Tipperary, Ireland, Gerrard lives in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna, Austria.
johngerrard.net
Mars, Avril, Juin
Macnas: Gilgamesh
The world’s oldest literary epic Gilgamesh in dramatic new interpretation by Galway’s master storytellers Macnas, written by Irish playwright Marina Carr, directed by the company’s Artistic Director Noeline Kavanagh, and designed by Julian Crouch. Two giants meet across the city joined by a panoply of large-scale characters as Galway becomes the stage for this heroic story.
Macnas.com
Avril et tout au long de l’année
Presented by Galway 2020 in association with 35th Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Eilís Dillon Centenary
Galway 2020 will celebrate the life and legacy of the novelist Eilís Dillon, who grew up in Galway. An innovator in the Irish language, she is acclaimed for her writings for both children and adults, perhaps best known for her major historical novel on the road to Irish independence, Across the Bitter Sea.
About Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Founded in Galway in 1985, Cúirt International Festival of Literature is a week-long curated festival with the programme selected by the Programme Director each year.
cuirt.ie
25 Avril – 3 Mai
Music for Galway and Galway 2020 present
Cellisimo
Artistic Director: Finghin Collins
Executive Director Anna Lardi Fogarty
This new international triennial festival will celebrate the cello, one of the world’s most beloved and versatile instruments in all its diversity. As part of the festival, cellists from all over the world will gather in Galway including Mischa Maisky, Giovanni Sollima, Nicolas Altstaedt, István Várdai, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Marc Coppey, Laura van der Heijden, Hannah Roberts, Natalie Haas, Jakob Koranyi and Naomi Berrill. The core artistic programme features three major orchestral concerts, including the Irish premiere of the Crouching Tiger Concerto by Tan Dun, performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and conducted by the composer.
The Zagreb Soloists and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will present cello concertos by Haydn, Vivaldi and Elgar. Premieres of new cello concertos by Gerald Barry and Julia Wolfe, co-commissioned with the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam will also take place. Beethoven’s 250th anniversary will be marked by a performance of all five cello sonatas, while Bach Plus concerts will take place in St. Nicholas’ Collegiate Church in Galway City and locations throughout County Galway.The closing concert – a cello extravaganza – invites cellists from far and wide to bring their instruments and join in.
About Music for Galway
musicforgalway.ie
Avril et Juillet
Northern Peripheries
Galway 2020 and Galway Film Centre in association with Screen Talent Europe
16 European partners join Galway Film Centre, Galway UNESCO City of Film, to inspire young filmmakers from all over Europe. During 2020, 16 young filmmakers selected from Galway and across Europe will come together for three weeks in an intensive workshop to create a number of films facilitated by expert filmmakers from the network. The exchange of knowledge and capacity building for these filmmakers will then be produced in a toolkit, which will be available online
galwayfilmcentre.ie
Avril / Mai / Juin
Galway 2020 presents
Project Baa Baa (Ireland / Europe)
Produced by Deborah Evers, Emilia Furey and Seamus Sheridan
Project Baa Baa is a unique programme celebrating the cultural, economic and environmental contribution of sheep in Ireland and Europe. Sheep farmers, researchers and innovators, artists and designers, craft and food producers from across Ireland and Europe will gather in Galway in May 2020, taking Ireland’s agricultural heritage into focus in an EU Congress of Sheep Farming and associated traditions. These traditions include sheep farming for meat, milk and wool, and the many uses of wool. The cultural programme includes an international tapestry exhibition and symposium, a European food and craft fair, a banquet, created by internationally renowned chef Enda McEvoy, exhibitions in historic textiles and innovative fashion and education projects. It will also include an event where the ancient traditional Galway Hookers will sail into Galway bringing wool on the old cargo route from Kinvara to the Claddagh.
projectbaabaa.com
Mai
Borderline (US / Northern Ireland)
David Best
A Galway 2020 Commission
On the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act, which established the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, internationally-renowned American artist David Best, famous for his ephemeral Temples at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert, will create a major new installation for Galway 2020. Working with the communities of Derry and Galway, he will be create another extraordinary monument to a world without borders, conflict and the pain of division.
About David Best
Artist David Best lives in California. Since 2001, he has been designing and constructing soaring temple-like structures at Burning Man in the Nevada Desert. Built with his volunteer Temple Crew, the structures have become a place for remembrance, their ritual burning an opportunity to let go of painful memories. After Derry’s UK City of Culture 2013, David Best and his Temple Crew memorably created Temple, a non-religious space where those on opposing sides left their weapons, differences and grievances outside, acknowledging the past and readying themselves to move on.
Mai / Novembre
Interaction / Galway Theatre Festival 2020
InterAction is a creative laboratory for participatory theatre and interactive technologies, which explores interaction among citizens and inhabitants of Europe, prompting audience members to explore new ways of ‘inter-acting’ with others and the world around them.
About Galway Theatre Festival
The Festival provides a platform for national artists and artists based in the West of Ireland, showcasing the best talents in theatre, spectacle, circus, storytelling and immersive performance.
galwaytheatrefestival.com
Mai
ATLANTEC: The Art of AI and Digital Innovation
The ATLANTEC Festival and Conference 2020 will explore advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with a focus on new and emerging technologies and digital trends that are redefining the industry. The festival will showcase Galway’s diverse technology culture and encourage creativity and collaboration within the IT, business and educational communities in the West of Ireland.
atlantec.ie
20-23 Mai
Crossing The Line
Blue Teapot Theatre Company
A Galway 2020 Commission
Crossing the Line Festival is a pan-European festival of outstanding work make by Irish and European artists with intellectual disabilities. Over 100 established and emerging artists from Ireland, Sweden, France, UK, Poland and The Netherlands unite with Blue Teapot Theatre Company in a first of its kind for a European Capital of Culture. Taking place over four days across multiple venues, the festival puts artists with intellectual disabilities centre-stage, celebrating their unique and original artistry in a programme of theatre, street shows, dance, film, masterclasses and knowledge events.
About Blue Teapot Theatre Company
Blue Teapot Theatre Company is a multi award-winning Theatre Company, Performing Arts School & Outreach programme for people with intellectual disabilities at the forefront of arts & disability in Ireland, committed to high quality theatre, training & the celebration of creativity.
blueteapot.ie
27 Juin
Fun Run (Australia)
All the Queens Men in a co-production with Galway 2020
Australian company All The Queens Men are bringing their spectacular community engagement project Fun Run to Galway in the summer of 2020. Preceded by months of preparation by local community groups Fun Run will allow everyone to increase their fitness and display their brilliance. At the centre of this five-hour performance is artist Tristan Meecham who will run a marathon on a treadmill at Salthill Park rallied and encouraged by cheerleading performances from community groups, school groups and members of the general public.
About All the Queens Men
Established by artists
Tristan Meecham and
Bec Reid,
All The Queens Men champions social equality celebrating diverse communities through creative actions, contemporary arts and socially engaged frameworks. Their work is presented globally across arts festivals and cultural contexts.
Allthequeensmen.net
Août
Fire Garden (France)
Cie Carabosse
A Galway 2020 Commission
In a spectacular moment marking the change of season from Bealtaine to Lughnasa, the celebrated French street art group, Cie Carabosse will create a giant magical fire gardens in and around a ruined monastery, leading the audience on an illuminated trail that evokes the journeys taken by pilgrims hundreds of years ago.
About Cie Carabosse
Carabosse are one of France’s most important street arts groups, transforming streets and parks into flickering artworks that remind us of the most basic and elemental human need. Carabosse have performed all over the world, delighting thousands of visitors from Edinburgh to Brighton with installations that inspire awe and reverence in equal measure.
ciecarabosse.fr
Août
Odyssey
Arts Over Borders co-produced with Galway 2020. Using Emily Wilson’s English translation, the first by a woman, Arts Over Borders will stage a series of intimate readings of excerpts of Homer’s Odyssey on the beaches of Galway accompanied by live music by Greek musicians.
About Arts over Borders
Curators Seán Doran and Liam Browne take their inspiration from the genius of a single artist and curate with a strong sense of place, both rural and urban, throughout border communities and landscapes of the
northern literary lands.
artsoverborders.com
Août
Wires Crossed (Pan Europe)
Galway Community Circus
The largest and most ambitious circus spectacle ever to be staged in Ireland. In August 2020,
Wires Crossed will transform the streets of Galway with a four-day circus festival of world-class performances and workshops, culminating with the highwire spectacle over the River Corrib and Claddagh Basin involving 400 people of all ages and walks of life. This 33-hour performance will take audiences on a journey through the darkness into the light with an extraordinary message of hope, solidarity and strength.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe Programmes of the European Union and The Arts Council.
About Galway Community Circus
Galway Community Circus is a charitable organisation dedicated to inspiring and empowering people of all ages and abilities through circus arts. Galway Community Circus is a pioneer of youth circus in Ireland, committed to the advancement of circus arts through the creation of exciting and enriching opportunities for young people, emerging circus artists and professionals to engage in training, creation and performance on an ongoing basis. Through its ground-breaking programmes and high-quality productions, Galway Community circus has proven itself to be a cradle of artistic excellence and educational innovation in Ireland.
galwaycommunitycircus.com
Septembre
Syngelines Festival
Arts Over Borders commissioned by Galway 2020
Curators Seán Doran and Liam Browne will present a multi-art festival commissioned by Galway 2020, dedicated to the life and work of the great Irish writer, J M Synge and his close connections to Galway and the Aran Islands.
About Arts over Borders
Curators Seán Doran and Liam Browne take their inspiration from the genius of a single artist and curate with a strong sense of place, both rural and urban, throughout border communities and landscapes of the
northern literary lands.
artsoverborders.com
Septembre
City of Light, City of Sanctuary (UK)
Lantern Company in a co-production with Galway 2020 Artistic director Jo Pocock and composer Roma Yagnik
City of Light, City of Sanctuary is inspired by the increasingly urgent issues of displacement affecting many people and communities in the world today. City of Light asks what ‘home’ really means to those who are settled and those who remain displaced. Over a thousand Galway residents of all ages (both newly-arrived and long-established) reflecting on their own experiences and stories, will make the work using the simplest of materials. From shelters, houses and blocks of flats, to iconic buildings in Galway and farther afield, this glowing, floating cityscape will be accompanied by a cinematic soundscape by film composer Roma Yagnik that will transport audiences on a magical journey around the world.
About the Lantern Company
Under the artistic direction of
Jo Pocock, the Lantern Company works with a large pool of exceptional artists and technicians to create work that ranges from small scale theatrical experiences to spectacular outdoor shows. At the heart of the company lies the desire to nurture and promote artistic excellence alongside a commitment to developing sustainable projects, which build skills and raise aspirations in community members, raising confidence, celebrating creativity and promoting social cohesion amongst participants and audiences alike.
lanterncompany.co.uk
Octobre
Backgrounds: I am Galway (UK)
Darrell Vydelingum
In
Backgrounds, artist
Darrell Vydelingum will create a new, collective portrait of Galway today. It will celebrate Galway’s many diverse communities by inviting everyone to create an individual ceremonial portrait. Young photographers from NUI Galway and GMIT will recreate photographers’ studios in locations across the city and county, with each background chosen by the sitter. Collectively, these images will tell a story about what it means to be a Galwegian in the 21st century, revealing who is here and how they choose to be portrayed.
About Darrell Vydelingum
Darrell Vydelingum is a curator and creative director. His recent projects include Kaleidoscope: Immigration and Modern Britain co-curated with Ekow Eshun; Fashion & Freedom and PROCESSIONS, both part of the 14-18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commissions
Octobre
Arrivals/Departures (US/UK)
Jenny Polak
A Galway 2020 Commission
US artist Jenny Polak will work with migrant workers, people in direct provision, Galwegians with family members who have emigrated, and those who are new to Galway, to reframe the migrant- citizen relationship. Jenny’s own family history of migration drives her to examine detention centres, racial profiling and strategies for surviving hostile authorities are major concerns in her work.
About Jenny Polak
Jenny Polak is a New York-based artist/ activist originally from England with a background in architecture. Her work amplifies specific calls for social justice and responds to both sites and communities. Awards and residencies include NYFA, the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Study of Visual Art, Franklin Furnace and Northwestern University amongst others.
jennypolak.com
10-18 Octobre
RISE
Baboró International Arts Festival for Children in association with Galway 2020
Building on Baboró’s vision that all children should enjoy equal access to quality cultural experiences, Baboró will partner with a number of Irish and international artists to deliver an expanded programme as part of Galway 2020. Contemporary dance, parkour, circus skills and game creation will combine to create unusual performance presentations on city and county streets, in venues and in schools. Promenade performances will surprise and delight, disrupting public spaces and engaging both expectant and unsuspecting audiences.
About Babaró
Based in Galway on Ireland’s West Coast, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children is Ireland’s flagship international arts festival devoted exclusively to children and families.
baboro.ie
Automne 2020
Three Chords and the Truth
Co-produced with Belfast International Arts Festival in partnership with Belfast City Council:
Four concerts, a musical road trip down the memory lane of Americana featuring leading musicians from North America and Ireland, tracing the transatlantic roots of country, blue, gospel, folk and bluegrass. Premiering in Galway, and then playing in Boston, Belfast and Nashville.
belfastinternationalartsfestival.com
Novembre
Unsung (US/Ireland)
Nighthouse Studio, commissioned by Galway 2020
From the 18
th to the 20th centuries, in the care of the state, mothers and children were subjected to abuse, neglect and dehumanising social conditions. Immersed in light and sound, Unsung acknowledges and reflects on the lives of those across the nation who lived and died in countless institutions like the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
About Nighthouse Studio
Nighthouse Studio is led by US artist Elaine Buckholst. Elaine’s most recent work utilizes video and light in relation to sculptural forms, digital prints, and pre-existing sites in architecture and nature under the cover of darkness.
elainebuckholtz.com