The Power of Less Event | 2017 ‘The chief obstacle is not technology or economics but slow adoption.’ Amory Lovins Designer and Professor Rebecca Earley is at the forefront of sustainable design and the power of the new circular e...
John Beard Event | 2017 John Beard’s version of The Raft of the Medusa allows one to comprehend the Romantic grandeur and powerful beauty of the great masterpiece by Theodore Géricault which hangs in the Louvre, Paris. Géri...
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour Event | 2016 "A work that's both anthem and elegy, a getting of wisdom that celebrates life even as it breaks your heart." - The Herald "One stop short of a full-blown musical, and every bit as exhilarating....
The Savage Loves His Native Shore Event | 2016 In 2012 Galway University Hospital’s Arts Trust introduced an arts programme aimed at enhancing the patient experience of haemodialysis treatment at Merlin Park Hospital. In doing so, it sought to red...
Donnacha Cahill | Gramophone Event | 2016 Donnacha Cahill’s giant pop–up audio visual sculpture The Gramophone will appear at various locations throughout Galway City & County including the Absolut Big Top and stunning sites in Connemara....
Art Is Trash Event | 2016 Francisco de Pájaro is a contemporary street and urban artist from Barcelona. de Pájaro rejoices in the here–today–gone– tomorrow nature of his work, turning bin bags, boxes, broken furniture and rubb...
Thicker Than Water Event | 2013 In this year of The Gathering, this discussion will focus on creativity and the Diaspora. The power of the Diaspora is irrefutable. With creativity lauded as being at the core of the Irish psyche, ca...
The One Right Answer Event | 2013 This discussion focuses on the role and place of creativity in education. Is creativity in education as important as literacy, and should it be treated with the same status? Are we educating with too ...
Jules Evans Event | 2012 Jules Evans is Policy Director at the Centre for History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. In his new book Philosophy for Life, and Other Dangerous Situations, from which he will speak,...
Steven Galloway Event | 2009 Exquisite and profoundly moving, The cellist of Sarajevo shows how life under siege creates impossible moral choices. Its is a story about survival, the temptation to hate and the refusal to do so, an...