Madame Fou and the Fun Fair
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Improvised interactive pop-up outdoors entertainment with the gramophone, a host of characters and a time-machine / kiosk / bathing hut. All welcome - dragons, cowboys, fortune-tellers.
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Tuesday, March 7, 3pm, outside Bank of Ireland Theatre
Rogha Bhríde Multitoned
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Join Bríd from the Galway Community Radio show 'Rogha Bhríde' in a multilingual, multinational, multicoloured conversation with the multi Little John Nee, writer, performer, storyteller, musician.
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Wednesday, March 8, 7pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
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Croí OEG - Heart of NUI Galway
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Bríd of the Galway community-radio show 'Rogha Bhríde' (Bríd's choice) brings you up a secret staircase to the heart of NUI Galway/Croí OEG. In conversation (with a surprise or two thrown in) with Peadair Ó Fátharta, whose family came from Inis Oírr to run the postmaster's office and Madame Fou.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2-3pm | Follow progress on social media!
Áine Phillips and Fou Scarf | Live art outdoors
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'Bag Lady' is a tribute to bag ladies and homeless people all over the world.
When Áine performed Bag Lady in public previously, a small boy asked her "Are you not ashamed?" Áine said "Not at all. This is great fun and everyone should do it!"
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Áine Phillips has been making performance art in public sites since 1989 when she joined Macnas street theatre company in Galway. Now Head of Sculpture at Burren College of Art (affiliated with NUI Galway) she has exhibited and performed her work in festivals, galleries, museums and alternative spaces all over the world. She recently published an edited volume Performance Art in Ireland: A History (LADA & Intellect Books UK 2015).
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Fou Scarf presents 'Re: Search'
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Thursday, March 9, 12pm, outside Bank of Ireland Theatre
Streets & Stages - Lyric Theatre Archive | Arts in Action
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Writer, actor and director Caroline Lynch will focus on the experiences of lives lived in and around the Lyric Theatre in Belfast during the Troubles.
Presented by Arts in Action in association with the James Hardiman Library.
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Thursday, March 9, 1pm, O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance
'Moodboosters' | Áine Gallagher & Pearl O'Rourke
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'Moodboosters' is a comedy about the highs and lows of a reality TV self-help show. The two writer/performers will morph in front of your eyes and introduce you to the show's fabulous hosts, somewhat ignorant experts and a set of contestants searching for health and wellbeing.
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Friday, March 10, 6pm, Bank of Ireland Theatre
