NUI Galway Summer Festival

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Invitation to launch at 5.30pm Balcony Áras na Mac léinn july 14th here

Festival Launch
14th July 5:30pm. Balcony, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUIG
Opened by James C. Harrold, Galway City Arts officer, plus a world premier performance of a an excerpt fromTara McKevitts play 'Granades' which won the 2010 JP O'Connor Radio play award for RTE Radio 1. Plus the launch of 'Altered Frequency' exhibition including performance art and installations based on 6 radio plays 5 of which were produced on Flirt FM as part of the Societies theatre Week new radio play Series. Refreshments will be served and all welcome.

Altered Frequency
Art installation inspired by 6 radio plays
Balcony, Áras na Mac Léinn
Exhibition runs until 30th July 10am – 6pm

The Breakfast Club
Art Socs’s retelling of the John Hughes 80’s Classic Movie
Detention can change your life
Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn.
19th-21st July - 8pm & 22nd - 9pm, €5/8

Theatrical Double Bill
‘It Won’t Be Great When I’m Not Here’
written by Christian O’ Reilly and directed by Jessica Curtis
&
Do I Look Fat in these Fig Leaves?
Eve Speaks from the Garden of Eden:
A Musical Cabaret
From the mind of God came dust, from the loins of dust came Adam, from the belly of Adam came Eve... but what came next? Please come to a hybricolage cabaret event celebrating Eve, arousal, and the importance of asking questions.
written and preformed by Alison Matthews
Alison trained at RADA (London) and in New York, USA, Alison Matthews is an American actor and classically-trained singer currently living in Dublin. She just finished a run working as a vocal artist and puppeteer for the acclaimed Lambert Puppet Theatre in Monkstown, Co. Dublin of "Wanderly Wagon" fame. She recently made her professional jazz debut with the release of "The Very Thought of You," a collection of jazz standards, which she arranged with pianist Brendan Marnell and RTE-regular jazz bassist Dave Fleming. She has previously appeared in Galway as part of the Giving Voice festival, and she recently performed "Do I Look Fat in these Fig Leaves" as the closing event of the Solstice Arts Festival in Dublin. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
14th -16th –July 8pm - Bailey Allen Hall, €5/8

ConTempo Quartet
The programme includes Handel - Passacaglia for violin &
cello and Dvorak – American String Quartet
19th July 1pm - Bailey Allen Hall, Adm: Free

Galway Sinfonietta
Inaugural concert from newly established group of players from Galway City and County formed by Joanne Cater and John Roe.
22nd July - 7:30pm Bailey Allen Hall Adm: Free

Multi Media Summer Camp
Participants will create their own radio show, produce a newspaper, learn interview techniques, creative writing, photography, cartoon drawing, mask making, juggling, fansci gaming and drama games.
Sign up at the SocsBox €120 (€100 for siblings and NUIG staff and Students) Children 9 – 16,
Áras na Mac Léinn 10am – 5pm, 19th – 23rd July

Múscailt 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Múscailt is celebrating its 10th year in 2011 and to mark the occasion the Arts Office are exhibiting posters & photos plus a selection of university art works.
Áras na Mac Léinn July & August

For more information on any of the events check out www.socs.nuigalway.ie or contact the
SocsBox, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI Galway 10am – 6pm. Tel: 091 492852 E-mail: socsbox@socs.nuigalway.ie

Press Release:

NUI Galway Summer Festival
14th-22nd of July
The campus is warming up for the NUI Galway Summer Festival which runs from
the 14th till the 22nd of July. The festival is the highlight of the new societies summer
programme. It confirms the Universities commitment to the arts and celebrates the
opening of the new cultural centre.

The festival includes three theatre productions a double bill ‘Do I Look Fat in these
Fig Leaves: Eve Speaks from the Garden of Eden’ by Alison Matthews and Christian O’ Reilly’s one act play ‘It Won’t be
Great when I’m not Here’ (directed by Jessica Curtis) 14th – 17th July at 8pm. The Art
Society Production of ‘The Breakfast Club’ makes a welcome return it is based on the
1980’s John Hughes classic movie and will run from 19th – 21st at 8pm and at 9pm on
the 22nd July. All productions will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac
Léinn.

Along with the theatre productions an exhibition ‘Altered Frequency’ will run to
the end of the month. The art exhibition is based on the One Act radio play series
produced earlier in the year by students from the university and aired on Flirt FM
during the Theatre Festival. The installations inspired by the plays can be viewed
10am – 6pm upstairs in Aras na Mac Leinn. The Arts office are exhibiting a selection
of works plus a visual commemoration of Múscailt the Universities Arts Festival
which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

The renowned ConTempo Quartet will play a free lunchtime concert on the 19th of
July in the View at 1pm. Their programme includes Handel - Passacaglia for violin &
cello and Dvorak – American String Quartet admission is free.

The festival will end on a high note with the Galway Sinfonietta, a newly established
group of players from Galway City and County formed by Joanne Cater and John
Roe. With the backing of two established city orchestras, Galway Sinfonietta provides
an additional performance outlet for both performing teachers and students. This will
take place in the Bailey Allen Hall at 7:30pm on the 22nd of July admission is free.

During the Festival there will be a Children’s Multimedia Summer camp running for
9-16 year olds. During the camp the attendees will be creating their own newspaper
and radio show plus learning mask making, juggling, creative writing, photography
and also attending and reviewing a selection of the festival shows.

For more information on any of the events check out www.socs.nuigalway.ie or contact the
SocsBox, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI Galway 10am – 6pm. Tel: 091 492852 E-mail:
socsbox@socs.nuigalway.ie

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